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Starre Vartan

@starrevartan.bsky.social

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🧬 Science Journo| 🏺 Sculptor of ceramics & words 📖 Author: The Stronger Sex (Seal Press/Hachette, 2025) 🌊 Wild swimmer | 💃 Ecstatic Dancer | 🌍 Trailrunner 🇦🇺🇺🇸 dual citizen Bylines: Nat Geo, Undark, SciAm (+ pods), my book 👇 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/ye7nrwp7

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Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · Jul 15

Its my pub day! You can now get my book everywhere is the US & Canada! (UK, Australia, New Zealand, China, and Korea coming soon). Order it to join in on a celebration of the female body's strength!

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Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · 48m

ahahahahahaha!

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3h

I love it when academics publish papers that are like, "I checked and I'm still right"
www.jstor.org/stable/24393...

In this paper I review research since 2000 and conclude
that it has vindicated this view

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3h

The petition for Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee being held in an ICE camp, is over 3300 signatures!

Rodney has been in the US since he was 2 years old.

He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him.

He’s in solitary confinement & facing deportation to Liberia

Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE

Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.

www.disabledginger.com

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Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · 51m

And what kind of work does your wife do? (in general)? I'm asking these questions as a dual citizen who travels in/out of the US and I'm concerned about not being able to get back to Australia when I need to.

Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · 53m

Were you leaving the US?

Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · 53m

Was this in the US?

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 1d

I've been working on a book proposal and alternating between "this is meaningful" and "this is pointless," and a friend recently shared this quote that she stumble on in a Goodreads review: "Every book is a grand gesture of optimism on the part of both the reader and writer." Keep creating, friends.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23h

We’ve known for years that many viruses are oncogenic in nature… there’s ample evidence to suggest Covid is as well.

Yet another reason to wear a good quality mask like an N95, get boosted, clean the air and keep fighting for paid time off & better mitigations!

Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 23h

That’s…not good.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40813533/

SARS-CoV-2 infection heightens the risk of developing HPV-related carcinoma in situ and cancer - PubMed

SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with elevated risks of HPV-related carcinoma in situ and cancer, irrespective of age or race. The findings underscore the importance of understanding the interplay b...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · 22h

Oh I would have been out there in 20 minutes. FIVE HOURS???

Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · 22h

What a badass Fred is!!!!

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

when you try and get your PhD advisor to review your manuscript 😂

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · 22h

You can see one of the Guard is trying to push her away but she stood her ground and got her shot. That's toughness.

Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · 22h

So much is so crappy right now, but then you turn in a big edit to your editor and the first email in your inbox is new research from Japan:
"Slime Mold Metabolites Are a Promising, Eco-Friendly Repellent of Root-Knot Nematodes"
And you know you are living your best life.

Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · 1d

I've heard that argument before and it's a good one! It's basically how people would like to live. I noticed a lot of New England small cities were like this and one of the reasons I liked living there - they were built before cars were dominant. Look for a town built in the mid-1800s.

Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · 1d

Man, I'm always looking up. Pointing stuff out, laughing at bird antics, noticing clouds, etc. Didn't know that's weird for adults!

Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · 1d

I do too. I'm always pointing stuff out. Can't wear hats (unless super-necessary for sun protection) because how am I supposed to see properly with a hat on? Never dated a man who wears a baseball cap b/c of this. Blinkering oneself.

Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · 2d

Even as a fairly rebellious woman—even I didn't think there was this much leeway on the rules. I'm superpissed.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 2d

lol this entire era of politics has proven to me that rules are indeed fake

Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · 2d

THE. FUCKING. GOAT.

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · 2d

This quote really sums up why so many sexual predators will never admit what they've done - it's ALL about them at the expense of others, always: "I don't accept being labelled a rapist," he protested. "It's too heavy a burden for me to carry."

Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · 3d

LOVE a good "eff you with the garbage rules you gave me" -so satisfying.

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Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · 3d

Beautiful, heartwarming owl-rescue story! My troubled soul is briefly becalmed.

Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 3d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · 3d

Haha, also self-employed, def no fat checks to almas mater or anyone else!

Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · 4d

Haha, I went to SU, got a degree in geology, and became an influencer and (nominally) a podcaster!

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Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · 6d

It's OK to let them figure it out on their own!

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Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · 6d

Same. I thought writers at my level (when I started writing and looked into the future) were def all set and could relax into their careers. Haha! Its one of the many prices we pay for doing work we like/love/care abt.

Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · 6d

I remember when they told me I shouldn't worry about ICE as an American citizen. And I said I'm no dummy.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d

"Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours.

'I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up. I asked if they had a warrant and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.'"

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · 6d

Its pretty good proof of what these ppl obsess over and why perpetuating the idea that virginity even exists is dangerous.