Dr. Stephanie
@punkrockscience.bsky.social
PhD brain and genomic scientist. Ocean junkie. Computer wrangler. Open data believer. Geek. Punk. Not that kind of doctor. Views only my own. She/her
Pinned
DO NOT put me in blue nonsense starter packs. This is the nicest I will be about it.
DO NOT put me in blue nonsense starter packs. This is the nicest I will be about it.
December 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
DO NOT put me in blue nonsense starter packs. This is the nicest I will be about it.
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Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
December 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
EVERGREEN. In FAR too many contexts.
I said it, I've kept saying it, and I will continue to keep saying it. IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE PORTRAYED AS VILLAINS, STOP ACTING IN THE MOST VILLAIN-ESQUE WAYS POSSIBLE.
December 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
EVERGREEN. In FAR too many contexts.
There is a very dumb rando fighting with Ursula Vernon right now about whether the pope is a polytheist. This is *fully* the kind of low-stakes stupidity I come to the internet to watch.
a man in a striped sweater is sitting on a couch
Alt: a man in a striped sweater is sitting on a couch; he grabs a bucket of popcorn and settles in to watch the fight
media.tenor.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM
There is a very dumb rando fighting with Ursula Vernon right now about whether the pope is a polytheist. This is *fully* the kind of low-stakes stupidity I come to the internet to watch.
All I want is hot chocolate and my book and my dog and maaaaaaaaybe like two people.
December 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
All I want is hot chocolate and my book and my dog and maaaaaaaaybe like two people.
Right, okay, it’s that time of night.
December 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Right, okay, it’s that time of night.
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Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.
We caught up with one of the kids who sang on 'A Charlie Brown Christmas.' He's 72 now
Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.
n.pr
December 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.
Rib roast: ✔️
Garlic mashed: ✔️
Yorkshire puddings: ✔️
Cranberry sauce: ✔️
Fancy cocktails/mocktails for adults and children: ✔️
Broccoli: totally fucking forgotten in the chaos 🤣
Garlic mashed: ✔️
Yorkshire puddings: ✔️
Cranberry sauce: ✔️
Fancy cocktails/mocktails for adults and children: ✔️
Broccoli: totally fucking forgotten in the chaos 🤣
December 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Rib roast: ✔️
Garlic mashed: ✔️
Yorkshire puddings: ✔️
Cranberry sauce: ✔️
Fancy cocktails/mocktails for adults and children: ✔️
Broccoli: totally fucking forgotten in the chaos 🤣
Garlic mashed: ✔️
Yorkshire puddings: ✔️
Cranberry sauce: ✔️
Fancy cocktails/mocktails for adults and children: ✔️
Broccoli: totally fucking forgotten in the chaos 🤣
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This story is absolutely wild. Did you know that avocados change sex over the course of a day? And that it's controlled by a single ancient balanced polymorphism? This is flat our crazy
Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies an ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.22.695989v1
December 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM
This story is absolutely wild. Did you know that avocados change sex over the course of a day? And that it's controlled by a single ancient balanced polymorphism? This is flat our crazy
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Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
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December 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is just straight-up Biblical text. It shouldn’t be surprising that a pope said it, but it is.
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and stra...
www.reuters.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:08 AM
This is just straight-up Biblical text. It shouldn’t be surprising that a pope said it, but it is.
I’m trying to come up with a joke about Potemkin villages, Battleship Potemkin, and the new Trump battleships boondoggle, but they all keep feeling kind of contrived.
December 25, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I’m trying to come up with a joke about Potemkin villages, Battleship Potemkin, and the new Trump battleships boondoggle, but they all keep feeling kind of contrived.
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
Also: NO PUTTING KNIVES LOOSE IN THE SINK, especially a sink full of soapy water.
You *will* find them in the worst possible way.
You *will* find them in the worst possible way.
As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year:
A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
December 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Also: NO PUTTING KNIVES LOOSE IN THE SINK, especially a sink full of soapy water.
You *will* find them in the worst possible way.
You *will* find them in the worst possible way.
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Happy holidays, folks. I hope next year is a little kinder.
December 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Happy holidays, folks. I hope next year is a little kinder.
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The holiday season is a time for sharing.
So sharpen your antlers and fangs, spread your great black wings, soar across the land, and share fear and wonder with all who behold your dark beauty.
So sharpen your antlers and fangs, spread your great black wings, soar across the land, and share fear and wonder with all who behold your dark beauty.
December 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The holiday season is a time for sharing.
So sharpen your antlers and fangs, spread your great black wings, soar across the land, and share fear and wonder with all who behold your dark beauty.
So sharpen your antlers and fangs, spread your great black wings, soar across the land, and share fear and wonder with all who behold your dark beauty.
Oh, Flightly, this is why you’re my favorite flight app.
December 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Oh, Flightly, this is why you’re my favorite flight app.
Rabies shots for Christmas for everyone!
(Seriously. Nightmare fuel.)
(Seriously. Nightmare fuel.)
they don’t tell you when you buy a christmas tree at the christmas tree farm that you could take it home, decorate it, and then be relaxing in your living room seven nights later when A BAT suddenly flies out and starts CRASHING AROUND YOUR HOUSE
December 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Rabies shots for Christmas for everyone!
(Seriously. Nightmare fuel.)
(Seriously. Nightmare fuel.)
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Adulthood is a scam perpetrated by Big Adult in order to make more adults.
December 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Adulthood is a scam perpetrated by Big Adult in order to make more adults.
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six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO
December 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO
But what else is Christmas Eve afternoon for, if not napping in front of the embers of creation?
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, but slumbers eternal until the stars are right.
December 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
But what else is Christmas Eve afternoon for, if not napping in front of the embers of creation?
Freshly cleaned up and regreased for the holiday baking season, this is my baby.
December 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Freshly cleaned up and regreased for the holiday baking season, this is my baby.
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xmas movie posters but with muppets: thread
December 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
xmas movie posters but with muppets: thread