I completed the #RunDisney Chills and Thrills Challenge with @hillingsama.bsky.social @eviefire.bsky.social @courtofcosplays.bsky.social and others last weekend! We ran in #TwistedWonderland / #Twst cosplays and went to Disneyland and CA Adventure to celebrate 🎃

Took the fledgling to do the half marathon 😄😁 he did just fine ~ 🦇 @hillingsama.bsky.social 🐉 @geekycuriosities.bsky.social #twstcosplay #runDisney

A friend gave me this adorable handmade Prof. Divus Crewel plushie at #AnimeExpo! ☺️ I'm bringing it with me whenever I cosplay him in the future. It was clearly made with a lot of passion for #TwistedWonderland / #twst!

An amazing pic of @hillingsama.bsky.social and me as Prof. Trein and Prof. Crewel from Twisted Wonderland! We took it at the Aniplex 20th anniversary booth at Anime Expo. Pic is by our friend Mari. #twst #twistedwonderland #AnimeExpo #AX2025 #cosplay #disney

The Phainon and Mydei bath scene, performed live at the Honkai Star Rail panel at Anime Expo! 🤣 •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #hsr #honkaistarrail #starrail #animeexpo #ax2025

I'm close to the front of the Ai Gate with Ei! 😁 (South Hall line.) I'm attending main event panels all day today at #AnimeExpo. #AX2025 #AX

Yae Miko got Ei out of the house to see the American #AnimeExpo anime festival! This is an actual Texan hat too from the Wimberly store in Round Top ☺️ #GenshinImpact #YaeMiko #RaidenShogun

I'm excited to go to the #ZenlessZoneZero / #ZZZero cosplay meetup today at #AnimeExpo!

This is my official time from running my first half marathon yesterday at the #RnRSanDiego event! I did the Jeff Galloway walk-jog method and walked up steep hills to keep myself injury-free because my longest training run was only 6.5 miles 😅 I'll be fully prepped for the RunDisney 🎃 Half!

Thanks to the walk-jog Galloway Method (and walking up Hillcrest Hills 😉) I finished my 1st half marathon despite only having training runs up to 6.5 miles! I almost gave up on the SD Rock 'n' Roll Half because DOGE laid me off in January, but I'm so glad I persisted! Next: the RunDisney 🎃 Half!

I'm deeply disturbed by RFK Jr saying that US medical researchers should publish in "state-run" journals. Before I was laid off by DOGE, my job was a combo of Asta in #HonkaiStarRail and Alhaitham in #GenshinImpact, and I used to teach like Crewel in #twst. I managed research studies at a hospital.

... Or so he says, ignoring the catlike creature on the other side of the room 😹 #TwistedWonderland #twst #DivusCrewel

Prof. Crewel's 3rd 🔥 move is so satisfying 😁 He crits and allows the teammates to crit too! Poor Malleus failed his exam here; better luck next time, Hornton #TwistedWonderland #twst

The #TwistedWonderland English translators / localizers did a fantastic job at showing Prof. Crewel's biting sarcasm. Here are a few rare history lesson lines where he pokes at Prof. Trein. 😂 The story behind this is that NRC staff can take lessons too for professional development. #twst

Hello puppies, I have groovied Prof. Crewel, set him to his 🌿 duo spell and his 3rd 🔥 spell, and leveled up his friendships as much as I could with 🫖. Best of luck in your battles! (Also, I've always headcanoned that he's a werewolf, and... maybe he is? He growls! 😮) #twst #TwistedWonderland

Hello, puppies! Prof. Divus Crewel is my favorite #TwistedWonderland character! I'm so excited that I was able to fully uncap him with my meticulously saved rolls and SSR perfumes as a F2P player. Good luck with your Arcane Combat drills, and you may call upon me for assistance, if you wish. 🐾

No matter what con I go to, I always end up with yet another bag, hat, and an art print. This time, it's a new flute bag, a hat from Wimberly in Round Top, and a 90-yr-old Texas A&M postcard from a raffle at the World Shakuhachi Festival 😂 #shakuhachi #TAMU #texas

I'm looking forward to attending the World #Shakuhachi Festival tomorrow at Texas A&M / #TAMU! This is a song that we'll be learning in their music department. Shakuhachi are Japanese vertical flutes that are somewhat like recorders and clarinets.

🍊's tariffs are horrible for figure collecting. For example, when I preordered the #Bloodborne doll #nendoroid, she was $55.99. Now she's 69.99, which is more than a 25% increase from the original price! #videogames #fromsoftware

I found the UCSD eucalyptus grove trail, and it's also a fitness test! #TwistedWonderland cosplayers, if you come here for SDCC, this would be an amazing spot for PE class cosplay photoshoots. Imagine Coach Vargas having NRC students do fitness tests at the stations and jog in between them 😂 #twst

My favorite part of the #TwistedWonderland / #twst guest room feature is that we can get ridiculous fights like Ruggie vs Headmaster Crowley 😆 Really, Ruggie? During your birthday month???

