Kathleen Rhoades, PhD
@kathleenrhoades.com
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UGH FINE I'M HERE. I have BROKEN my PROMISE to MYSELF I am ONCE AGAIN MICROBLOGGING UNDER MY GOVERNMENT NAME.
fully on board with this cop procedural plot until the APPLE ORCHARD in DOWNSTATE NY has a CROP DUSTER PLANE which makes NO SENSE
November 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
fully on board with this cop procedural plot until the APPLE ORCHARD in DOWNSTATE NY has a CROP DUSTER PLANE which makes NO SENSE
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This is one of the things I hate most about modern capitalism. The idea of making money has been fully peeled away from delivering any kind of goods or services that people would want to pay money for.
What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business
I learned many surprising lessons from my 20 months as editor-in-chief of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This is one of the things I hate most about modern capitalism. The idea of making money has been fully peeled away from delivering any kind of goods or services that people would want to pay money for.
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Happy birthday, Mr. Vonnegut
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Happy birthday, Mr. Vonnegut
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This whole experience has really revealed how many of you would follow an alluring voice into the deep woods
everyone talking about Frieren's demons has missed a better comparison, so-called "AI" like Grok, Claude, ChatGPT, a thing that mimics human syntax brilliantly, isn't capable of human thought or emotion, but merely preys on people
November 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This whole experience has really revealed how many of you would follow an alluring voice into the deep woods
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‘UC Golden Gate’ and ‘UC Keystone’ are fusarium wilt-resistant strawberry cultivars that deliver high yields of large, firm, long-shelf-life fruit.
#HortScience https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI18849-25
#plantscience #strawberry
UCDavisPlants
#HortScience https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI18849-25
#plantscience #strawberry
UCDavisPlants
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
‘UC Golden Gate’ and ‘UC Keystone’ are fusarium wilt-resistant strawberry cultivars that deliver high yields of large, firm, long-shelf-life fruit.
#HortScience https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI18849-25
#plantscience #strawberry
UCDavisPlants
#HortScience https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI18849-25
#plantscience #strawberry
UCDavisPlants
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Is that good
Japanese giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its entire stake in tech giant Nvidia for $5.83 billion.
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
November 11, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Is that good
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hachiya persimmons, painted by william henry prestele, 1889
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
hachiya persimmons, painted by william henry prestele, 1889
last night I saw and heard Great Horned Owls in the wild for the first time!!! they're very spooky, 10/10
November 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
last night I saw and heard Great Horned Owls in the wild for the first time!!! they're very spooky, 10/10
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no thank you JPMorgan
"JPMorgan on Monday said building AI infrastructure will cost more than $5tn and 'will likely require participation from every public capital market as well as private credit, alternative capital providers and even government involvement.'" www.ft.com/content/d2bf...
Investor angst over Big Tech’s AI spending spills into bond market
Debt issued by groups building data centres has been hit in recent weeks
www.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
no thank you JPMorgan
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I still remember going to the travel doc for malaria pills.
DR: This pill causes occasional psychotic breaks, and this one causes bright colorful dreams.
ME: I’ll take the happy dreams…? Why would anyone take the first one?
DR: Oh, insurance doesn’t cover the other one.
DR: This pill causes occasional psychotic breaks, and this one causes bright colorful dreams.
ME: I’ll take the happy dreams…? Why would anyone take the first one?
DR: Oh, insurance doesn’t cover the other one.
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I still remember going to the travel doc for malaria pills.
DR: This pill causes occasional psychotic breaks, and this one causes bright colorful dreams.
ME: I’ll take the happy dreams…? Why would anyone take the first one?
DR: Oh, insurance doesn’t cover the other one.
DR: This pill causes occasional psychotic breaks, and this one causes bright colorful dreams.
ME: I’ll take the happy dreams…? Why would anyone take the first one?
DR: Oh, insurance doesn’t cover the other one.
disappointed to report that once again exercise has improved my mental health
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
disappointed to report that once again exercise has improved my mental health
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This Veterans Day, remember that more than 600,000 veterans who identify as LGBT, including 163,000 who identify as transgender. bit.ly/transveterans
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This Veterans Day, remember that more than 600,000 veterans who identify as LGBT, including 163,000 who identify as transgender. bit.ly/transveterans
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Is it "surprising research"? @dasharez0ne.bsky.social taught us all this years ago.
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Is it "surprising research"? @dasharez0ne.bsky.social taught us all this years ago.
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“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target. n.pr/4qMrN7P
People want to avoid ultra-processed foods. But experts struggle to define them
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”
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EPA To Monarch Butterflies: ‘Count Your Fucking Days’ https://theonion.com/epa-to-monarch-butterflies-count-your-fucking-days/
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
EPA To Monarch Butterflies: ‘Count Your Fucking Days’ https://theonion.com/epa-to-monarch-butterflies-count-your-fucking-days/
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I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
I moved east one timezone when the DST change happened last week, so I didn't have any time change, and then yesterday moved back to central time and got anOTHER hour back so my body is somewhere in mountain time now?
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I moved east one timezone when the DST change happened last week, so I didn't have any time change, and then yesterday moved back to central time and got anOTHER hour back so my body is somewhere in mountain time now?
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One of my undergraduate students is submitting a GRFP proposal today and I'm really proud of her resilience and determination to get one pulled together. 🤞
#NewPI life - always made better by the students
#NewPI life - always made better by the students
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
One of my undergraduate students is submitting a GRFP proposal today and I'm really proud of her resilience and determination to get one pulled together. 🤞
#NewPI life - always made better by the students
#NewPI life - always made better by the students
clawing back snap benefits like Good People do
USDA orders states to stop paying full SNAP benefits and "immediately undo" steps taken to issue them for November. Follow live updates.
https://cnn.it/47LOq3z
https://cnn.it/47LOq3z
November 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
clawing back snap benefits like Good People do
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
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A political message all branches of the tree of life can get behind
November 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
A political message all branches of the tree of life can get behind
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Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
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It's irritating that they describe the effects of his racism as limited to causing controversy within science and reputational consequences for himself rather than giving an immeasurable boost, false veneer of legitimacy, and idiot-friendly prestige to modern scientific racism and eugenics.
James D. Watson died on Thursday in East Northport, N.Y., on Long Island. He was 97.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
James Watson, Who Helped Discover the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
It's irritating that they describe the effects of his racism as limited to causing controversy within science and reputational consequences for himself rather than giving an immeasurable boost, false veneer of legitimacy, and idiot-friendly prestige to modern scientific racism and eugenics.
James Watson was a horrid, racist SOB and modern science will be better for his absence
Watson was a racist who, "near the end of his life, faced condemnation and professional censure for offensive remarks, including saying Black people are less intelligent than white people"
James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97
Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died. He was 97.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
James Watson was a horrid, racist SOB and modern science will be better for his absence