Hey when they say the new covid variant gives you “razor blade throat” they’re not messing around and you should take precautions to avoid it.

i will absolutely marry someone on the spot if they get me either a trans prider or an aro one lol

I can’t overstate the value of my boss’s boss being an out gay married man We are not alone and we are part of our wider scientific communities

All anti-mask laws—even those with so called “medical exceptions”—stigmatize mask-wearing. Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases. No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.

Federal workers began receiving emails Saturday asking them to describe what they did last week — as Elon Musk warned on social media that, if employees fail to respond, it will be taken as a resignation.

If a reader dislikes your politics, then no amount of subtlety will prevent them from accusing your story of not being subtle enough. Not even if the politics of the story are about your right to live. Don’t go quieter to appease the callow.

Hardwood xkcd.com/3051

Resources from @dredf.bsky.social on the Section 504 lawsuit: • dredf.org/protect-504/ • FAQs docs.google.com/document/d/1... • all 50 Attorneys General contact info docs.google.com/document/d/e... • Disability community briefing webinar + transcript dredf.org/disability-c...

:deep breaths: Balancing my immediate concerns for safety, as well as the collective horror and fear and knowledge that not everyone will get through this okay, is hard. All I can do is help who I can, where I can, when I can, while keeping myself afloat. I think if we all do that, it'll be enough.

If you're a creator with a disability who is studying, or working or interested in #geoscience, consider submitting to the #DisabilityInGeoscience #Zine! Learn more @ t.co/NLmeRsZGtL. Feel free to reach out in my DMs as well! 🙂

What is one simple act of resistance that will absolutely infuriate any authoritarian determined to make the world ignore pandemics and climate change? Wearing a mask.

To my nonbinary, agender, genderqueer, and otherwise off the binary friends & siblings: You are loved, you are valued, you are important to our community, you've been here longer than the tyrants, and you will still be here when their bones are dust and the names of their false gods are forgotten.

here's an article written by one of my closest friends on the importance of the Museum of the Earth in her life and in the lives of Cornell students at large check it out! -> cornellsun.com/2025/01/20/g... & if you would like to, please sign the petition! -> www.change.org/p/save-the-m...

Might become more active on here since many of my friends are making the leap from Meta to Bluesky.

Around this time last year @boyswillbebugs.bsky.social, @allomygale.bsky.social, @spissatella.bsky.social, @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social and I published an open letter on supporting transgender persons in STEMM. We have decided to open to additional signatures 🧪⚒️🦑 medium.com/@transrights...

if you're interested in more analysis of last week's #SCOTUS #Skrmetti hearing, I highly recommend this @strictscrutiny.bsky.social episode which includes an interview with @chasestrangio.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Reboosting, as US vs Skrmetti hits the news waves again after the court rejected hearing a challenge to a Wisconsin policy regarding transgender youth. If you have not signed this yet, consider doing so. We will gladly take Canadian signatures as well!

Sorry I haven't really been online, a combo of "being too busy with IRL stuff to be online" and "still figuring out how open I want to be" is happening.

when spiders put their little pedipalps together this is all i can see

🎵 The St. Helens Jukebox 🎵 Mount St. Helens also inspired some instrumental works. Kit Watkins, former keyboardist for Washington D.C. prog rock band "Happy the Man," included a St. Helens-themed jazz fusion tune in his 1980 solo debut.

Happy pride!

If you have an indoor-outdoor cat, it's probably time to make it an indoor-only cat. This latest strain of H5N1 appears to be super deadly for cats, and it's spreading to populations not directly associated with dairy farms. www.reddit.com/r/H5N1_Avian...

“The US department of defense” oh gods what now “has determined ABA therapy has very weak supporting evidence, 76% of 16,000 participating autistic children had no improvements, 9% were made actively worse, and the 15% that improved may have been due to maturing not the therapy” I.. yay autism win?

