Zoe W
@zoemw.bsky.social
🌾🪴🔬🦠🧪🧬⚗️🚲⛰️🌞🌈
Neuro/queer nonbinary biologist and artist.
this is me being a human being, not me being a professional
Neuro/queer nonbinary biologist and artist.
this is me being a human being, not me being a professional
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YES! THIS on GenAI!
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
YES! THIS on GenAI!
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
This is so cool. And a great example of how the links between fundamental and translational research can be unexpected and not obvious - the idea came to a nanoscience engineer while they happened to be reading about normal gum function, something kind of outside their field.
Y’all. They used dental floss on mice.... for vaccine delivery!!!
Not kidding. This is the type of research that keeps me so excited about science and innovation and why we should not be defunding science.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Not kidding. This is the type of research that keeps me so excited about science and innovation and why we should not be defunding science.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Engineers transform dental floss into needle-free vaccine
New method places inactivated viruses directly into mice’s gums
www.science.org
July 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This is so cool. And a great example of how the links between fundamental and translational research can be unexpected and not obvious - the idea came to a nanoscience engineer while they happened to be reading about normal gum function, something kind of outside their field.
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March 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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make something terrible!
June 28, 2024 at 8:45 PM
make something terrible!
This was a very interesting and validating read, surprised by how many times I felt seen! "Concept Jamming" (one of the 'play shapes') is exactly how I approach my interdisciplinary science research...
My copy of The Joys and Shapes of Autistic Play has arrived!
By Max Alexander (Play Radical), this beautiful 80-page book playfully explores autistic approaches to play.
Download for free and order a physical copy here:
playradical.com/the-joys-and...
#monotropism #playTherapy #Neurodiversity
By Max Alexander (Play Radical), this beautiful 80-page book playfully explores autistic approaches to play.
Download for free and order a physical copy here:
playradical.com/the-joys-and...
#monotropism #playTherapy #Neurodiversity
June 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This was a very interesting and validating read, surprised by how many times I felt seen! "Concept Jamming" (one of the 'play shapes') is exactly how I approach my interdisciplinary science research...
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63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys
46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll
to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership
46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll
to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership
EXCLUSIVE: A top Democratic strategist has launched new policy research and messaging hub, called Searchlight, with a goal of pushing the party toward the most effective, broadly popular positions.
Dems are quietly forming a think tank to help them win again
Searchlight, a name inspired by the birthplace of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, comes at a precarious moment for a Democratic Party.
www.politico.com
June 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys
46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll
to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership
46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll
to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership
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I also have some art from 4 and 5 years ago respectively of my neanderthal and homo sapien gay couple and their adopted daughter :’-)
I drew two of them in the previous post hehe
I drew two of them in the previous post hehe
June 3, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I also have some art from 4 and 5 years ago respectively of my neanderthal and homo sapien gay couple and their adopted daughter :’-)
I drew two of them in the previous post hehe
I drew two of them in the previous post hehe
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Yes kink at Pride
In other words
June 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Yes kink at Pride
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The walkout was over NIH cuts, firings, getting rid of research on race and gender, queerphobic nonsense, canceled grants and the fact that Battarchaya has refused to meet with the union despite being officially asked twice
May 27, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The walkout was over NIH cuts, firings, getting rid of research on race and gender, queerphobic nonsense, canceled grants and the fact that Battarchaya has refused to meet with the union despite being officially asked twice
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NIH staff staged a walkout when Batarchaya began championing the lab leak theory-- and implying this made NIH responsible for the pandemic as a whole, and the deaths that followed.
They'd been planning a walkout later on, but when they heard this, they spontaneously decided now was the time.
They'd been planning a walkout later on, but when they heard this, they spontaneously decided now was the time.
May 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
NIH staff staged a walkout when Batarchaya began championing the lab leak theory-- and implying this made NIH responsible for the pandemic as a whole, and the deaths that followed.
They'd been planning a walkout later on, but when they heard this, they spontaneously decided now was the time.
They'd been planning a walkout later on, but when they heard this, they spontaneously decided now was the time.
