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So I waited 7 months to start my first postdoc position, and today that job offer was rescinded. Devastated is an understatement. 😭 Any help anyone could give me in finding a new phage-based postdoc would be much appreciated right now.
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"The biggest advantage of extremism is that it makes you feel good because it provides you with enemies. The great thing about having enemies is that you can pretend that all the badness in the whole world is in your enemies and all the goodness in the whole world is in you."
John Cleese (@JohnCleese) profile pictureJohn Cleese
@JohnCleese12 Jun 2020
Hard to tell if I recorded this 30 years or 10 minutes ago...
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The Mi’kmaq man shot by the RCMP in Metapenagiag, NB was Rodney Levi. He is the second Indigenous person to be shot dead by a police officer in the province in the span of a week.
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Connelly -- with a strong background in player personnel -- is moving quickly toward joining a reshaped Chicago front office that already includes New Orleans executive J.J. Polk, as @KCJHoop reported. Formal Bulls announcement on Karnisovas' hiring could come as early as today.
Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) profile pictureAdrian Wojnarowski
@wojespn10 Apr 2020
ESPN Sources: Another candidate in serious talks to join Arturas Karnisovas' front office with the Chicago Bulls: Denver scout Pat Connelly, who was previously an assistant GM with Suns.
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I have watched the first 12 seconds of this at least 100 times, its better than porn

Chamath Palihapitiya on the U.S. coronavirus response

Chamath Palihapitiya, founder and CEO of investment firm Social Capital, said that the U.S. shouldn’t be bailing out billionaires and hedge funds during the coronavirus pandemic.

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[J Cole]@ColeJacobcole1 Sep 2019
Trying to prove a point rt if you’ve seen Chicken Run
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I'm so excited to finally announce this: there's going to be an AI Weirdness book!! aiweirdness.com/post/1866562…
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why it's Making the World a Weirder Place Coming November 5th, 2019 A fun pop-science look at what artificial intelligence is and how it works. Contains: - LOTS of cartoons - phantom giraffes - accidental murderbots - magical sandwich holes - real-life applications

ALT You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why it's Making the World a Weirder Place Coming November 5th, 2019 A fun pop-science look at what artificial intelligence is and how it works. Contains: - LOTS of cartoons - phantom giraffes - accidental murderbots - magical sandwich holes - real-life applications

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The NBA has informed its teams of updated projected salary cap and tax level that is unchanged in 2019-20 ($109M/$132M) — and $2M lower in 2020-21 ($116M/$141M), sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
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Motherboard
@motherboard16 Nov 2017
40% of Detroit is without internet and ignored by telecoms, so this group is bringing the internet to the people bit.ly/2A5R8DB

Meet the People Building Their Own Internet in Detroit

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Just a dog clearing the table teapawt.net/Ffs_OMG/status/8515357…
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Sean Carroll
@seanmcarroll7 Feb 2017
Curiosity is more important than intelligence in guiding us to the right answers. vox.com/science-and-health/2…

There may be an antidote to politically motivated reasoning. And it’s wonderfully simple.

Yes, politics can make us stupid. But there’s an important exception to that rule.

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When your dog looks like Patrick Stewart – at Hamilton, Scotland
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Jan Mieszkowski@janmpdx6 Mar 2017
Ethics: You shouldn't Ontology: You couldn't Politics: You wouldn't History: I did it!
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Doug Saunders@DougSaunders4 Mar 2017
Sci-fi where the president has lost his mind and everyone knows because his private thoughts keep appearing on little slabs in their pockets
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Baby gorilla tries out his first chest pound. 😂🙈 teapawt.net/jagermeis/status/82508…
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Trump's America--selfish & defensive--isn't the country that opened its doors to my family & many other immigrants. atfp.co/2jRT9uh
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nick wright
@getnickwright2 Dec 2016
Jesus Christ. Jury can't reach a verdict in Walter Scott's trial?!? Pulled over for taillight, ran, unarmed, shot in the back, cop lied.
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Hend Amry
@LibyaLiberty16 Oct 2016
I've got goosebumps. For all the horror that Trump has unleashed, there are moments like this-where people & institutions positively gleam. teapawt.net/jayrosen_nyu/status/78…
Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) profile pictureJay Rosen
@jayrosen_nyu16 Oct 2016
This is beautiful. Publisher reacts to death threats after first-ever endorsement of a Democrat. Via @johnrobinson azcentral.com/story/opinion/…
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i wrote about the cultural differences between aus and the US re: patriotism, have a read sbs.com.au/comedy/article/20…
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