Annette Parde-Maass

I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.

Have a lot of new followers who are unaware of my stickers…

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4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved

Replication Crisis

xkcd.com/3117/

Bombshell records expose political plot to oust rural Georgia librarian over LGBTQ+ book Behind the scenes, Pierce County officials shared conservative social media posts and strategized LaVonnia Moore’s removal after she displayed a book about a trans child at the public library.

I don't know if many of you are following this story, but if not, have you heard about this story? www.advocate.com/news/georgia...

When “Take a Deep Breath” Can Be Bad Advice Don't "take a deep breath" when you're stressed, even if your favorite aunt tells you to. Deep breathing can actually make anxiety worse.

This explains a lot...

"Breathing slowly (not deeply), using slow breathing at the right time, and practicing slow breathing regularly will provide more relief."

How others see Hazel: Astrid has done a lot of fantasy casting over the years, putting faces—mostly those of well-known actors—onto characters from her favorite books. Hazel, she is sure, would have been perfectly cast as a woman with whom a chance encounter alters the course of a protagonist’s life. Or at least costs them sleep and focus for a good long while.

HOW HAZEL SEES HERSELF Hazel shrugs. “That’s always been my problem. I’m not cool; I just have resting enigmatic face.”

This is Hazel and I love Hazel and I don't say this lightly but it occurs to me just now that I might like to be Hazel? Or at least have resting enigmatic face, lol.

B&N has a 25% off preorder promotion for members until 7/11.

ARC giveaway for THE LIBRARIANS on Goodreads until 7/30.

I feel this to my core. And desperately need the reminder so I don't blame myself every time. "Barometric nonsense" is a perfect phrase.

"Though Wu was never charged, Northwestern reassigned her grant funding, closed her lab and forcibly admitted her to the university’s psychiatric hospital..."

American academia is actively hostile to the health, well being and survival of women of color.

Unfortunately, this isn’t just a Texas thing.

A horrifyingly large number of emergency alerts in this country appear to still be issued exclusively on Facebook, or MAYBE X - while both platforms are becoming both far more unpopular AND actively hostile to sharing timely disaster info.

ADDRESS: Long COVID Clinical Study | BioVie Pharma ADDRESS: Long COVID- Clinical study evaluating anti-inflammatory drug for underlying the neurological symptoms of Long COVID.

ADDRESS-LC, the #LongCovid clinical trial for Bezisterim, is still enrolling!

Bezisterim is an investigational drug that has been studied as a potential treatment for neurological and neurodegenerative disorders.

Visit addresslongcovid.com to see if you're eligible! 1/

Having done a PhD with others doing a bioinformatics degree, I can assure you AI is not the answer.

Bioinformatics would show a target med that would “work” in their computer model and completely fail out in cell culture. It wouldn’t even make it to animal testing.

At the edge of the shot, a black and white tuxedo cat (Rufus). On the other side of the living room window, a raccoon staring back in at Rufus. Various container plants in the background on the deck.

The Cat of the Day is a two-for. Rufus (The Tiny House Panther) and a sort of exotic looking outdoor cat. The outdoor cat had four smaller ones with it. Seemed to be very interested in the bird feeders for some reason.

GenX friends, we know your parents just handed you sparklers. They didn't have the Consumer Product Safety Commission on their phone like you do now. Maybe if they'd known sparklers burn as hot as a blowtorch they would have reconsidered (maybe). Once we know better, we must do better.

Miscarriage/infertility is a common trope but there's no evidence this happens and plenty of evidence the vaccine is protective for parent and child. See this article @gorskon.bsky.social and I wrote about it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I think a lot of people—including many who are very sympathetic to asylum—have some idea that the asylum process is easy and involves showing up and saying “I want asylum” and then being granted asylum.

If it's hilarious without audio, you are a success.

Tell me something cool you’ve learned about nature.

Sure, this is fake, but we have the power to make it real.

If you weren’t so full of liberal bias, you would appreciate that Elon has built SpaceX into the world’s biggest and best fireworks company.

Many US cities have police databases almost exclusively comprised of Black & Brown ppl (including kids) that are built through racialized, arbitrary inclusion criteria and egregiously unconstitutional state (& corporate) surveillance practices that criminalizes social connection btwn ppl of color

When I saw this, all I could think of was rahaeli's posts of the astronaut meme: bsky.app/profile/raha...

We take a shitload of steps to block scrapers, and I mean a FUCKING SHITLOAD of steps that we're constantly tweaking and spend hours on per week, and our server load is still up about 75% from two years ago with only a slight increase in MAU. This problem is fucking huge.

Screenshot of a DM The National Library of Medicine (NLM) will undergo a “realignment” effective July 1. With 40% of staff positions eliminated, the remaining staff and services will focus on core library functions, including Collection Development and Health Data Standards (formerly Bibliographic Services). NCBI will continue operations but with reduced staff and services. Outreach will no longer be considered a core function. The Branch, which oversees NNLM, will be dissolved. NNLM will continue under the Office of Strategic Operations Traveling Exhibits and History Talks are suspended. Exhibits already on loan or scheduled will proceed, but no new programs or outreach initiatives will be offered. No new website curations will be created. MedlinePlus will be maintained as needed, but no new content will be developed.

Sharing this update provided to me directly about the state of NLM and the future of NNLM, traveling exhibits, and, somehow, MedlinePlus.

I am so worried for friends and colleagues, and I'm stuck on that, but it is hard to not want to scream WTF about a MedlinePlus with no new material.

#medlibs

This part.
(The whole thread is a must-read.). 👇🏼

Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.

Once again, please stop getting your “information” from Alt NPS. They are a cosplayer at best and a scam artist at worst 👇🏻

oh dang

If you listen to this & want more, I want to remind you I have an ENTIRE BOOK that completely debunks popular understandings of the menstrual cycle and teaches you not only the problems with the eugenic history of this science, but helps you understand the real science:

bookshop.org/p/books/peri...

Probably my most retweeted post back there was the one that went

"I fundamentally believe 'i suffered so you should too' is a shitty way to live. It's morally bad, politically bad, & just bad for your heart."

“Delay, Interfere, Undermine” President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a…

U.S. agents suspected Bukele and some in his inner circle of diverting USAID funds to MS-13 leaders.

Agents sought to review any U.S. bank accounts held by 15 Salvadoran political figures including Bukele, other senior officials and their relatives.