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Sandi Clement
@sandiclement.bsky.social
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Feminist geneticist and educator
Banner photo from Cattfirmations Calendar by Lim Heng Swee
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Tonight’s dinner was liberally seasoned with today’s spice packet from the surprise advent calendar we received this week. 🗓️🌶️🧂🎄
Penzy’s advent calendar. Left side has a multicolor Christmas tree illustration with the words All the Hope. Right side has a painted heart a heart with the word Resist! the number 4 and the words All the People Multicolor spice packet called Outrage of Love Back of outrage spice packet which reads “The Republican attacks on our Democracy are Outrageous. When does a Political Party end and Fascism begin? When good people stop being outraged. Your love is strong: use it to keep outrage alive. Outrageously good on most everything: eggs, avocados, salads, vegetables, fish, chicken, hummus, fries, sandwiches, pasta, burgers.”
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Happy Friday! 🍻🧬
A pint glass with a drawing of Rosalind Franklin and a double helix full of La Chouffe strong blonde ale.
November 8, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Family of five visiting outside my campus office. What a lovely way to prep for this morning’s genetics lecture 🥰
Three baby dear and two adult dear among the fallen leaves, trees, and other plants outside my office window. The golden hills of the Santa Lucia range is visible in the distance in the June gloom.
June 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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First sunflower bloom and other delights from the garden this morning before walking to campus #FlowerReport #MorningWalk
Large flower pot with fuchsia and yellow gerbera daisies, chives with lavender flowers and a plant I do t remember the name for with peach flowers with dark peach centers. A 6 foot tall or taller sunflower with burgundy center and yellow petals Milkweed with a chonky monarch caterpillar
June 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Still loving the Cattfirmations Calendar by Lim Heng Swee that @welnoan.bsky.social gave me in January. Good message for the crunch time of the last week of spring quarter www.ilovedoodle.com
Photo of June’s calendar. The caption is “I give myself permission to rest”. The art depicts mountain islands shaped like napping cats in dark orange, green, peach and browns in a slate blue lagoon. Two, white, lounging. cat-shaped clouds partially cover a golden sun in a beige sky. Each dates is a different color to celebrate Pride Month.
June 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Saturday morning recharge in my chaos garden admiring the flowers and watching the bees. #FlowerReport
An in-deck flower bed as seen from the vantage point of our deck chairs. Blue salvia and delphiniums, pink zinnias and foxgloves, and orange giant marigolds. In the background are raised beds with sunflowers yet to bloom, the rising sun poking through the leaves of a tree. Visible in the distance are the Santa Lucia mountains.
May 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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I am “throw your back out pulling plates out of the incubator” years old.
View of my office from the floor where I’m flat on my back with my feet up on the chair. Various science Professor accoutrements are visible in surfaces. Some highlights include (from left to right): a small poster of Beaker and Dr. Bunsen from the muppets, a bottle of ibuprofen, a poster of cytoplasmic mRNA granules, the window with a nice tree, my desk plant, my union water bottle, a green, metal street sign on the wall that reads RNA DR, a framed poster with from the U of Utah Humanities department that reads “Science may tell you how to clone a T. rex, but humanities can tell you why this might be a bad idea.
May 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Putting a stamp on a letter fills me with more existential angst than it used to.
A usa forever (all lowercase) stamp with a blue hummingbird hovering front of a yellow sunflower on a blue background. The stamp is on a brown envelope. Fittingly, the content of the letter is about the importance of persevering in order to build a better world where those for whom perseverance is demanded far too often can actually thrive.
April 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Everything is terrible, but I made some pretty and delicious dishes to celebrate spring.
Puff pastry tart with asparagus arranged in a chevron pattern Strawberry cream cheese pie and a loaf of multigrain sandwich bread
April 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Vincent is such a drama queen.
Happy #Caturday!
Two cats napping on a sofa. The white cat is in back resting comfortably with eyes closed and it looks like he's smiling. The black cat in a half twist with his back end almost falling off the sofa. His front arms are up in the air over his upside down head, staring into the camera with his snagletooth fang slightly visible.
April 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Happy #Caturday from Vincent and Chowder!
A black cat and a white cat napping together on a light grey sofa.
