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Lissa Warren @lissawarren.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"I thought it'd be great to write a character who is a female scientist—an evolutionary biologist." Listen to @johnwfarrell.bsky.social on WICN Radio's The Public Eye discussing Nora Dunnahaldey, the protagonist of his novel AN UNCOMMON DESCENT: bit.ly/4d7noHn @servinghousebooks.bsky.social

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 9h

Oh please oh please…

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 9h

Fifty-seven out of fifty-seven is pretty darn close to “all men” if you ask me.

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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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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We somehow escaped the nor’easter entirely on our trip to Cape Breton Island this weekend. We had almost no cell signal, which was lovely, but meant no posts or pics here. Highlights coming soon. For now, here’s me at the top of the Franey Trail—first real hike since shoulder dislocation in March!

Mr digging in a faded red Adirondack chair on a granite ledge overlooking forested hills and the ocean in the distance.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The graffiti on a rock beside the highway here in Nova Scotia reads, “BE KIND” in case anyone was wondering what kind of place this is.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hello, Yarrrrrrrrrmouth! (Why yes, yes, I have been waiting 16 years to say that.)

Sunset over smooth water and shoreline with an outboard motor on a lifeboat in the foreground.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That feeling when you board the international ferry to Canada and the TVs on board are all blaring the news about Canada being prepared for a US invasion. 🫠 Pretty, though!

View out oval windows to the sea, with mountains in the distance and people sitting in swivel chairs in the foreground.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is fine. Everything is fine. 😬

The following sailings on The CAT have an advisory:
Thursday, September 24
• Depart Yarmouth 09:30 Atlantic
• Depart Bar Harbor 15:00 Eastern
The marine forecast indicates a sea
state with rougher than normal sailing conditions. Customer susceptible to motion sickness should be prepared with appropriate medication to make the crossing more comfortable.
Note: Motion sickness medication should be taken at least 1 hour prior to departure.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My partner and I will have about half a day in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Friday. The weather should be dry. What do you recommend? Museums, walks, lunch places, and more all good. Outside of town is good too - Peggy’s Cove? (Any ideas, @awesomebiota.bsky.social?)

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tiny dinosaur inside a dinosaur egg alert! 🚨

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 23/09/2026

<shots fired> Why are consensus reviews authored by field leaders published in for-profit journals, instead of those run by the societies that serve those fields (and may have sponsored the workshop)? Disclosure: I’m a middle author of at least one, and it burns me.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Some people are going to joke about leopards eating peoples faces here, but this video and things like it may very well be the only things that get through to the Trump-voting parents of GenX and Millennial leftists. (And there are many. So many. Ask me how I know.)

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The most tragic thing has happened in my small, rural community. A woman died together with her two grandchildren when they drove off of a steep and poorly marked boat ramp into the ocean, on the wedding night of her son, the father of the two children. 💔 www.bangordailynews.com/2026/09/21/d...

bangordailynews.com

MDI woman and grandchildren were 2nd group to die near Roque Bluffs boat ramp

A Mount Desert woman and her two grandchildren died after their vehicle sank near a Roque Bluffs boat ramp in Pond Cove.

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’ve got some new fiction out, if you need a dinosaur story today.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I wasn’t beorn yesterday. If we can just dragon with these puns until sunrise, maybe the trolls will forget to go back into their caves.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ya’ll, John Farrell’s new book is coming out soon! I’m proud to have advised on it. It’s about a woman scientist doing speciation research in the White Mountains of New Hampshire while on a forced sabbatical. She sets up a lab in a barn. Very relatable. 😭

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wow. (And attention Outlander fans!)

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“It’s decorative gourd season, motherf***er!”

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Whew, some days being hopeful is harder than others. This news about St. Mary’s Glacier (technically a perennial snowfield but likely hasn’t melted out completely in >100,000 years) in my home state of Colorado has got me pretty low. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

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St. Mary's Glacier among those in Colorado disappearing during drought

Colorado's hot and dry summer has taken a toll on another popular destination — St. Mary's Glacier.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’ve been scooped! 😭 But seriously this is wonderful and I feel so seen right now. 🥹 Original on Insta, here: www.instagram.com/reel/DdEsW1I...

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There are three women crew members on board the International Space Station right now, all from different countries. From left to right: Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency), Anna Kikina of Roscosmos, & Jessica Meir (the current ISS commander), of NASA.

