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(she/they) 🏳️‍🌈 BSc student who likes pharmacology, cats, & intellectual history. Also an okay guitarist, bad cyclist, former foilist, & avid coffee/beer drinker. In Twitter detox.
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francesarnold.bsky.social
My @acs.org Priestley award address can be found here
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March 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
shelbylau.bsky.social
me: do you know what's a podcast?
mom: spell it, i might know
me: p o d c a s t
mom: spotify? yeah
me: ....
mom: poster?
March 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
shelbylau.bsky.social
Teaching my baby (8 month old) cousin to read critical theory
March 20, 2025 at 4:54 AM
shelbylau.bsky.social
Happy St. Patrick’s Day ☘️
Didn’t go out for any green beer this year but I did spend some time perfecting my Guinness pour at home. Thank you #untappd for the validation as always
March 18, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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I’m already into three of these and spent the last 15 mins perfecting my Guinness pour
March 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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sharonk.bsky.social
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Formed This Way — Brink
Sasha Carney on trans-ness and social contagion.
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March 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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petrawriter.bsky.social
#TheRisingOfTheMoon and #OddManOut are the two I'm watching tonight.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! ☘️

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moremovies.co.uk More Movies @moremovies.co.uk · Mar 17
That's my night sorted! Are you watching anything with an Irish flavour this evening? 🍀🎬
#moviesky #filmsky #stpatricksday #cinema
The Commitments followed by The Outcasts accompanied by a few Guinness. Happy Saint Patrick's day! 🍀🎬
March 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Sacabambaspis janvieri always on my mind
March 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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awaisaftab.bsky.social
We are all conceptual masochists: categories do not seem “real” to us unless they trap us.
February 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
shelbylau.bsky.social
Friend said he’s going to Jelly Roll concert tonight. I have no idea who he is so I googled. 👍
March 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Teaching A Class With A Bimodal Distribution — If You Have One!
On his blog Small Pond Science, Terry McGlynn, posed a question “If you have a bimodal grade distribution, does this change the way you…
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March 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
shelbylau.bsky.social
Depths of wikipedia

from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabeti...
March 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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princetonupress.bsky.social
"When you next have an unoccupied moment and feel that now familiar, practically second nature, urge to reach for your phone, perhaps pick up a #paperback instead" Rob Tempio.

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Explore recently published paperbacks here!

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A photograph of a bookcase When you next have an unoccupied moment and feel that now familiar, practically second nature, urge to reach for your phone, perhaps pick up a paperback instead.
March 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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lowrhoufo.bsky.social
I think the decline of literacy is real, but using booktok to demonstrate it is like weeping over the death of cinema and citing pornhub comments
March 12, 2025 at 6:46 AM
shelbylau.bsky.social
I was asked if I’ve ever cooked meth before since I’m a chem major. Then someone else pointed out that I sounded like I’ve done it before because I kept saying “when we make heroin… when we make meth… when we make fentanyl…” Oops. Reminder to use proper first-person pronouns.
a panda bear is laying on its back in a chair with its paws in the air .
ALT: a panda bear is laying on its back in a chair with its paws in the air .
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March 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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2damntrans.bsky.social
Adorno famously said that there could be "no poetry after Auschwitz" but apparently there's no shortage of the most distasteful, horribly kitsch prose.
causticcovercritic.bsky.social Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · Mar 12
middling novelists looking to give their books some unearned heft by setting them in Auschwitz need to get a move on, they're running out of job titles
9 novels all called 'The [Job Title] of Auschwitz'
March 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
shelbylau.bsky.social
Throwback to my flight to #YYZ [shitshow known as Pearson] (delayed for 5 hours), so I decided to become a content creator. Also 81 bpm during childbirth is wild. Can’t wait to get back on the road 🚴🏻‍♀️
#strava #cyclist #YEG
March 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Old article but as important as ever

www.dissentmagazine.org/article/grad...
Grad Students to the Barricades - Dissent Magazine
If graduate students like myself do not want to come into work one day to find ourselves replaced by video lectures delivered by “information curators,” we will have to learn to take collective action...
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March 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
99% of new medicines developed by the pharmaceutical industry depend on NIH research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Comparison of Research Spending on New Drug Approvals by the NIH vs the Pharmaceutical Industry
This cross-sectional study examines National Institutes of Health and pharmaceutical industry investments in recent drug approvals.
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March 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social
Looking forward to celebrating 80 years of federally funded science, technology and innovation @standupforscience.bsky.social SF, March 7, Civic Center, 1-3 pm 🧪 🧫 🧬
March 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
shelbylau.bsky.social
My compsci friend who doesn't know anything biology-adjacent said this looks like macaroons + cherries and I think that's an astute observation
#biorender
March 4, 2025 at 3:57 AM