Dr. Becca
@docbecca.bsky.social
cocktail enthusiast | neuroscientist | SABV influencer | urban gardener | drum learner | she/her
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Dr. Becca
@docbecca.bsky.social
· Nov 10
So many new faces, I love it! If you weren’t following me on the other place, you can expect: cats, cocktails, travel photos, random science musings, things other people post that are funny or important, bouts of anger at the election outcome. Engaging in a new space can be scary but please do!
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I had a lot to say about the ending of Stranger Things. That show got me.
"Stranger Things has always been about change, friendship, and acceptance. It never changed to make people who didn’t get it feel better; it accepted itself for what it was beautifully."
👻📽️ Read @crocketthoughton.com's thoughts on the series finale here: www.frightaboutnow.com/p/stranger-t...
👻📽️ Read @crocketthoughton.com's thoughts on the series finale here: www.frightaboutnow.com/p/stranger-t...
STRANGER THINGS 5: THE END OF AN ERA
www.frightaboutnow.com
January 4, 2026 at 5:27 PM
I had a lot to say about the ending of Stranger Things. That show got me.
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If more people understood that socialism doesn't eliminate personal wealth we might be so much further along as a society
January 1, 2026 at 6:48 PM
If more people understood that socialism doesn't eliminate personal wealth we might be so much further along as a society
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“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
January 1, 2026 at 11:43 AM
“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
The 90s were the absolute best
December 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The 90s were the absolute best
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Amid a tumultuous year, researchers opined on policy changes, funding uncertainty, scientific trends and AI’s impact. Read essays by @tuthill.bsky.social, @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @kordinglab.bsky.social, @eboyden3.bsky.social, @docbecca.bsky.social, and Tim Requarth.
#neuroskyence
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#neuroskyence
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The Transmitter’s favorite essays of 2025
Throughout a tumultuous year in science, researchers opined on policy changes and funding uncertainty, as well as scientific trends and the impact of artificial-intelligence tools on the field.
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December 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amid a tumultuous year, researchers opined on policy changes, funding uncertainty, scientific trends and AI’s impact. Read essays by @tuthill.bsky.social, @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @kordinglab.bsky.social, @eboyden3.bsky.social, @docbecca.bsky.social, and Tim Requarth.
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/44NL9jy
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/44NL9jy
Well I'm sobbing right off the bat. The piece for Jane Goodall is beautiful.
Gift link for all of the 2025 remembrances of people in the NYT Magazine. These mini-portraits are lovingly crafted.
Remembering Some of the Artists, Innovators and Thinkers We Lost in the Past Year
Remembering Some of the Artists, Innovators and Thinkers We Lost in the Past Year
The Lives They Lived (Gift Article)
Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year.
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Well I'm sobbing right off the bat. The piece for Jane Goodall is beautiful.
Update: gay hockey show binge complete. It FULLY lives up to the hype. So great on literally every level of TV-making, and yes ep 5 truly must win all the awards. If I had to pick one bone it's that 10 years go by and NOBODY AGES at all, they simply chose not to even try.
I clearly need to binge the gay hockey show ASAP
Important news for the Bluesky userbase (37-year-olds who went to the free Prospect Park shows every summer): Wolf Parade has the No. 1 song on Spotify right now because it's in the gay hockey movie.
December 28, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Update: gay hockey show binge complete. It FULLY lives up to the hype. So great on literally every level of TV-making, and yes ep 5 truly must win all the awards. If I had to pick one bone it's that 10 years go by and NOBODY AGES at all, they simply chose not to even try.
The Man Ray of it all....just 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
i love every single microscopic detail about this. Rama is the moment. Her husbands cool too I guess lol.
December 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The Man Ray of it all....just 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
This is so good 😭
Okay, so at the request of the lovely @trance.bsky.social , I'm going to tell a story about what happens when a shitty person is "just joking", and then discovers there are consequences.
AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade.
Grab your beverage of choice.
AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade.
Grab your beverage of choice.
December 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This is so good 😭
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It isn’t “for no reason”.
The tariffs allow Trump to hold large corporations hostage until they pay him massive bribes. The reason is to enrich Trump, whatever the cost.
I’m tired of people thinking there’s some deep policy or something when it’s just mundane mob shakedown shit.
The tariffs allow Trump to hold large corporations hostage until they pay him massive bribes. The reason is to enrich Trump, whatever the cost.
I’m tired of people thinking there’s some deep policy or something when it’s just mundane mob shakedown shit.
Costs for small businesses shot up this year thanks to Trump's tariffs—how is this putting America first?
December 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
It isn’t “for no reason”.
