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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Moonshine Dance @limitbreakingcat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have choice words for "landlords" who choose to do this to people. If you like books, maybe consider this exchange.

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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Today marks 25 years since 9/11. 8 months after the attack, psychiatrist Simon Wessely argued that illness reported around Ground Zero was being wrongly attributed to environmental toxins, suggesting “World Trade Centre Syndrome” was driven by social and psychological factors.

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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 09/09/2026

There’s still time to register & to join us for the one-hour webinar today on the challenged facing pregnant chemists & what working safely can look like. Anna Slater & Mary Kate Lane will discuss the support needed for pregnant chemist at 3pm today. #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/webinars/wor...

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Working safely through pregnancy: a conversation for chemists and lab leaders

How safe is the lab when you're pregnant? Join our conversation on 9 September

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In the wake of The Great ADHD Myth? I am not going to be shy and I am going to plug my book - I wanted to write a book that was sensitive, empathetic and useful - I wore my heart on my sleeve - I am not ashamed uk.bookshop.org/p/books/norm...

"A comforting hug
•Witty and wise
MATT HAIG
LAURA BATES
NORMALLY WEIRD
And
WEIRDLY NORMAL
MY ADVENTURES
NEURODIVERSITY
ROBIN INCE
"Heartbreakingly wonderful'
CAMILLA PANG

Tingles with the joy of being different.
This book made me so happy
CHRIS PACKHAM
naturalist and author of Fingers in the Sparkle Jar
*Another curious and captivating book from the always-excellent Robin Ince'
ROBERT SMITH
The Cure
'A superb book, celebrating the needed weirdness in us all
CHRIS HADFIELD
astronaut and five-time bestselling author
Award-winning comedian Robin Ince spent thirty years entertaining millions while battling a whirlwind of anxiety and self-doubt. It wasn't until his ADHD diagnosis at the age of fifty-two that the pieces finally fell into place.
In Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal, Robin turns his trademark wit on himself to investigate what actually makes us tick. Through personal stories and candid interviews, he explores the one question we're all too afraid to ask: what even is 'normal'
Warm and quirky, this is a heartfelt reminder that feeling a little bit different might just be the

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Attention Ecologists! We are going to need *a lot* of ecologists. The First Lego League Teams need to speak with a scientist about their projects every year. Every year it's a different type of scientist. Last year was archaeologists. This year, ecologists! Sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A fish is a teacher, wearing a button-up shirt with a collar. He says "Volunteer to speak with classrooms in front of a chalkboard that says "Skype a scientist needs YOU!". A snail on his desk says Help! And a shrimp says "Lego league is coming!" and a nervous seahorse says "this year's theme is ecosystems"

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optimisticsoap.bsky.social @optimisticsoap.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now?

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:

Third, faculty salaries are falling even if we statistically control for faculty rank and institution. By our analysis of National Center for Education Statistics data, tenured and tenure-track salaries are down 10 percent in real terms since 2016 and are lower today than they were in 2002; nontenured faculty salaries are down 4 percent since 2016 and are at 2002 levels today.

To put this plainly: Suppose sharply increased teaching loads enabled institutions to cut one out of every seven full-time faculty. (That’s roughly what we saw last year in severe cuts announced at West Virginia, Western Illinois, and St. Cloud State Universities.) The associated savings in salary and benefits even through such drastic action would amount to less than 2.5 percent of total institutional expenditures for the typical university.

The upshot? If you think higher education has a cost problem, squeezing more teaching out of faculty is not the first place you should look.

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Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · 02/06/2026

It’s Pride 🏳️‍🌈 Spare one repost for a small creator? 🥺 My science and sci fi pins raise money for homeless LGBTQ+ people. Just sent another £800 to @aktcharity.bsky.social bringing total to £47,521 New for Pride 2026: 🌈Scientist🌈 🏳️‍🌈🐥🦜🦅🏳️‍🌈 🌈pronouns🌈 www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop

Two bird pins. A series if birds sitting on a branch. Each bird is the colour of a stripe on the rainbow flag.

