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Maria Gallegos

@mopia.bsky.social
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Absent-minded Professor. Dabble in worm genetics, cell biology, microscopy, evolution, and pretty photos. Opinions are my own.

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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This disturbs me. An apple from my local market after pealing off the sticker.
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
More photos please! Miss you all!
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I’ve been using a monocular microscope. To get a good image with an iPhone you have to suspend it over the eyepiece at just the right distance. It’s not easy. My son made me this contraption. This picture is really old (dated by the iPhone!) but it might give you an idea of what I mean.
A monocular microscope with a LEGO contraption over the eyepiece that is designed to hold a phone at just the right distance over the eyepiece so you can snap a picture.
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Sure! You got pest issues?
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I’m kind of the neighborhood pest inspector with my 65 year old microscope and Lego camera mount.
Carpet beetle larvae carcassesDry wood termite poop
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I never forgot my kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Labuzan. She held up my artwork for all to see and said it was boring. She suggested I add something to the big empty sky. So I filled it with large pink dots and gave it back to her. I just googled her and it appears she was dearly loved by most.
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Hs anyone found this gem of a tweet? The one about the “32-year-old man with no underlying health conditions that was offered a Covid vaccine early because of a blunder at his GP surgery which recorded him as being 6.2cm tall, giving him an astonishing body mass index (BMI) of 28,000.”
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Today is National #StandUpforScience day. Here is my failed contribution. You have to zoom way the $&@#% in.
An image of Bernal hill from Van Ness Avenue with a red arrow point to a nearly invisible sign that says “Stand Up for Science SF”
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Zoom in to the back of this ship docked at the port of Oakland. Someone spelled “renee” using shipping containers! Not the first time. Last time I saw this ship it spelled “Jason”. Anyone else see this? #renee #bayarea
A ship loaded with red and green shipping containers, docked at the port of Oakland. If you zoom in you can see that the red shipping containers were deliberately placed to spell the name “Renee”.
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
My weekly urban hike.
SF lit up by the sunset visible behind tree branches.
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
#nokings
View of downtown San Francisco with Bernal rock in the foreground. The rock is painted with a yellow crown (white outline) crossed out in red.
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
“Fewer speakers, bigger stars, speeches that aren’t laundry lists.” Amen. There was almost a riot there at the beginning. While organizers/speakers were droning on the crowd was yelling, “March, March, MARCH!!!
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
This is, of course, the dynamic that bedevils the Dem/left coalition more broadly. But you know what could help in a rally setting? Fewer speakers, bigger stars, speeches that aren’t laundry lists.
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Karenmia🫣 @indigogurlsf222.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Have you never protested? No Kings would be a wonderful first experience. You will find out the following: you are not alone, there are lots of awesome people in America and people can actually be supportive. It will recharge your faith in humanity. You will want to repeat the action. #resist
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 04/10/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
DO POLITICAL PROTESTS MATTER? EVIDENCE FROM THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT*
ANDREAS MADESTAM
DANIEL SHOAG
STAN VEUGER
DAVID YANAGIZAWA-DROTT
Can protests cause political change, or are they merely symptoms of underlying shifts in policy preferences? We address this question by studying the Tea Party movement in the United States, which rose to prominence through coordinated rallies across the country on Tax Day, April 15, 2009. We exploit variation in rainfall on the day of these rallies as an exogenous source of variation in attendance. We show that good weather at this initial, coordinating event had significant consequences for the subsequent local strength of the move-ment, increased public support for Tea Party positions, and led to more Republican votes in the 2010 midterm elections. Policy making was also af-fected, as incumbents responded to large protests in their district by voting more conservatively in Congress. Our estimates suggest significant multiplier effects: an additional protester increased the number of Republican votes by a factor well above 1. Together our results show that protests can build political movements that ultimately affect policy making and that they do so by influencing political views rather than solely through the revelation of existing political preferences. JEL Code: D72.
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🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛ @santiagokique.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Like...this is the biggest corruption scandal the NIH has experienced in its entire history and its not even close. Half of a BILLION dollars to a single project as a result of political spoils. That's the equivalent of several hundred R01s.
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
@steveinskeep.bsky.social On this morning’s broadcast, you and Ms. Leavitt seemed to make contradictory statements about when the ACA subsidies were set to expire. Who’s right? And if Ms. Leavitt misled, why didn’t you push back? Without pushback, I was left wondering if she was right.
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50501 Monterey ❌👑 @50501monterey.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
The mission is clear. ❌👑 #stopmaga #stopmagazis #stopwhitesupremacy #nokings #October18 Commit to NONVIOLENT action. DO NOT ENGAGE with detractors at events. Turn away & ignore. Or find a Peacekeeper (in yellow vests). Do NOT bring weapons of any kind to our events. RSVP mobilize.us/s/4enw8F
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 20/09/2025
Journalists at the Pentagon now must pledge not to report anything that hasn’t been approved by Pete Hegseth. The only way to protect our rights from Trump’s regime is to exercise our rights. Join the largest peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
deadline.com
Pentagon To Require Journalists To Pledge Not To Report Unauthorized Information, Or Face Having Credentials Denied Or Revoked
The restrictions came in a memo to members of the media on Friday.
