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mlicc1701.bsky.social
Mera L🪬
@mlicc1701.bsky.social
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Duke University alumn. Virology research specialist in the Sheahan Lab at CVRG (y'know, at that other blue school). Pop punk millennial. she/they. ✡️•🏳️‍🌈•🖖
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Me, last month: "Man, nothing harshes my vibe worse than flipping the calendar over and seeing ASV dates blocked off now that grant terminations have prevented me from going."

Me, this month: "...y'know what..."

Grant terminations suck. This capricious, petty funding landscape sucks.
Calendar square labeled with the 22nd in the upper left corner and "Last day at CVRG" with a broken heart in black sharpie written in the center
August 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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GIF of Jason Mantzoukas, a dark haired Greek man with a goatee, in the sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He is wearing a light colored collared button-down and a gold medallion necklace. He is yelling at two men fighting in the foreground while a brick wall is in the background. His dialogue, which is printed as the caption on the GIF, is "Bite each other's dicks off!!"
July 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Something something secret third thing
Blue pipette tip box. Missing tips make an inward pointing arrow pattern at an hourglass shape. Yellow pipette tip box with tips removed to form an "I" shape with the remaining tips. Blue pipette tip box with remaining tips in 4 rectangle shapes: two oriented long ways vertically on the left and right sides, two oriented long ways horizontally on the top and bottom of the plastic grid. Blue-green pipette tip box with tips removed to make a complicated square pattern in the remaining tips.
July 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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MOOPSY!
Photo of a Moopsy plus, based on the character from Star Trek: Lower Decks. It is two white ovoids, one with the semi-major axis running left to right that constitutes the face, one with the semi-major axis running perpendicular to the camera constituting the body. It has large black eyes with small white pupils and a sideways "3" shaped mouth. The Moopsy has small white gill-like projections on both sides of its head. It is sitting on a mustard colored velvet couch in front of a beige wall with the lower left corner of a white window frame visible behind The Moopsy. It is very cute and cuddly looking but beware: The Moopsy drinks your bones!
June 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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"We all thought it was going to be worse but that's been postponed" ain't the flex the headline is implying.
Screenshot of two paragraphs from the PBS article. Text is as follows: “Consumers appear to have settled somewhat from the shock of the extremely high tariffs announced in April and the policy volatility seen in the weeks that followed,” Joanne Hsu, director of the survey, said in a written statement. “However, consumers still perceive wide-ranging downside risks to the economy.” Americans have largely taken a darker view of the economy’s future after President Donald Trump unleashed a wide-ranging trade war, imposing steep tariffs on China, the European Union, and dozens of other countries. Yet in April Trump postponed a set of sweeping tariffs on about 60 nations and last month reached a temporary truce with China, after both sides had sharply ratcheted up tariffs on each other.
June 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Found it- right under Iraq at 17%
April 3, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Done 😁
February 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM