Laura Hollister
@xenolith.bsky.social
Mother, Wife, Geoscientist, Feminist, & Educator. NAGT-TED Past President, 2009 OEST Recipient. BS /MS Env. Geoscience
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Average healthcare costs in the US:
Giving birth? $18,000
Cancer treatment? $150,000
One month ICU stay? Between 30k and 150k.
That’s not including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through.
Cost in Canada? $0.
Cost in the UK? $0.
Cost in Australia? $0.
Giving birth? $18,000
Cancer treatment? $150,000
One month ICU stay? Between 30k and 150k.
That’s not including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through.
Cost in Canada? $0.
Cost in the UK? $0.
Cost in Australia? $0.
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Average healthcare costs in the US:
Giving birth? $18,000
Cancer treatment? $150,000
One month ICU stay? Between 30k and 150k.
That’s not including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through.
Cost in Canada? $0.
Cost in the UK? $0.
Cost in Australia? $0.
Giving birth? $18,000
Cancer treatment? $150,000
One month ICU stay? Between 30k and 150k.
That’s not including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through.
Cost in Canada? $0.
Cost in the UK? $0.
Cost in Australia? $0.
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This is such a sweet photo, and on the back...
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This is such a sweet photo, and on the back...
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This weekly roundup is a good reminder that earthquakes happen everyday in California. While most are small, eventually there will be one that will be disruptive and, knowing this, it is best to be prepared.
Between November 3 (12:00 AM PST) and November 9 (11:59 PM) there were 50 earthquakes in California of magnitude 2.0 or larger.
🔸45 quakes between magnitude 2.0 - 2.9
🔸5 quakes between magnitude 3.0 - 3.9
The largest earthquake was a magnitude 3.8 near San Ramon, CA.
🔸45 quakes between magnitude 2.0 - 2.9
🔸5 quakes between magnitude 3.0 - 3.9
The largest earthquake was a magnitude 3.8 near San Ramon, CA.
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This weekly roundup is a good reminder that earthquakes happen everyday in California. While most are small, eventually there will be one that will be disruptive and, knowing this, it is best to be prepared.
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The single Late Night With Conan O’Brien bit that I contend best exemplifies and crystallizes the brilliantly absurdist comedic sensibility he fostered…
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Oh my gosh, what a long day. 30% of my students were absent because of tomorrow’s holiday, but I had 50% more interruptions.
Also grading test tests from Friday & they’re not good. Anyone who grades knows the bad work is harder to grade cause you have to explain mistakes.
I have 1 1/2 classes left.
Also grading test tests from Friday & they’re not good. Anyone who grades knows the bad work is harder to grade cause you have to explain mistakes.
I have 1 1/2 classes left.
a man in a grey sweater is holding a piece of paper in front of a pop box
ALT: a man in a grey sweater is holding a piece of paper in front of a pop box
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November 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Oh my gosh, what a long day. 30% of my students were absent because of tomorrow’s holiday, but I had 50% more interruptions.
Also grading test tests from Friday & they’re not good. Anyone who grades knows the bad work is harder to grade cause you have to explain mistakes.
I have 1 1/2 classes left.
Also grading test tests from Friday & they’re not good. Anyone who grades knows the bad work is harder to grade cause you have to explain mistakes.
I have 1 1/2 classes left.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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New analysis of neuroimaging data finds that messages that activate the brain’s reward and social-relevance systems are more persuasive, influencing both individuals and large groups beyond what people say they like via self-reports.