Contrast these 2 types of crinoid for #InverteFest 🦑 1) Most living crinoids are stalkless filter feeders and attach to other inverts using cirri (This pic has a bonus shrimp, Thor amboinensis 🦐) 2) Fossils, and some deep sea species, have a stalk and can crawl along the seafloor

In honor of Earth Day, an under appreciated but absolutely crucial part of the ecosystem, the Turkey Vulture. A magnificent bird! #birds 🌿

It is wild that students are being arrested, seemingly at the request of the administration. It is *also* wild that Faculty are also being arrested, also seemingly at the request of the administration. I hope the NYU Senate is going to hold an emergency meeting, and ask big questions.

GIF of the 34.25% partial #eclipse from my yard in northern California! While it doesn't compare with totality, you can see 2 huge sun spots moving over the course of the eclipse, which is pretty cool IMO ☀️🌕🔭🧪

Hello #science fans (and particularly anyone in positions of academic power), on this #TDOV2024 you can do your part to support your colleagues by signing and passing around this open letter about the ongoing attacks on trans people in the US and the UK: medium.com/@transrights...

#TransDayOfVisibility ✊🔭🧪

Passed my thesis defense, now just gotta do all the paperwork to get that MS.

Less than one week left to back our Kickstarter!! It's now (or never) > www.kickstarter.com/projects/iri...

#MountStHelens in 1980 | March 22 At 2:22 pm, seismometers picked up an M4.2 earthquake at St. Helens. The USFS Spirit Lake visitors center shakes as it did Thursday. The University of Washington seismology team suspects that the increasing quakes may be volcanic rather than tectonic. #Geology

No words, only rage. Wyoming gender-affirming care ban SF99 has been signed into law. Kansas is following closely behind. If KS SB233 passes, that would bring the percentage of the United States banning medical care for transgender youth up to 50%.

Very happy to have been a part of this with such awesome people. 🧪 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social @simonesun.bsky.social @weinberz.witchlab.org @ijayas.bsky.social @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social @microbialmaeve.bsky.social @nuqueerengineer.bsky.social @maggied.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/foss... I didn't want to attach this directly to the Cell piece, but if you are a person in STEM who wants to show support for trans scientists I am still periodically monitoring/adding new signatories to our open letter from December.

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Rigorous science demands support of transgender scientists, written by transgender scientists and allies. Please take a read if you have the time and energy!

I wrote about the paper in which they yassified a kākāpō 💅 defector.com/honey-they-y...

The death of Nex Benedict, a trans youth who reported being bullied for his queer identity, has been ruled a suicide. Whatever the cause it's equally a tragedy, but I'd like more infor clarifying how the determination was made, in light of the strange ways officials behaved in the wake of this.

If anyone is interested in attending my thesis defense, feel free to poke me in DMs.

Not all those who wander are lost When your mind is wandering, your brain’s “default mode” network is active. Its discovery 20 years ago inspired a raft of research into networks of brain regions This Is What Your Brain Does When You’re Not Doing Anything 🏺🧪 www.quantamagazine.org/what-your-br...

Dinosaur-age 'nightmarish' sea lizard fossil found. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-a...

Hell yes everyone read the paper! The type of eyes that chitons have depends on the openings in the shell 🧪🦑

🪱 #InsertAnInvert2024 Relationships: Housing Week 8: Mud-Nest Harvester (Quindina limbata) These guys build round walled-off nests out of mud to protect eggs. Males keep the nest defended from predators, and will even adopt unattended nests of eggs they may find! What gentlemen.

sorry i haven't been posting much, been trying to keep it together

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Oh, and you want elitism in paleontology? Look to the commercial fossil trade. You CANNOT offer a piece of our collective natural history for sale at exorbitant prices so that ONLY the super wealthy people/companies/organizations can afford them and claim your being inclusive. Eff all of that!

Doing my best to not fall directly into despair, but the scree slope is cutting up my thrifted convertible pants and leaving pretty deep gouges in my calves and thighs.

“(X) don’t deserve restorative justice-“ Everyone deserves the *opportunity* for restorative justice and taking that first right step. So long as they are willing to do that and keep doing it the rest they damn life, to be set right if they start veering. Abolition ain’t just for “the deserving”.

My gingerbread this year... The VLA!!