Alex Keeley
@alexkeeley.net
BMB Graduate student @ UCSD
At my best I am a student, a scientist, and a citizen.
@chemonstrating.com
At my best I am a student, a scientist, and a citizen.
@chemonstrating.com
Just heard a pet insurance ad use the line “your pet is your therapist”… I hope they know a therapy dog is VERY DIFFERENT than a dog who is a therapist
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Just heard a pet insurance ad use the line “your pet is your therapist”… I hope they know a therapy dog is VERY DIFFERENT than a dog who is a therapist
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I would rather have a world where we all trust each other and accept that a few people will take advantage of it than a world where folks have to perform disability constantly in order to get the help they need. Let kids have an extra 30 minutes on the test, jesus fucking christ
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I would rather have a world where we all trust each other and accept that a few people will take advantage of it than a world where folks have to perform disability constantly in order to get the help they need. Let kids have an extra 30 minutes on the test, jesus fucking christ
Almost every time I wonder aloud why some terrible staircase or path was built on the UCSD campus (primarily constructed in the early-mid 60s), I’m informed I’m looking at anti-protest architecture. Sometimes things work poorly because they’re meant to.
December 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Almost every time I wonder aloud why some terrible staircase or path was built on the UCSD campus (primarily constructed in the early-mid 60s), I’m informed I’m looking at anti-protest architecture. Sometimes things work poorly because they’re meant to.
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Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
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Did you just get THAT misleading text from the Republicans?
If you believe that out of state billionaires have no place in Missouri politics, ignore them and sign a petition to defend your constitutional rights as soon as you can! Who listens to random texts anyways?
If you believe that out of state billionaires have no place in Missouri politics, ignore them and sign a petition to defend your constitutional rights as soon as you can! Who listens to random texts anyways?
November 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Did you just get THAT misleading text from the Republicans?
If you believe that out of state billionaires have no place in Missouri politics, ignore them and sign a petition to defend your constitutional rights as soon as you can! Who listens to random texts anyways?
If you believe that out of state billionaires have no place in Missouri politics, ignore them and sign a petition to defend your constitutional rights as soon as you can! Who listens to random texts anyways?
Had the amazing opportunity tonight to meet a personal hero, the inimitable @moiradonegan.bsky.social , who it turns out is even cooler in person!! Thanks for a great show and for being so kind!
November 21, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Had the amazing opportunity tonight to meet a personal hero, the inimitable @moiradonegan.bsky.social , who it turns out is even cooler in person!! Thanks for a great show and for being so kind!
Ah yes; everyone’s favorite science communicator… Tom Yum @tomlumperson.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Ah yes; everyone’s favorite science communicator… Tom Yum @tomlumperson.bsky.social
I love discovering a Wikipedia page which was clearly written with love.
November 5, 2025 at 6:42 AM
I love discovering a Wikipedia page which was clearly written with love.
A little worrying to see newsrooms (ie NPR today) conceding Charlie Kirk’s murder as an act of “left wing political violence” in the face of the admin repeatedly claiming that, when the evidence we have is at best indicative of an anti-right wing bent, which is not actually the same.
October 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
A little worrying to see newsrooms (ie NPR today) conceding Charlie Kirk’s murder as an act of “left wing political violence” in the face of the admin repeatedly claiming that, when the evidence we have is at best indicative of an anti-right wing bent, which is not actually the same.
@xylafoxlin.bsky.social so many congratulations on getting your medical and for all your hard work helping so many others do the same in an unfair system— we’ve all been rooting for you!
October 28, 2025 at 12:37 AM
@xylafoxlin.bsky.social so many congratulations on getting your medical and for all your hard work helping so many others do the same in an unfair system— we’ve all been rooting for you!
The US government suing for the right to racially profile brown folks, winning the court case, and then self righteously denying any racial profiling in ICE operations is preposterous. They’re asking you to deny the evidence of your own eyes.
October 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The US government suing for the right to racially profile brown folks, winning the court case, and then self righteously denying any racial profiling in ICE operations is preposterous. They’re asking you to deny the evidence of your own eyes.
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There are no circumstances where human beings should be without food. There are no qualifications that make someone undeserving of access to food. If you are a human being, you should get food. I don’t care about ability, job status, legal status, or anything else. If people are hungry, feed them.
October 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
There are no circumstances where human beings should be without food. There are no qualifications that make someone undeserving of access to food. If you are a human being, you should get food. I don’t care about ability, job status, legal status, or anything else. If people are hungry, feed them.
Is there any evidence that candidates blindly chasing poll numbers (and then letting that guide their eventual policies) actually wins elections? It's one thing if it's a necessary evil, but I'm thoroughly unconvinced that things like "don't talk about x because it isn't polling high" are even real.
October 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Is there any evidence that candidates blindly chasing poll numbers (and then letting that guide their eventual policies) actually wins elections? It's one thing if it's a necessary evil, but I'm thoroughly unconvinced that things like "don't talk about x because it isn't polling high" are even real.
