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KierstenG
@kgrathwohl18.bsky.social
📍STL 🎓 University of Illinois 🎓 Murray State University

Just a scientist wondering why we refuse to trust experts anymore.
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Don’t blame me, I voted for the first black President, the decent man from Scranton and the two highly intelligent successful talented supremely qualified women.
June 22, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉

Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.

You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
May 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident.

We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.
April 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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I’m really kind of sick of decorum…give back the same energy you are receiving.
March 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Morning snow in St. Louis. Meaning plows don’t seem to have touched main roads in the city outside of interstates. Wonderful for those of us who don’t use interstates to get to work, but would still appreciate a safe commute. For a Midwestern city, we sure don’t act like one when it snows.
February 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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I'm not celebrating President's Day until 2029 at the earliest
Wait, no holiday Monday?
February 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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If you're not paying attention right now, I don't trust you.
February 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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February 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Maybe. Just maybe. They should spend the money on one of the things St. Louis citizens have voted on *checks notes* multiple times.
February 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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The American Society of Microbiology is silently and retrospectively editing articles to remove words banned by the new US administration, without even informing the authors.
It has been brought to my attention that my article has been censored to exclude certain terms:

asm.org/Articles/202...

web.archive.org/web/20250114...

#MicroSky
February 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Still true…
January 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Let’s go WashU Bears!
The fall NCAA season is over! Congrats to all of the champions across all three divisions.
January 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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If you find that your uninformed personal opinion disagrees with expert consensus on a technical topic, please consider that “all the experts know something I don’t” is a much more likely explanation than “I alone solved a complex problem that all the world’s experts have long been studying.”
January 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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One headline to rule them all
January 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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January 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.
January 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Reading makes you live longer.
January 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
2024 reading wrap up on @thestorygraph.com
January 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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December 30, 2024 at 5:32 AM
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For Maths fans, 2025 is a square.
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
January 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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If you don’t have a library card go get one. Even if you don’t plan on using it right away, go get one. Keep our libraries alive.
December 31, 2024 at 5:00 AM
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When I knock doors and talk about the state of our roads in northwest Missouri, and how many of our schools have gone to four-day weeks, I always have folks answer these facts with, “Well, Biden …”

Friend, Joe Biden has no idea where Maryville is…

www.kansascity.com/opinion/read...
Don’t blame Biden for Missouri’s bad roads and schools. The GOP holds the power here | Opinion
The politicians we send to Jefferson City have far more impact on our everyday lives than Washington, D.C. | Opinion
www.kansascity.com
December 31, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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Truly the best bowl. #poptarts #bowlseason #football
December 28, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Illinois beat Michigan. Just sayin’ 👀
#fightingillini
Michigan beats Ohio State
November 30, 2024 at 8:33 PM