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Kat Nagel

@katnagel.bsky.social
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Recovering research chemist, techwriter/editor/website tweaker easing toward retirement. Cat herder. Reader of mysteries, science fiction, history, backs of cereal boxes and soup cans. Choral singing and purr therapy keep me sane.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 17/04/2025
The entire AmeriCorps agency has been placed on administrative leave
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/03/2025
NEW: The Trump administration cited “performance” failures to justify its mass firing of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the administration had not conducted any such performance assessment. By @andykroll.bsky.social
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Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on the Courts
The Trump administration cited “performance” failures to justify its mass firing of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the administration had…
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Eloquenti 🧪✍️📚 @eloquenti.com · 19/03/2025
🚨 With federal funding dwindling, we’ve created a starter pack of funding bodies offering #grants for #research🔬 📣 Repost & 💙 to connect #researchers with #funding 💵 💶 💷 #ResearchFunding #NIH #ERC #AcademicSky #MedSky #AcademicChatter #ECRChat #NewPI #academia #science #StandWithScience #eloquenti
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Kat Nagel @katnagel.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Please help protect NPR and PBS! sign.moveon.org/petitions/do...
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Don't cut NPR and PBS funding!
 Millions of Americans rely on public media  for their news and educational programming. In many rural areas in our country, public broadcasting is their main avenue for receiving news, emer...
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Kat Nagel @katnagel.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Timely, considering the weather recently. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/b...
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How to Pack a ‘Go Bag’ for Extreme Weather
If the trend continues, extreme weather will occur more frequently. Here’s how experts suggest you prepare.
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Kat Nagel @katnagel.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Almost ready to bring the Little Furries home. Just one kitten-sized gap between the foundation and the wall studs in the basement to block. Haven’t had a critter who could jump that high since Max and Cavendish were this age, and that was 13 years ago! (gray kitten on left, black kitten on right)
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Kat Nagel @katnagel.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
My latest browse through X and FB churned up a lot of Trump voters with preexisting conditions who are now realizing that they voted to take their own healthcare away. And there’s a whole bunch of construction companies whose managers are now realizing that they voted to deport their own workers.
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Kat Nagel @katnagel.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Yes!
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Kevin Romanchik, MSN, RN @kevinro.medsky.social · 11/11/2024
I will die on this hill: Every level 1-3 emergency room in the country should have a pharmacist and social worker staffed 24/7. I’ve been in ERs that don’t, and the differences are crystal clear.
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Kat Nagel @katnagel.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
I’ve been spending time lately browsing through tinybuddha.com . It seems to have less toxic positivity than most meme-producing sites, and occasionally comes up with something that resonates, like this.
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Kat Nagel @katnagel.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
The last 2-3 years have been increasingly hard for many of us, especially those of us who design things, make things, write things, edit things. We’re Fixers. Our whole careers have been dedicated to Making Things Work Better.
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Kat Nagel @katnagel.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
“Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Indigenous Coast Salish peoples of the Pacific Northwest had traditionally maintained a breed of long-haired dog for the purpose of harvesting their hair, or wool, for textile fibers.” theconversation.com/mutton-an-in...
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Mutton, an Indigenous woolly dog, died in 1859 − new analysis confirms precolonial lineage of this...
Dogs have lived with Indigenous Americans since before they came to the continent together 10,000 years ago. A new analysis reveals the lineage of one 1800s ‘woolly dog’ from the Pacific Northwest...
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Wildlife Biology @wildlifebiology.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Hi bluesky community! Are you interested in research, management and conservation of wildlife? Watch this space for publications, call for papers, publishing news or just some really cool cover pictures from this @nordicoikos.bsky.social journal!
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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 09/11/2023
Amazing to see What You Need to be Warm on the New York Times bestseller list! Please buy copies from your local bookseller. (Every copy makes money for refugees and not the author.)
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Kat Nagel @katnagel.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
I’ve loved green bananas for years. Turns out, it may be good for me, not just an odd habit. flip.it/tqpOv_
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
I know a lot of science writers have been worried because, well, with the collapse of Twitter, how do editors and jobs find us? @theopennotebook.bsky.social has come to the RESCUE and has made a science writer DATABASE! www.theopennotebook.com/writers/ Love this so much! Join! Hire from it! 🧪
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Kat Nagel @katnagel.bsky.social · 27/08/2023
@katnagel.bsky.social Tips for managing chronic back pain while flying www.wellandgood.com/back-essenti...
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Kat Nagel @katnagel.bsky.social · 27/08/2023
@katnagel.bsky.social As I’m recovering from the first set of spinal nerve ablations, it does look like I’ll be able to start PT and get myself in good enough shape to go on the London theater tour again in March. So, I’m keeping my eye out for products/exercises/tips for surviving the long flight.
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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 27/08/2023
We're in a surge so here's your reminder that while it's best to be infected 0 times, if you've been infected before, just do your best to avoid being infected again. You should always be trying to avoid your next infection. The damage adds up. Your body will thank you later.
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Amy Mays @amychan.bsky.social · 26/08/2023
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com My friend is the new librarian at a low income area school. Will you share this so she can get her nonfiction section updated? Their encyclopedia set was from the 70s when she started this summer. www.donorschoose.org/project/viki...
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