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“Of course, writing novels about the future doesn’t give me any special ability to foretell the future. But it does encourage me to use our past and present behaviors as guides to the kind of world we seem to be creating” — Octavia Butler
October 7, 2025 at 3:53 AM
“Of course, writing novels about the future doesn’t give me any special ability to foretell the future. But it does encourage me to use our past and present behaviors as guides to the kind of world we seem to be creating” — Octavia Butler
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I stopped calling Octavia butlers work prophetic once I realized she herself literally said that her work was influenced by deeply studying history which gave have her insight into the future. I realized I was watering down how truly brilliant she was and what she was trying to get across
October 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I stopped calling Octavia butlers work prophetic once I realized she herself literally said that her work was influenced by deeply studying history which gave have her insight into the future. I realized I was watering down how truly brilliant she was and what she was trying to get across
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With billionaires, educational institutions, and law firms bending the knee to Trump, Heather McGhee says the US is now a competitive autocracy.
April 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
With billionaires, educational institutions, and law firms bending the knee to Trump, Heather McGhee says the US is now a competitive autocracy.
OMG I finally found @blacknerdproblems.bsky.social. I used to follow you in that sunken place and hadn’t quite hit my stride with who I follow here but luck would have it that today I could dig into #blacksky #blerdsky feeds and bam! It’s these small pockets of joy that lift my spirits.
April 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
OMG I finally found @blacknerdproblems.bsky.social. I used to follow you in that sunken place and hadn’t quite hit my stride with who I follow here but luck would have it that today I could dig into #blacksky #blerdsky feeds and bam! It’s these small pockets of joy that lift my spirits.
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I respectfully disagree.
Normie resistance libs and never-Trumpers have *always* misjudged Trump—over and over again.
Trump has consistently proven himself to be much *worse*—more depraved, more deranged, more dimwitted—than those critics have made him out to be.
Normie resistance libs and never-Trumpers have *always* misjudged Trump—over and over again.
Trump has consistently proven himself to be much *worse*—more depraved, more deranged, more dimwitted—than those critics have made him out to be.
No factions in America politics has been proved right more times that normie resistance libs and never-Trump Republicans. Proved right over and over. Trump is as bad as they always told us.
I think a lot of people who are used to dismissing any dissatisfaction with the Dem establishment as DSA malcontents are missing how radicalized normie lib moms who would have voted for Obama a third time if they could are getting
March 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I respectfully disagree.
Normie resistance libs and never-Trumpers have *always* misjudged Trump—over and over again.
Trump has consistently proven himself to be much *worse*—more depraved, more deranged, more dimwitted—than those critics have made him out to be.
Normie resistance libs and never-Trumpers have *always* misjudged Trump—over and over again.
Trump has consistently proven himself to be much *worse*—more depraved, more deranged, more dimwitted—than those critics have made him out to be.
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I just received the first strongly worded email from my leaders indicating they would fight this most recent change to IDCs. All I hear was that it wasn’t worth fighting for when it was about trainees, early career scientists, and POC. Heard loud and clear.
Thoughts for the US scientific community drugmonkey.scientopia.org/2025/02/07/t...
Thoughts for the US scientific community
First they came for the D-SPAN awards, and I did not speak out—because I was not a person of color aspiring to a postdoctoral position of my own choice. Then they came for the diversity F31s, and I…
drugmonkey.scientopia.org
February 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I just received the first strongly worded email from my leaders indicating they would fight this most recent change to IDCs. All I hear was that it wasn’t worth fighting for when it was about trainees, early career scientists, and POC. Heard loud and clear.
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NIH has announced a cut in the "indirect rate" to 15% across the board, in a move that appears to be retroactive to even existing grants. This is a bloodbath for research institutions throughout the country.
Brief explainer for those not in this world:
https://buff.ly/3EtML7D
Brief explainer for those not in this world:
https://buff.ly/3EtML7D
February 7, 2025
February 7, 2025
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February 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
NIH has announced a cut in the "indirect rate" to 15% across the board, in a move that appears to be retroactive to even existing grants. This is a bloodbath for research institutions throughout the country.
Brief explainer for those not in this world:
https://buff.ly/3EtML7D
Brief explainer for those not in this world:
https://buff.ly/3EtML7D
NSBE, SHPE and SWE banned??!! For trying to help students be successful engineers!!! 🤡
The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
February 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
NSBE, SHPE and SWE banned??!! For trying to help students be successful engineers!!! 🤡
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Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉)
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
January 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉)
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...