Look at this fun thing we made! For fun! Because the world is on fire but music and friends are JOY. @tmbg.bsky.social @pdxbroadsides.bsky.social

There are #scicomm and #sciart folks available for hire!!!

From my lab notebook on this day 5 years ago. A 5 minute wash got a little extended thanks to insurrection. #Jan6 #NeverTrump #science

Planners: I'm looking at a few for the year and having trouble deciding which one I really love. Wants: month and week/daily view at the same time would be grand, very much a list girl, a tracker for a few daily/several times a week tasks, portable, cost under $40

Here's the adult vaccination recommendations as of Nov 2024. Why did I save these? Because I knew someone was going to try to stomp on this, and not today, Satan. Not today. #CDC #vax #vaccines #getvaxxed

This morning I discovered I locked my keys in my lab two weeks ago, back before I got sick and had to WFH, then took vacation. But @royalpdx.bsky.social and I have been playing escape rooms on XBox so I figured out a way in. THANKS GAMES!

Rebagling this because the need is still great….and the wall is about to fail.

My 3 year old went to the store with my husband and brought home sushi to share with his mama. He loves it, and uses chopsticks! He accidentally got a tiny bit of wasabi on a piece of his sushi. OH BOY. (He's fine, just kept swigging water and going "IT'S TOO SPICY" for a minute)

If anyone wants to buy me a drink on day, I'll tell you a story of what fulminant meningitis looks like as it kills a 4 y/o in real time. What the actual fuck, Bob? Killing kids must be your plan, then. For those of you who haven't had a worm eat your brain, the correct answer is THIS vax sequence

Here's the adult vaccination recommendations as of Nov 2024. Why did I save these? Because I knew someone was going to try to stomp on this, and not today, Satan. Not today. #CDC #vax #vaccines #getvaxxed

Here are the child vaccine recommendations as of November 2024. Keep them with you, advocate for your kids, get the vaccines they need to stay healthy and promote immunity for the whole community. #Health #CDC #vax

Saw a Cybertruck in the wild the other day with one of those "I bought this before Elon was crazy" stickers on it. My middle finger got an upgrade yell: "NO YOU DIDN'T" Elon bought Twitter in Oct 2022. The first Cybertrucks were released in Nov 2023. YOU KNEW. And you continue to know.

Toddler asked for Little Vampires book by @rhicks.bsky.social. As we were getting ready for bed, I asked if he remembered what Little Vampires eat. "Blood lemon juice!" Close, it's blood oranges, but now I wonder about blood lemonade...

Finally watching the new episode of RPDR US season 18. RuPaul calling GLOBAL ALL STARS WINNER Alyssa Edwards "Alicia" is...just beautiful. Beautiful.

You know when you used to really like an author until it finally dawns on you that he describes ALL of his female characters by attractiveness first (and they're always attractive) and never the men and it just gives you the ick? When that author self-pubs a novella, it's gonna be 10 times worse.

Now that they’ve started a war I’ve completely forgotten that they’re pedophiles.

I woke up to my husband exclaiming "OH MY GOD" which caused automatic fight-or-flight and it was the news and now I'm anxious, extremely grumpy, and mad as hell at basically everyone in charge for letting Ol' Yeller maul ANOTHER country.

Huddy is very interested in D&D...but not pants. @royalpdx.bsky.social running a mixed age one-shot today and it's gone very well!

Wake up, bestie, new scientific index just dropped so you have new ways to judge your productivity #scicomm

Someone who is usually pretty reliable sent me TWO stories about famous celebrities pledging money towards media to find missing women, and both were unfounded (easily discoverable by a search), so this is only going to get worse. Cite and check sources.

On the second day of the New Year, I made two playlists for the one-shot D&D campaign my husband is running for his cousin, his cousin's wife, their kid, and our neighbor and her kid. One of them is called "Witchy D&D Spa." May 2026 vibe primarily like this.

20 years ago today, at 11:11 AM, I got off a plane in Portland and a guy asked if he could kiss me hello. So I asked him the same this morning. Happy official dating anniversary, @royalpdx.bsky.social. 20 years. Here's these young kids about 6 months in, working the Rose Festival as pirates.

