Suddenly, dermatographia. 🤦🏽‍♀️

Me: meditating My brain: Starts writing Star Trek filk Thoughts arise and subside, like starships passing though local space…

Participants are now enrolling in our #longCovid randomized, controlled trial of tirzepatide. The largest trial to test a treatment for this condition. Home-based—no sites. In today's @sandiegouniontribune.com www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/01/c...

Without saying your age, who was your first animated crush?

TIL that there is no obvious difference between a bath bomb and a toy dino egg to dig until it fails to dissolve in the bath. 🤦🏽‍♀️

Happy birthday, RHPS! ❤️👄🕺🏼👯

Anyway, shana tova. May our year be good and sweet. youtu.be/q99R-5AtHqo?...

PS fevers during pregnancy are linked to autism. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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.

Once in a work meeting I said, “I picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue” and my colleagues were concerned. I hadn’t thought Airplane! was obscure, before then…

It just suddenly clicked in my head. I’m sure everyone else has already had this insight but… It’s not just that the GOP is a death cult. It’s the hierarchy of death: they get to decide who lives and who dies. That’s the order of things that’s violated by international aid and public health.

My husband: “Some people will do anything for exotic pussy.”

I wish I lived in a parallel reality with flying whales. (This world looks like a Studio Ghibli film. I will not be taking questions.) OTOH, getting shat on by a pigeon the other week was a minor inconvenience; whale shit from the sky would be a little more troublesome.

I realized that every mitigating action about climate change matters, because it’s a matter of degrees.

Ooh. Mine is Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon. (I consider it a positive influence.)

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy and happiness.

Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them. tomlehrersongs.com

If you see this, post a flower

I'm doing a U.S. book giveaway to send an extra copy of The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott to a good home! Giveaway closes at 11:59PM CDT today! #booksky

Is it that easy to build ML classifiers these days? Because I will tell you, I reviewed at least 60 abstracts and classified them into “possibly useful” and “not useful” with my own brain today. We use software that you can train to identify needed articles but by the time I’ve trained it for 1/2

Please — can you help, or help spread the word? www.fox23.com/news/skiatoo...

Only three more days to grab your copy of my #SciFi novel NEW EYES for 🔥FREE🔥 Take a trip to #Mars with a quirky, brilliant found-family ensemble of unforgettable characters (some of whom are #androids). Think deep thinks! Feel real feels! Laugh big laughs! www.amazon.com/New-Eyes-Tob...

I read this yesterday and I think it healed my soul a little. It’s fun and funny and emotionally real and I loved it.

I have discovered that no purpose in my life will ever require more than half a watermelon.

Oooh this is such a good book! Reading it would be a great way to spend the weekend!

Thinking tonight about the amazing advances in medicine that are happening, and how they are threatened by Trump and Secretary Kennedy and the Republicans in the House and Senate who are perfectly willing to reign over unnecessary death and suffering. 1/?

Read @bschillace.brandyschillace.com’s The Intermediaries on the plane yesterday. Fascinating, really well-written, and absolutely essential for our time, as we see the same playbook in our current politics. Also I love it when nonfiction books have good notes, index and bibliography.

Oh, hey, look here! 😃#YoungWizards

If you, like me, own approximately 10,000 Anker powe banks because you used to play Ingress, check what you own against the recall list!

Takes two minutes to send a letter, if you decide to personalize it a bit.

This might be the most pleasant way I’ve ever spent a lunch break: walking to the indie bookstore for @natania.bsky.social’s latest and having an affogato while I read the first pages.

It’s less of a flex when the spaceships keep blowing up.

#philly folks, sorry for the tags but trying for visibility @phoopherah.bsky.social @zephyrsky.bsky.social @denadriscoll.bsky.social @daveghoul.com @sictransitphl.bsky.social

This is a beautiful essay and I’m glad to see the Guardian sharing a trans person’s voice for a change

Reposting to find later - I will soon need e-books for travel!

A thread about my epic fantasy books. The Tales of Einarinn start with The Thief's Gamble. Livak, a travelling gambler, occasionally takes shadier chances. She ends up blackmailed into working for a wizard and soon has her own stake in the game as killers with eerie, unknown magic play for keeps 1/7

Okay friends. Today I am writing a thread that I have been thinking about for a long, long, long time. It's really, really important. It is also very heavy. Cis people, read this. Look with your eyes open at it. Sit with it. Feel it. Absorb it. Trans people, take care. This is about history. 🧵

The new COVID vaccination recommendations are being made by a small coterie of people least qualified to make them, while cutting out the experts to push their own views forward, regardless of what the science says. My latest for The Nation. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Every time I see something like this I feel a moment of horror, of rage. I move the tiny things I can but being in thrall to this death cult is outrageous and I worry about how far it will go.

🧪 Attention those with terminated grants, including for NSF, NASA, EPA, NIH, etc: Let Congress know about the impact of terminations via this form: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela... Only Dem staff on the House Science Committee will have access (unless if you explicitly state otherwise).

I don’t understand my colleagues who are eagerly using AI to help them write e-mails. How are you so lacking in confidence toward a task you’ve been doing your whole professional life? How did you cope for the last 30 years, or even the last five?

I wrote something! (Now I have to update my resume, eek)

If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Taking a sick day.

Can we sue HHS for putting our children at unnecessary risk? How does one petition the government for redress of grievances? (I have a number of grievances at this juncture.)

You mean you did a whole-ass RCT with more than 600 participants and you weren’t bothered to run a t-test to compare the groups? 😱 Science wants me to use 20+ smaller studies instead of deciding large ones provide enough evidence. I’m being persecuted by an abstract concept, only explanation

I missed this memo - it was deeply alienating to be a Jewish kid going to Catholic school (long story) and essentially picking up the implication that god didn’t love me…

A randomized controlled trial and a retrospective cohort study are two different things, and I don’t think it’s too much to expect that (a) authors know the difference and (b) the journal doesn’t publish the study without removing the incorrect statement. 🫠

If you see this, quote with the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating!