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Jessie Slater PhD

@subbasegirl.bsky.social

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Archaeologist straddling great divide between arts/science, UK/US, sanity/madness. Herding researchers, data, & integrity @science.org. Have own opinions, especially about fútbol. she/her ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3930-9190/

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Jessie Slater PhD @subbasegirl.bsky.social · Jan 20

I'm no longer confused by either and I am so outraged that we have regressed to a place where women have even less bodily autonomy. Where coat hangers will once again become more than a symbol. Where angry white men standing on the sidelines make decisions for us all.

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 8h

The key is not to expand the space available to cars—that produces sprawl and unwalkable, unlivable cities.

When you restrict the car space, and prioritize space for more efficient modes—that’s when you discover you have space left over for living.

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Jessie Slater PhD @subbasegirl.bsky.social · 8h

"The photo shows how resilient these animals are… that they change their habitat to survive," says Van Malderen. "These lions are tough. Life is about survival and everything is a struggle." 🌿
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'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach

In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast and are now thriving as the world's only maritime lions.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 13h

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

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Jessie Slater PhD @subbasegirl.bsky.social · 1d

TFW you've got a ten day old and shingles. 😬

a woman wearing glasses is holding a purse and says `` let 's do this '' .

Alt: a woman wearing glasses is holding a purse and says `` let 's do this '' .

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 1d

A “hate America rally,” hm? (*reaches for sign to tap*)

A photo of a sign held at a 2020 demonstration. The sign reads:

“racism is so American that when you protest it, people think you are protesting America”

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The Life of Sharks 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelifeofsharks.com · 1d

World Mental Health Day.

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Yorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshiredales.org.uk · 1d

On World Mental Health Day remember that it's ok not to be ok. It’s also ok to talk about it and ask for help. And remember that spending some time in nature can benefit your mental health 👇

yorkshiredales.org.uk/healing-with...

📸 Wendy McDonnell #WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD25 #MentalHealth

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 3d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 9d

This is key to understanding the FedSoc Supreme Court: the facts do not matter. They will invent their own reality and substitute it for the reality we're actually living in.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 9d

Kavanaugh recently suggested immigration stops are no big deal if you're a legal resident bc ICE just promptly releases you

That is not, in fact, what ICE does

He invents a fiction bc the reality of the policies he supports is too disturbing for him to imagine

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

Brett Kavanaugh’s Racial Profiling Opinion Is Looking Sillier By the Day

Kavanaugh said that immigration agents “promptly” release people after determining that they are legal U.S. residents. They don’t.

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 4d

Did a car write this

CNN @cnn.com · 5d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · 4d

Quantum mechanics of a macroscopic variable, published by today’s laureates in @science.org in 1988. In addition to the science, it’s remarkably lucid writing

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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ARE MACROSCOPIC DEGREES OF FREEDOM GOVERNED BY quantum mechanics? Our everyday experience tells us that a classical description appears to be entirely adequate. The trajectory of the center of mass of a billiard ball is predicted wonderfully well by classical mechanics. Even the Brownian motion
of a tiny speck of dust in a drop of water is a purely classical phenomenon. Until recently, quantum mechanics manifested itself at the macroscopic level only through such collective phenomena as
superconductivity, flux quantization, or the Josephson effect. However, these "macroscopic" effects actually arise from the coherent superposition of a large number of microscopic variables each
governed by quantum mechanics. Thus, for example, the current through a Josephson tunnel junction and the phase difference across it are normally treated as classical variables.

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Jessie Slater PhD @subbasegirl.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations! So well deserved. 🎉

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 6d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Dr Ross Barnett @deepfrieddna.bsky.social · 7d

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The lost Lego still washing up after 28 years

From dragons to wands, pieces lost from a cargo ship in 1997 continue to wash up around the world.

www.bbc.com

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Jessie Slater PhD @subbasegirl.bsky.social · 9d

Percentage of US lawmakers who will do anything about this

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 9d

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society

22% in 2022
47% in 2025

No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports

Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.

www.pewresearch.org

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 10d

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 10d

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 10d

This is about SecDef.

MOTHERBOARD
TECH BY VICE
The Louder the Monkey, the Smaller Its Balls, Study Finds
Howler monkeys can be well-endowed in the voice box or the family jewels, but not both.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 25d

hi, cis folks!

trans people need your help! the FY26 budget gets a vote by 9/30. GOP wants a ban on funds for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. they're trying for other bans, too.

we need you to call senators like chuck who don't get it: reps.fyi

info & script in the🧵⬇️

SEC. 243. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce Executive Order 13988, entitled ‘‘Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation’’, published by the Executive Office of the President on January 25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 7023).

SEC. 244. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for any social, psychological, behavioral,or medical intervention performed for the purposes of in16 tentionally changing the body of an individual (including by disrupting the body’s development, inhibiting its natural functions, or modifying its appearance) to no longer correspond to the individual’s biological sex.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 12d

From my little thread on “able-bodied” and its origins in the labor laws after the Black Death.

This is not the first time such rhetoric has been used to hurt the poor. The weaponization of "able-bodied" hearkens back to ideas older than America. In 1351, after a wave of bubonic plague, England's Parliament enacted the Statute of Labourers. The scourge had brought on a shortage of workers, and the law required that everyone under 68, "able in body," and not wealthy had to work—at no more than pre-plague wages. "This tendency to fantasize-when times change and things aren't what they were-that the poorest and most vulnerable are actually some sort of malicious freeloading class is a very old one," medievalist Elise Wang, an assistant professor at California State University, Fullerton, pointed out on Bluesky.

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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 12d

All are invited to the first in Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series, "Turning Your Dissertation into a Book," Oct 9 at 1pm ET. Organized by our Faculty Outreach Committee with the Rutgers Ctr for Minority Serving Institutions.

Register here: https://buff.ly/UiOAr5M

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 13d

So exhausting..

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 12d

Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education

Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

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Jessie Slater PhD @subbasegirl.bsky.social · 13d

Elderly elf?

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 13d

I don’t want to hear anything else about what we should or shouldn’t be putting in our bodies (Tylenol, artificial sweeteners, sugar, or fat) until something is done about the BULLETS being put into bodies

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