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Miriam Krause

@mirk47.bsky.social
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science, books, geekery (she/her) owner of @catalystbooks.bsky.social, day job with @umnchemistry.bsky.social, formerly @sustainablenano.bsky.social 47 is about Pomona College and I refuse to abandon it

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 30/09/2026
Currently braving the Anthropic settlement call line on behalf of all self-published cowriters and y'all. 😂 These ladies are very nice but this system is a HOT STEAMING MESS and we are all due restitution for the stress
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Miriam Krause @mirk47.bsky.social · 3h
Anybody have a good resource on batteries for solar? We keep getting ads from our solar panel company but I don’t know how to judge what they’re offering…
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 9h
It's good that the pressure was applied and the order issued, but the fact that these fuckers tried to deploy the Guard to voting sites At All is a direct escalation and attempt to test what level of authoritarian fuckery they can get away with. Very glad DC held firm and said "No."
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Would watch.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 09/10/2026
This week we have updates on Immigration, Medical Research Funding, Medicaid, and Food Safety (and you can always find all our tracked issues at unbreaking.org).
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Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Here’s the website. Link to preorder at the top. (Site’s worth a look even if you’re not ordering, imho) therebelloonarchive.com
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The Rebel Loon Archive
The Rebel Loon Archive preserves and shares art speaking out against Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X
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Debbie Gale Mitchell @heydebigale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We are about 6 months away from my book, RESONANCE & RADIANCE, being released into the world. (April 13th, 2027!) RESONANCE & RADIANCE is a narrative nonfiction book about spectroscopy—the field of science that studies how light interacts with molecules. I want to share this book’s origin story 🧵:
A picture of the cover of the book: RESONANCE & RADIANCE: HOW LIGHT REVEALS THE CHEMISTRY OF OUR WORLD by Debbie Gale Mitchell 

The book cover is a selfie of a woman (me) using an infrared camera
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Adjacent: Donna Strickland, who became the third woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, was an Associate (not full) Professor at the University of Waterloo at the time (she was also the first female physics prof there in 1997 (!) which I’m sure is unrelated to why she never went up 🙄)
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026
In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com
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amityf @amityf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A call for all Minnesotans: show up at your neighborhood mosque today; whistles, signs--We Love our Neighbors, We Love our Somali Neighbors. Show up, between 12 and 2 (prayer time). (this is the post you should reshare, buds).
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Miriam Krause @mirk47.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In conclusion, external validation is nice but complicated, I hope Anne Carson is having the best day, and I look forward to reading some of her poems.
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Miriam Krause @mirk47.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Anyway maybe at some point I will have time to do the math on the American men in that same time frame but I'll bet you $100 that 0-5% of them were denied promotion/tenure. No obviously nonbinary folks to count...
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Miriam Krause @mirk47.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mary Brunkow has spent her career in industry; Carolyn Bertozzi & Jennifer Doudna seem to have been appreciated at Berkeley/UCSF; Andrea Ghez has spent her career at UCLA; and I think economist Claudia Goldin maybe got recruited away from UW & Princeton to Harvard, rather than being denied tenure.
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Miriam Krause @mirk47.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
With Katalin Karikó in 2023, that is 2 of the 8 American women who've won Nobels (or equivalent) since 2020 who were denied faculty position/promotions. 25%! (Or maybe 3 of them? I can't tell re Louise Glück - she bounced around but maybe took mostly short-term visiting positions?)
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Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
strong statement from the Association for Human Mathematicians. "Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding."
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Statements — AHM
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Ms. K tweets @whatmsksaid.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
MPS school board directors Greta Callahan & Sharon El-Amin have authored a resolution calling for a delay of the Transformation Plan to be voted on Oct 13. the Tues., Oct 13 board meeting is *also* conference night in MPS, so staff & parents cannot attend the last meeting before the Nov 10 vote.
a kare 11 screenshot with a picture of Director El-Amin and Callahan and the heading: new resolutions to pause school closures
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Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I live in Minnesota. I love my Somali neighbors. To get to them you gotta come through me.
Sign in porch window:

