Nancy R. Curtis
@oponiak.bsky.social
Rebuilding will be a slow process. Seasonal avatars for a while. she/her/Ms.
Academic STEM librarian. Meningioma survivor, ~14h craniotomy @MGH. Opinions only.
Academic STEM librarian. Meningioma survivor, ~14h craniotomy @MGH. Opinions only.
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Nancy R. Curtis
@oponiak.bsky.social
· Feb 2
We’re basically accelerating the historic trajectory of England: from center of a global empire to a much-diminished country grappling w/ social & economic fallout from Brexit.
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Putin is letting his soldiers HUNT Ukrainians in Kherson with drones — a genocidal human safari.
Meanwhile, Trump wants to give Russia control of Kherson, so that they can finish the job.
His administration supports genocide, from Gaza to Ukraine to Sudan to immigrants & trans people in the US
Meanwhile, Trump wants to give Russia control of Kherson, so that they can finish the job.
His administration supports genocide, from Gaza to Ukraine to Sudan to immigrants & trans people in the US
This is Alina and Vladyslav. Russia murdered them yesterday in their sick human safari in Kherson.
She was 34. He was only 6.
She was 34. He was only 6.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Putin is letting his soldiers HUNT Ukrainians in Kherson with drones — a genocidal human safari.
Meanwhile, Trump wants to give Russia control of Kherson, so that they can finish the job.
His administration supports genocide, from Gaza to Ukraine to Sudan to immigrants & trans people in the US
Meanwhile, Trump wants to give Russia control of Kherson, so that they can finish the job.
His administration supports genocide, from Gaza to Ukraine to Sudan to immigrants & trans people in the US
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Lethal virus hits last rare blue macaws in Brazil
Lethal virus hits last rare blue macaws in Brazil wild
The only wild specimens of a rare blue parrot, which were recently returned to their natural habitat, have been diagnosed with an incurable, likely lethal virus, Brazil's government told AFP Thursday.
phys.org
November 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Lethal virus hits last rare blue macaws in Brazil
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Wow. Nice to see Makary regurgitating old lab leak conspiracy theories about HIV. This should serve as a reminder that *every* new pathogen that’s caused an epidemic or pandemic since the age of genetic engineering has spawned conspiracy theories that it was created in and/or leaked from a lab.
While Makary spreads bullshit about the origin of HIV.
(To be clear, this has been thoroughly investigated and fits neither the timing nor the molecular epidemiology of HIV).
(To be clear, this has been thoroughly investigated and fits neither the timing nor the molecular epidemiology of HIV).
November 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Wow. Nice to see Makary regurgitating old lab leak conspiracy theories about HIV. This should serve as a reminder that *every* new pathogen that’s caused an epidemic or pandemic since the age of genetic engineering has spawned conspiracy theories that it was created in and/or leaked from a lab.
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This is Nazism. And the only reason some folks cannot see it is because they, themselves, are also dangerous fascists. This may be the most un-American statement ever uttered by a man currently serving as co-President of the United States. It spits in the face of everything America is.
November 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This is Nazism. And the only reason some folks cannot see it is because they, themselves, are also dangerous fascists. This may be the most un-American statement ever uttered by a man currently serving as co-President of the United States. It spits in the face of everything America is.
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This is absolutely true. Conservatives tend to meet families of people with disabilities where they are at the moment. It allows for their message to be incredibly potent even if private schools often deny education to disabled students or they support Medicaid cuts.
Imani Barabarin has been talking for years about how many disabled folks vote for Republicans because Republicans show up at their events and speak openly about their issues, whereas Democrats rarely do. This is not some new Republican strategy, this is an old strategy. This is maintenance.
Apologies. Didn't alt-text it. Here we go.
November 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This is absolutely true. Conservatives tend to meet families of people with disabilities where they are at the moment. It allows for their message to be incredibly potent even if private schools often deny education to disabled students or they support Medicaid cuts.
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Imani Barabarin has been talking for years about how many disabled folks vote for Republicans because Republicans show up at their events and speak openly about their issues, whereas Democrats rarely do. This is not some new Republican strategy, this is an old strategy. This is maintenance.
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Imani Barabarin has been talking for years about how many disabled folks vote for Republicans because Republicans show up at their events and speak openly about their issues, whereas Democrats rarely do. This is not some new Republican strategy, this is an old strategy. This is maintenance.
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“If vaccines work, why would you need a booster?” he asks as he changes his oil for the third time that year.
November 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“If vaccines work, why would you need a booster?” he asks as he changes his oil for the third time that year.
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While it is likely that Stephen Miller wrote the post for Trump, as many of y’all have noted, that matters less than the fact is went out under the digital imprimatur of the President of the United States.
This is unhinged, unadulterated white nationalism that is so off-the-charts fascist not even David Duke would have said that in public.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
While it is likely that Stephen Miller wrote the post for Trump, as many of y’all have noted, that matters less than the fact is went out under the digital imprimatur of the President of the United States.
