Emily Heydon
@emilyheydon.bsky.social
Philosophy PhD student @ Buffalo 🦬 | California transplant | recovering homeschooler | thinking about niche construction theory and Bayesian games | 💜🏳️🌈⛸🌎🌿
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Some fun with lady Belted Kingfisher today. I found a good spot for them. Thinking about actually dragging a tripod with me next time out. 🪶
November 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Some fun with lady Belted Kingfisher today. I found a good spot for them. Thinking about actually dragging a tripod with me next time out. 🪶
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In the lab I was in 100 years ago, the major prof stripped an assistantship from one of the female PhD students who made a big discovery. She presented at a major conference & the room was a buzz around her at the end. My prof was not amused. She ended up having to transfer to another lab to finish.
November 16, 2025 at 2:21 AM
In the lab I was in 100 years ago, the major prof stripped an assistantship from one of the female PhD students who made a big discovery. She presented at a major conference & the room was a buzz around her at the end. My prof was not amused. She ended up having to transfer to another lab to finish.
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Oh my god can you imagine??? Holy shit.
Today I learned that disabled folks get a special bathroom key in the UK that universally opens special toilets. And I love this concept.
November 16, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Oh my god can you imagine??? Holy shit.
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It makes a mockery of those of us who were taught that hard work is what yields the greatest rewards, whose parents sacrificed everything so we could go to school... to be told to look up to people like *this.*
November 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
It makes a mockery of those of us who were taught that hard work is what yields the greatest rewards, whose parents sacrificed everything so we could go to school... to be told to look up to people like *this.*
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Oh I'm pretty sure this scenario is more or less why my sister doesn't have her PhD in theoretical astrophysics. She stopped at a masters because her mentor was harrassing her and when she said no he dropped her.
November 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Oh I'm pretty sure this scenario is more or less why my sister doesn't have her PhD in theoretical astrophysics. She stopped at a masters because her mentor was harrassing her and when she said no he dropped her.
see also: the men who can’t let their female mentee outshine them, which results in a need to constantly talk her down, talk over her, slander her reputation, and minimize her in every way, with the hope that the woman will eventually either give up and leave academia or accept her “lesser” status
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 2:04 AM
see also: the men who can’t let their female mentee outshine them, which results in a need to constantly talk her down, talk over her, slander her reputation, and minimize her in every way, with the hope that the woman will eventually either give up and leave academia or accept her “lesser” status
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Sometimes you have an experience like this and years later see the man thanked for his mentorship by another man in the preface to the latter’s book, and it really burns
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Sometimes you have an experience like this and years later see the man thanked for his mentorship by another man in the preface to the latter’s book, and it really burns
god help me, I’m discovering the teachings of Doug Wilson for the first time
November 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM
god help me, I’m discovering the teachings of Doug Wilson for the first time
ngl as a non-drinker I don’t understand expensive alc culture. If I had $500 to blow on a single bottle I’d rather use that money to idk buy clothes or something that will actually last
November 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
ngl as a non-drinker I don’t understand expensive alc culture. If I had $500 to blow on a single bottle I’d rather use that money to idk buy clothes or something that will actually last
got something similar this week from a “Vernon Press” trying to solicit an edited volume. I don’t know who thinks I have the credentials to edit a volume
This is a first. Just got an actual phone call on my cell from a scam vanity publisher trying to sell me a marketing deal. Like she knew my name and books and everything, but her company didn't show up on google when I made her spell it for me.
