Molly
@mhuzzell.bsky.social
PhD student in Evolution, studying lizards. Former AK Press worker. Still an anarchist.
@mhuzzell on twitter (inactive) and mastodon.social
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Molly
@mhuzzell.bsky.social
· Jul 24
Reposting my recent fieldwork thread from Twitter so as to have Content. Posts/images from July. Incoming: lizards, science, beautiful Alpine vistas 🧵
I'd meant to make a new fieldwork thread like this one for 2025, but instead we've gone and made a whole account for it: @teamlizard.bsky.social -- follow for cute lizard pictures &c.
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
Pal tried a White Russian for the first time tonight and described it as "a nice bedtime drink for good boys".
Accurate? Yes. Thanks, I hate it.
Accurate? Yes. Thanks, I hate it.
November 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Pal tried a White Russian for the first time tonight and described it as "a nice bedtime drink for good boys".
Accurate? Yes. Thanks, I hate it.
Accurate? Yes. Thanks, I hate it.
Most American thing I've seen all week: guy on a mushroom group asking for identification help, using a shotgun shell for size.
November 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Most American thing I've seen all week: guy on a mushroom group asking for identification help, using a shotgun shell for size.
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
Banned from r/Feminism for recommending @reproutopia.bsky.social book 'Enemy Feminisms'. Now I'm the enemy feminist.
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Banned from r/Feminism for recommending @reproutopia.bsky.social book 'Enemy Feminisms'. Now I'm the enemy feminist.
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I am not interested in the opinions of men about women's sports. I am not interested in the opinions of men about women.
November 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I am not interested in the opinions of men about women's sports. I am not interested in the opinions of men about women.
Theresa May, in actual policy, was also to the left of Starmer on *immigration*. Though as Home Secretary under Cameron, she is directly responsible for the rhetoric and *trajectory* of increasingly repressive anti-migrant policy that has continued under all subsequent governments.
Theresa May, the buffoon of "Brexit means Brexit", was to the left of Keir Starmer on trans rights.
That's the kind of fact that mainstreaming bigotry forces us to recognise.
That's the kind of fact that mainstreaming bigotry forces us to recognise.
The ability of the far right to insist that their views - trans people are lying perverts, climate change is a hoax, immigrants are all thieving, raping scum - are necessarily legitimate & must be given a hearing is already a vast victory for forms of extremism beyond the pale not long ago.
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Theresa May, in actual policy, was also to the left of Starmer on *immigration*. Though as Home Secretary under Cameron, she is directly responsible for the rhetoric and *trajectory* of increasingly repressive anti-migrant policy that has continued under all subsequent governments.
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A woman delivering the mail thanked me for doing ICE watch on Friday. Someone who works at the hospital stepped out for a cigarette in the snow this morning, asked me about my whistle and gratefully took a zine and whistle.
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A woman delivering the mail thanked me for doing ICE watch on Friday. Someone who works at the hospital stepped out for a cigarette in the snow this morning, asked me about my whistle and gratefully took a zine and whistle.
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The level of normie involvement and investment in Chicago in what is essential a city-wide* decentralized grassroots mutual aid program of resistance to ICE/CBP — it is truly a remarkable inspiration in these otherwise awful times.
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The level of normie involvement and investment in Chicago in what is essential a city-wide* decentralized grassroots mutual aid program of resistance to ICE/CBP — it is truly a remarkable inspiration in these otherwise awful times.
For context, $500K is 0.00005% of $1 Trillion, so if he were to pay the fine personally, this is the equivalent of someone on a $50K income being fined $2.50.
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
For context, $500K is 0.00005% of $1 Trillion, so if he were to pay the fine personally, this is the equivalent of someone on a $50K income being fined $2.50.
The UK Online Safety Act is doing great so far. For instance, I now need to let Bluesky violate my privacy in order to access my DMs, but can still access literal actual porn as easily as typing 'porn' into a web search. Definitely protecting minors here, good job, no notes.
