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rchaels.bsky.social @rchaels.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Why is writing a 150 word bio the HARDEST THING IN THE WORLD
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rchaels.bsky.social @rchaels.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Me, going for a walk on a work from home day: Time change into my outside sweatpants!
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rchaels.bsky.social @rchaels.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I am doing just a bit of reminiscing on the internet tonight (should be writing, oh well) and I still cannot let go of the fact that I think someone used my blog title for a book title. It's silly and meaningless...but I had this blog since 2011. lab-girl-writes.blogspot.com/p/about.html
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About
Hey y'all, I'm Rachael. I'm a lab girl. I've been a technician for four years in a psychiatric genetics lab. As of the summer of 2013, I...
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rchaels.bsky.social @rchaels.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Y'all I just have to say I don't think there's a better feeling than PREORDERING A FRIEND'S NOVEL. I hope I get to do this again and again and again and again forever and ever and ever for ALL MY FRIENDS www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796407...
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Mercy Hill by Hannah Thurman: 9780385551823 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A debut family novel about four sisters growing up on the campus of the underfunded state mental hospital where their strong-willed mother serves as head of psychiatry. A richly moving story of sister...
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rchaels.bsky.social @rchaels.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Please next time I complain about my job someone remind me that I can walk to Wilson Library, make a special collections request, and revisit a poem that I haven’t thought of in years, and couldn’t find anywhere else.
Fattening the Ghost, by Beth Ann Fennelly. Me googling “erased de Kooning” didn’t get me anywhere.
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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Dear all, A scientist from UNC Chapel Hill, Paul Maddox, is running for congress in NC for a seat currently held by a republican. If you care about science (and democracy) please consider donating to his campaign #Standupforscience secure.actblue.com/donate/paul-...
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Donate to Paul Maddox for Congress in NC 11
Paul is running for Congress because there’s a sickness in Washington, and no one is working to cure it.
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rchaels.bsky.social @rchaels.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I need to drop everything and write a short story about a family that gives up their phones and then develops superpowers. My family is doing a no-screens challenge, and my husband is talking about renovating the bathroom and the teen took a book to school. WHO ARE WE?
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I heard "there's artificial intelligence, and there's actual intelligence" and almost choked to death on this cough drop
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rchaels.bsky.social @rchaels.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Godspeed to all the kids with AP Bio homework requiring them to use blast who don’t have a mom with a PhD in genetics to help them. Related, how is blast still just as slow as it was 10 years ago
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rchaels.bsky.social @rchaels.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
has anyone correctly compiled a manuscript from scrivener the first time because if so I don't believe you
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rchaels.bsky.social @rchaels.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Me driving through campus this morning: aww it’s moving day how sweet. Me 10 minutes later realizing I work next to a dorm and everyone is parking in my lot: ohhhhh not cute.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
William Carlos Williams if he was in an open marriage:
Cardboard box propped up on a curb along the sidewalk that says FREE PLUMS and TAKE ME!
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rchaels.bsky.social @rchaels.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
This story has everything! Colorful characters (a woman who lived in a child's playhouse paying rent to the 8yo who owned it), a who's who of Chapel Hill writers and foodies, GHOSTS? A PODCAST?? What more could you even ask for?
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Orit Peleg @oritpeleg.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Help us record firefly flashes! 👇🙏
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rchaels.bsky.social @rchaels.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Kind of like Tom Holland's lip sync battle, I will always repost a picture of my dad with his funny little paperclips.
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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Hooooly shit. We've created a fake bullshit artist. No wonder human bullshit artists love it.
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rchaels.bsky.social @rchaels.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
You can listen to a story that Brandon tells!!
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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
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rchaels.bsky.social @rchaels.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
A little reader confession: I don't read anything in italics in a book. Epigraphs, poems, little italicized blurbs before new chapters, they will not be read by me. I've never read the Lord of the Rings but if I did, would not be reading all those songs!
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Dorks, it’s time to throw sand in the gears. They want us to stop teaching, we will teach in the streets. They want us to stop our research, we will use archival data. They want to send us back to the dark ages, we will be a light. We will not lay down and take this.
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rchaels.bsky.social @rchaels.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I want them to bring back blue books because these were my favorite things to write in while I was in college. Bring these back and you will know where to find me during exam time!
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rchaels.bsky.social @rchaels.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The way I SCREAMED A SCREAM upon reading scanned lines of prose. This made my poet-heart so happy, and is also proof that time heals all wounds (thousands of lines of AP Latin scansion homework.) I read this short story then listened to the podcast and then read the story out loud to myself again.
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rchaels.bsky.social @rchaels.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Sometimes my husband and I try to out 90s each other, and this morning I could only name 3/5 of the Space Jam basketball players but I at least knew how tall Muggsy Bogues is. (Thanks 6th grade health class??)
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rchaels.bsky.social @rchaels.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I had a creative writing professor in college who when he found out I had a kid gave me some wonderful advice about waking up early in the morning to write, which I have spent 17 years ignoring, and now I have realized that he was probably right and I need to become a morning person.
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jp flores (he/him) @jpflores.rbind.io · 25/02/2025
You in the Triangle area and thinking about standing up for science? Come to my beloved 2nd workplace and make a sign 😊🍻 supplies provided! You can leave a sign w me and i can bring it up to DC! @standupforscience.bsky.social
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rchaels.bsky.social @rchaels.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Stay in school, kids!
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rchaels.bsky.social @rchaels.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
What a time to be a data archivist
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