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Postdoc @ Hess Lab @ UC Davis (PhD @ UCSB). Cow gut microbe engineering at the bench, science policy and politics away from it. Opinions my own. Bluesky’s first Anaerobic Fungi Guru. She/her. ☸️ (Jōdo Shinshū) Hold the line.
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Apparently the regime doesn’t like scientific integrity. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

DING DONG!! DING DONG!!!

submitted 8 hours ago • 54 comments

Let dads be dads! Give them good paternity leave!

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Don't just say it's unconstitutional, remind people that the constitution is full of very good ideas designed to prevent authoritarianism, and most people who want to ignore it want that specifically because they are authoritarian.

submitted 11 hours ago • 97 comments

California farmers mostly went for Trump. www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

I think one of the reasons authoritarian men perceive women as having little to no interiority is a projection of the rigid authoritarian psychological defenses that prevent access to and processing of much of their own inner life.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Given the choice between terminating coverage for undocumented people or raising taxes on the wealthy, 55% said they’d pick taxes.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

authoritarian men are the biggest thing wrong with humanity, with authoritarian women a fairly close second

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

The team responsible for updating the CDC’s “contraception bible,” which advises doctors on birth control safety, was disbanded.

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

Research from 2022 that every Democrat apologist should chew on: “We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.“ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 91 days ago • 29 comments

Met an active duty member of the military yesterday who filed conscientious objector paperwork in response to deployment of military on U.S. soil. Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.

submitted 22 hours ago • 456 comments

We’ve leapt over a lot of red lines in the last week. But one I find most worrying is Trump/MAGA/ICE have ceased even pretending to claim some criminal pretext for cracking down on protected speech. It’s just straight up “if you criticize us, you’re getting throttled/arrested/disappeared.”

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

the southern baptist convention just had to sell their headquarters in downtown nashville to pay for all the sex abuse legal fees.

submitted 23 hours ago • 67 comments

I suspect in the days ahead we will hear a large number of people saying publicly what no one has been saying publicly. I suspect everyone reading this knows what I am referring to. A POTUS who falsely accuses Democratic leaders of paying for a military invasion of the United States is a madman.

submitted 1 day ago • 350 comments

I am an entire adult woman with a PhD and I forgot what a dump truck was

submitted 23 hours ago • 10 comments

www.youtube.com/live/0n77NFj...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A Florida weatherman telling his viewers he can no longer be confident in his forecasts due to cuts to atmospheric science is the kind of resistance content I’m here for. Kudos, Sir.🌦️

submitted 8 days ago • 487 comments

Based on some quick math, this alone could fund the NSF Plant Genome Research Program for ~4 years; the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology, which was totally axed in the NSF budget request, for ~9 years; and ~ half the total NSF GRFP budget

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I wrote about how Trump is using authoritarianism to distract from all of his losses last week www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments

"nullification of the election results" = "winning imbued trump with sovereign authority and so all opposition to him is illegitimate and illegal"

submitted 1 day ago • 175 comments

This. Is. Already. How. It. Works.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Real reasons people do not have the number of children they want revealed in new report

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

As expected, RFK Jr. was lying during his confirmation hearing and now is ratfucking the vaccination system in the US. The vast majority of the public does not want this and yet again it’s clear that the Republican administration does not serve the electorate.

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

This is an atrocity.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

New profile picture! Now with more hair!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

politics really should not be done by people with poor emotional regulation

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Darkness descends. MAHA = fear farming & the monetization, normalization, & entrenchment of unproven, exploitive, & mostly useless wellness woo. Plus, lots of conflicts of interest.👇 5 food power players have strong ties to MAHA movement www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/m... via @statnews.com

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I think it's important to continuously reiterate that federal science funding grants in the US (and elsewhere) are made because the government, with the input of panels of independent experts, have concluded that the work being done is IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

NIH is cutting research on mRNA vaccines. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya signed a petition calling for a halt on the vaccines & said many people view it as a "bad platform." But in 2021 he wrote a white paper praising the technology as an example of the type of breakthrough science NIH should fund.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

I do wonder what it costs financially to have an army occupying Los Angeles and why I keep being told the government doesn't have enough money to pay for public schools to buy supplies for their teachers

submitted 3 days ago • 58 comments

Oh, so they’re just locking down the fourth largest downtown in the United States now?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

NBC Interview with Gavin Newsom. He lays it on the line and slams Trump on everything from the illegal take over of the national guard to tariffs and is not holding back. This is how Dems need to handle Trump.

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

If your news channel includes commentators who — citing no sources — talk about other people’s state of mind is if it was knowable fact, then you’re not watching the news. You’re watching fascist propaganda.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

I have a lot of reasons I don’t like Governor Newsom, but uh GO GOVERNOR NEWSOM

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Governor Newsom: "I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops ... and return them to my command. ... This is a serious breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed." The letter:

submitted 3 days ago • 121 comments

take note of which Marines comply with this

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment