Sarah Rose Cavanagh

Seychelles beach on Ikaria, Greece. A large multi-toned rock sits on a rocky beach at the Aegean Sea’s edge. Brown rocky mountains rise behind the rock. The beach was created by a rockslide and is accessible only via boat or a treacherous hike.

When anyone tells me I can’t do anything … I’m just not listening anymore. –Florence Griffith Joyner

Pic of the day
#photography

Doctor: Over the last month, how often have you felt nervous, anxious, or on edge, or afraid as if something awful might happen?

Me: Right? Solidarity, man. I feel ya.

Doctor: No, I need you to tell me an actual number of days.

Me: Oh sorry, I thought you were doing small talk.

Being stronger means you’re likely to live longer, new study finds Even when controlling for aerobic fitness and daily physical activity, stronger muscles were associated with longevity.

To live long, be strong.

Strength turned out to be a key — and singular — contributor to longer lives, according to a new study, reducing the risk for early death by a third or more.

Cat on picnic table with palm tree and ocean

#caturday, one day late

Scientists: "Food gives you energy"

Me after eating:

Me, this morning, leaving for the airport: "I think I may have packed too many books for this vacation."

Me, one hour into our flight: "I just finished my book. I think I may have packed too few books for this vacation."

Adored this conversation with @cyberthread.bsky.social and @johnkane.bsky.social on their Tea for Teaching podcast, about my NSF-funded work with @michelellemons.bsky.social aimed at improving learning & equity in biology edu (and beyond)

www.podbean.com/media/share/...

Ah well. You have the video - and the memories!

wowza! Great video.

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Need a smile? Here’s one of our barn cats yesterday reacting to seeing two feet of snow for the first time in her life. Enjoy! 🐈 ❄️

#cats #barncat #snow

Tweet that reads Leo Xander @STALLEON Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V - it is bigger than the car

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

I was on Twitter for the writers and the book recommendations, the essays, the poetry, the community. I am here now for the same. I’m a nerd. Please reply with a favorite recent essay or poem or story or book recommendation, and thank you.

The Beginning Comes After the End Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century. In this sequel to her enduring bestseller Hope in the Dark, Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Despite the forces seeking to turn back the clock on history, change is not a possibility; it is an inevitability. The changes amount to nothing less than dismantling an old civilization and building a new one, whose newness is often the return of the old ways and wisdoms. In this rising worldview, interconnection is a core idea and value. But because the transformation is obscured within a longer arc of history, its scale is seldom recognized. While the white nationalist and authoritarian backlash drives individualism and isolation, this new world embraces antiracism, feminism, a more expansive understanding of gender, environmental thinking, scientific breakthroughs, and Indigenous and non-Western ideas, pointing toward a more interconnected, relational world.

I wrote a book! It's trickling out, already in some bookstores. And I'm doing a bunch of events for it (see below). More info on book in alt text.

Gov. Healey, Mayor Wu in emergency fleeces

How serious an emergency? Both governor and #Boston mayor are in fleeces today.

In case you aren’t on Heated Rivalry social media the edits have started dipping into Audre Lorde and Marxist philosophy.

I love human beings.

It 👏 has 👏 got 👏 to 👏 stop 👏

Welcome to the very blue sky! 🦋

Edu Folks, look who has entered the blue skies! Welcome
@katedmcc.bsky.social 🦋

okay it's clear now. If we want spring to come we need to Wicker Man someone.

Appreciate it, Elie. I really busted my ass to cover Trump's presser, live-posting half of it through bad wifi on a flight and then racing to an airport bar to get the rest. If you find value in my efforts, it would mean a lot to me if you signed up for my newsletter: www.publicnotice.co/subscribe

Reading Guide: How to Read “S” aka Ship of Theseus by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst — Books Are My Third Place A comprehensive and recommended guide to reading "S" aka "Ship of Theseus" by JJ Abrams and Doug Dorst.

This was a bit like it www.booksaremythirdplace.com/articles/how...

awwww Griffin and Sabine!

oh boy.

You're stuck in the last movie you watched ... (answer with a GIF)

10 day weather forecast where 9 days are snow

Unacceptable

Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people… |... Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people ca...

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

Alysa Liu celebrating figure skating gold

ICONIC

sigh!

@sargentja.bsky.social also possibly interested

I knew it. First Smartfood, now this. #enshittification