Reposted by Kathleen RhoadesEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 17hA challenge I have to mainstream journalists who believe in their own neutrality and objectivity is to simply think about what they would do if the political consensus on their beat shifted as quickly and drastically as it did on mine. 2508
Reposted by Kathleen RhoadesDr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 18h"As Kate Manne — a professor at Cornell — noted in the Cut: There is a major difference in how the university treated protestors and how they treated the alleged rapists" 13710
Reposted by Kathleen Rhoadeselias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 01/10/2026just ban frats. everyone knows that’s the answer and no one seriously denies what frats are actually for, just as no one seriously denies that playing football can lead to CTE. 1147977
Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm not anywhere near campus right now, but a lot of what's in this piece lines up with what it feels like to be an alumna of Cornell. I knew my freshman year that the university wouldn't protect me if I was assaulted. The subsequent years never convinced me otherwise. www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 110
Reposted by Kathleen RhoadesJaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 30/09/2026I keep thinking about this and Nikole Hannah-Jones' pieces and how all the pain and devil's bargains with modern K-12 schooling is all in service of sending kids to places like this. At every "elite" high school, this is the goal. For fucking what? 124851
Reposted by Kathleen Rhoadesold fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 30/09/2026fuyugaki persimmons, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1915 0548
Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 29/09/2026According to the literature I've been reading today, black locust can take up Mb, Zn, Fe, Pb, Cu, Ni, Cd, and Cr from the soil 🧪 271
Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I have yet to hear a compelling reason for why greek life should continue to exist on any college campus 120
Reposted by Kathleen Rhoadesitati santamaria de Collins @itativcs.latinsky.app · 28/09/2026Most Americans who watch cable news are in a constant state of panic while also being completely uninformed of reality, which is why the “median voter” these news companies are all appealing to makes 0 sense. 041
Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I listen to a fair number of Depressing Podcasts™ but this feels worse 010
Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's probably been years since I've actually watched cnn but I'm enjoying a continental breakfast right now and it's on. This is just trauma porn. What is this doing to people who watch it every day??? 140
Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 24/09/2026there's so much cool stuff happening in indigenous food sovereignty right now 020
Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The phrase "At least Carnegie built some fucking libraries" has been bouncing around my brain for almost 2 years 29826
Reposted by Kathleen RhoadesJP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit 3460351482
Reposted by Kathleen RhoadesLansing Facts @lansingmifacts.com · 23/09/2026in honor of bisexual visibility day we'll be menacingly eating a doughnut at a QD with a laundromat 1225
Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 22/09/2026the house sparrow was introduced to the USA in 1852, and is now one of the most abundant birds in North America today yes, I'm doing black locust stuff today 061
Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 22/09/2026ughhhh should I write a grant for a persimmon pangenome 120
Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is a guy who could have taken his prominence in the community to lobby for the restoration/expansion of US research funding, to advocate for protections for international students & post docs. This is a guy who could probably get the ear of senators. But nah, he's leaving. 121
Reposted by Kathleen RhoadesAlex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026For every one of these men who get a dramatic front page story, there are 25-50 postdocs who leave the country much less voluntarily. 622464
Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I shouted at my computer when I read "If you're scratching your head at this 'news,' well, it's because I made it up." 030
Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It's the best day of the year www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPwG...youtube.com9/21/16YouTube video by Demi Adejuyigbe 010
Reposted by Kathleen RhoadesBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026ngl I was stunned by this article's cite to a study showing that 5.4 million children & teens in the US have family caregiving responsibilities @jessicacalarco.com has done lotsa interesting work on how the US uses women in lieu of a social safety net but I had no idea how much labor falls on..kids 401232437
Reposted by Kathleen RhoadesBlue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Do you ever read a series of words 1084055566
Reposted by Kathleen RhoadesAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026if you are reviewing an unpublished manuscript and you have the sheer unmitigated audacity, cheek, gall and laziness to upload it into an LLM to generate a review, let me tell you, you should be shunned and tarred and feathered 231782316
Reposted by Kathleen RhoadesPetty Ranch / Chris Sayer @pettyranch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026These avocado trees will probably outlive me. I'm curious what their world will be if they complete their full productive lives in 2060-2070. (Planted 2023) 0122
Reposted by Kathleen RhoadesChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism" 193198738
Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Today in AI is mediocre: I've been trying an AI-assisted service for searching scientific papers, figuring that LLMs should be pretty good at reading papers and identifying similarities, right? 100
Reposted by Kathleen RhoadesKendra Mellifera 🏳️⚧️ @kmellifera.bsky.social · 18/09/2026COVID, for example 021
Reposted by Kathleen RhoadesKylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I think this is giving a religion that has survived the depiction of its prophets as anthropomorphic vegetables too little credit 037279
Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 18/09/2026oh to be able to hug a pepper that's as big as you are 040
Reposted by Kathleen RhoadesJoe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Setting aside all the absurdity of thinking we need to have scientific papers with risks of hallucination, I'm flabbergasted this was taken as sufficiently novel to warrant publication in Nature. It's just sort of stitching things together with MCP... 34915
Reposted by Kathleen Rhoadesthe lakeshore monk @thecorlew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026friendly reminder that if you’re worried about cultural decline you can just pick up a book published by a small press and feel way better 26929
Reposted by Kathleen RhoadesI Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 17/09/2026static.klipy.comTim Robinson: Oh My God, He Admit It!Alt: Tim Robinson: Oh My God, He Admit It! 1316
Reposted by Kathleen RhoadesRichard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Good article, but there’s one understated piece: higher land use of organic ag means that if we shift toward organic at current consumption patterns, more natural ecosystems need to be cleared for farming, causing carbon losses, making total GHG emissions of organic usually higher vs. conventional. 99034
Reposted by Kathleen RhoadesNick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 16/09/2026big opportunity for a whole anthology series of “reality tv adaptations of studies you have to read about in IRB training” 1215
Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I can't tell if I broke the GenomeScope website or not... 010
Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If anyone was doubting my Old Man Energy: last night at a ham radio meeting I introduced myself and a guy said something about calling me "Kat" for short (which is fine) and I shrugged and said "Just don't call me late for dinner!" 140
Reposted by Kathleen RhoadesKathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Put up a blog post over the weekend about why you should not expect to receive good advice from AI: kathleenrhoades.com/garbage-in-g...kathleenrhoades.comGarbage In, Garbage Out: Why AI gives bad advice – Kathleen Rhoades 011
Reposted by Kathleen RhoadesFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That: 28860751590
Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 14/09/2026last I checked the workday starts at 8am, bub 020
Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Ooo new busco datasets came out this summer 030