We have made our initial goal! Onward to stretch goals! (Also if you are a sick freak that likes video content, please click through to our first update where @pegasusunder.bsky.social has a rad video answering some questions about THESE HOLLOW BODIES)

Neon Hemlock@neonhemlock.bsky.social · 3d ago

Looks like we are one Club Serpentine paperback backer away from meeting our initial goal! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

doing a spot of genealogical research and just found a generation where out of (at least) nine children, only one appears to have made it to adulthood, and i'm just thinking about trying to tell that poor woman how we have the means to prevent that today and yet many are turning away from it.

Idk man sounds like a very literal skill issue??

Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d ago

"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take

Don’t forget to sign up to our seabird pride panel discussion. Whether you identify as queer or not, come along and learn how to make our field more inclusive! 🏝️🏳️‍🌈🪶

The Seabird Group@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 2w ago

Join us for our next panel discussion 'Being queer in Seabird Science'! 🏳️‍🌈 🗓️ Friday 7th August ⏲️ 09:30 - 11:00 (BST) 📍 Online Sign-up here to receive the joining link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 📷 @scottishseabird.bsky.social

At that point in the cold where I'm just a little congested and feel mostly okay other than how once an hour I start coughing hard enough that I involuntarily cry a little?

Moving expenses have, perhaps predictably, hit us harder than we were expecting. I won't get my first stipend payment until the end of Semptember, and my partner's disability checks aren't quite enough for us to get by until then. If you can help, we would appreciate it so much.

Nate Wulver@werewulver.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hey! As many of you know I'm going to be starting a PhD in History at Brown this fall. I'm incredibly excited, but the hard part is going to be getting there. My partner and I are fundraising to make the move from MN to RI possible, and would be incredibly grateful for your help.

sometimes I really wish people would just say the thing out loud to hear how it sounds before typing it out to someone else and hitting send

Yesss @neonhemlock.bsky.social met its initial funding goal for the novella series! Another 2k and you’ll get my novella. You want to feel really uncomfortable about roommate dynamics, right? You want to process your pre 2024 election feelings, right? Well: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

The Neon Hemlock Novella Series | Volume Seven

Novellas and a short story collection from “the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing” —Publishers Weekly

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You ever think about how, even with the vastness of our natural world as it is now, there's whole ecosystems and ways of life that we never got to see in the past, and then you get really sad? Amyways that's how these baby dinosaurs make me feel.

Natalia (娜塔莉)@nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 3d ago

Look at them tiny babies

I'm going to ignore any actual evidence here and just assume ice cream cures colds

Hello do you need some Wholesome Content this morning?

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 3d ago

this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...

I realized this summer I could buy a large package of tobiko/masago and then divide it into little jars, which means I can freeze them and pull out just enough for one meal. Gamechanger- it's fantastic with pasta or simple rice bowls when i have no energy to actually cook

Spokane is on fire. The state park went up in flames and went from 20 acres to 2,000 acres in a matter of an hour. If you are in Spokane and need a place to go because of the fire, my house is going to be open. People will be sleeping on the floor but it’ll be safe.

I mean when I got chased by a guy screaming homophobic slurs at me in grad school, the cops literally said "what can we really do about that?" when I called, so.

Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4d ago

It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.

Just stunning weather today

Ughhhhh still have a sore throat so had to cancel our last birding trip for ornithology, but not feeling icky enough to just stay home and sleep 🙃

I'm hearing this from local sources (not folks on here) as well-- that my neighbors are getting letters asking them all to show up at an ICE office on the weekend, possibly for deportation or placement in camps ("detention centers")

Dean Booth 🦆🐇@deanbooth.bsky.social · 5d ago

Straight-up Nazi approach: All Haitians are ordered to appear at the ICE office…

Someone apparently shed the brain cell along with the skin?

You should consider being jealous, i'm about to eat this with some fresh cloudberry curd tonight

I put a call out for mural walls yesterday and I got a lot of VERY good walls for projects of a variety of scales. Unfortunately I have only sold enough shirts this summer to cover 2 of those walls. This means more people need to buy shirts. Thems the breaks. More shirts more art. SquidFacts.Net

OOOOOOOH

Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️@oceanfilly.bsky.social · 7d ago

I am beyond excited to share that our paper, "Neurodivergent Perceptions, Experiences, and Perspectives in Academic Biological Sciences Spaces" has been published! A 🧵incoming because this paper is so special to me and the co-authors. doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Pls share. Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences - Genetics/Genomics at Smith College. apply.interfolio.com/190342

goddammit if this sore throat is covid a-fucking-gain....

the true soul of a scientist

giri nathan@girinathan.bsky.social · 6d ago

we might be throwing out a generational umami opportunity. i will taste the forbidden fish sauce defector.com/abandoned-fi...

If you have an academic in your life, please be gentle with them this weekend because they're probably freaking the fuck out.

Joseph M. Adelman@jmadelman.bsky.social · 5d ago

Because the 1st is a Saturday, “How is it August already?!” will be observed today, Friday, July 31, 2026. Please panic accordingly.

so you know how Word melts down if you try to move an image? i just learned that if you're on a OneDrive Word doc and two people try to move the image at the same time, it melts down in even more exciting and novel ways, and i had to restart the whole web browser 🙃

RaeRae needs help getting top surgery for both gender affirmation and to relieve pain. They're a political activist here in Uruguay, a wonderful person, and my beloved partner. Any amount helps! #mutualaid #trans gofund.me/28d10e84b

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ughhhhh online asynch courses are great for many situations, but their proliferation has led to a huge increase in students being like "expecting me to attend a lecture is preventing me from succeeding in this course", not understanding that the lecture (IRL or online) is, in fact, the course.

all the fucking people who say "I'm not like those BAD PEOPLE who use AI for writing, I only use it to brainstorm or find sources or organize my notes!" as though the program makes any distinction. It's still thieving from others, and then you're giving OpenAI or whoever your own ideas for free!

Emily PhD 🎓@ejwillingham.bsky.social · 5d ago

Posted in a thread where later the poster says he uses AI 🤔