Home in time to get into pajamas and cram myself under a table. No grapes, M&Ms count, right? #HappyNewYear

So. We decode to do NYE commute "smart." We drive to a @trimet.org park and ride. First: no regular tickets. Gotta pay $3 for a card for fare. Each. Plus fare. Then there was a lady lying in the parking lot waiting with several people for AAA. Then, three stops in: bridge breakdown.

Literally the longest block of closed captioning I've ever seen courtesy of Drag Race Canada. I alt texted it and I need a breather.

Happy almost new year. I wrote about my old one, ready to take its final, hopefully gentle, bow and ushering in the new.

New post: 2025 In Review jesshebert.beehiiv.com/p/2025-in-re...

It's New Year's Eve Eve which means only one thing... (thanks to @bellafortunate.bsky.social for the reminder how judgey this birb is)

Academics never really take vacations which is why I didn't even bother setting my out of office. Everything is always urgent. That paper that's been looming all term whispers this is the perfect time. I'm resting (had to, been sick), but until you're a full Professor, this is how it is.

I entertained and distracted a scared-to-fly stranger next to me on a short flight with placenta and biology facts. As we were leaving, she said, "Sean Penn was sitting behind us and laughing the whole time. Thank you."

Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

See also: herd immunity and getting vaccines. Anytime you do something to protect community health, you are doing a service. Some people, particularly right-wing folks, are me-mentality and not we. They are not your friends.

It's not a requirement, you know. I like big butts and I *can* lie.

This is the unifying ethos on the right, along with "but fine for me to hate you"

The only thing on my to do list today is to finish eating the kringle, so everything else is a glorious bonus. Currently: Spinal Tap II and reading This Book is Dangerous by Ben Clanton with my boy. It's beautiful.

Our toddler cuddled up to @royalpdx.bsky.social and said, "I love you all the day." My heart.

HUDDY. YOU MUST FIGHT YOUR FATHER.

Every time someone asks me, "Why did you start your project asking how *both* parents affect pregnancy after kidney dysfunction?": this is why!

SANTA WAS HERE GUYS

Fell asleep waiting for Santa after watching Lego Star Wars Holiday and Lego Frozen. ❤️ Merry Christmas.

heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!

WHOA. Portland institution Acropolis is up for sale. Steaks and strippers. You could get a filet mignon with a baked potato the size of your head and salad bar for $15 (tips to dancers not included). This might be the sign of the end times. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

Just entered final grades for the first time as head instructor of a graduate course. It's a surreal moment. My goal for more than 20 years has been to teach and do research and...I'm doing that thing.

My friend Sarah: "I am in the Winn Dixie on Yulee Island where two elderly women, drunk off their asses were both driving motorized shopping carts, terrorizing customers and speeding into and toppling food displays. They were also belching and high fiving each other. Magnificent." #goals

"Because getting to my summit: girl, good luck. I’m like Everest, littered with corpses who didn’t quite make it to the top."

Sometimes you have the kind of day where you just send your Pomodoro group/friends every one of the Never Say No to Panda cheese commercial gifts you can find. "PANDA RAGE!" *gif gif gif* If you haven't seen them...Happy Holidays, here's a thread.

I want to go be wonderfully Broadway holiday camp gay somewhere in Portland and have a sad now thinking about all the places that would be perfect for this that have closed in the last few years. Maybe Darcelle's would let us bring cookies?

Happy Christmas Adam to all the men's rights activists as you come just before Christmas Eve. May you finally have Your Moment celebrated appropriately: the least impressive day of this whole week and nobody cares. #ChristmasAdam

no, it doesn’t really comfort me that the dumbest most evil people alive have a billion times more power than i do.

I took a rough class this term in biomedical informatics. It was a ton of mental work. I toughed it out despite wanting to quit at several points. Quizzes: 90% Final term paper: 98% Final exam: 94% Class participation should be 100% so...that's an A. A seminar and a class left for the Masters.