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Colm Atkins, PhD

@atkinscolm.bsky.social

Research Associate, Daniels Lab, Rutgers. AAUP-AFT Local 6323. Socialism, dogs, virology, books, music, sports. he/him. New Brunswick, NJ. http://colmatkins.com/

created August 24, 2023

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We lost power and internet so I was trying to figure out how to stream it on a blackberry.

2/9/2025, 12:22:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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you had me for a second there grant.

2/9/2025, 12:07:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sir I think you mean a Zalad.

1/9/2025, 11:29:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My papa was a vet and had a serious hand tremor too

1/9/2025, 11:21:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you stay ready (spooky) you don't have to get ready (become spooky)

1/9/2025, 11:13:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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sorry bud.

1/9/2025, 11:07:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And yet you're on social media

1/9/2025, 11:01:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I will not apologize for making you aware of delicious but haunted beverages.

1/9/2025, 11:00:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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this has to be a bit

1/9/2025, 10:50:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@vectorgen.bsky.social

1/9/2025, 10:39:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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trying to imagine something like this in Galveston and giggling.

1/9/2025, 10:10:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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oh so what's going to replace the oil, solar power? What about at night checkmate lieberals.

1/9/2025, 10:04:21 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I suggest fangraphs. I know it's unorthodox but I think it's the right move.

1/9/2025, 10:02:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I read the last line as pottery

1/9/2025, 8:53:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sounds like an excellent day.

1/9/2025, 8:05:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How is he celebrating. Crimes?

1/9/2025, 7:39:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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oh looks like it's on hulu. delightful.

1/9/2025, 5:59:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh it'll be fiiiiiiiiiiiine www.nj.com/news/2024/10... lol no way

1/9/2025, 5:37:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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paper route delivering the Rockville Gazette by bike.

1/9/2025, 3:37:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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in this sport we honor the labor of the troops

1/9/2025, 3:27:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No, but I have helped tip one out of a second floor window.

1/9/2025, 3:05:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Are we gonna do barf bucket discourse again?

31/8/2025, 9:19:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Danke.

31/8/2025, 7:40:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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is that a carbon steel or cast iron?

31/8/2025, 7:33:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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To Met Life? My deepest condolences.

31/8/2025, 7:29:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I hope she's excited for the 'lick the baby clean after meals' stage.

31/8/2025, 6:55:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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what are dewitts feelings on the situation

31/8/2025, 6:39:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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what did nick castellanos have to do with this

31/8/2025, 6:38:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ok, cool, I'll keep an eye on it based on the food in the bin at the moment, I feed him wellness but just whatever flavor is on sale when I go to the store. My last dog ended up being super allergic to their whitefish and sweet potato, gave basically the whole bag away.

31/8/2025, 6:16:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And his blood work/clin chem/urine/fecal through @dogagingproject.bsky.social has always been baseline.

31/8/2025, 6:14:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is the 'if dogs lick their feet a lot they're allergic to their food' thing real? Gimbal licks _me_ a ton which makes me worried he's trying to tell me something is making him feel uncomfortable but he never has hot spots or bald spots or anything.

31/8/2025, 6:13:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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likes are now florps?

31/8/2025, 6:11:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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they're twice as big as avenged 3.5 fold.

31/8/2025, 5:39:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Perfection. Get that boy a hot dog.

31/8/2025, 5:39:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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any place that has +1 person than where they live is an irredeemably crime ridden hellhole and it's just the most candy coated piss babyness. Oh noooooo you might have to walk next to someone in the parking lot, grow up.

31/8/2025, 5:21:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's tough out there for a pupper.

31/8/2025, 3:22:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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the look of a puppy who has never once been fed, not even once.

31/8/2025, 3:19:05 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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lando system?

31/8/2025, 2:46:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It looks rad as hell, though.

31/8/2025, 1:17:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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how are you preparing talmadge for the new influx of wealth

31/8/2025, 1:13:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Everyone disagreed with me when it came out! It's good! I was ahead of my time.

30/8/2025, 11:58:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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you have no option other than to look rad as hell

30/8/2025, 11:54:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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At the Drive In - Hell Paso

30/8/2025, 11:54:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emissary Of Night | Ω„ΩŠΩ„Ω‰ (@diplomatofnight.com) reposted

Worth thinking about how Chris Van Hollen, hardly a ultra left-wing firebrand, has accumulated a ton of credit over the last few years from the growing pro-Palestine constituency of the DP by simply 1) Demanding that there be justice for Shireen Abu Akleh, 2) Demanding that US law is adhered to.

30/8/2025, 10:00:14 PM | 1636 267 | View on Bluesky | view

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man is never buying a drink in tuscaloosa again

30/8/2025, 11:16:46 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I went to Maryland, I am never having a good time.

30/8/2025, 10:57:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Havne't been there yet but I look forward to my first time

30/8/2025, 10:37:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm happy to have shit talking mark back for the cfb season.

30/8/2025, 10:21:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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need to drink enough to send mean things to my brother in law that I won;'t remember

30/8/2025, 8:04:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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sprinkle some old bay on that

30/8/2025, 7:09:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This would make an excellent desktop photo, the perfect vibe for when you are searching for My Computer.

