Katie Lee
@resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social
Asst Prof. Anthropologist & engineer. Celiac. Feminist. Studies bone health, physical activity, & menses. she/her
My views should not be construed to reflect those of my employer.
My views should not be construed to reflect those of my employer.
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A great deep dive on Ralph Abraham's background from Lamar White Jr.
www.imaginelouisiana.com/p/pharmland-...
www.imaginelouisiana.com/p/pharmland-...
November 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
A great deep dive on Ralph Abraham's background from Lamar White Jr.
www.imaginelouisiana.com/p/pharmland-...
www.imaginelouisiana.com/p/pharmland-...
Annual reminder that if you cooked a big meal on Thursday, for food *safety* reasons you should be examining your fridge to try to use up or freeze leftovers today and tomorrow.
Nobody wants an accidental foodborne illness.
Nobody wants an accidental foodborne illness.
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Annual reminder that if you cooked a big meal on Thursday, for food *safety* reasons you should be examining your fridge to try to use up or freeze leftovers today and tomorrow.
Nobody wants an accidental foodborne illness.
Nobody wants an accidental foodborne illness.
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10. "Courage is a muscle" - this is scary and we are going to feel scared and we should get comfortable with that, think about how we each usually react to situations (fight/flight/freeze/fawn) and expect to retreat into that, but visualize what it might look like to push outside our comfort zone
November 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
10. "Courage is a muscle" - this is scary and we are going to feel scared and we should get comfortable with that, think about how we each usually react to situations (fight/flight/freeze/fawn) and expect to retreat into that, but visualize what it might look like to push outside our comfort zone
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4. In Louisiana you can get in legal trouble for "harboring" - so, telling someone fleeing they can hide in your house, or giving them a ride, or helping them in another way when you know they are trying to escape the cops.
November 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
4. In Louisiana you can get in legal trouble for "harboring" - so, telling someone fleeing they can hide in your house, or giving them a ride, or helping them in another way when you know they are trying to escape the cops.
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3. Contrary to what the cops want you to believe, in Louisiana as of now we are legally allowed to film within 25 feet of them. But it is illegal to do anything to physically obstruct what they're doing. Legal grey area: if they tell you to back up. The LA ACLU advises to continue filming, but
November 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
3. Contrary to what the cops want you to believe, in Louisiana as of now we are legally allowed to film within 25 feet of them. But it is illegal to do anything to physically obstruct what they're doing. Legal grey area: if they tell you to back up. The LA ACLU advises to continue filming, but
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Important thread for those of us preparing to be the eyes of our communities
I went to an "ojos" training tonight hosted by New Orleans DSA and Union Migrante and thought I'd pass on new things I learned:
1. Low/old info ICE sighting posts are wreaking havoc on immigrant communities. Basically, incomplete or old info is actively harmful (even if ppl have good intentions)
1. Low/old info ICE sighting posts are wreaking havoc on immigrant communities. Basically, incomplete or old info is actively harmful (even if ppl have good intentions)
November 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Important thread for those of us preparing to be the eyes of our communities
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Remember when Amazon held a sale during Independent Bookstore Day in an effort to undercut indie bookstores?
We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.
We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Remember when Amazon held a sale during Independent Bookstore Day in an effort to undercut indie bookstores?
We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.
We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.
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Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
November 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
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Last night the last of the people rolled out after being asked “y’all want some food to go?”
This shall be my go-to move from now on at every function I host 😂
This shall be my go-to move from now on at every function I host 😂
Hosting Thanksgiving this year.
Give me y’all’s best ways to politely tell people it’s time to get the hell up out your house.
Give me y’all’s best ways to politely tell people it’s time to get the hell up out your house.
November 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Last night the last of the people rolled out after being asked “y’all want some food to go?”
This shall be my go-to move from now on at every function I host 😂
This shall be my go-to move from now on at every function I host 😂
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Happy Thanksgiving; fuck colonialism!
If you’re doing some shopping over the next few days, please support local and especially BIOOC-, queer-, and worker-owned businesses.
If you’re planning to spend money on subscriptions, please support worker-owned indie media.
Thanks!
If you’re doing some shopping over the next few days, please support local and especially BIOOC-, queer-, and worker-owned businesses.
If you’re planning to spend money on subscriptions, please support worker-owned indie media.
Thanks!
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Happy Thanksgiving; fuck colonialism!
If you’re doing some shopping over the next few days, please support local and especially BIOOC-, queer-, and worker-owned businesses.
If you’re planning to spend money on subscriptions, please support worker-owned indie media.
Thanks!
