Isabel
@isabelott.bsky.social
Evolutionary & population biology of vector-borne viral disease systems. 🦟 genetics PhD student in NC.
Arbovirologist, orthobunyavirus wonk, feral reference librarian, & public health advocate. 80s mosquito. Coaster-sized earrings. (she/her) 🏳️🌈
Arbovirologist, orthobunyavirus wonk, feral reference librarian, & public health advocate. 80s mosquito. Coaster-sized earrings. (she/her) 🏳️🌈
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The number one most effective way to avoid people shooting your soldiers is to take your soldiers home
November 29, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The number one most effective way to avoid people shooting your soldiers is to take your soldiers home
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There are lots of reasons why I think higher ed would be a better, richer place if more people who had a history of academic struggle became professors. The way I deal with cheating—and the tools I have for preventing, rather than punishing, it—are a big example.
November 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
There are lots of reasons why I think higher ed would be a better, richer place if more people who had a history of academic struggle became professors. The way I deal with cheating—and the tools I have for preventing, rather than punishing, it—are a big example.
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Story about as old as time, the US trained compradors to do horrific things on their behalf to their national brothers and sisters (who they in many cases already had grudges towards) and then spat on these compradors and they feel betrayed. Turns out they keep those skills to do horrific things.
November 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Story about as old as time, the US trained compradors to do horrific things on their behalf to their national brothers and sisters (who they in many cases already had grudges towards) and then spat on these compradors and they feel betrayed. Turns out they keep those skills to do horrific things.
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It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.
November 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.
Never gets old, but nothing will ever beat the time I was interning there (circa 2018) and the whole lab (minus Michael) and I went to the pub after work, where two enthusiastic finance bros heard we worked on microbial evo and started animatedly describing this facebook video they’d seen to us,
November 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Never gets old, but nothing will ever beat the time I was interning there (circa 2018) and the whole lab (minus Michael) and I went to the pub after work, where two enthusiastic finance bros heard we worked on microbial evo and started animatedly describing this facebook video they’d seen to us,