@rchaels.bsky.social
I am doing just a bit of reminiscing on the internet tonight (should be writing, oh well) and I still cannot let go of the fact that I think someone used my blog title for a book title. It's silly and meaningless...but I had this blog since 2011. lab-girl-writes.blogspot.com/p/about.html
About
Hey y'all, I'm Rachael. I'm a lab girl. I've been a technician for four years in a psychiatric genetics lab. As of the summer of 2013, I...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I am doing just a bit of reminiscing on the internet tonight (should be writing, oh well) and I still cannot let go of the fact that I think someone used my blog title for a book title. It's silly and meaningless...but I had this blog since 2011. lab-girl-writes.blogspot.com/p/about.html
Y'all I just have to say I don't think there's a better feeling than PREORDERING A FRIEND'S NOVEL. I hope I get to do this again and again and again and again forever and ever and ever for ALL MY FRIENDS
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796407...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796407...
Mercy Hill by Hannah Thurman: 9780385551823 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A debut family novel about four sisters growing up on the campus of the underfunded state mental hospital where their strong-willed mother serves as head of psychiatry. A richly moving story of sister...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Y'all I just have to say I don't think there's a better feeling than PREORDERING A FRIEND'S NOVEL. I hope I get to do this again and again and again and again forever and ever and ever for ALL MY FRIENDS
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796407...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796407...
Please next time I complain about my job someone remind me that I can walk to Wilson Library, make a special collections request, and revisit a poem that I haven’t thought of in years, and couldn’t find anywhere else.
October 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Please next time I complain about my job someone remind me that I can walk to Wilson Library, make a special collections request, and revisit a poem that I haven’t thought of in years, and couldn’t find anywhere else.
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Dear all, A scientist from UNC Chapel Hill, Paul Maddox, is running for congress in NC for a seat currently held by a republican. If you care about science (and democracy) please consider donating to his campaign #Standupforscience secure.actblue.com/donate/paul-...
Donate to Paul Maddox for Congress in NC 11
Paul is running for Congress because there’s a sickness in Washington, and no one is working to cure it.
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October 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Dear all, A scientist from UNC Chapel Hill, Paul Maddox, is running for congress in NC for a seat currently held by a republican. If you care about science (and democracy) please consider donating to his campaign #Standupforscience secure.actblue.com/donate/paul-...
I need to drop everything and write a short story about a family that gives up their phones and then develops superpowers. My family is doing a no-screens challenge, and my husband is talking about renovating the bathroom and the teen took a book to school. WHO ARE WE?
October 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I need to drop everything and write a short story about a family that gives up their phones and then develops superpowers. My family is doing a no-screens challenge, and my husband is talking about renovating the bathroom and the teen took a book to school. WHO ARE WE?
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I heard "there's artificial intelligence, and there's actual intelligence" and almost choked to death on this cough drop
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I heard "there's artificial intelligence, and there's actual intelligence" and almost choked to death on this cough drop
Godspeed to all the kids with AP Bio homework requiring them to use blast who don’t have a mom with a PhD in genetics to help them.
Related, how is blast still just as slow as it was 10 years ago
Related, how is blast still just as slow as it was 10 years ago
September 24, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Godspeed to all the kids with AP Bio homework requiring them to use blast who don’t have a mom with a PhD in genetics to help them.
Related, how is blast still just as slow as it was 10 years ago
Related, how is blast still just as slow as it was 10 years ago
has anyone correctly compiled a manuscript from scrivener the first time because if so I don't believe you
September 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
has anyone correctly compiled a manuscript from scrivener the first time because if so I don't believe you
Me driving through campus this morning: aww it’s moving day how sweet.
Me 10 minutes later realizing I work next to a dorm and everyone is parking in my lot: ohhhhh not cute.
Me 10 minutes later realizing I work next to a dorm and everyone is parking in my lot: ohhhhh not cute.
August 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Me driving through campus this morning: aww it’s moving day how sweet.
Me 10 minutes later realizing I work next to a dorm and everyone is parking in my lot: ohhhhh not cute.
Me 10 minutes later realizing I work next to a dorm and everyone is parking in my lot: ohhhhh not cute.
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William Carlos Williams if he was in an open marriage:
July 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
William Carlos Williams if he was in an open marriage:
This story has everything! Colorful characters (a woman who lived in a child's playhouse paying rent to the 8yo who owned it), a who's who of Chapel Hill writers and foodies, GHOSTS? A PODCAST?? What more could you even ask for?
I fell down a bit of a hole, writing this feature and listening to Elizabeth Woodman's fascinating podcast on Rachel Crook – a story about outsiders, murder, small towns and legendary spaces, debts to the dead. (or something along those lines). for @indyweek.bsky.social
A New Podcast Revisits an Old Local Mystery: Who Killed Rachel Crook?
Elizabeth Woodman's gripping podcast looks back at the 1951 cold case that's haunted Chapel Hill for decades.
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July 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This story has everything! Colorful characters (a woman who lived in a child's playhouse paying rent to the 8yo who owned it), a who's who of Chapel Hill writers and foodies, GHOSTS? A PODCAST?? What more could you even ask for?
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Help us record firefly flashes! 👇🙏
Do you have fireflies in your backyard? Biologist @oritpeleg.bsky.social is collecting data! #emergence docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Help us Record Firefly Flashes ✨
Firefly flashes are amazing ❤️ During mating season, fireflies gather in groups and flash their species-specific flash pattern. To better understand these communication signals, we developed a method ...
