Rachel Widome

I’m surprised that this is surprising.

In 2022 (back when #Twitter was still a thing), I had made this #meme about the state of #urban #climate #research based on an #xkcd comic.

With all the recent changes in the #publication and #funding spaces due to the #AI + #machinelearning hype cycle, here is an updated version.

Today should be your 38th birthday.. When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.

A bunch of swirly choco buns.

Bunz

LOVE them!!

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

NEW: I and colleagues reviewed 15,000 documents to illuminate how Jeffrey Epstein used VIP doctors to control and manipulate young women* — and how the doctors helped him, treating his needs as more important than the patients'. Gift link.

*see next post in thread

Spooky-cute?

Bagel of bagels in background. In foreground is my hand holding a little guy made of bagel!

I ordered from the Mogi Bagel pop-up (awesome bagels BTW) and found THIS GUY in my cinnamon raisin bagel bag!! 😂😱🥯

It’s a difficult problem because I also don’t want these types teaching and mentoring, but they are still there, so…

The impact is already hitting science agencies hard. The NIH—the world's largest public biomedical research funder—has had to rely on leftover stopgap funds.

New grant awards have slowed to a trickle — exacerbating the effects of a record-long shutdown in October.

(h/t @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

Whoa, where did you come from?

It’s happening right here @iamwbob.bsky.social!

I’m certainly no expert since I don’t use it and haven’t prob followed the right people but I feel like it’s all people just promoting their own stuff. Like an annotated CV. Yawn. And there seems to be no way to share a post (unlike twitter or here), so I don’t get lured in. 😂

I can’t bear to log into LinkedIn because it’s so boring and so broken (like why does it show you stuff from 3 weeks ago 1st?). I just assume there’s nothing interesting or entertaining there.

She also doesn't seem to understand the role of the Surgeon General. She keeps refusing to make "blanket statements" and wants everything to be a convo b/t patient and doctor. Great, but SG *makes blanket statements.* They've advocated against smoking, opioids, obesity, educated re AIDS. /1

All I want in this WBOB is to do cool research with my friends 🧑‍🤝‍🧑🥰

What the fuck? Man, our car society... 😢

Once on Twitter he gave some suggestions for this... It's probably an impossible-to-find thread now.

And these mittens are a real conversation starter in the middle school scene too! 😂

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The upside is I can reliably get a cringe every time by saying, ‘Don’t forget your gooning mittens!!’ 😂

In China someone must have googled ‘cool words 2025?’

Grey mitten with strap that says, “Explore goon.”

I ordered these rando brand Amazon-recommended winter mittens for my middle school son and for some reason the strap is like…

The Mariah Carey MTV Cribs episode is my Roman Empire.

Let me show you a wardrobe you can build with $1,700 🧵

In remarkable 9-page order, Judge Provinzino lifts civil contempt order on AUSA in MN after govt finally complies with her order, but says fact that AUSAs lack "basic resources" & "training" can no longer excuse wrongs to detainees. ...
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storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Tins of slime in a box. Box has pic of RFK with slime on him and a speech bubble, ‘I made this with my body.’

Slime source:

Tins of slime in a box. Box has pic of RFK with slime on him and a speech bubble, ‘I made this with my body.’

Slime source:

Opinion | In the Resistance, We Drive Minivans

“My 13-year-old daughter carried a sign that said, ‘You can’t shoot us all,’”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...