Katherine Drotos
@spiritofcavalia.bsky.social
Postdoc: Mandeville and Feng labs #fishgenomics | Ongoing #lichens work | Evolution, philosophy, pedagogy, fungi, genomics | Justice & climate | she/her
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Can you imagine YOUR city like this? Why not, more to the point.
All road deaths are a decision made at all levels of Government, within the courts, and to a large extent within the manufacturing of cars and the marketing of them. It doesn't have to be this way.
All road deaths are a decision made at all levels of Government, within the courts, and to a large extent within the manufacturing of cars and the marketing of them. It doesn't have to be this way.
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Can you imagine YOUR city like this? Why not, more to the point.
All road deaths are a decision made at all levels of Government, within the courts, and to a large extent within the manufacturing of cars and the marketing of them. It doesn't have to be this way.
All road deaths are a decision made at all levels of Government, within the courts, and to a large extent within the manufacturing of cars and the marketing of them. It doesn't have to be this way.
Multiple collections positions open at @romtoronto.bsky.social, including curators for birds and plants!!! www.rom.on.ca/work-with-us...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Multiple collections positions open at @romtoronto.bsky.social, including curators for birds and plants!!! www.rom.on.ca/work-with-us...
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AI is asbestos.
Excellent metaphor.
Excellent metaphor.
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
AI is asbestos.
Excellent metaphor.
Excellent metaphor.
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I agree that the trauma of the initial year certainly plays a role, but I think the much bigger factor to point at is the ongoing forced infection and the well documented multi-systemic damage (including brain damage) that repeated infections is doing.
The story is repeated infections.
The story is repeated infections.
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I agree that the trauma of the initial year certainly plays a role, but I think the much bigger factor to point at is the ongoing forced infection and the well documented multi-systemic damage (including brain damage) that repeated infections is doing.
The story is repeated infections.
The story is repeated infections.
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US military planning for divided Gaza with ‘green zone’ secured by international and Israeli troops.
And... almost all Palestinians have been displaced to ‘red zone’ where no reconstruction is planned...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
And... almost all Palestinians have been displaced to ‘red zone’ where no reconstruction is planned...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
US military planning for divided Gaza with ‘green zone’ secured by international and Israeli troops
Exclusive: Almost all Palestinians have been displaced to ‘red zone’ where no reconstruction is planned
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
US military planning for divided Gaza with ‘green zone’ secured by international and Israeli troops.
And... almost all Palestinians have been displaced to ‘red zone’ where no reconstruction is planned...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
And... almost all Palestinians have been displaced to ‘red zone’ where no reconstruction is planned...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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We hoped we could help three families get out of the cold before facing a bleak winter in tents, which last year killed dozens of children and disabled people…
But we have not. In fact, we’re a week behind on our weekly distributions. Let’s turn that around and get them shelter. Anything helps:
But we have not. In fact, we’re a week behind on our weekly distributions. Let’s turn that around and get them shelter. Anything helps:
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We hoped we could help three families get out of the cold before facing a bleak winter in tents, which last year killed dozens of children and disabled people…
But we have not. In fact, we’re a week behind on our weekly distributions. Let’s turn that around and get them shelter. Anything helps:
But we have not. In fact, we’re a week behind on our weekly distributions. Let’s turn that around and get them shelter. Anything helps:
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Aanjalie Roane, MSF Director of Communications, writes in the @thestar.com on how Canada’s #Budget2025 frames a $2.7 billion cut to international assistance as “savings.”
For people in crisis, those cuts mean fewer doctors, fewer medicines, less hope.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
For people in crisis, those cuts mean fewer doctors, fewer medicines, less hope.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Canada: If you’re going to cut foreign aid, at least be honest about it
It is a moral failure dressed up as fiscal responsibility. If we take away the abstract language and political doublespeak, Canadians may find the human cost of these cuts too
www.thestar.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Aanjalie Roane, MSF Director of Communications, writes in the @thestar.com on how Canada’s #Budget2025 frames a $2.7 billion cut to international assistance as “savings.”
For people in crisis, those cuts mean fewer doctors, fewer medicines, less hope.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
For people in crisis, those cuts mean fewer doctors, fewer medicines, less hope.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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#Fungi at all levels matter! From tiniest to largest, they are an essential part of our world. Here we map familiar fungi on #fungal tree of life: doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.7…
@VaianaAnna @fmartin54.bsky.social, @spribille.bsky.social @rasmus kjolle#lichensn#mushroomo#yeasts#supermarioi#moldl#medicineses
@VaianaAnna @fmartin54.bsky.social, @spribille.bsky.social @rasmus kjolle#lichensn#mushroomo#yeasts#supermarioi#moldl#medicineses
November 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
#Fungi at all levels matter! From tiniest to largest, they are an essential part of our world. Here we map familiar fungi on #fungal tree of life: doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.7…
@VaianaAnna @fmartin54.bsky.social, @spribille.bsky.social @rasmus kjolle#lichensn#mushroomo#yeasts#supermarioi#moldl#medicineses
@VaianaAnna @fmartin54.bsky.social, @spribille.bsky.social @rasmus kjolle#lichensn#mushroomo#yeasts#supermarioi#moldl#medicineses
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What the fuck, bluesky
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)
I’ve been suspended from BlueSky. I don’t know why. I wasn’t online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explana...
substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
What the fuck, bluesky
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
Timeline cleanse 🍄
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Timeline cleanse 🍄
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Honest Government Ad | Watch out, Canada
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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November 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Have lichens ever really been resynthesized from their symbiotic components in vitro? Depends on how you define “resynthesized” and “lichen”. Our new review out in @annualreviews.bsky.social
#Lichens form their complex thalli through a partnership involving at least a fungus and an alga. But can these living structures be rebuilt in vitro? For more than a century, people have tried. With @spribille.bsky.social we revisited 150 years of #lichen #resynthesis to ask: has anyone succeeded?
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Have lichens ever really been resynthesized from their symbiotic components in vitro? Depends on how you define “resynthesized” and “lichen”. Our new review out in @annualreviews.bsky.social
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Freshwater sponge experts, where you at?
November 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Freshwater sponge experts, where you at?
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A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:
This is so hard to grapple with. I know with everything else there is always so much to devote our attention to, but this is so ... big? Irredeemable?
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 12:52 AM
This is so hard to grapple with. I know with everything else there is always so much to devote our attention to, but this is so ... big? Irredeemable?
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In case you wanted some specifics on the Liberal 2025 budget cuts on the environment.
thenarwhal.ca/carney-budge...
thenarwhal.ca/carney-budge...
November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
In case you wanted some specifics on the Liberal 2025 budget cuts on the environment.
thenarwhal.ca/carney-budge...
thenarwhal.ca/carney-budge...
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Between this and the ransacking of confidential data, the theme this week for Canadian scientists: the Canadian government has no respect for you.
Came here to see if I was interpreting this correctly. Seems like I am.
November 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Between this and the ransacking of confidential data, the theme this week for Canadian scientists: the Canadian government has no respect for you.
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Things we can do about this situation:
1. Read & sign the open letter (the letter keeps crashing but names are still being collected): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#AcademicSky #CanPoli
Thread, 1/n
1. Read & sign the open letter (the letter keeps crashing but names are still being collected): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#AcademicSky #CanPoli
Thread, 1/n
November 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Things we can do about this situation:
1. Read & sign the open letter (the letter keeps crashing but names are still being collected): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#AcademicSky #CanPoli
Thread, 1/n
1. Read & sign the open letter (the letter keeps crashing but names are still being collected): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#AcademicSky #CanPoli
Thread, 1/n
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a gross parliamentary overreach — article by @picardonhealth.bsky.social in the globe and mail; #academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/91587b9...
How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think
A parliamentary committee is asking for academics’ private information on a strange anti-DEI crusade
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
a gross parliamentary overreach — article by @picardonhealth.bsky.social in the globe and mail; #academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/91587b9...
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September 21, 2024 at 1:07 AM
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I have this sentiment a lot these days
*Stands outside of google's offices in the rain hoisting a boombox above my head blasting Nine Inch Nails' "I Do Not Want This" at top volume*
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I have this sentiment a lot these days
A neat idea, and ... I hope it means more doors will be made accessible in general. We have way too many that either don't have buttons, or the buttons don't work sometimes.
news.uoguelph.ca/2024/10/u-of...
news.uoguelph.ca/2024/10/u-of...
U of G-Developed App Opening Doors to Accessibility
Researchers at the University of Guelph are looking for ways to improve accessibility, one door at a time. Dr. Hussein Abdullah, professor in the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences’ School…
news.uoguelph.ca
November 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
A neat idea, and ... I hope it means more doors will be made accessible in general. We have way too many that either don't have buttons, or the buttons don't work sometimes.
news.uoguelph.ca/2024/10/u-of...
news.uoguelph.ca/2024/10/u-of...
Well deserved! Congrats Dr. Murphy!!
news.uoguelph.ca/2025/10/wate...
news.uoguelph.ca/2025/10/wate...
Water Researcher Named One of Canada’s Most Powerful Women
University of Guelph researcher Dr. Heather Murphy is being honoured for her work safeguarding the world’s water supplies.
news.uoguelph.ca
November 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Well deserved! Congrats Dr. Murphy!!
news.uoguelph.ca/2025/10/wate...
news.uoguelph.ca/2025/10/wate...
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching