Beecie
@beecie.bsky.social
Who I am: yarn-wrangler, book lover, head chef for small clan, wellspring of executive function both at home and at work. Working on figuring out who I want to be next.
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Academics & others need to understand a few things.
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I) First, fascism is not inevitable.
Research on autocratic movements show that only about 3,5% of the population need to resist to stop them.
Fascism thrives on the silence of the friends.
That why visible resistance matters.
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A 🧵
I) First, fascism is not inevitable.
Research on autocratic movements show that only about 3,5% of the population need to resist to stop them.
Fascism thrives on the silence of the friends.
That why visible resistance matters.
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In addition to going through the website, I strongly encourage people to read the letter from Harvard's President, Dr. Garber.
We need more scientific institutions to show this level of courage, no matter the risk. In fact, we need *all* institutions to stand up*.
www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
We need more scientific institutions to show this level of courage, no matter the risk. In fact, we need *all* institutions to stand up*.
www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
The Promise of American Higher Education
No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue
www.harvard.edu
April 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Academics & others need to understand a few things.
A 🧵
I) First, fascism is not inevitable.
Research on autocratic movements show that only about 3,5% of the population need to resist to stop them.
Fascism thrives on the silence of the friends.
That why visible resistance matters.
1/
A 🧵
I) First, fascism is not inevitable.
Research on autocratic movements show that only about 3,5% of the population need to resist to stop them.
Fascism thrives on the silence of the friends.
That why visible resistance matters.
1/
Pantry update/cleanout report…8 half used bags of various dried chilies have been reduced down to an amazing batch of chili crisp. If I say so my very own self.
April 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Pantry update/cleanout report…8 half used bags of various dried chilies have been reduced down to an amazing batch of chili crisp. If I say so my very own self.
People who justify doing hateful things because they are “practical” or “necessary” will never admit they are wrong. They will blame us for their failures the same way they blamed others for their terrible choices. (Tired of the breathless “do they regret their votes yet?” rhetoric.)
April 8, 2025 at 11:36 AM
People who justify doing hateful things because they are “practical” or “necessary” will never admit they are wrong. They will blame us for their failures the same way they blamed others for their terrible choices. (Tired of the breathless “do they regret their votes yet?” rhetoric.)
I’m not sleeping really well lately, but on the up side…I am totally caught up on my reading target for the year! Today is an “all the coffee” day.
March 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I’m not sleeping really well lately, but on the up side…I am totally caught up on my reading target for the year! Today is an “all the coffee” day.
#showmeyourknits is asking for color work? Yay! I love color work! This is a terrible picture of my Null Hypothesis (pattern credit to Katrina Elsaesser). Took some doing, but I absolutely love it. Got me through a good chunk of 2020.
March 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
#showmeyourknits is asking for color work? Yay! I love color work! This is a terrible picture of my Null Hypothesis (pattern credit to Katrina Elsaesser). Took some doing, but I absolutely love it. Got me through a good chunk of 2020.
The last two months have been two years long. Holding my professional world together as best I can. Learning how to put down my work stress when I log out at the end of the day so I can be my best self for my family. That’s a heck of a thing to have to figure out at over 50.
March 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The last two months have been two years long. Holding my professional world together as best I can. Learning how to put down my work stress when I log out at the end of the day so I can be my best self for my family. That’s a heck of a thing to have to figure out at over 50.
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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
Honestly, if anyone watched that halftime show and didn’t see a clinic on the effectiveness of speaking truth, loudly, consistently, and with no equivocation….you were not paying attention.
February 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Honestly, if anyone watched that halftime show and didn’t see a clinic on the effectiveness of speaking truth, loudly, consistently, and with no equivocation….you were not paying attention.
So, on top of just trying to exist in this country…I manage federal grants for a research department at a large university. I am….whatever level looks up toward “despondent” like it’s a fond memory. I love my job. It’s important, and useful, and about to be obsolete…I’m getting ready.
February 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
So, on top of just trying to exist in this country…I manage federal grants for a research department at a large university. I am….whatever level looks up toward “despondent” like it’s a fond memory. I love my job. It’s important, and useful, and about to be obsolete…I’m getting ready.
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This is a thoroughly wonderful thread.
Please, science Bluesky. I am begging. I need to know the most ridiculous looking species.
Please tell me what the weirdest little weirdos on the planet are.
Give me your weirdest animal facts.
My feeble grip on sanity is dependent on you.
Please tell me what the weirdest little weirdos on the planet are.
Give me your weirdest animal facts.
My feeble grip on sanity is dependent on you.
February 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This is a thoroughly wonderful thread.
Epic. This is a clinic in throwing sand in the gears.
When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.
We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.
ALSO.
We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.
ALSO.
January 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Epic. This is a clinic in throwing sand in the gears.
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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I manage grants at a large university, so hearing that the idiots shut down all the grant review machinery was terrifying. This morning I’ve reminded myself that my bigger job is to try increase the good in the world. Today is not different. Time to start finding ways to idiot-proof my department.