30/8/2025, 5:57:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am ready to be hurt again.

30/8/2025, 5:36:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Leto Atriedes lookin ass

30/8/2025, 4:30:48 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Let's Go Maryland.

30/8/2025, 4:04:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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:staring in mirror: a self loathing and guilt ridden irish catholic? Nooooooo.

30/8/2025, 3:37:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If only there was an entire city full of charm

29/8/2025, 8:48:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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PTL position in my department at Rutgers to teach Immunology in the spring of 2026 I will definitely release any spiders in your lecture hall.

28/8/2025, 10:59:20 PM | 7 10 | View on Bluesky | view

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Look if you don't want your lecture hall filled with thousands of venomous spiders by your most annoying colleague I don't know what to tell you.

29/8/2025, 6:21:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm gonna try to bring Gimbal too.

29/8/2025, 6:11:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Annika Barber (@annikabarber.bsky.social) reposted

Rutgers friends and colleagues - come on out! I'll be there too - lmk what issues you hope the union can take on for you.

29/8/2025, 6:04:23 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Are you bringing the pup?

29/8/2025, 6:05:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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anxious jesus christ colm what a typo.

29/8/2025, 3:32:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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kramer vs kramer but it's depressed horse vs angry jwe

29/8/2025, 3:08:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Who has two thumbs and leaned against the emergency eyewash station and now looks like he has a VERY serious gastrointestinal problem? πŸ‘ This Guy πŸ‘

29/8/2025, 2:43:11 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh shit, leash hooks outside the store? That is genius.

29/8/2025, 1:32:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You know what you did.

29/8/2025, 12:34:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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*not release. Or will I.

29/8/2025, 10:55:41 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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luckily as a mentally ill former smoker I can waltz right in haha this shit sucks man

29/8/2025, 9:38:55 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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cvs in jersey just let me book an appt for covid new pfizer next thursday

29/8/2025, 1:36:04 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alex Merz πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ (@merz.bsky.social) reposted

I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions. Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

28/8/2025, 8:47:43 PM | 152 122 | View on Bluesky | view

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Potential to become a permanent teaching position.

28/8/2025, 11:35:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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image
28/8/2025, 11:25:27 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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if you experience rutgers football for more than three hours consult a physician

28/8/2025, 11:01:03 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Americans.

28/8/2025, 11:00:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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will you abandon the hobbits to torment and death? I hope not.

28/8/2025, 10:59:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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PTL position in my department at Rutgers to teach Immunology in the spring of 2026 I will definitely release any spiders in your lecture hall.

28/8/2025, 10:59:20 PM | 7 10 | View on Bluesky | view

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There's one cool story. knowyourmeme.com/memes/viggo-...

28/8/2025, 10:38:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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:walking to train with junior year math teacher: teacher: going to 9:30 tonight? me: who's playing. teacher: joe strummer & the mescaleros. me: oh shit. In conclusion, wamp.

28/8/2025, 8:49:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I had tickets to that in DC.

28/8/2025, 8:46:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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barry must be fired then fired out of a cannon

28/8/2025, 8:45:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wrote about the immolation of the CDC defector.com/rfk-jr-is-ma...

28/8/2025, 5:48:02 PM | 537 158 | View on Bluesky | view

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the entire primary is gonna be the pace picante new york city?! commercial.

28/8/2025, 4:12:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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as a UAB alum anything that gets trent dilfer and preferably mark ingram fired.

28/8/2025, 2:35:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Love to see it.

28/8/2025, 1:48:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christina Kahrl (@christinakahrl.bsky.social) reposted

This is exactly why I was never entertained thoughts of going into stealth. Beyond my being a Z-list public figure, I refused to give up my past or my future. I am trans & there should be no stigma associated with that. I like being me; I encourage anyone to do likewise & embrace who & what they are

28/8/2025, 4:49:13 AM | 79 10 | View on Bluesky | view

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Quisling. Q. New Q Drop. We're through the looking ass.

27/8/2025, 11:02:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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there's a stomp country song in there. 'girl your dancin got my heartbeat skippin like a scratched cd, need you to run the disc doctor all over me'

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I assure you it is not the first time.

27/8/2025, 6:53:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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for every like marc will make yoshi longer.

27/8/2025, 6:46:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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oh no

27/8/2025, 3:07:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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crisis on infinite kirbys

27/8/2025, 3:04:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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gotcha, thanks! Won't be a problem in Pittsburgh!

27/8/2025, 3:00:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And supply seems to have stabilized. I can find it at least within 5 miles of me in New Brunswick at BB, Walmart, Target, and Gamestop.

27/8/2025, 1:54:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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something _is_ rotten in denmark tbh.

27/8/2025, 1:11:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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the only mentally well poster.

27/8/2025, 1:00:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Reminds of that post from the old site about the person who meant to buy like a case of pipettes but ordered a pallet.

27/8/2025, 12:59:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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'i would like to post the picture'

27/8/2025, 12:22:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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:stares at rutgers hiring portal: god help me it could take a year just to get the position posted.

27/8/2025, 12:04:37 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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A physics teacher and an english teacher at my high school did in fact get married.

27/8/2025, 12:03:30 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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the etc really sells it.

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