Steve Baker
@bakersm11.bsky.social
Pro Democracy, Anti MAGA, Anti Fascist, Anti Racist Retired research scientist (Biochemistry/Molecular Biology) involved in vaccine development for a safe and efficacious multicomponent S. aureus (MRSA) vaccine
UNC football is throwing more people overboard, hoping to save a sinking ship. If we buy the idea that Belichick had no idea about what his son/most senior assistant coach was doing, maybe we deserve it. www.wral.com/sports/north...
UNC's Steve Belichick to resign; investigation finds 'a disregard for Carolina’s values'
North Carolina defensive coordinator Steve Belichick is on medical leave through Oct. 27 and will resign his position at that point.
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Here's my congressperson, wagging her finger at Trump as she watches her polling lead shrink to nothing in spite of all her efforts to rebrand herself as a bipartisan problem solver. Not sure filming herself in front of the White House will work to distance her from its corrupt occupant.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 8h agoFlorida GOP Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar to Trump: "Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far ... The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today"
We're now accepting submissions for our next special issue, which will focus on 'Proteostasis' and will be coordinated by two of our Academic Editors, Pedro Carvalho and Tamotsu Yoshimori. Submission deadline: 2 November Find out more: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/pr... #proteostasis
this man hates blue crabs and does not want you to have them
Richmond Times-Dispatch @richmond.com · 5h agoPresident Donald Trump has revoked a 17-year-old federal order requiring federal, state and local governments work together to clean up Chesapeake Bay.
Avl9 defines a family of DENN domain GTPase-activating proteins. New study from Ryan C. Vignogna (@rvig.bsky.social) & J. Christopher Fromme (@fromme-lab.bsky.social) @cornelluniversity.bsky.social: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #GolgiTime #GTPases #Migration #Biochemistry #StructuralBiology #Golgi
Banger of a new RasgonLab study by Drs. Najmeh Nejat and Travis van Warmerdam on a new arthropod germline CRISPR delivery system. Knock-out AND knock-in by ORAL delivery! No more injections! Germline Engineering by Viral transduction (GEValT)
GEValT@gevaltcrispr.bsky.social · 11h agoMeet GEValT! Germline Engineering by Viral transduction! No more injections www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The new Current Biology Cat is #1 on @bsky.app. The wonders of the natural world still triumph over man-made madness!😻🙏 www.cell.com/current-biol...
I'm attending No Kings's event, “No Kings: Vote Early San Francisco” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
No Kings: Vote Early San Francisco · No Kings
San Francisco, don't wait to place your vote. Join Indivisible SF and our coalition to vote early and get ready for election defense. **We decide who represents us. We decide what comes next.** For ...
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MAGA Highly Successful Billionaire Businessman MAGA Money is Free Speech MAGA Corporations are People MAGA Corporate Executive Officer MAGA Judge Jury and Execurioner MAHA Trump Oil MAGA Mar a Lago Multiverse Gene Technology MAHA Gold Standard Science oilprice.com/Energy/Crude...
Inside Putin’s $135 Billion Arctic Gamble That Could Save His Ukraine War | OilPrice.com
Rosneft has launched the giant Vostok Oil project, opening a new Arctic pipeline and shipping its first crude from Bukhta Sever, with output targeted at 30 million tonnes in H2 2027 and 50 million ton...
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Redrawing two-fifths of Congressional districts isn’t enough to stop Democrats… …and after the 2026 and 2028 elections, Democrats need to do what it takes to end gerrymandering once and for all. samwang.substack.com/p/redrawing-...
Redrawing two-fifths of Congressional districts isn’t enough to stop Democrats
And after the 2026 and 2028 elections, Democrats need to do what it takes to end gerrymandering once and for all.
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Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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My latest for Jewschool: "What is really galling here is not simply that the signatories got the law wrong, but that they know the moral vocabulary and are using it backward."
We Knew Better Once · Jewschool
There are names on the “Reject the Lie” letter who should know better. That is the first thing to say, and the last thing too.
jewschool.com
"For as long as humans have created SHIT with our BODIES AND BUTTS, we have been asking this FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION: What if there were a COMPUTER that could ALSO SHIT?" buff.ly/K5t1rGh
We Must Create the Shit Machine
“For as long as humans have created SHIT with our BODIES AND BUTTS, we have been asking this FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION: What if there was a COMPUTER that could AL...
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This story works because many people can envision it in real life. Ordinary people don't command armies, destroy federal agencies, or engage in billion-dollar scams. But if we ran across a work relationship like this in real life, we'd find it weird and even mockable. In politics, that's poison.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterdayWhy is the White House being so weird about Natalie Harp again? | Arwa Mahdawi
Furious Trump Says His Appointed SCOTUS Justices ‘Work for Me’ Vance urged Hillary Clinton to campaign against Trump in Rust Belt, Trump puts up signs outside Smithsonian warning of bias, ICE detains record numbers of pregnant women #USA #Trump #uspoli open.substack.com/pub/rawstory...
