Virginia Schutte
@vgwschutte.bsky.social
Independent (freelance) #SciComm practitioner: storyteller, consultant, trainer. Specialties: social media, communications strategy, building community. Background: (marine) ecology PhD. Open to work. VirginiaSchutte.com
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Virginia Schutte
@vgwschutte.bsky.social
· Feb 24
a man in a white shirt and black shorts is standing in front of a brick house .
Alt: Napoleon Dynamite from the movie of that name: a man in a white shirt and black shorts standing in front of a brick house awkwardly waving beyond the camera and saying "HEY" without smiling
media.tenor.com
3K followers introduction! 🧵
I'm an independent science communicator; I'm a co-founder, creator, trainer, and strategist. I'm a freelancer fortunate enough to make things I like with people I like : )
(there's a lot of evil laughter in this thread, I just realized as I was about to post 😇)
I'm an independent science communicator; I'm a co-founder, creator, trainer, and strategist. I'm a freelancer fortunate enough to make things I like with people I like : )
(there's a lot of evil laughter in this thread, I just realized as I was about to post 😇)
Important context for that piece about🧪 being prohibited, retroactively, from working with folks from other countries
Wait. Can someone explain how this is different then what we already have to do? If I'm reading it correctly, it's a ban on training/working with people from China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran who are affiliated with their governments, not all students from those countries.
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Important context for that piece about🧪 being prohibited, retroactively, from working with folks from other countries
Personally if I ever get in an interview led by an AI agent, I assure you that fear will not be my top emotion and I will need no help in knowing what to say
Did you know that you may be faced with job interviews led completely by an AI? This new blog contains practical ways to raise your AI-interview score. Your delivery, keywords, tone, and setup all get scored. The best response is not fear, it's all about strategy and preparation! 🧪 #AIJobs #SciComm.
AI-Led Job Interviews: A Practical Guide for Success
AI-led job interviews are increasingly becoming a gatekeeper during the hiring process. Companies across many industries are turning to artificial intelligence to screen candidates before a human revi...
larrymillerphd.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Personally if I ever get in an interview led by an AI agent, I assure you that fear will not be my top emotion and I will need no help in knowing what to say
I feel attacked
Americans Demand New Form Of Media To Bridge Entertainment Gap While Looking From Laptop To Phone https://theonion.com/americans-demand-new-form-of-media-to-bridge-entertainm-1819576756/
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I feel attacked
I'm on this project! Come work on #SciComm stuff with us!
Hi all! I'm hiring for a #scicomm research postdoc to join our Scicomm LIFT team!
Short story is: 2 years guaranteed funding, open to remote or hybrid work, $61k+hearty benefits (see UW's 401k match in particular)!
Please share with folks who might be interested!
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Short story is: 2 years guaranteed funding, open to remote or hybrid work, $61k+hearty benefits (see UW's 401k match in particular)!
Please share with folks who might be interested!
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Post Doctoral Research Associate - Zoology & Physiology (B Merkle Lab)
Hiring a highly motivated postdoctoral research associate position to join an NSF-funded, multi-institutional, research team studying graduate students’ ability to communicate science effectively and ...
eeik.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I'm on this project! Come work on #SciComm stuff with us!
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Happy exploding whale day to all who celebrate.
50 years ago, today, a whale exploded on an Oregon beach. 20 years later, before social media or video sharing sights or smartphones, it would become the first viral Internet video.
We sent it to each other in the mail.
The History of Exploding Whales Is the History of the Internet Itself
We sent it to each other in the mail.
The History of Exploding Whales Is the History of the Internet Itself
The History of Exploding Whales Is the History of the Internet Itself
My first whale video came in the form of a VHS tape mailed to me by a stranger from the internet.
www.vice.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Happy exploding whale day to all who celebrate.
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if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
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Get offline for a day. Create something.
I'm serious.
You cannot endure our current reality in ANY timeline if you are constantly scraping your raw nerves across the jagged edges of the evil that people do. You need tangible, embodied reminders that we endure through hope and love, not despair.
I'm serious.
You cannot endure our current reality in ANY timeline if you are constantly scraping your raw nerves across the jagged edges of the evil that people do. You need tangible, embodied reminders that we endure through hope and love, not despair.
October 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Get offline for a day. Create something.
I'm serious.
You cannot endure our current reality in ANY timeline if you are constantly scraping your raw nerves across the jagged edges of the evil that people do. You need tangible, embodied reminders that we endure through hope and love, not despair.
I'm serious.
You cannot endure our current reality in ANY timeline if you are constantly scraping your raw nerves across the jagged edges of the evil that people do. You need tangible, embodied reminders that we endure through hope and love, not despair.
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Pierrot, by Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718-19, 📸 by @andyharnik
November 7, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Pierrot, by Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718-19, 📸 by @andyharnik
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To my trans and nonbinary friends, I am so sorry that you have to deal with this hate. And I hope to see us reach the other side of it soon. And, we will reach the other side. This is horrifying, but it is ultimately the latest iteration of a time-worn tale. And their time always comes to an end.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
To my trans and nonbinary friends, I am so sorry that you have to deal with this hate. And I hope to see us reach the other side of it soon. And, we will reach the other side. This is horrifying, but it is ultimately the latest iteration of a time-worn tale. And their time always comes to an end.
It me
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It me
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
This is SO CUTE
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This is SO CUTE
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There are more of us than there are of them.
