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Sarah Tuttle

@niais.bsky.social

18K followers 3.6K following 23K posts

Disabled, queer, Jewish, (chimerical?) cyborg, load bearing, professor of space stuff, abortion funder, antifascist, wielder of wrenches and too many pens. Building joy with a side of chaos. Team Lightning Thunder Unicorn. Team Peace Rose.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 3h

So far, it is not meeting our ADS performance expectations (we chatted about it in my class). But hopeful, and excited to see growth to other areas. ✨

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 3d

endlessly embarrassing that the powers that be here banned Link. just disqualifying.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 4d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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AstroArxiv @astroarxiv.bsky.social · 1d

An Introduction to Gravitational Wave Theory. Simone Speziale et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21817

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 5h

Link

Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 8h

Link

Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 9h

Link.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 17d

Goodnight

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · Sep 15

Since I haven't seen one yet, here's a starter pack of scientists actively working in the climate adaptation and resilience space, including researchers as well as climate service providers! 🌎🧪

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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 20h

Timeline cleanse, watch whole thing

Bulldogs: dense and heavy

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 5h

Link.

Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 8h

Link

Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 9h

Link.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 5h

Congrats to the Seattle mariners for locating the end of this game

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 2d

Updated the Blackademics starter pack again (!) to include Vincent Brown, Imani Perry, the Harare Review of Books and others. Stay tuned for more developments coming soon....

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 5h

The only way to be.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5h

there is really nothing like the stress of extra inning playoff baseball in the rest of sports

for instance, other sports actually finish their games

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 5h

Game went so long they did it again. 😂

Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 5h

SALMON RUN!!!!!!!!!!

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 5h

Love it so hard

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 18h

You can wear this one and hold a sign that says we're all trying to find antifa

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 12h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 5h

DOUBLE PLAY.
Maybe they have to merge and become a super team.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 5h

A DOUBLE PLAY

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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 7h

We have breaking news in Inside Medicine.

We had heard rumors of RIFs to CDC.

But this is the first visual confirmation that it has occurred tonight, and at high levels in the agency.

Here is what we know...and then some well-sourced rumors (but rumors, nonetheless, not confirmed) 🧵...