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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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Nice pick!
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Matt Shipman (he/him)@shiplives.bsky.social |
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Writer. Comms person. Mostly sci/tech/health. Sometimes music/food/culture. Let’s make the South better, y’all. Stuff I write for fun here: medium.com/@shiplives
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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Nice pick!
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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Do you have a favorite under-celebrated song? A personal fave that is not widely appreciated? I have a bunch, but I think Hirth Martinez’s “Altogether Alone” tops the list. It’s a beautifully crafted, weird, funny song. What’s on your list?
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Jacques Nyemb
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Life’s tough for a whole lot of people & I try to temper my optimism for the future with the realities many of us face. Yet I still want to say that forming community that uplifts no matter how small does move the needle forward. Joy IS an act of rebellion and is fuel that helps us face adversity.
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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Yep. I’ve experienced this as well.
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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Why do things look darker when they're wet? I talked to a (very patient) optics expert, so that now I can explain it to you!
From sweat stains to wet footprints by the swimming pool, this is relevant summer science! Please check it out and pass it on. 🧪
news.ncsu.edu/2024/07/why-...
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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Thanks!
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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Also, importantly, thank you!
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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So...how does that work? I can see how the virus would be able to "unlock" a cell and insert stuff, but how does the virus carry the payload of CRISPR and Cas proteins? Or is the CRISPR encoded into the virus, as well as RNA to produce the relevant Cas proteins?
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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There are like a million explanations of how CRISPR works, but none explain this step. And I'm curious! (2/2)
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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Hi folks -- I have a science question. 🧪 I know what CRISPR is, what Cas proteins are, and what template DNA is. But how is all of this stuff introduced into a target organism? Is it injected into cells? Into the bloodstream and then absorbed into cells? (1/2)
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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I wrote a piece on why things look darker when they're wet. It's an accessible explanation of physics/optics/technical stuff that lots of people wouldn't read, except I put it in the context of sweaty shirts and swimming pools. And Dan Goldin (who I don't know) ❤️'d it. Which is pretty cool.
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Physgal👩🏻🔬
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Cool. Total internal reflection is also one of the reasons that diamonds are so sparkly. 💍
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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Thank you!
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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Thanks for asking this question in the first place!
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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I was always fond of the name Squirrel Level Road, near my hometown in Virginia.
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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Why do things look darker when they're wet? I talked to a (very patient) optics expert, so that now I can explain it to you!
From sweat stains to wet footprints by the swimming pool, this is relevant summer science! Please check it out and pass it on. 🧪
news.ncsu.edu/2024/07/why-...
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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The third(!) explainer is up! This time we explain why things look darker when they're wet. From sweat stains to wet footprints by the swimming pool, this is relevant summer science! Please check it out and pass it on. 🧪
news.ncsu.edu/2024/07/why-... cc: @dcsohl.bsky.social
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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Can someone explain to my ignorant US brain what the Lib Dem party is, where it fits on the Tory/Labor/Green spectrum, etc.?
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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I like their style.
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Coach Finstock
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The NYT, the most influential paper in the country, just ran an Op Ed called 'Why I Don't Vote' by a guy who votes. It's that simple. The NYT is a farce. You cannot trust anything they print.
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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That sequence by Ecuador between 14’-15’ was remarkable, but they couldn’t finish. That one could haunt them.
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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There may have been a role where Judd Hirsch was not great, but if so I haven’t seen it.
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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You have my attention.
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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You should find a way to monetize this. Like getting sponsored for a walkathon or mathathon, but instead it’s a mansplainathon or a sealionathon.
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Moira Donegan
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Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸
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Faine Greenwood
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The New York Times ratfucking operation in favor of Trump is so incredibly blatant that it’s beyond parody. If you saw ratfucking like this coming from a newspaper in a movie, you’d probably think it was a bit over the top.
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Ana Marie Cox
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I don’t want to generalize too much but the place I see the most hope right now is from those that have been fighting the hardest for the longest time. Extended doomerism can be a luxury not afforded to those who have the most to lose.
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Star Trek Minus Context
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Faine Greenwood
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I will take zero pleasure in an unleashed Trump regime ushering in a well-nigh inevitable terror campaign against US reporters, especially because they most likely will go after the remaining genuinely good ones first. (But they won’t stop there).
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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James Carville once said "It's the economy, stupid." It's not. The GOP platform makes clear that many folks will vote against their own economic self interest. They are more than willing to suffer, as long as folks they hate will suffer more. Blinded by spite. It's heartbreaking.
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Don Moynihan
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Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes
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Katie Mack
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Part of a good thread that illustrates why I don’t hang out on Twitter/X anymore
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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I like lifting weights because for an hour or two my brain is entirely focused on what my body is doing, and there is no room for worry or stress. It’s such a relief. And it’s easier to help people when you’re strong. That’s nice too.
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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This sums up the USA: rich people steal money from poor people, and then courts punish reporters for writing about it.
www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...
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Katie Mack
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again
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Walter (RIP)
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Holy fuck this reads like a short horror story
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Katie Mack
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I kinda feel like now that the Supreme Court has declared it legal for a president to straight-up murder people they don't like, it's probably even more important to not elect people who seem extremely inclined to murder people they don't like
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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Truly a remarkable news cycle for RFK fans.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/...
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Elad Nehorai
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Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.
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Ian Boudreau
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I know everyone says "their reporters do great work" and that's true, but over the course of my life, the New York Times has institutionally had multiple points at which it was important to choose "be evil" or do the right thing and they've fucked it hard every time
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Jamison Foser
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something I've been thinking about lately that might be useful to some of y'all right now is that sometimes when you can't muster any optimism or hope you can decide to continue fighting anyway on behalf of others who still have some
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Brendan Nyhan
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Official act. Immune.
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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Hey folks -- I know someone with a ton of experience as a technical writer (has experience with DOD, the NC Department of Health, etc.) who is looking for a gig. A full-time gig would be ideal, but is also open to freelance work. If you have any leads, please let me know.
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Sean
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it's frankly a lot harder to convince folks they need to give democrats more power in the senate when those democrats are unilaterally refusing to use the power we gave them last election
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
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Before I got hired in my current role I was working on a story about protests. Like the shape and nature of it. And I talked to an expert on protest and I asked him if people in the US should learn from other country's histories and he responded that we were unwilling to learn even from our own
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Kevin Gannon
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Today's must-read. Everything has a history, including yesterday's judicial coup on behalf of the executive, now possessing legal immunities that would be the envy of an absolute monarch.
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Ashton Pittman
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In 2016, Hillary Clinton gave a speech in Wisconsin about the importance of the Supreme Court.
She warned that 2016 was "make or break" for the court—and the country.
National media—focused on her emails and Trump's antics—barely covered the speech.
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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Lydia Polgreen
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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?
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