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
There are more of us than there are of them.
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Happy voting day in the US! May your favorite candidate win, may the lines be long enough that you still have hope in democracy but short enough that you can get on with your day, and may your vote count as much as you deserve.
November 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Happy voting day in the US! May your favorite candidate win, may the lines be long enough that you still have hope in democracy but short enough that you can get on with your day, and may your vote count as much as you deserve.
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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
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people and other creatures of bluesky: PLEASE use alt-text on your images! ESPECIALLY if you position yourself as some variety of expert on communication and sit in judgment on how other people do it!
October 31, 2025 at 9:43 AM
people and other creatures of bluesky: PLEASE use alt-text on your images! ESPECIALLY if you position yourself as some variety of expert on communication and sit in judgment on how other people do it!
SNAP fraud rates are less than 1% and falling every year we have data for
HOWEVER: hundreds of millions is stolen *from* SNAP recipients every year! Because the EBT cards they use aren’t modernized and secure! And the program they used to repay recipients their stolen $ lapsed in Dec 2024!
HOWEVER: hundreds of millions is stolen *from* SNAP recipients every year! Because the EBT cards they use aren’t modernized and secure! And the program they used to repay recipients their stolen $ lapsed in Dec 2024!
“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten
October 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
SNAP fraud rates are less than 1% and falling every year we have data for
HOWEVER: hundreds of millions is stolen *from* SNAP recipients every year! Because the EBT cards they use aren’t modernized and secure! And the program they used to repay recipients their stolen $ lapsed in Dec 2024!
HOWEVER: hundreds of millions is stolen *from* SNAP recipients every year! Because the EBT cards they use aren’t modernized and secure! And the program they used to repay recipients their stolen $ lapsed in Dec 2024!
Nerding out over this graphic, which I think is so fantastic. Is clear, simple, quick, and it has a call to action at the bottom. It’s also optimized to go with a post like this one: “help us tell the gov…”, instead of “hey FYI we’re doing something”
I’m not surprised, from Oceana 👏
I’m not surprised, from Oceana 👏
Overfishing is not the answer.
Together, we can demand that the government put our shared seas before corporate profit.
Help us tell UK Govt it's time to: END OVERFISHING 🎣 https://bit.ly/3Wxi2MI
Together, we can demand that the government put our shared seas before corporate profit.
Help us tell UK Govt it's time to: END OVERFISHING 🎣 https://bit.ly/3Wxi2MI
October 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Nerding out over this graphic, which I think is so fantastic. Is clear, simple, quick, and it has a call to action at the bottom. It’s also optimized to go with a post like this one: “help us tell the gov…”, instead of “hey FYI we’re doing something”
I’m not surprised, from Oceana 👏
I’m not surprised, from Oceana 👏
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
Well this looks AMAZING
October 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Well this looks AMAZING
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Just filled out two online forms - an academic submission site and a trade publisher site - asking for the submitter's Twitter account, but no space to share other social media accounts like bsky. Friendly reminder that if you have backend control of these types of forms you can change this!
October 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Just filled out two online forms - an academic submission site and a trade publisher site - asking for the submitter's Twitter account, but no space to share other social media accounts like bsky. Friendly reminder that if you have backend control of these types of forms you can change this!
One of my favorite companies of all time is Hashatit - like “have at it”, but hashtags. Ha.
I like to imagine the energy when they formed the company- not a brain cell in sight as leaders failed to think through alt ways to read their name
Somehow, they seem to have gone under in 2023
I like to imagine the energy when they formed the company- not a brain cell in sight as leaders failed to think through alt ways to read their name
Somehow, they seem to have gone under in 2023
October 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
One of my favorite companies of all time is Hashatit - like “have at it”, but hashtags. Ha.
I like to imagine the energy when they formed the company- not a brain cell in sight as leaders failed to think through alt ways to read their name
Somehow, they seem to have gone under in 2023
I like to imagine the energy when they formed the company- not a brain cell in sight as leaders failed to think through alt ways to read their name
Somehow, they seem to have gone under in 2023
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I’ve been regularly volunteering at a food bank for about a year and please, if you want to help, consider donating cash.
For $3, they can provide 15 meals and what they can do with the money you might spend on a few cans can be converted to vastly more in fresh fruit, vegetables, dairy, or meat.
For $3, they can provide 15 meals and what they can do with the money you might spend on a few cans can be converted to vastly more in fresh fruit, vegetables, dairy, or meat.
October 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I’ve been regularly volunteering at a food bank for about a year and please, if you want to help, consider donating cash.
For $3, they can provide 15 meals and what they can do with the money you might spend on a few cans can be converted to vastly more in fresh fruit, vegetables, dairy, or meat.
For $3, they can provide 15 meals and what they can do with the money you might spend on a few cans can be converted to vastly more in fresh fruit, vegetables, dairy, or meat.
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Ok on this one it could also be perimenopause OR the fall of democracy.
Is your sleep getting worse?
It's not your imagination. It's climate change.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It's not your imagination. It's climate change.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Climate warming may undermine sleep duration and quality in repeated-measure study of 23 million records - Nature Communications
The impact of rising temperatures on sleep and its components under climate change remains underexplored. Here, authors show that climate warming can significantly exacerbate sleep deprivation, with a...
www.nature.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Ok on this one it could also be perimenopause OR the fall of democracy.