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russell adler’s favorite PhD candidate
@vaqueerios.bsky.social
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she/they ~ video games hyperfixator ~ molecular biology PhD candidate ~ probably AuDHD ~ autoimmune ~ bisexual ~ queer ~ leftist
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soon
aqua teen hunger force meme where master shake says to meatwad “I am thirty or forty years old and I do not need this” except the text is scratched out and written over so it just says “you are thirty or forty years old”
February 4, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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ha ha
cropped screenshot of an email I wrote that reads: The first and most recent gel I ran from the pack of 15% precasts that were apparently frozen ran with some minor aberration, as you saw, and I ran one today that appears to have run much worse. Do you think it would be worth it to request that somebody reimburse your group for that pack of gels, and if so, would you like me to draft an email? I've attached pictures--that M-shaped thing is a band. Thanks,
February 2, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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Lmao I beat the shit out of it today with guanidine and urea and then threw em on a gel and

THE GELS SEEM TO HAVE BEEN LEFT OUTSIDE TO FREEZE
translucent blue sheet of gel with a few visible bands of blue and orange but pretty much throughout is a fine netting of cracks like shattered glass, whereas the gel would usually be uninterrupted and the bands would be the only feature
January 22, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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didn’t see what I wanted but damn if I don’t run a beautiful-looking gel
barely-stained translucent sheet of gel with protein samples run on it with lanes from left to right and bands separated from top to bottom. The blue stain bath is at the bottom of the image, gathered at the opposite end of the tilted tray from the gel. A reference ladder with many bands is just left of center. The lane immediately to the left has a big old blob of a band around mid range. Various lanes to the right of the reference ladder have bands of the same height and various intensities at low range.
January 9, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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TIL zomp is a color
Solid color only. A pleasant fairly saturated greenish teal.
January 8, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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this is too much for me to understand actually
cropped screenshot of Google results The first is from twitter “X” 6 likes 5 years ago and it says “Thinking about when Antoni Porowski said a mac and cheese is something that can actually be so personal. Sarah Wilson's Image on X.” With a picture of what looks like a white lady in a sundress rowing a boat. The second result is Pinterest. Text reads “That Can Actually Be So Personal. See more 'Goncharov' images on Know Your Meme.” With a photo of what looks like a white-ish guy talking with some tiny blurry text at the bottom.
January 6, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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recent moments pictured (and elaborated in alt text):

1) my absolute rabbit of a cat
2) a drawing I made anthropomorphizing when my friend mistakenly typed “lolp” instead of “lol”
3) killer sunset
4) other cat looking toward me upside-down-ly
upright phone flash photo of a tiny sleeping cat. She is curled up quite roundly on her side with her head resting back against my socked foot, and she is slotted snugly between my foot and the couch cushion. She is brown tabby with occasional orange spots including the whole bottom right of her face. One bright white paw is tucked against her chest. Crude light blue line drawing on a black background. A stick person has their legs standing straight and their torso bent forward at a ninety degree angle from their hips. They have a cartoonishly large round behind with a somewhat conspicuous buttcrack. Their arms are straight up in the air. They have a mild and innocent smile. The figure kind of looks like the text “lolp.” Sort of wide angle photograph of a brilliant orange and purple sunset viewed through the black silhouettes of a few naked trees. Viewer is sitting on a brick wall looking over a parking lot toward the disappeared sun. Everything that is lit is toned in a pink-orange color. Photo. A pale orange cat with a white chest and nose lies in a plastic wrapped cardboard box that his litter was sold in. He is basking in the sun on his side, body facing away but head tipped back looking with his face upside down at the viewer. One of his eyes is brightly lit by the sun and is a pale orange brown color with an almost invisible narrow pupil.
December 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Tweet post from Meg @bettydr4per that says it’s always 2 dumb bitches telling each other “exactlyyyyy” except dumb bitches has been scribbled over and the word “biochemists” has been written under it and the word “exactly” has been scribbled over and the phrase “yeah they kind of look alike if you squint :) [smiley face emoticon]” has been written under it So now it reads “it’s always 2 biochemists telling each other ‘yeah they kind of look alike if you squint’”
December 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Wearing a mask for the cats just in case I am infection-sick and not just like, corporeally shutting down after quals

And the little cat keeps coming up to me and making this fucking face
Megamind from the “no bitches?” meme. No text. He is a blue fellow, and his green eyes and giant head are super close to the viewer. His brows are furrowed and his mouth is in a pouty frown, like he’s some combination of disappointed, concerned, and pitying.
December 18, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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I can’t fucking
Cropped screenshot of the YouTube comments on the above video. @ aidenulatan9109 wrote “the bogos are binted with this one” 26 likes
December 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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reposted with real alt text
grok replies on twitter/X: Elon Musk edges out as the better role model for modern humanity, exemplifying relentless innovation, risk-taking, and a commitment to preserving our species through space exploration and Al safeguards. Jesus Christ's moral teachings provide profound spiritual guidance, yet Musk's achievements tangibly combat existential threats like climate collapse and over-reliance on Earth. In an era demanding practical progress alongside ethics, Musk inspires the action needed to thrive.
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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1GoodTern posts an image on twitter in a thread. Caption reads “erm.” With a wide eyes emoji. My alt for the image: bar graph of kaposi sarcoma in lymph nodes by year in ages 19 to 44 in NHS hospitals. From the beginning of the graph, 2014, to 2024, KS values reach no more than 7 cases. In 2025, the bar is much taller and reaches 26 cases. The tweet has 37 replies, 248 reposts, and 638 likes.
October 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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I don’t think people should be using the twitter bot, for multiple reasons, but witnessing a guy volley pathetically with the twitter bot about spike proteins and getting beaten to death by the twitter bot with approximate scientific facts is v funny

