Dr. Stephanie
@punkrockscience.bsky.social
PhD brain and genomic scientist. Ocean junkie. Computer wrangler. Open data believer. Geek. Punk. Not that kind of doctor. Views only my own. She/her
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I designed a horseshoe crab sweater and published it on Ravelry on National horseshoe crab day! If you ever thought to yourself “man, I really want a hand knit sweater with horseshoe crabs on it” boy do I have great news for ya
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
June 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I designed a horseshoe crab sweater and published it on Ravelry on National horseshoe crab day! If you ever thought to yourself “man, I really want a hand knit sweater with horseshoe crabs on it” boy do I have great news for ya
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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predator is a slasher movie and arnold schwarzenegger is the final girl
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
predator is a slasher movie and arnold schwarzenegger is the final girl
Yet another reason the Dems shouldn’t have caved - as if we needed any more. It lets the GOP attach all kinds of bullshit like this to the spending bills, because now they know the Dems won’t hold out as a caucus for *anything*.
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Yet another reason the Dems shouldn’t have caved - as if we needed any more. It lets the GOP attach all kinds of bullshit like this to the spending bills, because now they know the Dems won’t hold out as a caucus for *anything*.
So J and I have our offices in adjoining rooms. My office walls are teal, and as of today, J’s office walls are orange.
It was just pointed out to me that if you look down the hallway to see into both rooms, it looks like Portal.
It was just pointed out to me that if you look down the hallway to see into both rooms, it looks like Portal.
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
So J and I have our offices in adjoining rooms. My office walls are teal, and as of today, J’s office walls are orange.
It was just pointed out to me that if you look down the hallway to see into both rooms, it looks like Portal.
It was just pointed out to me that if you look down the hallway to see into both rooms, it looks like Portal.
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
www.gravityisgone.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
Dear internet fashion-knowers: I am looking for a pair of boots. Specifically this kind of boot, but in actual leather, not fake leather.
I beseech thee - someone please tell me where I can find this?
I beseech thee - someone please tell me where I can find this?
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Dear internet fashion-knowers: I am looking for a pair of boots. Specifically this kind of boot, but in actual leather, not fake leather.
I beseech thee - someone please tell me where I can find this?
I beseech thee - someone please tell me where I can find this?
let’s go back to baseball bluesky. people’s stupid-ass opinions were funny then.
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
let’s go back to baseball bluesky. people’s stupid-ass opinions were funny then.
*deep sigh*
Canada loses its measles elimination status — as it happened | CBC
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
*deep sigh*
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"save your anger for 2026" wait you think I'll run out in a year this is why I hate amateurs
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"save your anger for 2026" wait you think I'll run out in a year this is why I hate amateurs
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the democrats over years have intentionally tried to cultivate a base of suburban home owning high engagement liberals who watch a lot of TV news and can and will max out an ActBlue donation and never considered once that they too might one day start to notice patterns of behavior
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
the democrats over years have intentionally tried to cultivate a base of suburban home owning high engagement liberals who watch a lot of TV news and can and will max out an ActBlue donation and never considered once that they too might one day start to notice patterns of behavior
I think I have to sign off for the night - they’re going to be able to hear my teeth grinding in space, and I’m sure tomorrow will be fun at work.
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I think I have to sign off for the night - they’re going to be able to hear my teeth grinding in space, and I’m sure tomorrow will be fun at work.
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I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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"Why do you just attack democrats? Why don't you ever go after republicans?"
Same reason I think it's necessary to warn people off an inexplicably popular restaurant that keeps giving everyone food poisoning but don't see the need to warn people off of eating directly out of an open sewer.
Same reason I think it's necessary to warn people off an inexplicably popular restaurant that keeps giving everyone food poisoning but don't see the need to warn people off of eating directly out of an open sewer.
July 4, 2025 at 5:27 AM
"Why do you just attack democrats? Why don't you ever go after republicans?"
Same reason I think it's necessary to warn people off an inexplicably popular restaurant that keeps giving everyone food poisoning but don't see the need to warn people off of eating directly out of an open sewer.
Same reason I think it's necessary to warn people off an inexplicably popular restaurant that keeps giving everyone food poisoning but don't see the need to warn people off of eating directly out of an open sewer.
