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the breadth of knowledge and experience in this part of twitter is just bananashttps://americanmind.org/essays/biosecuritys-faustian-bargains-part-i/ …
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here are some fun gnosis-based excerpts worth noting I've worked in American bio labs and even our adherence to safety protocols was decidedly Mixed I used to keep beers in the same refrigerator we used to store whole extracted Finch brainspic.twitter.com/yp8IgpjSOa
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thinking back fondly on the day I dropped a canister containing 50 millicuries of 32P down a flight of stairs good times
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eigenrobot Retweeted SocratesMind
remember that time frog researchers were freaking out about a frog fungus pandemic that they blames on global warming and then they eventually figured out that it was actually being spread by frog researchers I swear this happenedhttps://twitter.com/MindSocrates/status/1252677989491445760?s=19 …
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SocratesMind @MindSocratesWe may have misplaced our blind faith in "science", cause just humans afterall. Like the time my university wiped out 2 entire ponds of endangered species by giving them antibiotics increasing sun sensitivity and frying them...after lining the ponds with black plastic. https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1252675221548445696 …5 replies 14 retweets 80 likesShow this thread -
eigenrobot Retweeted father of the year
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eigenrobot Retweeted 🦗New Free Soil Party
thinking back to a locked room I know of in a basement at a university that is just floor to ceiling glass jars with mostly-extinct species floating in formaldehydehttps://twitter.com/FreeSoilAndrew/status/1252685460893249536?s=19 …
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At least they kept them. The poor dodo suffered the after extinction indignity of having the only full taxidermied specimen still in existence nearly completely destroyed by the Ashmolean Museum when they decided it was getting musty and threw it in a bonfire.
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