B.D. Voss
@allomygale.bsky.social
Ph.D. student in Canada 🏳 ⚧️, he/they, #actuallyautistic, mad/Insane, Chinese+yt, loves arachnids and fossils. Thoughts my own.
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Hey when they say the new covid variant gives you “razor blade throat” they’re not messing around and you should take precautions to avoid it.
July 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Hey when they say the new covid variant gives you “razor blade throat” they’re not messing around and you should take precautions to avoid it.
i will absolutely marry someone on the spot if they get me either a trans prider or an aro one lol
The first 3 Pride Flag Spiders have been designed and are waiting to be made as backpacks/plushies! Each will have glitter eyes and a matching pride themed inner liner unless otherwise requested.
These spots are LIMITED! Want a diff flag? I can do that too! <3
🏳️🌈Happy Pride month🏳️🌈
These spots are LIMITED! Want a diff flag? I can do that too! <3
🏳️🌈Happy Pride month🏳️🌈
June 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM
i will absolutely marry someone on the spot if they get me either a trans prider or an aro one lol
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I can’t overstate the value of my boss’s boss being an out gay married man
We are not alone and we are part of our wider scientific communities
We are not alone and we are part of our wider scientific communities
May 3, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I can’t overstate the value of my boss’s boss being an out gay married man
We are not alone and we are part of our wider scientific communities
We are not alone and we are part of our wider scientific communities
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All anti-mask laws—even those with so called “medical exceptions”—stigmatize mask-wearing.
Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases.
No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.
Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases.
No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.
March 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
All anti-mask laws—even those with so called “medical exceptions”—stigmatize mask-wearing.
Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases.
No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.
Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases.
No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.
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Federal workers began receiving emails Saturday asking them to describe what they did last week — as Elon Musk warned on social media that, if employees fail to respond, it will be taken as a resignation.
Feds must answer email on what they did last week — or lose jobs, Musk says
Musk says on X that feds must explain what they did last week — or resign
wapo.st
February 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Federal workers began receiving emails Saturday asking them to describe what they did last week — as Elon Musk warned on social media that, if employees fail to respond, it will be taken as a resignation.
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If a reader dislikes your politics, then no amount of subtlety will prevent them from accusing your story of not being subtle enough. Not even if the politics of the story are about your right to live. Don’t go quieter to appease the callow.
if u see this, quote-post with your tips for writers that no one gives anymore because they seem obvious (even though they're not)
February 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If a reader dislikes your politics, then no amount of subtlety will prevent them from accusing your story of not being subtle enough. Not even if the politics of the story are about your right to live. Don’t go quieter to appease the callow.
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Resources from @dredf.bsky.social on the Section 504 lawsuit:
• dredf.org/protect-504/
• FAQs docs.google.com/document/d/1...
• all 50 Attorneys General contact info docs.google.com/document/d/e...
• Disability community briefing webinar + transcript dredf.org/disability-c...
• dredf.org/protect-504/
• FAQs docs.google.com/document/d/1...
• all 50 Attorneys General contact info docs.google.com/document/d/e...
• Disability community briefing webinar + transcript dredf.org/disability-c...
February 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Resources from @dredf.bsky.social on the Section 504 lawsuit:
• dredf.org/protect-504/
• FAQs docs.google.com/document/d/1...
• all 50 Attorneys General contact info docs.google.com/document/d/e...
• Disability community briefing webinar + transcript dredf.org/disability-c...
• dredf.org/protect-504/
• FAQs docs.google.com/document/d/1...
• all 50 Attorneys General contact info docs.google.com/document/d/e...
• Disability community briefing webinar + transcript dredf.org/disability-c...
:deep breaths:
Balancing my immediate concerns for safety, as well as the collective horror and fear and knowledge that not everyone will get through this okay, is hard. All I can do is help who I can, where I can, when I can, while keeping myself afloat. I think if we all do that, it'll be enough.
Balancing my immediate concerns for safety, as well as the collective horror and fear and knowledge that not everyone will get through this okay, is hard. All I can do is help who I can, where I can, when I can, while keeping myself afloat. I think if we all do that, it'll be enough.
February 15, 2025 at 6:25 AM
:deep breaths:
Balancing my immediate concerns for safety, as well as the collective horror and fear and knowledge that not everyone will get through this okay, is hard. All I can do is help who I can, where I can, when I can, while keeping myself afloat. I think if we all do that, it'll be enough.
Balancing my immediate concerns for safety, as well as the collective horror and fear and knowledge that not everyone will get through this okay, is hard. All I can do is help who I can, where I can, when I can, while keeping myself afloat. I think if we all do that, it'll be enough.
