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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Searching for a cute and breathable muzzle on Etsy for my reactive dog (who also likes to eat poop). Reader: Do not just type in muzzle to Etsy at 5am over coffee. I WAS NOT READY.

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Watching Greta Thunberg change the world whilst I'm sitting on the exercise bike in my underwear because I don't want to "create" too much laundry. She's just so fucking awesome.

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Sometimes I worry that the internet knows too much about us and then Zillow sends me a "recommended" house in Beverly Hills for $17 million dollars.

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I'm currently working with a realtor called Andrew Tate (no relation), and I've learned that his name is a built in red flag detector based entirely on how people react to it... kinda wanna pay him to just hang out with me forever. It would make things simpler!

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I emailed someone earlier with an important question, only to receive an out of office response saying TO CONTACT ME WITH IMPORTANT QUESTIONS! 😭😭

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

My non-profit and the work the team does is only growing and I'm so excited to help every neurodivergent space scientists I can before my last breath. 🧠🧠

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I have spent 20% of 2025 in Marriott hotels for work. Now, don't get my wrong, I adore my job, but I'm past the point of getting dressed for breakfast and will attend in hot pants. You've been warned. My bottom is falling out like the stock market. 📉 🍑🩲

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

My mum got me a PhD sword... and not just any sword... a perfect replica of Glamdring. 📚🗡️🧝🏻‍♀️🎓

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

To have the white man confidence of the guy in front of me in line who scanned his wife's boarding pass instead of his and doubled down that it was his to the gate assistance, the assistant gate assistant, his wife, and me!

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Anyone out there living with an addict that you deeply love. I see you. Choosing to stay & work through things can tare your heart out. One day I hope we will look back & see this dark time, as something we overcame. Together. Note: never stay in a situation in which you feel unsafe. I am safe.

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I spoke about my center's funding loss in this Time article and NSF "declined to comment". That feels like a flex 💪🏻 time.com/7279068/trum...

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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Autism Speaks now that RFK Jr is talking about sending “useless eaters” to “wellness camps”:

a guy dressed up as autism speaks saying “-"we're all trying to find the guy who did this!"

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Eric's book is one of my favourites to recommend to newly diagnosed folk who want to better understand the different intersections of autism (ie race, socioeconomic status) etc. 🧠

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 08/04/2025

Sir Issac Newton proving sunlight is gay:

vintage illustration of Issac Newton holding a prism in a shaft of light creating a rainbow

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

There's been so much on lately that I forgot I did an interview with Nancy Disbrow on her amazing podcast the Dyslexia Maverick. Thankfully my Mum reminded me from 9,000 miles away. So go listen to me excitedly talk to me fast about neurodiversity anywhere you get your podcasts ❤️🎙️ 🔭🧠

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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

the U.S. government is targeting legal noncitizen scholars, not on the basis of any wrongdoing, but as part of a larger assault against an educated public.

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I just wrote this email: "I am dreadfully sorry for my late reply. I was finishing my doctorate, which took all of my spoons! So, between that and the end of the world, my emails have started to pile up." and realized: 1) It's so obvious I am British when I type, and 2) What the actual fuck?

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

As an astrophysicist I know it may be weird that I read my horoscope (I think that's silly - another topic), but today it told me that someone is going to send me a message that is going to upset me, and now my heart sinks every time my phone goes off 😭😭

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Finally submitted my thesis last night. All ~250 pages of it. After 34 years I am finally done with school. Dr Jess of astrophysics ❤️ I'm really fucking proud of myself!

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Good morning. Has anyone done it yet?

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

No possibility of organising or attending international meetings in the US anymore. Appalling situation.

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Recently, I feel like I've levelled up in noticing and checking my own ego. Addressing the hardest flaws is so rewarding. 🧠

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

This March I passed my doctoral defence. This March was 25 years since my dad died. I hope he's proud of me.

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

"Am I really autistic?" I write in my journal, under the numbers 74:25:12436, a date system I invented because it makes far more sense than the traditional days, months, and years of the common calendar. 🧠

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Y'all, I beg you, stop burning Cybertrucks. It's terrible for the planet. May I suggest removing the batteries for the solar punk farms of the future and then rolling them into the sea to create artificial reefs? 🌲🌷🌎

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

A second tattoo for my doctorate, so that when I punch Nazis I can remember why. So ready to work, so ready to fight for what's right. 🧠

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Ladies, in 2025, may we all have the confidence of the white man who just pushed in front of me (with my disability lanyard) AND a lady in a wheelchair at the airport. 👩‍🦽‍➡️🧠

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

If this doesn't scare the shit out of you, you do not understand the systems inside USCIS designed to terrify and control. USCIS tried to remove me from this country, and I still have PTSD from the LETTERS they sent. I can't imagine how terrifying this is. 🍉🇵🇸 apnews.com/article/colu...

