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Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · Mar 12

UGH FINE I'M HERE. I have BROKEN my PROMISE to MYSELF I am ONCE AGAIN MICROBLOGGING UNDER MY GOVERNMENT NAME.

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 1h

Anna has some cool results from a pretty bonkers hybrid system - hit her up if you're looking for a speaker in your PAG workshop!

Anna Pardo, Ph.D. @annapardo-phd.bsky.social · 1h

Are you organizing a talk session at PAG 33? I would love to speak about my postdoc work on the genomics of variable facultative CAM photosynthesis in a hybrid Yucca species! Possible workshop topics include: hybrid genomics, abiotic stress, non-model species. Please DM me if you're interested!

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Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 1h

oofda

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Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 1h

congrats!!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3h

Today seems like a great day to re-up my slides from 2017 about the Nazi takeover of German physics, in part because in my estimation, a lot of American physicists in 2025 are confused about whether "agreeing to work with them" is resistance (it's not) and whether it works (it doesn't) 🧪⚛️

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jan 31

In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪

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nazi germany & physics
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, PhD
Department of Physics,University of Washington, Seattle
APS April Meeting, January 2017
Dismantling the (Nazi) German Nuclear Reactor (Pile) at Haigerloch, 50 km SW of Stuttgart, in April 1945

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Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 4h

how is the entire Northeast not showing up at data centers with torches and pitchforks over this

Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 16h

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 4h

mental health has been partially rescued by the onset of hoodie weather FINALLY

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 19h

it’s best not to ever think about mushrooms too much

Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 19h

if you only want to eat things that don't feel love or pain I recommend sticking to fruits. maybe beans and corn. mushrooms, I'm never really sure about

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Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 4h

where does that put mules, then?

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Sam @spinachwrap.bsky.social · 6h

Behold the pretty beans

Dr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social · 13h

I keep going back and looking at this picture. It seems, no matter what topic I'm working with, I really like bright, saturated colors.

Rectangular woven basket filled with blue, yellow, and pink dry beans.

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Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 17h

not the point but fuyu persimmons for $3.99/ea is a great price for the growers, hot damn

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 17h

My Very Dear Ones,

I write to you from near the front lines of war ravaged Portland.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 19h

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 1d

Biology is much more complicated than most non-biologists can imagine. And AI is not going to change this anytime soon.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...

We still can’t predict much of anything in biology

Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.

blog.genesmindsmachines.com

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Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 1d

I got a dollar coin mistakenly as change (should have been a quarter) over the summer, first time I'd seen one in years

Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 1d

in 50 years when the Alzheimer's has set in this is the type of activity my nursing home people should give me, FYI

Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 12d

Data is available upon request … but only in the form of one hundred non sequential 3.5” floppy disks containing a segmented zip file, inside of which are confusingly named files that can only be opened using the 1996 application StatView for Apple Mackintosh. Enclose a cashiers check for postage.

Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 1d

very cool

Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 1d

whoooaaaa since it's so early do you think it could still produce in zone 5 and lower?

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Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 1d

oh hell yes

Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 1d

doing 3 work trips and not doing my work receipts in between each one was a bad idea

Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 1d

so maybe when this grant is submitted I'll go back to my beloved undergrad cell biology textbook and just write out the whole list of checkpoints

Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 1d

and from the human side we don't care if there's a viable embryo in there or not, we just want to eat the delicious fruit or nut, so it's in our interest to figure out how to circumvent the checkpoints to get the tree to make a fruit regardless. but not a small project!!!

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Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 1d

and I have to explain that in embryo development there are SO MANY checkpoints to make sure everything is going well and if something goes wrong (common) the plant will just give up on fruit/nut development b/c why spend that energy on a non-viable embryo

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Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 1d

I get questions a few times a year about why fruit & nut trees will drop a bunch of immature fruit well before ripening, depending on the crop it's usually the June Drop or August Drop or whatever month. When I say it's likely an entire PhD project to figure out I get surprised reactions

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Not only is this ridiculous - one of my asthma triggers is pollution; reduce that and my inhaler use drops significantly - but it's also eugenics. Fascists love deciding that sick and disabled people are the real problem. Don't fall for this shit.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 18d

I'm getting more into the color orange, lately

A white bucket filled with bright orange persimmons

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Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 1d

seems healthy