This @motherjones.com story and specifically this plot that sums it up is... pretty stunning. Sevenfold spending increase by ICE on small arms this year. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
October 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This @motherjones.com story and specifically this plot that sums it up is... pretty stunning. Sevenfold spending increase by ICE on small arms this year. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
@tpwky.bsky.social hi friends, love the pod! No idea how much control you have over this side of things but it is a little bit jarring to keep smash cutting from firsthand accounts of the horrors of famine to cheery LEGO ads about spaceships… maybe a gentler transition or different ad order?
October 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
@tpwky.bsky.social hi friends, love the pod! No idea how much control you have over this side of things but it is a little bit jarring to keep smash cutting from firsthand accounts of the horrors of famine to cheery LEGO ads about spaceships… maybe a gentler transition or different ad order?
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Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is thus far very very good… His politics, but also his radio presence. What a pro.
October 17, 2025 at 1:37 AM
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is thus far very very good… His politics, but also his radio presence. What a pro.
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I really think we need to reconceptualize this shutdown as the last stand for the rule of law and Art I. Bring it to default if that’s what it takes. If Congress can’t assert the power of the purse, we are in “move to Portugal” territory of screwed.
This cannot just be about healthcare. The existing constitutional system hangs in the balance. The rule of law is now baked into this shutdown in a huge way.
President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.
October 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I really think we need to reconceptualize this shutdown as the last stand for the rule of law and Art I. Bring it to default if that’s what it takes. If Congress can’t assert the power of the purse, we are in “move to Portugal” territory of screwed.
Would love not to hear @nytimes.com calling Donald Trump a ‘genius’ for shutting down USAID. He didn’t do it because he’s some visionary who can see the whole chess board, he did it because he and his advisors hate what it stood for and he hates challenges to his authority. Simple as that.
October 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Would love not to hear @nytimes.com calling Donald Trump a ‘genius’ for shutting down USAID. He didn’t do it because he’s some visionary who can see the whole chess board, he did it because he and his advisors hate what it stood for and he hates challenges to his authority. Simple as that.
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that we have built an alternate media ecosystem in which every American city is an apocalyptic hellhole - completely unmoored from reality - and the political system has collapsed to the point that the president can use this fabrication to send troops against his own citizens is a staggering failure
Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland
September 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
that we have built an alternate media ecosystem in which every American city is an apocalyptic hellhole - completely unmoored from reality - and the political system has collapsed to the point that the president can use this fabrication to send troops against his own citizens is a staggering failure
As a longtime NPR listener it’s been tough the last ~6 months not to feel like they’ve been drifting further right— what I think is actually happening is that as authoritarianism rises, they are failing to meet the moment at the same speed that it’s happening. Not that they aren’t trying:
September 4, 2025 at 6:10 AM
As a longtime NPR listener it’s been tough the last ~6 months not to feel like they’ve been drifting further right— what I think is actually happening is that as authoritarianism rises, they are failing to meet the moment at the same speed that it’s happening. Not that they aren’t trying:
I want to put out there some Goodreads shelves I've taken the time to curate of books which I've read and which I strongly recommend! A book's absence isn't, by the way, intended to convey any specific meaning. Read on for categories:
August 28, 2025 at 5:12 AM
I want to put out there some Goodreads shelves I've taken the time to curate of books which I've read and which I strongly recommend! A book's absence isn't, by the way, intended to convey any specific meaning. Read on for categories:
@lutimestwo.bsky.social ’s Why Fish Don’t Exist is a triumph of compassionate science journalism, as well as a great examination of the complicated life of David Star Jordan.
August 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
@lutimestwo.bsky.social ’s Why Fish Don’t Exist is a triumph of compassionate science journalism, as well as a great examination of the complicated life of David Star Jordan.
Big shout out to @llepodcast.bsky.social for inspiring my first tattoo! Best piece of LLE merch I could’ve asked for
Thanks for making such a great piece of science communication <3 @ellahubber.bsky.social @tomlumperson.bsky.social @carolinethebug.bsky.social
Thanks for making such a great piece of science communication <3 @ellahubber.bsky.social @tomlumperson.bsky.social @carolinethebug.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Big shout out to @llepodcast.bsky.social for inspiring my first tattoo! Best piece of LLE merch I could’ve asked for
Thanks for making such a great piece of science communication <3 @ellahubber.bsky.social @tomlumperson.bsky.social @carolinethebug.bsky.social
Thanks for making such a great piece of science communication <3 @ellahubber.bsky.social @tomlumperson.bsky.social @carolinethebug.bsky.social
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I still can’t believe that all NIH grants to my colleagues at Harvard and Harvard Medical School have been nullified. And that, as a nation, we’re somehow okay with this illegal, arbitrary, and petty act. Just think of the consequences: scientists, students, and patients will all suffer.
July 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I still can’t believe that all NIH grants to my colleagues at Harvard and Harvard Medical School have been nullified. And that, as a nation, we’re somehow okay with this illegal, arbitrary, and petty act. Just think of the consequences: scientists, students, and patients will all suffer.