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Daisy Flores 🌼
@daisyflores.bsky.social
Budding coral biologist. Proud Chicana. Friendly dog mom.
PhD Student @ UT Austin
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Views are my own and subject to change when I’m wrong.🤷🏽‍♀️
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My pledge to a better future:

I pledge allegiance to our shared earth and all who inhabit it, and to the values for which we stand: one world, indivisible, with dignity, compassion, justice, and opportunity for all.

#OneWorld #UniversalPledge #BetterFuture
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everyone who spent the 90s laboriously and lovingly making mixtapes just dissolved into ancient dust
My favorite piece of content today.
November 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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JUST IN: A tidal wave of 30,000 students hit the streets in Charlotte, walking out to confront ICE with sheer numbers and zero hesitation.

This is a generation refusing to be controlled.
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"

My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)

The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?

Because Greta is right ..
November 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Sure looks like it. It's why I am immediately suspicious of anyone who starts complaining about "cancel culture" unprompted.
November 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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too real lol
November 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Aside from content, can we talk about the difference between the abstract and the lay summary?

I like the straight forward sentences in lay summary but also liked having some of the details in the abstract. How can we balance two? Or do they have to be separate?
November 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars":

".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."

@variety.com $DIS
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Oscar Isaac Was ‘Not So Open to Working With Disney’ After Jimmy Kimmel Suspension, Said He’d Return to ‘Star Wars’ if Disney Does ‘Not Succumb to Fascism’
Oscar Isaac was not open to working with Disney after Jimmy Kimmel's suspension and will only return to 'Star Wars' if the studio avoids fascism.
variety.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.
November 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???
November 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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SHUTDOWN 2025

Dems: We'll vote for a budget if you let sick people go to the doctor.

Republicans: Let us take doctors away from sick people or we'll take food away from poor families.
November 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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I know it’s boring, but this Christmas could y’all stop buying plastic shite that’s been transported on planes and dirty ships halfway around the world only to break by next winter and be in landfill.

Just that one thing from everyone would help.
#buylocal #Happyno-fossilChristmas
November 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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What people NEED to survive has never been adequately funded by the US government.

What people need to THRIVE has never
even been considered by the US government.
November 2, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The system has always been rigged, and current actions are super turbo charged rigging the system against us.
November 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto is your World Series MVP
November 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Don't make me tap the sign.
October 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Artists behind some of the most popular films of all time are also forging one of the most powerful organized resistances to AI.

With solidarity, class action lawsuits and strong legislation, they're fighting to protect their livelihoods, and pop culture, from big tech.

My latest:
How artists behind Marvel, Alien, and the Matrix movies are fighting AI
With solidarity, legislation, class action lawsuits, and a little help from Guillermo del Toro. Plus, the Luddite Renaissance continues, and I open the mailbag.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Over 5K stories on academic abuse on the data dashboard already. I knew it was a big problem, but evidence keeps piling up. Especially in the U.S.

buff.ly/eRyMjdc

🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #BlackEduSky #FeministSky
Data | Academic Abuse
Explore real-time data on academic abuse in higher education. Our dashboard aggregates news stories on bullying, harassment, retaliation, and more to support students, faculty, and advocates in…
academicabuse.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This is so messed up on soooo many levels
New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo

“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”

“Alright, we just got to verify that”

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
www.404media.co
October 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Sometimes instagram threads are also funny. Nothing like dark humor to get us through the day.
October 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.
Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.
October 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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When even the UN escalator is against you it’s all over but the trial 🙂
September 26, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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For the last time, our Po the Panda is NOT the Kung Fu Panda. He majored in Judo.
September 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM