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 do feel like we are drastically low on young celebs who are consistently, loudly like No Seriously, Fuck All This Shit. best we’ve got rn is billie eilish I think. hope tonight proves me wrong
February 2, 2026 at 2:02 AM
i do feel like we are drastically low on young celebs who are consistently, loudly like No Seriously, Fuck All This Shit. best we’ve got rn is billie eilish I think. hope tonight proves me wrong
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Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
January 31, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that
Idk, this caught my eye, thought I’d share.
January 31, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Idk, this caught my eye, thought I’d share.
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Holy shit. So this just happened at Minneapolis's legendary First Avenue club. That's Tom Morello introducing Springsteen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jHe...
Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis - First Ave 260130
YouTube video by Nate Reiter
www.youtube.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Holy shit. So this just happened at Minneapolis's legendary First Avenue club. That's Tom Morello introducing Springsteen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jHe...
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The thing about Catherine O’Hara is she is so hilarious and talented that I forgot she was mortal
January 30, 2026 at 7:38 PM
The thing about Catherine O’Hara is she is so hilarious and talented that I forgot she was mortal
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I am not OK
January 30, 2026 at 6:26 PM
I am not OK
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1. Iron journalist rule: some people are authentic and some people aren’t. Farmers? Authentic. College profs? Not. There are around 1.9 million farms in America, and 1.5 million college teachers. Farmers aren’t authentic because there’s more of them. It's because journalists love cliches.
January 30, 2026 at 1:15 PM
1. Iron journalist rule: some people are authentic and some people aren’t. Farmers? Authentic. College profs? Not. There are around 1.9 million farms in America, and 1.5 million college teachers. Farmers aren’t authentic because there’s more of them. It's because journalists love cliches.
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No media outside of Kansas has picked up on the fact that the state just enacted a de facto public ban and papers-please act against trans people, and they won't, because trans people are only newsworthy if it furthers our dehumanization.
Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.
January 29, 2026 at 3:29 PM
No media outside of Kansas has picked up on the fact that the state just enacted a de facto public ban and papers-please act against trans people, and they won't, because trans people are only newsworthy if it furthers our dehumanization.
"When the emphasis is placed on attitude and adaptability, the burden of systemic failure is absorbed by individual workers."
This piece on the insidious normalization of an increasingly and intentionally broken NIH is so spot on it hurts.
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-happe...
This piece on the insidious normalization of an increasingly and intentionally broken NIH is so spot on it hurts.
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-happe...
What Happens When Science Is Asked to Pretend This Is Normal
In our All-Hands meetings before I left NIH, our leaders were always trying to think of ways to accommodate the new leadership, pitching ideas they thought would fit the “MAHA” agenda.
elizabethginexi.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:14 PM
"When the emphasis is placed on attitude and adaptability, the burden of systemic failure is absorbed by individual workers."
This piece on the insidious normalization of an increasingly and intentionally broken NIH is so spot on it hurts.
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-happe...
This piece on the insidious normalization of an increasingly and intentionally broken NIH is so spot on it hurts.
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-happe...
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We have an unprecedented moment of solidarity between leftists, liberal, centrists, and even non-MAGA Republicans on opposing DHS and after like 3 days Dems completely folded their hand and are prepared to give ICE $10 billion more if they pinky promise to behave themselves
Chuck Schumer just announced demands on DHS to avoid shutdown:
1. End roving patrols, tighten rules on warrants
2. Enforce accountability & unified code of conduct for agents
3. No more masks & require bodycams
There are *already* standards on much of this.
The issue is DHS isn't following them!
1. End roving patrols, tighten rules on warrants
2. Enforce accountability & unified code of conduct for agents
3. No more masks & require bodycams
There are *already* standards on much of this.
The issue is DHS isn't following them!
January 29, 2026 at 4:43 AM
We have an unprecedented moment of solidarity between leftists, liberal, centrists, and even non-MAGA Republicans on opposing DHS and after like 3 days Dems completely folded their hand and are prepared to give ICE $10 billion more if they pinky promise to behave themselves
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Love that this post highlights a classic Neuro Monty Pyton theory of Andrew Huberman: “the head shape” theory
Congratulations to CBS for hiring their first neurocomedian
Congratulations to CBS for hiring their first neurocomedian
In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
January 28, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Love that this post highlights a classic Neuro Monty Pyton theory of Andrew Huberman: “the head shape” theory
Congratulations to CBS for hiring their first neurocomedian
Congratulations to CBS for hiring their first neurocomedian
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Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.
