Sarah West
@slwest382.bsky.social
Currently an unemployed neuroscientist, formerly of the University of Minnesota. Network, motor, and computational neuroscience; signal processing, algorithms, data analysis. Animal and dog sport enthusiast.
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I know that neighborhood facebook "buy nothing" groups in general are not for "doing bits" but I will do a bit wherever I choose whether my neighbors like it or not. Those things are real I am really giving them away, I put them outside. It's a bit but it's also real.
![A facebook post with Sarah holding a bunch of tentacle finger puppets next to 4 octopuses with the text "I have a persistent problem of accumulating octopuses. People just keep giving them to me. Please help me remove these excess octopuses.
Currently on my step at [redacted]. Any assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uqjon6amgqigyqvqfmqlp5s4/bafkreieuq3crs4ini5oo65iqhot36flsfq56aroy5g46zmyzsocmhjrlpy@jpeg)
July 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I know that neighborhood facebook "buy nothing" groups in general are not for "doing bits" but I will do a bit wherever I choose whether my neighbors like it or not. Those things are real I am really giving them away, I put them outside. It's a bit but it's also real.
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It's Murderbot Eve if you watch Friday, Murderbot Day if you watch tonight!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxQt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxQt...
Murderbot — Dr. Mensah's Panic Attack | Scene | Apple TV+
YouTube video by Apple TV
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July 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It's Murderbot Eve if you watch Friday, Murderbot Day if you watch tonight!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxQt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxQt...
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6 beers deep, vehemently nodding along to my friend’s story, yelling “exaaaactly” at every point they make.
June 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
6 beers deep, vehemently nodding along to my friend’s story, yelling “exaaaactly” at every point they make.
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Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library.
Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams.
Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams.
Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
Barnard suspends WKCR and Spectator reporters who covered Butler Library protest
Barnard and Columbia issued interim suspensions Thursday afternoon to four student journalists who covered a Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest in Butler Library, citing “information received” from Pub...
www.columbiaspectator.com
May 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library.
Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams.
Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams.
Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
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Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social
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Casual reminder that the country fucking hates this shit.
April 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Casual reminder that the country fucking hates this shit.
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Donald Trump isn’t just illegally removing U.S. citizens from the country without due process.
He’s illegally removing U.S. citizens who are literal children undergoing care for cancer.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
He’s illegally removing U.S. citizens who are literal children undergoing care for cancer.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
April 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Donald Trump isn’t just illegally removing U.S. citizens from the country without due process.
He’s illegally removing U.S. citizens who are literal children undergoing care for cancer.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
He’s illegally removing U.S. citizens who are literal children undergoing care for cancer.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
I need a reaction gif of that one guy from Fiddler on the Roof belting "TRADITION!" but instead of "tradition" it says "DEPRESSION!"
April 25, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I need a reaction gif of that one guy from Fiddler on the Roof belting "TRADITION!" but instead of "tradition" it says "DEPRESSION!"
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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
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As usual, Amz can go to hell.
Human narrators are not just dryly stating the words of a text. They are adapting the story, characters, and themes to the medium of sound, which requires making intuitive decisions, and addressing context, and drawing from a life filled with genuine emotion.
Human narrators are not just dryly stating the words of a text. They are adapting the story, characters, and themes to the medium of sound, which requires making intuitive decisions, and addressing context, and drawing from a life filled with genuine emotion.
Amazon is rolling out “Virtual Voice” for publishers on its platform.
Don’t use it. As a publisher or a listener. That’s just bad news.
Don’t use it. As a publisher or a listener. That’s just bad news.
April 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
As usual, Amz can go to hell.
Human narrators are not just dryly stating the words of a text. They are adapting the story, characters, and themes to the medium of sound, which requires making intuitive decisions, and addressing context, and drawing from a life filled with genuine emotion.
Human narrators are not just dryly stating the words of a text. They are adapting the story, characters, and themes to the medium of sound, which requires making intuitive decisions, and addressing context, and drawing from a life filled with genuine emotion.
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TOMORROW- Make your voices heard at Indivisible's event, “NO KINGS! 50 State Nationwide Protest (250th Anniversary of the American Revolution)” - sign up NOW! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
NO KINGS! 50 State Nationwide Protest (250th Anniversary of the American Revolution) · Mobilize
NO KINGS! This a local Indivisible event! Nationwide protest in support of democracy and the US Constitution. The current regime has: illegally defied all court orders; unlawfully terminated federal e...
www.mobilize.us
April 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
TOMORROW- Make your voices heard at Indivisible's event, “NO KINGS! 50 State Nationwide Protest (250th Anniversary of the American Revolution)” - sign up NOW! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
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Someone on my Facebook page is using my complaints about direwolf pseudoscience as "proof" that the National Science Foundation's budget needs to be cut
Sick burn bro, except that this nonsense is private tech-bro equity funded not NSF funded.
I am so tired
Sick burn bro, except that this nonsense is private tech-bro equity funded not NSF funded.
I am so tired
April 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Someone on my Facebook page is using my complaints about direwolf pseudoscience as "proof" that the National Science Foundation's budget needs to be cut
Sick burn bro, except that this nonsense is private tech-bro equity funded not NSF funded.
I am so tired
Sick burn bro, except that this nonsense is private tech-bro equity funded not NSF funded.
I am so tired
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let’s look back at what has happened so far
Cory Booker giving a 25 hour speech: everyone loved it, raised his profile
Van Hollen flies to El Salvador and meets Abrego Garcia: everyone loved it, raised his profile
Schumer publicly caved: everyone hated that
just a general note to Dems
Cory Booker giving a 25 hour speech: everyone loved it, raised his profile
Van Hollen flies to El Salvador and meets Abrego Garcia: everyone loved it, raised his profile
Schumer publicly caved: everyone hated that
just a general note to Dems
i have no doubt that senator van hollen was genuinely concerned for the safety and welfare of abrego garcia BUT ALSO this is what i'm talking about when i say POLITICAL AMBITION. van hollen may well make himself a household name and nationally recognized political figure with this move
April 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
let’s look back at what has happened so far
Cory Booker giving a 25 hour speech: everyone loved it, raised his profile
Van Hollen flies to El Salvador and meets Abrego Garcia: everyone loved it, raised his profile
Schumer publicly caved: everyone hated that
just a general note to Dems
Cory Booker giving a 25 hour speech: everyone loved it, raised his profile
Van Hollen flies to El Salvador and meets Abrego Garcia: everyone loved it, raised his profile
Schumer publicly caved: everyone hated that
just a general note to Dems
My new favorite pass time: writing replies to each issue of my Representative, Tom Emmer's, newsletters pointing out the biggest logical fallacies and requesting new information.
April 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
My new favorite pass time: writing replies to each issue of my Representative, Tom Emmer's, newsletters pointing out the biggest logical fallacies and requesting new information.
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This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.
April 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.
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So today I spent 6 hours reading my audio book did anything else happen?
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738849...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738849...
April 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
So today I spent 6 hours reading my audio book did anything else happen?
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738849...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738849...
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Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
April 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
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“What difference does it make if a biotech company promotes misunderstanding about the practical and implications of their technology,” you ask, having apparently not noticed how the Trump administration is using that misunderstanding to weaken actual endangered species conservation policy.
April 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
“What difference does it make if a biotech company promotes misunderstanding about the practical and implications of their technology,” you ask, having apparently not noticed how the Trump administration is using that misunderstanding to weaken actual endangered species conservation policy.
Efforts to track what NIH grants are being terminated:
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Cancelled NIH grant information submission form
Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.
Data from this form will be used to update the Terminated NI...
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April 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Efforts to track what NIH grants are being terminated:
hsph.me/nih-grant-te...
hsph.me/nih-grant-te...
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THEY ARE DOING SANCTUARY MOON
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
"The show-within-a-show stars John Cho, Jack McBrayer, Clark Gregg, and DeWanda Wise, sporting outrageous hairstyles and costumes that make the stylings of A Flock of Seagulls look like business casual." oh my God they're doing Sanctuary Moon, say thank you Apple TV+
‘Murderbot’ Would Hate You—But That’s Why You’ll Love It
A first look at Alexander Skarsgård’s sci-fi comedy series from ‘About a Boy’ filmmakers Chris and Paul Weitz.
www.vanityfair.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
THEY ARE DOING SANCTUARY MOON
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
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This article has some great stills of the show but it is really spoilery!
Let's GO @marthawells.com world domination!
"The show-within-a-show stars John Cho, Jack McBrayer, Clark Gregg, and DeWanda Wise, sporting outrageous hairstyles and costumes that make the stylings of A Flock of Seagulls look like business casual." oh my God they're doing Sanctuary Moon, say thank you Apple TV+
April 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This article has some great stills of the show but it is really spoilery!
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If you need a distraction, I'm going to be posting a few non-spoilery set photos over the weeks as a lead-up to the Murderbot premiere on May 16. (It's fun for me! I hope it's fun for you.) @troyce.bsky.social took these photos. #murderbot
April 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
If you need a distraction, I'm going to be posting a few non-spoilery set photos over the weeks as a lead-up to the Murderbot premiere on May 16. (It's fun for me! I hope it's fun for you.) @troyce.bsky.social took these photos. #murderbot