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Assigned Scientist at Bachelor's 🏳️‍⚧️
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A podcast about science fact and fiction, featuring trans scientists. Transcripts on website. Charles runs this account. asabpodcast.com
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Assigned Scientist at Bachelor's 🏳️‍⚧️ @asabpod.bsky.social · Feb 20
*The only such podcast that we KNOW of**
**I am a professional fact-checker***
***Listen to our podcast!
tessafisher.bsky.social Dr. Tessa Fisher @tessafisher.bsky.social · Feb 20
@asabpod.bsky.social, the only science podcast dedicated to interviewing, and highlighting the research of, trans and nonbinary scientists, is back from our long hiatus with a brand new episode about space stuff!
Episode 63: SEVERAL SPACE UPDATES
We’re back from hiatus and talking about several updates in space news from the time we were gone – specifically, Arizona naming Pluto its state planet, the status on phosphine in Venus…
asabpodcast.com
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unbreaking.org
About two dozen provider organizations have stopped offering gender-affirming care in response to Trump’s threats. But not all hospitals are complying in advance. Boston Children’s Hospital recently issued a statement saying it would continue care. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/bost...
Boston Children's Hospital says it won't be bullied into abandoning trans youth - LGBTQ Nation
The hospital has faced bomb threats, hate campaigns, and threats to funding over the years but has never wavered in supporting gender-affirming care.
www.lgbtqnation.com
August 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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amandajealous.bsky.social
Worlds Inside Worlds
#comics #comicoop
#SciArt #beetle #bug
Short comic with no panel edges. There’s a woman in a yellow tank top and blue spandex shorts with short strawberry-blonde hair. She sits on the ground leaning in close to a plant. Next to her is text that reads “There are worlds inside worlds” The POV comes in close to the woman’s face, we see her smirks at a beetle on top of a leaf. The text continues “for those with the eyes to see” Close up on the beetle, a Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle, the beetle addresses the woman “Sup?”. The final portion of text reads “and the heart to care.”
August 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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aedwardslevy.bsky.social
hoping that when they say the LLM talks like a Ph.D.-level expert, they mean "holds indecipherable decades-long academic grudges expressed largely in the form of questions that are actually more of a comment"
August 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
asabpod.bsky.social
Not really even broadly relevant to the podcast but I'm so happy! No water-wasting data centers in the DESERT.

THE DESERT!!!!! IT'S A DESERT.

😘 - me at all the beautiful deserts
August 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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reveleth.com
I wrote up what the new World Athletics policy actually means, who is exempt, and what might come next, along with a little *hot take* about the financial piece of this. buttondown.com/tested/archi...
World Athletics is indeed going back to mandatory sex testing.
In unsurprising, but still pretty unfortunate news: Yesterday, World Athletics announced that it would indeed be bringing back genetic sex testing for all...
buttondown.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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reveleth.com
Sex testing is officially back in sports -- which is a huge bummer and also contradicts so much ethics, human rights law, and actual science. More on all that (and the history) on my podcast Tested: www.tested-podcast.com
July 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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avs.bsky.social
i think a lot about how zotero is actually one of the technologies academia actually should be pushing on students and faculty versus the lake-guzzling, town poisoning, and labor exploiting chatbots
chanda.blacksky.app Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jul 27
Zotero has changed my life for the better. What a marvelous piece of software.
July 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
Because a lot of people won't appreciate this: also, university presses have a habit of making authors handover copyright of their academic manuscripts, so a lot of authors won't even have the ability to say "no" to this kind of shit as more presses do it

bsky.app/profile/hype...
July 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
An excellent and useful list: open.substack.com/pub/grouphug...
A megalist of tools for building community
55 platforms + tactics for connecting off social media
open.substack.com
July 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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anarchygoose.bsky.social
You don't have to think about this if you aren't impacted by it, but it becomes way easier to just not go out in public.

And so we don't.

People sometimes comment that trans folks have a huge online presence - do you think that this is because we have thriving offline social lives?
July 20, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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goodaaron.bsky.social
I can confirm the PBS Passport is a very good deal for $5/month or $2.50/month if you do yearly.

Thousands of hours of top notch content. NOVA is great. The new Ken Burns doc on Leonardo da Vinci is excellent.

You can sign up at the link below!

www.pbs.org/passport/lea...
July 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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firestorm.coop
Local librarians and booksellers (including us) weigh in on what you should be reading this summer!

