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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The House just passed its budget resolution, so reconciliation is now officially underway. This is their bill to destroy Medicaid and SNAP while cutting taxes disproportionately for the rich. THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no. Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

They did pull a bunch of grants from the university already. You should read what the Princeton president wrote about the attack on universities.

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

This is the town of Princeton, not the university

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I know-I had no sense how big it was until I went up. Then: holy sh**!

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not). Please respond to this post with your institution and materials. THANK YOU!

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Our cat has a bad upper respiratory infection. Indoor cat, no other pets. Spouse and I both had upper respiratory infections that lasted a month, just now recovered. Vet is skeptical, says human-cat transmission is unlikely. Really? Virus folks?

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I’m sorry. Sometimes that’s a good way to spend a day. Letting your brain rest.

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Also measles is crazy contagious. A person with the flu infects ~1-2 other people, COVID ~2-3. Measles? ~12-18.

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I was vaccinated in the 70s and again in the 80s and had no detectable titer in 2019. We don’t have a lot of data on how long vaccine immunity lasts, but it’s not crazy to imagine that “your whole life” is more than can be promised for 1-2 injections.

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

“everyone knows this immune-brain stuff is bullshit and if you want to get a job you shouldn’t work on it”

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

There is only one student doing this and they are verifiably very ill. So this seems less likely, though not impossible.

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

So…a student is taking pictures of the final exam with their phone. Is this step one of chatGPT telling them the answers? Or are they just memorializing my incredible work as an exam-writer?

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

No, just one I found guiding a wildlife walk. I did raise some from eggs that were going to be destroyed because of where they were laid. I released them all.

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

How is it everybody knew what ube was? I wasn't sure of it was made by a person named Ube or was an acronym for some exotic chocolate-growing region. But it's just that I missed out on the Philippine yam craze

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Workin on sweaters without any ewes

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I mean, maybe Mary Oliver just let the dust be?

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I think I was inhibited from bending the little paper tabs by the fact this calendar cost more than my first car

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Yes, but first you have to find the booklet. Maybe we are a little slow.

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Like, they aren’t numbered. Do I go clockwise? Alphabetically by zodiac animal?

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Have you opened the chocolate one? It required Instructions in our house.

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Dear driver, thank you for the equivalent of a bathroom magazine while I waited out this light.

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Dan 🐟 C @zebrafish007.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Bones, scales, and lymphatic vessels in juvenile #Zebrafish for #FluorescenceFriday #WeinsteinLab 🧪🔬

highly detailed dorsal view of three fish with scales and lymphatic vessels shown in different colors with curved bodies as if the fish were swimming. the two fish on the outside are facing downward, and the fish in the middle is facing upward. the left most fish has magenta scales and green lymphatic vessels, the center fish has blue scales and orange lymphatic vessels, and the right fish has green scales and purple lymphatic vessels.

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I think it’s all the nooks and crannies that hold the melted oxygen. But yeah. Burning hair campfire.

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Came here to say this. I have a baggie I save it in as a dandy fire starter.

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I'd love to be added! the art has been a lifetime sideline but looking to bring more of it to my main gig.

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Not a hatch year bird, given the gap?

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Awesome list, would love to be included in this great company!

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Cool owl fact I learned this week: for many species, their feathers contain porphyrin, which glows under UV light. The porphyrin fades over time, so the amount and pattern of glow can help determine their age. Also the glow is brightest in places on the owl where the sun don't shine.

A Northern Saw-Whet owl, about the size of a stick of butter, being held by a field biologist participating in a licensed bird banding program. The owl's right wing is extended and is illuminated with UV light, revealing a wide area of bright hot pink fluorescence, which indicates this is a hatch year bird.

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

We live in suburban NJ and don’t see many bears, but few years ago I was on the phone in the living room and a juvenile black bear rubbed his flank against the picture window two feet away. All I could do was go “Bear! Bear!”. Person on the phone was confused.

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Right?! Curious empiricists overrepresented in the werewolf/vampire population

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Oh yes. I recorded it too. “Doesn’t it sound like a baby or some kind of monster?”

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Also I’m realizing the flicker is near the roadkill box turtle and maybe I should mention these things to my spouse

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Oh yes, I knew this. KISS eat your heart out. And would hypothetically confirm if such a sample was available

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