Reposted by Violet.Barbiewithatude @barbiewithatude.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Don't know who needs to hear this, but building courage is like building muscle. Using it for small things and incrementally increasing amounts helps you when it comes time for the bigger stuff. 1409
Reposted by Violet.Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 20/04/2025In the last interview of his life (1996), astronomer Carl Sagan gave an eerily prescient warning of the dangers that come when you cannot ask skeptical scientific questions of those in authority. Watch and ask yourself: was he right? 25863358
Reposted by Violet.David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Seems like we’re having a “great new people should run for office” chat again. Awesome! However: I have yet to be convinced that “more scientists in office” is a better outcome for science than “people who are talented politicians who understand and value science and listen to their advisors.” 3555558
Reposted by Violet.Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Just trying to get my head around the absolute gutting of cdc and nih today. A bleak day for the US and …. well staying alive longer than people did in the 19th century. 23292902041
Reposted by Violet.Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 02/04/2025If students learn anything from a psychology class, it should be how to evaluate whether something is pseudoscience or not. Otherwise, people fall victim to scams ("use these magnets on your wrists to 'improve your energy flow'"). 3/6 131
Reposted by Violet.Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 29/03/2025You may have seen that the incoming NIH director and his buddies started a new journal, The Journal of the Academy of Public Health (One clue: There is no recognized Academy of Public Health) www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgNew journal co-founded by NIH nominee raises eyebrows, misinformation fearsThe Journal of the Academy of Public Health claims to open up scientific communication. But its unusual editorial policies have some scientists concerned 13245123
Reposted by Violet.Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 27/03/2025Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now. 7613937610877
Violet. @socialfairy.bsky.social · 26/03/2025My childhood best friend passed away a few days ago. I don’t know how to deal with this kind of grief. She was so young, didn’t even finish uní. I feel like I’ve been floating aimlessly for the past few days ever since I found out. What do you mean Im alive and can move my body and hers is cold??? 000
Reposted by Violet.PBS News @pbsnews.org · 25/03/2025"Every bit of additional warming makes things worse, but conversely, every bit of warming that we can prevent makes things better," Michael Mann, the director of the Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media at the University of Pennsylvania, told Ali Rogin.buff.lyEarth is ‘perilously close’ to a global warming threshold. Here’s what to knowThis past week, the EPA said it is reconsidering the scientific finding that greenhouse gases are a danger to public health. This comes as research shows average global temperatures in 2024 likely… 425070
Reposted by Violet.Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 24/03/2025honestly a leaked group chat filled with NSC principals is way funnier than anything I ever came up with as a model UN crisis director 627621
Reposted by Violet.Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025We are getting closer and closer to irreversible climate catastrophe. 2024 was the warmest year on record. It also saw higher than expected sea level rise and the highest sea levels since we began tracking this information in 1993. The time for climate action is now! 4949486
Reposted by Violet.Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Just heard that Trump is putting an end to atmospheric monitoring site NY67 that is run out of my lab. This is one of the oldest NADP sites in the US, continually measuring acid rain and other pollutants since 1977. Closing it down is tragic. 712487983
Reposted by Violet.David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 16/03/2025People might think that whatever destruction is done to science in the US, we can undo in 4 years with a Democratic president and Congress. The problem is that many areas require specialized knowledge and skills built up over years, and once that's lost, it's hard to get back. 9035481037
Reposted by Violet.🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Having a pet is the closest one can get to living in a cartoon. 41046
Reposted by Violet.David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/03/2025It's difficult to recommend anyone visit the US these days.ctvnews.caCanadian woman who was detained in U.S. immigration jails returns to VancouverAfter a dozen days being shuffled between detention centres in the U.S., Jasmine Mooney has made it back to Vancouver. 24535127
Violet. @socialfairy.bsky.social · 17/03/2025I cannot in good mind just read a good article & keep thinking about just the article alone. I get so interested in the author. I try to look up more of their work. Who is their muse ? Does their soul reflect their writing ? I have more questions than answers.i get so fascinated by their existence. 000