(Spoiler: we suggested @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @prisonculture.bsky.social, @shanehawk.com, @tvayyyy.bsky.social, and #MargePiercy 🔥📚)
Summer reading recs from local bookstores + libraries
Keep the summer reading going by finding your next page-turner, including recommendations from local bookstores.
avltoday.6amcity.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
asabpod.bsky.social
Someday I'm going to get into a throuple with a geologist and a botanist and we're going to go on the best hikes anyone's ever even heard of.
July 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
Star Trek The Next Generation scene. We're in a SHUTTLECRAFT! Riker is sitting on the driver's side but the pic is close in. He's looking up kind of doing that thing you do when you're otherwise just hanging but someone says something that makes you do a record scratch. Closed caption reads, "Commander, tell me about your sexual organs."
July 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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repmarcykaptur.bsky.social
The GOP plans to slash $2.1 Billion from the National Science Foundation. It won’t just hurt labs—it hurts students, startups, and the future economy. From clean energy to advanced manufacturing, these are jobs of tomorrow. These cuts hand American jobs and opportunity to our foreign competitors.
July 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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gregpak.net
If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.
ramiismail.com Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · Jul 14
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI
July 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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deethelinguist.bsky.social
While you're at it you could also celebrate by reading my paper about gendered morphology and being non-binary. Really do a read-a-thon in nonbinary linguistics. uplopen.com/chapters/e/1...
July 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
asabpod.bsky.social
I bought a second SSD for my computer today. I have never upgraded any aspect of a computer before, which feels wild to admit as a man in his 30s whose job is Be On Computer but there it is, and I feel like I'm on top of the world. I have an unspeakable wealth of storage. I will never die.
July 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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soliari.bsky.social
Briar the Rainbow Stag Beetle! Very happy with how he turned out! Finished just in time for AC
📸 @fonnfuzz.bsky.social & @jdchurro.bsky.social
#beetle #bug #fursuit #costume
Someone wearing a stag beetle costume head and hands, standing in front of a wooden fence reaching for the viewer Someone wearing a stag beetle costume, head and hands, in a "thinking" pose in front of a wooden fence outside Someone wearing a stag beetle costume, from the back. There are beetle wings on their back and they are in a crowded convention hall
July 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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reveleth.com
Our crowdfunding campaign comes to a close soon and it would be so cool for us to hit our stretch goal of $150k. Share with a pal? givebutter.com/coyotemedia
Launch Coyote Media Collective
A new alt-weekly-style publication is hitting the Bay Area
givebutter.com
July 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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campfireharve.st
I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven
Header text: "HEY YOU! YES YOU! TAKE THIS SHIT OUT OF LINKS!" This is followed by a couple example urls, with a red square highlighting the sections with source identifiers. The rest of the text is as follows: Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site. Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to. Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity. When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected. And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers. Whenever you select "share" or "copy link" on a social app or website, it creates a link like this. If you give even the smallest shit about online privacy, it's important to remove them. Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue, especially sections starting with "si=" or "utm_source="
July 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
asabpod.bsky.social
Went to the Burton Barr branch of the Phoenix Public Library this morning on impulse - incredible decision. It's a wonderful 5-flooe public library that really makes you go, wow there are a lot of books in the world. Had to really hold myself back in the 595 section of adult nonfiction.
July 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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ardenpowell.bsky.social
We're raising money to help with Canadian wildfire relief in Native communities! $10 gets you 81 books + games with lots of queer content, including my short story Zen Solaris and the God-Child, with all proceeds going to the Nii'kinaaganaa Foundation. Tips are encouraged!
🇨🇦 itch.io/b/3125/canad...
Canadian Wildfires Fundraiser Buy 81 items for $10 Regularly ~$353 Save 97%! This is a fundraiser to help those affected by the wildfires in Northern Canada this year. 2025 is showing signs of being the 2nd worst fire season in years, with nearly 4 million hectares having burned by early June from almost 2000 fires. Tens of thousands have been forced to evacuate and many northern communities have suffered extensive damage. And that was just the beginning as most years' fire seasons only really start in July or August. Our fundraiser will have an emphasis on Indigenous communities, as they are the most affected, with 100% of our proceeds going to charities via the Nii'kinaaganaa Foundation non-profit.
July 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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natalieweiner.bsky.social
very weird headline when we have had labor camps (prisons) forever newrepublic.com/article/1976...
Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America?
If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.
newrepublic.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
Don't just tell the staff, although that's important. Write a note to the branch manager, system director, and maybe even the collections dept. Post about it on their Facebook page. Talk about it at library board meetings.
sassylibrarian.bsky.social Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · Jul 6
Yes, telling librarians you appreciate their inclusive collections is a good thing. Even better is putting that appreciation in writing to administrators and boards so that the librarian has a record of your remarks and contact info in case support is needed in the future.
July 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM