"The other reason is that I think it’s fundamentally changed, at least for now. I’m not just talking about the increasing tech glitches. Just as Twitter’s former leaders exercised their free speech and free association rights to brand Twitter one way, Twitter’s new boss is exercising his rights to brand it another way. That new branding is ugly and despicable and I don’t want to contribute content to it. The last straw was Elon Musk sending lunatics and bigots against former employees and leaning into conspiracy theories. So I’m exercising my free speech and free association and leaving, and shuttering the account. I’ll probably delete the past tweets because I can’t stomach them being available to promote this enterprise."
--@Popehat
Well said, and ditto. I won't be deleting past tweets right now, but I don't care to associate myself with Twitter anymore. Time for something new.
RT @Dereklowe@twitter.com
I won’t bury the lede here: I’m leaving Twitter, as of later today. (1/)
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Dereklowe/status/1602307503752187906
Richard, with the increasing migration of science Twitter to sites like Mastodon, what are the prospects for adding a Mastodon sharing option, and more importantly, adding Mastodon to Altmetric article metrics in bioRxiv and medrXiv? For obvious reasons, supporting science dissemination by sustainable, non-commercial social media sources seems more important than ever.
@radleybalko does more than any other journalist to debunk BS about crime and law enforcement. Here, he has the goods on the propagandists who deceitfully say a Vermont city is proof that police reforms aren't working: https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/is-burlington-vermont-suffering-a
Good taste, but really needs to be eaten warm and gooey. Heat a slice in the microwave, put a little vanilla bean ice cream on top and yum!
@lucifargundam I've never made this recipe before. Party is tomorrow, I'll let you know!
Former Sinema political rival and friend scorches her, says she lied about him to win her seat in Congress after pledging not to go negative...
RT @dschapira@twitter.com
Ok, I’ve had it. I remained silent about Kyrsten Sinema for 10 years, but it’s time to break the silence.
I always had a distaste for candidates who criticize their opponents after they lose an election. It comes off as sour grapes even if it’s well-founded. But…(1/10)
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/dschapira/status/1601255884142714880
We have an exhaustive timeline exploring how $5 million in Temporary Assistance For Needy Families funds went to build the volleyball facilities at USM just as Brett Favre's daughter began a volleyball career there.
It includes dozens more text messages: https://www.mississippifreepress.org/27903/mississippi-welfare-scandal-timeline-brett-favre-and-the-volleyball-stadium
The Mississippi Ethics Commission moved a step closer today to declaring that the Mississippi Legislature is NOT a "public body" and therefore is not subject to the Open Meetings Act, a vital transparency law.
@NickJudin@twitter.com reports:
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/29592/ethics-commission-to-affirm-mississippi-legislature-not-a-public-body
This might be the most uninformative public meeting notice ever given.
Why be coy now when the meeting is in two hours?
MDOC announced that Timothy Hudspeth (pictured) and James Talley died in the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Miss., on Jan. 21, 2020. An inmate at the time says that days before, gang members beat them for hours.
“The Blue Marble,” one of the most reproduced and influential images in history, was taken #50YearsAgo today by the #Apollo17 crew on their way to the Moon. #Apollo50th #photography
#NASAhistory
A majority on the Mississippi Ethics Commission has rejected its staff’s recommendation to affirm that the Mississippi House of Representatives is a “public body” that is subject to the Mississippi Open Meetings Act in a 5-3 vote.
It seems many people haven’t encountered the Swiss Cheese Respiratory Pandemic Defense model.
Since #COVID, #RSV and #flu are spreading a lot, I figured I’d re-share it.
😷 • 🪟💨 • 💉
#CovidIsntOver #mask #ventilate
Hey Structural Biologists ![]()
#crystallography #MX #CryoEM #CryoET #NMR #SAXS #HDX #Alphafold #PDB #EMDB #StructuralBiology
I have created a group @strucbio .
If you tag this account in any relevant toot, it will automatically boost it.
So if you follow this account, any toots about structural biology should end up in your TL. The more people use it, the better it will be.
Boosting appreciated. ![]()
News (mostly from the legal beat) — crossposted
Again, the panel emphasizes that it cannot "write a rule that allows only former presidents" to block government investigations after the execution of a warrant.
These concluding paragraphs are worth reading in full, included in screenshot and alt text.
Director, GlyCORE. Analytical and biophysical chemist. Dept. of BioMolecular Sciences, U of Mississippi. Personal account, all opinions my own. Pronouns: he/him