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Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm really relying on a little extra GoFundMe money to get me through this month's bills If you'd share with your networks who may want to help out a struggling trans science communicator, I'd deeply appreciate any extra support www.gofundme.com/f/help-trans...

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Donate to Help trans activist Jey McCreight recover from hate crime, organized by Jey McCreight

I am a transgender activist and science communicator who was v… Jey McCreight needs your support for Help trans activist Jey McCreight recover from hate crime

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

my first read of every paper is so polite and optimistic. the moment I start writing feedback and need to confirm a detail... just to realize it's missing... everything falls apart.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Holy shit this kid absolutely DECIMATES Flock at her local Santa Clarita public council meeting. Just 🔥 leaves burning wreckage in her wake. What a fucking badass.

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

students sending long ai written emails which amount to nothing more than a one sentence request is exhausting.

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

This engineering education conference feels suspiciously like a World Cup watch part and I love it. #asee

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

who is planning to go to ISME and who wants to see the hobbit houses with me?!?!?!

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/06/2026

What does the new OMB proposal mean for science? How can we STOP VOUGHT and SAVE SCIENCE together? All of these questions and more to be discussed at the Emergency Science Meeting that BEGINS IN 1 HOUR, hosted by Stand Up for Science! Register at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/oCIDw

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

You may have noticed I disappeared from social media after my launch of @beyondxandy.bsky.social I was violently attacked by a transphobe who recognized me and have been in the hospital and resting If you'd like to help me with my medical bills, please consider donating here: gofund.me/9328f91f2

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Donate to Help trans activist Jey McCreight recover from hate crime, organized by Jey McCreight

I am a transgender activist and science communicator who was v… Jey McCreight needs your support for Help trans activist Jey McCreight recover from hate crime

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We did it!* One of my teams designed and 3D printed a drinking water treatment plant! It's almost safe enough to drink? The mixing vessels leaked so we used beakers... so it wasn't worth disinfecting to drink. But coagulation, flocculation, and filtration were fantastic! *mostly. Leaky mess.

photo of myself and 6 students in front of their design of a 3d printed drinking water treatment plant

the settling chamber for sedimentation with particles settling on the bottom

sand gac and gravel water filter with clean water coming out the bottom

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Two of my students interviewed a bunch of LGBTQ+ STEM dorks and put together "The Queer STEM Survival Guide" as a small zine! I hope to print a bunch for the local bookstores. Hope y'all enjoy! static1.squarespace.com/static/64567...

The cover page for the Queer STEM Survival Guide written for and by queer and trans stem professionals. Notably Schuyler Durand and ARum Cohen with the help of myself Dr. Juliet Johnston

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Hampshire College just announced our closure. I've only been here <2 years but absolutely love being here. I don't know if I am staying until the final closing in Dec 26 or this June 26. If you need a random wastewater/enviro engineer/bioinformatics person I am unexpectedly back on the job market!

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Project Hail Mary was a lot of fun but please be prepared for a scene where he puts two tubes UNBALANCED in a centrifuge. I was horrified.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Ava and I visiting “Woes Hollow” aka the tallest waterfall in the world. RIP innie Irving who died almost a year ago today. (It’s Awosting Falls in Minnewaska State Park If you don’t get the Severance references)

A husky dog sitting in the snow next to a waterfall that is frozen over

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

We couldn‘t make it to the Times Sq protest today. What are the next NYC places to express opposition to the US coup in Venezuela? Feel free to also post anything happening in the Twin Cities (where most of my networks are) or anything especially good anywhere that can be a model. Horrific times.

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

A good, informative, and sobering interview. A tiny handful of powerful owners of things run so much, and that certainly includes the New York Times.

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DisabledInSTEM @disabledinstem.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Extending application deadline to early January so still time to get your applications in! #DisabledInSTEM

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

How do you approach teaching courses to students outside your major? My students are often interested in plants, environmental science, medicine, chemistry etc. I am trying to piece together "why my class is still fun and important" within their multitudes of studies. I would love to hear from you!

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I put “lab work” on my to do list 3 times this past week and kept scratching it off thinking it meant chemical analysis, dna extraction, helping a student project… instead of going to the lab to get my blood drawn.

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

omgosh the amount of students getting sick the last week of the semester.

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Ava had a very good week running around campus @weratedogs.com

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Big news: I’m writing a book!! I’ll be writing & illustrating a beginner’s guide to appreciating wildlife in cities/suburbs, & how all of us can make our neighborhoods better for those animals. Thank you to my book agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social & the folks at Storey for believing in this book!