The intense fallout from the killing of Alex Pretti has forced President Trump to publicly change course in Minneapolis.
Listen to our White House reporters discuss the changes on today's episode of "The Daily."
Listen to our White House reporters discuss the changes on today's episode of "The Daily."
Trump Changes Course in Minneapolis
The White House has been met with broad outcry over the killing of Alex Pretti, as well as pushback from Congress.
nyti.ms
January 28, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.
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Another instance where lots of folks worked very hard for the smallest of changes and now we are all watching all progress from the past 20+ years reversed, like POOF
And the idea that this is what needs to be done to stay in science, find and work the good-ol'-boys network, kind of turns my stomach.
January 28, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Another instance where lots of folks worked very hard for the smallest of changes and now we are all watching all progress from the past 20+ years reversed, like POOF
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We stop talking about percentiles, paylines etc like it's the before times. Admin and leadership are still doing that because it still hasn't hit them yet. POs don't even know what the rules are anymore so grant reviews are just performative.
We're working back channels to get our grants funded.
We're working back channels to get our grants funded.
Even people who score well (10th or even 5th %ile) are left without funding. Where do we go from here?
January 28, 2026 at 1:08 AM
We stop talking about percentiles, paylines etc like it's the before times. Admin and leadership are still doing that because it still hasn't hit them yet. POs don't even know what the rules are anymore so grant reviews are just performative.
We're working back channels to get our grants funded.
We're working back channels to get our grants funded.
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Toughest congressperson in America rears back for a punch, and refuses to cut short townhall, after asshole sprays her with something.
January 28, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Toughest congressperson in America rears back for a punch, and refuses to cut short townhall, after asshole sprays her with something.
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Good lord Putin doesnt even rig it this big
January 28, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Good lord Putin doesnt even rig it this big
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There are people with principled takes on the 2nd Amendment, like the 1st.
But if you ever believed that the American Right broadly supported 2nd Amendment rights, as opposed to rights for people who agreed with them, you are a fool.
But if you ever believed that the American Right broadly supported 2nd Amendment rights, as opposed to rights for people who agreed with them, you are a fool.
Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."
January 27, 2026 at 8:34 PM
There are people with principled takes on the 2nd Amendment, like the 1st.
But if you ever believed that the American Right broadly supported 2nd Amendment rights, as opposed to rights for people who agreed with them, you are a fool.
But if you ever believed that the American Right broadly supported 2nd Amendment rights, as opposed to rights for people who agreed with them, you are a fool.
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What I remember most vividly about the 2015 winter hellscape is that sometime around April the upper layers of the city's snowbanks started melting only to reveal all the detritus of the Pats' Superbowl parade at about the 3ft mark.
Do you know about the winter of 2014-2015 when Boston lost its mind from the snow?
January 27, 2026 at 7:33 PM
What I remember most vividly about the 2015 winter hellscape is that sometime around April the upper layers of the city's snowbanks started melting only to reveal all the detritus of the Pats' Superbowl parade at about the 3ft mark.
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Excited for Bovino and his new office.
January 27, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Excited for Bovino and his new office.
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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"What MAHA produces is propaganda: narratives designed to galvanize belief, build identity, and legitimate a political project.
The term “misinformation” treats this as a knowledge problem.
It’s a power problem."
Superb piece on how science can fight, by @noupside.bsky.social
The term “misinformation” treats this as a knowledge problem.
It’s a power problem."
Superb piece on how science can fight, by @noupside.bsky.social
Misinformation Studies Meets the Raw Milk Renaissance
A review of National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science” (The National Academies Press, 2025).
www.lawfaremedia.org
January 26, 2026 at 10:47 PM
"What MAHA produces is propaganda: narratives designed to galvanize belief, build identity, and legitimate a political project.
The term “misinformation” treats this as a knowledge problem.
It’s a power problem."
Superb piece on how science can fight, by @noupside.bsky.social
The term “misinformation” treats this as a knowledge problem.
It’s a power problem."
Superb piece on how science can fight, by @noupside.bsky.social
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BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
www.youtube.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:42 PM