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@ruthdoesscience.bsky.social
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Scientist, human being. She/her. Originating from Wales, now living in the Pacific Northwest.

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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Wanting to live somewhere with only single family houses is so weird. Do these people genuinely want to drive to buy a soda or a coffee. It's so boring. Why live in a city at all
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A great time to explore king county libraries - we're so lucky in Seattle to get access to two systems. I find most holds process faster through king county, which I blame on Seattlites' voracious reading habits
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I know the signs were a whole thing and I don't understand them. We can ... see that it's a working market? That's what all the stands and shops and people indicate
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Stepping back, many many undocumented people in the US work and pay taxes, whether with or without an SSN. This is the most normal Yiannopoulos has ever seemed. Getting immediately dumped back on the UK and not tortured lengthily still speaks to his special boy status though
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It's only now sinking in for me how horrifying it is that he may have been awarded an O visa. Many academic scholars struggle to get these. He might be lying about it
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"Yiannopoulos said in 2017 after resigning as an editor from Breitbart News he owned an O-1 visa, which works as a temporary work permit for people with “extraordinary ability". He certainly is extraordinarily vile...
forbes.com
Milo Yiannopoulos Detained By ICE In New Orleans
Yiannopoulos has become increasingly critical of the Trump administration after backing it during President Donald Trump’s first term.
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Yes what I'm suggesting is that authorization can expire. I said SSNs are provided with nonimmigrant work visas
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
People on nonimmigrant work visas still get SSNs. The card has a disclaimer "not valid without work authorization" or similar. Lots of working relationships don't check further. You can create an LLC or just ask to be paid in your name.
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I thought being irked by crime, demography, and religion was what conservatism was mainly about
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This book is in my top 10 of all time
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It's unclear how many of the local drivers shopping for groceries are even in the habit of driving down this weird tiny street full of pedestrians and not just using the garage. Where's the survey question "when you drive to the market do you prefer to park insanely or just be normal about it?"
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Shockingly misguided for @us.theguardian.com to publish this, particularly without citations to whatever "evidence" is being discussed. Weird that a serious scientist would even want to publish this as opinion. He's probably got a shitty book coming out
theguardian.com
The Fauci hearing was painful to watch. But we need answers on Covid-19’s origin| David Relman
Despite the recent hearings in Congress, we seem to be even further from the goal of understanding Covid-19’s origin’s than we have ever been
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson.
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I was once asked how I survived a childhood in a house with only stoves for heat. As though humans were beamed down to earth in about 1975
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I think the title should begin with the word "No" if they don't want people to think an association was found
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Is this why people won't walk either? Because they are not aware of the concept of gloves?
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
But then this is the same paper claiming JD is America's most powerful Catholic
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Tony Blair is Catholic
theguardian.com
The UK has its first Catholic PM – but don’t expect a US-style religious culture war to follow
Trump administration has clashed with Vatican on social issues but Burnham’s faith is shaped by different principles
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Trains are the future of transportation
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The King In The North
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I mean those bollards look top notch
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Not to mention that many vertebrates can reproduce asexually by parthenogenesis
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
And to those who pooped their pants, we salute you also. Good show all round
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Rosalind Franklin's estate should sue for unauthorized use of likeness. Pretty sure they didn't ask permission openai.com/gpt-rosalind/
openai.com
GPT-Rosalind
GPT-Rosalind is a life sciences research model that reasons across biology, data, evidence, and tools to accelerate scientific discovery.
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
They brought the most adorable truck to fix the problem. I am not as sure about why they are holding onto the car. Offering it comfort?
king5.com
Car removed from elevated light rail tracks in Seattle
A car drove onto the elevated Mount Baker Station light rail tracks on June 2. Crews removed the car by towing it back down the tracks.
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/... some good snark here
reddit.com
From the SeattleWA community on Reddit: Mt Baker light rail station
Explore this post and more from the SeattleWA community
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A great way to avoid getting fired is to utterly refuse to do the work you're paid to do 🤔
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Seattle is dying so all the shoppers in the new Barnes and Noble downtown must be ghosts
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
How does it cost like 185 million to build a platform? What else does an at grade infill station need?
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...
thedreydossier.substack.com
I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
That Emerald piece has to be satire
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
God I'd love to be king of Seattle
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Same
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I'll add that in Seattle we put a train down the middle of I-90, unclear to me why they think the only thing you can put on a road is a bus
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
What if they added a kind of ridge along which the wheels of the bus have to travel and even added a lot of buses all strung together in a row
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
They could close off through traffic with big concrete planters and only allow car access to that little section like on the healthy streets (which also need much better traffic calming - through traffic is still super common in those)
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
There might be some houses that I missed. Still think we should close it to cars.
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Let's just close it to cars permanently. I thought there were houses that could only be reached by car using this road but looking at the satellite I don't think that's true for the closed section. I then don't understand what the issue is even for homeowners.
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A scene almost straight out of Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The obvious solution to traversing a longish suburb with many quiet streets in order to ride a train. If those spots fill, it's pretty trivially cheap to build more bike parking.
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
32 bike room spaces 24 bike locker spaces 50 bike rack spaces
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Become a standard stand stan!
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
More people need to be Feral For Justice
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Is there any legal requirement for SDOT to care what the preservation board says?
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It implies they see getting elected as window dressing and that the front door to power is opened for them by their super rich friends
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Thank you. I did notice that. It seems to have been happening for a couple of months, by my (quite unreliable) recollection
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
They were anti EU for decades, never covering the European Parliament or anything interesting that the EU did. Resulted in people thinking they were being dominated by Europe and had no say. Nobody could name their MEP. Tabloids loved it
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
There is no evidence of opinion polarization or even really polling on any issues anywhere in this article. There is a very superficial roundup of some major events. There's not even an anecdotal discussion of people disagreeing!
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Really frustrating. Being supportive of people who run people over seems like a crazy bad look
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Ruth @ruthdoesscience.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I think they overextended with "Museum"
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