Taking a break from here, but wanted to share this...
Trained a technician for 8 months in microscopy to analyze some brain slides for me. Tech left the lab after their first box of #COVID brain slices and left me this card on my lab bench space. Now imagine the life of

Prem Thakker he literally did not enter the encampment at all that day. he was passing out waters to people on the outskirts and was arrested while filming brutality against students
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Shocking footage shows several officers at Washington University St. Louis beating a professor, slamming him, and dragging his limp body.
SIUE history professor Steve Tamari is reportedly hospitalized with broken ribs and a broken hand.
One doctor told him he's lucky to be alive.

EIGHT newspapers just filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft 🔥

This is why Sam Altman is desperate to secure licensing deals suddenly, he thinks he can squirm out from underneath the mountain of litigation. Good luck with that.

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Imagine having the serenity to accept the things you cannot change.

Yesterday, a faculty member at USD made public that they were threatened with termination if they didn’t remove their preferred pronouns and tribal affiliation from their email signature

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“There has to be some form of punishment,” for women who have abortions Trump said back in 2016. Noow he has a plan for just that: motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

Remember, pepper spray is oil based. If you get sprayed DO NOT rub your eyes. Immediately blink as much as you can to wash out some of the oil with your own tears. Then, wash your eyes with baby shampoo or dilute dishwashing soap and rinse copiously. Water alone won't do much.

On this 127th anniversary of #ElectronDay , when J.J. Thomson announced his discovery of the very first fundamental particle, let's give 3 cheers to the Atoms' 'Family' - 'cause J.J. Thomson was the academic advisor to Ernest Rutherford, the doctoral advisor to James Chadwick!

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Not a good idea for your cats (or you) to be drinking unpasteurized milk at this time

Also, this is no longer a bird flu

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WATCH: Emory professors staged a walk-out on last day of classes, calling for removal of Emory president, Gregory Fenves.

Fenves apologized for initial response pointing to “mischaracterization” of protesters.

20 of the 28 arrested were Emory students & staff.

Interesting #H5N1 preprint on wastewater just dropped.

medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Three take-homes:

1. Can H5 be detected in wastewater? Yes, one company (Verily) now has an assay. It's 100% specific. Huge first step.

#OnThisDay April 30, 1988 - Russian Virologist Nikolai Ustinov dies after he infected himself with Marburg. Some claim that Russian scientists weaponized the strain that killed him
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'... humanity over talent, every time.'

Timeline at UT-Austin:
'4:32 pm. Law enforcement starts pepper spraying (students)...'

The postmortem exams of cats who died of #H5N1 #BirdFlu on dairy farms show devastating effects on the heart, lung, eyes, & brain.

‼️Do not consume raw (unpasteurized) dairy products.

#MedTwitter , 👀 at the screenshot. #AvianFlu #IDTwitter

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Coconut octopus constructing shelter from shells (Amphioctopus marginatus; 15 cm).
Anilao, Luzon, Philippines, 04/17/24.

This is important.

Excuse me, what?

Today's newsletter: Career managers and like Adam Mosseri and Sam Altman have become rich and famous by bulldozing actual builders - and how Altman in particular is a toxic, absentee founder that people have been trying to fire for over a decade.
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