Erica
@nudoces.bsky.social
former particle physicist | current professional job applicant | gamer, cat lover | perpetually sleepy | she/they | 🏳🌈
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Every single conservative is a stupid Nazi hog and nothing they say will ever be worth listening to
June 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Every single conservative is a stupid Nazi hog and nothing they say will ever be worth listening to
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I told you we’d be back
June 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I told you we’d be back
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MAJOR PARTICLE PHYSICS REPORT RELEASE ⚛️🧪
The National Academies particle physics decadal report is out! Read read!
(I was a member of the committee that wrote this report but resigned during drafting bc of a conflict of service w/my HEPAP appointment.)
nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2883...
The National Academies particle physics decadal report is out! Read read!
(I was a member of the committee that wrote this report but resigned during drafting bc of a conflict of service w/my HEPAP appointment.)
nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2883...
Elementary Particle Physics: The Higgs and Beyond
Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.
nap.nationalacademies.org
June 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
MAJOR PARTICLE PHYSICS REPORT RELEASE ⚛️🧪
The National Academies particle physics decadal report is out! Read read!
(I was a member of the committee that wrote this report but resigned during drafting bc of a conflict of service w/my HEPAP appointment.)
nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2883...
The National Academies particle physics decadal report is out! Read read!
(I was a member of the committee that wrote this report but resigned during drafting bc of a conflict of service w/my HEPAP appointment.)
nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2883...
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Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump adm...
theonion.com
June 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
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🚨 ALERTA PHILLY 🚨
Hearing from a very credible local source that there may be ICE action tomorrow (Sunday 6/8) in the following areas:
5th and Washington Ave
7th and Snyder Ave
5th and McKean/Wolf
Chinatown
Let your neighbors know to stay safe and be vigilant. Be ready. Be water.
Hearing from a very credible local source that there may be ICE action tomorrow (Sunday 6/8) in the following areas:
5th and Washington Ave
7th and Snyder Ave
5th and McKean/Wolf
Chinatown
Let your neighbors know to stay safe and be vigilant. Be ready. Be water.
June 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
🚨 ALERTA PHILLY 🚨
Hearing from a very credible local source that there may be ICE action tomorrow (Sunday 6/8) in the following areas:
5th and Washington Ave
7th and Snyder Ave
5th and McKean/Wolf
Chinatown
Let your neighbors know to stay safe and be vigilant. Be ready. Be water.
Hearing from a very credible local source that there may be ICE action tomorrow (Sunday 6/8) in the following areas:
5th and Washington Ave
7th and Snyder Ave
5th and McKean/Wolf
Chinatown
Let your neighbors know to stay safe and be vigilant. Be ready. Be water.
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I had this conversation with somebody yesterday. When I hear somebody talking about the midterms these days, my brain just turns off. like what are you talking about?
i saw someone mention hoping we can keep it together until the midterms to fix everything and i immediately realized we do not exist in the same reality
Right because they are not running for re-election. I don’t know how else to say this.
They. Aren’t. Running. For. Reelection.
They. Aren’t. Running. For. Reelection.
April 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I had this conversation with somebody yesterday. When I hear somebody talking about the midterms these days, my brain just turns off. like what are you talking about?
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If there aren't going to be institutional consequences for these people there absolutely HAVE to be social consequences. It's the only arrow in the quiver. If they don't want to occupy the same world as us, don't let them.
April 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
If there aren't going to be institutional consequences for these people there absolutely HAVE to be social consequences. It's the only arrow in the quiver. If they don't want to occupy the same world as us, don't let them.
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People who don’t care if you die - or just suffer - don’t deserve your respect
April 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
People who don’t care if you die - or just suffer - don’t deserve your respect
some selfish, delusional, manipulative assholes never change 💅
April 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
some selfish, delusional, manipulative assholes never change 💅
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Be mean to antivaxxers! I am so serious. They are going to kill us all. Children are dying and they’re in a tin foil hat circle jerk claiming to be the real victims of some malicious attack, when it’s just predictable and preventable childhood infectious disease as usual. They don’t deserve respect.
April 12, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Be mean to antivaxxers! I am so serious. They are going to kill us all. Children are dying and they’re in a tin foil hat circle jerk claiming to be the real victims of some malicious attack, when it’s just predictable and preventable childhood infectious disease as usual. They don’t deserve respect.
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This is how stupid these people are. They do not know anything. They have always been this stupid! The problem is our institutions continued to demand harmful people and ideas be treated with civility that they don’t return, and that “both sides” be platformed even when one side is false and wrong.
April 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This is how stupid these people are. They do not know anything. They have always been this stupid! The problem is our institutions continued to demand harmful people and ideas be treated with civility that they don’t return, and that “both sides” be platformed even when one side is false and wrong.
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Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
www.latimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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The "Is it a constitutional crisis yet?!" discussion is so absurd: Of course you can construct increasingly esoteric definitions for why this current moment doesn't meet your exact criteria yet. But meanwhile, this is where we are: Masked agents of the states abducting people for writing op-eds.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The "Is it a constitutional crisis yet?!" discussion is so absurd: Of course you can construct increasingly esoteric definitions for why this current moment doesn't meet your exact criteria yet. But meanwhile, this is where we are: Masked agents of the states abducting people for writing op-eds.
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A Tufts University student has been kidnapped for ICE because a year ago, she co-authored this op-ed which criticizes Israel, calls for the adoption of non-binding faculty senate resolutions, and celebrates the end of apartheid in South Africa
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions - The Tufts Daily
The independent student newspaper of Tufts University
www.tuftsdaily.com
March 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A Tufts University student has been kidnapped for ICE because a year ago, she co-authored this op-ed which criticizes Israel, calls for the adoption of non-binding faculty senate resolutions, and celebrates the end of apartheid in South Africa
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
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It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
March 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
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"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."
March 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."
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I’ve seen a lot of assumptions in the media that Trump (and Musk) are targeting institutions with loyalty tests.
But that’s not quite right. They’re using dominance tests. And the difference between these two things matter. 🧵
But that’s not quite right. They’re using dominance tests. And the difference between these two things matter. 🧵
March 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I’ve seen a lot of assumptions in the media that Trump (and Musk) are targeting institutions with loyalty tests.
But that’s not quite right. They’re using dominance tests. And the difference between these two things matter. 🧵
But that’s not quite right. They’re using dominance tests. And the difference between these two things matter. 🧵
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"The Democrats had refused to abolish the filibuster when Schumer was the majority leader, on the grounds that someday they might be the ones who needed it. Now the House and the public were begging Schumer to use it. And he refused."
Chuck Schumer Is Responsible | Defector
Chuck Schumer was always going to come out of the budget showdown a loser. The only question was which of the two available forms of losing he would end up with: an organized legislative surrender to…
defector.com
March 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
"The Democrats had refused to abolish the filibuster when Schumer was the majority leader, on the grounds that someday they might be the ones who needed it. Now the House and the public were begging Schumer to use it. And he refused."
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The 'mindfulness exercises' seem to work because THEN the Chatbot is mirroring the language humans use in reply to mindfulness exercises in it's dataset.
The Chatbot is reflecting our responses to mindfulness back at us. It does not feel.
The Chatbot is reflecting our responses to mindfulness back at us. It does not feel.
March 18, 2025 at 5:25 AM
The 'mindfulness exercises' seem to work because THEN the Chatbot is mirroring the language humans use in reply to mindfulness exercises in it's dataset.
The Chatbot is reflecting our responses to mindfulness back at us. It does not feel.
The Chatbot is reflecting our responses to mindfulness back at us. It does not feel.
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Repeat after me: The Chatbot is not feeling anxiety. The Chatbot is guessing what it's reply should be based on the responses to anxious and traumatic narratives that exist in it's dataset.
The Chatbot is reflecting our anxiety back at us. It does not feel.
Thanks for listening to my TED talk.
The Chatbot is reflecting our anxiety back at us. It does not feel.
Thanks for listening to my TED talk.
March 18, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Repeat after me: The Chatbot is not feeling anxiety. The Chatbot is guessing what it's reply should be based on the responses to anxious and traumatic narratives that exist in it's dataset.
The Chatbot is reflecting our anxiety back at us. It does not feel.
Thanks for listening to my TED talk.
The Chatbot is reflecting our anxiety back at us. It does not feel.
Thanks for listening to my TED talk.
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By their definition, any notable accomplishment achieved by someone who was not a straight white male -- no matter how or when it happened -- counts as "DEI" and "bias against whites."
It's racism, pure and simple. Stop pretending there's anything more complicated at work here. It's racism.
It's racism, pure and simple. Stop pretending there's anything more complicated at work here. It's racism.
This is Pete Hegseth’s Department of Defense. Labeling the highest ranking black Medal of Honor recipient “DEI.” Pure racism. My latest post. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
March 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
By their definition, any notable accomplishment achieved by someone who was not a straight white male -- no matter how or when it happened -- counts as "DEI" and "bias against whites."
It's racism, pure and simple. Stop pretending there's anything more complicated at work here. It's racism.
It's racism, pure and simple. Stop pretending there's anything more complicated at work here. It's racism.
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If you aren’t going to give me goddamn health insurance in this country, you can’t take away my mask.
Fuck you.
Fuck you.
March 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
If you aren’t going to give me goddamn health insurance in this country, you can’t take away my mask.
Fuck you.
Fuck you.
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If your excuse as an elected official, here in 2025, for not doing something that is in the interest of Dems who elected you is that Republicans might weaponize it, you are not living in 2025. They are going to weaponize anything you do, either way. They have demonstrated this over and over.
March 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If your excuse as an elected official, here in 2025, for not doing something that is in the interest of Dems who elected you is that Republicans might weaponize it, you are not living in 2025. They are going to weaponize anything you do, either way. They have demonstrated this over and over.