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Alexa Soares

@alexarsoares.bsky.social
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A stressed brain studying stressed brains // Postdoc in the Iwasaki Lab at Yale // Feminist // #BiInSci // @AlexaRSoares on mastodon and twitter // she/her 🐀🧠🔬🌈

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𝐋𝐲𝐝𝐢𝐚🧑🏾‍🩰🇬🇾🇱🇨🇧🇧 @lydiasalara.blacksky.app · 12/07/2026
Kendrick has the opportunity to do the funniest thing
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Roger Senserrich @4freedoms.es · 10/07/2026
So ICE has thugs wearing “media” vests and masks filming protesters, something that is totally normal in a democracy www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
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Dan Haar: Fake news? No, fake media may be the real danger at a Connecticut ICE raid
"This is a reality-TV-show president... And it sounds to me like they were making a reality TV show," Amanda Crawford said.
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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 12/07/2026
this is the perfect use of axios’s bullet point house style
A person who spoke with Graham shortly afterward said the senator complained that he was feeling unwell.
When the person urged him to seek medical attention immediately, Graham said he would do so Sunday morning after his scheduled appearance on NBC's
"Meet the Press."
• Graham then joked: "I can't die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions, get Iran sorted out and do Israeli-Saudi normalization."
• He passed away several hours later.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"'And my immediate reaction, on reading the story that Yale was considering settling, is that it cannot be that I, Becca, normal human, had the wherewithal to challenge something that was wrong and an abuse of power, and Yale — with its $44 billion endowment — does not,' she continued."
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
As someone who watches a ton of sports, the concept of "fairness" is hilarious. OK lets ban Messi, it's not fair for a team to have a player better than everyone else.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
What do you mean abolishing ICE is not doable? It was created in 2003. There are Missy Elliot songs older than ICE.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
TIL: John Berry Meachum was born enslaved in 1789, bought his freedom at 21 with his carpentry work. At age 32, he set up schools in St. Louis to educate enslaved children. When Missouri passed a law to make that illegal, he bought a steamboat, anchored it in the middle of the Mississippi...
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DAY 1 — John Berry Meachum & the Floating Freedom School
A lithograph portrait of John Berry Meachum, courtesy of the Missouri Encyclopedia. John Berry Meachum specialized in freedom. Born enslaved in 1789, it took 21 years and an agreeable owner to purc…
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
the thing is "sports" is basically synonymous with "socializing with your peers" and "not being viewed as deviant" and all the arguments against trans participation are segregationist bullshit
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Yulong Li Lab @yulonglilab.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Excited to share our first red ACh sensor! 🔴 We developed GRAB_rACh1h, the first genetically encoded red fluorescent sensor for recording acetylcholine dynamics in vivo. (1/3)
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Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 14/06/2026
It’s not hyperbole that part of what kept the queer liberation movement going in the Reagan era was the partying part of the “bury your friends in the morning, protest in the afternoon, and dance at night” schedule. Without joy there is no air left to fight
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Steve E. Tricks @refreshingtime.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
your political function as a citizen is to hold your elected officials to account for their worst decisions, not to excuse those decisions because it could be worse
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Monica Carson @brainimmunity.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
#academicsky #medsky #neuroskyence #immunosky read the thread quoted here - very concerning use of AI and automated review process in Frontiers series journals.
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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
There is bisexual lighting everywhere for those with eyes to see
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
He had no satisfactory answer, but the answer is this: Academics who play along with automating various parts of our jobs are partaking in our own industry's destruction. When it comes time for these companies to begin charging real money for their devastatingly high compute costs, university (cont)
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
oh well if candy crush businessman mel morris says so
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
happy pride to everyone with long covid
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Gee I wonder why women and girls are less inclined to use tools that were popularized via their ability to create fake nude photos of women and girls
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🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃 @shoshana.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
One of the things I like about this is the understanding that athletics isn't about winning. It's about the bonds we create playing together. Virtually no athletes are making a living out of it, but countless athletes are creating friendships that make life wonderful.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Some of us just don't like getting colds
obert W Malone, MD
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Did some airplane travel this week- the number of people back to wearing masks over hantavirus and Ebola is truly shocking.
I feel sad for the people who live their lives in fear over over-hyped, extremely rare diseases. 
