Jeremy Yoder says no war
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Evolutionary biologist, runner, writer, gay. Not necessarily in that order. LAX and elsewhere Signal @jbyoder.82 Also ecoevo.social/@jby, jbyoder.org
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Trump & Russ Vought proposed a rule to take every federal grant in America hostage. They don't care about making our tax dollars work better—they just want them to work for Trump. Well, Democrats BLOCKED their corrupt rule, and I'll be fighting to kill it permanently.
MAHA doing the tobacco industry’s bidding really closes the “Merchants of Doubt” narrative loop
STAT@statnews.com · 3h agoExclusive: Senate inquiry suggests Trump administration softened kratom and tobacco policies in quid pro quo. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is at the center of a new investigation launched by Sen. Ron Wyden. www.statnews.com/2026/08/05/s...
Exclusive: Senate inquiry suggests Trump administration softened kratom and tobacco policies in quid pro quo. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is at the center of a new investigation launched by Sen. Ron Wyden. www.statnews.com/2026/08/05/s...
Senate inquiry suggests Trump administration softened kratom and tobacco policies in quid pro quo
The Senate investigation includes RFK Jr. as well as the heads of Reynolds American and kratom company Botanic Tonics, asking for written responses and documentation by Aug. 31.
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1. the whole "disappointing night" thing is pure cope. El-Sayed beat the establishment candidate despite being outspent 10:1, that's an earthquake 2. primary polls are just not great and everyone needs to spend the next week going really, really hard for Peggy Flanagan
ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
Hans Rosling was really good at highlighting the things that HAVE gotten better and where humanity has made progress in recent decades
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 16h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Just joined with Consumer Reports to write my state Senator in support of AB 2564, which will prohibit companies from using Californians' personal information to set individualized prices. Send your own email against algorithmic surveillance pricing here: actnow.consumerreports.org/lp/z601nn0j
Your private data shouldn't be used to set the price you pay
You should be able to buy groceries, products, and services without having to worry about your personal information being used...
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Thanks for the shoutout! I would not be doing what I do today without the mentorship of Dave McCauley. He was my freshman advisor, my researcher advisor, and my professor for Evolution and Biostatistics. He was brilliant, kind, and generous, and was a perfect example of how to be a great scientist.
Evolutionary Studies at Vanderbilt@evolutionvu.bsky.social · 2w agoDr. @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social got his start as an undergraduate with David McCauley. Today he's a Professor at Virginia Tech studying quantitative genetics and the #evolution of complex traits. He's also the Reviews Editor for Proc B. It's always fun to see where our alumni's careers take them!
I wrote about the 'Compact 2.0' that the government offered yesterday: www.chronicle.com/article/for-.... I got: • A Dept. of Ed official to talk about goals ("radical reform") • AAU's president to respond to reports that AAU collaborated with the Trump administration on this Hope you'll read!
For Higher Ed, Trump’s Compact 2.0 Is Either an Olive Branch or a Gloved Fist
The White House has promised there will be no direct penalties — or rewards — for making the statements asked for, but some are skeptical.
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Very interesting graf near bottom of latest NYT story on MAGA efforts to bend universities to its will, as if they were GOP Senators or the SCOTUS Six. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u... Reminder number five zillion: Except for GOP Senators thinking of a lobbying future, appeasement never pays off.
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I cannot say it has never happened before, but I don't remember a geographic area having to go to a fourth page to list all their large fires on the National Sit Report. OR and WA currently have 50 large fires going. www.nifc.gov/nicc-files/s...
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Bryan Alexander@edufuturist.bsky.social · 2d agoHere's the Association of Governing Boards' statement on the McMahon letter: agb.org/news/press-r...
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"How two hybridizing monkeyflowers resist phenotypic homogenization" I'm very happy to share this. We would really appreciate your feedback!
Jenn Coughlan@jenncoughlan.bsky.social · 3d agoSo proud of this manuscript- lead by the fantastic @henryarenas.bsky.social with two undergraduates (Cage Cochran and Quinn Evans) each doing a Herculean effort during their honors theses, and Hongfei Chen helping out tremendously with lab work. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Boy if this kind of surveillance state stuff that has been repeatedly exposed as bullshit is the big example of how China is surpassing us in tech, I really don’t think we should be competing
Evan Osnos@eosnos.bsky.social · 2d ago2/5 At a Beijing expo, a kiosk read my facial “micro-gestures” and found me 76.67% positive, with the rest divided between “fear” and “rage.” (Hard to argue.) Similar systems assign pupils risk levels; “Exposure Stations” post photos of those who sort their trash incorrectly.
We'll see if this turns out to be an outlier. She was hovering around 6/7 points behind, the RCP average is now +5.8 for Abbott. Still, incredibly close given the funding disadvantage. It would be nice to make the R's work for this one. www.realclearpolling.com/polls/govern...
2026 Texas Governor - Abbott vs. Hinojosa | RealClearPolling
2026 Texas Governor - Abbott vs. Hinojosa | RealClearPolling
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Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com · 2d agoFrom a Fox Poll out 7/31: Talarico-Paxton is the marquee race down here but check out the dead heat btw Abbott and Hinojosa for governor. This contest isn't even on the radar for the national Dems, AFAIK. She's has $3m cash on hand--Abbott has *$67m*. Some more highlights from the poll... /1
Early on @coyotemedia.org made a list of dream bylines we'd LOVE to have on the site and @annaleen.bsky.social was one of the first on it for me. So stoked to see this piece about ~~speculative transit~~ and big dreams for the Bay Area. www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...
A Modest Proposal for Funding Transit Instead of AI
In the ’60s, the Bay Area almost got a high-speed train from Marin to San Jose. What could happen if we dreamed big again?
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Maybe MAGA is not suited for governance? The Heritage Foundation saw internal purges, staffers using Signal to figure out what was going on, and spokespersons who attack the media than respond to questions. So, just like how Trump is running our government. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/m...
A stool transplant delivers billions of microbes into a sick gut. Almost none move in for good. We followed donor-recipient pairs from whole communities down to single nucleotides, and found the gut runs a ruthless strain-level filter. Out now in Cell Reports 🧵 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Strain-level ecological filtering governs microbial colonization of the human gut
Baertschi et al. demonstrate that microbiota transplantation functions as a selective ecological filter. Although donor species frequently appear, only specific lineages achieve stable strain integrat...
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Universität Bern@unibe.ch · 2d agoA strict “gatekeeper” decides whether a #fecaltransplant is effective: sohub.io/wruy. This is shown by a new study led by @bahtiyil.bsky.social from #unibern & @inselgruppe.bsky.social @dbmr-unibe.bsky.social
It took a year but I finally figured it out - he reminds me of Michael Emerson’s horrible little satanic minion on Evil
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoHassett: "One of the metrics of shelter costs that I find most interesting is that they're going down pretty rapidly in places like California because everybody is leaving. Even though there are high prices in California, it puts downward pressure on inflation because everybody is leaving the state"
To modify the old Hollywood joke,* "FUCK OFF" in academic-ese goes something like this: "How very interesting. An important and exciting proposal. We will give it our full consideration in the usual process. The task force will be appointed in one month. Its leaders & I will draft its charge...1/
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