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Immigration agents arrest Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests

A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring's protests at Columbia University has been arrested by federal immigration agents.

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I am an astrophysicist and the Communications Manager for the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation. Recently, we lost $7M of federal funding due to the new diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policy. It's happening everywhere. It must stop. 🧠🔭 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Trump’s war on DEI comes for programs helping autistic students find jobs in STEM

Programs meant to help autistic students study science have been caught in the Trump administration’s war on DEI, Eric Garcia reports

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

One day, I truly hope, as a small little woman sitting next to a strange man on a plane, I get the whole of my seat and maybe a pinch of the arm rest. Is that too much to ask? I've been hit by every cart. 😭😭 🛩️

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I sequestered myself to write my thesis. Now I'm catching up on the news. Dang, I was only writing for 2 weeks and somehow we've travelled back in time 85 years.

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I just sent this out, and I know it's going to need changes but it's time to breathe and remember that 5 years ago another school told me I would never do this and now I've written a thesis, whilst running a 501, and comms for a university center... oh and working nights on a telescope. 🔭🧪🪐🧠

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

RFK Jr.: Takes away stimulants. My AuDHD ass: I'm going to write to my congress person, and visit the Capitol, and start a campaign, and ... oooo what's this shiny thing. Srsly: All the ND folk I know are the smartest and most loving people in the world. They want us quiet and unfocused. 🧠

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

My childhood led me to believe the Bermuda Triangle was going to be a much bigger threat than it turned out to be...

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

One of the best ways to work against fascism is the power of loving, cooperative, respectful, community. Channel your inner Hobbit and we can bring down the darkness together. Happy Valentine's Day ❤️💙💜💛🖤💚🐉📚

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It's Virtual Star Trek Con and @neuroverse-tni.bsky.social will provide all the science panels! 🧪🔭🧠 This is a FREE 4 day event, and we are only a small part. Virtual conventions provide accessibility for our disabled community, so when I was asked I said FUCK YEAH! www.virtualtrekcon.com

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The ADHD lunch of thesis writing champions: Coffee x 1 Avocado x 1 Adderall x 2 Screaming into the void x 5 T-9 days until hand in to committee. 🧠🧪🔭

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Dr. Marissa Kawehi Loving @marissakawehi.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Y’all they cancelled the NSF MPS Ascend Program after encouraging underrepresented folks to only apply to it and not both the Ascend and the MSPRF. This is astronomically fucked up for many grad students and postdocs of color in math. #MathSky

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I feel like I should get an extra PhD for writing this thesis whilst the world is burning down. #phd 🔭🧪

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I've been thinking lately about parts of my autism that I didn't realize were unique, primarily synesthesias, which are more common in ND people. I have a couple of these but my favourite is my Calender Synesthsia: I SEE TIME and I thought that was normal... 😂 Anyone else? #actuallyautistic 🧠

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Someone told me yesterday that I couldn't judge a person purely on their literature choices. I don't! That would be ridiculous. It's that, and whether they like dogs! 😌 #books 📚📕

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

T-18 days until I hand in my thesis to my committee. If you need me I'll be sequestered in my house, with my dogs, and also you don't need me leave me alone. #PhD

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

You can take the girl out of Hawai'i... #hawaii

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Todays autism ecolalia stim song comes courtesy of the Nashville Marriott M Club and is a cycle of the two lines: "Tractors ain't sexy, And working is hard" And you know what. Sure. #Neurodivergent

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Lost my vans 😭 so spiced up my Target slip-ons. My left foot says "The First Duty is to Truth" 🖖🏻 My right foot says "Eat a Bag of 🍆" I will using my feet to communicate today. #ScienceThreads

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

To the white people who think they're safe. I'm British, and VERY white, and Trump's last government did their best to deport me. You are not safe. #ElectionDay #Election2024 #Vote2024

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Celebrating the launch of Europa Clipper by watching one of my favourite 2010's SciFi films: Europa Report! 🔭🛰️🧪 #nasa #europa #EuropaClipper #astronomy #phd #phdlife

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

I feel like the fact my body requires less medication when it's had the right amount of sleep is very telling... but I'm not sure what it's trying to say, so I'll continue as is 🤔 #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent 🧠

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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik @jesstella.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

I wonder why I can't sleep after my nightshift... I say to myself whilst I down my midnight Adderall with a double Espresso. #phd #nightshift #astronomy #ActuallyAutistic 🔭🧠

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