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The UK Online Safety Act is doing great so far. For instance, I now need to let Bluesky violate my privacy in order to access my DMs, but can still access literal actual porn as easily as typing 'porn' into a web search. Definitely protecting minors here, good job, no notes.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
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If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”
June 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”
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Hey y’all — urgent request:
Our comrades in Sudan just fled their town after RSF forces advanced. Some of them were injured in the escape. We’re raising $2000 to help cover medical costs.
If you can support or share the link, it would mean a lot:
👉🏾 opencollective.com/sudanese-comrade-medical-fundr
Our comrades in Sudan just fled their town after RSF forces advanced. Some of them were injured in the escape. We’re raising $2000 to help cover medical costs.
If you can support or share the link, it would mean a lot:
👉🏾 opencollective.com/sudanese-comrade-medical-fundr
July 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Hey y’all — urgent request:
Our comrades in Sudan just fled their town after RSF forces advanced. Some of them were injured in the escape. We’re raising $2000 to help cover medical costs.
If you can support or share the link, it would mean a lot:
👉🏾 opencollective.com/sudanese-comrade-medical-fundr
Our comrades in Sudan just fled their town after RSF forces advanced. Some of them were injured in the escape. We’re raising $2000 to help cover medical costs.
If you can support or share the link, it would mean a lot:
👉🏾 opencollective.com/sudanese-comrade-medical-fundr
After reading the article, I would hazard to suggest that titling your essay with the position you mean to critique is a pretty dangerous strategy for a subscriber-locked publication.
(NB: I do not subscribe to NYT and I would never; you shouldn't either.)
(NB: I do not subscribe to NYT and I would never; you shouldn't either.)
November 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
After reading the article, I would hazard to suggest that titling your essay with the position you mean to critique is a pretty dangerous strategy for a subscriber-locked publication.
(NB: I do not subscribe to NYT and I would never; you shouldn't either.)
(NB: I do not subscribe to NYT and I would never; you shouldn't either.)
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In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
November 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
In one of my first-year bio lectures as a @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk undergrad:
Lecturer: Can anyone tell me what Watson and Crick discovered?
Me (sourly, in my head): Rosalind Franklin's notes.
Class: ...
Lecturer: Rosalind Franklin's notes.
Lecturer: Can anyone tell me what Watson and Crick discovered?
Me (sourly, in my head): Rosalind Franklin's notes.
Class: ...
Lecturer: Rosalind Franklin's notes.
November 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
In one of my first-year bio lectures as a @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk undergrad:
Lecturer: Can anyone tell me what Watson and Crick discovered?
Me (sourly, in my head): Rosalind Franklin's notes.
Class: ...
Lecturer: Rosalind Franklin's notes.
Lecturer: Can anyone tell me what Watson and Crick discovered?
Me (sourly, in my head): Rosalind Franklin's notes.
Class: ...
Lecturer: Rosalind Franklin's notes.
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Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
@vscode.dev Is there a way to turn the autocomplete suggestions *on* for code and *off* for comments, simultaneously? It seems to be very good at guessing what code I'm going for (and is less typo-prone than I am), but the autocomplete suggestions for comments are usually way off, & very distracting
November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
@vscode.dev Is there a way to turn the autocomplete suggestions *on* for code and *off* for comments, simultaneously? It seems to be very good at guessing what code I'm going for (and is less typo-prone than I am), but the autocomplete suggestions for comments are usually way off, & very distracting
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November 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
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This has been demonstrated to be a basic fact of migration over and over and over again. It's a centuries-old truism. But bigotry hates facts almost as much as it hates people.
"Home Office data suggests that recent immigrants are more likely to be working than British nationals and make higher wages than them."
✍️ Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out,
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
✍️ Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out,
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
Lower migration is bad news for the UK economy - UK in a changing Europe
Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out, and that the recent collapse in immigration will harm the UK's economic p...
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 8:58 AM
This has been demonstrated to be a basic fact of migration over and over and over again. It's a centuries-old truism. But bigotry hates facts almost as much as it hates people.