Molly A
@molly-does-fusion.bsky.social
PhD student studying plasma/fusion science at UW-Madison. Come for the physics, stay for the knitting/soccer/cooking content. she/her
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Molly A
@molly-does-fusion.bsky.social
· Nov 27
Haven’t done an intro post yet, so:
Hi! I’m a PhD student in plasma physics with a focus on tokamak startup! If you have any fusion questions, feel free to send them my way!
Otherwise I love my cats, knitting, baking, making soup, and Leeds United FC
Hi! I’m a PhD student in plasma physics with a focus on tokamak startup! If you have any fusion questions, feel free to send them my way!
Otherwise I love my cats, knitting, baking, making soup, and Leeds United FC
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6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.
November 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
Soup Sunday presents: pumpkin and red lentil soup
November 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Soup Sunday presents: pumpkin and red lentil soup
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Winnie The Pooh didn’t spend all that time “think think think“-ing for y’all to be using chatgpt instead
October 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Winnie The Pooh didn’t spend all that time “think think think“-ing for y’all to be using chatgpt instead
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trump's invulnerability primarily functions through the consensus that he is invulnerable
I am losing my gd mind seeing the number of people on here who are so doompilled that they cannot imagine that telling millions of people, including tons of MAGAs, that they’re out of food money and they also can’t have health insurance anymore might have any effect whatsoever on anything
Since SNAP benefits are gone next month and the new ACA enrollment hikes also start to reveal themselves to consumers... it's wild to think that both programs are tilted towards states AND demographics that favored Trump in '24
The stove beckons
The stove beckons
October 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
trump's invulnerability primarily functions through the consensus that he is invulnerable
As a scientist, the most accurate part of Frankenstein (2025) is when somebody decides that they need your science results NOW and you go into a frenzy to get it finished
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a scientist, the most accurate part of Frankenstein (2025) is when somebody decides that they need your science results NOW and you go into a frenzy to get it finished
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Wrote this yesterday chanda.bearblog.dev/knowledge-is...
Knowledge is Worth Your Time
Folks who hang out on Bluesky/Twitter may have caught bits and pieces of the discussions amongst academics about what to do about today's university students...
chanda.bearblog.dev
October 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Wrote this yesterday chanda.bearblog.dev/knowledge-is...
Green soup is the best soup!
October 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Green soup is the best soup!
Haven’t posted here in a while but never fear: soup Sunday has still been happening!
Tonight: green soup!
Tonight: green soup!
October 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Haven’t posted here in a while but never fear: soup Sunday has still been happening!
Tonight: green soup!
Tonight: green soup!
PBS NOVA is the reason I became a scientist!
As a reminder, PBS NOVA is one of the coolest science entertainment platforms that we have today!
If you're thinking of unsubscribing from any other streamers today, or if you have the capacity in your wallet, you can sign up to donate a monthly gift to PBS here: donate.kqed.org/secure/kqedpbs
If you're thinking of unsubscribing from any other streamers today, or if you have the capacity in your wallet, you can sign up to donate a monthly gift to PBS here: donate.kqed.org/secure/kqedpbs
September 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
PBS NOVA is the reason I became a scientist!
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It’s a mistake to outsource most writing to AI.
Even if the output is accurate and engaging, something valuable is lost in the process. Jotting down intuitions and spelling out hunches is how we develop and refine our ideas.
Writing is where we do our best thinking.
Even if the output is accurate and engaging, something valuable is lost in the process. Jotting down intuitions and spelling out hunches is how we develop and refine our ideas.
Writing is where we do our best thinking.
May 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It’s a mistake to outsource most writing to AI.
Even if the output is accurate and engaging, something valuable is lost in the process. Jotting down intuitions and spelling out hunches is how we develop and refine our ideas.
Writing is where we do our best thinking.
Even if the output is accurate and engaging, something valuable is lost in the process. Jotting down intuitions and spelling out hunches is how we develop and refine our ideas.
Writing is where we do our best thinking.
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Elon Musk's DOGE has spent the last several months dismantling the departments & agencies that regulate HIS businesses.
Our report found that Musk has a direct business interest in over 70% of the agencies & departments DOGE targeted.
The conflicts of interest are endless.
Our report found that Musk has a direct business interest in over 70% of the agencies & departments DOGE targeted.
The conflicts of interest are endless.
May 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Elon Musk's DOGE has spent the last several months dismantling the departments & agencies that regulate HIS businesses.
Our report found that Musk has a direct business interest in over 70% of the agencies & departments DOGE targeted.
The conflicts of interest are endless.
Our report found that Musk has a direct business interest in over 70% of the agencies & departments DOGE targeted.
The conflicts of interest are endless.
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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
April 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
LEEDS BACK TO THE PL WHAT A GREAT START TO THE WEEK
April 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
LEEDS BACK TO THE PL WHAT A GREAT START TO THE WEEK
I picked Tennessee to win March Madness not with my brain but with my heart, and that is what ultimately sealed their fate
March 31, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I picked Tennessee to win March Madness not with my brain but with my heart, and that is what ultimately sealed their fate
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When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit.
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
November 22, 2024 at 4:32 AM
When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit.
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
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Scientists who are actively against fascism because fascism is bad, not just because sometimes it hurts scientists, are my people
March 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Scientists who are actively against fascism because fascism is bad, not just because sometimes it hurts scientists, are my people
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Of course, it should go without saying that a President of the United States and especially an illegitimate one can’t constitutionally abolish a cabinet department—say the Department of Education—established by Congress.
March 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Of course, it should go without saying that a President of the United States and especially an illegitimate one can’t constitutionally abolish a cabinet department—say the Department of Education—established by Congress.
Construction crew has been pile driving right outside our lab which means I got to operate in a shaking control room all. day.
February 28, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Construction crew has been pile driving right outside our lab which means I got to operate in a shaking control room all. day.
I’m a PhD student in nuclear engineering. I would not be who I am today, or the scientist I am today, without The Chronicles of Narnia, The Land Before Time, The X-Files, Frankenstein, Brothers Karamazov, and so many more.
Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.
February 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I’m a PhD student in nuclear engineering. I would not be who I am today, or the scientist I am today, without The Chronicles of Narnia, The Land Before Time, The X-Files, Frankenstein, Brothers Karamazov, and so many more.
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Through DayQuil, all things are possible.
February 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Through DayQuil, all things are possible.
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I don't believe in Hell, but if I did I would die happy knowing there was a special seating section for anyone currently railing against "the sin of empathy," and every one of those seats is made with hot rusty barbs
February 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I don't believe in Hell, but if I did I would die happy knowing there was a special seating section for anyone currently railing against "the sin of empathy," and every one of those seats is made with hot rusty barbs
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A fantastic article about experimental physicist Chien-Shiung Wu and her contributions outside of the Manhattan Project. ⚛️ 🧪 #scicomm
pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...
pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...
Chien-Shiung Wu's trailblazing experiments in particle physics
The Chinese American physicist led groundbreaking experiments that demonstrated parity violation and photon entanglement. Many in the physics community say Wu d
pubs.aip.org
February 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A fantastic article about experimental physicist Chien-Shiung Wu and her contributions outside of the Manhattan Project. ⚛️ 🧪 #scicomm
pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...
pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...
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I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."
My kid lives in Siddall Hall and sent me these yesterday. First is what was put up by the school, second is the students’ alteration of the administrations’ cowardice.
February 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."