March 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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This thread has convinced me I need to attend the annual Beaver Festival in April. www.slobeaverbrigade.com/beaver-festi...
Poster for the third annual San Luis Obispo County Beaver Festival Saturday April 12 10am-3pm in the Mission Plaza. Poster features rock album cover style art with a group of 3 beavers, 2 holding branches above the words Habitat Creators, Fire Protectors, Water Bringers. Other relevant info including agenda at the website https://www.slobeaverbrigade.com/beaver-festival-2025/
March 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Grateful for the floral products of the rainy season. Not quite a super bloom, but still pretty amazing. #FlowerReport
Gravel path through green coastal scrub brush and yellow flowers. Blue sky with wispy clouds and deeper blue ocean. View of the Pacific Ocean with green coastal scrub and yellow flowers in the foreground. Closeup of plants next to a coastal trail. California poppies with dark orange centers and yellow edges in a patch of scarlet pimpernel Field of yellow poppies in coastal green scrub with the Santa Lucia Mountains in the distance
March 24, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Happy #Caturday from Chowder, who appears to be screaming what we’re all feeling, and Vincent, who is defiantly resting as resistance.
Photo of our two cats on the sofa. One, a resting, mostly white cat, mid-yawn looking like he’s screening bloody murder next to a black cat engaged in Olympic style relaxation on a heating pad.
March 23, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Grading my creativity-based genetics assignment on the last day of finals is such a delight!
Reference to the “They’re the same picture” meme from The Office (American version). Upper panel has the CGU codon on the left and the CGG codon on the right (both codons code for the amino acid, arginine). The bottom drawing is of Pam from the office but her head is a ribosome translating an mRNA.
March 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.
Miscellaneous antique store grouping with old hardbound books, some scientific instruments and a creepy old timer dolls head.
March 18, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Happy #Caturday from Chowder and Vincent!
A mostly white cat sitting on a tv credenza behind and above a black cat sitting on a quilted on a stick chair. A Ladaniva video is on the television.
March 16, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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No science? No Beer!
Science is for everyone and everyone belongs here!
#StandUpForScience
One of the signs the brewery owner made last night. It reads No Science No Beer in block letters and has some Central Coast Brewing stickers on it
March 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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When the owner of the brewery brings his block lettering skills to the sign making party . . .
#StandUpForScience

Thanks @candacewinstead.bsky.social for organizing and @snakeymama.bsky.social for the slogans!
March 7, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Resurrecting some signage from the last rodeo

#ThrowbackThursday #StandUpForScience
Poster boards. One with a purple transfeminism symbol* and a larger one with various images including a Rosie the riveter style scientist holding a pipers, a sign that reads social justice and science ed and a third that reads science makes America great. #MarginSci which was used during the March for Science 2017 campaign to stand up for marginalized folks in science because science is done by people and science is political * https://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/Gender_symbols
March 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Plz can haz catchy chantz to #StandUpForScience ? 🐱🧬🩺
I can has cheeburger meme. Of a tabby cat at a clinic with a stethoscope around his neck looking fed up. Written with characteristic bad grammar and spelling. Typed accurately for screen readers here. After every question is the phrase Thank Science Don’t have polio? Don’t have smallpox? Like the internet? Airbags save your life? Got a new liver? Flip a switch for light? Living with (managed) diabetes? Like your cell phone? Tornado warning? Like 30 second hot dog? You can see why we’re looking for catchier chants.
March 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Look who came to office hour this afternoon!
A photo taken from my desk of a deer standing outside my office window under some trees. Blue sky and low green mountains are in the distance
March 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Chowder wishes you all happy napping this #Caturday
A mostly white cat with faint tan markings looks at the camera from a cozy position wrapped up in a blue floofy blanket Catspiration calendar illustration for March. A white winding road recedes into higher and higher blue mountains. At the top of the highest and furthest mountain the white road morphs into a lounging cat. The caption reads “All roads lead to naps.”
March 2, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Bittersweet re-read
My 1996 paperback copy of Carl Sagan’s “The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark”
February 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Seared duck breast with prosciutto, sage, and peaches from Serious Eats. Not too shabby.
A plate with sliced duck breast, sautéed snow peas, sautéed peaches and rice. There is a glass of red wine next to the plate.
February 16, 2025 at 2:54 AM