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Virologist, PhD, collector of hobbies & plants, 🏳️‍🌈, 🐈‍⬛, currently in career & prof dev for scientists, AuDHD & hypermobile, she/her Pfp: sassy sketch of me - white woman with a shaved head wearing pearls & cateye glasses by @atlastalos.bsky.social
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I think I’m going to try to take a break from bluesky for a day or so for my mental health. Please take care of yourselves. Sending hugs to everyone feeling impacts of all of this. The voirb wishes you a restful weekend.

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

I am overwhelmed. Highs and lows. I have gotten into grad school abroad- gonna learn to be a proper librarian. Also my personal Trumpist asshole made an appearance last night. Pippin is best boy and scared him away. But now we know he knows where we are. If you want to support us, here’s how. 🧵

submitted 22 days ago • 15 comments

Debating watching the newest episode of Severance by myself because my spouse crashed out on me during episode 2.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

A good explanation of who shutting these grants down impact at the undergrad level. And ultimately every level after that without getting initial help.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

A good friend/former labmate is now a postdoc with a big Howard Hughes grant because of a PREP program. She may not have been able to get into grad school without it. These are the kind of people getting impacted.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t have words just rage.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Someone who knows how to do these kinda things, can you archive the CDC website, like, today? I know folks are archiving other sites, just want to make sure that one is covered ..

submitted 22 days ago • 47 comments

Heads up for anyone using data from CDC websites

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I appreciate we have people like this still speaking up/out instead of mindlessly going through the motions because “it’s tradition”

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

It would be fantastic if muscle relaxers were accessible when needed. I have a friggin absolute tight muscle mess on one side of neck and shoulder.

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

Puppy 🧵

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I was talking to non-academic friends about this tonight and they had no idea. I mean there are 50 million awful things happening simultaneously so understandable. It’s just the general public has no clue about this.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Totally legitimate 🙃

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

I absolutely just purchased the rainbow leaves for my desk fidget collection. Rainbow plus leaves- irresistible

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

It’s VOIRBIN time

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

And if you really want to understand in-depth what this means and be able to spot it easily (which you need to do in order to fight it) you should read Talia’s book about it. bookshop.org/p/books/wild...

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

I feel like the term “mediocre cis het white man” is giving some men more credit than they deserve.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

An example of this was a subset of the pro-masking community on Twitter. They didn’t allow nuance and demanded perfection. They shamed people for masking and going places like concerts amongst other things. This doesn’t allow discussion of the topic. People interested in masking walked away.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments