Emily Parker
@utopiatalks.bsky.social
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My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.
New York Has a New E-Bike Speed Limit—and No Way to Enforce It
August 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
Still finding the joy in this effed up country.
October 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Still finding the joy in this effed up country.
Weekend trip to Central Oregon. So beautiful.
September 21, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Weekend trip to Central Oregon. So beautiful.
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RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.
RFK Jr.-Backed Vaccine Panel Advises Against MMRV Vaccine for Young Children
New members of a key committee tweak routine childhood vaccine guidance as some states and insurers go their own way.
www.wsj.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.
Spending the last days of summer pondering the state of this world from the comfort of the bottom of a river.
September 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Spending the last days of summer pondering the state of this world from the comfort of the bottom of a river.
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Rümeysa Öztürk was detained by ICE for her op-ed in the Tufts Daily.
Now, the student newspaper is sharing her first public account of her experiences of being forced to live in cramped, unsanitary conditions and having her medical and religious needs ignored.
Now, the student newspaper is sharing her first public account of her experiences of being forced to live in cramped, unsanitary conditions and having her medical and religious needs ignored.
Op-ed: ‘Even God cannot hear us here’: What I witnessed inside an ICE women’s prison - The Tufts Daily
On a Tuesday in March, I had spent most of my day working on my dissertation proposal and started to feel exhausted and hungry. It was the holy month of Ramadan, and I was fasting. Once finished, I qu...
www.tuftsdaily.com
July 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Rümeysa Öztürk was detained by ICE for her op-ed in the Tufts Daily.
Now, the student newspaper is sharing her first public account of her experiences of being forced to live in cramped, unsanitary conditions and having her medical and religious needs ignored.
Now, the student newspaper is sharing her first public account of her experiences of being forced to live in cramped, unsanitary conditions and having her medical and religious needs ignored.
Evening swim in the Columbia. Very fortunate to live in Oregon.
July 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Evening swim in the Columbia. Very fortunate to live in Oregon.
After a very long week I went through more New Zealand photos. Here is a landscape in the Northland I just love. Wish I could be there again now.
May 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
After a very long week I went through more New Zealand photos. Here is a landscape in the Northland I just love. Wish I could be there again now.
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The whole point is not just the state disappearing whoever they want, it's you being in the habit of accepting the state choosing whom to disappear, without question. It's submission to the state. Same as with Gitmo after 9/11. The state's judgment must not be questioned.
March 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The whole point is not just the state disappearing whoever they want, it's you being in the habit of accepting the state choosing whom to disappear, without question. It's submission to the state. Same as with Gitmo after 9/11. The state's judgment must not be questioned.
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Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field.
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News
Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...
kffhealthnews.org
March 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
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Wtf are we doing?? *bangs head against wall*
The Iowa GOP advanced a bill making it a misdemeanor for a healthcare provider to administer a Covid vaccine.
Even when a person has requested a Covid vaccine.
Even when a person has requested a Covid vaccine.
March 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Wtf are we doing?? *bangs head against wall*
A moment of zen from my continuing trip in New Zealand
February 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A moment of zen from my continuing trip in New Zealand
Escaped to Aotearoa/New Zealand for the month 😍
February 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Escaped to Aotearoa/New Zealand for the month 😍
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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
www.finance.senate.gov
February 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
Pallet cleanser. The beautiful oregon coast ☺️
January 31, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Pallet cleanser. The beautiful oregon coast ☺️
This is so terribly fucked up. The racism is so blatant. Absolutely disgusting from this already abhorrent administration.
1. the subtext of these talking points is that nobody can do jobs as well as white guys, so if a woman or person of color is in a role they are inherently suspect
2. do we even know if a woman or person of color had anything to do w/ the DCA crash? or just making assumptions?
2. do we even know if a woman or person of color had anything to do w/ the DCA crash? or just making assumptions?
January 31, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This is so terribly fucked up. The racism is so blatant. Absolutely disgusting from this already abhorrent administration.
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“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
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A quick reminder: For every $1 of research funding, NIH generated $2.46 in economic activity. This includes funding jobs in all 50 states. This isn't a red/blue thing: 8.9 jobs per $1M in CA & 12 jobs per $1M in GA. #AcademicSky #PhDSky #MedSky #HealthSky #healthequity #SciComm
bit.ly/40NkIc0
bit.ly/40NkIc0
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org
January 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
A quick reminder: For every $1 of research funding, NIH generated $2.46 in economic activity. This includes funding jobs in all 50 states. This isn't a red/blue thing: 8.9 jobs per $1M in CA & 12 jobs per $1M in GA. #AcademicSky #PhDSky #MedSky #HealthSky #healthequity #SciComm
bit.ly/40NkIc0
bit.ly/40NkIc0
A pic of one of my favorite groups of bees, the green metallic sweat bees (Agapostemon spp.). And a reminder that planting native flowering plants is a great way to affect positive change in your hyper local community. (Winter is a great time to seed on rainy day) The native bees will thank you.
January 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
A pic of one of my favorite groups of bees, the green metallic sweat bees (Agapostemon spp.). And a reminder that planting native flowering plants is a great way to affect positive change in your hyper local community. (Winter is a great time to seed on rainy day) The native bees will thank you.
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Yet another from the birding experiment. Love the background here. This sparrow was lost in song, so I snapped a few 📸
January 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Yet another from the birding experiment. Love the background here. This sparrow was lost in song, so I snapped a few 📸
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Another from yesterday's outing. A ruby crowned kibglet. Not super sharp, got an action shot though.
January 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Another from yesterday's outing. A ruby crowned kibglet. Not super sharp, got an action shot though.