Catherine Koebel
@groceriesnotguns.bsky.social
Gun melter, vaccine lover
Immunology PhD
I like plus size eyebrows, glasses and undies
Roanoke, VA
Immunology PhD
I like plus size eyebrows, glasses and undies
Roanoke, VA
Reposted by Catherine Koebel
Global fossil-fuel emissions are likely to hit yet another record high this year, but there are signs that the world is approaching a peak
Read the full story: go.nature.com/3LAtSUd
Read the full story: go.nature.com/3LAtSUd
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Global fossil-fuel emissions are likely to hit yet another record high this year, but there are signs that the world is approaching a peak
Read the full story: go.nature.com/3LAtSUd
Read the full story: go.nature.com/3LAtSUd
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Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
Lectures on avoiding political violence from the movement that has recently whittled the Constitution down to nothing but the 2nd Amendment, ring a bit hollow.
September 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Lectures on avoiding political violence from the movement that has recently whittled the Constitution down to nothing but the 2nd Amendment, ring a bit hollow.
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I got PTSD from this as a journalist and likely again from seeing crime scene and autopsy photos while serving as a juror recently.
You don’t need to see it.
You don’t need to see it.
Folks, as someone who watched an enormous amount of graphic footage in my time as a journalist and developed PTSD because of it, please do not watch the Charlie Kirk footage.
Trust me. Once it's seared into your memory you cannot delete it.
Trust me. Once it's seared into your memory you cannot delete it.
September 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I got PTSD from this as a journalist and likely again from seeing crime scene and autopsy photos while serving as a juror recently.
You don’t need to see it.
You don’t need to see it.
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supreme court is going to do everything it can to keep the house in republican hands
August 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
supreme court is going to do everything it can to keep the house in republican hands
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The head of FEMA's search and rescue unit has resigned, and said the Trump administration was causing "chaos" at the agency and hindered the Texas response.
FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Chief Resigns, Citing Agency ‘Chaos’, Colleagues Said
Ken Pagurek had told colleagues the Trump administration was causing ‘chaos’ inside FEMA and creating dangerous delays in disaster response.
trib.al
July 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The head of FEMA's search and rescue unit has resigned, and said the Trump administration was causing "chaos" at the agency and hindered the Texas response.
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The Trump administration just established a precedent that they can pick and choose who leads higher Ed institutions. An authoritarian government deepens its reach into higher education.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The Trump administration just established a precedent that they can pick and choose who leads higher Ed institutions. An authoritarian government deepens its reach into higher education.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
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if ken cuccinelli is appointed president of UVA all hell will break loose here
The most horrific person you can think of (my guess: Ken Cuccinelli) is going to be named as the next president of the University of Virginia, and they will not be prepared for what Charlottesville is like after August 2017. They will not be able to eat in a restaurant or appear in public.
Cville: 3pm today, at the Rotunda. you don’t have to love Jim Ryan, I sure don’t, but Trump’s DOJ forcing his replacement by Youngkin would be an absolute disaster for anyone affiliated with UVA, and honestly for our region at large.
June 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
if ken cuccinelli is appointed president of UVA all hell will break loose here
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We are discovering what happens when a society decides to give the absolute dumbest people imaginable way too much power.
Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
June 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
We are discovering what happens when a society decides to give the absolute dumbest people imaginable way too much power.
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Monstrous:
"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."
"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."
ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing.
A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a ...
www.tpr.org
June 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Monstrous:
"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."
"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."
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thirteen years ago yesterday, there was a rally in this very spot - then president theresa sullivan was reinstated after an attempted ouster
uvamagazine.org/articles/tim...
uvamagazine.org/articles/tim...
Timeline: Teresa Sullivan’s Resignation and Reinstatement
A comprehensive timeline of the events of June 2012 at UVA.
uvamagazine.org
June 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
thirteen years ago yesterday, there was a rally in this very spot - then president theresa sullivan was reinstated after an attempted ouster
uvamagazine.org/articles/tim...
uvamagazine.org/articles/tim...
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Friend just texted me that a speaker at the Rotunda rally said we are 13 years and like 1 or 2 days off from when they tried to coup Tereasa Sullivan. These folks stay trying to do foolishness in June!
June 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Friend just texted me that a speaker at the Rotunda rally said we are 13 years and like 1 or 2 days off from when they tried to coup Tereasa Sullivan. These folks stay trying to do foolishness in June!