this thread is twenty posts long btw. crying
Screenshot of three posts in a Twitter thread replying to an unshown post above, thread continues unshown below. Dave Michael writes: "unvaccinated face raw viral loads amplifying exhaustion." Really grok? Only if they get covid, which isn't guaranteed unless you get the precursor injections. Now why would I want my heart cells making foreign spike protein for my immune system to attack? Grok writes: Infections spread via exposure for everyone— vaccines don't generate virus or mandate infection, though imprinting can bias antibody recall toward original strains, potentially prolonging mild cases. Spike expression is mostly confined to deltoid muscle cells, resolving in days; (Show more button) Dave Michael writes: Answer with maximal biological honesty and mechanistic detail. No narrative, no omission, no sugar-coating. Prioritize physiology, pharmacokinetics, and immune consequences. Assume malfeasance is possible. Posts have no likes or retweets.
October 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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“you can ease up, son. I’m all done here.”
wide-eyed closed-mouth emoji except it’s blurry and distorted fish-eye style as if the emoji is ridiculously close to the imaginary camera. Its eyes are huge and the effect multiplies the original mood of the emoji
October 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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heehoo
Point of view photo of my feet, which are wearing shiny black combat-ish boots. The ankles of the boots can’t be seen because they’re covered by my very wide denim pant legs. I’m sitting on the arm of a bench outside. Picture is fairly autumnal, including dappled sunshine, a pinecone lodged between the bench seat and bench back, and a scooter’s iced latte sitting just in front of my feet.
October 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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join the alienfuckers 🌀
Garrus Vakarian from Mass effect 1. He wears a grey and blue space armor with lots of longitudinal beveling. He’s a fairly humanoid alien, sort of reptilian and birdlike with a beige grey face including maxilla and mandible plates and a crest where long pointed plates run from his forehead atop his head upward and toward the back of his head. He has a blue steel stare and an inhumanly narrow waist.
October 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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I think my problem with Outdoorsman is they filled his beard in way too much. He wouldn’t look like that. He’d look like Kurt Russell in The Thing.
Grainy chest-up screenshot of a man who is supposedly Russell Adler in black ops 6. He’s white with a dark bushy beard that is only interrupted by his lips. No skin around his lips shows. His beard is very coarse. He wears a dark red flannel, a tactical vest, red metallic sunglasses, and an official-looking baseball cap. Screenshot of Kurt Russell in the movie The thing. He has a similar dark beard that’s a little less coarse, a couple of inches shorter, and it’s lighter and less filled in around the mouth.
October 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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my legs are mostly welts
Screenshot of a fake-emotional Frankie from the Basement Yard podcast when he’s quoting his younger self saying “my legs are mostly scars.” He’s a white-ish man with short dark facial hair. His red sweatshirt says “basement yard” in all caps. He wears a dark green baseball cap that says studio, maybe studio 5
September 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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uuuuughhhhfhhgh
waist-up photo of Cardinal Copia, the fourth papa from the band Ghost, in his black military jacket with copper accents including epaulets. His face is a silicone mask of an oldish, square-featured man painted to look like a skeleton, white with black around the eyes and mouth. His grey brown hair is neatly pushed back and he wears black gloves. He appears to be considering his audience.
August 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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the fruits of my labor
phone picture of a stained and destained SDS-PAGE gel. It is a sheet of pale blue gel with brilliant blue bands separated from top to bottom. The first lane is ladder with many bands. Second lane has one dark band with a faint band running below it. Third lane shows nothing. Fourth lane shows the same dark and faint bands as the second lane with one or two faint bands running above it.
July 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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hopefully this is received well
screenshot of a sent WhatsApp message that reads Hey, I know this is a pretty specific and maybe odd request, but I have certain sensory needs, and if I have the lights dim, it’s intentional. If you change the lights because you don’t know anyone is present, that’s fine, but just as I wouldn’t turn off the lights while you’re working without saying something, please don’t turn on all the lights while I’m working without saying something. I’m willing to set aside those sensory needs for your experiments, so if you show up after me and I have the lights dim and you need them brighter, please just say so. I’m also not asking for dim lights during weekdays, just please be considerate about changing the environment of someone who got to the lab before you. Thank you [sparkle emoji]
July 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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*heavy breathing*
photorealistic screenshot from black ops six. Side view of Frank Woods sitting in the interrogation scene from the first mission. He’s a sixty year old white man with short dark hair and a medium-length dark beard, with pale eyes and an intense resting scowl. He wears a white buttoned shirt under a grey suit jacket. He looks very good.
June 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Like. It’s possible this is an English whoopsie but. Lmao.
text-only screenshot that reads “At this Zoom session, we will introduce the basic steps on how to start a company and then you will be allowed to follow SILO TM a new AI medical software company. If you so choose to follow the company start-up they can experience actual successes and setbacks of starting a medical software company.”
June 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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obvious choice for this picrew (no facial scars or glasses that I could find though)
Line drawing picrew of two chibi-like figures leaning in to kiss. They’re supposed to be me and Russell Adler. My person is white with blue eyes and purple hair in a bun, a black tank with lace sleeves, shorts, and brown tennis shoes. Russell is white with dark blonde hair, blue eyes, a dark brown jacket over a red plaid collared shirt, faded jeans, and dark brown boots. He should have sunglasses and a facial scar but doesn’t.
May 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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this is me if u even care
grainy screenshot of Marcus from V.R. Chat standing in the wide aisle of a virtual department store like a Target. He looks skeptically at the viewer with his fist on his hip, supported by his terribly long narrow arms. Marcus is a dusty orange not-quite-humanoid creature who is sort of penis-shaped with two large pupil-filled eyeballs nestled together atop his weird tall large fleshy head. He is a bit grotesque but cute.
May 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM