Links for you. Science:

Are you a morning person? You may be a Neanderthal descendant. (paper here)
Plasmid genomic epidemiology of blaKPC carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in Canada, 2010–2021
Watch Cockatoos Dip Their Food in Water to Make It Soggy: A new study marks the first time that dunking behavior has been documented in parrots
Update to GenBank Qualifier: ‘Country’ will transition to ‘Geographic Location’ effective June 2024
New Paper Argues That the Universe Began with Two Big Bangs (two Big Bangs? In this economy?)
Genomic surveillance reveals dynamic shifts in the connectivity of COVID-19 epidemics

Other:

Why Have Feminists Been So Slow to Condemn the Hamas Rapes?
What Would Sandra Day O’Connor Have Thought About Affirmative Action for Men? For decades, college-admissions offices have quietly imposed higher standards on female applicants.
Rift Over When to Use N95s Puts Health Workers at Risk Again (this is a policy choice by Biden et alia)
New Media Changed The World And We Aren’t Immune: It would be weird if it upended whole societies, exacerbated mental-health crises, and crushed attention spans, but had no effect on U.S. politics
Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny
Patrick Stewart Wasn’t Optimistic About Tom Hardy’s Career After ‘Star Trek: Nemesis’
Christians in the Holy Land say they’re under attack as Israeli-Palestinian violence soars: Church officials and Christian leaders in Israel blame a minority of Jewish extremists for the attacks. They say Israel’s far-right government has fostered a culture of impunity.
Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Star Trek’ Would Have Been a “Balls-Out Hard R” Movie
Here’s why we fear a dystopian future for Florida’s universities (a bit too much of the purplish prose, but still makes some good arguments about outcomes)
‘Dictator’ Trump Plans to Deploy Massive Number of Troops on U.S. Soil: In his first term, Trump’s plans to send troops to “war” on the southern border were thwarted. This time, he’s talking about sending up to 300,000 there
IDF says Israeli hostages it killed in Gaza were bare chested and waving white flag: Revelation increases unease about Netanyahu’s indiscriminate conduct of military campaign and anger of hostage families
A Palestinian student was expelled from a Florida high school after his mother made pro-Palestinian posts on social media
Fueled By Mystery Donors, COVID Conspiracy Group Grew Budget Last Year
The Most Honest Out-of-Office Message: What if you deleted all your emails during vacation and never looked back? (written before most email software had send at a particular time function)
A Viral Dance and ‘Happiness Campaign’ Frustrates Iran’s Clerics (gift link)
Joe Biden’s Second-Term Agenda Is a Mystery (and That’s a Problem)
Vote-denying Trump ally to step down from government election commission
He Wanted Privacy. His College Gave Him None: A Markup examination of a typical college shows how students are subject to a vast and growing array of watchful tech, including homework trackers, test-taking software, and even license plate readers
We Are Falling Apart: The Right is successfully exploiting fears over rising antisemitism for its reactionary crusade while the Israel-Hamas war is tearing the democratic popular front to pieces
Lina Khan’s Anti-Monopoly Power
No Biden Shouldn’t Pay The GOP’s Latest Ransom Demand
Moms for Liberty Isn’t Going Anywhere
Netflix’s Data Bomb & Iger’s Hulu Wish List
Biden Is Struggling to Gain Ground in the West
The Biden-Bibi Divide & Reelection Jitters: After Biden issued a rare and searing public rebuke of Israel’s actions in its ongoing war against Hamas, Netanyahu tried to hang the thousands of Palestinian civilian casualties squarely around Biden’s neck—a hell of a thing to do as the president heads into his reelection campaign.
Jack Smith Just Pulled a Serious Poker Move in His Case Against Trump