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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 did this. They’re better but still not *great*. I need to find a different place to go, I think. I hate how much I’m hyper aware of them falling off. 🙃

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

I feel like every day, I'm seeing more and more examples of this in real time. ICE was at Dodgers Stadium. This is a fact that has been documented by protestors and the national news. Except ICE is now denying it on X and saying it wasn't them. It's government gaslighting in real time.

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

“The workers hate time off! They want to be working all the hours!”

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

submitted 22 hours ago • 85 comments

A short thread about the people in my lab who will present posters and give rapid talks at #ASMmicrobe: 🧵

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Let’s get a thread of support going for #Juneteenth If you’re Black, post your payment links below (paypal, venmo, ko-fi, gofundme, etc). Everybody else, pick someone to donate to and repost. 👇💕

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

Me earlier having a migraine level headache: I don’t think it’s that bad maybe My cat who goes into nurse mode when I’m feeling really miserable: Time to lay down and let me snuggle with while I purr and you rest

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

I hate this timeline.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

Juneteenth reparations thread.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Tomorrow will include a journey to get my glasses re-shaped because they keep falling down and it’s bothering me immensely. 🫠

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

executive decision, we're calling it 'wearing the juice' from now on

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Okay but they find out because they have a trademark line in their reviews that accidentally slips out on the date.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Low-key $30k/person per year, nbd. /s

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

We have been re-watching Great Pottery Throwdown and I love how Keith the judge gets so emotional over the contestants and pieces. This giant man tearing up with emotion showing it’s okay for people to cry, but especially throwing a wrench in toxic masculinity.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

One of the most spectacular tricks that the “wellness” grift has managed to pull off is convincing people that their industry is untainted by money. That they are all doing it out of their deep concern for their customers’ health. Yet the global supplement industry alone is worth $177 billion.

submitted 1 day ago • 109 comments

ok so there was a verification post on his twitter, which shows it's just a shitty trolling effort, so it's even more important to just block and disengage. this isn't like the old days when people would rejoin as punished_username after posting actionable threats at govt officials for clout

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Don't let the bigots pathologize us. Yes dysphoria kills. It sucks. Believe me, I know. But we are NOT our dysphoria and we are owed more than simply being trauma porn. We deserve gender affirming care because we're human beings and bodily autonomy is a human right.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

🚨PHILLY AREA FOLK🚨 THUMPER NEEDS A FOSTER (or forever home?)! I cannot guarantee that there will be CLEANSING THERMONUCLEAR FIRE SCOURING CITIES FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH if Thumper doesn’t get help ASAP. Bit it sure seems likely to me.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Okay, the chaotic storm is mostly past us thankfully.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

My spouse has on the movie “The Walk” and Joseph Gordon-Lovitt has a horrible French accent. 😬

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments