Gates Palissery
@gateskp.bsky.social
Quietly queer writer on the road to publication & AMMR9 mentee. Actually Autistic. Huge Geek. Marathon runner. PhD doing science policy work. She/they 🏳️🌈
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Gates Palissery
@gateskp.bsky.social
· Apr 6
My program sent this out so I guess it's really official now!
Finding joy in the day: we went to an art museum that made me feel feelings. In the best way. Museums are amazing. I love them so much, such powerful places. Manchester Art Gallery, you're amazing. So, so glad we did this today!
January 18, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Finding joy in the day: we went to an art museum that made me feel feelings. In the best way. Museums are amazing. I love them so much, such powerful places. Manchester Art Gallery, you're amazing. So, so glad we did this today!
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JUST IN: The Virginia Senate has approved a constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion rights.
The Virginia House already did this on Wednesday.
It's official: there'll be a referendum later this year on the issue.
The Virginia House already did this on Wednesday.
It's official: there'll be a referendum later this year on the issue.
January 16, 2026 at 5:05 PM
JUST IN: The Virginia Senate has approved a constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion rights.
The Virginia House already did this on Wednesday.
It's official: there'll be a referendum later this year on the issue.
The Virginia House already did this on Wednesday.
It's official: there'll be a referendum later this year on the issue.
When your mentee from grad school reaches out to talk about how academia is beating them up so you write a 3-page/1700 word response about how they're not alone, you've gone through this too, and it's going to be okay
kermit the frog is using a typewriter in a messy room .
Alt: kermit the frog is using a typewriter in a messy room .
media.tenor.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:32 PM
When your mentee from grad school reaches out to talk about how academia is beating them up so you write a 3-page/1700 word response about how they're not alone, you've gone through this too, and it's going to be okay
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Symptoms look like a weird flu you just can't shake off because it has fucked over your cells.
my.clevelandclinic.org/health/disea...
my.clevelandclinic.org/health/disea...
Heavy Metal Poisoning (Heavy Metal Toxicity): Symptoms, Causes & Treatment
Heavy metal poisoning (toxicity) occurs when you’re exposed to heavy metals, like lead, mercury or arsenic, which negatively affect how your body functions.
my.clevelandclinic.org
January 15, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Symptoms look like a weird flu you just can't shake off because it has fucked over your cells.
my.clevelandclinic.org/health/disea...
my.clevelandclinic.org/health/disea...
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I was supposed to be in bed an hour ago but sending links and videos to people so they know to avoid the green gas (zinc chloride).
Once a lab steward, always a lab steward.
Seriously, I was a chemist twenty years ago, you do NOT want heavy metal toxicity. It fucks you up in weird ways.
Once a lab steward, always a lab steward.
Seriously, I was a chemist twenty years ago, you do NOT want heavy metal toxicity. It fucks you up in weird ways.
January 15, 2026 at 5:30 AM
I was supposed to be in bed an hour ago but sending links and videos to people so they know to avoid the green gas (zinc chloride).
Once a lab steward, always a lab steward.
Seriously, I was a chemist twenty years ago, you do NOT want heavy metal toxicity. It fucks you up in weird ways.
Once a lab steward, always a lab steward.
Seriously, I was a chemist twenty years ago, you do NOT want heavy metal toxicity. It fucks you up in weird ways.
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1/ Ciji Graham was the mother of 2-year-old SJ, a sister to 9 younger siblings, a beloved friend.
She's also the 7th case we’ve found of a pregnant woman in a state restricting abortion who died after being unable to access standard care.
This is her story.
She's also the 7th case we’ve found of a pregnant woman in a state restricting abortion who died after being unable to access standard care.
This is her story.
January 15, 2026 at 2:00 AM
1/ Ciji Graham was the mother of 2-year-old SJ, a sister to 9 younger siblings, a beloved friend.
She's also the 7th case we’ve found of a pregnant woman in a state restricting abortion who died after being unable to access standard care.
This is her story.
She's also the 7th case we’ve found of a pregnant woman in a state restricting abortion who died after being unable to access standard care.
This is her story.
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As you talk about Greenland, please make sure you are talking about the >56,000 Inuit who have called the Island their home for thousands of years. Here are 2 stories that include their voices, concerns, and hopes.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
canadiangeographic.ca/articles/buy...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
canadiangeographic.ca/articles/buy...
‘Buying countries is Stone Age mentality:’ Inuit speak up on Greenland
Indigenous Greenlanders, who endured centuries of colonialism from Denmark, now face a new threat from Donald Trump’s United States
canadiangeographic.ca
January 16, 2026 at 11:22 AM
As you talk about Greenland, please make sure you are talking about the >56,000 Inuit who have called the Island their home for thousands of years. Here are 2 stories that include their voices, concerns, and hopes.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
canadiangeographic.ca/articles/buy...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
canadiangeographic.ca/articles/buy...
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If you're in MA and inspired by the principles of Sweet Boutique bakery, consider going to a training this weekend. And put 617-370-5023 in your phone.
The LUCE network has been *doing* protection work since the beginning and has a ton of trainings this weekend. If you are in MA save their number to your phone and consider getting trained. www.lucemass.org
LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA
www.lucemass.org
January 16, 2026 at 1:13 PM
If you're in MA and inspired by the principles of Sweet Boutique bakery, consider going to a training this weekend. And put 617-370-5023 in your phone.
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Boston area folks, here's info on our ICE watch. Spread the word. bsky.app/profile/pron...
Friends—I need you to connect to your rapid response in your city. Your ICE watch. If you don’t have one, start one. I’m watching Minneapolis and we need to be prepared for what comes next. Know the activists in our neighborhoods. If you don’t know your rights now is the time to learn. Have a plan.
