Doc Stef
@stephvkortchak.bsky.social
ORISE Fellow at FDA 💊 Microbiology/Immunology PhD GMU ‘17 ‘23 🦠💚 Miniature painter (comms open) 🎨Super Nerd🎧Board Gamer 🎲 Destiny2 player 🎮Views are my own🏳️🌈
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There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
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For real. Don't ask why not, don't act like it's weird, don't offer over and over again, and don't speculate about why with other people. Just offer a non-alcoholic alternative and move the fuck on.
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
For real. Don't ask why not, don't act like it's weird, don't offer over and over again, and don't speculate about why with other people. Just offer a non-alcoholic alternative and move the fuck on.
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I genuinely wonder if the reason we've been plagued by uncle stories for at least 40 years of "Well my bud didn't get a job and they told him it was because they did an affirmative action hire" isn't because the uncle is lying, but because some bloodless HR psycho just wanted them to stop calling.
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I genuinely wonder if the reason we've been plagued by uncle stories for at least 40 years of "Well my bud didn't get a job and they told him it was because they did an affirmative action hire" isn't because the uncle is lying, but because some bloodless HR psycho just wanted them to stop calling.
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If you're an author being published by small and tiny presses, please shamelessly promote your work, however much your temperament might militate against it. I've seen many wonderful authors at this level so quickly forgotten when they die, you deserve all the readers you can get while you're alive.
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 AM
If you're an author being published by small and tiny presses, please shamelessly promote your work, however much your temperament might militate against it. I've seen many wonderful authors at this level so quickly forgotten when they die, you deserve all the readers you can get while you're alive.
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Here’s another pearl you can take from this weekend.
You need to consume to create.
Take interest in what your peers are creating, to be curious, want your contemporaries to run pace beside you. Consume their work.
You need to consume to create.
Take interest in what your peers are creating, to be curious, want your contemporaries to run pace beside you. Consume their work.
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Here’s another pearl you can take from this weekend.
You need to consume to create.
Take interest in what your peers are creating, to be curious, want your contemporaries to run pace beside you. Consume their work.
You need to consume to create.
Take interest in what your peers are creating, to be curious, want your contemporaries to run pace beside you. Consume their work.
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Artists!!!!!
I want to feature your work in my Three wins series, otherwise I’m taking a cover photo from a publication and I feel weird about that, plus I wanna amplify your work, so if you have a piece about:
Social Security, disability, Libraries, censorship, universities or gender identity
1/
I want to feature your work in my Three wins series, otherwise I’m taking a cover photo from a publication and I feel weird about that, plus I wanna amplify your work, so if you have a piece about:
Social Security, disability, Libraries, censorship, universities or gender identity
1/
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Artists!!!!!
I want to feature your work in my Three wins series, otherwise I’m taking a cover photo from a publication and I feel weird about that, plus I wanna amplify your work, so if you have a piece about:
Social Security, disability, Libraries, censorship, universities or gender identity
1/
I want to feature your work in my Three wins series, otherwise I’m taking a cover photo from a publication and I feel weird about that, plus I wanna amplify your work, so if you have a piece about:
Social Security, disability, Libraries, censorship, universities or gender identity
1/
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No industry is perfect. But the imbalance is hard to miss. One sector must prove its products are safe & effective. The other profits by avoiding that responsibility. If we care about transparency and accountability, scrutiny shouldn’t be one-sided. (Source: For The Greater Glory of Science) #EpiSky
November 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
No industry is perfect. But the imbalance is hard to miss. One sector must prove its products are safe & effective. The other profits by avoiding that responsibility. If we care about transparency and accountability, scrutiny shouldn’t be one-sided. (Source: For The Greater Glory of Science) #EpiSky
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If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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We would reeeaaaaally like to know who is putting this hot garbage on the CDC website (def not us!).
And the footnote! “Bill Cassidy made us keep the truth in there and we’re complaining publicly about it”.
Quick! Someone get these whiny little babies their vaccines!
And the footnote! “Bill Cassidy made us keep the truth in there and we’re complaining publicly about it”.
Quick! Someone get these whiny little babies their vaccines!
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:48 AM
We would reeeaaaaally like to know who is putting this hot garbage on the CDC website (def not us!).
And the footnote! “Bill Cassidy made us keep the truth in there and we’re complaining publicly about it”.
Quick! Someone get these whiny little babies their vaccines!
And the footnote! “Bill Cassidy made us keep the truth in there and we’re complaining publicly about it”.
Quick! Someone get these whiny little babies their vaccines!
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Vaccines don’t cause autism.
No matter what the 🧠🪱 says.
No matter what the 🧠🪱 says.
Penn and Teller on Vaccinations
YouTube video by UltraMiraculous
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November 20, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Vaccines don’t cause autism.
No matter what the 🧠🪱 says.
No matter what the 🧠🪱 says.
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Is this what you wanted, Senator Cassidy? Is this TRAVESTY enough to salve your conscience for your vote?
November 20, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Is this what you wanted, Senator Cassidy? Is this TRAVESTY enough to salve your conscience for your vote?
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A an angry reminder that
1. There is no causal link between vaccines & autism
2. Autism has a strong genetic component, involving ~500 genes
3. Tylenol is not linked to autism
4. RFQuack failed to get a journal to retract a large Danish study that showed no link btwn aluminum & autism
A an angry reminder that
1. There is no causal link between vaccines & autism
2. Autism has a strong genetic component, involving ~500 genes
3. Tylenol is not linked to autism
4. RFQuack failed to get a journal to retract a large Danish study that showed no link btwn aluminum & autism
November 20, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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A an angry reminder that
1. There is no causal link between vaccines & autism
2. Autism has a strong genetic component, involving ~500 genes
3. Tylenol is not linked to autism
4. RFQuack failed to get a journal to retract a large Danish study that showed no link btwn aluminum & autism
A an angry reminder that
1. There is no causal link between vaccines & autism
2. Autism has a strong genetic component, involving ~500 genes
3. Tylenol is not linked to autism
4. RFQuack failed to get a journal to retract a large Danish study that showed no link btwn aluminum & autism
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For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
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we should feed everybody actually
all the time
there is no reason for anyone to be hungry and/or homeless
all the time
there is no reason for anyone to be hungry and/or homeless
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
we should feed everybody actually
all the time
there is no reason for anyone to be hungry and/or homeless
all the time
there is no reason for anyone to be hungry and/or homeless
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For us, that would be Tuba Guy. He's always walking across from George Mason University.
November 19, 2025 at 2:27 AM
For us, that would be Tuba Guy. He's always walking across from George Mason University.
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Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever:
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
A guy makes ONE tiny mistake (has a years-long friendship with the world's worst sex trafficker; brags about sexually harassing colleagues; is racist; says women are stupid) and his whole LIFE is blown up (does slightly fewer speaking engagements; keeps teaching at #1 university)??!?!?!?!?!
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever:
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
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The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
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Dear ICE: They don't let you wear a mask in your mug shot.
Great news. This is what an ICE agent looks like in a mugshot. Meet Gerardo Rodriguez, 45, of Temecula, courtesy of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Arrested for "illegally detaining a minor at gunpoint while off duty last week." 🧵
November 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Dear ICE: They don't let you wear a mask in your mug shot.
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homeowners associations are so annoying. what do you mean the incessant noise pollution from lawn care 200 times a week is preferable to growing ecologically beneficial and pretty wild grasses and flowers. shut the fuck up!!!! i hope whoever invented leaf blowers is rotting in hell!!!
November 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
homeowners associations are so annoying. what do you mean the incessant noise pollution from lawn care 200 times a week is preferable to growing ecologically beneficial and pretty wild grasses and flowers. shut the fuck up!!!! i hope whoever invented leaf blowers is rotting in hell!!!
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AI doing the important work — automating scammers out of their Academese fortresses 🧪
November 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
AI doing the important work — automating scammers out of their Academese fortresses 🧪
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I guess I wanted to point out this guy was very clearly straight because…I mean it’s just important for there to be straight white representation in the “seeing the world as it is, not assuming it’s a conspiracy against the dominant culture, & easily acknowledging the struggle” cinematic universe.
A few weeks ago I was talking politics with a local, highly straight, bartender.
All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”
And I’ve thought about that every day since.
All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”
And I’ve thought about that every day since.
November 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I guess I wanted to point out this guy was very clearly straight because…I mean it’s just important for there to be straight white representation in the “seeing the world as it is, not assuming it’s a conspiracy against the dominant culture, & easily acknowledging the struggle” cinematic universe.
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Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.