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If you're a creator with a disability who is studying, or working or interested in #geoscience, consider submitting to the #DisabilityInGeoscience #Zine!
Learn more @ t.co/NLmeRsZGtL. Feel free to reach out in my DMs as well! 🙂
Learn more @ t.co/NLmeRsZGtL. Feel free to reach out in my DMs as well! 🙂
We shall keep you updated as we progress through our process, and we hope to see your artwork join us! :)
February 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
If you're a creator with a disability who is studying, or working or interested in #geoscience, consider submitting to the #DisabilityInGeoscience #Zine!
Learn more @ t.co/NLmeRsZGtL. Feel free to reach out in my DMs as well! 🙂
Learn more @ t.co/NLmeRsZGtL. Feel free to reach out in my DMs as well! 🙂
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What is one simple act of resistance that will absolutely infuriate any authoritarian determined to make the world ignore pandemics and climate change?
Wearing a mask.
Wearing a mask.
January 21, 2025 at 5:24 AM
What is one simple act of resistance that will absolutely infuriate any authoritarian determined to make the world ignore pandemics and climate change?
Wearing a mask.
Wearing a mask.
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To my nonbinary, agender, genderqueer, and otherwise off the binary friends & siblings: You are loved, you are valued, you are important to our community, you've been here longer than the tyrants, and you will still be here when their bones are dust and the names of their false gods are forgotten.
January 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
To my nonbinary, agender, genderqueer, and otherwise off the binary friends & siblings: You are loved, you are valued, you are important to our community, you've been here longer than the tyrants, and you will still be here when their bones are dust and the names of their false gods are forgotten.
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here's an article written by one of my closest friends on the importance of the Museum of the Earth in her life and in the lives of Cornell students at large
check it out! -> cornellsun.com/2025/01/20/g...
& if you would like to, please sign the petition! -> www.change.org/p/save-the-m...
check it out! -> cornellsun.com/2025/01/20/g...
& if you would like to, please sign the petition! -> www.change.org/p/save-the-m...
January 21, 2025 at 2:19 AM
here's an article written by one of my closest friends on the importance of the Museum of the Earth in her life and in the lives of Cornell students at large
check it out! -> cornellsun.com/2025/01/20/g...
& if you would like to, please sign the petition! -> www.change.org/p/save-the-m...
check it out! -> cornellsun.com/2025/01/20/g...
& if you would like to, please sign the petition! -> www.change.org/p/save-the-m...
Might become more active on here since many of my friends are making the leap from Meta to Bluesky.
January 21, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Might become more active on here since many of my friends are making the leap from Meta to Bluesky.
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Around this time last year @boyswillbebugs.bsky.social, @allomygale.bsky.social, @spissatella.bsky.social, @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social and I published an open letter on supporting transgender persons in STEMM.
We have decided to open to additional signatures 🧪⚒️🦑
medium.com/@transrights...
We have decided to open to additional signatures 🧪⚒️🦑
medium.com/@transrights...
An open letter to the scientific community in the US and UK on the crisis impacting transgender…
Downloadable file
medium.com
December 4, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Around this time last year @boyswillbebugs.bsky.social, @allomygale.bsky.social, @spissatella.bsky.social, @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social and I published an open letter on supporting transgender persons in STEMM.
We have decided to open to additional signatures 🧪⚒️🦑
medium.com/@transrights...
We have decided to open to additional signatures 🧪⚒️🦑
medium.com/@transrights...
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if you're interested in more analysis of last week's #SCOTUS #Skrmetti hearing, I highly recommend this @strictscrutiny.bsky.social episode which includes an interview with @chasestrangio.bsky.social:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
Leave Trans Kids Alone You Absolute Freaks (with Chase Strangio)
Podcast Episode · Strict Scrutiny · 12/09/2024 · 1h 10m
podcasts.apple.com
December 9, 2024 at 7:02 PM
if you're interested in more analysis of last week's #SCOTUS #Skrmetti hearing, I highly recommend this @strictscrutiny.bsky.social episode which includes an interview with @chasestrangio.bsky.social:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
Reboosting, as US vs Skrmetti hits the news waves again after the court rejected hearing a challenge to a Wisconsin policy regarding transgender youth. If you have not signed this yet, consider doing so. We will gladly take Canadian signatures as well!
bsky.app/profile/foss...
I didn't want to attach this directly to the Cell piece, but if you are a person in STEM who wants to show support for trans scientists I am still periodically monitoring/adding new signatories to our open letter from December.
I didn't want to attach this directly to the Cell piece, but if you are a person in STEM who wants to show support for trans scientists I am still periodically monitoring/adding new signatories to our open letter from December.
BD Voss, @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social, @spissatella.bsky.social, Wade Boys, and myself have been working on this for a while now.
