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Jessie Slater PhD

@subbasegirl.bsky.social

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Archaeologist straddling great divide between arts/science, UK/US, sanity/madness. Herding researchers, data, & integrity @science.org. Have own opinions, especially about fútbol. she/her ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3930-9190/

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Jessie Slater PhD @subbasegirl.bsky.social · Jan 20

I'm no longer confused by either and I am so outraged that we have regressed to a place where women have even less bodily autonomy. Where coat hangers will once again become more than a symbol. Where angry white men standing on the sidelines make decisions for us all.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 6d

This is key to understanding the FedSoc Supreme Court: the facts do not matter. They will invent their own reality and substitute it for the reality we're actually living in.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 6d

Kavanaugh recently suggested immigration stops are no big deal if you're a legal resident bc ICE just promptly releases you

That is not, in fact, what ICE does

He invents a fiction bc the reality of the policies he supports is too disturbing for him to imagine

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Brett Kavanaugh’s Racial Profiling Opinion Is Looking Sillier By the Day

Kavanaugh said that immigration agents “promptly” release people after determining that they are legal U.S. residents. They don’t.

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 1d

Did a car write this

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · 1d

Quantum mechanics of a macroscopic variable, published by today’s laureates in @science.org in 1988. In addition to the science, it’s remarkably lucid writing

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ARE MACROSCOPIC DEGREES OF FREEDOM GOVERNED BY quantum mechanics? Our everyday experience tells us that a classical description appears to be entirely adequate. The trajectory of the center of mass of a billiard ball is predicted wonderfully well by classical mechanics. Even the Brownian motion
of a tiny speck of dust in a drop of water is a purely classical phenomenon. Until recently, quantum mechanics manifested itself at the macroscopic level only through such collective phenomena as
superconductivity, flux quantization, or the Josephson effect. However, these "macroscopic" effects actually arise from the coherent superposition of a large number of microscopic variables each
governed by quantum mechanics. Thus, for example, the current through a Josephson tunnel junction and the phase difference across it are normally treated as classical variables.

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Jessie Slater PhD @subbasegirl.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations! So well deserved. 🎉

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Dr Ross Barnett @deepfrieddna.bsky.social · 4d

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The lost Lego still washing up after 28 years

From dragons to wands, pieces lost from a cargo ship in 1997 continue to wash up around the world.

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Jessie Slater PhD @subbasegirl.bsky.social · 6d

Percentage of US lawmakers who will do anything about this

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 6d

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society

22% in 2022
47% in 2025

No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports

Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.

www.pewresearch.org

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 7d

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 7d

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 7d

This is about SecDef.

MOTHERBOARD
TECH BY VICE
The Louder the Monkey, the Smaller Its Balls, Study Finds
Howler monkeys can be well-endowed in the voice box or the family jewels, but not both.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 22d

hi, cis folks!

trans people need your help! the FY26 budget gets a vote by 9/30. GOP wants a ban on funds for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. they're trying for other bans, too.

we need you to call senators like chuck who don't get it: reps.fyi

info & script in the🧵⬇️

SEC. 243. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce Executive Order 13988, entitled ‘‘Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation’’, published by the Executive Office of the President on January 25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 7023).

SEC. 244. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for any social, psychological, behavioral,or medical intervention performed for the purposes of in16 tentionally changing the body of an individual (including by disrupting the body’s development, inhibiting its natural functions, or modifying its appearance) to no longer correspond to the individual’s biological sex.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 9d

From my little thread on “able-bodied” and its origins in the labor laws after the Black Death.

This is not the first time such rhetoric has been used to hurt the poor. The weaponization of "able-bodied" hearkens back to ideas older than America. In 1351, after a wave of bubonic plague, England's Parliament enacted the Statute of Labourers. The scourge had brought on a shortage of workers, and the law required that everyone under 68, "able in body," and not wealthy had to work—at no more than pre-plague wages. "This tendency to fantasize-when times change and things aren't what they were-that the poorest and most vulnerable are actually some sort of malicious freeloading class is a very old one," medievalist Elise Wang, an assistant professor at California State University, Fullerton, pointed out on Bluesky.

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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 9d

All are invited to the first in Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series, "Turning Your Dissertation into a Book," Oct 9 at 1pm ET. Organized by our Faculty Outreach Committee with the Rutgers Ctr for Minority Serving Institutions.

Register here: https://buff.ly/UiOAr5M

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 10d

So exhausting..

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 9d

Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education

Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

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Jessie Slater PhD @subbasegirl.bsky.social · 10d

Elderly elf?

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 10d

I don’t want to hear anything else about what we should or shouldn’t be putting in our bodies (Tylenol, artificial sweeteners, sugar, or fat) until something is done about the BULLETS being put into bodies

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10d

Withholding an endorsement for the Democratic nominee for mayor in your own city is bad enough, but then issuing a glowing press release praising the corrupt incumbent no one likes? All while doing fuckall to stand up to Trump?

I swear, he's got the political instincts of an Amish child.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 11d

OK. The #Klein + #Remnick lovefest in @newyorker.com is a bridge too far. If I could ask Klein a few questions. Dear Ezra, you suggest that you are still "community" with the far-right, even as many see that as impossible at the moment. 1/

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Nsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · 12d

What people should realize about "breaking up the MMR vaccine": Standalone shots for measles, mumps, and rubella are no longer licensed in the U.S.

So convincing parents to demand "separate shots" will lead those parents to a dead end ... because their doctors can't currently provide those shots.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Highly normal. Nothing to see here, folks.

Pregnant Women, DON’T USE TYLENOL UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, DON’T GIVE TYLENOL TO YOUR YOUNG CHILD FOR VIRTUALLY ANY REASON, BREAK UP THE MMR SHOT INTO THREE TOTALLY SEPARATE SHOTS (NOT MIXED!), TAKE CHICKEN P SHOT SEPARATELY, TAKE HEPATITAS B SHOT AT 12 YEARS OLD, OR OLDER, AND, IMPORTANTLY, TAKE VACCINE IN 5 SEPARATE MEDICAL VISITS! President DJT

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divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 13d

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 12d

"Instead of looking at our to-do lists and seeing that we’re being asked to do way more than is reasonable, we assume that we just need to find new ways to become more productive."

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Rest as a productive act

I’m a member of an online support group for the autoimmune condition I have and one of the recently diagnosed people wrote a post about how hard it is to cope with the pain and fatigue alongside their...

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 12d

#Yunxian 🏺🧪
Reconstruction of Yunxian 2, identified as an early member of the Homo longi (Dragon Man) lineage.

This group also contains other Chinese and Denisovan fossils. Phylogenetic analyses suggest heidelbergensis, neanderthalensis, sapiens and longi lineages all originated more than 1 mya.

Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 13d

I discuss the ~1 million year old Yunxian cranium.. youtu.be/YmtjPnuaUro?...