A block of text that says “publishers marketplace deal report. Nearby nature by sarah mcanulty imprint:storey squid biologist and founder of Skype a scientist sarah mcanulty phd’s NEARBY NATURE, an illustrated guidebook on observing and caring for the natural world found right in our backyard from building bat houses to growing native plants to welcoming possums, to Kristin Hewitt at storey in an exclusive submission for 2027 by Eric Smith at neighborhood literary

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

lowkey disappointed that my holiday break read is only about mushrooms and not The Secret Life of FUNGI as advertised.

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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I can't wait to be able to run RT-qPCR in my lab!!! Eagerly awaiting my Pocket qPCR to arrive. I can finally use my 50k units of reverse transcriptase I got from Gene and Cell Technologies a few years ago. gaudi.ch/PocketPCR/in...

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qPocketPCR – The Ultra-Compact Real-Time PCR Thermocycler – PocketPCR

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Before and after grocery shopping. I did NOT buy any potatoes. They were stolen.

A giant pile of potatoes garlic and rice

A small pile of potatoes garlic and rice (garlic and rice have not changed amounts. Only potatoes).

A dog who looks very full and pleased with herself.

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Facilitation-competition tradeoffs structure microbial niches and nitrogen cycling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

First preprint as a professor and it’s… not wastewater but bees?!?!?? Lovely collab with my colleague Dr. Jennifer VanWyk. the middle authors are all the undergrads who took my bioinformatics course last spring and analyzed novel data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Hot and Bothered, Bees’ Gut Microbiome Shifts Under Thermal Stress and Pathogen Infection.

Understanding bumble bee gut health is imperative as these vital pollinators are subjected to pathogenic infections and thermal stress from climate change. The gut microbiome serves as an indicator fo...

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Seeing Hamilton in Hartford with my niece and nephew! We got the extra interactive version where the British set fire to the stage and force everyone to evacuate (we are all fine and the show quickly resumed)

Photo of fire trucks outside the bushnell theater in Hartford

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Willow Coyote-Maestas @willowcoyote.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed. She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.

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eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Zara Weinberg was a brilliant, loving, and beautiful woman. She inspired everyone who she interacted with, and always strived to make the world a better place for everyone. Tho the world is a little less bright today without her, her memory will always be a blessing. She was truly one of the best.

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Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor. The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2. www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

Candid photo of Zara Weinberg. She has short red hair, bangs and glasses. She is laughing.

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Trying to explain daylight saving to a hungry dog who doesn’t know why it’s not dinner time.

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Had fun time giving a keynote to the upcoming LGBTQ chemical engineers at #AIChE!!!

Conference badge with my name and fuck Exxon mobile along the badge lanyard

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

We have to absolutely hammer this home: Science suffers without the values embedded in DEI 🧪

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Your ability to eat should not depend on your productivity Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life. It aids fascism.

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Last week was water quality sampling but one overly enthusiastic member of the team kept messing up our turbidity measurements by splashing everywhere.

Class hanging out at a leafy river bed with a dog

Student in a river wearing waders to get a measurement

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DisabledInSTEM @disabledinstem.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years! Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn... Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR... Applications due December 5th!

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

One of these things is not like the others... I just wanted to be included in Farm Fest.

a list of events for Farm Fest including Egg race, pumpkin carving, cider pressing and.... make your own Winogradsky Column.

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

“were testing ammonia concentrations next week! samples will be from the campus reservoir and throughout the farm unless someone is brave enough to get us our nitrogen source from animal fertilizer aka urine!” ::unflinching student who takes care of our pigs” “Yup.” The dedication ::chefs kiss::

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

My student helped me modify Harpers urn! Now she can continue to growl at me!

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Finally got my dissertation artwork tattooed (art by @fsantoriello.bsky.social) They're super adorable, based on the Ramones and the colors are the seasons since my work was seasonal changed in wastewater microbiome (red-summer, orange-fall, blue-winter spring-green)

4 microbes acting all moody like they are on cover of an album. two have some pilli, one has a big flagella, and they all have vacant eyes. they are on my left wrist.

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Dr. Jennifer Glass (she/her) @methanojen.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Is there another way to BLAST the entire NCBI-nr database using a server other than NCBI? I tried ENA browser SSS & it’s taking hours for a single protein. Broader question: are there contingency plans being made by international bioinformatics community in case NCBI is no longer supported?

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 03/07/2025

Six 6️⃣ tips on communicating effectively with politicians. From @jacquelyngill.bsky.social some time ago.

Effective communication with elected officials: 1. Petitions are useless. 2. Posting is useless. 3. Phone calls are effective. 4. Contacting people who do not represent you is useless. 5. Written letters are effective. 6. Elected officials get Google alerts for their names, and may see mentions in small blogs.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

$53.5M for Connecticut

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes. The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere. The site is a textbook concentration camp.

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

just left a message to my senators to get their shit together and push back again the budget reconciliation bill. reminder for you to do the same.

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