Vitanuova
@vitanuova.bsky.social
⚕️🧪Physician scientist, amateur gardener🌱, soprano🧑🎤cat lady 🐈, mother of excellent children, Episcopalian, native Floridian, 🦑scuba diver, 🇺🇸🌎reality-based community member.
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"I could be a mentor to this very sharp person but as they aren't interested in me romantically I'm going to have to cut off all communication with them."
"Also, only men get the best mentors like me who can help them get into top journals. Clearly that's because men have higher IQ than women."
"Also, only men get the best mentors like me who can help them get into top journals. Clearly that's because men have higher IQ than women."
November 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
"I could be a mentor to this very sharp person but as they aren't interested in me romantically I'm going to have to cut off all communication with them."
"Also, only men get the best mentors like me who can help them get into top journals. Clearly that's because men have higher IQ than women."
"Also, only men get the best mentors like me who can help them get into top journals. Clearly that's because men have higher IQ than women."
A perfect exposition of the problem-am thank you!
"I could be a mentor to this very sharp person but as they aren't interested in me romantically I'm going to have to cut off all communication with them."
"Also, only men get the best mentors like me who can help them get into top journals. Clearly that's because men have higher IQ than women."
"Also, only men get the best mentors like me who can help them get into top journals. Clearly that's because men have higher IQ than women."
November 16, 2025 at 3:49 AM
A perfect exposition of the problem-am thank you!
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The main question is whether to overturn Humphrey’s Executor, a 1935 case that said statutes can limit presidential removal of “quasi legislative” and “quasi judicial” officers. Modern courts say those terms are made up, but they are not. In fact, they are deeply rooted in administrative law. 2/3
November 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The main question is whether to overturn Humphrey’s Executor, a 1935 case that said statutes can limit presidential removal of “quasi legislative” and “quasi judicial” officers. Modern courts say those terms are made up, but they are not. In fact, they are deeply rooted in administrative law. 2/3
I feel a chill these days when I read about things that happened a mere century ago. Just far back enough for most people to have forgotten or died. Media control by people wealthy but deluded, promoting the idea that some one guy had all the solutions and all you had to do was give in. Never again!
This was just after Lord Rothermere destroyed it and sold it to another Conservative—bonus points for the Mirror having been targeted to women before Rothermere bought it
November 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I feel a chill these days when I read about things that happened a mere century ago. Just far back enough for most people to have forgotten or died. Media control by people wealthy but deluded, promoting the idea that some one guy had all the solutions and all you had to do was give in. Never again!
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Still dubious there is any message that would do the trick but this is a definite contender and certainly vastly better than saying “you don’t understand how the Senate works”
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Still dubious there is any message that would do the trick but this is a definite contender and certainly vastly better than saying “you don’t understand how the Senate works”
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Ahead of Veterans Day, I was honored to welcome a flight of veterans and their families as they arrived in DC.
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Ahead of Veterans Day, I was honored to welcome a flight of veterans and their families as they arrived in DC.
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Peek-a-boo!
Spiny live oak leaves
a junco feeds.
Dark-Eyed Junco, Nov. 2025, #SonomaStateUniversity, #California.
#birds #birdphotography #sonomacounty #m43 #haiku
Spiny live oak leaves
a junco feeds.
Dark-Eyed Junco, Nov. 2025, #SonomaStateUniversity, #California.
#birds #birdphotography #sonomacounty #m43 #haiku
November 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Peek-a-boo!
Spiny live oak leaves
a junco feeds.
Dark-Eyed Junco, Nov. 2025, #SonomaStateUniversity, #California.
#birds #birdphotography #sonomacounty #m43 #haiku
Spiny live oak leaves
a junco feeds.
Dark-Eyed Junco, Nov. 2025, #SonomaStateUniversity, #California.
#birds #birdphotography #sonomacounty #m43 #haiku
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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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Married conservative: A woman's place is at home, not the office.
Divorced conservative: My ex-wife *chose* not to work.
Divorced conservative: My ex-wife *chose* not to work.
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Married conservative: A woman's place is at home, not the office.
Divorced conservative: My ex-wife *chose* not to work.
Divorced conservative: My ex-wife *chose* not to work.
This article from @nature.com has an interesting perspective- worth reading especially now as people consider Watson’s legacy. He was an intensely unlikable fellow who, along with Crick and Rosalind Franklin, made a world-changing discovery.🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
This article from @nature.com has an interesting perspective- worth reading especially now as people consider Watson’s legacy. He was an intensely unlikable fellow who, along with Crick and Rosalind Franklin, made a world-changing discovery.🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Wishing everyone the loveliest and coziest possible place to curl up with a great book and a beer!