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
It has a sad ending though. “But in May the Trump administration terminated billions of dollars of funding to Harvard, including the grant that supported the pelvis research.” “We are all wondering what would have come next had we not lost this funding,” Dr. Capellini said.
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Healthcare for All ♿️🏳️‍⚧️♀️🇺🇦🖖🏾🇵🇸 @falkorfriend.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
It's time for a GENERAL STRIKE to halt the gears of injustice and overthrow the white nationalist patriarchy. We need ~10.3M more signed strike cards to reach effectiveness. Working in the US? 📢 Sign yours today! 📢 Not working in the US? ♻️ Please repost ♻️ generalstrikeus.com/strikecard
generalstrikeus.com
The Strike Card — The General Strike
By Signing a Strike Card is one of most important steps you can take in ensuring the success of The General Strike. By doing so you will receive important emails and SMS updates. The Strike card is ...
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Nov. 7, 2020. Easy to find.
Toilet paper hanging from the overheard MUNI wires. People crowding the streets of the Castro wearing cloth masks celebrating the Biden Harris win.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 07/07/2025
"One of the most important, and most overlooked, functions of protest is to prevent the dreaded 'spiral of silence,' which can begin when people wrongly believe that their own point of view is not widely shared," Betsy Levy Paluck writes:
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The Most Overlooked Value of Political Protest
Small acts of staying quiet may seem merely polite or indifferent, but they can easily spiral.
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Forgot the Alt text: This is a photo of a sketch of Trump in black ink (Trumps head is on the body of a Grasshopper?). Above it, it says, “NO REYES” in red blocky type. To the left is a sketch of the back side of a caballero with a shirt that says, “Ningún ser humano es ilegal en tierras robados”
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I love Oaxaca #nokings #noreyes
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Thank you!!!
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
What’s this about? “The majority of C. elegans start their lives as males, then switch to females” ?!?!?!
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Noelle L’Etoile @girlsinscience.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
CA voters - contact your State Rep - One of the best reasons to work towards SB829 - getting a CA alternative to NIH - Akilah Weber Pierson’s bill is the cancellation of NIH grants that investigate LGBTQ health. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/h...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T.Q. Health (Gift Article)
More than $800 million in N.I.H. grants canceled as of early May — nearly half of those terminated to date — covered the health of sexual and gender minority groups, The Times found.
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Love it!
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Hey. Just an FYI. You need to update all of your “select all that apply” type questions. They are formatted so that you can only “choose one”
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Whatever it takes.
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o... Didn’t expect that David Brooks would inspire me.
nytimes.com
Opinion | What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.
It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
A quote from Shapiro in an excerpt from the recent New Yorker about the creation of the dire wolf. “There is no point in bringing the dodo back. Their eggs will be eaten the same way that made them go extinct the first time.” Makes me think we also can’t just go back to a Biden-like presidency.
An image of an excerpt from the New Yorker that contains a quote from Shapiro when he was at UCSC. Shapiro made his remarks to the Wall Street Journal. The quote is in the post.
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
bbc.com
The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
What a beautiful tribute. So sorry for your loss. 💔
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 31/03/2025
China, Russia and India have dispatched emergency teams and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Myanmar. So have Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. The U.S., the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has sent nothing.
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Trump’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Hobble Earthquake Response in Myanmar
While China, Russia and other nations have rushed emergency response teams to the devastated country, the U.S., once a leader in foreign aid, has been slow to act.
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Awesome! Now I want to go and take my daughter.
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Is this where you are sitting right now? Looks pretty fabulous!
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Can’t beat this library view!
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Just hanging out with my peeps. Hoping someday soon we reach 3.5%.
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Just awful.
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Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Yeah, when the REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR OF UTAH is able to make a more compelling case than a normie elected Dem, something is fundamentally broken.
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I was trapped at the poster making table during the rally but my aunt (Vicki Gunter) captured this image at the #standupforscience2025 rally on Friday.
A lone protestor walking away from the crowd holding a sign that is so large you can only see them from below the knees. It reads, “Let’s stop these money grubbing maniacs from wrecking our world”
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
📌
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 08/03/2025
Interesting! @nytimes.com still hasn’t covered any of the Stand Up for Science protests today, but they made sure to put this important news front and center online. Powerful reporting…
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Montana is extremely lucky to have Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell standing up in front of openly transphobic lawmakers who wanted to pass a bill that would /take trans kids away from their parents./ Thank you to them, and to the Republicans who crossed the aisle. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
‘Stop these crazy bills’: Republicans join Democrats to defeat anti-trans legislation in Montana
One bill would remove trans children from their parents, and the other would ban drag shows and Pride marches
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
It’s a beautiful day to STAND UP for SCIENCE!!!! Civic Center Plaza! Come at noon to make posters. Come at 1 pm to make your voice heard!
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
That was a butt post. But I feel it
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Lo me
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