Elizabeth Anne, PhD
@lacksauthority.bsky.social
postdoc studying neurogenetics in zebrafish models at Yale University | AU and UM alum | first gen |🔬🏳️🌈🌎
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Check out our cover article by @timjanicke.bsky.social and colleagues about the role of sexual selection in animal speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic.... The beautiful illustration is by Katharina Bóth.
December 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Check out our cover article by @timjanicke.bsky.social and colleagues about the role of sexual selection in animal speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic.... The beautiful illustration is by Katharina Bóth.
this season developed into probably my favorite season of any actual play podcast I’ve listened to. they said the finale would be controversial and I can see how but I thought it was perfect. plus the updated theme song was amazing.
S3 Ep. 39 - Gutteral Scream (Finale Pt. 2)
A bowling team tries to save their friends, their town, and the world.
www.dungeonsanddaddies.com/episodes/s3e39
🎨 by @notanotheralex.bsky.social
A bowling team tries to save their friends, their town, and the world.
www.dungeonsanddaddies.com/episodes/s3e39
🎨 by @notanotheralex.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
this season developed into probably my favorite season of any actual play podcast I’ve listened to. they said the finale would be controversial and I can see how but I thought it was perfect. plus the updated theme song was amazing.
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Worldwide mortality experience since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2024) shows excess deaths over that period in almost every country measured. Australia (+6%) was below average, and New Zealand (+0.1%) the lowest we measured.
December 2, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Worldwide mortality experience since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2024) shows excess deaths over that period in almost every country measured. Australia (+6%) was below average, and New Zealand (+0.1%) the lowest we measured.
Alligators
Crocodiles
Manatees
Sea turtles
Dolphins (unpictured)
Crocodiles
Manatees
Sea turtles
Dolphins (unpictured)
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Alligators
Crocodiles
Manatees
Sea turtles
Dolphins (unpictured)
Crocodiles
Manatees
Sea turtles
Dolphins (unpictured)
if I write enough in my little notebook I will be able to Control the Chaos
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
if I write enough in my little notebook I will be able to Control the Chaos
the number of nights I have gone to bed filled with impotent fury over typhon is too damn high. even more infuriating in that I’ve beat him once so know it is in fact possible yet somehow impossible to replicate
November 26, 2025 at 3:34 AM
the number of nights I have gone to bed filled with impotent fury over typhon is too damn high. even more infuriating in that I’ve beat him once so know it is in fact possible yet somehow impossible to replicate
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When publication becomes a graduation requirement, the student’s fate depends far more on the efficiency of their environment than on their talent or effort. That’s not academic excellence, that’s structural luck.
November 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
When publication becomes a graduation requirement, the student’s fate depends far more on the efficiency of their environment than on their talent or effort. That’s not academic excellence, that’s structural luck.
I was always very creative writing focused. hated my HS bio teacher/he hated me. was looking at CW programs for uni. summer before senior year I was attending a CW institute but also summer@brown so didn’t want to do CW for that too. signed up for techniques in DNA-based biotechnology. & here I am
November 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I was always very creative writing focused. hated my HS bio teacher/he hated me. was looking at CW programs for uni. summer before senior year I was attending a CW institute but also summer@brown so didn’t want to do CW for that too. signed up for techniques in DNA-based biotechnology. & here I am
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Lumping them together as “AI” gives readers the impression that a single class of tool is discerning novel protein structures, teasing subtle patterns out of mountains of LHC data, writing a student’s History 101 paper, and arguing a ketamine-addled billionaire could post up Shaq in his prime. No.
November 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Lumping them together as “AI” gives readers the impression that a single class of tool is discerning novel protein structures, teasing subtle patterns out of mountains of LHC data, writing a student’s History 101 paper, and arguing a ketamine-addled billionaire could post up Shaq in his prime. No.
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Machine learning (umbrella term, I know) is a useful, sometimes transformative tool in the hands of trained researchers who understand how to deploy it and critically assess the results.
A chatbot is not useful in the same ways (though underlying technologies may be, in other contexts).
A chatbot is not useful in the same ways (though underlying technologies may be, in other contexts).
November 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Machine learning (umbrella term, I know) is a useful, sometimes transformative tool in the hands of trained researchers who understand how to deploy it and critically assess the results.
A chatbot is not useful in the same ways (though underlying technologies may be, in other contexts).
A chatbot is not useful in the same ways (though underlying technologies may be, in other contexts).
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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I can’t bring myself to read this, but one day I hope there is as much time and energy devoted to the problem of the online radicalisation of vulnerable pregnant people and parents, as there is to the online radicalisation of young white men.