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
got something similar this week from a “Vernon Press” trying to solicit an edited volume. I don’t know who thinks I have the credentials to edit a volume
graded four (4) papers and am trying to convince myself to grade more
November 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
graded four (4) papers and am trying to convince myself to grade more
hate it when people on FB marketplace intentionally sell you appliances that don’t work
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
hate it when people on FB marketplace intentionally sell you appliances that don’t work
I know the same disability can affect ppl differently + I also try to be as accommodating as possible as an instructor. I was once an undergrad who needed disability accommodations! But I am getting tired of men using “but I have [same disability Emily has]” as a reason why they can’t meet deadlines
November 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I know the same disability can affect ppl differently + I also try to be as accommodating as possible as an instructor. I was once an undergrad who needed disability accommodations! But I am getting tired of men using “but I have [same disability Emily has]” as a reason why they can’t meet deadlines
I need to know why other white women are so invested in conspiracy theories and “the SA survivor is lying”-style conspiracy theories in particular
November 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I need to know why other white women are so invested in conspiracy theories and “the SA survivor is lying”-style conspiracy theories in particular
waiting for it to stop being cloudy and rainy AF so that I can actually see this aurora 😑
November 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
waiting for it to stop being cloudy and rainy AF so that I can actually see this aurora 😑
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Me, daily: this place is a mess. A MESS.
This place, occassionally: what about an aurora borealis in these troubling times?
This place, occassionally: what about an aurora borealis in these troubling times?
November 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Me, daily: this place is a mess. A MESS.
This place, occassionally: what about an aurora borealis in these troubling times?
This place, occassionally: what about an aurora borealis in these troubling times?
the audacity of a random person on Reddit messaging me to ask me to create for them an illegal pdf of a textbook that they suspect I could own based on one of my posts but that I do not in fact own
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
the audacity of a random person on Reddit messaging me to ask me to create for them an illegal pdf of a textbook that they suspect I could own based on one of my posts but that I do not in fact own
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Our handsome, patient oaf of a cat Titus has passed on. He enjoyed finding heat sources, joining us in the bathroom, falling gracelessly off of things, and looking like he was dead until one day, he was. We will always remember you Mr. Titus.
November 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Our handsome, patient oaf of a cat Titus has passed on. He enjoyed finding heat sources, joining us in the bathroom, falling gracelessly off of things, and looking like he was dead until one day, he was. We will always remember you Mr. Titus.
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This is an absolutely insane administrative process. Within the space of a week, states were told by judges/White House
*no SNAP benefits
*half benefits
*full benefits
*pause provision of benefits.
Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.
*no SNAP benefits
*half benefits
*full benefits
*pause provision of benefits.
Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This is an absolutely insane administrative process. Within the space of a week, states were told by judges/White House
*no SNAP benefits
*half benefits
*full benefits
*pause provision of benefits.
Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.
*no SNAP benefits
*half benefits
*full benefits
*pause provision of benefits.
Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.
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glad it wasn’t that though
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
glad it wasn’t that though
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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The first snow flurries of the year.
November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The first snow flurries of the year.
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‘The presence of two words — “equity” and “inclusion” — on page 50 of a 5-year-old grant application just killed a program at UC Berkeley that for half a century helped thousands of East Bay teens recognize that they could go to college and even pay for it.’
Two words in UC Berkeley grant application have led to defunding of 50-year-old program
The Trump administration canceled UC Berkeley’s Educational Talent Search — a 50-year-old program that helped thousands of East Bay teens get to college — over two words in its grant...
www.sfchronicle.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
‘The presence of two words — “equity” and “inclusion” — on page 50 of a 5-year-old grant application just killed a program at UC Berkeley that for half a century helped thousands of East Bay teens recognize that they could go to college and even pay for it.’
it just started snowing for the first time this year and I have no idea where my ice scraper is, which is why I’m eating ice cream for breakfast at 1pm while reading about nuclear weapons
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
it just started snowing for the first time this year and I have no idea where my ice scraper is, which is why I’m eating ice cream for breakfast at 1pm while reading about nuclear weapons
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I will also add:
I can do this for evictions in Illinois too, if SNAP benefits being cut off or the government shutdown means you can't make rent.
I can do this for evictions in Illinois too, if SNAP benefits being cut off or the government shutdown means you can't make rent.
If you're arrested in Illinois for the means by which you acquire food for your family because of the government shutdown or loss of SNAP benefits, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
November 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I will also add:
I can do this for evictions in Illinois too, if SNAP benefits being cut off or the government shutdown means you can't make rent.
I can do this for evictions in Illinois too, if SNAP benefits being cut off or the government shutdown means you can't make rent.