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shelbylau.bsky.social
(she/they) 🏳️‍🌈 BSc student who likes pharmacology, cats, & intellectual history. Also an okay guitarist, bad cyclist, former foilist, & avid coffee/beer drinker. In Twitter detox.
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"When you next have an unoccupied moment and feel that now familiar, practically second nature, urge to reach for your phone, perhaps pick up a #paperback instead" Rob Tempio. press.princeton.edu/ideas/a-paea... Explore recently published paperbacks here! press.princeton.edu/collections/...

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I think the decline of literacy is real, but using booktok to demonstrate it is like weeping over the death of cinema and citing pornhub comments

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I was asked if I’ve ever cooked meth before since I’m a chem major. Then someone else pointed out that I sounded like I’ve done it before because I kept saying “when we make heroin… when we make meth… when we make fentanyl…” Oops. Reminder to use proper first-person pronouns.

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Adorno famously said that there could be "no poetry after Auschwitz" but apparently there's no shortage of the most distasteful, horribly kitsch prose.

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Throwback to my flight to #YYZ [shitshow known as Pearson] (delayed for 5 hours), so I decided to become a content creator. Also 81 bpm during childbirth is wild. Can’t wait to get back on the road 🚴🏻‍♀️ #strava #cyclist #YEG

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Old article but as important as ever www.dissentmagazine.org/article/grad...

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99% of new medicines developed by the pharmaceutical industry depend on NIH research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Looking forward to celebrating 80 years of federally funded science, technology and innovation @standupforscience.bsky.social SF, March 7, Civic Center, 1-3 pm 🧪 🧫 🧬

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My compsci friend who doesn't know anything biology-adjacent said this looks like macaroons + cherries and I think that's an astute observation #biorender

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