I love myself for asking @risaamor.bsky.social ‘s momma how she made beef tacos. It’s a two day endeavor. Kitchen smells of garlic, cinnamon and oregano. It is heavenly.

Just thinking: I am a double-boarded physician-scientist at @uclahealth.org, but I grew up in poverty. Gov't provided the welfare & foodstamps that aided my refugee family. Gov't grants subsidized my education. I am only where I am today bc of the #America that was. And it makes me want to cry.

Pandora: look, we all like watching unboxing videos

Caribou and muskoxen help preserve shrub free tundra, which keeps the ground cooler and slows climate warming. We need more #caribou www.arcticwwf.org/the-circle/s...

Did Ghost Hunters/Myth Busters to determine if echoes from hallway below would carry. We couldn’t hear a 6’3” 250# guy stomp running on 1st floor. Conclusion: Ghosts are real the future scientists said so. I think I may have started a new campus myth having students help my Ghost Hunter plan. 🤣 👻

Something chased me down this long hallway. Loud running footsteps behind me, I turned around twice. No one was there. Nowhere else anyone could run, top floor of building. 👻👻👻 Have I Octobered too hard?

Come on, she only bought 360 custom dresses per year, as if. And, AND she was funding the American Revolution. Dresses and insurrections against kings. What’s wrong with that? But yeah, I agree with this sentiment. When are our elected reps going to actually show up and DO SOMETHING?

Can you hear the “but mom, this outfit clashes with mission of protecting our lands from the fox.” Then to fox: “my mom made me wear it.”

Shrieking foxes again tonight. Over a week of this. It’s cool but… imagine horror movie zombie banshees outside your window. That’s the sound.

5am thought: Haven’t had a migraine since April why now? Teaching a class today, would it be weird if I showed up missing an ear and possibly my right eye? IYKYK

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

Little fluffy menaces, red foxes, have been screaming in my backyard at 4am all week. It is such a disturbing sound. Have you ever heard it?

#NoKings Fairbanks, AK NO KINGS (except King Penguins) ICE good for polar bears, penguins and NOT national security. Excellent turn out. Raised money for typhoon relief too!

I have to repost because I’m still mad about this. Unbelievable that a gov spokesperson would say this. $20m is peanuts. They spend that on a couple hours of golf.

Hey Fairbanks, Gunther says we need to help his friends as they evacuate and eventually rebuild from the typhoon. Website has contact info www.theaugustfund.com

why would I go to ChatGPT for sexting when your dad does it better

Gunther ears are the bestest ears.

Breakfast Pad Thai makes me happy.

Gunther and I before the snow. ❄️ 🍂❄️🍂

Guarantee If I did this l‘d get a police escort and parade. Then Tonya (my fave clerk) at the gas station would give us all free slurpees. What is the problem? Show me the no Barbie jeep law. 🤣

Amuse-bouche Summer in Alaska Edition

I still think about this girl I met in Churchill, Manitoba. Wildfires shouldn’t be raging in her backyard. 😢🔥 🐻‍❄️ 🇨🇦 Isn’t she beautiful?

From San Francisco Women’s March 2019. They were printing them on site. Still have it.

I feel like I'm preaching to the choir, but science funding in the US is very much on the ballot. Trump proposed massive cuts to science infrastructure in every budget he submitted, including complete elimination or defunding of agencies. www.nature.com/articles/d41...