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A podcast about science fact and fiction, featuring trans scientists. Transcripts on website. Charles runs this account. asabpodcast.com

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 26/06/2026
HAPPY FRIDAY TO EVERYONE WHO HATES SLOP
STOP trying to make me consume A.I SLOP I like the Garbage i consume online to be made from the minds of neurodivergent shitposters
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Assigned Scientist at Bachelor's 🏳️‍⚧️ @asabpod.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
What a great shot! Cool subject obviously but killer composition too
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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 25/06/2026
The Monterey Bay Aquarium PROUDly presents “Otter This World,” written and performed by Monét X Change with special guest Trinity the Tuck.
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Assigned Scientist at Bachelor's 🏳️‍⚧️ @asabpod.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Insulting to mud wasps tbh - they're out there doing good work!
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Assigned Scientist at Bachelor's 🏳️‍⚧️ @asabpod.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I say this as usually the shortest man in any room: Bold of a man his height to accuse anyone of being "mini" anything.
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 24/06/2026
Just did this and yep there were a MILLION goddamn things to turn off AGAIN -- in web settings AND in the app itself I am going to find out whoever approved these updates and I am going to mandible them IN HALF
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Statement by @sciamunion.bsky.social on Springer Nature's sale of Scientific American and massive editorial layoffs right before a successful union vote is counted. www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...
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WGAE-Scientific American Union Statement on Springer Nature’s Sale and Layoffs | Press Room
The following is a statement from Writers Guild of America East members at Scientific American on today’s decision to sell Springer Nature and lay off staff: “Earlier today in an all-staff meeting we ...
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I resent the video-fication of podcasting. That's just a TV show. Podcasts aren't supposed to be for hot people. They have everything else
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 23/06/2026
Prime Day who? Sorry, I'm too busy supporting my independent bookshop 😍⁠ Through the 26th, take 35% off all sale audiobooks (yep) with code BIGIMPACT at checkout. Every purchase benefits your indie bookshop of choice. Thanks for supporting them today and every day 💗
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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
If you are under 45 in the US, you should get this. Your gender is irrelevant here. Shout out to my one ex who listened to me after we broke up and was like, "I got the shots" It's a series. I got the series, like, eons ago. If you already have HPV, get the shots. It covers many strains.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 09/06/2026
When the city announced it would open its first-ever direct-care clinic for trans people, it seemed like Mamdani was finally delivering on his campaign promises for trans youth. It isn’t. The clinic will deny care to anyone under 19 — adopting the exact age cutoff from Trump’s anti-trans EOs.
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Mamdani’s City-Run Clinic Will Deny Gender-Affirming Care to Patients Under 19
A planned New York City clinic for trans patients adopts an age limit used in Trump’s anti-trans executive orders.
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Assigned Scientist at Bachelor's 🏳️‍⚧️ @asabpod.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The first time I drove to LA I saw wind turbines for the first time, along the highway. It was incredible.
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Assigned Scientist at Bachelor's 🏳️‍⚧️ @asabpod.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I own the book and it's beautiful - highly recommended.
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Assigned Scientist at Bachelor's 🏳️‍⚧️ @asabpod.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Last year I read @kylelukoff.bsky.social's Too Bright to See and immediately bought a copy for myself and another I sent to my mom.
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Brady! @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
“yeah i can tell it was AI generated. how? just vibes, yeah. it has that certain gen-AI sais quoi”
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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
My fellow cis folks, The FCC is asking Americans to submit comments about whether the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) should create new TV ratings to alert viewers to trans/gender content. Time to be an ally and tell the FCC absolutely the fuck not. It takes five minutes to do.
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Tell the FCC that LGBTQ Stories Don’t Need a Warning Label | GLAAD
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous...
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦖 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Have you ever wanted to be the dinosaur? I’ll help you imagine it in Tyrant Lizard Queen. Pre-order from your favorite bookshop and get my new book off to a roaring start. 🦖
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Tyrant Lizard Queen: The Love, Life, and Terror of Earth’s Greatest Carnivore
The Love, Life, and Terror of Earth’s Greatest Carnivore
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Katie Collins @spissatella.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Happy pride, mollusc-botherers 🤘
The intersex-inclusive progress pride flag made from a collage of close-ups of photos of molluscs. This flag consists of a yellow triangle with a purple ring on the lefthandmost side, then five nested chevrons in white, pink, pale blue, brown and black which extend to the centre of the flag and then the right hand side consists of six horizontal stripes, from top to bottom red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
www.theverge.com/features/940...
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Trans teens want to talk about their future
So why are we always asking adults?
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Johanna Teske @johannateske.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I followed Chanda’s advice and used this summary to write a personal comment: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of.... It took me <10 min.
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Assigned Scientist at Bachelor's 🏳️‍⚧️ @asabpod.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
My toxic trait is that I see this and I think, but that's just a little baby. So it eats flesh, who doesn't. Maggots 🫶
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
happy pride moth everyone
A madagascar sunset moth with iridescent rainbow wings.
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🇵🇸 Dean Tāne 🇵🇸 @dean-tane.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Repost the Leather Dachshund from Seattle Pride 1991 to be blessed this Pride Month!
A wee Dachshund dog, wearing the finest leather daddy outfit, walking with their owner during a Pride parade in Seattle in 1991.
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 02/06/2026
Every June, we spotlight a list of LGBTQIA+ indie bookstores we partner with. Last year, there were 465. This year, there are over 600 🥹 Keep supporting LGBTQIA+ owned indies and authors all year long. Because it really, really makes a difference 💓
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦖 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
My gift to you and all the fuzzy little nerds who love catnip. 🌱
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When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
this is a pride flag made from real nasa imagery happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈✨
A pride flag made out of NASA images.
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Kyle Lukoff @kylelukoff.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Happy pride buy my gay books bookshop.org/p/books/my-l...
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 01/06/2026
you're the same | patreon.com/lubchansky
PANEL 1: MATTIE and a GUY walking down the street. The GUY has a pin that says ALLY. He is pointing at a figure in the near foreground.
ALLY GUY: Can you believe it? That guy that hates trans people…is on testosterone and has had cosmetic procedures!
MATTIE: And?

