Helen M Belalcazar
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Helen M Belalcazar
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Biologist, Aesthete.
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Metaphor alert
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.

A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Sharing this not because I need support (I’m fine), but because we all need to be aware of how bad things are getting, especially for people who are foreign, “look foreign,” and/or have an accent, even in very progressive, very blue places. 🧵
June 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Simulated lab accidents train students how to respond to real emergencies

https://go.nature.com/4mTVQbE
Want to enhance lab safety? Try a little role playing first
Simulated lab accidents train students how to respond to real emergencies.
go.nature.com
June 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM