Dr. Katiesci
@katiesci.bsky.social
Previously a neuroscientist, now I write stuff in industry. Most of my tweets are about science and politics, some are personal and, hopefully, some are funny.
I can’t find anything anywhere about making a post-knitting fix for too big underarms on a sweater by using a mattress stitch. What am I missing about why this wouldn’t work? Isn’t it basically the same as seaming sweater pieces? #knitting
November 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I can’t find anything anywhere about making a post-knitting fix for too big underarms on a sweater by using a mattress stitch. What am I missing about why this wouldn’t work? Isn’t it basically the same as seaming sweater pieces? #knitting
Has anyone seen these figurines in store or online this year? We got the mummy and pumpkin-head a couple years ago at Menards and just need the cat to complete the set. Can’t find it anywhere!
October 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Has anyone seen these figurines in store or online this year? We got the mummy and pumpkin-head a couple years ago at Menards and just need the cat to complete the set. Can’t find it anywhere!
It’s probably silly that it bugs me so much, but when books mention a gun the author always seems to have to describe exactly what kind of gun it is instead of just “handgun” or “shotgun”. Why assume everyone knows what kind of gun a Sig Sauer is? I’d prefer we as a population didn’t.
October 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It’s probably silly that it bugs me so much, but when books mention a gun the author always seems to have to describe exactly what kind of gun it is instead of just “handgun” or “shotgun”. Why assume everyone knows what kind of gun a Sig Sauer is? I’d prefer we as a population didn’t.
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and the current US govt continues to carelessly bust up the foundational infrastructure of basic science research for no fucking reason
Biomedical research budget cuts at Harvard threaten @flybase.bsky.social —known as the "Wikipedia of fruit fly research", fueling key discoveries in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, addiction, birth defects, and more.
Details: tinyurl.com/4chpts9f #FlyBase
Details: tinyurl.com/4chpts9f #FlyBase
Why a database of bug genes could be one of Trump’s most devastating cuts at Harvard
FlyBase, the world's only fruit fly database, is in the crosshairs of Trump's attack on Harvard. Here's why it could matter for your health.
tinyurl.com
June 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
and the current US govt continues to carelessly bust up the foundational infrastructure of basic science research for no fucking reason
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Digging into the reinstated NIH grants. This story is an evolving doozy.
The reinstated grant is an R21 from Seattle Children's Hospital
I was very confused when I read the title:
"An intervention to promote healthy relationships among transgender and gender expansive youth"
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The reinstated grant is an R21 from Seattle Children's Hospital
I was very confused when I read the title:
"An intervention to promote healthy relationships among transgender and gender expansive youth"
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April 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Digging into the reinstated NIH grants. This story is an evolving doozy.
The reinstated grant is an R21 from Seattle Children's Hospital
I was very confused when I read the title:
"An intervention to promote healthy relationships among transgender and gender expansive youth"
1/n
The reinstated grant is an R21 from Seattle Children's Hospital
I was very confused when I read the title:
"An intervention to promote healthy relationships among transgender and gender expansive youth"
1/n
When we learned about trade wars in high school I mostly thought it was boring. Living through it is something else.
April 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
When we learned about trade wars in high school I mostly thought it was boring. Living through it is something else.
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SCHUMER: Would the senator yield for a question?
BOOKER: Chuck Schumer, it's the only time in my life I can tell you no
SCHUMER: I just want to tell you, do you know you have just broken the record? Do you know how proud America is of you?
BOOKER: Chuck Schumer, it's the only time in my life I can tell you no
SCHUMER: I just want to tell you, do you know you have just broken the record? Do you know how proud America is of you?
April 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
SCHUMER: Would the senator yield for a question?
BOOKER: Chuck Schumer, it's the only time in my life I can tell you no
SCHUMER: I just want to tell you, do you know you have just broken the record? Do you know how proud America is of you?
BOOKER: Chuck Schumer, it's the only time in my life I can tell you no
SCHUMER: I just want to tell you, do you know you have just broken the record? Do you know how proud America is of you?
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Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits
If Sen. Cory Booker makes it to 7:19 p.m. EST, he will break segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond's record for his 24 hour 18 minute Senate floor speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
April 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
April 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
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Cory Booker has broken Strom Thurmond’s record. “I’m here despite his speech,” Booker said.
