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shademar
@shademar.bsky.social
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Scientist watching the world burn from Tahoe. PhD in neuro stuff from Cal. NIH alum. Retired I guess. Have MS and at war with my brain in general. Weather obsessed. A goblin.

Creators show me your creations! Alt text if possible plz

#WxSky #FireWx
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shademar @shademar.bsky.social · Feb 24
New pfp test. Thanks to @zappit.bsky.social for the design and art.
Large black floofy black cat (Ink) sitting in front of a glass sphere with black swirls in it. RIP buddy
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sculptedreef.com
🌌 The fabulous Meridel ✨
🐙 Clay & Paint

#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates #InsertAnInvert 🦑🐡
A hand sculpted octopus painted in an iridescent nebula theme, in a black, blue, green and purple color palette. Each of the octopus's arms has two neatly sculpted rows of suckers. It's sitting in a shell and holding several crystals, one of which is star shaped.
December 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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joho.bsky.social
So, let's play make-believe and pretend that Prasad has rock solid proof the vaccine killed 10 kids.

He is now sitting on it, refusing to give doctors on the ground the information they need to inform their patients.

The opposite of radical transparency.

endpoints.news/fda-says-it-...
FDA says it won't release details of claimed Covid vaccine deaths in 'near term'
Details from an investigation by CBER Director Vinay Prasad into 10 alleged child deaths related to Covid-19 vaccines won't be coming soon, an FDA spokesperson told Endpoints News on Wednesday.
endpoints.news
December 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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jjrennie.bsky.social
Updated my snowfall data to now use a 15 year climatology from the 2010/11 season to the 2024/25 season, using @noaa.gov data

#snOMG
December 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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lizszabo.bsky.social
If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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louisathelast.bsky.social
Annual reminder that one nice thing you can do as a coworker is, if you have to write peer reviews, just go ahead and ask your peers what accomplishments they’re proud of this year, and what they want to work on next year. It’ll make your job writing them easier, and help their best work be seen
December 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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verdantsculpts.bsky.social
Holiday themed critters are available in the shop now! Now shipping to the EU and UK. Timely holiday shipping available for orders within the US.

🛒 VerdantSculpts.com

#bsnm #queermarket
Two curled up fox figures sit on a bed of snow in front of an iridescent glass pine tree. They are white with blue and silver accents. Gingerbread themed figures of a gryphon and dragon facing each other. They are both loafed up like cats. There are large poinsettias in the background. A photo of two fluffy T.Rex chicks. They are colored like song birds, one cardinal and one blue jay. They sit on a bed of snow with sprigs of pine in the background.
December 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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cengaldre.com
Only 4 Ornaments Left in my shop!

www.galdrecraft.com/category/orn...
Spalted Maple Burl Spindle Ornament Mixed Hardwood Ornament Mixed Hardwood Ornament Maple Ornament with interesting burl inclusion
December 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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theotherhappyplace.bsky.social
I feel like many people don't know how hard it already is to be disabled and try to get these accomodations. And that adding more and more barriers probably isn't an answer to anything.

Trust me, if you go from able bodied to disabled it's a nightmare world.
mtsw.bsky.social mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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angus.bsky.social
I have shifted away from timed tests, but when I gave them, I'd always offer way more time than students would need. If it's a one-hour final, and it's scheduled for a three-hour block, then you don't need to worry about anyone "gaming the system."
garandall.bsky.social Gord Randall @garandall.bsky.social · 1d
As an educator, one of the most significant professional realizations I came to was that all our time limitations on tests are completely arbitrary. Is there a specific reason this is a 90 minute test? Because we think it should take that long or it's most convenient to us?
December 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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emilyesfraser.bsky.social
“Non-disabled people do not expect anger. Loneliness, gratitude, and a quiet resilience are the emotions we are allowed to express. However, as Wong shared, in many tweets, blog posts, essays, and talks, “f— that s—!””
December 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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maryrobinettekowal.com
Here's a list of protagonists or major characters who use wheelchairs.

Novels/novellas
Borderline by Mishell Baker
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
At the Speed of Lies, Cindy Otis
By Winged Chair by Kendra Merritt
The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan
Casting Nasturtiums by Celia Lake
December 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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persuasivescience.bsky.social
I'd like to announce an exciting new postdoc position we just opened up to work on new approaches to indirect land use change assessment and risk mitigation.

