Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social · 6hYeah. I don’t follow them because for some reason they post old stories all the time. Even stupid things like a house tour from 2017. Also, they spend way too much focus on sports and shit rich people are doing. 000
Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Hey, academics who teach and mentor...are you remembering to teach your students how to do the mundane things like use software efficiently? Using section headers (instead of *bolding* or _underlining_), making a table of contents, inserting footnotes, actually linking Zotero with word processors? 010
Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Gayle Benson (estimated net worth >$11B) could single-handedly fund the low-barrier shelter and the right to counsel program and improve lives for the most vulnerable New Orleanians without it registering as a blip in her net worth. Billionaires shouldn't exist. Tax the rich. 010
Reposted by Katie LeeMarta Jewson @martajewson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026When House Speaker Mike Johnson filed for reelection, he declared his phone number to be a string of 0s, attesting “All statements contained herein are true and correct.” Public records are a front-line example of access to officials and government. www.lamplighter.news/p/highly-und...lamplighter.news‘Highly Undemocratic’: Five Louisiana Congressional Candidates, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, file for election using disconnected phone numbersDeclaring a string of 0s as his phone number, Johnson is one of eight candidates with a series 0s or 5s listed as their phone number in their bid for public office. 002
Reposted by Katie LeeVerite News @veritenews.org · 09/10/2026Lauren Jewett challenges Steve Scalise for congressional seat in a heavily Republican district Lauren Jewett, a special education teacher, believes that the ground game is her chance to topple the well-established Republican. veritenews.org/2026/10/09/lauren-je…veritenews.orgLauren Jewett challenges Steve Scalise for congressional seat in a heavily Republican districtLauren Jewett, a special education teacher, believes that the ground game is her chance to topple the well-established Republican. 03419
Reposted by Katie LeeThe End of Sport @endofsportpod.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The Political Economy of Fitness Data @jlcouture.bsky.social joins to discuss how digital health technologies, community, and capitalism intersect in the world of running and fitness. open.spotify.com/episode/1zlX... 1189
Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026At least my department’s faunal fragments collection is gonna expand? 000
Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Honestly I’m getting uncomfortably good at identifying bone bits vs rocks or roots as part of my current backyard project. 120
Reposted by Katie LeeKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026Excited to see that we’re replacing new housing with chatbots that tell you to kill yourself 151177329
Reposted by Katie LeeRachel Courtland @rachelcourtland.com · 08/10/2026RIP to the world's first software engineer news.mit.edu/2026/margare...news.mit.eduMargaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90. 191757446
Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026My main thought was: that headline is longer than her entry. 110
Reposted by Katie LeeArrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"In fact, a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that the richest 25% of middle-aged and older Americans have similar mortality rates to the poorest 25% of Northern and Western Europeans."milbank.orgWhat the World Can Teach the United States about Aging | Milbank Memorial FundPopulations around the world are aging, and fast. Here in the United States, not only is the population getting older, but it’s doing so in the shadow of 0135
Reposted by Katie LeeCU Anschutz Center for Bioethics and Humanities @cobioethics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Let’s talk about ethics, law & reproductive health with Katie Watson, JD, a leading scholar of medical ethics and health law, as we explore what happens when changing laws reach into the clinician-patient relationship. ✨ 📅Nov. 9 | 12–1 p.m. MT 🔗 Register: bit.ly/4rHTLCh 066
Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Thanks for posting about this. Perfect timing to add it to my Intro to biological anthropology class as an "optional extra item of interest" since we're transitioning from talking about Neanderthals to Homo sapiens! 010
Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yet again, another critique or discussion of WEIRD that does not include citation of or reference to the Clancy & Davis 2019 piece. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...annualreviews.orgSoylent Is People, and WEIRD Is White: Biological Anthropology, Whiteness, and the Limits of the WEIRDWEIRD populations, or those categorized as Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic, are sampled in the majority of quantitative human subjects research. Although this oversampling is c... 020
Reposted by Katie LeeFabian Dablander @fdabl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026🔥 Our paper on techno-optimism and climate action among scientists is now published! With @colognaviktoria.bsky.social, @maiensachis.bsky.social & @jmbh.bsky.social, we studied 9,199 scientists across 115 countries. 🧵 🔗 Paper: tinyurl.com/4yb7fj97 📰 The Guardian: tinyurl.com/sy5rrbdx 24122
Reposted by Katie LeeFabian Dablander @fdabl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The Guardian also covered the study today: www.theguardian.com/environment/... with comments from @kevinclimate.bsky.socialtheguardian.comScientists who put faith in technology less likely to take climate action‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed 043
Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Advice from my book group tonight: you can do anything while crying…crying and tears are just a hydration issue. 020
Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Seeing lots of academic jobs that are "[humanities or social science discipline] & AI"...while I know jobs are hard to find, I can't help feel despair for entire crop of faculty being hired to address 1 topic because of external funding pressures. How is this gonna skew fields for the next 5-30 yrs? 000
Reposted by Katie LeeStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?” 6857841249
Reposted by Katie LeeRosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My part of NSF has been destroyed effectively. I don’t trust future congresses to understand and restore it given they misunderstand knowledge creation and reduce science to technology. And that’s across the ideological spectrum. 38236
Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I feel like a day that we are all waiting to find out if southeast Louisiana is gonna get a hurricane is a great time to suggest people write to oppose another pipeline through multiple Parishes to the much-hated LNG facility south of New Orleans. news.oilandgaswatch.org/template/bri...news.oilandgaswatch.orgoil-and-gas-watch-news 000
Reposted by Katie LeeBookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores. 2854523345
