Prof. Carrie McDonough
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Prof. Carrie McDonough
@carrieamcdphd.bsky.social
Dogs' life. Rockstar. Environmental astronaut. Associate prof of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon (she/they; views my own).
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Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)

RTs appreciated.
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Fuck’s sake. Let’s say it again, fixing economic conditions for people is not in opposition to caring about people’s basic rights. Mamdani managed to do both. Here he is arguing for trans rights.
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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I work with municipal wastewater facilities, who are (were) required by EPA to remove PFAS from muni water. This is doing an about face on the US cleanup for the last 2 to 3 decades. People will suffer and die. Corporations need to be held to account, not just municipal waste water facilities.
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.

The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.

Where is the MAHA outcry?
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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I can't be mad at this post because its right. I also am not offended by it because I voted for the most qualified candidate. Nor I sat at home or went 3rd party. Our votes/nonvotes have consequences for the world.
The American voter was really stupid on a random Tuesday in November and now my country is bleeding out because of a realtor
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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The American voter was really stupid on a random Tuesday in November and now my country is bleeding out because of a realtor
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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BREAKING: Cathedral in Pittsburgh displays the Democratic veterans who Trump called to be hanged.

“THIS IS WHAT COURAGE LOOKS LIKE.”
November 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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This is what Courage Looks Like
Photo Credit: VanStrien
November 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Very excited to be working on environmental contamination problems relevant to PA with new Ph.D. student Elizabeth Smith!!
Rales Fellow Takes Green Chemistry Personally
Carnegie Mellon University Rales Fellow Elizabeth Smith is using her family experiences to inform her fracking research.
www.cmu.edu
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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If you have a problem with trans women, trans men, or trans people of any make or gender, then you got a problem with me and I suggest you let that marinate
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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It's Transgender Day of Remembrance and I just want to say that a world without trans people would be a rainbow with many colors missing. We are brighter and more colorful in this world because of trans people, and have lost too many too early. I love you for being more you than most of us can be
November 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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BREAKING: 30 more Starbucks locations are joining the strike.

Starbucks workers in 25 cities are jumping into the week-long strike.

Now @sbworkersunited.org members at 95 stores in 65 cities have walked off the job.
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Sitting on an economy flight is a great illustration of what life would be like all the time if it were only up to corporations. Here's your rationed tiny space. Now we'll yell ads about credit cards at you for approximately 5 hours. The wifi's broken, this cart is gonna hit you, buy stuff from it.
November 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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I recently needed to come up with a hourly number for consulting and I MIGHT HAVE UNDERSHOT. 😱
Creepers are the worst on every front. What in the world.
November 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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JD Vance on the same morning Trump calls for execution of elected Democrats: "He's not a violent person:"
November 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Trump could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and Mike Johnson would say they deserved it
Mike Johnson responds to my question about saying Democrats committed treasonable by death
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Good. Dems not backing down in the slightest in the face of Trump's call for their execution. Keep this up, Dems. Treat Trump like *he's* the violent criminal and the real threat to our Constitution order. Because he is.
November 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
Insanity
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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“Since 1998, independent researchers have conducted more than 40 high-quality studies involving over 5.6 million people. The conclusion is clear and unambiguous: There’s no link between vaccines and autism." -Dr. Susan Kressly, AAP President on recent changes to the CDC's website
November 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Federal prosecutors have dismissed all charges against two Chicagoans, including a woman shot by federal agents, who were accused of ramming a vehicle driven by CBP agents on Oct 4. Videos showed that the CBP agents rammed her car and assaulted her, the exact opposite of what prosecutors charged.
2 Chicagoans, Including Woman Shot by Federal Agents, Charged with Ramming Border Patrol Vehicle
Marimar Martinez, 30, and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, 21, are facing felony charges of “forcibly assaulting, impeding, and interfering with a federal law enforcement officer,” federal prosecutors announc...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Looking for what you can do to make you voice heard? This campaign is gaining traction.

The enablers have to feel it.

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November 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...

Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
November 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM