Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 5hI'm so sad for the Lynx but so happy for the Liberty... the duality of basketball 😔 000
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 5hIt's early fall, 2017. You're 4 months pregnant. You can't stop doomscrolling reading about the Weinstein allegations. It's early fall, 2026. You're 4 months pregnant. You can't stop doomscrolling reading about the Cornell allegations. 270
Reposted by Leslie RootJeremy Hot Wheels @kateneely.bsky.social · 7hcis women and trans and non-binary people are allowed to be absolutely insane this week and if a cis man says anything we get to unhinged our jaws and bite his head off 2152
Reposted by Leslie RootAlgol @betapersei.bsky.social · 13h"straight heated rivalry" already exists and its called "love and basketball" 161
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 13hI'm so annoyed that the PTO is ordering Chik-fil-a for a school movie night event and for parent-teacher conferences next week 150
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm so surprised how many people are like "...why?" when I say I won't deliver at a Catholic hospital. Real "that one xkcd about geochemists" moment for me 1160
Reposted by Leslie RootCris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I bought my rhizomatic, antihierarchical, deeply interrelational go-to-work machine from the richest man alive, wait why are you laughing no stop laughing hold on- 2152
Reposted by Leslie RootNovelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 28/09/2026just searched all of my old posts for the word "wife" - try it, why don't you, and see what kind of wife thoughts you've been having!!! 5232
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I feel a little bad that Amanda Hess is the one on the story when we hit tradwife oversaturation 010
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 26/09/2026They added vocal fry to the Google Maps lady. Critical support. 2110
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 26/09/2026How are we still talking about coffee at job interviews 1140
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 26/09/2026On the one hand, bike supremacy. On the other, I need 11-year-olds on e-motos who won't even call out when passing to get off the sidewalk 😭 170
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Being a woman in the 21st century is just people going "isn't there someone you forgot to ask?" about your fertility decisions until you die. If it's not Jesus or the 10^8 future people you prevented from being born by getting an IUD, it's your own mother 0276
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There's a lot going on here, including the fact that apparently the reported difference in healthy years in the abstract does not account for increasing healthy life expectancy. But the coinage is FOR SURE the worst part www.nber.org/papers/w35773nber.orgCompound Delay: The Causes and Consequences of Later GrandmotherhoodFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an... 7214
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I don't think she can salvage this game but she's doing so good 121
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 24/09/2026this is the kind of crap you see when you DRIVE in the morning. when you BIKE in the morning you see 1) a bald eagle just chilling in the grass at the top of the hill on 36, 15 feet away from you and 2) an "I bought this before Elon went CRAZY" bumper sticker on a ca. 2005 Camry 😂 2120
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 23/09/2026would love if these kinds of profiles weren't written by total marks 1140
Reposted by Leslie RootKaren Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"At least once a month, reporting on fertility, I ask for an academic source and am instead directed to Waters, author of a biblical women’s leadership book that basically says the best thing about the Barbie movie was the patriarchy." Expertise is no match for a loud voice & a big microphone. 😭😭😭wired.comShe’s 28, Loves God and Her Family, and Might Be the Reason You Can’t Have KidsNo IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course. 1186
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 23/09/2026mmmm you do not have to hand it to the creepy natalists 1130
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The origin and whole point of "please clap" is that it's a little bit pathetic, lol 4171
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 22/09/2026New paper out with @monjalexander.bsky.social and @rohanalexander.bsky.social using Kitagawa decomposition to examine the rate and composition components of the non-Hispanic Black/white racial disparity in US infant mortality, 2003-2024 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...jamanetwork.comDecomposition of Black and White Infant Mortality RatesThis cross-sectional study uses 22 years of mortality data to quantify gestational age distribution and mortality rates in infants born to Black mothers compared with infants born to White mothers. 1184
Reposted by Leslie RootJeremy Hot Wheels @kateneely.bsky.social · 21/09/2026[Stanford researcher attempts to tell me about my other brain] jesus christ not now Stanford researcher 023025
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 22/09/2026OK I can't stop thinking about this image. Shoebill this, cassowary that... Australian pelicans are 100% pure distilled nightmare birds. Insane Dark Muppet energy. Why do their EYES look like that 0142
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 22/09/2026do you want bindweed? because that's how you get bindweed 3100
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 21/09/2026They also generally seem pretty happy that it's morally correct to subjugate women 1141
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 19/09/2026being on a hiring committee has convinced me that there is literally no point in asking about someone's "leadership philosophy" 1110
Reposted by Leslie Rootrob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 18/09/2026fox news declares driving is "gay" amid oil crisis 6783100
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Type of mom who accidentally wears a shirt that says ABORTION to a kid's birthday party 3270
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I need to change over the laundry instead of arguing with drivers on the local subreddit 070
Reposted by Leslie RootEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 19/09/2026My work stands at the intersection of what I actually do and whatever you are hiring for 0212
Reposted by Leslie RootStacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 19/09/2026She studied labor history at Macalester. “She wanted her obituary to say that her ‘proudest achievement’ was helping convince NPR to increase its paid parental leave.” Only 38 years old. 27612
Reposted by Leslie RootMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026NYU Langone is paying the government $8.5 million in addition to ceasing gender-affirming care for minors. Cowardly loser shit. 352436651
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Among my people (weirdos) we say "you have eighty-four teeth" 1221
Reposted by Leslie RootBusinesslady 🌦️🪶🌄 @courtguerra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026it’s perfect!! the genius lies in the ease with which everyone can achieve both a pregnancy & a new job 161
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 17/09/2026it's dumb that you can't get FMLA until you've worked somewhere an entire year 2190
Reposted by Leslie RootКазмонавт @kazmonaut.kzstan.com · 17/09/2026new cat just dropped www.nbcnews.com/science/envi...nbcnews.comNew wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers sayA type of tiger cat, the animal is slender, spotted and smaller than a house cat. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest. 2153
Reposted by Leslie RootEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 16/09/2026My important contribution to this is that armadillos are one of the few non-human mammals that can get leprosy, if he found one he no doubt healed it. 11042