Reposted by Katie LeePress On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026For @prismreports.org, @us.theguardian.com & @enlacelatinonc.bsky.social, our fellowship coordinator, @tinavasquez.bsky.social, investigated Florida Orange Gold’s disregard for the health of their migrant farmworkers in North Carolina and Florida. Read the story at tinyurl.om/farmworkersheat. 12213
Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Thought about booking a pedicure. now I’m really thinking about the hourly rates I see academics & professionals charging for services. I don’t disagree with prices, I’m just saying…whew. Some people are over charging. Some people deserve so much more. This applies across both groups of workers. 000
Reposted by Katie LeeDanny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I love how whenever I start research for a project and come across the name of an obscure right wing mega donor then Google them and learn that every time I buy something simple like trash bags I’ve been giving money to a fascist 924878
Reposted by Katie LeePaper and Ink @paperandink.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Any one need a microfilm scanner? Our library will scrap one on Saturday. It works. All our stuff is digitized. You pay for shipping or come pick it up near Erie,PA. 77037
Reposted by Katie LeeAndrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 06/10/2026HEY NERDS NEW CAVE ART SHOW JUST DROPPED www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi...pbs.orgStone Age MasterpieceStep into the stunning cave that’s reshaping our understanding of prehistoric art. 79733
Reposted by Katie LeeAndrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 06/10/2026it is pretty hard to see prehistoric art of this kind firsthand, especially if you don't live near a geography where such art is preserved and presented to the public. But there are ways to do it (that I know of) both in the US and Europe. 68619
Reposted by Katie Leeshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of america can sort of say ‘ugh, look at these cities.’ but we are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.” 👏 👏 👏 461930438
Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I had to rent a car last weekend, and my assessment was "generally good, but I wouldn't buy a car that doesn't have tactile ways to adjust the heat/AC/defroster" 020
Reposted by Katie LeeThe BMJ @bmj.com · 01/10/2026Digital menstrual tracking risks creating more harm than benefit and these apps requires greater scrutiny, warn experts. Katharine Lee and colleagues argue that neither menstrual tracking nor "cycle syncing" have been convincingly shown to improve health or other performance measuresbmj.comDigital menstrual tracking risks creating more harm than benefitKatharine Lee and colleagues argue that digital menstrual tracking and cycle syncing pose risks to health as well as privacy and call for greater scrutiny of apps Digital menstrual tracking and cycle... 0108
Reposted by Katie LeeKevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 04/10/2026EPA systematically underestimates methane pollution from O&G infrastructure, using inventory methods that rely in part on O&G company self-reports. Based on a large body of independent measurements by third-party scientists, I estimate the US O&G industry emits the equivalent of ~1 Gt CO2 per year 2293
Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Calling it a “working kitchen” when there is so much stuff in the way made my eyes roll all the way back. Don’t store oils near heat and light. Don’t put all your utensils in the splash zone of stove. The number of people you’d need to feed in order to use that much oil before it went rancid… 110
Reposted by Katie LeeR @paderofsky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Econ dorks straying way out of their lane because "economics describes everything" will apparently go on until the heat death of the universe 0132
Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I feel deeply aggrieved when I’m told I MUST read something for research because it is So Important only to find the Must Read makes lots of claims and tries to define new terms with very few references or engagement with broader literature itself. 030
Reposted by Katie LeeArrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It's no accident that many proponents of "AI" are avowed eugenicists. 1186
Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Visiting folks I know who live in a car-centric major city and they are asTOUNDed to learn I WALK places. Despite knowing I live in a city built before cars. I am always SO ANNOYED when a basic errand *requires* I use a POV vehicle. 0151
Reposted by Katie LeeLisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Timnit Gebru: "So, for me, it’s very clear: Do not allow companies to put out unreliable products into the world, especially in high-stakes scenarios, without very specific tests and guardrails." 15112
Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Stop trying to be “helpful” and stay in your lane. You are map. Map me some shit. Don’t try to guess where I might wanna get drinks and apps and dance. I do not want to do drinks and apps and dance while out of town visiting someone at a hospital. 020
Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I just want a map to tell me if there are sidewalks in an area. Not give me “local vibes” or try to plan a weekend with ai bullshit. CAN I GO FOR A RUN??? 210
Reposted by Katie LeeBethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This contest might seem cool and interesting, who doesn’t want to know what their “biological age” or “real” age is? But I find this deeply, deeply dystopian. People “racing to biological youth” is a fundamentally deeply conservative and selfish mindset. www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/02/1...technologyreview.comA new contest pits competitors against each other in a race to biological youthAnd I'll be joining them. 2457
Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I paid more in Illinois and San Antonio. And they actually used the little lifty thingy trucks instead of picking them up by hand and slamming them on the ground and breaking them annually. 110
Reposted by Katie LeeAmyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026exhibit A in why “hacking” is just not that impressive 99% of the time 1366
Reposted by Katie LeeDr. Earyn McGee @afroherper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Last year you all helped me raise almost $4,000 in scholarship funds. I’d like to introduce you to the wonderful scientists who received a #FindThatLizard Scholarship. 🦎 16018
Reposted by Katie LeeNina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026With alt txt Just generally is great to include alt txt so everyone can read your screenshots/get a sense of what a photo is depicting! 1175
Reposted by Katie LeeGenderSci Lab @genderscilab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The hype around digital menstrual tracking represents a dangerous resurgence of essentialist claims about the menstrual cycle and women and girls’ vulnerabilities and capabilities, and this type of surveillance does not solve other inequities around menstrual health. 145