Photo of Sophie Adenot, Anna Kikina and Jessica Meir on board the International Space Station, all smiling for the camera.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My mom had polio when she was five. She was living on a US military base in Japan (1947). Four kids on the base died. She was the only survivor.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Without knowing how these stats have changed over time and/or against other countries, the only thing that seems informative to me here are the between-demographic comparisons.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In addition to being a good piece, this illustration is fabulous. Hope it’s not AI.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026

Short thread: 18 months ago, as part of their assault on higher ed, Trump/DOGE/Vought terminated my friend Kelton Minor's NIH Director's award that would have allowed him to take a faculty position there. Without the funds, Columbia ultimately rescinded the position. Kelton moved to Denmark.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I really like Bluesky's automatic thread numbering. Can we get an edit button now?

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When I first saw the "Meryl streep cast as Aslan" trend I thought it said, "cast as Asian" and about had a heart attack.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ooh, Kevin is on another one of his “my man looks like” tears 🍿

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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When you weigh 500 lbs and walk on legs that look like stilts, it's no small thing to lie down. As this elk was kind enough to do right in front of our trail camera. Look at those antlers! #mammals #nature #deer #love #trailcam #Seattle #BeKind #wildanimals #goodnight #PNW #nokings #wildlife #elk

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Biodiversity researchers/practitioners! Some 4th-6th graders in MA are doing a robotics project about biodiversity and they want to hear from "people who work in restoring habitats or cleaning pollution." Fill in their quick survey here: forms.gle/Mv1h87W5QsgS...

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Help our student team understand what's hard about your work!

We are the Guardians of the LEGOcity, a team of 4th-6th graders in FIRST LEGO League. FIRST LEGO League is a program where kids work together on robotics and a real-world problem. This year, our proje...

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 16/09/2026

less corruption, more spoonbill. 🪶

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Because of my shoulder dislocation & surgery, I haven't been able to hike Acadia's trails since March. But now I'm finally cleared to do easy* hikes, so I ventured onto the very chill Jordan Pond trail yesterday and wow, did I need that – the pine and cedar boughs over the sparking water especially.

View over a lake towards forested mountain ridges with a stand of pines and cedars in the foreground.

A gravel trail along the edge of a lake with cedar and pine boughs stretching out over the sparkling water.

A pine bough backlit by the sun, with sparkling water and low mountain ridges in the background.

A low, steep-sided hill with a lake and trees in the foreground.

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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Plant Colleagues! Open job for Director of the Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center (PRC) at UT Austin. A great job for anyone addressing fundamental questions in evolution of plants and a commitment to herbarium administration and/or collections-based research. apply.interfolio.com/193263

a field of blooming bluebonnets, the state flower of Texas.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A recent study fond a significant difference in the number of antibodies created when vaxed arms were swapped. I'll explain. It was the early 2-shot Covid vax. People did Jab One. A few weeks later, Jab Two, in a different arm. People who followed that pattern showed as much as 4x # of antibodies.

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Switching arms improves effectiveness of two-dose vaccinations, OHSU study suggests

COVID-19 vaccine discovery could inform standard clinical practice worldwide.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Covid and flu vaccine selfie and reminder to y’all ♥️

Smiling selfie in my car with a red band aid on my left shoulder

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I just wrapped my biggest project at @marinbike.org, our 2050 Marin County Vision Network. It is our proposal for how Marin can become the most bike-friendly county in the US over the next quarter century. I put a ton of work into this and I'm very proud of it. marinbike.org/news/marin-c...

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A Vision for Marin’s Future Bike Network

MCBC has launched its 2050 Vision Network, an ambitious proposal for the county's all ages and abilities bike network to be completed in the next 25 years.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

They absolutely want the conversation to be "will this become as a god and judge mankind?!" instead of "what are we doing about all the guys using it to generate CSAM?" Advertisement, and a way of shifting the conversation from real world harms to their cocaine-fueled delusions of grandeur.

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Ben Rothenberg @benrothenberg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Wrote at Bounces about the current discourse around Zverev, what his current success says about the tour, and more: www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-al...

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Land of Droughts and Shadows

Another complicated Zverev major title extended the American wait for a men’s champion.

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Ben Rothenberg @benrothenberg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Credit to Mary Carillo, new Hall of Famer, for once more talking about the accusations against Zverev on the U.S. Open World Feed broadcast today. That feed is broadcast not only around the globe, but into those earpiece radios folks are wearing around the stadium.

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Guilty or not, his continued sponsorships and tournament appearances warm the cockles of predators’ hearts. Good research has shown that the only consequence of any consequence with these dudes is job loss/financial jeopardy. We could curtail Patriarchal Violence if we tried even a little tiny bit.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 16/07/2026

"contemporary understandings of Open Science, as both an epistemological orientation and a set of practical tools, may be strengthened by more clearly connecting them to the scholarship and practices developed by women throughout the history of the social sciences." — @maddipow.bsky.social

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Women as the First Open Scientists: Five Stories of the Neglected Contributions of Women in (Social) Science Reform History - Madeleine Pownall, 2026

Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns ove...

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