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Brain activity explains message effectiveness: A mega-analysis of 16 neuroimaging studies
Abstract. Persuasive communication in marketing, political, and health domains influences sales, elections, and public health. We present a mega-analysis (
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November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
New analysis of neuroimaging data finds that messages that activate the brain’s reward and social-relevance systems are more persuasive, influencing both individuals and large groups beyond what people say they like via self-reports.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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White Sharks Use Their Fins To Explore — And Drones Caught It On Film
White Sharks Use Their Fins To Explore — And Drones Caught It On Film
Drones are revolutionizing shark science, giving researchers a front-row seat to behaviors never seen before. Recently, footage captured white sharks using their dorsal fins to touch and possibly…
www.forbes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
White Sharks Use Their Fins To Explore — And Drones Caught It On Film
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I just saw someone say that people back in the day (1800s) didn’t pay for healthcare and (1) y’all there was a lot of advertising for health products!
It was just that without any real regulation, nobody knew what worked.
It was just that without any real regulation, nobody knew what worked.
November 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I just saw someone say that people back in the day (1800s) didn’t pay for healthcare and (1) y’all there was a lot of advertising for health products!
It was just that without any real regulation, nobody knew what worked.
It was just that without any real regulation, nobody knew what worked.
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You never know who doesn’t get enough to eat at home, so if people show up at my door I feed them.
If you are able, consider donating to a local food bank. Times are tough.
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
If you are able, consider donating to a local food bank. Times are tough.
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
Find Your Local Food Bank and Holiday Food Boxes | Feeding America
Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and holiday food boxes in your community.
www.feedingamerica.org
November 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
You never know who doesn’t get enough to eat at home, so if people show up at my door I feed them.
If you are able, consider donating to a local food bank. Times are tough.
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
If you are able, consider donating to a local food bank. Times are tough.
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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This is a really remarkable piece of writing and in its particulars it describes so, so many people
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This is a really remarkable piece of writing and in its particulars it describes so, so many people
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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121 lab reports graded!
a cat laying on the floor with the words finally done written on it
ALT: a cat laying on the floor with the words finally done written on it
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
121 lab reports graded!
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Newsom: "Think about the state of mind of the VP. How do you square the circle when you go to a prayer breakfast? Old testament, new testament. What's the fundamental thing that connects John to Matthew to Proverbs? It's this notion of hunger, feeding the poor. It's central to advancing God's will."
November 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Newsom: "Think about the state of mind of the VP. How do you square the circle when you go to a prayer breakfast? Old testament, new testament. What's the fundamental thing that connects John to Matthew to Proverbs? It's this notion of hunger, feeding the poor. It's central to advancing God's will."
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We publish in Ecology 30 years of Arctic wildlife monitoring on Bylot Island (Nunavut, Canada)! Our long-term dataset tracks 35 species across 400 km² of tundra, providing rare insights into community dynamics, food webs, and climate responses. Open data for all at bitly.cx/OnOI2 🌍🦊🦉🦑 🧪🌿🌐
October 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
We publish in Ecology 30 years of Arctic wildlife monitoring on Bylot Island (Nunavut, Canada)! Our long-term dataset tracks 35 species across 400 km² of tundra, providing rare insights into community dynamics, food webs, and climate responses. Open data for all at bitly.cx/OnOI2 🌍🦊🦉🦑 🧪🌿🌐
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Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin:
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin:
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
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While they’re still screwing about with SNAP, it’s a good idea to donate to pet shelters, too.
If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole.
apnews.com/article/pets...
If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole.
apnews.com/article/pets...
Families on SNAP worry about not just feeding themselves but also their pets
With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
While they’re still screwing about with SNAP, it’s a good idea to donate to pet shelters, too.
If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole.
apnews.com/article/pets...
If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole.
apnews.com/article/pets...
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“You’re going to be disappointing other people or you’re going to be disappointing yourself. You have to choose.” — my partner to me today. Thought I’d mess yall up too. Thanks!
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“You’re going to be disappointing other people or you’re going to be disappointing yourself. You have to choose.” — my partner to me today. Thought I’d mess yall up too. Thanks!
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I prefer the singular possessive, "Oh, for fuck's sake." It just sounds more professional.
November 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I prefer the singular possessive, "Oh, for fuck's sake." It just sounds more professional.
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The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."