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Dr. Christine Beavers

@xtalgrrl.bsky.social
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Crystallographer with far too many opinions. Shouldn't have to say these things but Black Lives Matter and Transwomen are women. She/Her

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30m
This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.
Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969. Credit: NASA/Alamy
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 11h
It feels very good to have been the editor who handled Soai's 1995 paper in Nature on autocatalytic amplification of an enantiomeric excess - now known as the Soai reaction. This seemed a curiosity at the time, but we clearly made the right call.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11h
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"This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
 
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
 
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
 
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2h
i feel this more and more every day
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Nature @nature.com · 8h
None of this year's science Nobel Prizes have gone to women. The number of these prizes to go to women remains at 27 out of more than 600. See how many you can name in our quiz: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6h
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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KD @kadeeja.blacksky.app · 5h
Got him! "For perspective, 4,500 MW is about four times the peak electricity demand of the entire city of New Orleans. May realized immediately what he had done. "I won't make you say it again," an attorney for the Union of Concerned Scientists responded." finance.yahoo.com/energy/artic...
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Entergy Louisiana CEO lets it slip on Meta's electricity demands
(The Center Square) — Entergy Louisiana CEO Phillip May accidentally disclosed Tuesday that Meta’s Richland Parish data center is expected to draw 4,500 megawatts of electricity, revealing for the fir...
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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 9h
Petition for Jamelle Bouie to replace all headline writers in the US.
YouTube. Video with title

I cannot emphasize enough that the president has pudding for brains
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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 8h
How I arrived on Bluesky
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Finn Drives Jake as a Car
Alt: A GIF from adventure time: Jake in the form of a car consumes Fin with a mouth appearing his rear trunk end. Flash cut to Finn sitting in the driver seat, looking stunned 
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Joel Cornelio @jcornelio.bsky.social · 8h
How i arrived on Bluesky
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Shawshank Crawling Through Dark Tunnel
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T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights @truahrabbis.bsky.social · 11h
Three years ago, our world was torn open. We mourn the Israelis and people of other nationalities murdered by Hamas, in their homes and at a music festival, and the hostages who never came home alive. Parents, children, grandparents, friends. Each person an entire world.
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Beth @bethpdx.bsky.social · 9h
Antiabortion Politics Blocks Research on Fibroids, Endometriosis and Breast Cancer. The Media Is Finally Paying Attention. msmagazine.com/2026/10/01/a...
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Antiabortion Politics Blocks Research on Fibroids, Endometriosis and Breast Cancer. The Media Is Finally Paying Attention.
Mifepristone is known as the abortion pill, but it has other uses most Americans have never heard about. For more than three decades, scientists have known this medication could do far more than end a...
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 9h
another year where all the science nobels went to men, as was the case in 2024 much of this piece, about the structural barriers women face in doing innovative research and receiving credit for it, holds up (I think) www.statnews.com/2024/10/11/n...
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Men won all the science Nobels this year. There's an even bigger problem
The Nobel's gender gap reflects larger barriers faced by women in science
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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 9h
"If you look at the population of — well, all people in cities, particularly people who come to cities from elsewhere, but particularly homeless and other vulnerable people in cities [...] a pretty large chunk of those people who end up in cities were failed in some other parts of this country."
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Dr. Christine Beavers @xtalgrrl.bsky.social · 9h
If you're a nerd like me, consider supporting Nerds For Literacy. Help underprivileged kids find the magic of reading! nerdsforliteracy.com
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Nerds for Literacy
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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How i arrived on Bluesky
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Surprised Raccoon in Dumpster
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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 11h
A few episodes later they do go there: that's how they imagined SPring-8 would look like in 2032 ...✍️
A sky view of the SPring-8 synchrotron in year 2032, as illustrated in the second series of the anime Ghost in The Shell (2nd GIG)
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We are aware of multiple stops conducted today by federal agents in the Madera and Fresno areas. We remind the public to stay calm, to verify information, and to exercise one’s rights, including the right to not answer questions. If detained, do not sign anything without speaking to a lawyer. 1/
We are aware of multiple stops conducted today by federal agents in the Madera and Fresno areas. We remind the public to stay calm, to verify information, and to exercise one’s rights, including the right to not answer questions. If detained, do not sign anything without speaking to a lawyer. All encounters with federal agents should be recorded and documented if it is safe to do so. Witnesses can reach out to us to share what they see or to seek help.

Chaotic, warrantless immigration raids and roving patrols spread fear and disrupt lives and livelihoods. They do not belong here; hard working immigrants do.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just did some number crunching using latest (Oct 1) ECMWF seasonal data, and I must say that I've never seen such high predictive confidence in a very wet California winter. This is a truly extraordinary forecast amid a record-strength El Niño event. [Thread: please read to end.]
Model-relative sea surface temperature anomalies for November 2026–January 2027. The supplied grid is displayed without added smoothing or coastal filling. Beige marks land and gray marks missing ocean values. The main colour scale spans -2 to +10°F, with white at zero. Hot pink marks anomalies above +10°F. This map does not establish an operational ENSO category.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Love this news but hate the "surprise comeback" framing. Teams around the globe worked incredibly hard to protect & expand mangrove forests & it worked! Please just say, "We tried and we succeeded! Go team Earth!" We must admit our victories to give people the heart to keep trying! #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 06/10/2026
In the 1950s, Lipscomb & colleagues unpicked the structures of several boranes using low-temperature x-ray crystallography, determining they shared two electrons across three atoms. This accounted for boranes’ unusual geometry & unexpected dipole moment. www.chemistryworld.com/news/fifty-y...
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Fifty years after he won the Nobel, Lipscomb’s insights into boranes continue to pay dividends
From fundamental bonding theory to practical applications, William Lipscomb's influence can still be felt across chemistry
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I absolutely LOVE learning cool new facts about the earth and sharing them with people 🤩 This year at @latitudefestival.bsky.social, @cosmicshambles.com gave me the chance to briefly talk about LLSVPs (Large low-shear-velocity provinces), areas in the Earth’s mantle that may have a 😱 origin…
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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
IceCube is very cool. Also neat to see how things have developed since the 2015 win for Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for showing that neutrinos have mass. Also, for those keeping score, we're 4:0 on the old gender split so far this year
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 06/10/2026
Heads up Eyes open www.heraldsun.com/news/nation-...
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ICE arrests father on college campus in what may be unprecedented action in California
“When ICE started showing up ... I promised my dad I would protect him. I couldn’t. I broke my promise, today.”
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Erin Purcell @erinpurcell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He looks like he’d listen to anything I say
A black-and-white cat wearing a red bow tie sits on top of a cat scratcher
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Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · 05/10/2026
From 1979-2007, Black women with bachelor’s degrees were the only group of women to maintain labor force participation rates above 80 percent. Yet, despite their high labor force participation, highly educated Black women have been—and continue to be—systematically held back from upward mobility.
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College-Educated Black Women Appear “Well-Positioned” for Labor Market Success, but Still Have Limited Opportunities for Leadership - Institute for Women’s Policy Research
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
incredible this will get little to no coverage
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wwxwashere.bsky.social @wwxwashere.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
my grandma, who raised me as if she was my mother, died today. my heart is so crushed but i am an immigrant and i can’t be there, so i’m requesting any help my family cover her funeral proceedings: ko-fi.com/wwxwashere
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Dr. Christine Beavers @xtalgrrl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm so sorry for your loss.
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Dr. Christine Beavers @xtalgrrl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#TeamRosalind forever.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
people who got angry about those buddha statues should be even angrier about this
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Listening to the racist podcast about the “Indian Question” and wow mediocre 2026 white guys jealous of an Indian with a tech job is very much the new mediocre Central Valley white guys in 1941 jealous of Japanese with a thriving farm.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Life in an ethnostate. This is normal in India, and now it's normal in my home state, which was one of the few places in India where it wasn't normal (before the BJP captured it). Lots and lots of problems in Bengal, but weekly lynchings of Muslims and attacks on churches wasn't among them.
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Having seen the Joyce Carol Oates very bad, not good tweet about romance and AI, I can't help thinking about the way that romance has been treated as a punching bag for so long and always by people who are completely unwilling to engage with the genre and know little about it.
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I am sick to death of reading sad men having bad sex in literary fiction pretending its deep. Or sad women. I am an equal opportunity hater. Give me a romance which explores kink dynamics. Which explores what asexual intimacy looks like. Which includes neurodivergence, queerness, disability
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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When I first watched Ghost in the Shell, in 2007 or so, I really wasn't ready to get this detail... #SPring-8
A screenshot from the Series Ghost in the Shell 2nd GIG, Ep. 9. During an investigation scene, the agents mention the possibility of getting samples to the Japanese synchrotron radiation facility Spring-8.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/10/2026
Americans are increasingly aware of the surveillance systems used by almost 80 percent of police departments to trace vehicles and drivers without a warrant—and they are pissed.
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Welcome to the Flock elections
Candidates across the spectrum are suddenly campaigning against the spread of license plate cameras.
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