"Non, non, Monsieur Pommette and Roi du Poison, you mustn't fight—" 🍎 "AHHHHH!" 👑 #TwistedWonderland #cosplay #Pomefiore #EpelFelmier #VilSchoenheit #Disney #twst

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to bluesky

Thank you #TwistedWonderland devs for putting my 2 fave students on the same banner! They both came home in my first set of 10 rolls—best luck I've had in #twst so far 🎉 I have so many #JamilViper cards now that I got the cunning 🐍 achievement 😂 #disney #VilSchoenheit

I volunteered at San Diego Rocket Con! I helped #pokemon voice actor Michael Haigney with his autograph signings, and I also helped manage Kevin Eastman's autograph line. I also met Keith Silverstein and got a signed holographic #GenshinImpact Zhongli print! 😁

In case this helps, this is approx. what I sent to CA senators via online form letters re the #cloture vote and the #government #shutdown. Their phone lines are voicemail-only right now. As a laid off clinical researcher whose NIH study got cut, I support a shutdown to help call ppl to action.

Tell your senators to vote no on cloture for HR 1968, the government funding bill that passed the House! Cloture is how the Senate ends debate on a bill. This article has more info. Phone lines are clogged for the CA senators, so I'm sending in online form letters. #shutdown shorturl.at/U9o7i

In addition to #resist #resistance books like The Handmaid's Tale and Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here, Sinclair's wife, Dorothy Thompson, also wrote this article called "Who Goes Nazi?" She worked in 1930s Germany as a reporter, and she predicted JD Vance ("Mr. C") harpers.org/archive/1941...

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

Although the University of California has $28 billion in cash reserves, healthcare departments are short-staffed, which makes patient care more challenging. #UPTE marched in the Hillcrest neighborhood of San Diego today as part of our #union #strike for better working conditions!

On strike with @uptecwa.bsky.social today at UCSD's Hillcrest Hospital! One issue we're striking about is a staffing shortage, and I'm a researcher who was laid off due to NIH budget cuts. I was studying side effects from a chemotherapy alternative that were causing cancer patients to go to the ER.

Yesterday, tens of thousands of UC workers converged on picket lines across the state to call out unfair labor practices. Will we see you on the picket lines with us again today? #Strike #StrikeReady #Solidarity #UC

On strike with @uptecwa.bsky.social from Wednesday - Friday! This is a sign that we were using during marches today.

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Worst. Episode. EVER.

#VilSchoenheit has no choice but to accompany me to the Oceanside Kpop and anime festival tomorrow! 😂 The bag is a clear potion bag from Girl With One Eye, who presented her fashion designs at the Anime LA Fashion Show! She almost lost an eye to cancer, hence her name. #TwistedWonderland #Pomefiore

As an NSF and NIH-funded researcher who was laid off from my university due to Trump and DOGE, I'm so tired and at the point where I'm trying to use pop culture to show what's going on. If Sumeru in #GenshinImpact was America, here's how characters would be affected:

#Twst / #TwistedWonderland players, if you need an SSR Grim to duo with Crowley, Rollo, or Malleus, I have Platinum Jacket Grim as my support card! He's at lv 86 and at lv 9 and 10 for spells

UPTE members at the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social have voted by 98% to authorize a statewide #strike. Today, we're announcing that 20k healthcare, research & technical workers will hold a ULP strike Feb 26 - 28 across UC campuses, medical centers, and labs ✊ #union upte.org/updates/stri...

Waiting for NIH funding to get thawed out from the 🐕 freeze so I can get back to healthcare research again. It's rough being a healthcare researcher whose work intersects with climate science in 🍊's America

The new Genshin Impact anecdote interactions on the map are great photo ops! "Kaeya? KAEYA NO—"

One Lunar New Year taiko performance down, and one more to go! 🐉

An EEOC admin. judge sent a fiery all-department email this AM alleging: 1. Trump's exec orders & instructions to target private citizens with them are illegal. 2. the judge had sent an earlier email with a similar tone yesterday that later vanished from their sent folder & colleagues' inboxes.

I love this meme from r/fednews regarding Project 2025 and resisting the Muskification of the federal government 😂 Safe SECS is important! #government #doge

#TwistedWonderland fans, who else is excited for Headmaster Crowley? 😁 I've been hoarding gems for all the faculty (and Vil's Luxe Couture card), and I have over 600 rolls saved! #twst #disney #direcrowley #nightravencollege

Happy Lunar New Year! It's the year of the 🐍, which is my Chinese zodiac animal! One of my favorite #TwistedWonderland characters is based on Jafar and cobras, so here are some pictures of me from RunDisney Halloween 2024 as Jamil! #twst #scarabia #cosplay #disney #chinesenewyear

Phony Stark isn't on here, but... Hey Elon, I'm an engineer with a PhD. All this graph says is that people post on r/fednews when they're awake. Posts and other engagement on that subreddit can also be from anyone. With data analysis like this, no wonder your AI products are trash. #government #doge

I presented a @cosplayforscience.bsky.social panel at #AnimeLosAngeles on Jan. 11th about science in #GenshinImpact! @paleoparadox.bsky.social and I made a fun presentation about extreme heat, sports, and saurians (dinosaur-inspired dragons) in the new 🔥 land of Natlan. I cosplayed as #Ganyu!

I attended #AnimeLosAngeles two weeks ago, and I cosplayed as Prof. Divus Crewel from #twistedwonderland in their fashion show! He's a science teacher based on #disney villain Cruella de Vil, and he's also canonically a fashion designer. I had so much fun at the show! #twst #cosplay #ala20

Hi everyone! I'm a biomedical engineer, taiko player, flutist (former clarinetist), taiko drummer, runner, and cosplayer. I also enjoy presenting fun science education fan panels at anime and comic cons! I'll be posting about learning the shakuhachi and working on various art projects.