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Jess

@tiredchaotic.bsky.social
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Background in molecular neurobiology, foreground in chronic fatigue syndrome and (???). Love the Bay Area (despite it all), knitting away the ADHD, screaming into the void, my beautiful friends, and cats [Banner is a painting by Ihor Melnyk]

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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The Wells Fargo "money logic" ad campaign is 100% rage bait, and I won't be told otherwise
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
TIL luxury brands in the UK make hilariously expensive christmas crackers. Imagine opening this, and your semi-precious cufflinks or whatever go flying - one into a wine glass and one under the table, never to be seen again
asprey.com
Christmas Cracker with Pair of Sterling Silver Cocktail Straws
Christmas Cracker by Asprey reveals a pair of sterling silver cocktail straws, hallmarked and crafted for timeless sophistication.
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
*chef's kiss* for the photo. Listen, 20 years ago I was a teen girl who was *just* falling in love with neurobiology, and this man here decided to stand up as the President of Harvard and say that it was possible women were inherently worse at science. So I need everyone to hear about this
cnn.com
Larry Summers says he is ‘deeply ashamed’ after new Jeffrey Epstein emails and will pause public engagements | CNN Politics
Larry Summers said Monday night that he was “deeply ashamed” about his relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, telling CNN that he would pause all public engagements as he works ...
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
What??? Seriously, how?
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Akilla Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
Screenshot of a tweet from Joyce Carol Oates posted on Sunday, November 9th that reads "so curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates--scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. in fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. the poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
People are good -- Yesterday, I lit some candles in glass vases around my pumpkin. At some point, one vase broke - but it was too dark to properly clean up last night. When I went out today, all the glass had disappeared. And they didn't even leave a nasty note 😲
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
"Exposure to more unvetted views does not automatically bring one closer to the truth..“Disciplines do not create expert knowledge through a marketplace of ideas in which content discrimination is prohibited and in which all ideas are deemed equal” ..some ideas are better than others." #academicsky
chronicle.com
Viewpoint Diversity Is a MAGA Plot
Defenses of the policy miss the political point.
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Absolutely delightful
theguardian.com
Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid
Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
The worst, the absolute worst
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Oh my god, this explains everything
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Never miss a chance to remind people that what makes humans "special" is our ability to form effective communities
livescience.com
'We certainly weren't exceptional, but now we're the only ones left': In new PBS series 'Human,' anthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi explores how humans came to dominate Earth
In her new show, Ella Al-Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to global hegemony.
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
I scream this in my head, like, once a week, then I flop over and distract myself with the first dumb YouTube video I find - recently, (new) Smosh
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I needed this
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Responsible people exist
cnn.com
Climate.gov will re-launch under new URL thanks to a secret team of web ninjas | CNN
A small group of writers and researchers are launching an ambitious effort to preserve key climate data that the Trump administration has taken offline, including the climate.gov website.
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Yes, obviously
axios.com
A solution to declining birth rates? More supportive men, economist finds
Low fertility rates in the U.S. and around the globe pose problems for economic growth.
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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
People weren’t healthier “back in the day.” In 1960s, life expectancy was in the 60s vs. 79 today. Testicular cancer? 95% fatal. Today? 95% survivable. Same with MANY cancers. Infections. Vaccine-preventable illness. We live longer & healthier lives today bc of science. youtu.be/rDx7LrBiMH0?...
youtu.be
People were not healthier 60 years ago.
YouTube video by Andrea Love, PhD
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
HUH
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I love this show - so I'm sad, but it sounds like this will be one of the rare American TV shows that actually finishes its story with creative integrity
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Somerville is the best
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
WOW these comments tho
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
"the team gathered data from 253 populations across 121 primate species... for 70 percent of the primates, either males or females could be at the top of the pecking order"
sciencealert.com
Alpha Male Primates a Myth, Researchers Find in New Study
New research on Monday contradicted the commonly held idea that males dominate females among primates, revealing far more nuanced power dynamics in the relationships of our close relatives.
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Go Birds!💚🦅 @okoyessmile.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
“Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed House Bill 25-1149 into law earlier this month to establish comprehensive statewide #BlackHistory #education standards for K-12 public schools.” Denver 7. Good! We’ve had the Amistad law on the books here in Jersey for a while now! More states please!
New Colorado law establishes black history, education standards in public schools to commemorate Juneteenth Denver is seven books into a new state law that aims to ensure young Colorado receive a deeper understanding of black American history
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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Do you ever feel a slight vibration in, say, your thigh, and assume it's your phone, only to find your phone isn't in your pocket, and has your thigh recieved a message, and if so, how on earth are you going to access it?
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I’m convinced that people like Zuckerberg do not get/actively dislike what it means to be human and are determined to inflict their terrifyingly inhuman fantasies of technology controlling our lives on the entirety of humanity
You don’t schedule meetings, it does.
You don’t organize your travel, it has already booked it.
You don’t wonder what job to apply for, it is already editing your résumé and simulating the interview.
You don’t ask what to wear, it saw your calendar and laid out your outfit.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
There is no bond like the bond between two coworkers who are both annoyed by the same third coworker
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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
This is incredible
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
this is so real - every molecular biologist has some pathway they'll never forget because, like, it reminded them of a band name and they dissociated for a few minutes imaging what instrument each of the enzymes would play
youtube.com
Lysosomal Storage Diseases
YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken
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gnocchi dokey (she or they) @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