People, so fearful that they can't go out in public or travel without masks...
I pity them, I worry for their mental health, I even worry for our country that has so many guillible people - but these poor fools are not my enemy.
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Booingus 👻🎃”booear down”PhDMTBBL👻🎃 @bingusrelative.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
A walk light stop hand in a sand dune
Text reads: stop Programming Computers
Sand was never meant to think
This is very cruel to rocks
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
everyone is probably at least a little bi (but especially straight people): a bisexual's thesis
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ACLU @aclu.org · 20/05/2026
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just voted to require teachers to forcibly out transgender youth against their will. Censoring "gender ideology" does nothing to advance the basic promise that every child deserves the same opportunity to thrive, and that includes transgender students.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Correct. See also: “where are all the student protests?!” They’ve been surveilled, terrorized, arrested, evicted, kicked out, and stigmatized maybe?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/05/2026
I certainly hope nobody will be a patient there, but yes, we should be very clear on this point: this is state-funded conversion therapy and conversion therapy is torture
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/05/2026
a ten million dollar torture clinic Paxton really is uniquely evil even among the murderer’s row of assholes that is the Texas GOP
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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 15/05/2026
living in the future has been a real fucking disappointment
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 22/02/2025
every single transportation conversation ever
meme of two people talking where one labeled "cyclist" says "i love riding my bike" and the other labeled "average driver" says "i just fantasized about killing you"
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...
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Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Remember PCR tests from Covid? The CDC doesn't have one for the Andes virus. I learned that a lab in Nebraska built and validated an Andes-specific PCR test in literal days in anticipation of receiving the American cruise ship passengers. My story for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/race-t...
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Inside the Race to Develop a Test for the Rare Andes Hantavirus
A University of Nebraska lab has developed a test that can detect the virus before symptoms become severe. Now, it's ready to start testing those returning to the US after a cruise outbreak.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026
folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
you realize when stuff like this succeeds so fast and so easily that the shitty living conditions everywhere else are not just because nobody's doing anything, it's because they're ACTIVELY making sure they don't improve, because that reduces subservience to the parasite class #political
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/05/2026
The important lesson to take away from this is not that we are all going to die of Hantavirus. We aren’t. It’s that the United States has zero pandemic prevention capacity at the present because of deliberate sabotage by the president and his appointed lackeys.
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Dr Zoë Ayres @zjayres.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This should be a huge wake up call for the scientific community.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 10/05/2026
"A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure" www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
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A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure
Residents in Fayetteville, Georgia, noticed low water pressure last year. The utility discovered two unaccounted-for water connections at one of the nation’s largest data center campuses.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Guys. Heads up. Let’s talk about Hantavirus. There have been SEVERAL bad takes and BLATANT misinformation circulating regarding this outbreak so I figured it was a good idea to make a thread about it. Stay calm. Stay vigilant. Know your facts. Here’s ALL you need to know. 🧪🧵⬇️
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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
It is my duty to inform you that there are baby capybaras at the Sacramento Zoo
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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
'Disappointed, "Surprised," 'Betrayed': 12 Toddlers on Where Did Mom Go Peekaboo Oh There She Is
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
And who set that system up 🪿
Fortune, in the middle of the damn night this morning at like 3 am: "The cleg of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees:" Nvidia executive says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers, and a photo of Bryan Catanzaro who clearly thinks of himself as an eccentric with his silly longish hair and Dan Flashes complicated shirt and velvet cerulean blue blazer and oversized glasses frames that I'm certain he thinks are very cool. They're just okay.
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Congratulations to the Harper's Letter signatories and the Heterodox Academy!
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 25/02/2026
If you do not fight at the barricade of trans healthcare you will fight at the barricade of the most stigmatized medication you are on and you will do it with fewer experienced allies because you left trans people to die.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
“Everybody needs to turn down the rhetoric.” -supporters of a guy who threatened to destroy an entire civilization of 90 million people
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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
the only way to stop a bad guy with a ballroom is a good guy with a ballroom
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Kurt Fraser @kurtfraser.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
the solution to gun violence in this country is to build a ballroom <3
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paolo @paolopalma.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I'm not a girl, not yet a woman except its about being a postdoc
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