We wanted to create a short document on how anti-trans actions in the US/UK have impacted the scientific 🧪⚒️ community, and how you can help
medium.com/@transrights...
We wanted to create a short document on how anti-trans actions in the US/UK have impacted the scientific 🧪⚒️ community, and how you can help
medium.com/@transrights...
December 9, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Reboosting, as US vs Skrmetti hits the news waves again after the court rejected hearing a challenge to a Wisconsin policy regarding transgender youth. If you have not signed this yet, consider doing so. We will gladly take Canadian signatures as well!
Sorry I haven't really been online, a combo of "being too busy with IRL stuff to be online" and "still figuring out how open I want to be" is happening.
August 17, 2024 at 8:28 AM
Sorry I haven't really been online, a combo of "being too busy with IRL stuff to be online" and "still figuring out how open I want to be" is happening.
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when spiders put their little pedipalps together this is all i can see
July 26, 2024 at 5:22 PM
when spiders put their little pedipalps together this is all i can see
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🎵 The St. Helens Jukebox 🎵
Mount St. Helens also inspired some instrumental works. Kit Watkins, former keyboardist for Washington D.C. prog rock band "Happy the Man," included a St. Helens-themed jazz fusion tune in his 1980 solo debut.
Mount St. Helens also inspired some instrumental works. Kit Watkins, former keyboardist for Washington D.C. prog rock band "Happy the Man," included a St. Helens-themed jazz fusion tune in his 1980 solo debut.
Kit Watkins - Spring 1980 & Mount Saint Helen
Spring 1980 is a soft thematic track, Mount Saint Helen is slow but more progressiv, with a tempo change in the middle, from the Album "Labyrinth" by Kit Watkins released in 1980
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June 7, 2024 at 12:45 AM
🎵 The St. Helens Jukebox 🎵
Mount St. Helens also inspired some instrumental works. Kit Watkins, former keyboardist for Washington D.C. prog rock band "Happy the Man," included a St. Helens-themed jazz fusion tune in his 1980 solo debut.
Mount St. Helens also inspired some instrumental works. Kit Watkins, former keyboardist for Washington D.C. prog rock band "Happy the Man," included a St. Helens-themed jazz fusion tune in his 1980 solo debut.
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If you have an indoor-outdoor cat, it's probably time to make it an indoor-only cat. This latest strain of H5N1 appears to be super deadly for cats, and it's spreading to populations not directly associated with dairy farms.
www.reddit.com/r/H5N1_Avian...
www.reddit.com/r/H5N1_Avian...
Reddit - Dive into anything
A place where we can monitor the avian flu outbreak, and discuss how to prepare
www.reddit.com
May 29, 2024 at 12:43 AM
If you have an indoor-outdoor cat, it's probably time to make it an indoor-only cat. This latest strain of H5N1 appears to be super deadly for cats, and it's spreading to populations not directly associated with dairy farms.
www.reddit.com/r/H5N1_Avian...
www.reddit.com/r/H5N1_Avian...
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“The US department of defense” oh gods what now “has determined ABA therapy has very weak supporting evidence, 76% of 16,000 participating autistic children had no improvements, 9% were made actively worse, and the 15% that improved may have been due to maturing not the therapy”
I.. yay autism win?
I.. yay autism win?
May 20, 2024 at 6:35 PM
“The US department of defense” oh gods what now “has determined ABA therapy has very weak supporting evidence, 76% of 16,000 participating autistic children had no improvements, 9% were made actively worse, and the 15% that improved may have been due to maturing not the therapy”
I.. yay autism win?
I.. yay autism win?
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Contrast these 2 types of crinoid for #InverteFest 🦑
1) Most living crinoids are stalkless filter feeders and attach to other inverts using cirri
(This pic has a bonus shrimp, Thor amboinensis 🦐)
2) Fossils, and some deep sea species, have a stalk and can crawl along the seafloor
1) Most living crinoids are stalkless filter feeders and attach to other inverts using cirri
(This pic has a bonus shrimp, Thor amboinensis 🦐)
2) Fossils, and some deep sea species, have a stalk and can crawl along the seafloor
April 29, 2024 at 12:23 AM
Contrast these 2 types of crinoid for #InverteFest 🦑
1) Most living crinoids are stalkless filter feeders and attach to other inverts using cirri
(This pic has a bonus shrimp, Thor amboinensis 🦐)
2) Fossils, and some deep sea species, have a stalk and can crawl along the seafloor
1) Most living crinoids are stalkless filter feeders and attach to other inverts using cirri
(This pic has a bonus shrimp, Thor amboinensis 🦐)
2) Fossils, and some deep sea species, have a stalk and can crawl along the seafloor