went to my college reunion - had a ball and realized that I am completely unprepared for New England weather now. Rain? 55 degrees? in May?

I'm still pulling spines out of my hairline. It's been days 😩

Climate change compounding with Philly problems (old buildings, under-resourced city…ugh).

Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

Called myself doing a little "home improvement" this weekend and bought some cacti for around our pool. I was attacked by a chenille prickly pear y'all - I've been pulling out small spines for 24 hours. I even got them stuck in my hairline. *mistakes were made*

I wonder why journalists insist on using 'remote' to describe places (in Africa) when they're writing about outbreaks of disease. Remoteness is relative, yes, but also: as a descriptor, it implies something about the place w/o actually telling you anything useful re: its residents, harms, risks, etc

That was the goal

I just need one morning without this fascistic bullshit apnews.com/article/redi...

One of my former students - who graduated a decade ago - just had her first baby and sent pics on the group chat. And friends - I am over here crying like a baby. Bearing witness to people's lives is such a gift -

Re: Hantavirus - Surely at this moment we realize why it was terrible idea for the US to withdraw from the WHO? right? smh.

I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours

Sometimes you have to go back to your old tried and true productivity methods - pomodoro, it is 😩

Didn't go running today b/c my legs needed a rest - now we see how long it takes me to feel awake & normal. The runner's conundrum: run? awake/alive/legs tired! rest? mentally tired/groggy/legs rested

I remember, in grad school, Chuck Bosk telling us, re: ethnography--if you haven't pissed someone off with your research, you probably haven't done enough to interrogate systems of power.

I want cis Americans to sit uncomfortably with the fact that most of these restrictions were ushered in through the liberal act of "just asking questions" about trans people.

People talk about Sunday scaries - but I think I have Saturday scaries. Sundays are so busy - laundry, food shopping, kid stuff, a run, random house maintenance - I need an extra weekend day where I actually get to relax. Monday feels peaceful in comparison

more people probably died from diarrhea, malaria and typhoid during the civil war than actual fighting

Yesterday was the anniversary of Freddie Gray's death. I published a book in 2023 that includes never released evidence of his cause of death and how it was covered-up. I offer a free PDF copy of my book to anyone interested! Please email me. [email protected] www.amazon.com/They-Killed-...

Sometimes incredible (and incredibly odd things) happen - Japanese director Shinya’s Tsukamoto made a biopic about my dad's life - I knew this was happening, but it's still wild nonetheless. WILD. deadline.com/2026/03/shin...

Got some Vietnamese Iced coffee with lunch and babyyy

15 years ago, if you would have told me that I would be so happy sitting in my car w/ coffee & my laptop while my son is at optional track practice at 7:45 am on a Saturday - I would have laughed until my stomach ached. *Yes, I've been hazed by parenthood and also - this is kinda great

BBC News - US journalist Shelly Kittleson kidnapped in Baghdad www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sometimes people speak to me like I'm dumb...and I just...who are you talking to?

"Im boutta go get the papers, get the papers" -Jimmy Two Times

Um if you know me on other social media - you know this already (apologies) but y'all - I ran my first half marathon yesterday - hit my time goal & got 3rd in my age group 👊🏾🏃🏾‍♀️‍➡️

When America sneezes

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

Ghana’s President John Mahama warned at the UN that erasing Black history in the U.S. risks global consequences as nations move to recognize slavery as a grave crime against humanity. Efforts to reshape museums, school curriculum, and narratives tied to slavery and racism only deepen the harm.

Being a scientist/scholar/researcher in this moment is an act of pure will and faith in the unseen. It's staggering how much of the infrastructure has been destroyed and how quickly it was laid to waste.

WHO GONNA LOVE YOU LIKE I DO? HUHHH? WHATT?! WHO GONNA TREAT YOU LIKE I DO? HUHHH? WHATT?!

I got a new (to me) pen and i am in love. what a good pen. thank you tiktok person for recommending it

Run Couch Family

i cannot stress enough that if you know anything about how kristi noem found out she was fired you must tell me

It’s tiring that we are increasingly stuck organizing our intellectual lives around arguing for the value of having an intellectual life

Went to nail salon - really tried to get a light pink number, something super spring and femme. Black. Black cat's eye. that's what I left with - the black just speaks to my soul 😏

I know people won’t remember this bc there’s so many dumpster fires. But somebody better be keeping a list.

Social science research stays catching Ls at a time when we need it most. 😩

I'm so unexcited about the work I have to do today 😩

Summers should’ve been kicked the curb when he said: There are “innate differences” between men and women and that might explain the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields. So this is loooong overdue, and frankly allowing him to step down at end of year… is more grace than he deserves

This is for me today, but I may also be for you. Audre Lorde.

There were so many of us, exactly when these emails were being written, expressly working to undo the harms of sexual harassment and sexual discrimination in science. And so many people refused to believe us that any of it was real. It was all real. 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

Reducing human value to what we can be trained to do is straight up technofascism. Every fascism has its suhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans.

When Minnesotans were talking about “not letting this happen to our neighbors,” this is the heartbreaking “this” they meant

YES. all the time -

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

We are torpedoing a major advancement in vaccine development & public health due to fringe ideas and misinformation about the dangers of mRNA vaccine technologies. We will regret this & future generations will look back at this moment and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

I know I'm a homeowner now b/c all I could think when I saw this was: how they gonna get that fixed? the insurance back and forth! the displacement while the repairs happen! the damage to the things in the house 😖

my (critical) mother the other day: please just don't get the tattoos all the way up your arm - up your shoulder and all that. **Both forearms are already inked & I'm 46 and kinda done hearing her opinions on my body. Girl children of Boomers know what I mean 🙄

Go Birds

My son (13) asked me if I knew what cortisol is today - a lovely and funny moment of teen kid's knowledge intersecting w/mom's expertise. Young teens are hard and wonderful - just learning something new every day :)