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Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
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Back in the old times of his first term in November of 2018 a male reporter defended another male reporter being attacked 👇, but no one has spines anymore. And I’m looking for if it ever happened when Trump attacked female reporters many times in the last decade. 🤔 😒
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Back in the old times of his first term in November of 2018 a male reporter defended another male reporter being attacked 👇, but no one has spines anymore. And I’m looking for if it ever happened when Trump attacked female reporters many times in the last decade. 🤔 😒
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He's always attacking a woman
Would it kill somebody to say “Nancy is not stupid.” It pains me to see the WH press corps just accept the abuse. Sends the wrong image to Americans and the world IMHO.
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 7:37 AM
He's always attacking a woman
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This is an extremely interesting article about the collapse of early farming societies across Europe around ~5000 BC.
We like to think of prehistoric times as being largely peaceful, but it seems early civilisations weren't immune to ritualistic violence & cultural collapse.
We like to think of prehistoric times as being largely peaceful, but it seems early civilisations weren't immune to ritualistic violence & cultural collapse.
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM
This is an extremely interesting article about the collapse of early farming societies across Europe around ~5000 BC.
We like to think of prehistoric times as being largely peaceful, but it seems early civilisations weren't immune to ritualistic violence & cultural collapse.
We like to think of prehistoric times as being largely peaceful, but it seems early civilisations weren't immune to ritualistic violence & cultural collapse.
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This is Bear. He is in charge of supervising Thanksgiving dinner preparation. Appointed himself to the role, but takes it very seriously. 14/10 (TT: emileebellant)
November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is Bear. He is in charge of supervising Thanksgiving dinner preparation. Appointed himself to the role, but takes it very seriously. 14/10 (TT: emileebellant)
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Right.
I see.
And they said disease control was expensive.
How many buildings could we have fixed with this kind of money? Hmmm?
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
I see.
And they said disease control was expensive.
How many buildings could we have fixed with this kind of money? Hmmm?
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
Long COVID takes $1 trillion global economic toll each year, analysis suggests
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Right.
I see.
And they said disease control was expensive.
How many buildings could we have fixed with this kind of money? Hmmm?
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
I see.
And they said disease control was expensive.
How many buildings could we have fixed with this kind of money? Hmmm?
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
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Inspired by your post I figured I'd see what kind of infographic AI might produce for your book, A Course in Behavioral Economics. Buckle up!
November 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Inspired by your post I figured I'd see what kind of infographic AI might produce for your book, A Course in Behavioral Economics. Buckle up!
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@nature.com, you can just choose not to publish this AI slop instead of offending the Autistic community … what does this even mean with the lady’s legs penetrating a platform?
Nothing about it makes sense.
Nothing about it makes sense.
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
@nature.com, you can just choose not to publish this AI slop instead of offending the Autistic community … what does this even mean with the lady’s legs penetrating a platform?
Nothing about it makes sense.
Nothing about it makes sense.
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
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Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Putin's dictatorship has institutionalized the oppression of women not only by decriminalizing domestic violence, but by creating schools to brainwash women into accepting unpaid domestic servitude as their "natural" lot in life. Hence the denigration of paid work.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Real Housewives of Moscow
Russian women were early to feminism. Now, though, their vision of liberation can look strangely like the domestic trap they were supposed to escape.
www.newyorker.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Putin's dictatorship has institutionalized the oppression of women not only by decriminalizing domestic violence, but by creating schools to brainwash women into accepting unpaid domestic servitude as their "natural" lot in life. Hence the denigration of paid work.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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(This is in Springer Nature's Scientific Reports btw)
The ethics and integrity team at SN told me "We can confirm that the query has been received and logged for review in line with COPE guidelines."
I'd say... this should have an expression of concern ASAP, if not outright retraction.
The ethics and integrity team at SN told me "We can confirm that the query has been received and logged for review in line with COPE guidelines."
I'd say... this should have an expression of concern ASAP, if not outright retraction.
November 27, 2025 at 8:32 AM
(This is in Springer Nature's Scientific Reports btw)
The ethics and integrity team at SN told me "We can confirm that the query has been received and logged for review in line with COPE guidelines."
I'd say... this should have an expression of concern ASAP, if not outright retraction.
The ethics and integrity team at SN told me "We can confirm that the query has been received and logged for review in line with COPE guidelines."
I'd say... this should have an expression of concern ASAP, if not outright retraction.
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Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
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The alarming trend I'm seeing in 2025 is that companies are quietly laying off employees and replacing their positions with AI.
This means that even if the economy improves, those jobs are not coming back.
So where will these people work? What will this do to our economy?
This means that even if the economy improves, those jobs are not coming back.
So where will these people work? What will this do to our economy?
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The alarming trend I'm seeing in 2025 is that companies are quietly laying off employees and replacing their positions with AI.
This means that even if the economy improves, those jobs are not coming back.
So where will these people work? What will this do to our economy?
This means that even if the economy improves, those jobs are not coming back.
So where will these people work? What will this do to our economy?
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Jonathan Chait on something I’ve noticed: that when you look for a defense on conservative media of many of the President’s actions… you find… nothing.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Conservative Movement’s Intellectual Collapse
Trump is both a product and a cause of the decline in intellectual standards on the right.
www.theatlantic.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Jonathan Chait on something I’ve noticed: that when you look for a defense on conservative media of many of the President’s actions… you find… nothing.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong
Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated.
www.thenation.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...