Elizabeth Stevenson

@elizabethrah.bsky.social

170 followers 440 following 100 posts

Hi! I enjoy hiking, birding, reading, and playing video games. I live with my three cockatiels and husband in Maryland.

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Chemistry 29%

Political science 14%

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 1d

Twas the night before Christmas, and throughout the land
The sleeping arrangements were carefully planned
Down in the kitchen, a picturesque scene
A mattress, a pillow, a washing machine

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CarsmileSteve @carsmilesteve.bsky.social · 1d

Right then, no one asked for it (everyone seems quite happy with last year's!) but here we are anyway, your #DuvetKnowItsChristmas 2025 bingo card! Some returning classics, some we missed last year and some new ones. Enjoy team, donation link below once Rhodri posts it!

A five by five bingo card, here are the things to look out for:
Top row: 80's bed linen, obscure musical instrument, bed too small for over 6ft person, CRT TV/Monitor, tumble dryer
Second row: exercise bike (as clothes horse), DALEK, 90s or earlier games console, too much crafting stuff, single beds for long term partners
Middle row: old cuddly toy, bed on tiles/lino, DUVET, multiple labubus, bare plaster board
Fourth row: bed next to fridge, 4+ Jilly Cooper novels, definitely dead house plant, caravan, large collection of jigsaws
Bottom row: giant buzz ball, "curtains" that are not curtains, scary dolls, bed under table, power tools.

Reposted by Elizabeth Stevenson, Dolly Jørgensen, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson

Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 4d

Here's a 🧵 on how I came to write the article I'm working on right now, and you can decide for yourself whether AI was ever going to go in this direction:

Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 4d

What historians (and other scholars do) is create knowledge. We should use that phrase more and talk about what it means. I think we don't, and it's part of why AI enthusiasts are confused when we don't readily agree that our work can be replicated/replaced by their products.

Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 4d

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica

YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official

m.youtube.com

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Gemma Matthews - The Sewing Songbird @thesewingsongbird.bsky.social · 5d

Good morning and Happy Winter Solstice. 😊 I’m definitely looking forward to the returning of the light. Here’s a look back at my embroidery, The Lady in the Winter Garden for you today.🪡🌿🌺❄️🌲 *Completely freehand stitched in November 2023.
#stitchedart #thesewingsongbird

Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 5d

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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Ryan Bernardoni @dangercart.bsky.social · 14d

Stealworkers

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 17d

Nuzzi is the type of journalist who treats politics as offering entertaining characters, and zero stakes or substance.

She has had a remarkably successful career within that particular genre.

Her self-immolation, along with this vacuous memoir, illustrates the genre’s limits.

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 18d

And the worst part—the worst part by far—is that the devastating consequences of this choice will be borne by people who did not make it, who could not make it.

That is truly unconscionable.

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Justin Lewis, Christine Kooi , and 4 more Lisa W. Fazio, Justin Lewis, Christine Kooi, Elizabeth Stevenson, David Underdown, Urška Demšar, Kathleen Kennedy

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 20d

A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.

Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.

A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Dorothy Bishop, Graeme S. Cumming , and 9 more Shannon Vallor, Dorothy Bishop, Graeme S. Cumming, Ashish Arora, Julie L. Lockwood, Steve Peers, Adrian Vickers, Elizabeth Stevenson, Kathleen Kennedy, Christina Pagel, Sarah Colvin, Markus P. Eichhorn

Jeff Youngblood @jeffyoungblood.bsky.social · 20d

The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.

Reposted by Andrew Jacobs, Elizabeth Stevenson, Catherine J. Frieman

Ro @boredoftheoldone.bsky.social · 24d

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.

Saved by Stoppard
Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec 1), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival.
Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum
Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL

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matt @windows98support.bsky.social · 24d

Oh shit waddup

Elizabeth Stevenson @elizabethrah.bsky.social · 29d

I'm so sorry 💔

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · Nov 22

IT’S A THING!

You get cremated, they mix your ashes with the eco-crete, attach a plaque, and take it out sea.

Honestly, as gimmick burials go, I kinda love this.

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Skeet Laureate 💫 @blkginger.bsky.social · Nov 22

I love this one a lady did about punctuation marks

Elizabeth Stevenson @elizabethrah.bsky.social · Nov 22

I rearranged some toys in the bird room today, and they are pleased.

#cockatiel #ParrotSky

Three cockatiels in the picture, two male normal greys and one male pied. There are several large toys, one is white and spherical and one is a flat circle made of thin wooden strips.

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Michael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social · Nov 21

Seals singing in a sea cave

#Orkney 🦭🎧

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Nov 19

Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.

Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, Elizabeth Stevenson, Timothy D. McBride

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Nov 19

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.

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Tom Heintjes @hogansalley.bsky.social · Nov 18

Bill Watterson’s “Calvin and Hobbes” first appeared 40 years ago, on November 18, 1985. Here’s the first week of dailies:

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Andy Barr @barrstard.bsky.social · Nov 18

We have forcibly installed the Stupid Machine in all of your homes but, of course, under no circumstances should you trust the Stupid Machine.

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ESO @eso.org · Nov 18

A section of Ara OB1, a stellar association, is visible in this image.

Stellar associations are large groupings of loosely bound stars that have not yet completely drifted away from their initial formation site.

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1510/ 🔭

📷 ESO
#Flashback

A nebula with countless stars of varying brightness and colour scattered across the scene. In the centre, a bright, glowing region is surrounded by swirling clouds of gas and dust in shades of orange, brown, and blue. On the right, reddish gas and dark filaments outline the edge of the nebula.

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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · Nov 16

Great to be on Whenua Hou last week, helping attach GPS tags to #kakapo ahead of the breeding season. We caught up with Rakiura - whom we're hoping will use the same nest for the 7th time. That's unusual - kākāpō normally don't re-use nests. #conservation #parrots

A kākāpō being held on a person's lap. Credit: Andrew Digby

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · Nov 15

This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.

Elizabeth Stevenson @elizabethrah.bsky.social · Nov 15

I started reading the book for book club and oh no I hate it :(

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Crendor @crendor.bsky.social · Nov 15

Folks, here it is - 8 Hours of Pointless Top 10 WoW Facts to fall asleep to youtu.be/9IRBikyhEdo?...

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lillian @toomanymouths.bsky.social · Nov 13

oh wow that’s crazy

oreos with bits of

of oreos. in them

Real Bits of Oreos

a photo of Oreo Loaded cookies, which promise real oreo cookie crumbs in the filling of the oreo

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Tarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social · Nov 13

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

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Capital Weather Gang @capitalweather.bsky.social · Nov 11

🌌 Keep your eyes on the sky (or your feed)! Strong to severe geomagnetic storms are expected tonight & Wed. Tonight’s show should stay north of DC region -- maybe a glimmer on camera. Wed could deliver northern lights you can see with naked eye if timing’s right. 🤞✨

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