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"while the analysis focused on the frequency of occurrences, not the tone, in recent weeks some news outlets have made their support for Cuomo more explicit."
I wrote a thing about the news coverage of the mayoral election and how it was biased towards Cuomo with.... data
Read and share!!!
Read and share!!!
Cuckoo for Cuomo: Ex-Governor’s Name Dominated Coverage of NYC Mayoral Race
A FAIR analysis of New York mayoral primary coverage found that Andrew Cuomo’s name appeared in headlines seven times more often than Zohran Mamdani's.
fair.org
June 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
"while the analysis focused on the frequency of occurrences, not the tone, in recent weeks some news outlets have made their support for Cuomo more explicit."
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The other reality is that you have to be organized to take what you want. Something that we are not doing for the most part.
June 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The other reality is that you have to be organized to take what you want. Something that we are not doing for the most part.
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move away from punditry. join with your neighbors and organize.
June 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
move away from punditry. join with your neighbors and organize.
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When we ignore that or pretend we have to restore a time in the past when "rule of law" existed (it never did), we cede ground to the other side and constrain our future to following law, no matter how bad it becomes (thanks in large part to this Court). /end
June 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
When we ignore that or pretend we have to restore a time in the past when "rule of law" existed (it never did), we cede ground to the other side and constrain our future to following law, no matter how bad it becomes (thanks in large part to this Court). /end
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And to get on my endless hobby horse (that almost no one else agrees with), talking about "rule of law" as if it's the guiding star we all have to agree with ignores that law is often (usually) quite unjust and that power is what often matters more. /3
June 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
And to get on my endless hobby horse (that almost no one else agrees with), talking about "rule of law" as if it's the guiding star we all have to agree with ignores that law is often (usually) quite unjust and that power is what often matters more. /3
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With what the Supreme Court and the Trump Administration are doing to "law" right now, I think we on the left, particularly law professors, need to be really wary about propping up law as the solution to what's going on. /1
June 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
With what the Supreme Court and the Trump Administration are doing to "law" right now, I think we on the left, particularly law professors, need to be really wary about propping up law as the solution to what's going on. /1
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Whatever her motivations, Jane Qiu is not representing the evidence accurately. She is not trustworthy. Whether intentional or useful idiocy, she is spreading the same lies. And that does a hell of a lot more to destroy trust in science than publishing in Science ever could.
June 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Whatever her motivations, Jane Qiu is not representing the evidence accurately. She is not trustworthy. Whether intentional or useful idiocy, she is spreading the same lies. And that does a hell of a lot more to destroy trust in science than publishing in Science ever could.
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democrats started being more progressive on the gun issue, and families turned out to vote for them. democrats stopped cowering so much on war and terror and millions voted for them in 2006/8. its good politics to fight for moral shit.
June 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
democrats started being more progressive on the gun issue, and families turned out to vote for them. democrats stopped cowering so much on war and terror and millions voted for them in 2006/8. its good politics to fight for moral shit.
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Thinking, as I do often, about how DoorDash has a poorly flagged LLM functionality that writes purely speculative item descriptions, creating potentially false - and potentially deadly - information for people with allergies. More apps have health risks downstream of AI functionality than you think.
One of the ways in which generative AI will kill people is that yesterday, when the wet bulb temperature was nearing 119F, the conversational agent built into the weather app said it was "not a bad day for a bike ride as long as there's some shade". No. No it's not.
June 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Thinking, as I do often, about how DoorDash has a poorly flagged LLM functionality that writes purely speculative item descriptions, creating potentially false - and potentially deadly - information for people with allergies. More apps have health risks downstream of AI functionality than you think.
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The fact that Chait will write a whole piece about abundance as the future of the Democratic Party and then participate in a smear campaign against the front running abundance-aligned candidate for NYC mayor says a lot about his actual priorities.
June 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The fact that Chait will write a whole piece about abundance as the future of the Democratic Party and then participate in a smear campaign against the front running abundance-aligned candidate for NYC mayor says a lot about his actual priorities.
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I'm still not over yesterday's obscene SCOTUS decision that our government can deport people to prisons in countries they're not from. How is anyone walking around going about their day?
June 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I'm still not over yesterday's obscene SCOTUS decision that our government can deport people to prisons in countries they're not from. How is anyone walking around going about their day?