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smykes
@smykes.bsky.social
👤He/Him
📍Chicago

Your typical unemployed software engineer, classically trained musician, avid reading, graphic designing, sword-wielder for Twitch Ambassador scicommers who I’m very proud of.
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today is

OUR
STREAM
BIRTHDAY!

stop by for caaaaaaaaaaaaaake! 🧁
www.twitch.tv/mellemony

🧁💖🥮💛🍰💜🧁💖🥮💛🍰💜
#artstream #livestream #twitch #art #painting #watercolor #gouache #mixedmedia
November 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
@shaheen.senate.gov you held out this long for this deal? You realize in order to sign up for the ACA and be covered in January the deadline for enrollment is the SECOND WEEK OF DECEMBER. You had leverage, and poof it’s gone.
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
This is kind of a big deal. If you love #science and #scicomm you should be there.
**Special Guest Announcement**

We are elated to announce that next Wednesday, July 2nd, we have are having a special guest, @odedrechavi.bsky.social live on @Twitch. Come join us at noon EDT on:

twitch.tv/sciants_Streams
June 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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follow ALL of the
CAMP CHAOS COUNSELLORS
in one place!
#CampChaos #CampChaos2025

go.bsky.app/3F4NN39
🏕️⛺🏕️⛺🏕️⛺🌞🌧️🏕️⛺🏕️
June 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The interaction on the Dire Wolf short on TikTok has been back and forth, and fairly split. www.tiktok.com/@sciants_med...

My favorite interaction so far is:

#science #scicomm #sciencesky #nematode #direwolf
April 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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The most important #YouTube short you will watch today--there has been rampant scientific misinformation on the dire wolf this week. We felt it important to discuss what the actual science is behind this process. Please like, share, and fight for facts

#scicomm

youtu.be/d_D6apS_e9A
The Dire Wolf is STILL extinct
YouTube video by SciAnts Media
youtu.be
April 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Really proud of @sciantsmedia.com for the Women in Stem series for Women's History month. If you missed any of them, you can see all the guests here: www.sciantsmedia.com/women-in-stem
and subscribe on your favorite platform here: tr.ee/gK9kzzUl8f
Women In STEM — SciAnts
www.sciantsmedia.com
April 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
It’s unfortunate that my teeth aren’t inside my body otherwise medical insurance could cover them. /s
March 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Ok, bare with me. A library passport. You get a library passport book, each library has a crowd sourced designed stamp, and when you go to a new library you get a new stamp, library card of not. Libraries could sell the passport books. How do we make this happen? publiclibrariesmag.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Really proud of @sciantsmedia.com for his ongoing interview series with powerful women in STEM for Women's History Month. If you have missed any, the first nine are in podcast form!

They and can be found at www.sciantsmedia.com/the-formicary
The Formicary - Conversations in Science — SciAnts
www.sciantsmedia.com
March 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
@tiltify.com is there anyway to do a website embed for a campaign? Is that on the roadmap?
February 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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We are pleased announce the lineup for a very special series we are doing for Women's History Month highlighting women in #STEM in the lab and as content creators as part of "@TWITCH TOGETHER FOR LEGENDARY WOMEN" and our mission as Twitch Ambassadors.

Please see our confirmed guest list and times!
February 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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We are looking to interview women in stem for Women's History Month in March on our Twitch Stream as part of Twitch's "together for legendary women" initiative! If you are interested, or know someone who'd be a good fit, please DM us! Thank you in advance!

#scicomm #science #sciants
a logo that says women in stem with a female symbol
ALT: a logo that says women in stem with a female symbol
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February 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Hey I made my first healthcare physical in four years. Look at me adulting.
January 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Hey, I did a thing...
Best books I read last year:
5 Stars: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Starter Villain - John Scalzi

4 Stars: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
Zero Days - Ruth Ware
Weyward - Emilia Hart
The Night Masquerade (Binti #3) - Nnedi Okorafor,
Home (Binti, #2) - Nnedi Okorafor
cont...
January 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Academic journal papers behind paywalls is a little infuriating, espec. when the author will generally send you a copy if you ask nicely. I don't know what the answer is, maybe open access, but if you want to be an IC/professor you have to be published in one of the big ones which will be paywalled.
December 27, 2024 at 6:47 PM
So a certain company popular amongst streamers who shall not be named (🔗🌳) who I applied to in October, sent out the typical rejection (with no initial interview) form letter the week of Christmas. May have dodged a bullet on this one…
December 26, 2024 at 3:15 PM
I maintain that Skeleton Crew is just Star Wars Goonies.
December 26, 2024 at 12:44 AM
Also merry Christmas and happy Chanukah to all my friends who celebrate.
December 25, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Someone was nice enough to gift me a new Kindle Paperwhite. Mine was first generation and the battery wasn’t lasting as long and the screen was chipped. The biggest difference for me is there is no page flash. It’s wild. My brain was trained to blink whenever I turned a page.
December 25, 2024 at 8:55 PM
This might be the cutest thing ever...
Possibly the cutest clip of the year on @Twitch --munchkin and I were rocking out to the chicken dance and when it stopped.... check the clip!

twitch.tv/sciants_streams
December 21, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Congratulations to two of my favorite people for making this years 15 under 15k on Twitch. First Twitch Ambassadors, now this. <3
December 20, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Big night tonight at 7:00pm EST on Twitch. @paleontologizing.bsky.social @nerduino.bsky.social @volcanodoc.bsky.social and @f15y.com and @sciantsmedia.com will be talking the state of science communication on Twitch!

twitch.tv/sciants_stre...
December 19, 2024 at 3:11 PM