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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 2d

The AAUP is doing a skills training for campus organizing. Is your school participating?

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AAUP Organize Every Campus: Core Skills Training (Oct 2025 Registration Form)

Chapters are encouraged to send at least five people to the training. Please choose one person to serve as a coordinator for your chapter. *Only the coordinator should complete this registration* If...

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Chiasm @chiasm.bsky.social · 2d

My mom used to say we came from a long line of women who pulled the plow-- I know she was saying that I could ignore the "delicate flower" role model. 💪

Given our Swiss side was middle class back to the 1300's, though, in retrospect I think she *might* have been overstating it. 😆

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Chiasm @chiasm.bsky.social · 3d

I was beginning to think a few years ago that I was getting too old and rickety to be assembling flat pack furniture -- my knees would complain or my back would go out from the up/down.

However, that is no longer true!! That time may come; but it is not today.

Yay for new kitchen furniture!! 😁💪🪛

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Chiasm @chiasm.bsky.social · 4d

oh yeah, I guess I've seen that in the newer shows! The older shows are still the older method. I hadn't noticed a new font but I did notice the signs interpretation was missing here and there, and the subtitle placement sometimes was hard to read against the background.

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Chiasm @chiasm.bsky.social · 4d

Their subtitles have gotten worse? Huh. I hadn't noticed. What was going wrong?

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Jessica Turner @jessicaturnerphd.bsky.social · 6d

We got it!! "In the ARTEMIS project, we will address a critical clinical challenge - to develop novel strategies to identify who is at risk for making a suicide attempt, with enough time to potentially enact a life-saving intervention." (quoting my MPI)

#WomenInSTEM

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NIH awards $19.5 million to Ohio State

Research shows that nearly half of individuals who die by suicide had visited a health care provider in the weeks prior to their death. Yet, existing suicide screening approaches in health care settin...

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Chiasm @chiasm.bsky.social · 8d

I was thinking that when the goal is not to make lots of money but to shove information into people's brains, so they can think about neuroscience -- admittedly I'm not doing it on a large scale, but from an artisanal point of view, it's easy to see progress every week.

Which is pretty satisfying.

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Chiasm @chiasm.bsky.social · 8d

Explaining to one lab member about the brain as a prediction engine; to a second about artifacts in T1 images; and a third about why aging is an important covariate in schizophrenia analyses; plus really having to THINK about experimental design, today--

I love it, but I'm tuckered. 😂

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Martijon @martijon.bsky.social · 9d

Good morning. Another gorgeous early Autumn day. Empathy is not a defect.
“The fact is, when we support others, we ourselves are actually being supported; when we help others, we ourselves are actually being helped. This is the worldview of “dependent origination” taught in Buddhism.” Daisaku Ikeda

Maple tree with orange leaves beside a small pond. Puffy white clouds in blue sky.

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Chiasm @chiasm.bsky.social · 10d

Binge watching Ouran Host Club this weekend because it was That Sort of Week. #anime

I watched it 10 years ago and it is just as silly and sweet as I remembered. ❤️
I did like this, "If you want to please girls, be a host. If you want to please THE girl, be a man." (I.e., authentic, not a trope) 😀

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 10d

Californians, ready set go:

South Bay Queer Solidarity @sbqsolidarity.bsky.social · 12d

A huge win for trans people in California: the state legislature passed five bills protecting our rights!

Now it's time to call on Governor Gavin Newsom to sign them. Contact him before October 12th: transfamilysos.org/action-neede...

#TransRights #TransYouth #TransCalifornia

Action Needed: Urge Governor Newsom to Sign Five Critical Trans Rights Bills

TransFamily Support Services is proud to co-sponsor five critical trans rights bills that have officially passed the California Legislature. This is a major victory—one made possible through a powerfu...

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 12d

On October 7th, learn how to communicate genetics topics to classrooms and informal settings with with @robomalley.bsky.social l from @pged.bsky.social!

This is for teachers and all other kinds of educators.

RSVP for free here: givebutter.com/8TVNiA

DNA floats in the background of a texty event flyer that says "Personal genetics engagement in classrooms and communities, Learn about genetic advances and about how to bring conversations about ethical, legal, and social dimensions of genetics into classrooms and informal science learning. Tuesday OCtober 7, 2025, 12pm EDT. broght to you by Skype a scientist and the personal genetics education and dialogue program. RSVP at linktr.ee/skypeascientist

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Ryan Warner @ryanhasaquestion.bsky.social · 12d

Colorado's Wild Horse Inmate Program (WHIP) will end after 30 years, as feds cut funding. Inmates tamed wild horses using an approach approved by animal scientist Temple Grandin.

100 animals to be relocated, 5 state employees reassigned. Reporting shows some of these horses went to border patrol.

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Chiasm @chiasm.bsky.social · 13d

Interesting times with an aging dad... I may be offline a good bit as I process things.

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Chiasm @chiasm.bsky.social · 16d

We are now in the phase of project management where most of my time is spent reading emails, acting on the ones I need to and snoozing the rest until a later day in the week... 😜

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18d

One of my favorite moments in the history of free speech: Larry Flynt publishing a satirical Campari ad featuring Jerry Falwell Sr. as an incestuous drunk who first had sex with his mother in an outhouse. Falwell sued. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court found that satire is protected speech.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 18d

"Homan indicated he would facilitate securing contracts for them in exchange for money once he was in office...

"On Sept. 20, 2024, with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills..."

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Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 18d

They should make an international franchise out of Murder She Wrote called Murder She Translated, where Jessica Fletcher's various translators in different countries also happen to solve crimes in their spare time

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21d

2022 — a confession:

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 20d

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions

Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue)

West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)

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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 20d

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Chiasm @chiasm.bsky.social · 20d

It seems like none of your moderators are accepting new people since some time in 2024--is this still a list that is open to new scientists?

Chiasm @chiasm.bsky.social · 20d

I did not know McGill University had this resource! Spread it around--solid science and counter-misinformation source. #science

www.mcgill.ca/oss/

Office for Science and Society

Separating Sense from Nonsense

www.mcgill.ca

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Chiasm @chiasm.bsky.social · 21d

Perfect. No notes. ❤️

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Chiasm @chiasm.bsky.social · 21d

Y'know, this is probably one of the best descriptions I've seen for why to keep going. ❤️

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 21d

I am coming around to the view that at least some of the work at this point is to find ways to create (however imperfectly) a microcosm of our vision for the future in our everyday lives.

Which is a big transition for me as someone who long held contempt for what I saw as lifestyle activism

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