I just sent Tim Kaine a polite-but-furious FAX via email from my phone because he’s turned off his voicemail, answered emails with a usual turnaround time of a week+, and doesn’t have people answering any more, and if that’s not peak 2025, I don’t know what is.
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I just sent Tim Kaine a polite-but-furious FAX via email from my phone because he’s turned off his voicemail, answered emails with a usual turnaround time of a week+, and doesn’t have people answering any more, and if that’s not peak 2025, I don’t know what is.
TIM KAINE HAS TURNED OFF HIS VOICEMAIL AAAAAAAA I AM LOSING MY MIND AAAAAAAAAAAAA
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 AM
TIM KAINE HAS TURNED OFF HIS VOICEMAIL AAAAAAAA I AM LOSING MY MIND AAAAAAAAAAAAA
Forty days from now:
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Forty days from now:
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we've gone from "this is clearly a planted story, real ball knowers don't fall for this" to "this has been an ongoing thing in the senate and has been known by house leadership for a week and they're pretty upset about it"
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
we've gone from "this is clearly a planted story, real ball knowers don't fall for this" to "this has been an ongoing thing in the senate and has been known by house leadership for a week and they're pretty upset about it"
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I love to call my Senators' offices three times per week and try to cajole them into doing the most elementary political messaging and strategy. This is what it means to be an engaged citizen: leaving a strenuously polite voicemail for a 74yo on a more regular cadence than I talk to my parents.
March 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I love to call my Senators' offices three times per week and try to cajole them into doing the most elementary political messaging and strategy. This is what it means to be an engaged citizen: leaving a strenuously polite voicemail for a 74yo on a more regular cadence than I talk to my parents.
This is so pants-on-head stupid. Even IF people are able to get and spend the money in their FSAs - which has an expiration date, and which can only be spent on certain “covered” expenses - they’ll still have to pay the insurance premiums they can’t control or afford.
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown
A proposal by GOP senators to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies showed signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This is so pants-on-head stupid. Even IF people are able to get and spend the money in their FSAs - which has an expiration date, and which can only be spent on certain “covered” expenses - they’ll still have to pay the insurance premiums they can’t control or afford.
This only thing worse than a gov shutdown for 40 days is a shutdown that achieved nothing but pain and suffering for the people it was supposed to protect.
I just called my senators: hold the line.
I just called my senators: hold the line.
November 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This only thing worse than a gov shutdown for 40 days is a shutdown that achieved nothing but pain and suffering for the people it was supposed to protect.
I just called my senators: hold the line.
I just called my senators: hold the line.
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The problem for me is that they have to realize how much weight their words carry. For instance, CNV says that there's only XX and XY and the rest is woke nonsense. She knows this can and will be quoted, how there are people whose work disprove it, and doesn't care because she's a Nobel winner 🧪
Viele Geschlechter? Das ist Unfug!
Warum es nur zwei Geschlechter gibt – wenn auch innerhalb der biologischen Geschlechter eine breite kulturelle und hormonelle Spanne. Und warum der Queer-Beauftragte der Bundesregierung das wissen sol...
www.emma.de
November 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The problem for me is that they have to realize how much weight their words carry. For instance, CNV says that there's only XX and XY and the rest is woke nonsense. She knows this can and will be quoted, how there are people whose work disprove it, and doesn't care because she's a Nobel winner 🧪
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A fascinating new Lancet ID paper offers the strongest comparative evidence yet between infection-induced and vaccine-induced immunity against mpox. The study followed people for up to 2 years after infection with monkeypox virus or vaccination with MVA-BN. #IDsky
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Long-term consequences of monkeypox virus infection or modified vaccinia virus Ankara vaccination in Belgium (MPX-COHORT and POQS-FU-PLUS): a 24-month prospective and retrospective cohort study
Individuals previously infected with MPXV show strong and durable immunological memory
lasting up to 2 years after infection, in contrast to the less robust and shorter-lived
response observed after M...
www.thelancet.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A fascinating new Lancet ID paper offers the strongest comparative evidence yet between infection-induced and vaccine-induced immunity against mpox. The study followed people for up to 2 years after infection with monkeypox virus or vaccination with MVA-BN. #IDsky
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...