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June 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Help us record firefly flashes! 👇🙏
Kind of like Tom Holland's lip sync battle, I will always repost a picture of my dad with his funny little paperclips.
FEATURED MBoC ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Kerry Bloom, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"MBoC is run by your peers. We are practicing scientists and as Editors, share the philosophy that our job is to help make the paper the best it can be."
www.molbiolcell.org/editorial-bo... #ASCB #CellBiology
"MBoC is run by your peers. We are practicing scientists and as Editors, share the philosophy that our job is to help make the paper the best it can be."
www.molbiolcell.org/editorial-bo... #ASCB #CellBiology
June 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Kind of like Tom Holland's lip sync battle, I will always repost a picture of my dad with his funny little paperclips.
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Hooooly shit.
We've created a fake bullshit artist.
No wonder human bullshit artists love it.
We've created a fake bullshit artist.
No wonder human bullshit artists love it.
June 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Hooooly shit.
We've created a fake bullshit artist.
No wonder human bullshit artists love it.
We've created a fake bullshit artist.
No wonder human bullshit artists love it.
You can listen to a story that Brandon tells!!
Wanna know what Story Connection is all about? Give our podcast a listen! open.substack.com/pub/writingi...
Story Connection, Episode 4: I Laughed, I Cried
Listen now | Story Connection returns to the Carrboro ArtsCenter tomorrow night!
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May 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
You can listen to a story that Brandon tells!!
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There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
A must read
May 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM
There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
A little reader confession: I don't read anything in italics in a book. Epigraphs, poems, little italicized blurbs before new chapters, they will not be read by me. I've never read the Lord of the Rings but if I did, would not be reading all those songs!
May 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
A little reader confession: I don't read anything in italics in a book. Epigraphs, poems, little italicized blurbs before new chapters, they will not be read by me. I've never read the Lord of the Rings but if I did, would not be reading all those songs!
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Dorks, it’s time to throw sand in the gears.
They want us to stop teaching, we will teach in the streets.
They want us to stop our research, we will use archival data.
They want to send us back to the dark ages, we will be a light.
We will not lay down and take this.
They want us to stop teaching, we will teach in the streets.
They want us to stop our research, we will use archival data.
They want to send us back to the dark ages, we will be a light.
We will not lay down and take this.
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
scim.ag
May 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Dorks, it’s time to throw sand in the gears.
They want us to stop teaching, we will teach in the streets.
They want us to stop our research, we will use archival data.
They want to send us back to the dark ages, we will be a light.
We will not lay down and take this.
They want us to stop teaching, we will teach in the streets.
They want us to stop our research, we will use archival data.
They want to send us back to the dark ages, we will be a light.
We will not lay down and take this.
I want them to bring back blue books because these were my favorite things to write in while I was in college. Bring these back and you will know where to find me during exam time!
Humanities professors faces when I show them this hot new piece of cutting edge anti cheating tech:
May 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I want them to bring back blue books because these were my favorite things to write in while I was in college. Bring these back and you will know where to find me during exam time!
The way I SCREAMED A SCREAM upon reading scanned lines of prose. This made my poet-heart so happy, and is also proof that time heals all wounds (thousands of lines of AP Latin scansion homework.) I read this short story then listened to the podcast and then read the story out loud to myself again.
New podcast episode is out!
If you've always wanted to better understand how rhythm, melody, and sound can play a pivotal role in making your writing sing, give this one a listen!
writingisjoy.substack.com/p/season-3-e...
If you've always wanted to better understand how rhythm, melody, and sound can play a pivotal role in making your writing sing, give this one a listen!
writingisjoy.substack.com/p/season-3-e...
Season 3, Episode 3: Something Amazing
Searching for the poetry in Elizabeth McCracken's haunted short story
writingisjoy.substack.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The way I SCREAMED A SCREAM upon reading scanned lines of prose. This made my poet-heart so happy, and is also proof that time heals all wounds (thousands of lines of AP Latin scansion homework.) I read this short story then listened to the podcast and then read the story out loud to myself again.
Sometimes my husband and I try to out 90s each other, and this morning I could only name 3/5 of the Space Jam basketball players but I at least knew how tall Muggsy Bogues is. (Thanks 6th grade health class??)
April 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Sometimes my husband and I try to out 90s each other, and this morning I could only name 3/5 of the Space Jam basketball players but I at least knew how tall Muggsy Bogues is. (Thanks 6th grade health class??)
I had a creative writing professor in college who when he found out I had a kid gave me some wonderful advice about waking up early in the morning to write, which I have spent 17 years ignoring, and now I have realized that he was probably right and I need to become a morning person.
April 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I had a creative writing professor in college who when he found out I had a kid gave me some wonderful advice about waking up early in the morning to write, which I have spent 17 years ignoring, and now I have realized that he was probably right and I need to become a morning person.
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You in the Triangle area and thinking about standing up for science? Come to my beloved 2nd workplace and make a sign 😊🍻 supplies provided!
You can leave a sign w me and i can bring it up to DC!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
You can leave a sign w me and i can bring it up to DC!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
You in the Triangle area and thinking about standing up for science? Come to my beloved 2nd workplace and make a sign 😊🍻 supplies provided!
You can leave a sign w me and i can bring it up to DC!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
You can leave a sign w me and i can bring it up to DC!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Stay in school, kids!
Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now
February 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Stay in school, kids!
What a time to be a data archivist
February 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
What a time to be a data archivist