Heather Runberg
@themorrigan.bsky.social
Analytical atmospheric chemist, mom, hiker, music lover. Feminist. Cat lady.
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He was just, like, a guy. Not a politician. Not a statesman of any kind. Just some really mean guy. Flags at half mast. Yankee moment of silence. Whatever the shit this is.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
September 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
He was just, like, a guy. Not a politician. Not a statesman of any kind. Just some really mean guy. Flags at half mast. Yankee moment of silence. Whatever the shit this is.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
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COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.
September 3, 2025 at 12:59 AM
COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.
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If you hear stories about some irrational woman and you know her...please ask her for her perspective. My guess is her answer will be quite different than what you are being told. This is the playbook that slows the process of female leaders. Don't contribute to it.
August 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
If you hear stories about some irrational woman and you know her...please ask her for her perspective. My guess is her answer will be quite different than what you are being told. This is the playbook that slows the process of female leaders. Don't contribute to it.
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This is nazi logic. The Nazis would redistribute the confiscated property of Jews to the German populace as an incentive to support their mass deportation to concentration camps.
JD Vance: "As we've kicked illegal aliens out of our country, you actually see housing costs start to level off."
August 21, 2025 at 1:53 AM
This is nazi logic. The Nazis would redistribute the confiscated property of Jews to the German populace as an incentive to support their mass deportation to concentration camps.
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"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people
August 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people
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Trump’s budget is an attack on students.
📚 Caps federal loans, forcing many into private debt
💸 Raises monthly payments for 30 million borrowers
🏫 Cuts aid to colleges for working-class students
Education is more important than billionaire tax cuts.
📚 Caps federal loans, forcing many into private debt
💸 Raises monthly payments for 30 million borrowers
🏫 Cuts aid to colleges for working-class students
Education is more important than billionaire tax cuts.
What the 'One Big Beautiful Bill' will change for students, schools and colleges
School vouchers are going national and the federal student loan system is getting an overhaul. Here's what to know.
www.npr.org
August 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Trump’s budget is an attack on students.
📚 Caps federal loans, forcing many into private debt
💸 Raises monthly payments for 30 million borrowers
🏫 Cuts aid to colleges for working-class students
Education is more important than billionaire tax cuts.
📚 Caps federal loans, forcing many into private debt
💸 Raises monthly payments for 30 million borrowers
🏫 Cuts aid to colleges for working-class students
Education is more important than billionaire tax cuts.
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This is a great idea. I suspect most Americans don't really know what's going on with the attacks on science. This could help.
🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Day 9! MINDFUL MICROFLYERING!
Head over to the site and print off a few microflyers. Leave them as you go about your business today…tucked into egg cartons or left on a waiting room table.
www.standupforscience.net/microflyering
#31Days
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Day 9! MINDFUL MICROFLYERING!
Head over to the site and print off a few microflyers. Leave them as you go about your business today…tucked into egg cartons or left on a waiting room table.
www.standupforscience.net/microflyering
#31Days
Microflyering — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
www.standupforscience.net
August 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This is a great idea. I suspect most Americans don't really know what's going on with the attacks on science. This could help.
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mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.
August 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.
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I look forward to reaping the rich reward of drug companies paying me exorbitant sums to use their products!
August 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I look forward to reaping the rich reward of drug companies paying me exorbitant sums to use their products!
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📣 ANNOUNCEMENT: 31 Days of Action – All August!
Funding cuts. Banned words. Fired public servants.
Trump & his cronies are dismantling America’s greatest experiment - our democracy - & with it, science.
Between now & Sept 30th we decide: Are we a democracy… or an oligarchy?
(1/4)
Funding cuts. Banned words. Fired public servants.
Trump & his cronies are dismantling America’s greatest experiment - our democracy - & with it, science.
Between now & Sept 30th we decide: Are we a democracy… or an oligarchy?
(1/4)
August 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
📣 ANNOUNCEMENT: 31 Days of Action – All August!
Funding cuts. Banned words. Fired public servants.
Trump & his cronies are dismantling America’s greatest experiment - our democracy - & with it, science.
Between now & Sept 30th we decide: Are we a democracy… or an oligarchy?
(1/4)
Funding cuts. Banned words. Fired public servants.
Trump & his cronies are dismantling America’s greatest experiment - our democracy - & with it, science.
Between now & Sept 30th we decide: Are we a democracy… or an oligarchy?
(1/4)
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Ah yes, firing the data expert after bad news on jobs, just the kind of commitment to research excellence we like to see in governments that are asserting control over…academic research.
August 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Ah yes, firing the data expert after bad news on jobs, just the kind of commitment to research excellence we like to see in governments that are asserting control over…academic research.
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When you strip away humanity
July 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
When you strip away humanity
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June 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
June 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
I was a toddler around the time that The Jerk came out. My mom and I were at the Aspen airport waiting for a flight, and I wanted some water. My mom lead me to a fountain that was nearby, but, in classic toddler fashion, I threw a fit because wanted the fountain *over there* instead. 🧵
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I was a toddler around the time that The Jerk came out. My mom and I were at the Aspen airport waiting for a flight, and I wanted some water. My mom lead me to a fountain that was nearby, but, in classic toddler fashion, I threw a fit because wanted the fountain *over there* instead. 🧵
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"When we had the wildfires that devastated big chunks of our city, he did absolutely nothing. Now that we're in the middle of a non-emergency, send in the National Guard."
June 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
"When we had the wildfires that devastated big chunks of our city, he did absolutely nothing. Now that we're in the middle of a non-emergency, send in the National Guard."
It also
- Ends Grad PLUS loans
- Ends UG subsidized loans
- Limits Parent PLUS loans to $50k total
- Eliminates all ICR repayment options
- Eliminates the ability to consolidate Parent PLUS loans into PSLF eligible loans
- Requires 15 credit hours per semester for full Pell Grants
- Ends Grad PLUS loans
- Ends UG subsidized loans
- Limits Parent PLUS loans to $50k total
- Eliminates all ICR repayment options
- Eliminates the ability to consolidate Parent PLUS loans into PSLF eligible loans
- Requires 15 credit hours per semester for full Pell Grants
Yes, the GOP budget guts Medicaid, SNAP and gives more tax breaks to the mega-rich — but it also:
- Lets Big Oil buy public land to drill
- 10 year ban on state AI regulations
- Tax break on gun silencers
- Restricts funding to nonprofits
- Defunds women's health organizations
- Lets Big Oil buy public land to drill
- 10 year ban on state AI regulations
- Tax break on gun silencers
- Restricts funding to nonprofits
- Defunds women's health organizations
May 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
It also
- Ends Grad PLUS loans
- Ends UG subsidized loans
- Limits Parent PLUS loans to $50k total
- Eliminates all ICR repayment options
- Eliminates the ability to consolidate Parent PLUS loans into PSLF eligible loans
- Requires 15 credit hours per semester for full Pell Grants
- Ends Grad PLUS loans
- Ends UG subsidized loans
- Limits Parent PLUS loans to $50k total
- Eliminates all ICR repayment options
- Eliminates the ability to consolidate Parent PLUS loans into PSLF eligible loans
- Requires 15 credit hours per semester for full Pell Grants
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You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
May 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).
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"They voted to allow chemical manufacturers, pesticide makers, refineries and other facilities to turn off their pollution controls for the most insidious air pollutants known to humankind — chemicals such as dioxins, mercury, and PCBs." Vote them out. Sick. immoral.
www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-...
www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-...
Senate votes to overturn EPA rule that limits 7 hazardous air pollutants
The party-line vote marked the first time in the 55-year history of the Clean Air Act that Congress has moved to weaken the power of the landmark environmental law.
www.cbsnews.com
May 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"They voted to allow chemical manufacturers, pesticide makers, refineries and other facilities to turn off their pollution controls for the most insidious air pollutants known to humankind — chemicals such as dioxins, mercury, and PCBs." Vote them out. Sick. immoral.
www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-...
www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-...
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Eugenics is fake science.
But it’s creeping back into public discourse—through political rhetoric, bad policy, & scientific silence. We’re seeing this pseudoscience rebrand itself once again as legitimate.
We must call it what it is—& stop it before it spreads further. We’ve seen where this leads.
But it’s creeping back into public discourse—through political rhetoric, bad policy, & scientific silence. We’re seeing this pseudoscience rebrand itself once again as legitimate.
We must call it what it is—& stop it before it spreads further. We’ve seen where this leads.
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics
https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc
https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc
Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.
go.nature.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Eugenics is fake science.
But it’s creeping back into public discourse—through political rhetoric, bad policy, & scientific silence. We’re seeing this pseudoscience rebrand itself once again as legitimate.
We must call it what it is—& stop it before it spreads further. We’ve seen where this leads.
But it’s creeping back into public discourse—through political rhetoric, bad policy, & scientific silence. We’re seeing this pseudoscience rebrand itself once again as legitimate.
We must call it what it is—& stop it before it spreads further. We’ve seen where this leads.
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Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.
April 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.
I hate this timeline
The world’s richest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth, the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, after Trump pledged to pause tariffs for some countries
Billionaires Score Best-Ever Day as Stocks Soar on Tariff Pause
The world’s wealthiest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth on Wednesday — the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — as stock markets soared after ...
www.bloomberg.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I hate this timeline
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Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
April 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly
April 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly