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I’ve been all over the country in the last month.
And I get asked the same question, over and over again:
“I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?”
Here is my answer:
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This colorful boulder in San Francisco serves as a canvas for political statements and artistic expression. atlasobscura.com/places/bern…
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8/ Fue un cientĂfico brillante, pero tambiĂ©n una persona humilde, generosa y curiosa. Siempre buscĂł mejorar la vida de las personas y el medio ambiente con su trabajo. Nos deja un gran legado y una gran lecciĂłn: nunca es tarde para aprender y crear. Gracias, John Goodenough.
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In this commentary, the ASBMB Maximizing Access Committee urges scientists to consider how they’re perpetuating white supremacy and other forms of hate: “You need not be a neo-Nazi or a Proud Boy to sow the seeds of grievance that grow into genocide.”
asbmb.org/asbmb-today/opinio…
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“We need the public to trust science and medicine, and they will only trust us if we can see more people from more backgrounds as experts,” Hrabowski said.
washingtonpost.com/education…
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florida high school class president zander moricz was told by his school that they would cut his microphone if he said “gay” in his grad speech, so he replaced gay with “having curly hair.” i am in awe
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Don't track everyone downward and claim a false equity victory. The rich can maneuver around attempts at tracking everyone downward, as they did in San Francisco by paying for extracurricular courses and tutoring. Rather, do the hard work to lift everyone up.
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A case study in how mainstream outlets like the New York Times launder Republican disinformation:
Step 1: Far-right "news" site invents race-baiting lie about govt program ("Biden is giving away crack pipes!")
Step 2: Republican politicians repeat lie, claim to be outraged
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After France announced their vaccine passport system, 20,000 new appointments a minute were made. Nearly 1 million total.
Morning update on Macron demolishing French anti-vax feeling (or at least vax-hesitant): nearly 1m vaccination appointments made yesterday, an absolute daily record, via @nicolasberrod
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1) If we want to generate difficult viral escape mutants in the lab (e.g. for epitope mapping), we subject the virus to low antibody pressure and then slowly move up. A little bit like after one vaccine dose. I think it would be good to give the second dose as soon as possible.
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Study “finds increase in number of BLM protests within a state is associated with a decrease in number of Black fatalities from police encounters in month immediately following protests, yet there doesn’t appear to be a longer lasting impact on fatalities” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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#Celegans question: Is anyone using LAMP for genotyping worms?
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Thanks to a partnership between The Obsidian Collection, a project digitizing African-American newspapers, and Google, you can now peek into the archives of the Defender, a newspaper that's been covering black life in America since 1905. trib.al/FgPtK7e
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Would anyone be willing to share their lab restart protocols with me? We haven't gotten a ton of guidance and I want to make sure we're thinking of everything. Thank you in advance!
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At 8:00PM tonight and every night go on your balcony, open your windows and cheer for the healthcare workers on the front lines of this pandemic.
#solidarityat8 #stayhome #flattenthecurve #covid19
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Does anyone know of an online forward genetic screen simulator? Other web-based resources that focus on random mutagenesis and screening for the phenotype of interest would be great, too!
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The latest from @tomaspueyo, following on from the Imperial College paper. We must follow a suppression strategy: the difference is literally millions of lives. Read the article and sign the petition to the US government. medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coron…