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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Meanwhile the Pope “Someone who says ‘I’m against abortion but says I am in favor of the death penalty’ is not really pro-life,” Leo said. apnews.com/article/vati...

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Pope intervenes in US abortion debate by raising what it really means to be 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A lot of guys I'm seeing are mentioing that they aren't saying anything because they're afraid to come off as "performative". Guys, please be performative. Please be cringe about it. That fear you have to look bad is the same fear that shut the 50 other group chat members up. Say something

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Holy shit I did not know this Incredible insight into Western Higher Education, going back to Oxford and Cambridge and still seen today from @harikondabolu.bsky.social

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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

genAI is rape culture in multiple ways and I need to start saying that more often IRL

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What I find striking about every one of these “politics are too hostile” takes, is that the emphasis is always on the people with higher standards to lower them to allow violence at the table. How come Cox isn’t telling the right to love their neighbor? Instead it’s come to the table with Trump.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think we have enough data to show if you're arresting elderly human rights lawyers you are not the good guys in this story.

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 01/10/2026

To the current US administration, this is a feature, not a bug. And yet, people who are being directly and negatively impacted by this continue to support it.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

I read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, Cuprite is beautiful, but I've got to go with quartz. It's everywhere, it's useful, and it's beautiful... Never mind the white variety shown below, quartz comes in all sorts of colors. www.gemstones.com/showcases/qu...

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Any time I try to teach environmental chemistry as a one-term class, I'm reminded how inadequate that time period is. You really need at least a year to get a handle on everything.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026

Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.

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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ

Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.

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Teddy Zartler @quantumtessera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Does anybody have recommendations for "feel-good" or hopeful science fiction? Most of the stuff I'm reading is of the "everything sucks, but mostly the people" kind. It's not good for my mental health.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I never thought I'd say this, but I really miss the enormous printed ballot pamphlets I got in CA and WA. Here we get *nothing* and I have to Google to find information on candidates.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

HOW CAN WE POSSIBLY CHOOSE? (I voted for graphite but very reluctantly)

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026

This is why I am walking miles for the Young Center this month against my husband. Because babies should never, ever have to face this kind of thing.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For me, the hardest thing about stories like the Cornell gang rape case isn’t reading the initial details—although that is hard. What’s even harder is when men online, especially the journalists and pundits, start trying to combat the feminist outrage by purposefully seeding doubt and victim-blaming

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is not something you say if you actually like education or children

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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Money. Donate money, not goods. So many people like donating something concrete, like a can of food. But food banks can make that dollar go much, much further than you can. Berkeley Food Network: www.berkeleyfoodnetwork.org/get-involved... Alameda County Food Bank: www.accfb.org/give/

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Two of my kids had never watched this before this year.... (Their dad wasn't into TNG so we almost never watched it during their childhood.) It was fun to do a group watch & have a discussion about communication.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Close match today. Pyromorphite is stunning but I had to be team graphite again.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The humanities have been calling out genAI theft since the jump, while STEM has rallied around “discovery potential”. I am *ONCE AGAIN* reminding EVERYONE that science is not the sacred cow, STEM isn’t the exception. They are going to steal our IP, too. We aren’t special.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 25/09/2026

Experiment suggests organisms could live in harsh environment under Enceladus’s icy crust, strengthening possibility moon could support life

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Earth microbes survive simulated conditions of Saturn moon’s ocean

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New co-author 🐈‍⬛

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👺 hell camino acid 👻👹 @sexdracula.rocks · 25/09/2026

the "don't bring iced coffee to an interview" discourse is great bc it's such a succinct and clarifying example of how private businesses aren't efficient & logical enterprises, they're just arbitrary in-groups ruled by sociopaths, power tripping on their ability to enforce pointless bullshit norms

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Shannon Chakraborty @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Minneapolis friends! I am briefly emerging from the writing cave to chat about writing historical worlds with the wonderful @lollardfish.bsky.social at UMN next month. Come join us!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

imagine telling people that you prefer the output of a computer to experiencing the wonder of another human's imagination like you're announcing that you are an anti-social asshole with bad taste, just to be clear

