quellie.bsky.social
@quellie.bsky.social
planetary scientist in bmore.
she/her
she/her
Reposted by quellie.bsky.social
I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point
Reposted by quellie.bsky.social
When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
Reposted by quellie.bsky.social
In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.
Latest write-up about outrageous administrative over reach at IU. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A leadership shakeup, a defunded graduate student and political pressure from above have turned a storied program into a flashpoint for Trump-era campus politics.
www.jta.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.
Reposted by quellie.bsky.social
Saturn, in shadow.
August 16, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Saturn, in shadow.
Reposted by quellie.bsky.social
My experience with millennial women is that they tend to be a bit more outwardly accepting, outwardly expressing queerness, but internally conflicted. Whereas Zoomers are much more comfortable with trans people and queer sexuality. Including their own queer sexuality
August 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
My experience with millennial women is that they tend to be a bit more outwardly accepting, outwardly expressing queerness, but internally conflicted. Whereas Zoomers are much more comfortable with trans people and queer sexuality. Including their own queer sexuality
Reposted by quellie.bsky.social
The wild thing is like… I thought they were supposed to be all Western Civilization shouldn’t they be trying to teach everyone Greek and Latin?
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
August 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The wild thing is like… I thought they were supposed to be all Western Civilization shouldn’t they be trying to teach everyone Greek and Latin?
Reposted by quellie.bsky.social
I had a talk about masculinity with someone today and the point I made that I am proud of is that it’s not that masculinity is “worse” than femininity; it’s that feminism has been able to free women from the more destructive elements of femininity in a way that it hasn’t with men and masculinity
August 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I had a talk about masculinity with someone today and the point I made that I am proud of is that it’s not that masculinity is “worse” than femininity; it’s that feminism has been able to free women from the more destructive elements of femininity in a way that it hasn’t with men and masculinity
Reposted by quellie.bsky.social
27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline.
It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.
It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.
August 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline.
It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.
It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.
Reposted by quellie.bsky.social
there are only three acceptably masculine activities. punching other men, having sex with other men, and podcasts
August 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
there are only three acceptably masculine activities. punching other men, having sex with other men, and podcasts
Reposted by quellie.bsky.social
The idea that gender is this thing that entirely exists inside of you that is not dependent at all on how you exist in the world and in turn how the world sees you is such peak liberal nonsense—for the most part gender is an action, it's something you *do*
Dismissing HRT and bottom surgery as merely "superficial changes" while our access to those things is the main thing under assault by the anti-trans movement is pretty vile stuff.
July 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The idea that gender is this thing that entirely exists inside of you that is not dependent at all on how you exist in the world and in turn how the world sees you is such peak liberal nonsense—for the most part gender is an action, it's something you *do*
Reposted by quellie.bsky.social
See that bright speck?
That's Venus.
Photographed from Saturn.
That's Venus.
Photographed from Saturn.
July 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
See that bright speck?
That's Venus.
Photographed from Saturn.
That's Venus.
Photographed from Saturn.
Reposted by quellie.bsky.social
I remember when the response to a potential transgender bathroom ban was a boycott of an entire state which forced it to back down, and after years of big liberal papers publishing articles like "the Reasonable Questions About Transgenders: Are They All Perverts?" it's no wonder that energy's gone.
There was an elite consensus against transphobia so strong Texas’ Republican Speaker of the House Joe Straus refused to pass a transphobic law, the public broadly agreed, and then a few elite liberals took it upon themselves to make transphobia popular and more or less succeeded.
July 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I remember when the response to a potential transgender bathroom ban was a boycott of an entire state which forced it to back down, and after years of big liberal papers publishing articles like "the Reasonable Questions About Transgenders: Are They All Perverts?" it's no wonder that energy's gone.
Reposted by quellie.bsky.social
I cannot articulate to you how damaging this will be to NASA science and to the scientific leadership of the United States generally.
To say nothing of the precedence of the White House and NASA leadership simply ignoring Congress.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
To say nothing of the precedence of the White House and NASA leadership simply ignoring Congress.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
White House works to ground NASA science missions before Congress can act
“We would be turning off some fabulous missions that are doing extremely well.”…
arstechnica.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I cannot articulate to you how damaging this will be to NASA science and to the scientific leadership of the United States generally.
To say nothing of the precedence of the White House and NASA leadership simply ignoring Congress.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
To say nothing of the precedence of the White House and NASA leadership simply ignoring Congress.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
Reposted by quellie.bsky.social
That small dot moving left to right is 3I/ATLAS.
It's a comet that was discovered on 1 July 2025.
It's travelling at 58 km PER SECOND and isn't gravitationally bound to the Sun.
Which means you're looking at a comet that formed around another star, passing through the Solar System.