This might be one of the most disturbing pieces I’ve ever read. Staggering investigative work from Sirin Kale and Lucy Osbourne www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I can’t bring myself to read this, but one day I hope there is as much time and energy devoted to the problem of the online radicalisation of vulnerable pregnant people and parents, as there is to the online radicalisation of young white men.
is it sunrise to sunset fasting or just being a wet lab scientist who isn’t allowed to have food/drinks at the bench? 🙃
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
is it sunrise to sunset fasting or just being a wet lab scientist who isn’t allowed to have food/drinks at the bench? 🙃
it’s a few years old but I’m excited for the new sequel — “winter’s orbit” by everina maxwell. and although the couple aren’t the protags, including “the warm hands of ghosts” by katherine arden because the book revolves around their relationship.
It's International Men's Day!
So I have a book recommendation request: what is the latest SciFi or Fantasy book you loved about gay/bi/pan male protagonists? And what did you love about them?
So I have a book recommendation request: what is the latest SciFi or Fantasy book you loved about gay/bi/pan male protagonists? And what did you love about them?
November 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
it’s a few years old but I’m excited for the new sequel — “winter’s orbit” by everina maxwell. and although the couple aren’t the protags, including “the warm hands of ghosts” by katherine arden because the book revolves around their relationship.
new haven, we have aurora!!!!
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 AM
new haven, we have aurora!!!!
my 2015 macbook air, trying to run thousands of permutations on dozens of genes simultaneously
a painting of a woman laying in a bed with a blue blanket and a white pillow
Alt: GIF of the painting “young woman on her deathbed,” which depicts a woman laying in a bed with a blue blanket and a white pillow. Her hands are listlessly curled on top of the blankets and her eyes stare unseeing into the distance. Her mouth is slightly open. The GIF jump zooms in closer and closer to her pallid face
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
my 2015 macbook air, trying to run thousands of permutations on dozens of genes simultaneously
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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calling the reps again like
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
calling the reps again like
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And frankly, celebrating dining with "the wealthy" of LI, while not seeing this was the very donor connection which was directly used as a silencing threat against the marginalized grad students and postdocs of the institution, starkly shows the limit of your analysis.
bsky.app/profile/anal...
bsky.app/profile/anal...
Maaaaaany graduate students at CSHL have stories. I'll send them your way.
I tweeted once about him and was immediately called out by our PR. They sat me down and told me they knew he was problematic but that he brought in too much donor money for us to say anything bad about him.
I tweeted once about him and was immediately called out by our PR. They sat me down and told me they knew he was problematic but that he brought in too much donor money for us to say anything bad about him.
November 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
And frankly, celebrating dining with "the wealthy" of LI, while not seeing this was the very donor connection which was directly used as a silencing threat against the marginalized grad students and postdocs of the institution, starkly shows the limit of your analysis.
bsky.app/profile/anal...
bsky.app/profile/anal...
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Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
James Watson in his own words
“Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…
liorpachter.wordpress.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
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When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
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Mm hm. No mention of the sexism Franklin was constantly forced to endure in this cosy little, “they were all respectful colleagues, actually” article.
![Comments from Watson and Crick reveal the gender harassment that Franklin endured in the lab. Throughout The Double Helix, Watson's famous 1968 book recounting the race to the famous structure, Watson condescendingly refers to Franklin as "Rosy," a nickname never used to
her face. "There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black hair, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents," he writes, though neglecting to critique his male colleagues' cosmetic or sartorial choices.
He adds that her "belligerent moods" interfered with Wilkins' ability to "maintain a dominant position that would allow him to think unhindered about DNA." For that reason, " [c]learly Rosy had to go or be put in her place. ... The thought could not be avoided that the best home for a feminist was in another person's lab." In the 1993 book Nobel Prize Women in Science, Crick was quoted as saying, "I'm afraid we always used to adopt-let's say, a patronizing attitude towards her."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:icsm7hd2dok5lxddyrig4gbt/bafkreiewhgtr2ax623ct6za3ap67uvjdxz5sjac7nirhnhcohb4gl75xii@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Mm hm. No mention of the sexism Franklin was constantly forced to endure in this cosy little, “they were all respectful colleagues, actually” article.
mail from my husband’s family/friends: Mr. And Mrs. [Husband’s first name] [husband’s last name]
mail from my friends: Dr. Elizabeth [my last name] and [husband’s first name] [husband’s last name] — also — Elizabeth and [husband’s first name] [my last name]
my friends are the best 🥲
mail from my friends: Dr. Elizabeth [my last name] and [husband’s first name] [husband’s last name] — also — Elizabeth and [husband’s first name] [my last name]
my friends are the best 🥲
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 AM
mail from my husband’s family/friends: Mr. And Mrs. [Husband’s first name] [husband’s last name]
mail from my friends: Dr. Elizabeth [my last name] and [husband’s first name] [husband’s last name] — also — Elizabeth and [husband’s first name] [my last name]
my friends are the best 🥲
mail from my friends: Dr. Elizabeth [my last name] and [husband’s first name] [husband’s last name] — also — Elizabeth and [husband’s first name] [my last name]
my friends are the best 🥲
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the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit