I am so intrigued by the theremin. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/a...
The Beguiling, Misunderstood Theremin
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Jennifer Potash
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⚕️editor ☕️aficionado 🐾 life ruled by a Westie (13/10 recommend)
Stephen Miller’s great-replacement claims about immigrants replacing Republicans are an effort to leverage partisanship to boost support for throwing immigrants out of the country. But immigrants aren’t particularly Democratic — or even anti-Trump. www.howtoreadthisch.art/data-is-anti...
gofund.me/d3534a27 Venmo me: jbrisbon1181 Cashapp: seekansdestroy230 The perfect birthday gift would be a donation to make sure I finish medical school and have a smooth transition to residency as I pay for medical bills & face housing and food insecurities #medsky #mdsky #dosky #urosky #birthday
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Following the death of Matt Arco, many expressed their sadness and admiration for the 39-year-old reporter
‘A first-class reporter and an even better person.’ N.J. mourns political reporter Matt Arco.
Following the death of Matt Arco, many expressed their sadness and admiration for the 39-year-old reporter
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I’m going to try to explain why, while I understand anger toward the parents whose unvaccinated children died of measles, I don’t share it. IMO it is a tragedy. My reasons for this hinge on 2 main points: 1. Public health requires the public 2. We can’t ignore the social determinants of health
You want to see an octopus riding a shark. 🎥: University of Auckland www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...
If the world is too much, this movie is a balm. Stream Flow on Max play.max.com/movie/83df1c...
Watch Flow | Max
Watch Flow on Max. Plans start at $9.99/month. Left homeless by a flood, a kitty begins an unlikely adventure with a wide array of very different animals in this "utterly mesmerizing" (Sight & Sound) ...
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Looking to talk with federal employees with disabilities who were terminated this weekend, especially folks hired through Schedule A or disabled veterans. Please boost! #disability #journorequest
If you need an example, here is one from the BMJ. Policy is explicit, clear, and that's all there is to it. bsky.app/profile/crag...
Christie Aschwanden@cragcrest.bsky.social · last yr."We will not retract published articles on request by an author on the basis that they contain so-called banned words" @bmj.com takes a stand: "Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology" www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Nice update on this. Smart people here with mad skills were generous with their time and tracked down the owner of the docs — a third generation descendent. Turned out my friend, whose yard it below into, knows them - they are more than a mile away. Owners reunited with heirloom docs. Thanks all.
Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social · 2y agoWho was Mrs. Fred J. Martin — likely named Carol? Who still loved or even remembered her, 90 years after this condolence telegram that blew from a fire-ravaged neighborhood in Altadena into a distant yard? A neighbor found this in her yard and posted it on Facebook. /1
It's good that there's a 25% tarriff on imported coffee now. This will incentivize people to purchase American coffee, grown in the New Jersey coffee forests
we're hiring an associate editor to help with our advice columns! an incredibly fun position! jobs.lever.co/slate/4e9386...
Slate - Associate Editor, Advice
Slate is hiring an associate editor to help run our advice columns. We are looking for someone with high energy, creativity, a desire to engage with and grow our loyal readership, and most importantly...
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If your work has been impacted by the Trump administration's freeze on scientific meetings/comms or its executive actions targeting DEI programs, STAT wants to know more: www.statnews.com/2025/01/22/t...
Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of scientific meetings prompts confusion, concern
A flurry of scientific gatherings and panels across federal science agencies were canceled on Wednesday, at a time of heightened sensitivity about how the
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I haven’t been to DC in ages and am super excited for this! It’s on January 23rd, come hang :)
Kalmanovitz Initiative@georgetownkilwp.bsky.social · 2y agoWe're so excited to welcome @kimkelly.bsky.social to campus as a part of #LaborSpring! What Does it Profit Podcast will be joining Kim Kelly to discuss the power of labor organizing, labor history, and the next generation of labor organizers. www.eventbrite.com/e/labor-voic...
Match for Urology is early February. I am hopeful for him. However, Rutgers is doing very little to help him; I even asked the foundation and got crickets.
The LA Times photo desk, which is doing incredible work covering these brutal fires, has set up a Bluesky account that is among the newest ones we have verified. They are well worth following right now. @latimesphotos.bsky.social
Surgeon Dorothy Lavinia Brown was born 111 years ago today. After a youth in the New York orphanage system, she rose to become head surgeon at Riverside Hospital from 1957 to 1983, and a Tennessee legislator who worked to expand women's access to abortion in the 1960s. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #HistSci
Vaccines are under attack like never before and pathogens just don’t stop emerging, so in related news... I’m honored to lead Vaccine & face these challenges w/ my co-Editors-in-Chief Florian & Ivan. I’m ready to elevate vaccine research, defend evidence-based policy, & stand up for public health!
An important story about intersection of law, medicine, and incarceration. apple.news/ApbSqMTNuRpG...
Why Families of People Who Died in Jail Can’t Get Their Day in Court — The Marshall Project
A tough legal precedent had kept his clients from their day in court, so Greg Belzley decided there was only one thing to do — try to change the law.
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I spoke to Alexandre Silberman in September about our @cellpressnews.bsky.social paper on genetic evidence of the zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2 & now it’s out. Interview airing on The National tonight in 🇨🇦. I am told it contains bonus @isaacbogoch.bsky.social content www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Where did COVID-19 originate? Saskatoon lab helps with genetic analysis that points to animal market | CBC News
A team of scientists, including one from Saskatoon, say they have strong evidence the COVID-19 virus jumped from infected animals to humans in a market in Wuhan, China, and didn't originate with a lab leak.
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