It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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Every year this event is an expression of sheer joy and community. Science is for everyone.

Good things happening alert: Field School is running our 5th annual Drag n’ Tag event (drag queens+shark research). We run this event to raise funds for local LGBTQ+ youth org Pridelines. Enjoy these photos and donate to support their work here! donate.misselasmo.org/event/drag-n...

so much is bad right now but the AI stuff in particular is making me insane. a desperate attempt to smother all human creative labor at an absurd cost to the planet by some of the most short-sighted, rapacious, and pathetic people who have ever lived

It is truly annoying how effective just regular exercise is at helping my mental health.

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A study I did had an article written about it and then the internet turned a screenshot of that article into a meme about dick jokes. What a time to be alive! (To be clear I think this is funny)

Look at these wonderful scientists introducing themselves in the thread advertising @whysharksmatter.bsky.social @drjuliawester.bsky.social paper on the science community moving to bsky academic.oup.com/icb/advance-... Here's the top 150 in a starter pack! (use link not pic) -> go.bsky.app/At5DDri

Great article on @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and my recent paper on this phenomenon. I personally found this really interesting as a case study on why people decide to stay/leave different social settings. We live through a time when these systems and settings are in flux more than ever.

some of you need to make like travis kelce and engage with a tailor swiftly

on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic

Asking for support: www.gofundme.com/f/help-coral... I've been working w/ a local group doing dem organizing in Miami suburbs. Hoping folks will help us fundraise to launch new efforts, reach new ppl at the link. Help us fight everywhere & turn Miami blue again. Giving & shares deeply appreciated 🙏

Breaking news: A federal judge is giving Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz. The ruling forbids state officials from moving any other migrants there.

The @altmetric.com on the @whysharksmatter.bsky.social @drjuliawester.bsky.social study academic.oup.com/icb/advance-... really tells the story, doesn't it?

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

There must be something else going on here. That, perhaps, people are not voting for policy sets, but based on a vague and difficult-to-pin-down image of a candidate which is formed through their social networks and media consumption habits and has very little to do with policy at all.

Ope, found it

Wild that, having not been on this app all day, I now don’t know if this is just fun Dada-esque posting or specific commentary on some of today’s Discourse I haven’t seen yet. Time to scroll and find out!

YOU WANT TO KNOW ONE OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA You get to interact with humans you'd likely not have contact with IRL/meatspace because our worlds in meatspaces are limited by time/money/distance/access. DO YOU PEOPLE KNOW HOW FUCKING COOL IT IS HOW MANY SCIENTISTS ARE ON HERE

To trump administration personnel who are afraid to step outside in dc, I agree that it must suck to be targeted randomly in the street by a violent gang of out of control thugs who want to take things from you and your family for no good reason, and don’t respect the basics of the rule of law

When I die, please do not write an AI obituary of me *or* code an AI replica, however well-intentioned, but feel free to build a shockingly realistic rotini sculpture & then eat it at my shiva

done!

I saw a suggestion elsewhere here to carry a marker to cover this crap up where you can’t easily remove it. Going to start. Maybe some good stickers too in the purse, just in case.

Went to the curry fest in Miami tonight. In a bathroom stall someone had drawn a hate symbol. I managed to get it out w/ soap. But outside ppl were trying food from all over the world, laughing & dancing together. I believe one of these will win & it’s not the one hiding in the toilet like a bitch.

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Conservation can really work.

Y'all, I'm asking for your help with a GoFundMe I'm sponsoring. Along with other members of my local community, I'm fundraising to support a pregnant asylum-seeking Mom and her family here in central Kentucky. Every dollar helps, as does every share. Thank you thank you! gofund.me/afcd1f1a

With everything going on in the world, it can be hard to remember to make time to just be a person. Joyfully learning about something new is such a fundamental part of that.

I try to encourage the undergrads in the program I run to just try stuff. The way we structure financial aid makes this tough for some and almost all of them think they are behind their peers which can really sap the joy out of the learning and exploration.

I tried to take one random/art-y class a semester when I was in undergrad and dance therapy was super fun. I also took an honors non traditional sculpture class where I made an egg-looking chair (you sat inside).

maybe I *should* get tiktok

two most talented people in TV whose careers never really took off

Just gave. Please consider helping if you can. Right now is an incredibly important time. Right now.

Dudes rock

Sigh, Florida’s got enough troubles.

I once caught myself “clicking” on a word in a paperback to look it up and had to hang my head in shame

“What do you get for the man who has everything?” A large enough pile of linear algebra to drive him literally insane, I guess

WHAT FUCKIN IRB AUTHORIZED ALL THIS

We see these in Miami all the time and I still don’t know what they’re called but my friends and I call it “chair-a-sailing”. I always feel like they are about to crash into a bridge or something.

Paper ACCEPTED- in time for me to mention that it's been accepted when I present on it at my conference next week. Shiffman, D.S. and @drjuliawester.bsky.social (2025). "Scientists no longer Twitter professionally useful, and have switched to Bluesky." Integrative and Comparative Biology. 🧪 #SciComm

The academic’s mid-summer crisis is a mid-life crisis in miniature: You realize summer is half gone, & not only that: you see that the longest & least burdened days came early, & they are well past. You compare all you thought you’d do against the days remaining & grieve for what never will be

They loved their country not for what it was, but for the hope of what it could yet become. Believed in it not for the government it had, but the government they hoped would replace it. A nation great not because it was the strongest power of the age, but openly standing against that power

I was once told to date men who are good with cats because it demonstrates they understand consent

“We are witnessing a capitalist class so drunk on its own power that it has become incapable of recognizing its own interests…So contemptuous of the institutions that created their wealth that they are destroying the conditions that make capitalism possible.” open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

Her: Why didn't you do the dishes? Me: Dishes are a distraction. We need to focus on the real issue, the vacuuming that I am also not doing.

Writing is thinking.