Xylotheca
@xylotheca.bsky.social
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Childless cat and pony lady. Plantaholic. Works in TB/HIV research. AnkSpond spoonie. 🇿🇦
My dining chairs were made some time between 1921 and 1940 in my home town (though I bought them in a city ~3000km away)
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The Daily Tism
21 days ago
Megan Aldrich, 30, works full time in an attempt to avoid starving to death, but is forced to choose between showing up to work and being the sort of person who doesn’t cry in the shower.
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Autistic woman can have work or dignity but not both
An autistic woman whose government is desperate for her to experience the "dignity of work" cannot experience "dignity" and "work" at the same time, it has been claimed. Megan Aldrich, 30, works full…
https://thedailytism.com/autistic-woman-can-have-work-or-dignity-but-not-both/
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Complaining about the university's latest M&E data gathering? Submitting a grant 5 minutes before deadline? Has permanently "professorial" hair?
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin
25 days ago
"AI is operating at a PhD level" oh, so it's replying 'sorry for the late response' to every email and complaining about its labor conditions?
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Submitted a grant application 9 minutes before deadline. Let's never do that again. Narrator: they would definitely do it again
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My dinner time has become "any time after 5pm" because that's when the cat starts staring me down for his, and I might as well join him 🤷🏼♀️🐱
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Boo
#caturday
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Estaleto
about 2 months ago
It's a good read.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...
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How an SA team of scientists hunted a rare hantavirus strain
South African medical scientists have once again done the country proud by working fast to discover the cause of death and illness on a stricken cruise ship.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-05-10-how-an-sa-team-of-scientists-hunted-a-rare-hantavirus-strain/
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Estaleto
about 2 months ago
Meanwhile South Africa not only identified the virus and strain, the NICD lab in Johannesburg has already sequenced it. And the hantavirus isn't even endemic to SA. Shithole country 1 - 0 Fascist clown state 🤡
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Well this was a good time to take a strong painkiller 🫤
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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary
3 months ago
Do horses want cake? We conducted an investigation into statements published by
@bencollins.bsky.social
in the print edition of
@theonion.com
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"Easter eggs are not for cats!"
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Pleased to report that Fat Pony and her friends are regularly served special cake on their birthdays and other occasions
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Words to live by
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Cats with Jobs ⚒️
3 months ago
He got a job as a mousepad.
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Just had to explain to two professors how to *checks notes*... scroll through a PDF
#FML
3 months ago
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Had a particularly niche nightmare last night in which I was somehow involved in accidentally breaking embargo on a (real) paper to be published this Tuesday
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The Daily Tism
3 months ago
Navya Randhawa, 48, told reporters that she hadn’t intended on wasting the session, and was less interested in making a political statement than she was getting that thing on her arm looked at. Read this and other exclusive articles on Patreon:
www.patreon.com/posts/chroni...
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I'm on the research management side, but I *will* give a short talk on the importance of a new TB vaccine to anyone.... Even my cat's vet's receptionist 😬
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I'm on the research management side, but I *will* give a short talk on the importance of a new TB vaccine to anyone.... Even my cat's vet's receptionist 😬
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tomate 🍅
4 months ago
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
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So bad, even the introverts are here
#EndUCTUnfairness
Do you value my labour now?
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On the plus side, chloroquine has halved my CRP concentration. On the minus side, I feel like death warmed over 🤷🏻♂️
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"our grant number is [XYZ]; please acknowledge the grant in the funding section of your paper"
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Miss Havishambles
5 months ago
My extreme sport is typing without glasses
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Nicole Chung
5 months ago
this is basically who you are asking to make a slide deck
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Sean T. Collins
5 months ago
"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution
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Brian Bilston
5 months ago
Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever
5 months ago
"Ultimately, the project secured funding from the South African Medical Research Council and the Gates Foundation. It's about a twentieth of the original USAID grant and none of it is from the U.S. government."
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The near death -- and last-minute reprieve -- of a trial for an HIV vaccine
A trial was about to launch for a vaccine that would ward off the HIV virus. It would be an incredible breakthrough. Then it looked as if it would be over before it started.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/17/g-s1-106007/hiv-vaccine-trial-south-africa
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My assimilation into Cape Town society is nearly complete: my car now has a CAA reg and today I bought a wearable duvet (knee length K-Way puffer jacket)
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Can confirm this effect holds even for this 1/8th Irish person, 2 generations distant from the last ancestor born in Ireland ✊🏻
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6 months ago
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Steers BBQ sauce FTW
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𝒥𝒶𝓃𝑒
6 months ago
Highland pony at dusk for
#scape
Friday.
#photography
#EastCoastkin
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Chronic Illness Humor
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Them: So I'm taking ivermectin... Me: well you won't have scabies, I guess (Biologist working in infectious disease area)
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Bat-eared fox Cape cobra Secretary bird Blue crane Rhino
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7 months ago
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👀... Except that the cat has dealt with all carelessly placed bits of ceramic
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7 months ago
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High School biology teacher brought a pig's head in for us to dissect
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Alex de Campi
7 months ago
this, all day right now (unmute, it’s a bop)
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Being bullied at work so I'm eating pizza about it 🍕
7 months ago
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Bully your comms person into creating a LinkedIn page, sending them off to a place that *checks notes* advertises jobs...
#Genius
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GroundUp News
7 months ago
Without fair regulation, most Cape Town residents will edge ever further away from a home in the city, argue the authors. Read
groundup.org.za/article/cape...
by Gabbi le Roux, Adam Narain and Jonty Cogger
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Cape Town needs rent control. Here are six ways we could do it
Renting a home close to the city has become unaffordable even for many middle-class households
https://groundup.org.za/article/cape-town-needs-rent-control-here-six-ways-we-could-do-it/
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Nosferatu Joseph 🧛🏻♀️
8 months ago
Think I'm gonna have samoosas for lunch with a delicious side order of "the worst people you know are enraged and scared". Yum.
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Currently sporting a black eye courtesy of a hock to my temple this weekend, and pleased to report that this post came via my Following feed
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Tom Cox
8 months ago
So often you see some dingy, overpriced, dirty-looking house advertised to rent, with "SORRY NO PETS" firmly stipulated in the details. Get a grip. My pets have got a lot of self-respect and wouldn't want to live in your shit house.
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Chronic Illness Humor
9 months ago
I don't get up to investigate strange noises. They're all coming from my body.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘
9 months ago
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Nereide
9 months ago
🧵 Question: "If chimps are so much like us, why are they endangered while humans dominate the globe?" Goodall: "Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful." —
#JaneGoodall
, 3 Apr. 1934 - 1 Oct. 2025
#ForeverInspiring
#LegacyOfHope
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[Context: South Africa] I live near Groote Schuur hospital (major tertiary centre) and I've never before or since seen so many life flight helicopters land there.
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Tiffany⸆⸉ 🇺🇸🇳🇱
9 months ago
I lost it at “FUCKING KYLE!”
#caturday
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