Pronoun pins with rainbow motif:
She her
He him
She they
He they
They them

An array of pride themed science and sci fi pins.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I do sometimes worry that all the worried headscratching about youth unemployment might be missing the point. Everyone is always talking about how it relates to the education or welfare systems, no one wants to say "well the economy just produces far fewer entry level jobs than it once did"

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Amos @westernstyle.live · 20/05/2026

"too big to fail" is a conspiracy by big big to sell more fail

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Moonshine Dance @limitbreakingcat.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Yeah I'm gonna go stick my head in the sand for a bit before I get too deep in a spiral of "nothing is ever going to get better huh" #OstrichTherapy #TacticalAvoidance 🥲

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 05/05/2026

That there is a particular species of extant arthropod, of which most other species have been long extinct! The scientific name is Solanum trilobitum, usually known by its common name: the frylobite.

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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

"We have...normalised something that would have struck our grandparents as shocking and utterly broken. The facts tell the story. In the 1980s about 500 Irish rivers were classed as the very best of the best. Today, there are about 20." www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...

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Is there an Irish river I can drink from without vomiting?

In the 1980s about 500 Irish rivers were classed as the very best of the best but, today, there are about 20

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Happy birthday to #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! 🐡🧪👩🏿‍🔬 #histsci She made important research contributions to our understanding of the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & the chemistry of histones & protein 🧵

My linocut portrait of Marie Maynard Daly in purples (she’s a young smiling Black woman, wearing earrings, a necklace and a dress, looking at the viewer over her shoulder). Above her to the right is an anatomical heart with a blowout diagram in a circle of a clogged artery and the cholesterol molecule all in red. Next to her on the left in blue are the molecules of the bases which make up DNA and a diagram of a human cell.

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Moonshine Dance @limitbreakingcat.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This was new. Always a new adventure!

Screenshot of the busted bluesky app where nothing on the feed has loaded in, and instead a red banner says "Forbidden"

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Dr Stephen Hendry @drstephenhendry.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Neurodivergent scientists bring vital creativity, focus, and new ways of thinking. But many labs and workplaces aren’t designed with them in mind @rsc.org Neurodiversity isn’t something to fix, it is something to embrace rsc.li/3PlotCd #NeurodiversityWeek #Neurodiversity #ChemSky #DisabledInSTEM

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Neurodiversity in the chemical sciences

Understanding and celebrating different neurocognitive experiences

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Moonshine Dance @limitbreakingcat.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I can't wait for the Veldt to be real 🙃

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I learned about a brilliant project yesterday to support British Sign Language (BSL) users, creating new signs for scientific terms in chemistry, oceanography, data science & more. And they're fabulously descriptive. Do have a look and share! www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/BSL/index.ht...

Screenshot of someone signing "evaporation"

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Moonshine Dance @limitbreakingcat.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Can't believe I'm saying this but I got the position. I'm going to be a PhD student soon! 🙀

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Lyndie Chiou @lyndie.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I just realized that today is Chinese New Year, the 1st day of Ramadan, AND Fat Tuesday. That means the Chinese new moon lined up with the Ramadan crescent and also fell exactly the right amount of time before the Easter full moon. An extremely rare lineup of 3 major moon-based traditions!

Waxing moon -- we had a stormy day (with lightning and thunder!) so this is one I took about a month ago.

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Moonshine Dance @limitbreakingcat.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Went through a second interview. I don't feel great about it. Tryjng to stay grounded. 🥲

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Rebane @rebane2001.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org

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Moonshine Dance @limitbreakingcat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I chose a subscription to Cat Fancy every year as part of our elementary school magazine drives. Do those still happen? Why did they happen?

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

We used to be able to have magazines about rock collecting on shelves nationwide. Now we can't even keep a sports desk at the fucking Washington Post.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 04/02/2026

It's "non-binary people don't owe you androgyny" until the queers who get read as feminine women claim a non-binary identity. Then the androgyny debt collectors come a-knocking

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Moonshine Dance @limitbreakingcat.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Screaming, crying and throwing up. i have been invited for an interview. WISH ME LUCK 🤞💀

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Moonshine Dance @limitbreakingcat.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I have submitted! One of the sections had garbage writing but my good friend helped me edit the rest so hopefully it gets some grace 🫠 It's a super competitive scheme so I am not expecting anything but it feels good to try!

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Moonshine Dance @limitbreakingcat.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

AAAAAAAAAAA (screams in grad school apps) Why do I need to exist as a describable entity with qualities! I don't want to be seen but give me a chance anyway!!

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 28/12/2025

People should be able to live in whatever country they want to

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Moonshine Dance @limitbreakingcat.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Why are happy memories so much more painful than bad ones? Hope your holidays leave you mostly unscathed, friends.

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Moonshine Dance @limitbreakingcat.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Looking for ways to protect yourself or a loved one against disinf/propaganda campaigns from entities with more wealth and power than you'll ever have access to? These seem totally reasonably priced and accessible. Knowledge is power.

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Moonshine Dance @limitbreakingcat.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Northern Hemispherites, we have reached the solstice. It's time to claw back our daylight from the Southern Hemispherites. The earthen tug-of-war goes ever on.

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

Screenshot of a paper entry:
Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI
Authors: Faye Kollig, Jessica Pater, Fayika Farhat Nova, Casey Fiesler
(There are tabs with "abstract" and "summary" and "summary" is selected.)

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marie @muhree.ing · 10/12/2025

"can u explain this gap in ur resume" no i don't want to

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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 21/11/2025

Nasu: I need you to design an anthropomorphic version of the Tunguska Event Arco Wada: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Nasu: This is perfect

Tamamo Vitch Koyanskaya, a demon fox, wearing a qipao

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Moonshine Dance @limitbreakingcat.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

rice my beloved. she can do anything!!! 🌾🙏

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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!

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DisabledInSTEM @disabledinstem.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years! Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn... Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR... Applications due December 5th!

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Moonshine Dance @limitbreakingcat.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Glanced back and forth between ADHD meds and my steadily worsening living room, assessing the deterioration rate of the floor space until finally I just sighed, said "fine" to no one in particular and flipped opened the lid. 🙄 Whatever happens, happens.

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Moonshine Dance @limitbreakingcat.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I haven't done an Infinity NIkki post in a while so here's one of the outfits I've been enjoying using a lot lately! Meet Prince Nikki and Duke Momo!! ✨️

A shot from behind Nikki. Ahead is a palace corridor with columns on either side, european style brick walls and tile floor. She is sat on a red plush throne and has shoulder length brown hair, golden eyes, a tiara and a red and gold prince outfit with lacy white ribbon coming from a brooch at her back and a shoulder cape.

Nikki is wearing the red and gold prince outfit, but here is looking at a butterfly on her finger. Frilly white lace sleeves and pearl bracelets can be seen at this angle. She is surrounded by translucent white columns with a blossoming tree between them.

Nikki is sitting in a tall-backed chair while wearing the red and gold prince outfit. In a closeup of her face and hands she is holding a tarot-looking card with a woman holding a mirror on it.

Nikki is sitting on a flower shaped chair and holding a flower bouquet while wearing the red and gold prince outfit. She looks into the distance as Momo does ballet in the foreground. Momo looks into the camera knowingly. He is wearing a fancy butler-looking outfit with musical motifs and his cat ears have little stripes in them.

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Amy Vants to Suck Your Blood 🩸 @msfoxifurnasty.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

did you know you can just like, forgive yourself? all that shit you punish yourself over and over for, you don’t have to do that you can set it down and walk away and breathe deep for the first time in decades

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Moonshine Dance @limitbreakingcat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Threw another few applications onto the woodfire for the week. I must keep the recruitment AIs warm for the winter. Very excited for potentially one future nonpersonalized rejection email ✨️

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Larkin Francis, PhD, MSW @mwfrancis.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Study after study shows that it's remarkably cheap and easy to solve the problems of homelessness and poverty with low-barrier supportive housing and universal basic income, but our own fear that someone, somewhere will get something they didn't "earn" keeps us looking for other (punitive) options.

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Moonshine Dance @limitbreakingcat.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

It's SAD light season, very northern people take note! 😩 I have already noticed my sleep schedule drifting

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