It's a comet that was discovered on 1 July 2025.
It's travelling at 58 km PER SECOND and isn't gravitationally bound to the Sun.
Which means you're looking at a comet that formed around another star, passing through the Solar System.
July 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
That small dot moving left to right is 3I/ATLAS.
It's a comet that was discovered on 1 July 2025.
It's travelling at 58 km PER SECOND and isn't gravitationally bound to the Sun.
Which means you're looking at a comet that formed around another star, passing through the Solar System.
It's a comet that was discovered on 1 July 2025.
It's travelling at 58 km PER SECOND and isn't gravitationally bound to the Sun.
Which means you're looking at a comet that formed around another star, passing through the Solar System.
Reposted by quellie.bsky.social
*movie trailer voice* in a world where weird grifters have slashed Medicaid and funded a secret police...in a world where anyone can be primaried...one mayoral candidate will risk everything. This hot commie summer is WOKE 2: You Snooze, You Lose
this guy happened to just came out and say it but I imagine quite a lot of people think they can ride the backlash to Woke all the way to race science and they’re wholly unprepared for what I think it’s going to be a pretty powerful Woke 2
July 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
*movie trailer voice* in a world where weird grifters have slashed Medicaid and funded a secret police...in a world where anyone can be primaried...one mayoral candidate will risk everything. This hot commie summer is WOKE 2: You Snooze, You Lose
Reposted by quellie.bsky.social
People talk as if rooms full of high-IQ people are zones of breathtaking displays of wit and wisdom, and clarifying insight. Anyone who went to a selective institution can tell you this is horseshit, but lots of folks enjoy the illusion, for lots of reasons.
July 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
People talk as if rooms full of high-IQ people are zones of breathtaking displays of wit and wisdom, and clarifying insight. Anyone who went to a selective institution can tell you this is horseshit, but lots of folks enjoy the illusion, for lots of reasons.
Reposted by quellie.bsky.social
The expansion of American transphobia from a minority position is almost wholly astroturfed (more like astroTERFed) by a few writers, editors, and capitalists at the Times, the Atlantic, and maybe NYMag.
July 5, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The expansion of American transphobia from a minority position is almost wholly astroturfed (more like astroTERFed) by a few writers, editors, and capitalists at the Times, the Atlantic, and maybe NYMag.
Reposted by quellie.bsky.social
There was an elite consensus against transphobia so strong Texas’ Republican Speaker of the House Joe Straus refused to pass a transphobic law, the public broadly agreed, and then a few elite liberals took it upon themselves to make transphobia popular and more or less succeeded.
July 5, 2025 at 8:12 AM
There was an elite consensus against transphobia so strong Texas’ Republican Speaker of the House Joe Straus refused to pass a transphobic law, the public broadly agreed, and then a few elite liberals took it upon themselves to make transphobia popular and more or less succeeded.
Reposted by quellie.bsky.social
Perfect summation of a complex feeling about a simple thing.
When I was in graduate school, nothing in the world felt more important to me than publishing a paper in the scientific literature. It was not about getting a job or competing with my peers. It was about being part of something vastly larger than myself and profoundly meaningful human history.
February 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Perfect summation of a complex feeling about a simple thing.
Reposted by quellie.bsky.social
Something I wish I'd known when I was younger is that fear of shame is not a moral compass
December 23, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Something I wish I'd known when I was younger is that fear of shame is not a moral compass
Reposted by quellie.bsky.social
Military conflicts account for about 5.5% of global emissions - more than aviation.
Imperialism is killing all of us.
There can be no climate justice without peace.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Imperialism is killing all of us.
There can be no climate justice without peace.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Protect the climate for whom?’: Palestinians highlight Gaza at Cop29
Advocates and officials argue that consequences of Israeli siege are inextricably linked to tackling the climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 9:12 AM
Military conflicts account for about 5.5% of global emissions - more than aviation.
Imperialism is killing all of us.
There can be no climate justice without peace.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Imperialism is killing all of us.
There can be no climate justice without peace.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Useless glassware decor always gets my attention
November 23, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Reposted by quellie.bsky.social
Fun fact—when you die a day or two after eating this, they will be able to pour your liver out of your body at the autopsy.
April 20, 2024 at 10:33 PM
Fun fact—when you die a day or two after eating this, they will be able to pour your liver out of your body at the autopsy.
Reposted by quellie.bsky.social
Today I learned that there were smaller walrus ancestors and I am extremely happy to report that the researcher speaking about this did indeed refer to them as the “smallrus.”
April 17, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Today I learned that there were smaller walrus ancestors and I am extremely happy to report that the researcher speaking about this did indeed refer to them as the “smallrus.”