Violet. @socialfairy.bsky.social · 16/03/2025My exam is about 24 days away, and panic has set in, in its full glory and everything and Im ever so grateful because picking my phone up to give myself breaks make me so annoyed, I want to procrastinate on taking breaks by studying more. Reached that part of exam season. 010
Reposted by Violet.Lua Stardust at HOME @luastardust.com · 16/03/2025Every time I think I’m okay this week I am not. Grief sucks 293847
Reposted by Violet.K'eeg @armormodekeeg.blacksky.app · 15/03/2025current world events have made me desperate to just see and hug every friend I've ever made on the internet because literally all I really want to do with my life is love people I think 725052
Violet. @socialfairy.bsky.social · 16/03/2025I still find it hard to emotionally regulate sometimes, and just holding on to those reins of emotions drain me and it takes my all to do so, this only makes me want to treat kids kinder. They experience emotions bigger than themselves and do not have the tools to self regulate. 000
Violet. @socialfairy.bsky.social · 16/03/2025I always try my best to distance myself from people who hate kids or babies. Yes babies are going to cry, they are probably experiencing the most traumatic thing ever in their 2 days of existence. What happened to compassion? Where is your empathy? 000
Violet. @socialfairy.bsky.social · 16/03/2025When I see the American scientific community announcing accomplishments or see that they are extremely close to finding cure/ solving an issue,I feel so gutted knowing that the lack of funds would make it harder to continue & sure enough, the next tweet talks about loss of funds. 000
Reposted by Violet.Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 15/03/2025Every once in a while criticisms of American foreign policy are met with an insistence that actually the US does a lot of good in the world, citing work by organizations like USAID. The current administration seems determined to completely destroy that argument. 11313310
Reposted by Violet.Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 15/03/2025The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB 22995025309
Reposted by Violet.Skellyton 🦇 @infinitefinite.blog · 14/03/2025I need to find a job so I can maintain my cats' standard of living 419437
Violet. @socialfairy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Math can be fun when it’s a silly thing you do but not when you are being graded. 000
Reposted by Violet.greg @mistergeezy.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I suggest you go outside and touch the grass. Hell will be still waiting for you when you get back. 3389
Violet. @socialfairy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025I decided to start researching and conducting literature reviews as a hobby again, just to stimulate my brain. It’s been doing wonders. I already feel alive again. 000
Reposted by Violet.Slime 💚🧪 @capernica.bsky.social · 15/03/2025If you need me I’ll be rotating in bed like a gas station hot dog cause I can’t get comfortable enough to sleep. 922627
Violet. @socialfairy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025I feel like we as a society could try reducing violence and wars by promoting the idea of taking more naps. 000
Violet. @socialfairy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025How do I get a degree in cat communication? How do I join their world ? What is it that they know that makes them think it’s perfectly reasonable to nap all day and embrace silliness ? How do I respect my body like that. 000
Reposted by Violet.Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 15/03/2025I’m struck by how close we’re getting to finally curing some of the world’s worst diseases—sickle cell, Alzheimers, pancreatic cancer, etc.—at the same time that the world’s worst people are destroying medical research and care around the world. 105100712984
Violet. @socialfairy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025You cannot help but feel so hopeless everyday when you try to stay up to date with the news. I know news has a tendency to amplify all the negative stuff, inducing fear and what not but really, it’s so tiring. 000
Reposted by Violet.Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Been reading a little mythology and it seems like one of the main cross-cultural themes is, “do not, under any circumstances, get on a boat.” 660222611222
Reposted by Violet.Samuel @samuel.fm · 14/03/2025hungry, but stuck in the underworld? try 6 to 12 pomegranate seeds. you will certainly not regret 6 to 12 pomegranate seeds 1553575
Violet. @socialfairy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Every time I make mistakes in questions I presume that it was within my capability to solve, I cannot help but think of dunning- Kruger effect and feel rather silly. 010
Violet. @socialfairy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025My life is a playground between me either underestimating or overestimating my abilities. 000
Reposted by Violet.Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Gotta say living through these wacky times have really shattered any long term goals or even any illusions of "where I should be" at this point of my life. We truly are going day by day, for better and for worse. 18875112
Reposted by Violet.Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 13/03/2025Good morning!! Remember that the only way to get bullies to leave you be is to stand up to them. 13690106