WE SUPPORT OUR SOMALI NEIGHBORS
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Miriam Krause @mirk47.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I genuinely feel like the boundary between reality and satire is gone now, I question my judgement on this all the time!
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Miriam Krause @mirk47.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is so well put, I just wrote it on a post-it. This plus racism I think explains about 99% of everything about the U.S. right now.
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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Darnese Foster was one of the thousands of Black women who lost their jobs when Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency gutted the federal workforce. More than a year later, she is still looking for work to support her family. bit.ly/4y624cM
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The Unseen Toll: Depression, Anxiety Plague Black Women a Year After DOGE Layoffs
Part 1 of a three-part series, FIRED: The DOGE Layoffs Hit Black Women Hard, a collaboration between MindSite News, Capital B, The 19th, and The Nation, edited by MindSite News. Photographs by Kuwilil...
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Miriam Krause @mirk47.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thank you for sharing! I really enjoyed reading the story in this format as well
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived
Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of code she and her team wrote for the Apollo program, which is as tall as she is
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Miriam Krause @mirk47.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This really scared me until I found this: bsky.app/profile/star...
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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Like many scientists, I’ve been mulling over the impact of LLMs on our fields. I’ve not yet seen it articulated, but I think there is a largely unspoken “invisible labor underclass” framework at play.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 07/10/2026
Differences in housing policy post-Surge couldn't be more stark. Both councils passed a temporary 60-day notice requirement for nonpayment evictions. Minneapolis: the mayor vetoed and council centrists refused to override. On pace for record evictions. St. Paul passed it veto-proof. Down 15% YOY
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is award to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai for their work in 'mirror' chemistry www.scientificamerican.com/article/2026...
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2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to pioneers in 'mirror' chemistry
The prize recognizes Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai's discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis
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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We are still OPEN FOR PITCHES for Issue 2. All experience and backgrounds welcome. We are especially looking for: -pieces not focussed on medieval europe -experimental writing -reviews have a look at our "experimental" and "reviews" sections in Issue 1! playtestmaterial.org/issue-two-hi...
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Issue Two: Histories
It’s my great honour as guest editor to introduce the second issue of Playtest Material, “Histories.” The call for submissions for this issue will open to the public September 15 and close October 15....
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Miriam Krause @mirk47.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just started re-watch with spouse who’s never seen it! Still so good. And it’s amazing how many details I’ve forgotten in 20 years…
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“ICE never left. Things became less public, became less of a spectacle, but immigrants are still being targeted and persecuted,” Barham said. “And from rumors I'm hearing, things I've seen, I suspect that they're about to amp up again.” story via Cait Kelley www.mprnews.org/story/2026/1...
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Catch, release, catch: Inside ICE's new 'farce' tactic
Multiple immigration detainees in Minnesota have been ordered released by federal judges only for them to be immediately re-detained by immigration officers at the doors of the Whipple Federal buildin...
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026
What is the IceCube neutrino observatory? Neutrinos are elusive particles that rarely interact, but can create flashes of light when they do. Most neutrino detectors are giant water tanks surrounded by light detectors. IceCube is kilometer-long strings of detectors embedded in the Antarctic ice.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh look, US National Science Foundation-supported science won the Nobel Prize in physics.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026
Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.
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mollypeonies @mollypeonies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The @startribune.com is basing a headline and story frame around a known racist Islamophobe’s tweet. This is wild even for the Strib.
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Ducking Grey Duck @duckinggreyduck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Y'all... Get in on this! There's some great stuff in there
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is infuriating. Can't stop thinking about it. For 35 yrs I've talked to experts, asked them for their time & expertise. IT IS WRONG to treat sources as Nicole was treated. Just shitty, one human to another, but also unethical and deceptive.
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Scott @smadin.net · 02/10/2026
but hey it's not like "eagerly embrace something 'too good to be true' without inquiring about the downside; suffer horrific consequences" is a standard theme in the literature of every society in the history of the world, so I guess one can't blame them for being unwary
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good end-of-FY coverage by the Times. The amount of unspent funds has wiggled but it was pretty clear for some time now that NSF was simply not going to spend a substantial portion of its congressional appropriation this year.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 02/10/2026
Yeah so we all just got tear gassed on the way out of Rocky Horror, be careful downtown
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Miriam Krause @mirk47.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yay! our family needs this so bad :)
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes, this is true DOGE knew *exactly* what USAID resources were used for & where those resources went to: health & humanitarian assistance to women & children in low- & middle-income countries Here are 20 projects that Musk killed He knew exactly what he was doing apnews.com/article/usai...
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USAID cuts are already hitting countries around the world. Here are 20 projects that have closed
Countries around the world already are feeling the impact of the Trump administration’s decision to eliminate more than 90% of foreign aid contracts and cut some $60 billion in funding.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One of the annoying effects of AI as a subject in higher ed is how much it brings out the worst of academic-brain. Like, yes, writing is not essential to higher-order thinking; western imperialists imposed literacy as a weapon and deemed cultures lacking alphabetic writing as inferior. It’s true!
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 01/10/2026
Hey, guess what? I’m keynoting BSides Twin Cities on October 23! My talk is called “We Keep Us Safe” and connects local community defense and protecting our neighbors to cybersecurity and fighting for the users. Local community conferences like this are so important. Come show up and support!
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BSides – Twin Cities – An inclusive security conference for those in the Twin Cities area.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OMB's focus on NIH and NSF, which has confused a lot of folks, pretty much boils down to stopping money going to universities.
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Becca Good spoke publicly: ”I'm devastated by how many other lives have been destroyed, in this the darkest of times. From so many families dealing with the loss of their owned loved ones, to everyone who has to witness it, the pain of this moment extends so far beyond our family." (cont)
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, which leads … you get the idea.”
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to humanity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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