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Chris Dunker@chrisdunker.bsky.social · 2y ago

A bunch of election conspiracy theorists have been posting up outside of libraries filming voters as they return their early ballots and claiming they are "mules" or "ballot stuffing." One post went viral on Twitter, despite not showing any illegal activity, prompting this from the commissioner:

Election Commissioner Responds to False and Misleading Social Media Post Lincoln —The Election Commission was made aware that a member of a malicious conspiracy theorist group recorded a video of a young man on a skateboard returning his ballot and shared it on social media on Saturday, November 2nd. They erroneously implied he was doing something wrong. We reviewed our surveillance footage of the ballot drop box and were able to identify the voter when we retrieved his ballot. They have a video of a young man returning his ballot for his first Presidential Election. He took a selfie to memorialize this important milestone in his life. “It is shameful and unAmerican to intimidate and threaten anyone for exercising their right to vote” said Election Commissioner Todd Wiltgen. We were concerned about the voter’s safety when we realized commentors on the social media posts were threatening to harm him. We contacted the Lincoln Police Department, and they reached out to the voter. “It is unfortunate this group is spreading false and misleading information to deceive the public and undermine confidence in our elections.” Commissioner Wiltgen stated “They should remove the post and apologize immediately.” Individuals who have questions should contact the Election Commissioner’s Office at (402) 441-7311.
Josh Kovensky@joshkovensky.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW: I contacted dozens of electors on Trump slates in swing states across the country, with a question: would they participate in a 2020 fake elector scheme in 2024, if Harris wins their state? talkingpointsmemo.com/news/some-tr...

Some Trump Electors In Swing States Are Primed To Stop The Steal Again In 2024

Roxan Wetzel is a relative newcomer to politics. She began to get involved in 2019, she said, inspired by the start of North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson’s meteoric rise in politics.

talkingpointsmemo.com

Rich Meisel@richmeisel.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to see this paper of ours in print! We worked out the genetic basis of a difference in courtship performance between flies carrying different Y chromosomes found in natural populations

Trans regulation of an odorant binding protein by a proto-Y chromosome affects male courtship in house fly

An integrative approach is used to identify a mechanism by which the fitness effects of Y chromosomes can manifest via trans effects on autosomal genes, through their effects on male courtship and oth...

doi.org

Kevin Bird@stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Wow, the Guardian journalists who just yesterday published about the network of race scientists getting funding from tech CEOs just broke another story that this group has accessed UK Biobank data without authorization. This is seriously bad for the integrity of science & a massive failure by UKBB

‘Race science’ group say they accessed sensitive UK health data

Exclusive: Fringe network recorded boasting of securing data from UK Biobank trove donated by 500,000 volunteers

theguardian.com

Jason Rasgon@vectorgen.bsky.social · 2y ago

So. Here it is. The ABSOLUTELY nuttiest study we have ever done in my 25+ years as a scientist working on mosquitoes "Revisiting the paradigm of anhematophagy in male mosquitoes" Let's dive into the paper www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Revisiting the paradigm of anhematophagy in male mosquitoes

Female mosquitoes are reproductively obligate bloodfeeders which feed on vertebrate blood to obtain nutrients required for egg production (driving transmission of vector-borne pathogens in the process...

biorxiv.org

CD London@claredocherty1.bsky.social · 2y ago

IF YOU ARE EVACUATING FROM FLORIDA HAVE NOWHERE TO GO OR CANNOT AFFORD A HOTEL... We have 40 acres in Picayune, MS where you, your horses, farm animals, and pets can ride out the storm. We are about 9 hours from Tampa. Tents and RVs welcome. Please email tracypaula@erinregananimalsanctuary.com

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Karrie Weber@rocknmicrobe.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am happy to share a preprint of recent microbe mineral interaction research from our team led by Nicole Fiore demonstrating calcium carbonate as the sole source of inorganic carbon for methanogenesis. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4...

Microbial methane production from calcium carbonate at moderately alkaline pH

Carbonate minerals are considered a metastable carbon reservoir under alkaline conditions. Here we demonstrate the use of calcium carbonate as a sole inorganic carbon source at moderately alkaline pH ...

researchsquare.com

Asher Cutter@asherdcutter.bsky.social · 2y ago

Check out my review on Haldane's rule, thinking about sex-biased hybrid dysfunction with ESD, homomorphic GSD, haplodiploidy, & hermaphrodites in @elife.bsky.social doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Beyond Haldane’s rule: Sex-biased hybrid dysfunction for all modes of sex determination

A broad and inclusive view of sex biases in hybrid dysfunction, irrespective of sexual system, expands the reach of Haldane's rule to help characterize the underlying forces and mechanisms responsible...

doi.org

Kevin Bird@stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Absolutely beautiful work by @christianlandry.bsky.social et al., experimentally demonstrating constructive neutral evolution via compensatory mutations in duplicate genes

Compensatory mutations potentiate constructive neutral evolution by gene duplication

The functions of proteins generally depend on their assembly into complexes. During evolution, some complexes have transitioned from homomers encoded by a single gene to heteromers encoded by duplicat...

science.org

Curt Lively@clively.bsky.social · 2y ago

Why Cross-Fertilize? The first volume of my OPUS project on sex/asex is now out. Beautifully illustrated by Zoe Dinges. Made freely accessible as pdf, url, and ePub by Adam Mazel at IU Press. Designed especially for educators and graduate students, covering key concepts in evolutionary ecology.

iulibscholcomm.github.io

Martin Nutbeem@martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 2y ago

"We thought we knew how Voyager would end. The instruments would shut off, one by one.  The signal would get fainter.  Eventually either the last instrument would fail for lack of power, or the signal would be lost. We didn’t expect that it would go mad."

Death, Lonely Death

Billions of miles away at the edge of the Solar System, Voyager 1 has gone mad and has begun to die.Let’s start with the “billions of miles”. Voyager 1 was launched in early Septe…

crookedtimber.org

John Benning@jbenning.bsky.social · 3y ago

Clark, PNAS 2023 (C23) argued that people’s social status is largely determined by genetic variation. Here, we show these claims are unsubstantiated & that C23 tells us nothing about the contribution of genetics to status @jedidiahcarlson.com @arbelharpak.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Clark (2023) and the Persistence of Hereditarian Fallacies

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

biorxiv.org