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Lavinia Kumar

@commastop.bsky.social

Poetry, flash fiction, sciences, nature, reading, cats, walking, Ireland, UK, US

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Whatever the dems want to ensure it MUST be in writing, in LAW

10.11.2025 02:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Very true MAGA is bluster all the way And once AI hits the economy with "force" all STEM work and workers will be long gone from the US

25.10.2025 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What an interesting speech. And what care Reagan took to explain his temporary move, along with short and long-term consequence.

No wonder Trump is having a hissy fit

24.10.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

OMG Thank goodness for The Guardian and NYT, as a minimum

23.10.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The MAGAs have zero interest in protecting their own grandchildren Or anyone else’s They prefer sycophancy over anything else

23.10.2025 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hallelujah!!!

23.10.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Definitely the word I always used It is not the pain It is the nasty result

23.10.2025 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So ICE made the NYC newspapers. So the masked guys are happy. And they made their big tax-payer bonuses. So they are happy. Is anyone else happy?

22.10.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The goal is to eliminate the study of STEM topics in the US? For what gain? For nonUS scientists to get all new patents? For goodness sake!!!

21.10.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Extraordinary Women Botanists of the 1700s #9 A Very Late Bloomer

Read about Mary Delany who did most of her amazing work from aged 71 to aged 88 - making over 900 masterful botanical "mosaics."
See open.substack.com/pub/lasummer...

16.10.2025 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lavinia Kumar | Substack Sciences, education, women, poetry, flash fiction. Click to read Lavinia Kumar, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.

Why stop at mathematicians
How about my current series on 1700s women botanists?
open.substack.com/pub/lasummer

12.10.2025 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He is a builder. He is an opportunist. He is a son-in-law. So QED.

11.10.2025 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Putting USctroops in the same area as their bullets and bombs have strafed a population if human beings makes for even more danger to thise humans

11.10.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

She is just part of the harem

08.10.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, indeed, it is a regime Not a government

08.10.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No prison YET YET YET

08.10.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Extraordinary Women Botanists of the 1700s #5 #5 Did She Start the Journey of β€˜Moving Plant of Bengal’

Read about another 1700s woman botanist!
open.substack.com/pub/lasummer...

29.09.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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2026 Best of the Net Nominations! Visit the post for more.

Bragging! My poem, β€œDream in South India” in Club Plum was nominated for Best of the Net 2026

clubplumliteraryjournal.com/2025/09/26/2...

27.09.2025 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How much more need we read from this Sycophant "Court"?

22.09.2025 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mrs Trump should pay attention to basic Royal info. NO ( no) off the shoulder dresses Shoulders must be covered She can't read?!

19.09.2025 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Extraordinary Women Botanists of the 1700s 3. She Categorized Numerous Plants

Extraordinary 1700s Women Botanists #3 Catharina Helena DΓΆrrien (1717 – 1795)
See Substack open.substack.com/pub/lasummer...

19.09.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Extraordinary Women Botanists of the 1700s 2. A Privileged Child of a Colonialist

Check out my new substack post on my series about often forgotten women botanists
open.substack.com/pub/lasummer...

17.09.2025 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Major Medical Prizes Given to Cell Biology and Cystic Fibrosis Pioneers

The Lasker Awards are for fascinating and important studies and results The article of this great science is hidden in NYT's Health section. To see the theLasker Awards info: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

12.09.2025 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Isn't the chief mortgage fraudster occupying the White House?

05.09.2025 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Criminals trying to create criminality = DC/Trump

05.09.2025 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The drone technology advances that the US miltary is learning from Ukraine would not happen minus this idiotic war

17.08.2025 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

OMG Rubio's sheer ignoance of history is astonishing He needs to read up on at least WWII

17.08.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good! Getting under DJT’s skin is a good strategy

14.08.2025 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Spirited American Women.  Book by Lavinia Kumar.  Also Kindle edition.

Spirited American Women. Book by Lavinia Kumar. Also Kindle edition.

Spirited American Women – 100 of them up to around the Civil War. Writers, artists, activists, abolitionists, independent…
On Amazon

12.08.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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