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Rachael French

@drrachaelf.bsky.social
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Chair of Biology @SJSU, nerd, mom, Social Justice Ranger. The Matriarchy is Coming. She/Her. Opinions are my own. I swear a lot. drrachaelfrench on Threads.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
STEPHEN MOORE: We had much much higher inflation under Biden BERMAN: Let me stop you. Has inflation gone up or down since Trump took office? MOORE: Well, it was about 3.2% when Biden left office, it's 3.4% now BERMAN: So it's gone up MOORE: That is true
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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 22h
Probably this, combined with the fact that the healthcare sector is still robust and women earn more healthcare-adjacent degrees by a wide margin.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 23h
Pro-tip: Seasonal blips like this distort month-to-month changes in jobs, leading July to look particularly weak and August to look strong. That's why taking a three-month average is often your best bet.
Line chart titled "The fall then rise in teacher's jobs was mostly a seasonal adjustment glitch" showing jobs in local government education measured in thousands of employees. Employment remained stable around 8.2 million through September 2026 despite an unusual 52,000-job drop in July 2026 that appears to be a seasonal adjustment anomaly rather than genuine job loss. The series grew modestly from 8.15 million in September 2024 to 8.20 million in September 2026, with the July dip to 8.16 million representing a temporary statistical aberration that was largely reversed by August and September.
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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 22h
Captured by a rival and the dangerous Core is in their hands. The survival of the world is at stake! #Venture
Captured by a rival and the dangerous Core is in their hands. The survival of the world is at stake! #Venture
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026
If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else
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Cocoa Brown @seauxcocoa.blacksky.app · 23h
Went to this lil distillery bar by where the kid does practice cuz i had an hour to kill. I just wanted 30 mins of peace cuz my life real, real hectic right now. I just wanted to sir & scroll my phone while I sipped. Oh but no. Here come a man.
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Nene Leakes' Oh No! Real Housewives Of Atlanta
ALT: Nene Leakes' Oh No! Real Housewives Of Atlanta
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adrian @crawf34.bsky.social · 23h
bullseye. this is very clearly obama’s doing
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
we've seen how important student journalism can be with the reporting by the Cornell Daily Sun. but schools around the country regularly censor student journalists. (often illegally!) we have public records that show how this happens: www.404media.co/how-schools-...
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How Schools and Universities Try to Censor Student Journalists
As the Cornell 7 case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how schools try to censor on-campus news outlets.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As a transphobic male senator, there is nothing more important to me than protecting women's sports. Here's why it never occurred to me that Jack Smith, a man, would choose to attend a women's college basketball game. by Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO)
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026
PS that substack writer didn't break this news, I shared it shortly after 1pm. Please subscribe to the worker-owned @autonomynews.co which is paywall-free, discloses all large donors, and doesn't have any male executives
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Autonomy News
A worker-owned reproductive rights and justice publication.
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There's literally more human content out there than you can listen to, and you'd rather ask a machine to show you an statistical average? Loser behavior
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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Though this line got me wondering how much “women’s “ romance this man has really read: “With women’s romance, it’s always the man being the aggressor,”
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 30/09/2026
Today in "People should read whatever they want": www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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The secret lives of men who read romance books: ‘My life is full of love, so I’m drawn to them’
It’s often assumed straight men are not interested in romantic fiction – but many are sharing their passion in forums online
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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sigh. Mom fail. 17-year-old was playing an online game with friends, and literally screaming. She does that. Has been doing that with this game most nights for two weeks. It’s LOUD, y’all.
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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Funny, thing, though - I asked an “AI” about vaccines just now, and it said they work, cited experts and evidence, and listed reasons people avoid them, including incorrect beliefs about efficacy and safety, as well as complacency caused by the vaccines’ effectiveness itself. 🤷‍♀️
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'll save you the click-through: A lab at University of Copenhagen had been feeding draft manuscripts & data into "Claude Science" & then Anthropic announces a discovery that this lab made a year ago but hasn't published yet. It's plausible that Claude found the same signatures independently...
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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
To reiterate: zombies are definitely real. And hungry. And usually chasing me. #ZombiesRun
To reiterate: zombies are definitely real. And hungry. And usually chasing me. #ZombiesRun
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Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This entire situation is beyond disgusting, but thank the Goddess for the stellar fucking work of student journalists. Truly. CW: rape, sexual assault www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Student journalists are always much more willing to hold violent students accountable that university administrators. And their call out of the “educational interventions” used by schools to left rapists off the hook is a must-read.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You can tell, with all of the explicit ethnic cleansing making everything worse and more expensive, the GOP's next target is just to go all out on gender wars. Everyone on X or Rumble is complaining about nagging women 24/7, with brief respites for holocaust denial. Full 4chan incel GOP incoming.