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Wishing everyone the loveliest and coziest possible place to curl up with a great book and a beer!
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November 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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I grew up in Sarasota, where this was absolutely true. Median age at the time (very approximately 1960s) was 65. It was very difficult to get school bond issues passed because many of these people had left behind their home states in Indiana, Ohio, etc and their sense of obligation to the future.
Page One in Palm Beach:
“.. in 23 of Florida’s 67 counties, more than one out of every four residents is over 65.”
@palmbeachpost.bsky.social
“.. in 23 of Florida’s 67 counties, more than one out of every four residents is over 65.”
@palmbeachpost.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I grew up in Sarasota, where this was absolutely true. Median age at the time (very approximately 1960s) was 65. It was very difficult to get school bond issues passed because many of these people had left behind their home states in Indiana, Ohio, etc and their sense of obligation to the future.
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Two doves performing on the guardrail of a bridge at Hever Castle.
Their backing group is in the willow tree and a roadie duck is on the water under the stage.
#BirdoftheDay
#StandingonThings
#Birds
#Photography
Their backing group is in the willow tree and a roadie duck is on the water under the stage.
#BirdoftheDay
#StandingonThings
#Birds
#Photography
November 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Two doves performing on the guardrail of a bridge at Hever Castle.
Their backing group is in the willow tree and a roadie duck is on the water under the stage.
#BirdoftheDay
#StandingonThings
#Birds
#Photography
Their backing group is in the willow tree and a roadie duck is on the water under the stage.
#BirdoftheDay
#StandingonThings
#Birds
#Photography
Every research paper (I still have several stuck at 8)
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Every research paper (I still have several stuck at 8)
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After nine years, Trump finally drops his healthcare plan. It's chaos. We'll smash the healthcare insurance system and take money away from the health insurance industry, while replacing it with nothing whatsoever.
November 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
After nine years, Trump finally drops his healthcare plan. It's chaos. We'll smash the healthcare insurance system and take money away from the health insurance industry, while replacing it with nothing whatsoever.
Great to see @lpachter.bsky.social and @phylogenomics.bsky.social on BlueSky - some of the people I followed on the old site. Bird photos, genetics, statistics- what more could I want?
November 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Great to see @lpachter.bsky.social and @phylogenomics.bsky.social on BlueSky - some of the people I followed on the old site. Bird photos, genetics, statistics- what more could I want?
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I don’t know much about this channel, but this short video of teaching an octopus is very moving youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?...
I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)
YouTube video by Mattias Krantz
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I don’t know much about this channel, but this short video of teaching an octopus is very moving youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?...
This man is a true hero!
Andrew Otazo has plucked, bagged, heaved and hauled more than 17 tons of trash from the mangroves in Florida.
Every piece of garbage he removes reclaims space for what should be there: bird nesting grounds and fish nurseries. https://wapo.st/4oS36Vx
Every piece of garbage he removes reclaims space for what should be there: bird nesting grounds and fish nurseries. https://wapo.st/4oS36Vx
November 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This man is a true hero!
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
I don’t agree with all these people all the time but I do believe that Lincoln Project, Sarah Longwell, and the Bulwark folks want Democrats to win. All of us who want to keep our foundational representative democracy should be celebrating together today and fighting together tomorrow.
November 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I don’t agree with all these people all the time but I do believe that Lincoln Project, Sarah Longwell, and the Bulwark folks want Democrats to win. All of us who want to keep our foundational representative democracy should be celebrating together today and fighting together tomorrow.
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A manatee gingerly plods against a strong incoming current over the spiky staghorn corals (which are not something a manatee is used to encountering in the Intercoastal Waterway!) #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #ploddingalong #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
November 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A manatee gingerly plods against a strong incoming current over the spiky staghorn corals (which are not something a manatee is used to encountering in the Intercoastal Waterway!) #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #ploddingalong #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
🌱It will freeze next week so I’m probably seeing the last of the flowers now. For #magentaMonday I offer a nearly-magenta pelargonium, some Crystal Palace lobelia grown from Dutch seeds started this spring, a drift of asters, and a last hurrah of the season from the beauteous Louise Clements rose.
November 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
🌱It will freeze next week so I’m probably seeing the last of the flowers now. For #magentaMonday I offer a nearly-magenta pelargonium, some Crystal Palace lobelia grown from Dutch seeds started this spring, a drift of asters, and a last hurrah of the season from the beauteous Louise Clements rose.
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It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.