Back on Bluesky after getting logged out, forgetting my password, and being too lazy to reset for 3 months 😌🫶🏼🤪

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

On hour 5 of updating my labs taxonomic literature bibliography from whatever random format it was in to APA 🥲 page 11 of 19 just a few moreeee

In addition to the country sliding into a fascist authoritarian regime, I’m also trying to prep for my wedding, a move, and a surgery all in the next 3 months and I’m handling that by baking bread and crying

Crayfish posing menacingly towards the camera with both claws up

I’ll never gatekeep crayfish facts 💗

Also the lines on top of their carapace are called the areola and when they’re touching it’s referred to as “obliterated areola”

@fruitsbythefish.bsky.social

Political Retaliation Pull up a chair...

Political Retaliation.

“But, back to the letter. It said I was under investigation for a fraudulent donation. The MEC had launched an investigation and I was to call them immediately to discuss what I had done and what discipline I would face.”

open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Two caddisflies sharing on case as if they’re spooning. The title of the picture is “hydroptilidae sleepover” (hydroptilidae is a family of caddisflies)

Not sure which of my coworkers titled this picture in our reference collection but I’m a big fan

When I say you don’t have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you don’t ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.

your day begins with sewers.
it ends with sewers.
it is sustained by sewers.
sewers every day.
sewers are life.
life is sewers.

Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra holds the oldest known caddisfly casing containing microplastic, dating to 1971. Photo: Liselotte Rambonnet.

A caddisfly casing with pieces of blue microplastic, dating 1986. Photo: Auke-Florian Hiemstra

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀

Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯

A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛

Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

I say this every time de-extinction comes up: it makes no sense to devote science to bringing back extinct animals when we can’t be bothered to keep extant ones alive in the first place.

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

the hair salon that I started going to 2 years ago SOLELY because they had online bookings so I didn’t have to call apparently doesn’t do online bookings anymore 🥲🥲 may need to find a new place to get my hair cut

I don’t think I’ll ever forget telling my therapist, “my childhood was good, I wasn’t abused, and my needs were always met” and then telling a few stories and her having to gently explain to me that my needs were NOT being met 🥲😅

welp can’t connect to the company fileserver and I think my attempt at troubleshooting made it worse so now I can’t work at all LOL great

having a chronic illness in a capitalist society just means I hate myself anytime I work less than 8 hours a day

in 2008, I had nothing. so when everybody lost everything it was hard for me to watch with anything other than morbid curiosity. now I have something, but my something is much closer to nothing than everything, so it's still mostly morbid curiosity with a light seasoning of existential dread

Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.

“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

Hello world! My name is Marcy Rheintgen and I recently became the first person to be arrested under the transgender bathroom bills!

Protest in New York City on 26th Street.

New York Fucking City. A full mile of people filled to the brim. Fascism is going to lose.

Akron, Ohio showed up 💗 hands off our rights!

Just drove through a few times with a pride flag. Huge turnout!!

Woman holding a long fishing net with a pride flag on the handle

Fishing nets can work as a flagpole 🫡

Omg I didn’t realize you were in Akron! That’s where I am but unfortunately feeling too sick to leave the house today. Stay safe if you go! 💗

“I asked ChatGPT wh-“

Shut the hell up. Just shut up. I don’t want to hear whatever pointless thing AI wasted gallons of water to tell you.