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Jeff Watson @lifeat78rpm.com · 12/08/2026

We are hiring a tenure-track position (organic and/or biochemistry) this fall! Head to the link below for more information. Come join us! I am not on the search committee, but I'd be happy to answer questions. employment.gonzaga.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor, Chemistry - Gonzaga Main Campus, Washington, United States

Title: Assistant Professor, Chemistry Area: College of Arts and Sciences Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Telework Availability: On-campus Position Employee Classification: Tenure Track Faculty ...

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Did u know that when we blocked assholes instead of arguing with them Bluesky was cool and awesome and fewer people saw the assholes’ posts? now u know you are not going to convince them or make them feel bad and there’s no scoreboard You’re just smearing shit on the camera lens

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

There is only one possible ending to this story, and sports aren't the last chapter. I guarantee that if you haven't lost five decades of rights in two weeks, you have no idea what this feels like, so I'm begging you: protect trans kids right now with everything you've got.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Science didn't turn partisan! It's been politicized & partisanized by conservatives whose cruel, theocratic, destructive policies (banning books, forced birth, climate denialism, gender essentialism) are all directly contradicted by scientific evidence.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

In light of the news on my first day of sabbatical: gender is a social construct, trans women are women, no amount of complying with authoritarians who pretend they will only strip some people but not you of rights will keep you safe. And in 2025 university administrators should know all of that.

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Jones Murphy @jonesmurphy.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

For the 1st time since slavery, people born in the US can be denied citizenship. And the states which will deny that citizenship are exactly the states with the worst history of genocide, slavery & apartheid.

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

"Learn to code" was always bad advice, unless you actually like to code. College students have the best chance of professional success if they major in topics that interest them. Today in @startribune.com. Please tell high school students and parents. www.startribune.com/what-should-...

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Opinion: College students, go ahead and major in what you love

"The lesson here is simple: Major in what you love, not what you think will get you a job," David M. Perry writes.

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kitchenimp.bsky.social @kitchenimp.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

M Gessen, knocking it out of the park. Again. Fuck, they’re brilliant. And breaking my heart. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...

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Opinion | The Supreme Court’s Blindness to Transgender Reality

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/06/2025

BEGGING LIBERALS TO READ THIS

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 10/06/2025

Some people believe this because demagogues have blamed immigrants for taking their jobs and leeching public benefits when in fact the reason people struggle to get by in the US is capitalism and an utter lack of a social safety net

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

We've hit 7K followers, so how about a book bundle giveaway to celebrate?! Open to US, CAN, UK & IE. Follow, like & repost to enter! Closes 9th June. Feat: @natania.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social‬ @emmanewman.bsky.social‬ @premeemohamed.com‬ & more! Inc. an early ARC of THE DOOR ON THE SEA!

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

THE POTENCY OF UNGOVERNABLE IMPULSES comes out in TWO (2)! WEEKS! 🚄🪐🫖 🔍💞 🎓trains, tea, mysteries, romance, and academia on Jupiter, tons of lovely reviews, two previous books in the series please read them first, PRE-ORDERS = 💖 us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

the cover of THE POTENCY OF UNGOVERNABLE IMPULSES, purply-pinky stylized Jupiter in the background, two female silhouettes

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Dr. Sarah Milkovich @milkysa.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

When I was a student: existence of exoplanets was conjecture & I heard jokes that Dan Goldin (then-NASA Admin) wanted NASA to take images of beachfront property on exoplanets. The idea of a *photo* of an exoplanet was *absurd.* And here we are. No beachfront property yet, but we're making progress.

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I will continue the List as long as I am able, and I will do my best to support chemistry faculty job seekers in this small manner. Thanks for reading.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

One attitude driving MAGA policy is the failure to accept the reality of interdependence. Slapping tariffs, shunning NATO, cutting USAID rely on disbelieving that we're connected across nations. Cutting FEMA, Dept of Ed, etc: we're connected across states. SocSec: we're connected across generations.

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Not being allowed to hand water to people in line to vote no matter who they are voting for, while being allowed to hand people million dollar checks to get their vote, is the most American thing ever.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Folks, exactly 5 years ago today I made this offer, & I'll do it again. Many graduate students are in danger of losing their one field season for collecting data- in March 2020 because of the pandemic, now because of Musk-Trump BS. This means that many won't be able to finish graduate school. 🧪🧵

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/02/2025

This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

Tweet from Scott Jennings, saying "um, yes, that's really a problem," with a quoted image saying "The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality right-wing content. That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well. In essence, people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly aren't usually on our side."

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Jeff Watson @lifeat78rpm.com · 08/02/2025

There’s a brand new SFF bookstore in town, so of course I had to visit. Limited myself to just one book but I think I chose well with @melissacaruso.bsky.social and The Last Hour Between Worlds.

The cover of Melissa Caruso’s Last Hour Between Worlds.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 31/01/2025

The labor movement and antitrust movements were both fundamentally correct: the size and amoral character of modern corporations make them a threat to democracy.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I cannot wrap my head around the fact that there were apparently many people out there whose greatest desire in life, barely containable, was not to provide for their kids or have a good life but to…be able to say out loud they hate Black people and women and gay and trans people and disabled people

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 30/01/2025

If you have students who are trans no you don’t. If you have students of color who may be affected by ICE no you don’t. If anyone asks you gender or racial the makeup of your class you don’t have to tell them. Protect your class and protect your students by not complying in advance. They trust you.