If you’re doing some shopping over the next few days, please support local and especially BIOOC-, queer-, and worker-owned businesses.
If you’re planning to spend money on subscriptions, please support worker-owned indie media.
Thanks!
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Local barbershop, The Godbarber-NOLA, gives out free haircuts, stitch braids ahead of Thanksgiving
The Godbarber-NOLA barbershop gave away free haircuts, stitch braids, food and toiletries ahead of Thanksgiving.
The Godbarber-NOLA barbershop gave away free haircuts, stitch braids, food and toiletries ahead of Thanksgiving.
Local barbershop, The Godbarber-NOLA, gives out free haircuts, stitch braids ahead of Thanksgiving
The Godbarber-NOLA barbershop gave away free haircuts, stitch braids, food and toiletries ahead of Thanksgiving.
veritenews.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Local barbershop, The Godbarber-NOLA, gives out free haircuts, stitch braids ahead of Thanksgiving
The Godbarber-NOLA barbershop gave away free haircuts, stitch braids, food and toiletries ahead of Thanksgiving.
The Godbarber-NOLA barbershop gave away free haircuts, stitch braids, food and toiletries ahead of Thanksgiving.
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Louisiana's former surgeon general is reportedly now the deputy director of the CDC. Earlier this month, we published a story about how he addressed a deadly (and vaccine-preventable) whooping cough outbreak.
By @rosemarywestwood.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
By @rosemarywestwood.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Louisiana Took Months To Sound Alarm After Two Babies Died in Whooping Cough Outbreak - KFF Health News
Louisiana health officials appear to have deviated from the usual steps for public health communications amid a whooping cough outbreak after it killed two infants.
kffhealthnews.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Louisiana's former surgeon general is reportedly now the deputy director of the CDC. Earlier this month, we published a story about how he addressed a deadly (and vaccine-preventable) whooping cough outbreak.
By @rosemarywestwood.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
By @rosemarywestwood.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.
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It's a tiny amount of money ($25K, $12K when I was a student), but the consequences are huge. e.g., Years ago, this funding enabled me to conduct my PhD research, which ultimately informed the Supreme Court litigation that prohibited patents on human genes.
Talk about undone science.
Talk about undone science.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It's a tiny amount of money ($25K, $12K when I was a student), but the consequences are huge. e.g., Years ago, this funding enabled me to conduct my PhD research, which ultimately informed the Supreme Court litigation that prohibited patents on human genes.
Talk about undone science.
Talk about undone science.
Reposted by Katie Lee
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
"Louisiana’s landlord–tenant laws are among the most restrictive in the nation for renters—and the most permissive for property owners."
"While weak tenant protections have long made life difficult and unpredictable for New Orleans renters, climate change is making it increasingly dangerous. "
"While weak tenant protections have long made life difficult and unpredictable for New Orleans renters, climate change is making it increasingly dangerous. "
6/ The Healthy Homes Ordinance in New Orleans was supposed to help fix the city's rental housing stock. But years in, many “certified habitable” apartments still have leaking roofs, black mold, and dangerous heat. What went wrong? shelterforce.org/2025/11/24/h...
Healthy Homes or Hollow Promises in New Orleans?
Three years post-Healthy Homes Ordinance, many of New Orleans’s “certified habitable” apartments still have leaks and mold. What went wrong?
shelterforce.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"Louisiana’s landlord–tenant laws are among the most restrictive in the nation for renters—and the most permissive for property owners."
"While weak tenant protections have long made life difficult and unpredictable for New Orleans renters, climate change is making it increasingly dangerous. "
"While weak tenant protections have long made life difficult and unpredictable for New Orleans renters, climate change is making it increasingly dangerous. "
This kind of training is *part* of a solution, but workers also need solidarity to force an increase in minimum wage and ensure reasonable labor rights.
If we want hospitality workers, they need to earn a living wage and be treated with respect by their employers and the public.
If we want hospitality workers, they need to earn a living wage and be treated with respect by their employers and the public.
New Orleans’ hospitality industry is notorious for its low-paying jobs and limited opportunities to advance, but nonprofit workforce training programs are helping teens and young adults pursue meaningful careers in the industry. veritenews.org/2025/11/20/c...
How New Orleans is prepping youth for success in hospitality
The hospitality industry pays notoriously low wages, especially for young workers and workers of color. New Orleans has several nonprofit programs designed to help high school graduates enter the indu...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This kind of training is *part* of a solution, but workers also need solidarity to force an increase in minimum wage and ensure reasonable labor rights.
If we want hospitality workers, they need to earn a living wage and be treated with respect by their employers and the public.
If we want hospitality workers, they need to earn a living wage and be treated with respect by their employers and the public.
