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Kevin A. Scott, PhD @sculpturatus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

found at ucsf

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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hi, historian of eugenics here. There’s actually not much difference between this and midcentury eugenics because midcentury eugenics was much more than just murderous coercion by the Nazis!

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 27/07/2026

My friends and I have a book club set up on @thestorygraph.com and the asynchronous-friendly features always impress me 🥹 I’m able to leave comments on our current book, “The Raven Scholar,” by Antonia Hodgson and mask spoilers for other people that haven’t reached the same % of progress 🙌🏽❤️

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 12/07/2026

Congratulations on the appointment! 🥹❤️

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I'm just gonna leave this here.

Mayor Mamdani streamed the Knicks game on 130 LinkNYC kiosks across the city.

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 13/06/2026

Thank you! And it’s alright, I guess I was there on and off since 2013 anyways 😅 This was a sign to move on to the next thing!

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 13/06/2026

Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll definitely be looking up this book on Libby to see if my library has it 👀

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 13/06/2026

After a sad departure from @ucsandiego.bsky.social, I was able to find a role in industry! 🥹✨ The job market was really tough (some places had ~5-7 rounds of interviews), especially while managing post-surgery healing … but made it through! 🙌🏽 #AcademicChatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 03/06/2026

Congratulations! What awesome news ✨🙌🏽

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

NYC Postdocs: join us for this month's Postdoc Night Science event! Having a science buddy is crucial for the creative process. So this time we're meeting at a bar near Union Square for some science buddy "speed dating". RSVP: tinyurl.com/3t5us6hp!

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 16/05/2026

I think it’s the Xteink 4? Or it might be the 3 … they’re super tiny!

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 16/05/2026

Conference shoes !! 🤩✨ I love all of the subtle details on them as black heels !! It adds extra pizazz 🥹

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 16/05/2026

I finally visited the Mr. Charlie’s TMS that opened up close to me after my run this morning! 🍔🍟🥤 The interior is a VIBE 💛❤️

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 16/05/2026

There’s some good news incoming !! But … definitely a very sad way to leave the institution that showed me and my family that it is possible to achieve the American dream 🤍🤍

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 14/05/2026

I haven't posted here in a while, but I got the notice at the end of last month that due to a lack of funding, I've been laid off from my postdoctoral position 🥲 My last day with @ucsandiego.bsky.social is on May 29th and it's very bittersweet as a double alumni to be on the chopping block 🧜‍♂️

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 05/04/2026

I’m now a month post endometriosis surgery and it’s absolutely crazy how much better my pain has gotten since they were able to cut out lesions and suspicious regions! 💛✨ I did also recently use my FSA dollars to upgrade to the byACRE rollator for when I need to manage chronic nerve pain episodes 🤩

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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 04/04/2026

It's amazing what institutes in the @pasteur.fr network are able to accomplish when they're not being bombed by the US and Israeli militaries 👀

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Critical for anyone who uses GitHub - if you've used GitHub Copilot at all, Microsoft is about to start putting basically all of your code and the entire trajectory of all actions you took into training. You need to opt out by April 24th. github.blog/news-insight...

Outputs accepted or modified by you
Inputs sent to GitHub Copilot, including code snippets shown to the model
Code context surrounding your cursor position
Comments and documentation you write
File names, repository structure, and navigation patterns
Interactions with Copilot features (chat, inline suggestions, etc.)
Your feedback on suggestions (thumbs up/down ratings)

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 26/03/2026

Oh my goodness, congratulations on defending @jpflores.rbind.io !! ✨💪🏽🤩

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 26/03/2026

Whoops, early 2000s — we are still in the 2000s 🤪

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 26/03/2026

I think San Diego has gotten better since moving here in 2013, but I remember visiting family in National City/Chula Vista in the 2000s and it wasn’t so great then 😅

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San Diego Humane Society @sdhumane.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Please take extra precautions to keep your animals safe during this heatwave in San Diego County! Important tips, graphics and FAQ's are available at sdhumane.org/heatsafety.

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 17/03/2026

I’ve had the month off for FMLA leave to recuperate physically and mentally after my surgery … and playing lots of #Pokopia 🥹✨ I’ll be returning to lab and whatnot in early April, and I’m excited to slowly get back to bioinformatics and research! 💪🏽💪🏽

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

A more complete set of voices in a companion piece. www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...

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The people — and research — lost in the NIH exodus | CNN

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 05/03/2026

Check out this preprint I can’t wait to read 📄🧬💻👀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Well done to @ee-reh-neh.bsky.social and all members of the team! Truly inspiring to see this sort of work being done!

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Irene Gallego Romero @ee-reh-neh.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

First, a couple of weeks ago: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Single cell RNAseq on blood from 200 donors across 4 sites in Indonesia spanning regional axes of genetic and environmental diversity. This is one of very few scRNA data sets from the Global South, including urban and rural settings.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I just tried to register. The March date is already listed as Full! I did register for the April date. You have a chance to enter questions. I don't know if there will be another opportunity to do this.

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a close up of a man wearing glasses looking at another man 's face .

ALT: a close up of a man wearing glasses looking at another man 's face .

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 05/03/2026

Also, happy endometriosis awareness month 🌻💛 People in my life have asked why I’m open about my health 🏥 and a BIG reason is to bring enough awareness to conditions to encourage ACTION ✊🏽 📣 There’ll also be events in New York City this week hosted by www.endofound.org if people are interested 💪🏽

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Endometriosis, Foundation, EndoFound, Endometriosis Foundation of America

Endometriosis Foundation of America | a 501(c)3 Tax-exempt, Tax-deductible Organization

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 05/03/2026

Oh, wow! A huge congratulations to the Alexandrov Lab! ✨

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 05/03/2026

My endometriosis excision laparoscopy is tomorrow! Hopefully everything goes well!🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽 We’ll be using the Da Vinci Surgical Robot—it kind of feels like a full circle moment? 😅 I first saw one as a first year bioengineering undergrad in the @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social MET basement for some event 🤖

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 23/02/2026

I’ve been back in the States 🇺🇸 for a few days now and … oh dear, I miss public transportation 🚞 😭 Also, traveling with chronic nerve pain and inflammation in the cold is difficult BUT semi-possible with MANY heat warmers, ample rest, and strong medicine 🥲 My endometriosis surgery is in two weeks!

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 23/02/2026

I recently wanted a fantasy sort of book to relive my Artemis Fowl and Percy Jackson days … so I picked up The Will of the Many by James Islington on Libby and was pleasantly surprised! Also finally read Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams 👍🏽

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I don't let my social media platforms define what kind of loser I am

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 23/02/2026

For a good chunk of my early days on the internet, I was on random forums talking about niche things like forecasting turnip prices (in bells, of course) and predicting Pokérus 😤

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

me needing romantacy audiobooks to survive the horrors puts my grandma's soap operas in a whole new light lol

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 09/02/2026

After navigating delayed flights and cancellations due to snowy weather, my husband and I finally made it to Sapporo for our honeymoon! ❄️🗻 We haven’t travelled with just the two of us for a while, so it’s nice to be able to spend time relaxing with your person 😭✨❤️

A photo outside the window of the Grand Blissen Hotel in Jozankei, a region in the Sapporo area of Japan. There is a large mountain in the view of the window that is covered with the deep brown, stripped trunks of trees during the wintertime. Some of the trees have caught the snow, and some still have bushy, dark emerald-colored leaves. In the middle ground is a grey apartment building with approximately 10 floors in view that has a flat roof entirely covered in snow. Several buildings sit beside it, all also covered in snow. The photographer has her legs crossed and resting on a burnt orange ottoman, and she’s wearing blue, starchy linen hotel-issue bottoms, along with grey tabi socks.

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 26/01/2026

Oh dear ... I've actually talked to people who didn't believe me when I said CI was a field of research 🫣

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 13/01/2026

I was also so flustered by doing things on the fly with a lot of improv that I ended class an hour early 🫠

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 13/01/2026

I lectured today for a Practical Bioinformatics course and the JupyterHub for the class wasn’t working for people 😭 So instead of just my “Intro to pandas, matplotlib, and seaborn” interactive session, I also did an ad-hoc lesson on how to install packages and create environments with conda 🥲

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 09/01/2026

Thanks!! ❤️ It’s a little scary but also super cool 😭 I’ve watched a few surgery videos for this procedure to see how it works and whatnot … and it’s amazing what modern medicine has to offer!! 🙌🏽 🏥

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 09/01/2026

Finished my appointment! It went well and my provider was able to address a lot of the concerns I had 🥹❤️ I have to do another diagnostic ultrasound to determine how the laparoscopy will be performed—like if they need to use the surgical robot—but after that, I’ll (hopefully) have closure! 😭✨

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Lolll.... "Denmark changes Greenland's name to 'Epstein's Island' so Trump stops talking about it"

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 09/01/2026

Thank you so much from across the internet! 🥹 I hope you’re staying warm where you are and that things are going smoothly for your degree program! 🙌🏽✨

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