Laura Hollister
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Laura Hollister
@xenolith.bsky.social
Mother, Wife, Geoscientist, Feminist, & Educator. NAGT-TED Past President, 2009 OEST Recipient. BS /MS Env. Geoscience
I did. My brain wasn’t good for much else after that anyway.
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
OK, but I’m impressed you managed to keep it standing up!
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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You never know who doesn’t get enough to eat at home, so if people show up at my door I feed them.

If you are able, consider donating to a local food bank. Times are tough.

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November 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
My poor students have been asking for three weeks when they’ll be done. This was the first chance I had so I did them all.
Now my brain is mush. 🤪
November 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
It was such a different beach from those in California. So flat and wide, and the water was so warm by comparison. We had a great day hanging out and swimming and I would love to go back!
November 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I have always wanted to get up to the crane festival. I’m gonna try to add this to my calendar for next year.
I grew up sailing on the Delta, but we didn’t make it on the Molulumne very often. I love it out there.
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I am so frustrated for you.
November 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Yes!!!!
November 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Beautiful. What was the occasion?
November 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA

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Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant but neglected, a heroine t...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I visited that beach last year with my sister-in-law and I loved it!
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM