Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social
Scientist and writer, parent of twins, Sherlockian. PhD, Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience, CUNY Graduate Center, 2010. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/1935/
I am a mom with a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, and now I work in health care technical assessment — which means my job is to read the scientific literature about medical devices or treatments and write reports. Vaccines are safe and effective!
How many good mothers on Bluesky ARE the expert??
I’ll start: I have a PhD in ecology. I’m a science communicator: an award-winning creator, strategist, and impact producer. I make stuff for the internet that brings people together 🧪
Your turn! GO OFF, GOOD MOMS OF BLUESKY
I’ll start: I have a PhD in ecology. I’m a science communicator: an award-winning creator, strategist, and impact producer. I make stuff for the internet that brings people together 🧪
Your turn! GO OFF, GOOD MOMS OF BLUESKY
HHS Secretary RFK Jr: "This idea that you should trust the experts, a good mother doesn't do that"
January 17, 2026 at 7:32 PM
I am a mom with a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, and now I work in health care technical assessment — which means my job is to read the scientific literature about medical devices or treatments and write reports. Vaccines are safe and effective!
…it looks like Kix, you know, “kid tested, mother approved”
what fresh hell is this on the streets of brooklyn?
January 9, 2026 at 11:13 PM
…it looks like Kix, you know, “kid tested, mother approved”
There’s an episode of M*A*S*H (there’s always a relevant episode of M*A*S*H) in which Hawkeye is so distressed and enraged about the lack of progress toward ending the war that he drives to the peace talks, talks his way in, explains how desperate everyone is for the war to end, and leaves. 1/9
January 6, 2026 at 2:48 AM
There’s an episode of M*A*S*H (there’s always a relevant episode of M*A*S*H) in which Hawkeye is so distressed and enraged about the lack of progress toward ending the war that he drives to the peace talks, talks his way in, explains how desperate everyone is for the war to end, and leaves. 1/9
I don’t need an umbrella because the umbrella is keeping me dry.
“The FDA seems to be moving towards laxer regulations of all drugs, except for vaccines," said @joho.bsky.social. Høeg has said she wants to eliminate "unnecessary" vaccines that have been given in childhood for decades.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘She has no expertise’: the US medical community girds for Tracy Beth Høeg’s tenure at the FDA
The Danish American who doubted Covid shots is meant to lead drug regulation – but has focused on vaccines
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I don’t need an umbrella because the umbrella is keeping me dry.
@nickydrayden.bsky.social Prosper with Dragons is a hit here! My sons and MIL are having a great time 💜
December 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
@nickydrayden.bsky.social Prosper with Dragons is a hit here! My sons and MIL are having a great time 💜
It has been an absolutely exhausting week for public health, and having CVS now be unable to fill my child’s prescription (ADHD meds, so impossible to do normal things like call around to find a pharmacy that has it) 1/3
December 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
It has been an absolutely exhausting week for public health, and having CVS now be unable to fill my child’s prescription (ADHD meds, so impossible to do normal things like call around to find a pharmacy that has it) 1/3
BRB moving to Holmes row
So I was checking out an address for friends who have moved to a newish estate... and all the names of the streets are tv detectives.
December 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
BRB moving to Holmes row
This is such a terrific book! I love the queernorm society and the model of families being polyamorous or involving multiple couples. The worldbuilding is so compelling and it interrogates colonization and its aftermath in a tremendously humane way.
Day 3 of Book Advent 📚
Fire Logic by @lauriejmarks.bsky.social, epic war fantasy with guerrilla warfare among the farmsteads and iron workers, with a wonderfully diverse cast reflecting the equality they are fighting for, and elemental magic and touches of fantasy bringing colour to life.
Fire Logic by @lauriejmarks.bsky.social, epic war fantasy with guerrilla warfare among the farmsteads and iron workers, with a wonderfully diverse cast reflecting the equality they are fighting for, and elemental magic and touches of fantasy bringing colour to life.
December 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This is such a terrific book! I love the queernorm society and the model of families being polyamorous or involving multiple couples. The worldbuilding is so compelling and it interrogates colonization and its aftermath in a tremendously humane way.
My husband noticed last night that I’m starting to go gray - and told me it looks good. I’m keeping him.
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
My husband noticed last night that I’m starting to go gray - and told me it looks good. I’m keeping him.
Knights-in-training too short for their swords and lances? Problemstic page gap.
Angry person yelling at chill person who is responding by being calm, which makes the angry person even more mad? Problematic rage gap.
Prisoners keep escaping because you put the bars too far apart? Problematic cage gap.
November 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Knights-in-training too short for their swords and lances? Problemstic page gap.
Friend snapped this more accurate CVS sign
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Friend snapped this more accurate CVS sign
Suddenly, dermatographia. 🤦🏽♀️
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Suddenly, dermatographia. 🤦🏽♀️
Me: meditating
My brain: Starts writing Star Trek filk
Thoughts arise and subside, like starships passing though local space…
My brain: Starts writing Star Trek filk
Thoughts arise and subside, like starships passing though local space…
November 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Me: meditating
My brain: Starts writing Star Trek filk
Thoughts arise and subside, like starships passing though local space…
My brain: Starts writing Star Trek filk
Thoughts arise and subside, like starships passing though local space…
Reposted by Rebecca Robare
Participants are now enrolling in our #longCovid randomized, controlled trial of tirzepatide. The largest trial to test a treatment for this condition. Home-based—no sites. In today's @sandiegouniontribune.com
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/01/c...
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/01/c...
November 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Participants are now enrolling in our #longCovid randomized, controlled trial of tirzepatide. The largest trial to test a treatment for this condition. Home-based—no sites. In today's @sandiegouniontribune.com
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/01/c...
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/01/c...
Without saying your age, who was your first animated crush?
October 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Without saying your age, who was your first animated crush?
TIL that there is no obvious difference between a bath bomb and a toy dino egg to dig until it fails to dissolve in the bath. 🤦🏽♀️
October 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
TIL that there is no obvious difference between a bath bomb and a toy dino egg to dig until it fails to dissolve in the bath. 🤦🏽♀️
Happy birthday, RHPS! ❤️👄🕺🏼👯
The Rocky Horror Picture Show opened on US screens 50 years ago today. Initially a major box office bomb, cult cinema outsiders and queer audiences quickly took up the film’s mantle and turned it into a unique and exciting way of engaging with the movies. Remember kids, don’t dream it—be it!!
September 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Happy birthday, RHPS! ❤️👄🕺🏼👯
Anyway, shana tova. May our year be good and sweet. youtu.be/q99R-5AtHqo?...
Shana Tova by Muppets
YouTube video by jobeograd
youtu.be
September 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Anyway, shana tova. May our year be good and sweet. youtu.be/q99R-5AtHqo?...
Reposted by Rebecca Robare
PS fevers during pregnancy are linked to autism. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Infection and Fever in Pregnancy and Autism Spectrum Disorders: Findings from the Study to Explore Early Development
Maternal infection and fever during pregnancy have been implicated in the etiology of autism spectrum disorder (ASD); however, studies have not been able to separate the effects of fever itself from t...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
September 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
PS fevers during pregnancy are linked to autism. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Reposted by Rebecca Robare
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
September 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Once in a work meeting I said, “I picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue” and my colleagues were concerned. I hadn’t thought Airplane! was obscure, before then…
What's the most stupid movie reference you have to stop yourself saying regularly? Mine is not replying to "Can I be frank?" with "Okay, Frank. Can I be Bullwinkle".
September 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Once in a work meeting I said, “I picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue” and my colleagues were concerned. I hadn’t thought Airplane! was obscure, before then…
It just suddenly clicked in my head. I’m sure everyone else has already had this insight but… It’s not just that the GOP is a death cult. It’s the hierarchy of death: they get to decide who lives and who dies. That’s the order of things that’s violated by international aid and public health.
September 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
It just suddenly clicked in my head. I’m sure everyone else has already had this insight but… It’s not just that the GOP is a death cult. It’s the hierarchy of death: they get to decide who lives and who dies. That’s the order of things that’s violated by international aid and public health.
My husband: “Some people will do anything for exotic pussy.”
Our researchers have captured the first ever video footage of a black jaguar mating in the wild with a spotted jaguar! 📹😽
Watch 👉 bit.ly/4nhGbCt
#jaguars #conservation #wildlife #Amazon #nature #animalconservation #Brazil #BlackJaguar
@ueaenv.bsky.social
Watch 👉 bit.ly/4nhGbCt
#jaguars #conservation #wildlife #Amazon #nature #animalconservation #Brazil #BlackJaguar
@ueaenv.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
My husband: “Some people will do anything for exotic pussy.”
I wish I lived in a parallel reality with flying whales. (This world looks like a Studio Ghibli film. I will not be taking questions.)
OTOH, getting shat on by a pigeon the other week was a minor inconvenience; whale shit from the sky would be a little more troublesome.
OTOH, getting shat on by a pigeon the other week was a minor inconvenience; whale shit from the sky would be a little more troublesome.
RFK Jr claims that windmills are "wiping out the whale population" in the Atlantic
August 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I wish I lived in a parallel reality with flying whales. (This world looks like a Studio Ghibli film. I will not be taking questions.)
OTOH, getting shat on by a pigeon the other week was a minor inconvenience; whale shit from the sky would be a little more troublesome.
OTOH, getting shat on by a pigeon the other week was a minor inconvenience; whale shit from the sky would be a little more troublesome.
I realized that every mitigating action about climate change matters, because it’s a matter of degrees.
August 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I realized that every mitigating action about climate change matters, because it’s a matter of degrees.