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PhD brain and genomic scientist. Ocean junkie. Computer wrangler. Open data believer. Geek. Punk. Not that kind of doctor. Views only my own. She/her
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You know who was doing *actual* scientific research on HPAI? A bunch of the federal labs these dipsticks defunded and fired everyone from. Actual scientists had to euthanize actual lab animals because they couldn’t feed them. But sure, let’s import 400 random infected ostriches.

submitted 34 minutes ago • 3 comments

My colleagues and I are fighting DOGE. We swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and WE ARE NOT DONE.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

What happened to “if you tell the door-Mormons politely to stop coming, they’ll stop”? They used to stop!

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

Bluesky is yet again proving that any group of lefties larger than three people will have at least three factions who all virulently hate each other.

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

I have to go to the beach this weekend - and I am pretty sure I’ve *never* used that particular phrasing before, even for the coldest, wettest, slimiest fieldwork. I’d rather have wet socks, blackfly bites, and a bristleworm down my bra than this.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

HMMER is the bedrock of genomic annotation globally, and now its funding is terminated for no reason. @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social is now on bsky:

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

If crypto shows up in my 401k, my brain will blow a fucking fuse.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

🧬 New study in Gen. Bio.! We tested how RNA input & PCR cycles affect duplication rates across 4 sequencers. ↘️ RNA = ↗️ duplicates = ↘️ diversity. Key for optimizing RNA-seq protocols! Thanks + congrats to @catharineaquino.bsky.social @nataliazajac.bsky.social + collaborators! 🔗 tinyurl.com/bdcuen59

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Being able to pick where to publish scholarly research is one of the defining features of academic freedom. The current government does not want scientists to have academic freedom. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

This is the best thing I’ve seen today and I need a source. Bluesky, please help. Credit to whoever this rad group is.

submitted 1 day ago • 500 comments

The dog-vomit-sound alarm clock is both the most effective and the most unpleasant.

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

Major update to #SCIMaP visualization of impacts of cuts to federally supported health research. Map now includes information on future economic losses (impact of proposed reduction of NIH IDC to 15%) and current economic losses (impact of terminated NIH grants). scienceimpacts.org

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

OH FOR FUCKSAKE.

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

And IF they exploded, we stopped. sending. them. until we’d figured out why, not just “eh fuckit, launch another”. SpaceX is the “I don’t know why that code didn’t work, just run it again, maybe it will work this time” bad-programmer school of rocketry - which makes sense, given who runs it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Hot take: current unsuccessful attempts at privatized space flight are a flavor of moon landing denialism. Not denialism that we went there, but of how. The idea that we can get the same results with cost-saving privatization propped up by media propaganda is itself a form of conspiracist thinking

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Covid killed millions of people worldwide and the damage that it did to societal cohesion and democratic governance may still have eclipsed the physical damage

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

….whatthefuck.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

evergreen post, unfortunately

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You know what trend I really, seriously hate? The trend away from mass-market paperbacks to only trade paperbacks, especially genre books. I *like* to be able to bring my books places easily. I *like* my thick, cheap little doorstops. I *really* like being able to double-stack them on shelves.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

FOR OBVIOUS REASONS, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE UP TO DATE ON YOUR VACCINATIONS NOW.

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments

“Unprecedented” isn’t the only word I’d use, but the others are definitely unprintable.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Conservationist, marine biologist, and science writer Rachel Carson was born #OTD in 1907. Carson challenged the widespread use of pesticides in her book “Silent Spring,” and testified before Congress on environmental policy and human health. 🧪 👩‍🔬 Image: Alfred Eisenstaedt/LIFE/Getty

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

On the one hand, I met my very first and lifelong best friend in kindergarten over these sandwiches (she still thinks they’re gross.) On the other…. wtf nyt.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

For anyone else who seriously considered citing McMaster-Carr in their thesis:

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