Kiki de Sogan
@kikidesogan.bsky.social
🍏 Lifelong learner
🎶 Livelooping, synthesis, sean-nós
📚 Bookworm
❤️🔥 Rehumanization
😷 Covid conscious
🌱 Food sovereignty
🌽 Invitad@ on Maya land
🌊 Loves swimming and the ocean!
🎶 Livelooping, synthesis, sean-nós
📚 Bookworm
❤️🔥 Rehumanization
😷 Covid conscious
🌱 Food sovereignty
🌽 Invitad@ on Maya land
🌊 Loves swimming and the ocean!
Pinned
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British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
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Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
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November 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
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#ShareGoodNewsToo
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"Anti-immigrant march" is such a telling phrase. An immigrant is just a person who exercises the freedom they are born with, which is recognised by all human rights legislation, and moves across imaginary lines on the ground. Being "anti-immigrant" means anti-movement, anti-freedom and anti-person.
September 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"Anti-immigrant march" is such a telling phrase. An immigrant is just a person who exercises the freedom they are born with, which is recognised by all human rights legislation, and moves across imaginary lines on the ground. Being "anti-immigrant" means anti-movement, anti-freedom and anti-person.
New garden before pictures. I’m so excited!
August 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
New garden before pictures. I’m so excited!
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This is your sign to kill your lawn and plant native wildflower seeds!
July 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This is your sign to kill your lawn and plant native wildflower seeds!
Drinking my coffee, soaking in the views. 🖖🏼
July 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Drinking my coffee, soaking in the views. 🖖🏼
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Happy birthday to the prophetess Octavia Butler. We live in the times she foretold. From her notebooks.
June 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Happy birthday to the prophetess Octavia Butler. We live in the times she foretold. From her notebooks.
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flip.it/puzZ5u scientists are “just now” finding this out…
Plants have a secret, second set of roots deep underground that scientists didn't know about
A global analysis deep in soil found 20% of plants studied have an unexpected deeper set of roots more than 3 feet underground.
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June 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
flip.it/puzZ5u scientists are “just now” finding this out…
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If you’ve never seen one before, this is a strawberry finch.
June 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
If you’ve never seen one before, this is a strawberry finch.
Mississippi River Sunset
June 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Mississippi River Sunset
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June 6, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Mesopotamian cuneiform writing is best-known from clay tablets, but did you know wood and beeswax were also used for writing on?
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News - Study Reveals Secrets of Neo-Assyrian Beeswax Writing Tablets - Archaeology Magazine
NIMRUD, IRAQ––Cuneiform writing tablets were an integral part of Neo-Assyrian culture and hundreds of thousands […]
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April 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Mesopotamian cuneiform writing is best-known from clay tablets, but did you know wood and beeswax were also used for writing on?
#ArchaeologyNews via @archaeologymag.bsky.social
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Utah may not be known for peaches, but plant scientist Reagan Wytsalucy is working to revive the historic Southwest peach—cultivated by Native communities since the 1600s—by tracking down the remaining trees scattered across the region.
How A Navajo Plant Researcher Is Reviving A Desert Peach
Bringing back Southwest peach orchards won’t be easy, but researchers are on the lookout for remaining trees—and they need help.
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April 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Utah may not be known for peaches, but plant scientist Reagan Wytsalucy is working to revive the historic Southwest peach—cultivated by Native communities since the 1600s—by tracking down the remaining trees scattered across the region.
Still life at the lake
April 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Still life at the lake
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In Ojibway, our word for freedom is debendisiwin (pronounced de-ben-di-si-win). Also translates to ‘my heart is free’.
March 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
In Ojibway, our word for freedom is debendisiwin (pronounced de-ben-di-si-win). Also translates to ‘my heart is free’.
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I asked an international human rights lawyer recently what red lines to watch for - he said, “when people start to disappear.” Well…https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/ice-tufts-student-detained-rumeysa-ozturk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Is Detained by ICE
The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated, its president said in a late-night email to students and faculty members.
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March 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I asked an international human rights lawyer recently what red lines to watch for - he said, “when people start to disappear.” Well…https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/ice-tufts-student-detained-rumeysa-ozturk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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It is so degrading to be a member of the galactic council of lightworkers and be forced to do the dishes
March 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
It is so degrading to be a member of the galactic council of lightworkers and be forced to do the dishes
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It’s time to mask back up (N95 or better please!)
Resistance is easier when you have your health.
Coping with fascism, climate change, supply chain disruptions & food shortages will be easier if you have your health.
Disabled people need your solidarity. Protect us & protect yourself. Mask up
Resistance is easier when you have your health.
Coping with fascism, climate change, supply chain disruptions & food shortages will be easier if you have your health.
Disabled people need your solidarity. Protect us & protect yourself. Mask up
March 23, 2025 at 5:10 AM
It’s time to mask back up (N95 or better please!)
Resistance is easier when you have your health.
Coping with fascism, climate change, supply chain disruptions & food shortages will be easier if you have your health.
Disabled people need your solidarity. Protect us & protect yourself. Mask up
Resistance is easier when you have your health.
Coping with fascism, climate change, supply chain disruptions & food shortages will be easier if you have your health.
Disabled people need your solidarity. Protect us & protect yourself. Mask up
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Feeling forgiven by god makes people feel like they don't have to apologize and hold themselves accountable.
I've always felt like this was the case and we need to push back against it.
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I've always felt like this was the case and we need to push back against it.
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Feeling forgiven by God can reduce the likelihood of apologizing, psychology study finds
Feeling forgiven by God can ease guilt—but new research shows it might also make people less likely to apologize to those they've harmed
www.psypost.org
March 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Feeling forgiven by god makes people feel like they don't have to apologize and hold themselves accountable.
I've always felt like this was the case and we need to push back against it.
www.psypost.org/feeling-forg...
I've always felt like this was the case and we need to push back against it.
www.psypost.org/feeling-forg...
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Yep, it sure is. Just like a lot of people warned it was likely to be. Racism, sexism, ableism, and other prejudicial biases are just… all up in there in all "AI" and the creators of these systems have never really done anything to foundationally address that fact:
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March 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Yep, it sure is. Just like a lot of people warned it was likely to be. Racism, sexism, ableism, and other prejudicial biases are just… all up in there in all "AI" and the creators of these systems have never really done anything to foundationally address that fact:
scholar.google.com/citations?vi...
scholar.google.com/citations?vi...
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If there's one thing that domestic violence research has taught me, it's that abusers set up no-win scenarios. They punish you whether you cooperate with them or whether you push back.
The only way out is to strengthen ties with people outside of the relationship who can create new, better options.
The only way out is to strengthen ties with people outside of the relationship who can create new, better options.
March 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
If there's one thing that domestic violence research has taught me, it's that abusers set up no-win scenarios. They punish you whether you cooperate with them or whether you push back.
The only way out is to strengthen ties with people outside of the relationship who can create new, better options.
The only way out is to strengthen ties with people outside of the relationship who can create new, better options.
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"Some estimates suggest every $1 spent meeting clean air rules has returned $10 in health and economic benefits."
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America’s clean air rules boost health and the economy − here’s what EPA’s new deregulation plans ignore
Clean air has become one of America’s best investments, returning $10 for every $1 spent on regulations, by one estimate.
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March 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"Some estimates suggest every $1 spent meeting clean air rules has returned $10 in health and economic benefits."
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Enjoying life at El Paredón with my partner.
March 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Enjoying life at El Paredón with my partner.
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There’s an Urdu name for a “Jack of all trades” that translates to “every talent Lord.” A Korean version is “eight direction beauty.” But my favourite name for someone who tries their hand at lots of different things is the Lithuanian Barbė devyndarbė. It means “Barbie nine jobs”
March 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
There’s an Urdu name for a “Jack of all trades” that translates to “every talent Lord.” A Korean version is “eight direction beauty.” But my favourite name for someone who tries their hand at lots of different things is the Lithuanian Barbė devyndarbė. It means “Barbie nine jobs”