Please share through your networks!

its.ucdavis.edu/about-us/car...
December 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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merz.bsky.social
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science.org Science Magazine @science.org · 5h
New research in #ScienceSignaling visualizes how plant cells generate different patterns of calcium ion waves to respond to microbes and wounds, helping to answer how plants generate diverse responses through this elementary signaling mechanism. https://scim.ag/49NigY0
Local traveling waves of cytosolic Ca2+ elicited by defense signals or wounding are propagated by distinct mechanisms in Arabidopsis
Defense-inducing Ca2+ waves in leaf epidermis are stimulus specific.
scim.ag
December 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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carmenloup.com
I also don’t know who needs to hear this but… you can just block people you don’t want to interact with ☺️
December 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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weatherprof.bsky.social
All aboard the Polar Express!! The tropospheric polar vortex will deliver frigid blasts in the eastern/ northern US for the next ~2 weeks and several chances of #snow. #cold #winter #fyp #polarexpress #polarvortex
December 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
This is correct. #ArtAdventCalendar aims to be as inclusive as possible for both artists and art lovers. AltText is foundational and I won't repost work without it (and -many- others here feel the same)

If you forget all the time, go to settings > accessiblity : require AltText before posting.
omegamom.bsky.social OmegaMom (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · 1d
One nice thing with #ArtAdventCalendar is that Jay specifies that he will not repost artwork using the hashtag that doesn’t use alt-text. That’s where I’m at. I have seen some wonderful artworks that don’t have alt-text, & it makes me sad, because I’d like to repost them. (Note: almost everyone… 1/
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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matthewhodson.bsky.social
I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Me on a candlelit vigil for AIDS in 1987. Me last week. Looking pretty healthy for 58 (28 years living with HIV).
December 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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aftynbehn.bsky.social
TODAY IS THE DAY!

GET OUT AND VOTE. Polls are open 7 AM - 7 PM

WE GOT THIS!!!!!!

December 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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laurabundesen.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt
Day 1 - ‘Over the Top’ - beads, embroidery and paint - a rendition of my very own MRI from 2022
A top view down brain completed in varying shades of glass beads with hand embroidery around the outside. Beyond the brain are glued down gemstones creating a frame of sorts and around that are cabochons as neurons in blue and green interconnecting with painted dendrites A print out of my MRI utilized in creating the beaded piece - it sits on the canvas
December 2, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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robinstevenson.bsky.social
My mom made this panel of the AIDS Memorial quilt for nine of her friends who died. Kenny was my beautiful, funny friend and roommate; he died in 1990 and I still think of him so often. Silence = Death.
Panel of AIDS Memorial quilt. It reads Flowers for Gord, Kenny, Tom, Arthur, Larry, Ken, Kevin, Ken and Gary.
December 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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artofcorinne.bsky.social
I'm also on Etsy! There's a 30% off sale there too!
www.etsy.com/shop/MaidenA...
artofcorinne.bsky.social Corinne @artofcorinne.bsky.social · 2d
Cyber Week Sale! Everything is 30% off in my shop! No code needed. Ends this Sunday.

goods.maidenandwhelp.com
A photo of various items: A sticker book, a sticker, a notepad, and an enamel pin, all sitting on a cloth backdrop decorated with silver stars.
December 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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alchemistsstudio.bsky.social
I missed the first day of #ArtAdventCalendar and I can't 'bear' to miss any more!

This piece is called 'Aurora Bear'.

#art #pottery #ceramics #raku #bear #ArtAdventCalendar
A raku fired ceramic bear in greens, reds and metallics as an homage to the aurora. The bear is facing almost head on, with one paw in front of the other. A view of the same raku fired bear, slightly to the side. A view of the bear during the raku firing process.
December 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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jeremycshipp.bsky.social
Hey Bluesky, could you help spread the word about my Patreon? My goal for the day is one new patron.

Patrons help support my art and my existence. You'll receive positive affirmations from Felmer, etiquette advice from Mothman, & other fun posts.

www.patreon.com/jeremycreature
Here's a lovely photo of a plethora of hand-sewn fabric art creatures. There's a watermelon creature with a red face, eight black seed-like eyes, and a wide mouth with five sharp teeth. There's a white ghost trinket bag covered with purple embroidered flowers. She has a gray face, sparkly black eyes and a little frown. There's a strawberry creature with three bulbous green eyes. There's a watermelon ghost, and a black creature with sharp teeth wearing a bulbous eye earring. There's a large purple creature with many yellow eyes and an open mouth, with a little green creature popping her head out. All the creatures are sitting on green fur and there's a galaxy print fabric in the background.
December 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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elkement.art
Day 1 of #ArtAdventCalendar

Translucent Heart, 2025.

3D Lissajous Figures, constructed traditionally from their 2D projections which in turn have been constructed by dividing a circle. #MathArt #SciArt

Graphite pencil construction, colored with watercolor pencils, A4 watercolor paper.
Scan of a geometrical artwork: Construction of 3D Lissajous Figures from the 2D projections, using ruler and compass, following the rules of orthographic projection. Two self-similar Lissajous Figures are connected to form a ribbon. The 3D ribbon is yellow and the 2D projections are green-blue and blue-violet, respectively. By elkement 2025.
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM