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KristinCatLady
@longtallscientist.bsky.social
30s/living in PNW (PDX suburbs)🌲/👩🏼‍🔬scientist/engineer/lover of nature🌿/fiber arts🧶/stepping away from the app that must not be named
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Intro post to seem less bot-like: Physicist working as an engineer in the PNW. Pregnant with my first kiddo. Progressive person who puts a little too much hope in humanity.
I love:
📚reading
🧶fiber arts
🔬science
🐈cats
🌸nature
🪐space
👾video games
🚶‍♀️wandering in new places
Me on the weekends while relaxing but not actually mentally disconnecting from work.
November 23, 2024 at 11:51 PM
The best coworker, although her nails are just a touch too sharp for an attempt to climb my leg #kylacat #catsdoingjobs
November 22, 2024 at 1:02 AM
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Let's talk about peeing in space.

Several people, in response to my NY Times essay, have said that women couldn't go into space because we lacked the technology for them to pee in space.

www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/s...
To Make It to the Moon, Women Have to Escape Earth’s Gender Bias (Published 2019)
The Apollo program was designed by men, for men. But NASA can learn from its failures as it aims to send women to the moon and beyond.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:26 PM
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November 19, 2024 at 4:26 AM
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Imma need some of you to think about thriving out of spite. I had big plans for 2025 and I’m definitely not gonna pre-derail them for likes of Elin and Tromp. I’m getting more involved. Loving harder. Writing hornier. Having more fun. I’m gonna be so kind to my neighbors, bitch.
November 19, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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This is accurate
November 18, 2024 at 1:02 PM
“Why is peace always the justification for violence?” #arcaneposting
November 17, 2024 at 4:11 AM
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LANCET STUDY:
"Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years of whom 101 million were infants younger than 1 year... ..vaccination accounted for 40% of observed decline in global infant mortality."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...
www.thelancet.com
November 16, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Kyla is a fashionable lady. (Scarf hand-knitted by a friend 😸)
November 17, 2024 at 3:16 AM
I’m reading Children of Time by @aptshadow.bsky.social, and I haven’t been obsessed with a weird lil intelligent alien species like this since Project Hail Mary. 🪨🕷️🕸️
November 16, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Intro post to seem less bot-like: Physicist working as an engineer in the PNW. Pregnant with my first kiddo. Progressive person who puts a little too much hope in humanity.
I love:
📚reading
🧶fiber arts
🔬science
🐈cats
🌸nature
🪐space
👾video games
🚶‍♀️wandering in new places
November 15, 2024 at 6:49 PM