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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 2h

I wish that women didn't have to open a vein and spill their trauma every time there's a high-profile rape case. We shouldn't have to do that to drive home what a widespread fucking problem this is.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 3h

CORNELL KEPT HER GODDAMN TUITION.

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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026

This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 28/09/2026

avast, ye haters

Big fluffy black and tan husky mix with bright blue eyes that are almost crossed - due to her focus on a long, golden French fry. The other day when we did this, the Fun Police showed up and chewed us out for sharing our fries; they are sad people, and we should pity their dogs.

Same dog, mouth wide, fry on the verge of catastrophe.

In goes the fry, and the dog’s snoot raises in triumph.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

(Including more of the scientists than you think....)

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today was incredible. The fight to save the academy of natural sciences is far from Over

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Cats’ true nature is to live outside and be hunters!” My true nature is slapping people when they say stupid shit, but we all make sacrifices to live in society, don’t we.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trying a new recipe tonight: red curry short ribs.

An instant pot with a dark red liquid and visible short rib bones

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

think all straight people who discoursed at great and punishing length about a western mass lesbian bar should have to give equal airtime to this. it’s your own community this time!

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Learning to analyze, to question, to pursue knowledge, to build arguments based on evidence, and to discard sophistry: these are values that the sciences, social sciences, and humanities share. And we share the battle to protect this style of inquiry from barbarians who would destroy it.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m tempted to write a long something about the overlap in inspiration, motivation, and even straight up songs and performers between country and punk, but I don’t have a blog and I’m not threading 50 posts. Have this instead.

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Johnny Paycheck - Take This Job And Shove It (Audio)

YouTube video by JohnnyPaycheckVEVO

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One the one hand, the “I like all music but country and rap” people are boring and shitty. On the other, that particular song is bland and forgettable except as a shining example of why most modern country sucks, so.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

It is no coincidence that rationalists and EAs tend to be straight white guys from well-off families, because for everybody else, the world usually conspires to knock some sense into you about your inherent god-emperor genius by the time you’re old enough to drink.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What we seriously need is adult TAG programs, or something like them. One a week, go to a place where someone teaches us a new hobby-type skill, gives us a new “learning toy”, or lets us compete in a random challenge in little teams. Like a facilitated makerspace.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Saturday night fun: a book about the surveillance state, a chai-spice rum and coffee cocktail, and watching J fight a giant, angry, disembodied head.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.” – IBM Training Manual, 1979 We used to know this.

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I know I say this every month, but the botanists have to be stopped

snippet from a paper on the systematics of Dasypogonaceae, in which you can tell the author is Australian because the odor of the flowers (which are "blood red" when the pollen is ready to go) is described as "reminiscent of a rotting kangaroo"

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Mia Konjikusic, PhD @konjikusicmia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To add to all the lovely videos of non-AI processes multicilia beating: ctenophore multiciliated cells! They can reach up to 1mm long, causing a rainbow light refraction effect with the correct light positioning! Taken by myself at MBL in 2019 embryology. Realtime frame-rate!

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What do you guys think is in there

A big ugly facade with a painted sign reading SPAGHETTI WAREHOUSE

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 25/09/2026

There is a perception that job interviews are one way: that the people hiring are trying to see if you are the right person. In reality, it’s two ways: you are trying to see if it’s somewhere you want to spend 8 hours of your day. You learn this by asking questions and indirect cues … and flags 👇🏽

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Godsfuckingdammit, the dog chewed her stitches. AROUND HER CONE, somehow.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Notably, you will not have these settings if your account is already set to private.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you care about keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open to the public in Philadelphia, I need you to read and share this thread. Trish Wellenbach was sent from the mayor's office to oversee the Academy of Natural sciences situation. She needs to hear from us. Here comes the action item:

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I haven’t previously given two shits about stupid iced coffee discourse - as someone who’s interviewed a fuckload of people, I’ve seen worse - but “reminding a lady to wear pantyhose”? Fuck off into the sun with your pantyhose. I haven’t worn hose since I was old enough to pick my own clothes.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh boy, just got a new example to use for “spellcheck doesn’t help you if you spelled a word correctly but it wasn’t the word you meant to use.” No, marine biology textbook draft, I am not writing about “claims,” I am writing about *clams*.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have too many meetings today, and it’s affecting my ability to listen to loud music and punch through open issue tickets. Grumpy science punk is grumpy.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dear “you’re so oooooold now” advertisers: if I’ve gone this long without giving two shits if my “under eye area” is puffy or whatever, what makes you think I want to change that now?

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of the most annoying parts of how bad the USPS has gotten is that they still insist that their old delivery timelines apply. That package is in Michigan, it’s been in Michigan for two weeks, and the mail always loops around here for four days now - it’s not going to be delivered today.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I just got an *extremely* satisfying set of metallic brush pens - the line at the bookstore was long - and my inner twelve-year old is pleased.

A set of “Bright Ideas” metallic brush pens leaning against a stack of books. There’s copper, red, pink, purple, blue, green, gold, and silver

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Shuffle choosing to end my running mix with “Polka Never Dies” is violence.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s 50F, it’s been raining for a week, and they’re predicting a nor’easter this weekend…. POT ROAST SEASON

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Callisto 🌒 @thatcallisto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

lake forever, waves for now

a rough wavy greenish Lake Michigan under a blue sky with a front of clouds off on the horizon, seen from a soaked concrete beach.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh, for fucksake. And guess why? “Meta developers made several design decisions that made his exploit possible. One is the choice for Muse dictation to occur in the cloud, where Meta can log it [vs securely on user computers].” The article acts like that decision was random. We all know it wasn’t.

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Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day

A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This scratches a brain-itch I didn’t even know I had.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don’t *know* that this is about the DMV, but I *know* that it’s about the DMV, you know?

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Curie is out of surgery and apparently doing so well that she snuck a treat off a vet tech’s desk while they weren’t looking. Labradors, man. So many brain cells, so few priorities.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Send good vibes for my big old good girl Curie, who has to go for a lumpectomy tomorrow and who’s feeling very hard done by because the humans made her skip dinner.

A large grey-brown Labrador laying on a couch, looking at the camera with a grumpy expression

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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.

Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

To be honest, I’m only surprised it’s that low.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I cannot POSSIBLY agree more. This chunk of roadway is an abomination, a traffic nightmare at all times, and quite likely a sigil of hell à la the M25.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Re This case: Most media are focusing on their own states, but this was a multi-state trip. The person took the whole route of the Southwest Chief, so Illinois through the midwest, then across S. Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona before LA. Then up the coast, and back across on California Zephyr.

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Person with measles rode Amtrak trains and buses across CA, health officials say

The California Department of Public Health said the unvaccinated passenger stopped at six California stations, including downtown Sacramento.

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/09/2026

ALMOST EVERY PEER REVIEWED PAPER HAS A SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS RIGHT BELOW ITS TITLE

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I see people online wonder how they can tell an original LLBean sail bag from a knockoff or a new, enshittified one. This is how: this bag is 35* years old, has been machine-washed multiple times, is currently soaking wet… and it’s standing on the handles. It’s not starch; it’s quality canvas.

A navy blue and white canvas sail bag standing upside-down in a kitchen sink, drip-drying

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