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Bill Dynan - NAR Cancer Editor @nar-cancer-editor.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Nucleic Acids Research has arrived on Bluesky! Follow them for the latest on biology and biochemistry of nucleic acids and proteins with which they interact. Run by scientists for scientists and a pioneer in Open Access. @narjournal.bsky.social

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 29/01/2025

why did nobody tell me that reading is actually very calming and relaxing compared to infinitely doomscrolling? there's something to this whole "books" thing. people should read more

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Beginning to doubt that wokeness is the biggest threat to higher education

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Tessa the Cat @tesseract-cat.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Gotta love Republican logic…. Trans people are too weak physically and mentally to fight in the military, but ALSO too strong and too competitive to play sports. Yep…. That’s some logic there apple.news/Avm3GeCQjT8O... apple.news/AZfvTJ3uOQJi...

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What Trump's Ban on Trans Military Service Reveals About His Plans — The New Republic

The rhetoric in the president’s executive order claims that trans identity is a form of dishonesty and moral weakness. It’s setting the stage for further legal assaults.

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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

so these homeschool clonetank claremont institute guys thought "grants" was just shit that went to the Woke University Basketweaving College For Dyed Hair Bisexuals Who Won't Fuck Me and not the way that, like, 90% of government programs worked, huh

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

On our Instagram page, a commenter tells us their conversion story from being “school choice” voucher advocate — once they realized what (and who) was really behind it all 👇🏽 #LeesVoucherScam

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously. Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause." They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.

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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

regardless of how centrist & moderate you try to position your politics, conservatives will still call you a Marxist, communist, anarchist, or socialist. you might as well embrace leftism. Republicans are going to treat you the same way regardless.

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Oh my god. Its real (Id seen chatter). OMB imposes a TOTAL halt on federal grants and loans, including disbursements on already awarded grants, and cancels all announcements of opportunity and such. In the future, "ALL" grants and awards at agencies must be approved by "a political appointee"

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

No advice for the pre-tenured, but for the tenured: Time to fight for our colleagues. What needs to change at our universities so we can protect jobs for four years and allow people to do meaningful work, even if not the SAME work that we could do with a functioning federal bureaucracy? Let's fight

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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.

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Christina Areizaga Barbieri, Ph.D. @cabarbieri.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Been thinking about this a lot (not tagging the sender, for their privacy). Most of us won't have the chance for for grand, capital-R Resistance heroics. But every one of us will have a thousand small choices to make about how to live our lives and where to draw lines. Use them well.

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Several years ago l invited a Buddhist monk to speak to my Senior elective class, and quite interestingly, as he entered the room, he didn't say a word (that caught everyone's attention). He just walked to the board and wrote this: "EVERYONE WANTS TO SAVE THE WORLD, BUT NO ONE WANTS TO HELP MOM DO THE DISHES." We all laughed. But then he went on to say this to my students:
"Statistically, it's highly unlikely that any of you will ever have the opportunity to run into a burning orphanage and rescue an infant. But, in the smallest gesture of kindness -- a warm smile, holding the door for the person behind you, shoveling the driveway of the elderly person next door -- you have committed an act of immeasurable profundity, because to each of us, our life is our universe."

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/01/2025

DEM SENATOR: Well there’s always next time 😃 a hearty “good game” to my colleagues across the aisle as they shepherd our great nation in the spirit of collaboration and teamwork! 🦅🫡 REPUBLICAN SENATOR: Does anyone know when it’s technically legal for me to kill this [SLUR NO ONE HAS SAID SINCE 1889]

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Chris Rufo (account link several layers of QP down the chain) is one of the people where it's probably worth blocking all their followers, especially since there are a lot of "journalists" who need to learn to stop giving that motherfucker air.

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Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Respectfully (and I genuinely mean this), I’ve never heard a single regular person ask for “bipartisanship.” That’s inside nonsense. They want things to work. If the other party refuses to work for people, be the ones who will. Fight for people. Make it plain who isn’t, and who THEY’RE for.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

If I could hand one directive to the Democratic Party for the next four years, it would be this: People will vote for you if you fight, even if you lose. People will not vote for you if you do not fight.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I don’t know what to tell you. The dodgers had terrible owners who bankrupt the team 13 years ago. Then they got owners who didn’t use the dodgers as their own personal piggy bank and instead invested $$ in the stadium, player development and talented FAs. Every billionaire owner can do this!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

this is fucking deranged

Certainly he did not look like the hard-drinking, adulterous, budget-mismanaging person that critics of his nomination had described. He looked clean-cut, not politically correct but patriotically correct. How could anyone doubt his love for his country or his standards? He was wearing them on his back.

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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

if the wealthy can get you hyper-focused on hating an other, it becomes a lot easier for corporations & oligarchs to steal the food off your table.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 12/01/2025

The Zuxit continues. Welcome and congrats to new folks. It ain't perfect here, but it's 100x better! FWIW, here are some good practices to consider: gregpak.net/2024/12/20/b... And here's an earlier post that explains some of the features here, in case that's helpful! gregpak.com/why-i-ditche...

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Bluesky hygiene and safety - Greg Pak

In the weeks since the election and in the midst the giant surge of new accounts on Bluesky, I’ve seen multiple people talking about bad vibes on the site due to the questionable online behavior of so...

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

A friend pointed out a couple weeks ago that Bill Clinton, George W Bush, and Trump were all born in 1946 and I keep thinking about how it feels like our political imaginations are being held hostage, with occasional outliers, by a very particular generational precept of the nation.

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

those are my emotional support em dashes

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Indige Tea 🦬🧡 : ✊🏾 @colouredwilde.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I want to remind everyone that your local library is both physical AND digital. You hate streaming everything because the price is ridiculous? Library. You hate ads because they're every 3 mins or less? Library. You want to reduce your digital footprint? Library. You want sourced info? Library.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/01/2025

are these really “mask-off moments” or just what CEOs have always been doing

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.

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