January 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I manage grants at a large university, so hearing that the idiots shut down all the grant review machinery was terrifying. This morning I’ve reminded myself that my bigger job is to try increase the good in the world. Today is not different. Time to start finding ways to idiot-proof my department.
I hope to always remember how magical it feels to walk into a coffee shop and watch my kid snap into work mode. Watching him find the magic spells that let him work with his brain instead of fighting against it is everything.
January 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I hope to always remember how magical it feels to walk into a coffee shop and watch my kid snap into work mode. Watching him find the magic spells that let him work with his brain instead of fighting against it is everything.
I made this so long ago I feel silly putting it up for #showmeyourknits , but I loved doing it and wish I had more excuses to fiddle with lace shawls. 🧶 (pattern credit Kashimiya by Diane Conroy)
January 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I made this so long ago I feel silly putting it up for #showmeyourknits , but I loved doing it and wish I had more excuses to fiddle with lace shawls. 🧶 (pattern credit Kashimiya by Diane Conroy)
Finally getting over the flu that followed the “first Xmas with the in-laws after THAT Xmas” that followed COVID….going to try to come out of lurk mode. Celebrating by baking bagels and bonus cinnamon rolls for my snowbound family. It’s just an inch, but we’re wimps about snow.
January 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Finally getting over the flu that followed the “first Xmas with the in-laws after THAT Xmas” that followed COVID….going to try to come out of lurk mode. Celebrating by baking bagels and bonus cinnamon rolls for my snowbound family. It’s just an inch, but we’re wimps about snow.
Proud that kid is planning out how to get his homework done over break. Proud that he’s hitting it head on instead of pretending there wasn’t any until the last possible minute. Sad for kid that he can’t just have a week off. The obsession with evaluation is counterproductive, I swear.
December 19, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Proud that kid is planning out how to get his homework done over break. Proud that he’s hitting it head on instead of pretending there wasn’t any until the last possible minute. Sad for kid that he can’t just have a week off. The obsession with evaluation is counterproductive, I swear.
More Covid knitting 🧶. Hope my bicycle loving father-in-law likes them. If not, my gamer husband is threatening to steal them. These start at the fingers and work their way down. Kind of love the technique!
December 18, 2024 at 9:29 PM
More Covid knitting 🧶. Hope my bicycle loving father-in-law likes them. If not, my gamer husband is threatening to steal them. These start at the fingers and work their way down. Kind of love the technique!
I’m finally starting to feel like I might eventually start feeling like myself again. I can measure my progress in how well I can focus on knitting projects. Here are two of the three I finished since I got sick. Started the socks a while ago…but the mitts all done that first week.
December 18, 2024 at 9:25 PM
I’m finally starting to feel like I might eventually start feeling like myself again. I can measure my progress in how well I can focus on knitting projects. Here are two of the three I finished since I got sick. Started the socks a while ago…but the mitts all done that first week.
Anyone who is more insistent on action being taken to protect insurance CEOs than grade school kids does not need to be listened to on that or any other subject.
December 16, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Anyone who is more insistent on action being taken to protect insurance CEOs than grade school kids does not need to be listened to on that or any other subject.
Trying to keep my attitude as positive as my Covid tests. It’s a reach. Why is “my parents are freaking exhausted” not an excuse for late homework? I’m just hanging out and knitting to body double for the kid, and it’s wearing me out.
December 7, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Trying to keep my attitude as positive as my Covid tests. It’s a reach. Why is “my parents are freaking exhausted” not an excuse for late homework? I’m just hanging out and knitting to body double for the kid, and it’s wearing me out.
It took 4.5 years for the bug to find us, but my little family finally got Covid. 0/10 stars, do not recommend. I think I’m on the mend…kiddo barely noticed…and I love my husband, but he is busy demonstrating that man-flu has nothing on man-Covid.
December 6, 2024 at 10:20 PM
It took 4.5 years for the bug to find us, but my little family finally got Covid. 0/10 stars, do not recommend. I think I’m on the mend…kiddo barely noticed…and I love my husband, but he is busy demonstrating that man-flu has nothing on man-Covid.
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Do I approve of the pardon? Not really? But much to my surprise I just don’t care that much? Old me would have been livid. New me is reserving “livid” for the upcoming shit storm. Curious to see if Biden does as much to protect others who are being hurt by the judicial system.
December 2, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Do I approve of the pardon? Not really? But much to my surprise I just don’t care that much? Old me would have been livid. New me is reserving “livid” for the upcoming shit storm. Curious to see if Biden does as much to protect others who are being hurt by the judicial system.
This morning we put up the holiday tree, did my prep for turkey dinner, and got out the advent calendars. The burst of happiness it all brought had me in tears. I think it’s overwhelming mostly because of how far down I’ve been, but I’ll take it!
November 27, 2024 at 6:25 PM
This morning we put up the holiday tree, did my prep for turkey dinner, and got out the advent calendars. The burst of happiness it all brought had me in tears. I think it’s overwhelming mostly because of how far down I’ve been, but I’ll take it!