here's my semi-regular reminder that Buck v Bell was never explicitly overturned. the u.s. has a long, long history of eugenics.

oh it was bad, bad, bad - i lived alone from mid 2019-nov. 2021, shifted my work hours to avoid high contact situations, and functionally went weeks without ever actually meaningfully interacting with people. physically, this is was good - high risk etc - mentally, it was extremely bad.

cooking related: there's a LOT of cabbage recipes right now.
art related: notable uptick in decorative embroidery mending techniques (like sashiko).
personal experience: vet offices get way less busy, people spend less on their pets (mom was a vet in 2008).

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children.

Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future.

If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it.

So must you.

I'm becoming too acquainted with the feeling of dread, coupled with anger that the people best positioned to stop all this choose not to on a daily basis

Photo of the Cedar River in Iowa, with two signs: the closer is a trail sign with an arrow pointing to the river, reading "River". The further reads "Danger! Recirculating currents below dam trap and drown victims". There's a little dirt trail going towards the river.

went hiking in Palisades-Kepler State park yesterday and came across this combo of signs

(unfortunately a little too early for wildflowers, but good birdwatching otherwise)

#PedSky #MedSky #Pulmsky #EpiSky #policysky #polisky #PainResearch🛟 🫁💊🧪 🌍⚖️

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world.

It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world.

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕

it's a great microscope but the fact that if that computer goes we could have serious problems is beyond frustrating. i have so much respect for the people working to make software for science research open source right now

we have a microscope that would probably cost a couple hundred thousand to replace, runs with a windows 7 computer. microscope won't work without that specific computer (there's company stuff attached to the motherboard). so, no easy way to update just the computer.

there's a bunch of labs i personally know that have little old dinosaur computers running anything from windows 3.1 to xp, including ours. some software won't run on anything higher!

If you watched the live NASA channel and all the NASA programming you’ve gotta give it up to some of the best science commentators in the business. NASA is absolutely masterful at this and it’s important to note this is a priority for them. Not many other govt orgs do this level of public education.

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

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the "fun" part of being trans in the u.s. is learning what fresh hell awaits you every day. doing this on TDoV of all days just to really drive in the transphobia.

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you.

If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can.

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Figure Skating Has Always Blurred The Lines Of Gender Segregation From Madge Syers to Timothy LeDuc, the sport has wrestled with its self-imposed separations.

when Madge Syers won the silver medal in the World Figure Skating Championships in 1902, the international skating union responded by making a separate ladies' championship. (fivethirtyeight.com/features/in-...)

as long as the water rights exist as they do now, there is an incredibly strong incentive to grow water-intensive crops. california's the worst about it, but arizona does this too.

haven't yet published my thesis work, but I will hopefully submit it this year!

i <3 microglia! my thesis work was on neuro-immune signaling in the spinal cord in neuropathic pain.

i don't accept apologies without changed behavior. forgiveness comes after you've worked to repair the harm you cause.

if they actually felt true remorse for that, they'd be working to repair the damage they've caused. instead, they're complaining that the hate movement they supported turned on them, to the people who've borne the brunt of that hate.

i don't tend to focus on what people believe as much as i focus on what they do. whether these women were full-blown white supremacists or "just" contrarian edgelords, ultimately, they all supported fascism.

they joined a hate movement and were surprised it turned on them. that was an extremely predictable outcome and i hold far more concern for the people they hurt than i do for them.

one of the strongest patterns of u.s. history is white people choosing to protect their whiteness over anything else, even when it's a "cut off your nose to spite your face" situation. MAGA has always been violent towards women; these women thought their whiteness would protect them.

What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022 “Goodbye, Pamela Paul,” was the headline of Andrea Long Chu’s now-iconic, recently ASME-nominated New York Magazine farewell to the former NY Times Book Review editor, when Paul left the paper two …

*taps internet microphone*

After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ...

We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ...

lithub.com/what-was-los...

They have money for war, but won’t feed the poor x 11000000000.

0.0023, and boy does my screen need cleaning. reds and pinks are very difficult for me, but blues are easy.

i was talking to my dearest friend about this and she commented "oh yeah that was done to me in high school" which. she graduated from in the 2010s.