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Dr. Kayla I. Miller
@okaylamay.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Biology with research in microbial ecology, focusing on gut-microbiome interactions. My views are my own.
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
The meeting was a disaster for everyone except two people. Trump got his photo op and his ego boost.
Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions.
No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.
August 16, 2025 at 4:12 AM
okaylamay.bsky.social
Jfc.
reportbywilson.bsky.social Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · Apr 5
White dudes are just bored, that’s why we need to destroy the economy.
April 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Reposted by Dr. Kayla I. Miller
skwinnicki.bsky.social
Looking for early warblers with high-pitch trills and white tail flashes but the park is like:
The front of a Cap'n Crunch's Oops! All Berries box, but it is edited to instead say "Oops! All Juncos" and instead of the captain's face there is a hastily edited picture of a Dark-eyed Junco, with a dark gray head, black eye, and pink beak. There is also a hastily edited photo of a junco in flight, showing off their white belly and white tail-edges.
April 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
okaylamay.bsky.social
This is now a political post.
March 27, 2025 at 3:36 AM
okaylamay.bsky.social
Oh shit can I add this retroactively?
adrianaguatame.bsky.social Adriana Guatame-García @adrianaguatame.bsky.social · Mar 6
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
okaylamay.bsky.social
Ah yes, the long tradition of Republicans inheriting a strong economy and completely tanking it. I hope that we have elections again so that Democrats can continue the tradition of cleaning up the mess. I wish more people could understand this.
March 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
okaylamay.bsky.social
Such a fun time to be teaching microbiology this year...
"The famous influenza pandemic of 1918 that infected 20% of the world’s population and killed more people than World War I
was a viral strain that arose as a mutant form of an influenza strain infecting birds..."
March 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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juliametraux.bsky.social
I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...
You’ve been clear in saying that Covid has not gone away. You ask people to wear masks at your events. But that attitude is not necessarily where the rest of the world is. How do you think about continuing to take precautions and advising others to do so when it feels as if society has moved on? I do it for a bunch of reasons. Firstly, I have learned that I enjoy not being sick. I know that the cost of long Covid is real and substantial, and I don’t want to run that risk lightly. I also know that I have many friends and people I’m close to who are immunocompromised. So for the sake of the people around me, I also don’t want to get sick. When I do events, I wear a mask for those reasons, and because I know that every time I do a talk, while the vast majority of people in the audience have probably moved on, there are going to be other people who haven’t. I think it makes a huge difference to them to have the person at the front of the stage wear a mask. It tells them, It’s not weird. So I do it for that reason, too. In terms of holding this line at a point when a large swath of society has moved on, I have written a lot about the panic-neglect cycle.
February 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
www.kyivpost.com/post/47630
‘Trump Recruited as Moscow Asset,’ Says Ex-KGB Spy Chief
Alnur Mussayev, former head of Kazakhstan’s security service, who rose up the ranks of the Soviet KGB, claims Moscow groomed Trump under pseudonym “Krasnov” in 1987.
www.kyivpost.com
February 23, 2025 at 4:59 AM
okaylamay.bsky.social
Who protects us when the police are assaulting us.
Attendee dragged out of Kootenai County Republican townhall
COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho – A woman attending a Kootenai County Republican Central Committee townhall on Saturday appeared to be dragged from the meeting.
www.khq.com
February 23, 2025 at 5:51 AM
okaylamay.bsky.social
Watching Die Hard 2 and laughing at the woman joking about it being the 90s and talking on a corded phone on the airplane.

Woman next to her - ON THE PLANE - pulls out and turns on a taser. 😅
February 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
okaylamay.bsky.social
Are we sure Katy Perry's song Hot N Cold isn't about someone with the flu?
February 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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zenbrainest.bsky.social
My lab has a position for a programmer--if you have programming skills and have recently left the NIH please contact me.
February 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
okaylamay.bsky.social
I was discussing gene expression of the diphtheria toxin today in class and a student raised their hand and asked what diphtheria was.

I said, you haven't heard of it because there's a vaccine for it.
February 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
okaylamay.bsky.social
I'm going to tell myself this was one of my parasitology students
February 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
okaylamay.bsky.social
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Are the Trump team’s actions affecting your research? How to contact Nature
Use this form to share information with Nature’s news team, or to make suggestions for future coverage.
www.nature.com
February 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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troynovaunt.bsky.social
Roses are red
Violets are blue
CN Subscribe Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing what they do The administration officials didn't seem to know the agency oversees the country's nuclear weapons, sources say • CNN Exclusive: FEMA firings reveal roiling tension and confusion within the Department of Homeland Security
February 15, 2025 at 4:31 AM
okaylamay.bsky.social
Says the man with 34 felonies.
February 16, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Reposted by Dr. Kayla I. Miller
amandawtwong.bsky.social
Roses are red,
Elon's a knob,
Fighting facism is a full-time job
February 15, 2025 at 4:38 AM
okaylamay.bsky.social
America's president, an illegal alien South African, meeting with India's Prime Minister Modi.
February 14, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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denisedwheeler.bsky.social
I think we might know where all the missing Dem ballots went

This is Ethan Shaotran. He's one of Musk's DOGE takeover hackers

2 yrs ago he won the Berkeley AI Hackathon

But in 2000 won the HackGT7 with a ballot altering program called BallotProof

Here's the deep dive that he couldn't scrub....
February 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Reposted by Dr. Kayla I. Miller
sinclairlewis.bsky.social
There is exactly one person onhere that will laugh at how “organized” I am, because she’s seen me in action IRL.
My chart with all of Amy Klobuchar’s contact info for all her offices.
February 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
okaylamay.bsky.social
Can someone do a follow up with some of those pro-Palestine protest voters? Who apparently did no research into who Trump is?
February 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
okaylamay.bsky.social
This isn't news, he's been saying this for awhile now.

I'm an idiot because I WAS surprised to hear that US troop deployment is on the table.

US military to clear the way for Trump Tower Gaza is just... smdh
Trump proposes US takeover of Gaza
President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed a U.S. takeover of Gaza where Israel's military assault in the last 16 months has killed tens of thousands, after he earlier suggested that Palestinians in the enclave should be permanently displaced.
www.reuters.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
okaylamay.bsky.social
The folks who were really upset about Kamala not being chosen by a primary seem pretty happy with President Musk! 🤷‍♀️
February 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM