Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4hAlso, AI creates cognitive decline, so fuck that. 788431
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4hThey quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 7769231758
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 3hOn chimpanzee + bonobo mothers carrying dead infants, by @tpuschel.bsky.social + Reece Hammond. Length of time "depends on how strong their bond was, [mom's] life experience, the physical risks of holding onto the body and how quickly it naturally breaks down." #primates #deathstudies #anthropologytheconversation.comWhy do some chimpanzee mothers carry their dead infants for months?New research looks for patterns in this sad phenomenon. 0125
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/ 15596441
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21hA man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age. 15182401467
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 14hTbf it also exists to subject men to ritualized abuse in order to irreparably bond them to each other so that they won’t blow the whistle on all the raping 141857294
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 12hThis means it isn't legal, right? 2121
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 13hI am the meanest mama in the history of the world and I should be in a dungeon of some kind 2253338
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolishedlemonde.frAmnesty International calls for ICE to be abolishedIn a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States. 384198156337
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 17hAfter decades of awareness raising, people have generally come to accept that someone they are close to has been raped. They remain largely unwilling to consider the fact that they have likely been and may still be friends with a rapist. We are a nation of rape without rapists. 15315
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is genuinely true. Epstein perpetrators had a heavy hand in developing today’s campus sexual violence response.nwlc.orgJeffrey Epstein Loved Trump’s Changes to the Title IX Rule. That Tells You All You Need to Know. - National Women's Law CenterContent warning: reported sexual violence, reported homicide As an attorney who focuses on gender-based violence, I wasn’t surprised that the “Epstein files” confirmed what my gender justice comrades ... 06519
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I keep seeing people talking about consent training and restorative justice in the aftermath of the Cornell story. I don’t know how to explain to people that those reactions are a part of the problem. 120326
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 18hShe was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable. 413487566
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒shademar @shademar.bsky.social · 14hFraternities get fairly tale deals. Massive subsidies in things like (when I was at Cal) exemption from eviction regulations and no need to pay property taxes. The exemption meant every single legal resource we visited, took one look, saw "frat" and noted out. Not a winnable battle. 292
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 14h“ME TOO went too far” said the country that re-elected a rapist. 101354264
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 15hFraternity men perpetrate sexual violence at a rate three times higher than other college men. The fraternity lobby is one of the most powerful in DC—and they consistently oppose any bill for survivors’ rights. 111022
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 15hMen, it’s never too late to leave your fraternity. Membership is lifelong. And these segregationist institutions use your name to uphold the power they abuse. This is what your fellow alums are doing. Do you really want to be associated with that? 6499131
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 15hThe more I learn about this Cornell situation, the angrier I get because it's SO normalized in academic environments. 6993207
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15hPlease give these journalists their flowers. 340269
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026Send Stephen Miller to The Hague. 21074052414
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 15hI just wish half the energy spent debating how to punish rapists was devoted to supporting and uplifting survivors 1202
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 15hIDK I’m just tired of seeing this cycle run its course again and again 1232
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 15hi see this is a Spiralling Due To Rape Trauma Triggered By The News kind of day 335914
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 15hthis thread is, as expected, absolutely spot on. if you don’t know what commonly happens in fraternity hazing, for just one example, you would be shocked. how many college-educated men are walking around having been both victim and perpetrator of torture, actively encouraged as “bonding.” 13810
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 15hChi Phi alum doxxed the Cornell Jane Doe in case you thought fraternities served any other purpose than to uphold the patriarchy. 016740
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 15hWhen I was in college there was this frat who made being “southern gentlemen” their whole identity. Them white boys used to be at intramural b-ball games, calling the black teams the N-word, “boys”, and all type of shit . Whenever I think of it, I damn near fly into a rage like I’m still there 920330
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 17hI am an AI doomer inasmuch as I feel strongly that AI is doomed and that it is our responsibility to accelerate that doom. 131267284
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 22hGOD BLESS NIGELLA “I don’t approve of talking about food as naughty” I have been needing bake off to say that for YEARS. Food is a pleasure, not a guilty pleasure! 874393
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒gorlock @gorlock.bsky.social · 17hnot to dox him but i saw an albino squirrel who smokes cigarettes 916416
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒The Peculiarity Shop @peculiarityshop.bsky.social · 15hThis is amazing. 108311
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026For me, the hardest thing about stories like the Cornell gang rape case isn’t reading the initial details—although that is hard. What’s even harder is when men online, especially the journalists and pundits, start trying to combat the feminist outrage by purposefully seeding doubt and victim-blaming 302184408
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Cian 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 16hHey! Looks like you could use a creek moment. Lagunitas Creek, Samuel P. Taylor State Park, Marin Co., CA 24410
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 18h 38288512447
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾 @chasesolidago.bsky.social · 15hbeing torn between "affirming each other in this moment of solidarity is of value" and "jesus christ if i read one more thing about rape i am actually going to harm myself because that's how digging up trauma works" is exhausting idk im looking at aster morphology 2122
Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 15hWe need MeToo, Part 2: Actual Fucking Consequences 113728
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 16hshutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight. 83616690
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15hI believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it 312480441
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15hAnother thing about fraternities is that the hazing rituals where slightly older young men would physically, mentally emotionally and sometimes even sexually abuse slightly younger young men have always disturbed and upset me greatly. And it’s really telling that I’ve seen men defend those too 553095422
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 16hthis is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement. 92794533
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 19hThey force you to slow down: In life, we hate the feeling of being "bogged down" or stuck. But nature uses these spaces to slow things down, store energy, and protect the planet. Sometimes, hitting pause and sinking into the mess is exactly where the magic happens. 4/ 29216
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 19hI have never felt closer to an animal 082
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 20hUnaccompanied migrant children “remain one of the most isolated and vulnerable groups of people in this country. The Trump administration has decided to exploit their position by threatening their access to legal representation and making it impossible for their attorneys to act in their interests.” 13530
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 20hJuniper Tree 2: Electric Boogaloo 082
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 29/09/2026I fail to understand why squirrels are not the top trending topic at all times 1432857
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒The Onion @theonion.com · 23hCornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows... 167105151987
Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 20hOh god, I once attending a restorative justice workshop (as part of a longer workshop on diversity in science) that was a little too close to this. The point when most of the participants were ready to nope out was when it came to evaluating Louis CK’s apology letter as sufficient atonement. 030
Reposted by Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 21hThings I learned today: if ICE comes to a childcare center to abduct a child in their care, if they have the right warrant signed by a real judge the childcare workers can no longer legally stop it, even though their license relies on not releasing children to persons the parents have not authorized 161