January 15, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Boston area folks, here's info on our ICE watch. Spread the word. bsky.app/profile/pron...
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For those who live in the D.C. metropolitan area, @dcmigrantmutualaid.org has an ICE emergency hotline to use. Here are their flyers.
January 15, 2026 at 4:08 AM
For those who live in the D.C. metropolitan area, @dcmigrantmutualaid.org has an ICE emergency hotline to use. Here are their flyers.
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Friends—I need you to connect to your rapid response in your city. Your ICE watch. If you don’t have one, start one. I’m watching Minneapolis and we need to be prepared for what comes next. Know the activists in our neighborhoods. If you don’t know your rights now is the time to learn. Have a plan.
January 14, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Friends—I need you to connect to your rapid response in your city. Your ICE watch. If you don’t have one, start one. I’m watching Minneapolis and we need to be prepared for what comes next. Know the activists in our neighborhoods. If you don’t know your rights now is the time to learn. Have a plan.
January 14, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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NEW: After doctors sent her home with a racing heart, Ciji Graham came to believe the best way to protect her health was to end her pregnancy.
But new restrictions in NC and nearby states made finding an abortion provider difficult.
www.propublica.org/article/nort...
But new restrictions in NC and nearby states made finding an abortion provider difficult.
www.propublica.org/article/nort...
A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion.
In a state that had legislated its commitment to life, Graham spent her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.
www.propublica.org
January 14, 2026 at 11:27 AM
NEW: After doctors sent her home with a racing heart, Ciji Graham came to believe the best way to protect her health was to end her pregnancy.
But new restrictions in NC and nearby states made finding an abortion provider difficult.
www.propublica.org/article/nort...
But new restrictions in NC and nearby states made finding an abortion provider difficult.
www.propublica.org/article/nort...
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“He’s the only client we have named Fig Newton and he’s the only one who has eaten a dryer sheet, ribbon, and wire!” Lovely vet tech listing all the reasons this guy is an icon at the vet’s office:
January 13, 2026 at 10:21 PM
“He’s the only client we have named Fig Newton and he’s the only one who has eaten a dryer sheet, ribbon, and wire!” Lovely vet tech listing all the reasons this guy is an icon at the vet’s office:
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Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
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November 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
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Please read this article. Thank you, if you do.
January 11, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Please read this article. Thank you, if you do.
Thinking about how lovely and wonderful it is to have a partner who actually listens to you and picks up on little things that make you happy and takes care of you when you need it. I am so very lucky to have such a deeply caring person in my life.
January 11, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Thinking about how lovely and wonderful it is to have a partner who actually listens to you and picks up on little things that make you happy and takes care of you when you need it. I am so very lucky to have such a deeply caring person in my life.
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the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs
January 9, 2026 at 6:48 AM
the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs
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Happy birthday to Gaby Hoffman, who played Bruce Springsteen’s mom in Deliver Me from Nowhere. Biopic: A Podcast Story still hasn’t got around to doing an episode on Deliver Me from Nowhere, but we did a special episode on the trailer and you can check it out here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
January 9, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Happy birthday to Gaby Hoffman, who played Bruce Springsteen’s mom in Deliver Me from Nowhere. Biopic: A Podcast Story still hasn’t got around to doing an episode on Deliver Me from Nowhere, but we did a special episode on the trailer and you can check it out here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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Clear-eyed, fact-based, and written to explain to normies. No “both sidesing.” No “Trump officials disagree.”
No gaslighting that what we can see with our own eyes might not be true.
This is journalism. Well done, @people.com
No gaslighting that what we can see with our own eyes might not be true.
This is journalism. Well done, @people.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Clear-eyed, fact-based, and written to explain to normies. No “both sidesing.” No “Trump officials disagree.”
No gaslighting that what we can see with our own eyes might not be true.
This is journalism. Well done, @people.com
No gaslighting that what we can see with our own eyes might not be true.
This is journalism. Well done, @people.com
As a runner:
Carbs are life.
Carbs are life.
I mean, Georgia has the longest lifespan and they are Team Dumplings, Japan is long-lived with dumplings AND rice, so I am ignoring this carbs-on-the-bottom carnivore diet nonsense
January 8, 2026 at 6:18 PM
As a runner:
Carbs are life.
Carbs are life.
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i know it’s not the first time it’s happened this year but can we just pause and recognize how insane it is that the federal government has shut down an entire large city’s schools for multiple days with their terror
Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
www.mprnews.org
January 8, 2026 at 1:27 PM
i know it’s not the first time it’s happened this year but can we just pause and recognize how insane it is that the federal government has shut down an entire large city’s schools for multiple days with their terror
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the way that AOC can modulate her voice to keep from screaming or wavering at these pieces of living shit is so impressive to me. she must do EXERCISES, i swear to god
Fox Producer: Jesse Watters would like to invite you on his show
AOC: He has sexualized and harassed me on his show.
FP: That’s not true
AOC: He accused me of wanting to sleep with Stephen Miller. So why don’t you tell me what you think is acceptable to tell a woman.
AOC: He has sexualized and harassed me on his show.
FP: That’s not true
AOC: He accused me of wanting to sleep with Stephen Miller. So why don’t you tell me what you think is acceptable to tell a woman.
January 7, 2026 at 11:45 PM
the way that AOC can modulate her voice to keep from screaming or wavering at these pieces of living shit is so impressive to me. she must do EXERCISES, i swear to god
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Is your heart aching for an America that has moral clarity on how to deal with traitors? #January6 Download the #Lincoln episode of Biopic: A Podcast Story, available here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
January 6, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Is your heart aching for an America that has moral clarity on how to deal with traitors? #January6 Download the #Lincoln episode of Biopic: A Podcast Story, available here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...