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Here’s a PDF. Worth a few minutes of your time. users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Do...

Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

The Rawls Lab is hiring! We are seeking a motivated research technician to support cutting-edge studies in gastrointestinal physiology using zebrafish & mice. To learn more about this hands-on & in-person position at Duke University in Durham NC, click here: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-R...

Officially recruiting postdocs at GW. If you are interested in genetic novelty, structural variation, or evo genetics please get in touch! We have data sets on mulitple organisms with large population sizes (Drosophila, Megalonaias nervosa) and species in decline (fireflies, mussels, elephants).

"The battles you choose not to fight are every bit as important as the ones you do" ---Sope Agbelusi

BWJones@bwjones.bsky.social · 2d ago

When your business model is product driven, trying to identify problems to be solved rather that finding applications for a particular technology, this whole AI era makes Apple look like absolute geniuses.

Here's my attempt at #writing a #TankaPuente for this week's #PoetsofDoom #Prompt Crew: @jenthorne.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social #Tanka #haiku #poem #poetry #micropoetry #Murakami #writesky 📚💙

Listening to RFK Jr’s rants as Dana Bash defends science and facts on live tv. #medsky #idsky #publichealth

We have a postdoc position available in the lab and would like to spread the word. Please apply if you are interested! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky

Bill Murray Drinks Coffee from Pot

Alt: Bill Murray Drinks Coffee Straight from Pot

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Shawn Burgess @burgesslab.bsky.social · 2d ago

if you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky

Yellow hornet falls to hot defensive bee ball. youtube.com/shorts/ImNQz...

THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE POWER ACCOMPLISHES! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who wrote comments, contacted Congress, and yelled! This is OUR WIN! @standupforscience.net www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul

Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.

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Another very cool 🧵 Follow this account for amazing science stories that intersect with human history (and foibles)

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 4d ago

The headlines are still covering the cyclosporiasis outbreak from lettuce, but let's talk about a different summer, long ago. The headlines in Bavaria would have called it "summer diarrhea" & it was killing babies. Enter our hero, Professor Theodor Escherich of the Julius Hospital, Würzburg.

Dodgers land Tarik Skubal in blockbuster trade with Tigers - ESPN My reaction: OH COME ON!!! apple.news/AWL1IGbmUR2e...

Dodgers land Tarik Skubal in blockbuster trade with Tigers — ESPN

The first-place Dodgers have finalized a trade to acquire two-time AL Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal from the Tigers, sending Zyhir Hope, River Ryan and Brady Smith to Detroit.

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“He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.” Trump is dismembering the Union, denying the benefits of membership to states whose electoral votes went against him in ‘24. These are acts of excision. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...

Trump administration denies emergency funding for 2 Oregon wildfires

U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley have sent a letter to the federal agency expressing frustration with the decision.

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Ah, but sure you must already be aware of the famous Anglo-EU translation guide? (I can vouch for its accuracy because I’m guilty of many of the implied charges 😂🤣)

Having your kids listen to exciting podcasts on subjects is cool and all, but it takes away their experience of discovering later in life that their dad basically made up stuff in response to all their questions on different topics he knew nothing about. Hypothetically speaking, of course.

I’m beginning to suspect that when people start a sentence with “With all due respect…” it’s a socially acceptable way for them to say that “You deserve no respect whatsoever…”

All due respect, if you didn’t look like this in the spring of 2020, I don’t really care about your opinion of Dr Fauci

Sneaker burrito.

“Its dismissal today does not erase the abuse of government power in arresting and charging a patriotic American. The government’s approach was ready, shoot, aim. The federal government owes Mr. Hearn an apology.”” apple.news/A5wMO2IuSSS6...

DOJ drops Reflecting Pool case, blaming damage on ‘botched’ installation — NBC News

The Justice Department said “it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt.”

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🚨 BREAKING: The DOJ is moving to dismiss the indictment against David Hearn in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool case and is admitting the damage was the result of a flawed, botched installation job, not vandalism.

DOJ Seeks to Dismiss Charges Against Olympian It Indicted for "Vandalizing" the Lincoln Memorial.

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Delightful sounds of the Australian magpies they have a to say! Two adults, and a juvenile. Australian magpies are remarkably bold around humans because they are highly intelligent, highly adaptable, and frequently live in close suburban contact with people.

Preferential insertion into the late-replicating inactive X explains L1 accumulation in this chromosome @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Fascinating 🧵

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 5d ago

I love this image of the Great Buddha statue in Nara, with the tiny monks capturing the grand size of the statue (15 m/50 ft). It was built as part of the original temple complex by edict of Emperor Shōmu in 743 AD. Let's talk about how SMALLPOX spread Buddhism in Japan. (📷: Yomiuri Shimbun)

I am in the midst of an intense month of conferences and deadlines. So, as per usual, I am browsing through the latest Korean shows on @netflix.com. Feel free to further hurt my productivity (and sleep) by suggesting your recent favorites.