Kate Powers
@kate-powers.bsky.social
First and foremost an educator. But also! Cats! Chemistry! Pottery! Cooking! And last but not least, exclamation points!!!!
Here is my question: could they not get custom-made plaques? Like why does the content have to fit on one specific sized plaque? Did they buy the plaques at Home Depot?
December 18, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Here is my question: could they not get custom-made plaques? Like why does the content have to fit on one specific sized plaque? Did they buy the plaques at Home Depot?
Our understanding of our bodies is so limited. Kinda explains our current healthcare system.
Nature research paper: Mapping the genetic landscape across 14 psychiatric disorders
go.nature.com/3MoazOr
go.nature.com/3MoazOr
Mapping the genetic landscape across 14 psychiatric disorders - Nature
Genomic analyses applied to 14 childhood- and adult-onset psychiatric disorders identifies five underlying genomic factors that explain the majority of the genetic variance of the individual disorders.
go.nature.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Our understanding of our bodies is so limited. Kinda explains our current healthcare system.
I've been working on these customized sneakers for my 11 year old niece. She's a girly T Swift fan who loves an inspirational phrase.
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I've been working on these customized sneakers for my 11 year old niece. She's a girly T Swift fan who loves an inspirational phrase.
If you live in Chicago and have never taken the holiday train, what are your waiting for?! Every part is decorated. Even the arrival signs have little candy canes. And you get to see adults worn out from a day at work trying to pretend like they haven't notice it is the holiday train. Pure joy!
Santa Claus is coming to town 🎅
The iconic Allstate CTA Holiday Train will merrily roll along all eight rail lines this season, launching from the Midway Orange Line station Friday, November 28.
The iconic Allstate CTA Holiday Train will merrily roll along all eight rail lines this season, launching from the Midway Orange Line station Friday, November 28.
November 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
If you live in Chicago and have never taken the holiday train, what are your waiting for?! Every part is decorated. Even the arrival signs have little candy canes. And you get to see adults worn out from a day at work trying to pretend like they haven't notice it is the holiday train. Pure joy!
@duckworth.senate.gov come get your guy! Please tell Sen Durbin to vote no. We don't want this!
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
@duckworth.senate.gov come get your guy! Please tell Sen Durbin to vote no. We don't want this!
@durbin.senate.gov please don't do this. I used to be so proud to have you as my senator. Please, do the right thing for your constituents. I would rather not fly ever again in my life if it meant my neighbors had access to healthcare.
DON'T NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORIST.
DON'T NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORIST.
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
@durbin.senate.gov please don't do this. I used to be so proud to have you as my senator. Please, do the right thing for your constituents. I would rather not fly ever again in my life if it meant my neighbors had access to healthcare.
DON'T NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORIST.
DON'T NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORIST.
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Free Walk-up grocery market at Chicago Chicken & Waffles,3933 S. King Drive (in the adjacent parking lot) happening right now. Bring your own bags.
November 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Free Walk-up grocery market at Chicago Chicken & Waffles,3933 S. King Drive (in the adjacent parking lot) happening right now. Bring your own bags.
To the democratic party "elders" watching and thinking they can jump on the bandwagon: we don't want you making funny man on the street tik toks, we don't want you lamely advocating for free buses, we don't want you, period. You've had your chance.
#zohran #progressive #future #fucktrump
#zohran #progressive #future #fucktrump
November 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
To the democratic party "elders" watching and thinking they can jump on the bandwagon: we don't want you making funny man on the street tik toks, we don't want you lamely advocating for free buses, we don't want you, period. You've had your chance.
#zohran #progressive #future #fucktrump
#zohran #progressive #future #fucktrump
RELO Direct is helping to house the ICE goons. Making money off the invasion of our city.
Chicago-area companies raked in millions from the feds as Operation Midway Blitz intensified.
The Watch investigative team reports: blockclubchi.co/3Wk8c0Q
The Watch investigative team reports: blockclubchi.co/3Wk8c0Q
October 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
RELO Direct is helping to house the ICE goons. Making money off the invasion of our city.
Half of my photo reel is screenshots for later art making inspiration from posts by @womensartbluesky.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Half of my photo reel is screenshots for later art making inspiration from posts by @womensartbluesky.bsky.social
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Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
September 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
August 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
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A billion sprinklers just so summer can cosplay as spring.
August 9, 2025 at 4:45 AM
A billion sprinklers just so summer can cosplay as spring.
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Everyone who thinks that voters are responding to their own lived experience needs to explain this graph.
August 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Everyone who thinks that voters are responding to their own lived experience needs to explain this graph.
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I’m sorry but I really have to stand up for myself and independent media here. Everyone is crediting Ken Delanian for the Maxwell sex offender waiver story, but I was hours ahead of him. Hours. Independent media is important.
August 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I’m sorry but I really have to stand up for myself and independent media here. Everyone is crediting Ken Delanian for the Maxwell sex offender waiver story, but I was hours ahead of him. Hours. Independent media is important.
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Hey, this is not even a joke #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter
August 1, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Hey, this is not even a joke #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter
@elisabethbik.bsky.social how do we appropriately educate our student researchers on how to read literature right now? I'm struggling. Sigh.
New study @reeserichardson.bsky.social dropped:
Widespread misidentification of scanning electron microscope instruments in the peer-reviewed materials science and engineering literature
When descriptions in the Methods do not match the photos in the Results.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Widespread misidentification of scanning electron microscope instruments in the peer-reviewed materials science and engineering literature
When descriptions in the Methods do not match the photos in the Results.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Widespread misidentification of scanning electron microscope instruments in the peer-reviewed materials science and engineering literature
Materials science and engineering (MSE) research has, for the most part, escaped the doubts raised about the reliability of the scientific literature by recent large-scale replication studies in psych...
journals.plos.org
July 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
@elisabethbik.bsky.social how do we appropriately educate our student researchers on how to read literature right now? I'm struggling. Sigh.
Interesting juxtaposition in the @chicago.suntimes.com this morning
July 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Interesting juxtaposition in the @chicago.suntimes.com this morning
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This flawed preprint claims that COVID-19 mRNA vaccination causes transcriptomic dysregulation and cancer.
But all it does is showing that sick people differ in gene expression from healthy ones. Duh.
My critical review at Science Integrity Digest here:
scienceintegritydigest.com/2025/07/25/p...
But all it does is showing that sick people differ in gene expression from healthy ones. Duh.
My critical review at Science Integrity Digest here:
scienceintegritydigest.com/2025/07/25/p...
July 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This flawed preprint claims that COVID-19 mRNA vaccination causes transcriptomic dysregulation and cancer.
But all it does is showing that sick people differ in gene expression from healthy ones. Duh.
My critical review at Science Integrity Digest here:
scienceintegritydigest.com/2025/07/25/p...
But all it does is showing that sick people differ in gene expression from healthy ones. Duh.
My critical review at Science Integrity Digest here:
scienceintegritydigest.com/2025/07/25/p...
I need a book recommendation! I’m looking for a children’s poetry anthology. Something my niece will enjoy for a long time. With classics and more. Beautiful illustrations. Thoughtfully put together. Ideas? My local book shop closed, so I turn to you. #booksky #poetry #kidsbooks #independentbookshop
July 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I need a book recommendation! I’m looking for a children’s poetry anthology. Something my niece will enjoy for a long time. With classics and more. Beautiful illustrations. Thoughtfully put together. Ideas? My local book shop closed, so I turn to you. #booksky #poetry #kidsbooks #independentbookshop
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I have sent a copy of ‘The Onion’ to every member of Congress. To spread its message to less powerful people, I have also taken out an ad in a lesser newspaper. Read my full letter here: theonion.com/why-im-sendi...
June 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I have sent a copy of ‘The Onion’ to every member of Congress. To spread its message to less powerful people, I have also taken out an ad in a lesser newspaper. Read my full letter here: theonion.com/why-im-sendi...
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Anyone else remember the "Year of the MOOC?" That was fun, wasn't it?
a woman with a soap bubble behind her face
Alt: a woman smiles as she pops a soap bubble
media.tenor.com
June 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Anyone else remember the "Year of the MOOC?" That was fun, wasn't it?
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"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance
June 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance
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Not providing customized AI anything in my classes
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
June 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Not providing customized AI anything in my classes