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hey #ChemSky and other environmental types: I'm looking for a few papers to read in the seminars we do in my Environmental Chemistry class. I have the aqueous environment pretty well covered, but I could use more suggestions for atmospheric papers.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am madly in love with sulfide minerals for some reason I don't understand, so of course I'm #TeamSphalerite

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Since it's getting to be reference/recommendation season: Students, when you look for people to be a reference, choose someone that knows you well. Do not choose someone you have known less than a month.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is exactly where I am landing. All these anhiliationist cults, from AI to Apocalyptic Evangelism, are just excuses for not taking meaningful action on the real actual threats facing our world that we have to live with.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 24/09/2026

I would like tech companies to understand that just because I have signed up to use your software, that no, I do not want to automatically be subscribed to your product newsletter. Say less. Please stop spamming me. Just push code that works. Sweet jiminy christ on a flying biscuit just STFU

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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

AI guys: "Actually AI is a TOOL." Tool guys:

Safety placard to be placed near a bench grinder.
The top line is a fat red bar with white text that says "! DANGER"
Then there are three frames with graphic representations of:
- a grinding wheel discharging debris into a human face
- fingers being damaged by the spinning wheel
- a hand being separated from an arm by the spinning wheel

Below that it reads:
Rotating wheels on BENCH GRINDERS can snag, cut, dismember, and entrap, causing serious injury or death.
- Use shields or other safeguards to protec
Adjust work rests within 1/8" and tongues within 1/4" of wheels for OSHA and ANSI compliance.
- Use hand tools when grinding small workpieces.
- Restrain loose clothing and long hair.
- Do not wear jewelry.
Flying chips, sparks, coolant, and other particles can cause serious injury or death.
- Use shields or guards to protect personnel
- Always wear personal protective equipment
Lock out power before sevicing
This sign is not intended to cover all safety hazards

(sign by Danray Products LLC, for sale at thomasnet.com)

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Related things I have discovered in the last week: (a) My new car has more ground clearance. Yay. (I do go on some very horrible roads.) (b) My older dog now has trouble jumping into the car. I think I need a doggie ramp.

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🥈72 dogs 🐝 @careycuprisin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We are going to be hearing this advice from a lot of Democrats, and it's very important that we ignore it. It's very important that whenever possible we choose Democrats who don't give this advice.

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julierey.bsky.social @julierey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I like them both but I’m feeling salty, so #halite it is! #MinCup26

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Your regular reminder that this is a public website and things that you say can and will be used against you.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I was at school from 8:30 am to 7 pm yesterday, so I completely forgot to wish my dog a happy birthday... HAPPY 6th BIRTHDAY CERBERUS!!! Hopefully I can get home at a reasonable time today and remember to give you treats.

An enormous brown, white, and black lies on some rocks overlooking a lake.

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 22/09/2026

A painting of a bird beside the text "I knew it was going to be a clusterfuck, but this is some huge-ass clusterfuck"

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Friends and colleagues, I am desigining an online open-enrollment introduction to marine biology course. I have some fun activities planned with online datasets, webcams, research tools, and more. But what are your favorite online marine biology resources? 🧪🌍🦑🐟

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have spent the past 36 hours in Madison at my Aunt Sue's memorial service. Sue was my primary role model for being an activist and a protestor. I learned about civil disobedience not from reading about MLK, but from hearing about my dad talk about What Sue Had Done Now.

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New #cat just dropped! 😻 A first in over 100 years, a genomic study in CB by Eduardo Eizirik and team reveals a new species of 'tiger cat'. 👉 www.cell.com/current-biol... Meet the Tilcayo (Leopardus tilcayo)! (photo: Fernando Faciole/National Geographic) #cats

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I understand that everything is really fucked up, but I implore you to stop telling people not to make jokes about it. We are hanging on by a thread and some of us have no other means of coping.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am away from school on bereavement leave (it's in the contract, folks) and yet, somehow, I'm sending emails and doing committee work in the time that's not the actual memorial service. Only in academia?

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This has been floating around for a few years and it is one of my favorite memes. I was definitely a feral housewife when I was a SAHM.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This would be an outstanding way to alienate the entirety of Michigan's Upper Peninsula--which, considering most Yoopers are Trump supporters, would be a stupid thing to do.

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