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Melissa Bates

@batesphysio.bsky.social
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Wife, mom, physiologist, entrepreneur, social animal

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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Several years ago, I wrote for a popular sci pub. With more space to think about larger science and industry again, I'm back to writing: melissas-newsletter-f18607.beehiiv.com/p/people-are...
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People are worried about grade inflation at Harvard. I think we should eliminate grades altogether.
Grades tell you little about a student's future competency
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
We’re not skirting around DEI to protect our spaces. This is a full fronted assault on our homes, our families, etc. I am not willing to compromise who I am to make anyone feel safe. But if you’re just looking for a hug I’m still here.
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Thank you, friend. I have and always be Charlie’s mom.
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I got disinvited to an event because of…Charlie. Because I wont apologize that science should be a space for thoughts and not liars trying to advance their careers. I’m sorry, I’m always Isis.
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
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a cartoon fish says wait a minute on the screen
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Why wouldn’t they? 🤣
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Leafcutter ants are the DoorDashers of the animal kingdom. 🐜 🌱
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Oh, fuck off Forbes. Putting out an article that reads like AI to talk about the relevance of college professors without an attempt to understand how deeply moving digital has impacted student mental health. This one gives you a generous C- www.forbes.com/sites/sergei...
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Are College Professors Still Relevant In The Age Of AI?
As new Artificial Intelligence tools are increasingly used to cut down on the rising cost of education, what are instructors to do when so much is stacked against them?
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Institutions tying salary to funding success down to a brutal annual salary level, and NIH limiting submissions. I can't see how this will possibly go wrong.....
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I didn't realize The Onion was scooping up other domain names... www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
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Duke School of Medicine plans salary cuts for tenured faculty who do not meet grant expectations
Set to go in effect in 2026, the proposed policy would apply to the School’s basic sciences units. These units rely heavily on grants from the National Institutes of Health, which have been increasing...
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
How is TD just such a great kid? Everything she's dealt with as a kid with the loss of her brother, I couldn't blame her if she became a real hellion. But, she's just becoming such a gracious, classy young woman.
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Ive been tracking these hilarious animals on my phone and was so emotionally invested in whether the polar bear would make it back to land for the summer and get enough time at sea. Whew, Barbara. You were giving me the vapors.
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Pennyworth is checking every single box for me right now.
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
No, we cannot stand corrected.
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I just learned that I am apparently three degrees from Kevin Bacon? 🤣
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I love that when MHT told me about this, he said you made Tajín coffee and I thought you had finally lost it. Tajín is great on almost everything with the key word being almost 🤣 🤣
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Same. Maybe he's building his chest for a presidential run? 🤞
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
In all the mess, there is a euphoria to remembering that I was born in & live in a city that has my family's back. My parents were undocumented teenagers when they came to LA from Mexico. My mom had me at 17 in a hospital-turned-parking-lot in the San Fernando Valley. I love you, Los Angeles.
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
It could almost be an onion article. “Los Angelenos surprised to learn their city was invaded and is on fire.” But that might be too wacky, even for the onion.
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I wonder if, too often, the non-scientist folks writing about this stuff conflate belief and trust.
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I also can’t help but laugh when I predicted to people around me exactly how this would go down. I don’t think they had a conceptual reference for what happens when a whole city takes its earrings off.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/06/2025
Current time in

Los Angeles1:44 a.m. June 10
Live
Updated 
June 10, 2025, 4:30 a.m. ET14 minutes ago
Live Updates: 700 Marines Head to L.A. For Absolutely No Fucking Reason Whatsoever

The Marines were heading to Los Angeles as police officers broke up demonstrations downtown late Monday. The California governor said sending in the Marines was “a blatant abuse of power.”
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Los Angelenos are so predictable. We know there may issues in the family, but the family will work it out, although nothing will unify us faster than law enforcement (and now the military) trying to get involved in family affairs.
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I mean, that’s literally where “Fuck Tha Police” came from…
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
There is so much in the world, I just need to think about something happy for a few. TD plays a game where she tries to get in the last “I love you” as she’s walking away from you. Tonight’s round on the way to her room went 20 min. Just us yelling “I love you” at each other. My heart could burst.
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Major revisions!!!! I’m just going to focus on that bit of good today.
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
We can't fund the NIH but we can pay for a giant self-aggrandizing parade? No, thank you. I'll go to mass and check out the new pope.
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The pope scheduling a live broadcast mass at 2:30 on 6/14 is exactly the pettiness I am ready to see come back to the church.
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Oh, Joni….
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Not being allowed to depreciate a capital investment is huge. Businesses depreciate just about everything and take it as a deduction.
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Universities higher than corporations. Just let that sink in for a minute…
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Remember all the stuff Bob Jr said he wouldn’t do and the Senate bought it? How’s that going?
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Another paper on my stack of the ones I have to write still 😂
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The prompt was about how using a digital community exclusively for communication, including for critical feedback, can be damaging. There are so many voices we need to hear…
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I finished my last MBA assignment about how bias impacts communication biases. It included communities many of us recognize - race, ethnicity, and 🏳️‍🌈. They’re not always seen but I felt compelled to add a a slide that sometimes you can’t see people’s differences and have autism as an example.
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Worf Email @worfemail.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
All crew, Again, please do not insert unknown USB drives from random planets into computer ports on the Enterprise. Worf
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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
is it safe to time travel to yesterday
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
OK, journal. That was pretty ballsy to ask for a manuscript review with a three day turnaround time. Who plans their life less than a week in advance?
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Thanks to the state of Iowa for continuing to support the development of Pneumero and our path to market! corridorbusiness.com/iowa-city-me...
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Iowa City medtech startup earns state support for lung-monitoring device
Iowa City-based LSF Medical Solutions, LLC is among a handful of early-stage companies receiving state funding support from the Iowa Economic Development
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I think it’s going to be impossible to get away from AI automating some business tasks, but I agree it is extremely unsettling to use it for the original generation of knowledge. I used it to autogenerate market resource citations into my endnote.
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Thread on the dangers of learning from AI and how ChatGPT’s positive reinforcement is bad for calibration of knowledge.
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
We are...
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I can’t accept a gift worth more than $3 as a state employee (which I think is good policy) but….but…
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a man with a beard and a black tank top says " does that make sense "
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Wait, wait, wait. I thought we were building and buying American?
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Im still on this in the morning. I need more Tracy Morgan nature shows during the dark times. I hope they have Octopuses a 100 episode budget.
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I'm glad we're going after public enemy #1, Barbie www.newsweek.com/trump-threat...
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Donald Trump threatens to stop Barbie dolls being sold in US
The president warned of a 100-percent tariff on Mattel and said that the company "won't sell one toy in the United States."
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I had feels about David Attenborough turning 99 and then I discovered Tracy Morgan
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I just discovered that Tracy Morgan loves octopuses and I have a little more hope than before.
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