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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Escaped Blood Rock with the book I was after – glad I left the killer clown behind! #ZombiesRun
Escaped Blood Rock with the book I was after – glad I left the killer clown behind! #ZombiesRun
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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Jeez. We always feed people SEPARATELY from the interview process. Multiple times a day.
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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Can someone PLEASE notice Uhura’s uniform is different? This is ridiculous. It’s not just her hair, guys. #StrangeNewWorlds
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sometimes i google Ally McBeal — that 90s legal drama where all the bathrooms were unisex and nobody cared except to think it was so cosmopolitan and cool — just to make sure i didn’t make all that up.
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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I encountered a new (to me) thing today. A romance novel (a mostly comedy) where someone (an important secondary character) dies tragically. No, I’m not gonna tell you what novel or who the author is. Spoilers.
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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Paul McCartney (Check out Hey, Bulldog) John Deacon (You know you can hear Another One Bites the Dust and Crazy Little Thing Called Love in your head right now.) Sting Flea I’m certain there are dozens of others, but these are the first that popped into my head.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
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Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)
At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Porgs as a model for the deleterious effects of Alderaanian snuff on fetal development.
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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thunderbolts was actually quite good. But there are no planners in the New Avengers.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Every experience crowdsourcing on social media: "I am looking for X and am not looking for Y" Responses: 50% total nonsense, neither X nor Y. 25% Here's Y, you want this. 20% I don't know but I'll guess, hope this helps! 5% Wonderful perfect answers I couldn't have gotten any other way.
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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Agreed if the company is for-profit. But I rather like being a Kaiser patient. Of course, single payer government insured healthcare would be way better.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today is #HobbitDay because Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway it's a good day to come and boromir #Tolkien books. 📚
A shelf of books by JRR Tolkien
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And for this complaint to come from Bret Stephens -- who only has a cushy columnist gig at the New York Times because of their desire to be politically diverse and inclusive -- is fucking hilarious. You're the DEI hire, my man. You.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just the most boring bores who ever bored.
Bedbug Stephens

The Literary World's DEI Checklist
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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lead author on this study is giving a seminar at SJSU in December, and one of our recent MS in Stem Cell Biology grads is a coauthor!
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Carson Hazlett @carsonhazlett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The so-called "controversy" is casting Erika Ishii, a well known, respected and talented voice actor in an upcoming game. It comes down to incels not wanting diversity in games. This is not a controversy and it is frankly disgusting to see Polygon label it as such, instead of celebrating the choice
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Introducing: Secondbrain
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hangtime is the study of the time interval between first public notice of a rising right/MAGA/manosphere influencer and their first rape/sexual assault indictment www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-look...
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SCOOP: Looksmaxxer Clavicular Charged With Criminal Rape, Drugging
The manosphere celeb faces three counts stemming from an alleged encounter with a minor.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LOL -- Fox News cuts away from Vance's speech and a host says, "we will bring you back to this rally if he starts to make news"
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026
I think there is a lot of pessimism because it feels like these assholes can never be fully defeated and that’s true, they’ll be back but right now, in this exact moment, the bottom really is falling out for them
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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Same. My spouse, at least, has apologized many times.
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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Played "Run For Your Life: No Ordinary Copter"
Played "Run For Your Life: No Ordinary Copter"
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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Dishwashers, washing machines…those are the big ones, but many household appliances live up to this hype.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/09/2026
Apropos of the campus-setting novel I’m currently reading, I’d just like to put out there that I am available to authors to consult on what grad students and researchers and professors actually do and act like and my rates are reasonable.
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Darth Vader Alter The Deal
Alt: Darth Vader Alter The Deal
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Friends? Memorize this. Also, I will give you the lesson my dad taught me when I was only 10 years old: "If you are ever in a situation when you are arrested, the only word you know, or have ever known, is 'lawyer'."
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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Infuriating! The article suggests that despite having extremely high ratings (while barely being promoted), scoring 96% with reviewers and 85% with viewers on Rotten Tomatoes, and having come in under budget, too much of the audience was 'women of a certain age', who were existing Prime subscribers.
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 18/09/2026
Find yourself someone who looks at you the way Carrie Fisher looked at future ROBOCOP star Peter Weller during a 1980 Giorgio Armani afterparty
Carrie Fisher looking sexily at Peter Weller
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