Abigail Kabaker

I am a scientist and a STEM educator. I know how dramatically STEM has helped the world. And hurt it. It all depends on who is driving it. So again, PLEASE, the tech industry is a moral abyss at the moment. If you are a good human in tech, you have the chance to go SO FAR if you embrace being GOOD.

If you are in tech and have morals, please, PLEASE lean into them. You will stand out from the others. So many of us will use your actual, morality-focused technology. I do want cool new innovations. But honest ones. Ones that genuinely help. We *can* engineer a better way forward. ❤️

put trees everywhere I am no longer asking

Analysis finds urban areas in England where no one lives within 15-minute walk of nature Government says it is working to solve ‘postcode lottery’ of access to green or blue spaces

I just think if we could all move about freely that we would do it in logical ways that make sense so we can all have cool stuff everywhere that's cool to live and not have to be forced to stay where it sucks and doesn't have any greenery and just has fucking Birmingham and Manchester

On the advice of Klonsel: A look under the hood of an Alabama injustice Rocky Myers, a Black man, was sentenced to death after being represented at trial by John Mays, a court-appointed attorney long affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan.

Rocky Myers, a Black man accused of murdering a white woman in Alabama, was represented at trial by a Klan lawyer named John Mays. He had no idea. 30 years later, he's still behind bars. Please take a moment to read and share. www.treadbylee.com/p/klonsel

An homage to a panel from the Achewood web comic. Phillipe, a young and eager otter, who is wearing a shirt and tie and a helmet for some reason, is happily singing a song to himself as follows: Born... in the USA! I went to school and I got an... A! I ate a hamburger and said hooray! Maybe it will happen today! The final line is obviously my addition. The art was redrawn by me and is not just a copy of the original panel. Done in black lines and halftone shading on a toned paper background. You do not need to trouble Chris Onstad about this.

ROSALÍA e Björk no #BRITs 🤍🤍✨️

Working on this record player

Y'all ever see transistors like this?

Podcasters that are making series based on aggregating information from books:
1. Cite the books
2. Encourage your listeners to read past the information you gave them

Otherwise what you’re doing is a little culture vulture-y

The other thing I need to say is that PUBLICATIONS NEED TO COVER CULTURE INCLUDING BOOKS

I keep hearing that publications are declining to do book reviews. Places like @physicstoday.aip.org and WaPo got rid of their book sections entirely 🧪

We want people to learn about science but where?

Friends will ask what I watched over the weekend , and I’ll be like “another friend mentioned Milfs vs Zombies as being filmed near me , so that’s what I watched” (true story )

2 young billionaires are behind the prediction market boom. They hate each other The 20-something billionaires who run Kalshi and Polymarket are battling it out to be the top prediction market company. Observers and former insiders say the feud is just heating up.

At the center of the prediction markets boom is a bitter rivalry between two 20-something billionaire fintech bros vying for their companies to be distinct, despite everyone constantly lumping them together

"For them, it's existential," a former Kalshi employee told me

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If someone could get iv3-148x, I’d really appreciate it… every series, there’s a few pieces that really stick out and speak to me (but all of them are great) and they get grabbed fast. One day, I hope to be able to get one myself.

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green is better change it back

‘He paints phalluses the way others paint landscapes’: the disturbing genius of erotica pioneer Félicien Rops A new exhibition at Kunsthaus Zurich revisits the Belgian artist whose wild women of the demimonde scandalised the belle epoque – and still shock audiences today

You know, you see a headline like this and you expect to see some phalluses, but alas, the article only shows paintings with naked ladies: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Going to the Guthrie has me thinking of the old Guthrie. What did you see there? A cool English teacher brought us up on 2 field trips from way down in southern MN. Last thing I saw there was Romeo & Juliet. Good seats so Juliet's brother mourned her death 10ft from me with tears & drool, yikes

Beloved lepidopterist Kevin dissects some noctuid genitalia in the Visible Lab, which he has decorated to look like the penalty box at a hockey game. He is wearing a Pens jersey and a hockey helmet while he looks thru the microscope.

I thought our new “visible lab” space felt like a petting zoo but @mothpotato.bsky.social had a much better idea

A receipt

A fragment of a poem about vegetables

Today’s archival research has been weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable other than the random fragment of a poem about vegetables on the back of an 1819 receipt tendered to the Boston Board of Selectmen 🗃️

This image is a flyer for the New Deanwood Library Design Kickoff event. It features a photo of several people gathered around a table, looking at documents. The text on the flyer invites the community to share ideas and feedback for the new stand-alone library, emphasizing the importance of community involvement. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, March 18, at 6 p.m., at Deanwood Library, 1350 49th St NE. Light bites will be provided. The DC Public Library logo is displayed at the top.

Deanwood, what would your dream library look like? The New Deanwood Library Design Kick Off is your chance to meet the design team and share ideas for the future space.

🗓 March 18 | 6PM
📍 Deanwood Library
🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4b2yGdX

Physical Disability and Deformity in Nineteenth-Century Britain Offering historical primary sources that outline both medical and experiential perspectives of physical disability, this book provides frequently mentioned but rarely provided material and supports re...

I have an edited primary source collection coming out on disability and deformity in c19th Britain. My hope is that you find it useful for teaching (apologies for the abstract, I did not write it! and the cost) #histmed #dishist www.routledge.com/Physical-Dis...

Know an undergrad who is interested in exhibit design and development? The NHMLA is now seeking applicants for a Getty Marrow Intern, which is a 10-week summer internship program working with our exhibits department. Please share with those interested!
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It's time again for me to hire a seasonal research assistant for the WNV Dead Bird Program. Bird knowledge helpful but not required (makes the job more interesting imo), public health or arbovirus interest also a+. Happy to answer questions, can be used as practicum/internship for some programs too!

YouTube video by the Mountain Goats the Mountain Goats - This Year (Official Video)

youtu.be/H7fBFtif9H4

FANTASTIC PLANET

every day of 2026, I'll post an animated film.

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FANTASTIC PLANET (1973)
dir. René Laloux

On a faraway planet called Ygam, the oppressed Om rebel against the giants known as Drnaaggerss.

I have so many examples of students questioning whether I know enough about a topic to teach it. I asked in faculty meeting "who has been questioned whether they are qualified to teach a class?" The women raised their hands, the men didn't. It's definitely rooted in sexism and racism.

An abstract, pointy sculpture of Jesus tied to a column. He's clearly clenching.

Congratulations, Sagrada Familia, for finally topping out the Jesus Tower, 144 years after construction started, and also for Jesus' 90° cheeks in this sculpture 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Messy blut ink spatter background, red sun, red hill rising up to become a figure. power lines, paths patterns

I Have Forgotten The Concept Of Time