Meanwhile @dutchbroscoffee.bsky.social over here pushing me notifications addressed to NOG HOGS

A Team-Up of Screw-Ups Upsell Red Cups I'm here all week to fix your headlines. www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/f...

Rolling through a misty day on the highway between Kennedy School and home after brunch, full of local roasted coffee and pumping Chappell Roan. It's the PNW Queer Millennial version of American Gothic.

Doing something I’ve dreamed of for years as a Portlander: staying the night at McMenamins Kennedy School. Man, drunk people outside are loud, but it was so cool to get to snack and soak and chill in this old schoolhouse tonight.

If you want to do one meaningful thing this week to make the world an even marginally better place: it's Give!Guide time! Portland-based nonprofits are asking for your year-end (tax deductible) donations (and there are some prizes and incentives for donating, too, win-win)! giveguide.org

New preprint alert! The uterus expands ~500-fold in pregnancy, yet we know little about how pressures are sensed. Led by @yunxiao-dr.bsky.social, we show PIEZOs are required for contractions and birth in mice, with dual roles of PIEZO1 in muscle and PIEZO2 in neurons www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What do you say to someone who responds to how you're feeling about everything with "I’m trying to not watch the news more than 5-10 min a day. I try to stay in my own little world and believe that all is good." They admit that it's naive. I feel...frustrated, and I don't know what to say to them.

If you vote to conceal the files, you should be investigated for complicity. If you vote for those who would hide the truth, you support pedophilia. No room for argument. Get in or get gone. Hard line. www.politico.com/live-updates...

North Dakotans, assemble, for SCIENCE!!!! #NorthDakota #LongCovid

A literal day-in-science snapshot: using a cheap digital microscope to see if it'd be better for doing and teaching mouse surgeries than a traditional stereoscope. The wire on the left is about the diameter of a jugular, while the tip on the right is about that of a carotid. Should work!

How? How will you hold them accountable? What on earth could you do in December that you couldn't have done RIGHT NOW?

My smart and funny husband @royalpdx.bsky.social guested on Retconversations to discuss the storyline of the comic Stumptown! Great listen, up on Apple/Spotify/podcast platforms now. @gregrucka.com @matthewsouthworth.bsky.social #comics podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

The planetary earrings made me gasp out loud. Go get you some goodies!

Just finished the F1 recap on YouTube and this was suggested...the longer you look at this, the better it gets. CLEETUS SAYS IT ENDED BAD

To Trump, I quote the Mooninites. @aquateenwiki.bsky.social @adultswimcentral.com

"Fall off roof into superhero pose: no problem. Jump twice in the air, MASQUERADE SHATTERED." - @royalpdx.bsky.social playing the new Vampire game

Taking frame and art measurements for gifts and decor, including these D&D suggestive beauts by @valentinebarker.com with a very familiar model...

Busting out the good stuff to say farewell and good riddance to James Watson.

Oh holy shit. I don't celebrate deaths...but for Watson? I'm definitely having whiskey tonight. And singing FWAC by @pdxbroadsides.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLvh...

My graduate advisor is guest teaching the pancreas section to my physiology students. For those of you who know Terry, he's already done two Mormon swears. "Bolshevik" count is at 1. #TeamPlacenta

Subway Sandwich Artists: you have been summoned to defend freedom.

GET YOUR FREE ANTIBODIES HERE. I got both the flu and COVID boosters a few weeks ago. Your turn.

Portland Japanese Garden doing it’s Fall display! Note: no water in the waterfall due to power outage #pdx

I'm having one of those weeks where absolutely nothing is straightforward. I just want to complete a task today where there are no additional snarls, just getting into it, getting it done, and being accomplished. I just burst into very frustrated tears about how stymied I'm feeling.

I love sinking hours into a class only to second guess myself based on phrasing and get the question entirely wrong. Only 5 more weeks of this course. Then it's one seminar and a class to go, and this terrible choice for further education is over. But I get another hood. Because they can't STOP ME.

I particularly like the track line labeled "STRING PLAYERS WHO JUST DRANK 4 CUPS OF COFFEE" @solcita.sunnie.org @stealthcello.bsky.social @infamousfiddler.bsky.social

I want to celebrate last night's very pro Democratic election news, but at the same time Adelita Grijalva @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social has still not been sworn in, ICE is still in #PDX, and little kids are being held apart from their parents. We're still deeply, deeply fucked as a nation.

Speaking of @startswithabang.bsky.social's talk: wanna study JWST data? #sciontap #scicomm #astronomy

Small bits of hope. ❤️❤️❤️

Meant to bump this but we are SOLD OUT and actually needed extra seats!!!

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

The reason 42 million Americans are on SNAP is because employers aren’t paying living wages.

The insulin patent was sold for $1 to ensure it would always be available to anyone who needs it. It should be free, and healthcare should be a basic human right guaranteed to everyone.

I'm delighted to be emceeing this SciOnTap event tomorrow night with presenter, astrophysicist, #scicomm writer, and all-around badass @startswithabang.bsky.social. Won't you join us at the Kiggins? www.scienceontaporwa.org/events/kiggi...

Teen Vogue has had more guts to dissect and expose the truth when so many veteran media outlets have bent their knees to a criminal despot and his regime and this news is absolutely appalling and unacceptable

A little party wants to kill everybody.

I got to teach physiology dressed as Ms. Frizzle and take the sweetest Ginny the Superkitty out to trick or treat twice in a week, so Halloween kicked ass as far as I’m concerned. ♥️

Halloween with OHSU Neph and CPB faculty! @beattylab.bsky.social @rose-hill.bsky.social

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Here is a comprehensive list of why people on SNAP, are on SNAP: 1. They need food assistance. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

Some are mad because people are on SNAP and not working. I’m mad because people are on SNAP even though they are working.

If you make 130% of the federal poverty level, you qualify for SNAP. A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify. I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.

Change one letter, ruin a candy Stickers!

Some people don’t have family to feed them Some lack access to a church that will accept them Personal responsibility isn’t the solution to hunger Many SNAP recipients work. 1.3 million are active duty military The problem is low wages & high cost of living Tax the billionaires. Feed the hungry

Watched season finale of Lego Masters while building a Halloween bus with Huds. In 5 seasons, I have agreed with winner choice only once. Tonight one of the finale builds was so technical and emotional it made me CRY, and it came in second. Now with Nick Cannon as new host, I think I'm finally out.

Note that it's local businesses who are stepping up. Your neighbors who are operating on thin margins. Where the hell are WalMart, Kroger, Amazon, and the other giants? Who should get your dollar after this?

Note: it's Democrats suing for release of funds. Dems are feeding families.

Donald Trump deleted this from the government website. Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.

Yes, they’re using the shutdown to turn off SNAP benefits. No, they don’t have to.