Sad, but good article
10.12.2025 23:42 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0@clutchscience.bsky.social
She/her Permadoc @ UOregon zebrafish community NIH and 501c3 funded scientist Molecular genetics of human diseases Married to a cute OD Parent of two awesome grown people Daughter of a mild-mannered mom in memory care Definitely a wokester
Sad, but good article
10.12.2025 23:42 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 074% reduction in the risk of death.
10.12.2025 22:22 β π 13 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0Paul Saladino is a nonpracticing psychiatrist who lives in Costa Rica. He has admitted he does not follow his own lifestyle advice because it made him physically sick when he tried. He claims to bring a bag of whole coconuts when he flies (a reusable water bottle wouldnβt get him as much attention).
10.12.2025 15:22 β π 666 π 148 π¬ 38 π 2Absofuckinglutely
10.12.2025 16:40 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Iβll admit itβa year ago I didnβt know what the phrase βno billβ even meant. Nowadays I get a thrill whenever I hear it. Power to the people βπ»
10.12.2025 16:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0β€οΈ
10.12.2025 05:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Trumpβs obsession with me is beyond weird. He needs serious help.
Since he has no economic policies to tout, heβs resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead.
He continues to be a national embarrassment.
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10.12.2025 02:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"there's a new serif in town"
10.12.2025 01:06 β π 14518 π 2480 π¬ 1010 π 246Chic hits #1 today in 1978 with βLe Freakβ, a song originally titled βF**k Off!β β and written after the band was turned away by the bouncers at Studio 54.
βWe go back to my apartment really pissed off,β said Nile Rodgers, βand Bernard starts singing, βAhhh, f**k off!β .. and that became the hook.β
It is a scientist's meditation on the prose of two poets: Natasha Trethewey and Robert Frost, who both wrote about how our ability to analyze metaphor and figurative language shape our ability to understand the world
This essay is a key text for my book:
www.southerncultures.org/article/you-...
Gently ... composition as a course teaches us how to package ideas to an audience for understanding.
The skill being taught is thinking
Fuck yes he would
09.12.2025 19:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.
09.12.2025 18:31 β π 9614 π 1655 π¬ 149 π 91I like how at the end he remembers the girl is there π
09.12.2025 18:30 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Tricky because sheβs a-movinβ up and back JUST LIKE A CHICKEN*
*naturally one assumes that the slacks would bestow chickenesque strutting moves upon the wearer
Itβs really hard! I can barely speak of what a terrifying and stressful nightmare that time was. The care manager definitely helped take the edge off though
09.12.2025 16:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is a hard road to travel but you are doing all the right things. It can help to remind yourself that your dad is still here, living and loving you even as his memory fails. Pay attention to and cherish the good moments when they comeβthey will! And take care of yourself β€οΈ
09.12.2025 16:13 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This exists! When my mom was diagnosed we hired a wonderful geriatric care manager (she had a masters in social work and expertise in dementia management). Her care & guidance helped mom remain independent for as long as possible before transitioning to memory care. Expensive but worth every penny!
09.12.2025 16:10 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0The Secure Rural Schools Programβcreated by @wyden.senate.govβhelps rural communities keep schools and libraries open, maintain roads, and keep folks safe.
The Senate UNANIMOUSLY passed the Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act back in Juneβit's beyond time for the House to pass it!
Another great PBS News report from my friend Sarah Varney. She looks at the underground network helping women access safe abortion care.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
08.12.2025 18:53 β π 1627 π 513 π¬ 14 π 54The harm isn't just from the gross disinformation itself, but also resulting erosion of trust in federal science and guidance.
Rebuilding the latter will take far longer than correcting the former.
Pediatricians reject CDC advisersβ guidance, plan to continue vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
My latest for CIDRAP News
Text of the 13th Amendment: βNeither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.β The clause βexcept as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convictedβ is crossed out.
160 years ago, the 13th Amendment was ratified, ending slavery. But that amendment came with a sinister loophole: a Slavery Clause that allowed for slavery βas punishment for crime.β
We need to pass @repnikema.bsky.socialβs and my Abolition Amendment to #EndTheException once and for all!
The top 10 people of 2025 @nature.com who shaped science.
Recognizes Dr. Susan Monarez, the CDC Director who was "fired for holding the line on scientific integrity"
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Estrogen! Again and again itβs freaking estrogen. I endured the menopause transition years without HRT or any other rxβfelt pretty good on the other side of things and just found out I have osteopenia. Goddamn estrogen does EVERYTHING
08.12.2025 04:17 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Weird flaky skin in your ear canals
Insomnia
Achy joints
Migraines
I canβt stand it
08.12.2025 03:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I shall go
Up and down,
In my gown.
Gorgeously arrayed,
Boned and stayed.
And the softness of my body will be guarded from embrace
By each button, hook, and lace.
For the man who should loose me is dead,
Fighting with the Duke in Flanders,
In a pattern called a war.
Christ! What are patterns for?