It's 2025. Your online form systems should not require I use a specific browser. Especially not ONLY one specific browser.
I don't want AI. I want websites to work again and the ability to block bloaty plugins.
I don't want AI. I want websites to work again and the ability to block bloaty plugins.
November 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It's 2025. Your online form systems should not require I use a specific browser. Especially not ONLY one specific browser.
I don't want AI. I want websites to work again and the ability to block bloaty plugins.
I don't want AI. I want websites to work again and the ability to block bloaty plugins.
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“It is not acceptable to recruit a variety of students into the laboratory, subject them to a variety of stress tests and abuses, and then keep the students who thrive under abuse and get rid of the students who aren't able to thrive in the lab. That's straight-up exploitation.”
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You know those labs that keep harming students, again and again? Some reflections on why it's so hard to stop this from happening and where our responsibilities lie.
scienceforeveryone.science/bad-mentors-... 🧪
scienceforeveryone.science/bad-mentors-... 🧪
Bad mentors hurt people
What to do about bad mentors?
scienceforeveryone.science
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 AM
“It is not acceptable to recruit a variety of students into the laboratory, subject them to a variety of stress tests and abuses, and then keep the students who thrive under abuse and get rid of the students who aren't able to thrive in the lab. That's straight-up exploitation.”
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I URGE people to publicize (if you don't live there) & show up (if you do live there) for this special election and vote for Aftyn.
I have a lot of family who live in this district, some of whom have been working hard w/campaigning. It's NOT a lost cause conservative district. It can be flipped!
I have a lot of family who live in this district, some of whom have been working hard w/campaigning. It's NOT a lost cause conservative district. It can be flipped!
Y'all, this race is going to come down to who shows up at the polls. Trump carried this district by 22 points, and @aftynbehn.bsky.social is within 2 points in this poll!
If you live in 7, GO VOTE! Today is the last day of early voting, or you can vote on December 2nd.
If you live in 7, GO VOTE! Today is the last day of early voting, or you can vote on December 2nd.
November 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I URGE people to publicize (if you don't live there) & show up (if you do live there) for this special election and vote for Aftyn.
I have a lot of family who live in this district, some of whom have been working hard w/campaigning. It's NOT a lost cause conservative district. It can be flipped!
I have a lot of family who live in this district, some of whom have been working hard w/campaigning. It's NOT a lost cause conservative district. It can be flipped!
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Y'all, this race is going to come down to who shows up at the polls. Trump carried this district by 22 points, and @aftynbehn.bsky.social is within 2 points in this poll!
If you live in 7, GO VOTE! Today is the last day of early voting, or you can vote on December 2nd.
If you live in 7, GO VOTE! Today is the last day of early voting, or you can vote on December 2nd.
November 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Y'all, this race is going to come down to who shows up at the polls. Trump carried this district by 22 points, and @aftynbehn.bsky.social is within 2 points in this poll!
If you live in 7, GO VOTE! Today is the last day of early voting, or you can vote on December 2nd.
If you live in 7, GO VOTE! Today is the last day of early voting, or you can vote on December 2nd.
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Wild - the Tennessean woke up and chose to treat Musk’s Boring Company saying they want to tunnel from Nashville to Knoxville seriously 🤡 rather than covering workers walking out for pay failure and safety concerns
(They also previously claimed the tunnel is popular 🤥 )
(They also previously claimed the tunnel is popular 🤥 )
November 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Wild - the Tennessean woke up and chose to treat Musk’s Boring Company saying they want to tunnel from Nashville to Knoxville seriously 🤡 rather than covering workers walking out for pay failure and safety concerns
(They also previously claimed the tunnel is popular 🤥 )
(They also previously claimed the tunnel is popular 🤥 )
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The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
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All NSF SBE DDRIG solicitations have been archived and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Grants currently submitted will be processed, but as always, chances of funding remain very low. This means anyone aiming for the upcoming deadline will not be able to submit. 1/3
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
All NSF SBE DDRIG solicitations have been archived and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Grants currently submitted will be processed, but as always, chances of funding remain very low. This means anyone aiming for the upcoming deadline will not be able to submit. 1/3
This is awful. It puts another barrier in developing a strong, capable, and thoughtful new generation of researchers, which we need now and in the future.
All NSF SBE DDRIG solicitations have been archived and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Grants currently submitted will be processed, but as always, chances of funding remain very low. This means anyone aiming for the upcoming deadline will not be able to submit. 1/3
November 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This is awful. It puts another barrier in developing a strong, capable, and thoughtful new generation of researchers, which we need now and in the future.