PANEL 2: Close in on the figure, it's ANOTHER GUY with an exaggerated chad face.
VO: Don't you GET it? That's the same! Gender-affirming care!
VO: If you want to get really pedantic, I guess? Maybe. But it doesn't really change anything–
VO: He's the SAME as you!

PANEL 3: MATTIE: hands on her hips. The ALLY GUY walks away triumphantly.
ALLY GUY: That's right! The transsexual! Society's lowest creature!
ALLY GUY: Haha, he is so owned. I'm going to go tell him.

PANEL 4: MATTIE watches in the near foreground. Across the street the CHAD GUY is on his knees, crying. The ALLY GUY is turned towards MATTIE giving a thumbs-up and grinning huge.
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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
A lot of people are talking about this but not nearly enough are emphasizing that it is a PROPOSAL and that we can and should SUBMIT COMMENT by July 13. Chanda shares deets in this thread.
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Assigned Scientist at Bachelor's 🏳️‍⚧️ @asabpod.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I LOVE these guys - I remember the first time I saw one, at the NC zoo. More exciting than any of the big animals we were ostensibly there to see.
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Assigned Scientist at Bachelor's 🏳️‍⚧️ @asabpod.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This is a ridiculous creature and I love it
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 26/05/2026
One of the things that most pisses me off about generative AI is how many entities are using it without your knowledge or consent, for making decisions that very much affect you.
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California judges are testing a new AI clerk. You won't know if it's looking at your case
Courts in Los Angeles and Riverside counties are testing an artificial intelligence tool and deciding whether it can be used in high-stakes criminal cases.
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Jo Yurcaba @joyurcaba.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Here's how the Trump administration is chipping away at transgender health care access for adults With more than 30 interviews with trans adults, treatment providers, conservative activists and trans rights activists over the last two months. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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It’s not just kids: Trump’s crackdown on trans healthcare extends into adulthood
Conservatives have long argued they want to end transition care for minors, but federal policies have increasingly limited adult access. More restrictions are on the way.
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Assigned Scientist at Bachelor's 🏳️‍⚧️ @asabpod.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I'm at the tail end of reading - for the first and only time I ever will - the entire Discworld series in publication order. I saw someone elsewhere say something like, he didn't have an Informed Trans Politics necessarily but he was so essentially decent that he derived one from first principles.
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darmok behind the wheel of a large automobile @pocketsand.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Geordi Drake meme comparing TNG and DS9 Ferengi episodes
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
We are also releasing a new research primer, "Myths about Generative AI, Productivity, and Labor Displacement", which discusses five common myths around generative AI at work. This primer will be the first of many. labor.dair-institute.org/primers
Screenshot of the primer: “Myths about Generative AI, Productivity, and Labor Displacement". Alex Hanna, Tina M. Park, Sophie Song. May 2026. Logos for the Luddite Lab and DAIR.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
THIS WEDNESDAY: join @dairinstitute.bsky.social as we launch the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a resource for workers fighting AI at work. We provide strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of this tech through case studies, primers, and a resource library. www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-...
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Launching the Luddite Lab Resource Hub
Join DAIR and workers on the front line of resisting AI as we release the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a new resource for fighting AI at work.
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦖 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Conversation turned to “worm milk” so I thought I’d let you know
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Inside the Wild Ways Many Creatures Make Milk
Mammals aren’t the only animals that provide nutritious secretions for their young
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Thanks to Katie Carr on Threads, I just learned: in 1996, the cast of the newly-launched “Star Trek: Voyager” got together to do a feature for Parade magazine about the power of late-’90s technology. Behold its fabulously unhinged glory. 1/
The cast of "Star Trek: Voyager" posing dramatically/seductively/[something]-ly in black clothing against a white background with a variety of late 90s gadgets, for a feature on tech in Parade Magazine in 1996.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/05/2026
this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
you can't spell TTRPG without TTG (trans tech girl)
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Invertebrate Systematics and Biodiversity Lab @invertebratelab.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Our postdoc @dr-ewilliamson.bsky.social's recent PhD study on an Australian native solitary bee, Megachile tosticauda, challenged a longheld assumption in insect biology: that all bees rely on a functional gut #microbiome. So what happens if it's missing? #bugsky invertebratelab.com/2026/02/24/a...
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A bee without a gut microbiome
My recent PhD study on an Australian native solitary bee, Megachile tosticauda, challenges a longheld assumption in insect biology: that all bees rely on a functional gut microbiome. Toda…
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samanthAAAH! riedel @samanthawrites.net · 26/02/2026
as long as folks are enthusiastically donating to state level trans orgs today, figured I'd reup this list the @them.us team and I put together a few years back: www.them.us/story/orgs-f... (some info may be outdated, but use this as a jumping-off point!)
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How to Support Trans People in All 50 States
A curated list of 100 organizations supporting trans rights and livelihood to which you can donate.
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 10/02/2026
Amazing news! When you purchase the audiobook of my novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster between now and Feb. 12, ✨ 100 PERCENT ✨ of the purchase price goes to BINC, the nonprofit that helps booksellers who are having a tough time. I love this audiobook. And BINC. It's a win-win! libro.fm/binc
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Book Industry Charitable Foundation
Libro.fm is proud to support Binc, the only nonprofit in the United States dedicated to assisting booksellers and comic retailers in need.
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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Finally, since the astronomy prizes offered by ASU were funded by Epstein, so Lawrence Krauss consulted him for input on who should win these awards! Personal note: I applied for this award (not knowing any of these things at the time), and I am SO glad I did not make that shortlist!
E-mail from Lawrence Krauss to Epstein detailing his consideration of the top 5 candidates for the Origins Project Postdoctoral Prize Lectureship. 

Text: I have gone over the =ist, and there are 5 people who should be considered as finalists:
Adrian Liu
Meng Su
Aaron Englehart
Gopinath Sutendra
Ahmad Haidar
Of these, I believe there are 3 who rank at the top =nbsp;(conveniently the top three in the list above).. They
are =xceptional candidates. The remaining 2 are also very good. =nbsp;l rank Gopinath higher than Ahmad, but both
slightly below the =est.
Of =he remaining 3, they are all remarkable..) can see reasons to choose =ny of them.. Your comments are
invited. Here are =ine:
1. Liu: =iscussing one of the most exciting upcoming fields in astronomy.. =nbsp;Clearly very accomplished. Also
clearly one of the best =eachers ever.
2. Meng Su: Very diverse.. his work on black hole (with =is supervisors) garnered him great attention, and he is
working on 3 of =he most exciting areas and has achieved significant international =tatus in each..
3. Aaron Englehart: working on the forefront of =rigins, an ASU grad now with Szostak (nice, but I worry if we
choose =im we may be viewed as parochial), interesting lectures and good =ommunicator.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 03/02/2026
Hey everyone! Huge news! Our trans girl scout list has sold a total of 146,000 boxes as of today! But MANY trans girl scouts only have 20, 30, 40 boxes sold. I just resorted our list to put those on the top. Go get your girl scout cookies and make a trans kid's day!
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2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
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LA Star @lastar.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 22/01/2026
BREAKING: Media outlets are reporting the Trump administration will expand the global gag rule to target trans people around the world, marking the latest attack in their obsessive crusade against our community. apnews.com/article/trum...
On black gradient background with black and white image of President Trump, pink and white text reads, "Trump administration WILL EXPAND global gag rule to ATTACK best-practice health care for trans people."
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