April 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Cory Booker has broken Strom Thurmond’s record. “I’m here despite his speech,” Booker said.
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This is a wonderful act of leadership by wired !
In partnership with @freedom.press, WIRED will make all of its FOIA-based reporting free to access for anyone. Public records should be public, and I hope to see more outlets follow suit:
freedom.press/issues/wired...
freedom.press/issues/wired...
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This is a wonderful act of leadership by wired !
NYT, it’s not that hard. Just say “attempting to shutter”.
Trump stenography in the streets. Reality in the sheets.
Doesn't this NYT headline seem to be directly at odds with the subhead?
March 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
NYT, it’s not that hard. Just say “attempting to shutter”.
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Chilling report from Brown University.
Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.
Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.
Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.
Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.
Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel
One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...
www.browndailyherald.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Chilling report from Brown University.
Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.
Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.
Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.
Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.
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Thinking about fundamental, big questions in science.
What is consciousness?
Why does time feel like it moves faster as we get older?
What is the smallest assembly of cells that defines a behavior?
What’s up with Lacrymaria?
What happened to Republicans that is making them awful human beings?
What is consciousness?
Why does time feel like it moves faster as we get older?
What is the smallest assembly of cells that defines a behavior?
What’s up with Lacrymaria?
What happened to Republicans that is making them awful human beings?
March 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Thinking about fundamental, big questions in science.
What is consciousness?
Why does time feel like it moves faster as we get older?
What is the smallest assembly of cells that defines a behavior?
What’s up with Lacrymaria?
What happened to Republicans that is making them awful human beings?
What is consciousness?
Why does time feel like it moves faster as we get older?
What is the smallest assembly of cells that defines a behavior?
What’s up with Lacrymaria?
What happened to Republicans that is making them awful human beings?
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It is incredible that you have the most plutocratic Cabinet in American history dismantling public services and creating an economic train wreck and then telling the public that this is the American dream.
Bessent: "The American dream is not, 'let them eat flat screens' ... the American dream is not contingent on cheap bobbles from China."
March 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
It is incredible that you have the most plutocratic Cabinet in American history dismantling public services and creating an economic train wreck and then telling the public that this is the American dream.
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This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
March 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
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Health groups on social media have become a cess pool of disinformation campaigns run by adversaries disguised as either medical experts or people who claim having conditions, then spread by useful idiots. Adversaries purposely breed anti-science and little to nothing is done to stop it. I hate it.
March 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Health groups on social media have become a cess pool of disinformation campaigns run by adversaries disguised as either medical experts or people who claim having conditions, then spread by useful idiots. Adversaries purposely breed anti-science and little to nothing is done to stop it. I hate it.
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Most NIH-funded faculty I talk with don't even understand the basic issue that all grants are on indefinite hold, much less the scope of the anti-science movement being pushed on the right! The cloistered class needs to wake up and start pushing their institutions to take a public stand, and fast.
March 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Most NIH-funded faculty I talk with don't even understand the basic issue that all grants are on indefinite hold, much less the scope of the anti-science movement being pushed on the right! The cloistered class needs to wake up and start pushing their institutions to take a public stand, and fast.
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Have some posts coming up later today about what narratives are being pushed on the right to harm real science. Many scientists are in a bit of a bubble about this and may not realize what the right has been saying about us.
If you have any comments for us on this please DM/msg on signal.
If you have any comments for us on this please DM/msg on signal.
March 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Have some posts coming up later today about what narratives are being pushed on the right to harm real science. Many scientists are in a bit of a bubble about this and may not realize what the right has been saying about us.
If you have any comments for us on this please DM/msg on signal.
If you have any comments for us on this please DM/msg on signal.
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🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
March 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Why do kids automatically gravitate to the most annoying toys (Nerf guns) when parents are working on something that really requires concentration?
March 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Why do kids automatically gravitate to the most annoying toys (Nerf guns) when parents are working on something that really requires concentration?
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
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For no particular reason certainly not one named Chuck Schumer and the his punk ass Senate colleagues I am again sharing this academic work showing that accommodation pushes politics to the right www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties - Volume 11 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
March 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
For no particular reason certainly not one named Chuck Schumer and the his punk ass Senate colleagues I am again sharing this academic work showing that accommodation pushes politics to the right www.cambridge.org/core/journal...