perhaps if we explain to them that the palestine protesters are simply socially awkward
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
A bright spot -- My brother had a hearing scheduled *this week* to help his client, a black trans woman, jump over this hurdle. And now he gets to sleep in, and incarcerated people across the country have an easier path when protecting their rights
aclu.org
Supreme Court Strengthens Access to Justice for Incarcerated People | American Civil Liberties Union
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled today that incarcerated people have the right to a jury trial on questions about whether they had access to a...
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This is in fact the situation. Thiel and his weak-minded tech VC friends haven’t made money on investments that were not overhyped borderline-frauds since 2010. (Crypto and AI were what they pivoted to.) Their field has stagnated. Life science is incredibly dynamic bsky.app/profile/pyrr...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
NEWS: Kenneth Chesebro, "architect" of the 2020 fake electors plot who pleaded to criminal charges in Georgia, has been disbarred from the practice of law in New York, per order issued today by New York appellate court.
Per Curiam. Respondent was admitted to the practice of law in this state in 2007, and he has also been admitted to practice in Massachusetts, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida and Illinois. In October 2023, respondent pleaded guilty to a single count of a multicount indictment charging him with the Georgia felony of conspiracy to commit filing false documents. Respondent's indictment had arisen in connection with his involvement, along with 16 codefendants and others, in a scheme to submit false election results to Congress concerning the 2020 presidential election. The Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department (hereinafter AGC) thereafter moved to strike respondent's name from the roll of attorneys due to his felony conviction or, alternatively,
to impose discipline upon respondent as a consequence of his commission of a "seriousORDERED that respondent is disbarred and his name is stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law of the State of New York, effective immediately; and it is
further
ORDERED that respondent is commanded to desist and refrain from the practice of law in any form in the State of New York, either as principal or as agent, clerk or employee of another; and respondent is hereby forbidden to appear as an attorney or counselor-at-law before any court, judge, justice, board, commission or other public
authority, or to give to another an opinion as to the law or its application, or any advice in
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PM-143-25 relation thereto, or to hold himself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law in
this State; and it is further
ORDERED that respondent shall comply with the provisions of the Rules for Attorney Disciplinary Matters regulating the conduct of disbarred attornevs and shal duly certify to the same in his affidavit of compliance (see Rules for Atty Disciplinary
Matters [22 NYCRR] § 1240.15).
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A story that reminds you - there are more rational people in this country than there are radical nationalists.
npr.org
Asked to flag 'negative' National Park content, visitors gave their own 2 cents instead
Signs installed earlier in National Parks earlier in June asked for feedback on signs "that are negative about past or living Americans." Comments viewed by NPR didn't provide the requested feedback.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
a political consultancy that does what now?
While identifying Jewish voters is difficult, Jerry Skurnik of Engage Voters U.S., a political consultancy that counts those with distinctive Jewish surnames, put the Jewish electorate in New York at roughly 13 percent of the city's 4.6 million active registered voters.
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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital. CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one PELOSI: Take the shot
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
"Breathe it in" by Sarah Jane Brown, contemporary Welsh land and seascape painter #WomensArt
Painting of a dramatic golden sunset or sun rise over the wet sands of an empty beach
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I would like to nominate this joke for a pulitzer
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Why is this so delightful? Like, are the birds praxis?
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VenomousGoatTV @venomousgoat.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Chat, is it a sign of strength when I need to nationalize 2000 guardsmen to get my incompetent secret police out of a parking lot?
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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 09/06/2025
A guy unprovoked points a gun at you and you're desperately, perhaps even hysterically, trying to get him to lower the gun, meanwhile trying to figure out if you can distract him long enough to disarm him, and then an Atlantic contributor walks in and says "You both need to calm down."
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
“We urge you as NIH Director to restore grants delayed or terminated for political reasons so that life-saving science can continue.” Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the “Bethesda Declaration.” 🧪
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NIH employees publish
'Bethesda Declaration' in dissent of Trump
administration policies
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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 06/06/2025
If you receive SNAP benefits as an adult, you can visit the Aquarium for free and bring up to three guests. Experience the beauty and wonder of the ocean up close. Because ocean conservation—and inspiration—should be for everyone. 💙 Learn more at mbayaq.co/4dNRIpi
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
💥 NEW: Companies that kept DEI commitments saw higher reputation scores in 2025 Patagonia Microsoft Costco Apple JPMorgan Chase Coca-Cola Procter & Gamble Kroger Netflix Delta Air Lines @axios.com reports: www.axios.com/2025/05/29/d...
axios.com
Companies that kept DEI commitments saw higher reputation scores in 2025
nclear corporate values or a lack of conviction, most recently seen through mass DEI walk-backs, can hinder reputation.
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I felt an actual sense of relief reading this. Like, finally!, that trolley that's been on a collision course my whole life? They stopped it. Heros
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
a guy holding the back of his neck

I pranked my future self by doing a chore. Future self's flare is going to be epic.
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
ACCURATE. I've left so many mysterious tableaus of half-finished tasks over the years
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I know I’ve been harping a bit on this, but a journalistic institution that would defend a patently absurd and racist claim such as “Chinese women have small fingers” rather than simply admit error and correct is fundamentally unwell.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 23/05/2025
So many white folks from blue states fail to understand that a lot of Black and brown people feel safer in red states where they are the majority and where racism happens in explicit ways, instead of in the "safe" places where white folks pretend racism doesn't exist.
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Content Scrapers Blocklist (hiatus) @contentscrapers.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Related services I recommend: @aimod.social can label or hide AI-generated images from your feed, useful for people who have trouble telling them from real photos @arttheft.bsky.social warns you of posts with stolen artwork and accounts that repeatedly post them without the artists' permission
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