SCOOP: Furious Trump Says His Appointed SCOTUS Justices ‘Work for Me’
Vance urged Hillary Clinton to campaign against Trump in Rust Belt, Trump puts up signs outside Smithsonian warning of bias, ICE detains record numbers of pregnant women
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🌊 Floods keep people in place A global study found floods are followed by fewer people leaving an area, not more, for years afterwards. The effect is strongest in poorer places, where a flood can trap you rather than push you out. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41558-026-02752-4 #ClimateMigration #Climate 🧪
Compound and heterogeneous relationships between climate extremes and global net migration - Nature Climate Change
Climate extremes influence migration, but their long-term and compounding impacts are understudied. The authors show that associations between climate extremes and migration vary by hazard type, timin...
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🦟 Heat cuts mosquitoes, not risk Modelling in China found hot weather kills off 9.7% of disease carrying mosquitoes, but speeds up the virus in survivors and shifts human behaviour, driving a projected 76% rise in chikungunya cases. 🔗 doi.org/10.1029/2026gl123990 #Chikungunya #ClimateHealth 🧪
Influence of Heat Wave and Precipitation on Chikungunya Transmission
Heat waves reduced mosquito survival, but accelerated viral replication rate and altered human behavior, increasing infections by 76.0% Effective precipitation increased mosquito abundance by 205...
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🌊 A hidden ocean carbon store Checking 70,668 ocean profiles worldwide, scientists found thin particle layers in 9% of them, most common in low oxygen zones, where they hold 16% of the deep carbon. Elsewhere, the cause is unknown. 🔗 doi.org/10.1029/2025gl120661 #OceanScience #CarbonCycle 🧪
Unexpected Global Prevalence of Mesopelagic Particle Layers Detected by BGC‐Argo Floats
Mesopelagic layers of small particles are detected in 9% of BGC-Argo float profiles globally These layers contain approximately 8% of global small-particle mesopelagic carbon stock 60% of layers...
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🎒 AI is denting graduate jobs UK figures show computer science graduates now struggle more to find work than other grads, as employers turn to AI for coding tasks once given to juniors. 🔗 theguardian.com/education/2026/sep/12/ai-computer-science-graduates-job-prospects-uk-data #AI #GraduateJobs
AI may be denting computer science graduates’ job prospects, UK data shows
Economics graduates also appear to be affected as demand for them falls in well-paid roles in finance
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👓 Meta's glasses filmed bystanders A widened US lawsuit says Meta's AI glasses captured people, some of them children, who never consented, with footage reportedly sent overseas to train its AI. 🔗 thecooldown.com/green-tech/meta-ai-glasses-privacy-bystanders-lawsuit #Meta #Privacy #AI
Meta AI glasses lawsuit now includes 'bystander' plaintiffs who say privacy was violated
The revised filing adds 'bystander' plaintiffs who say their privacy was violated even though they never purchased or wore the camera-equipped glasses.
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💊 Myeloma trial stops disease cold In a US trial, teclistamab wiped out cancer completely in 78% of high risk patients, against 0% on standard treatment, and cut two year progression to 8%. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41591-026-04642-w #Myeloma #Cancer #Science🧪
Teclistamab versus lenalidomide-dexamethasone in high-risk smoldering multiple myeloma: a randomized phase 2 trial - Nature Medicine
In the randomized phase 2 ImmunoPRISM trial, patients with high-risk smoldering multiple myeloma (MM) showed higher rates of complete clinical responses in response to treatment with teclistamab compa...
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⚡ Heat pumps could break the grid Switching US homes to electric heating could push winter peak power demand up 200%, needing up to $6.6 trillion in new grid investment, far more than warming itself will add. 🔗 doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aea0ef #Climate #Energy #Science 🧪
Climate change and electrification could fundamentally alter grid planning paradigms
Climate change and electrification could fundamentally alter grid planning paradigms, Kamana-Williams, Baxter, Grubert, Emily
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![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 26A305
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, ET AL. U.
CALIFORNIA, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[September 14, 2026]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON and by her referred to the Court is denied. The Government is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the District Court's preliminary injunction. And the equitable factors applicable for obtaining emergency relief from this Court do not favor a stay.
JUSTICE KAVANAUGH, concurring.
In my view, based on the briefing the Court has received at this interim stage, there is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service's statutory authority. See 39 U. S. C. §401(2). But applying the rule in the 2026 elections would be arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act because state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections. See 39
U. S. C. §3001(m); 5 U. S. C. §706(2)(A). For that reason, I concur in the denial of the application for stay.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreicqn5lewxb2bkaazujt77bmsjfq4ultwu2alo3emhvgsnpkotnwoy)