The tariffs allow Trump to hold large corporations hostage until they pay him massive bribes. The reason is to enrich Trump, whatever the cost.
I’m tired of people thinking there’s some deep policy or something when it’s just mundane mob shakedown shit.
The tariffs allow Trump to hold large corporations hostage until they pay him massive bribes. The reason is to enrich Trump, whatever the cost.
I’m tired of people thinking there’s some deep policy or something when it’s just mundane mob shakedown shit.
I clearly need to binge the gay hockey show ASAP
Important news for the Bluesky userbase (37-year-olds who went to the free Prospect Park shows every summer): Wolf Parade has the No. 1 song on Spotify right now because it's in the gay hockey movie.
December 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I clearly need to binge the gay hockey show ASAP
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This is why I keep harping on about her. There are lots of shitty, unethical journalists. Plenty of people have had affairs with politicians.
But this affair knocked over a set of dominoes that set public health back 50 years. Children will die of preventable diseases because of her.
But this affair knocked over a set of dominoes that set public health back 50 years. Children will die of preventable diseases because of her.
December 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
This is why I keep harping on about her. There are lots of shitty, unethical journalists. Plenty of people have had affairs with politicians.
But this affair knocked over a set of dominoes that set public health back 50 years. Children will die of preventable diseases because of her.
But this affair knocked over a set of dominoes that set public health back 50 years. Children will die of preventable diseases because of her.
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McGill is hiring scholars from outside Canada! The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) Program is designed to attract world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges. Review of applications begins 1/16/26. www.mcgill.ca/research/res...
December 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
McGill is hiring scholars from outside Canada! The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) Program is designed to attract world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges. Review of applications begins 1/16/26. www.mcgill.ca/research/res...
100% this. If you find it “slow” or complain that nothing is happening I’m sorry but we can’t hang out anymore.
Pluribus rules because it’s forcing people who wanna see a bunch of sci fi lore dumps to instead watch amazing actors have incredibly interesting conversations about what it means to be a person
December 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
100% this. If you find it “slow” or complain that nothing is happening I’m sorry but we can’t hang out anymore.
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Should make her Time's Person of the Year every year
December 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Should make her Time's Person of the Year every year
😡😡😡😡😡
“The administration has warned that there will be “involuntary separations” if not enough faculty take buyouts or retire; about 170 faculty have been given offers, professors said… They were given less than two weeks to consider leaving, some after decades of service.”
December 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
😡😡😡😡😡
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“The university’s financial plight is not driven by poor teaching or professors’ compensation, said Sanjay Reddy, an economist at the New School who is fighting the plan. Instead, he cited mismanaged spending on real estate, expanding administrative costs, incompetent marketing”
December 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
“The university’s financial plight is not driven by poor teaching or professors’ compensation, said Sanjay Reddy, an economist at the New School who is fighting the plan. Instead, he cited mismanaged spending on real estate, expanding administrative costs, incompetent marketing”
This whole thread on what’s happening at the New School should terrify anyone with any vested interest in the survival of higher education in this country. I fear other schools aren’t far behind…
New School “administrators have started to implement a plan to close, overhaul or merge about 30 academic programs or majors; pause nearly all admissions to doctoral programs; and offer buyouts or early retirement to what professors say is about 40 percent of the full-time faculty.”
Falling Enrollment, Money Woes: The New School Seeks a Path to Survival
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This whole thread on what’s happening at the New School should terrify anyone with any vested interest in the survival of higher education in this country. I fear other schools aren’t far behind…
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And everything they touch ends up looking half-assed too.
That is the other thing that offends me so. The gross incompetence at everything they do.
Lookit this: It's illegal. Grammar is wrong. Font is different. Of course his name is first. Goddamn I hate these people with every fiber of my being.
That is the other thing that offends me so. The gross incompetence at everything they do.
Lookit this: It's illegal. Grammar is wrong. Font is different. Of course his name is first. Goddamn I hate these people with every fiber of my being.
December 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
And everything they touch ends up looking half-assed too.
That is the other thing that offends me so. The gross incompetence at everything they do.
Lookit this: It's illegal. Grammar is wrong. Font is different. Of course his name is first. Goddamn I hate these people with every fiber of my being.
That is the other thing that offends me so. The gross incompetence at everything they do.
Lookit this: It's illegal. Grammar is wrong. Font is different. Of course his name is first. Goddamn I hate these people with every fiber of my being.
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for those in my boat, the designation has changed on my grant from yesterday to this new pergatory
December 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
for those in my boat, the designation has changed on my grant from yesterday to this new pergatory
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"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.