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🚨 ACTION ITEMS to stop the FDA from limiting Covid vaccine access:
1. Submit a public comment to the FDA www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
2. Contact your elected officials
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
1. Submit a public comment to the FDA www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
2. Contact your elected officials
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
May 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
🚨 ACTION ITEMS to stop the FDA from limiting Covid vaccine access:
1. Submit a public comment to the FDA www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
2. Contact your elected officials
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
1. Submit a public comment to the FDA www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
2. Contact your elected officials
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
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I'm immunocompromised and high-risk, so I hate this (and it doesn't make good sense; without broad protections you get more disease).
BUT: the list of preconditions is long, and a lot of people are probably already eligible who don't realize it (use the otherwise-useless BMI to your advantage).
BUT: the list of preconditions is long, and a lot of people are probably already eligible who don't realize it (use the otherwise-useless BMI to your advantage).
BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say
The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness
www.statnews.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I'm immunocompromised and high-risk, so I hate this (and it doesn't make good sense; without broad protections you get more disease).
BUT: the list of preconditions is long, and a lot of people are probably already eligible who don't realize it (use the otherwise-useless BMI to your advantage).
BUT: the list of preconditions is long, and a lot of people are probably already eligible who don't realize it (use the otherwise-useless BMI to your advantage).
UM
BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say
The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness
www.statnews.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
UM
have been pondering how this also has the effect of artificially widening the apparent "difference between sexes," in the context of the right's attacks on queer and trans folks... absolutely no gender ambiguity allowed
When you condition AFAB's participation in public life on that sort of surgically extreme performance of white femininity (and again, that is the goal of MAGA), you functionally confine all AFAB who cannot afford or attain embodiment of that performance to silence and the home.
May 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
have been pondering how this also has the effect of artificially widening the apparent "difference between sexes," in the context of the right's attacks on queer and trans folks... absolutely no gender ambiguity allowed
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At the same time, we HAVE to recognize the coercive element and name it as grotesque, because the ultimate goal of MAGA is to apply this coercion to all AFAB.
It is about a spectacle of surgical-level WHITE gender conformity that is extreme and also expensive.
It is about a spectacle of surgical-level WHITE gender conformity that is extreme and also expensive.
May 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
At the same time, we HAVE to recognize the coercive element and name it as grotesque, because the ultimate goal of MAGA is to apply this coercion to all AFAB.
It is about a spectacle of surgical-level WHITE gender conformity that is extreme and also expensive.
It is about a spectacle of surgical-level WHITE gender conformity that is extreme and also expensive.
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The appearance of the femme Mar-a-Lago set is an implicit argument that women's participation in public life should be deeply conditional not only on ideological and lifestyle compliance, but bodily compliance to the point of permanent surgical alteration to the strong man's personal tastes.
May 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The appearance of the femme Mar-a-Lago set is an implicit argument that women's participation in public life should be deeply conditional not only on ideological and lifestyle compliance, but bodily compliance to the point of permanent surgical alteration to the strong man's personal tastes.
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Wrote up, for no apparent reason, something about why I write. Don’t even know if I’d publish this anywhere.
May 14, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Wrote up, for no apparent reason, something about why I write. Don’t even know if I’d publish this anywhere.
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They want more MOMS at home. And not just because they hate women.
Their *economic* model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.
Their *economic* model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.
May 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
They want more MOMS at home. And not just because they hate women.
Their *economic* model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.
Their *economic* model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.
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crops from some patreon exclusives, one from last month and one from last year 💐 patreon.com/choo
May 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
crops from some patreon exclusives, one from last month and one from last year 💐 patreon.com/choo
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They're finally here! The full range of "It's Dr, Actually" pins is now available, thanks to your support!
Please share them as much as possible so that they reach the people who'll love them: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...
Please share them as much as possible so that they reach the people who'll love them: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...
April 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
They're finally here! The full range of "It's Dr, Actually" pins is now available, thanks to your support!
Please share them as much as possible so that they reach the people who'll love them: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...
Please share them as much as possible so that they reach the people who'll love them: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...
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OH, YOU WOULDN'T WANNA SEE ME HEALTHY.
March 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
OH, YOU WOULDN'T WANNA SEE ME HEALTHY.
spotted around town 🫡✂️🐁
March 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
spotted around town 🫡✂️🐁