Elizabeth Anne, PhD
@lacksauthority.bsky.social
biologist bouncing around the Bay Area | AU and UM alum | Yale PD | first gen |🔬🏳️🌈🌎
spring awakening was my favorite musical growing up, it was incredibly influential on my adolescence. duncan sheik was extremely talented and will be missed dearly.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3d agoDuncan Sheik, the Tony- and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter who crafted the music for "Spring Awakening," has died at 56.
I'm admittedly not an early child development expert but it does seem the ideal scenario for any baby is being collectively raised by a traveling women's professional soccer team
Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 5d agoI've been curious about the balancing act that professional female athletes have to deal with when they become moms, and @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social does a great job explaining how four Washington Spirit players have managed it — with help from their teammates: www.washingtonsun.com/sports/spiri...
Last time that 🎾 asshole won a slam we organized to donate to women’s shelters. If you’d like to join in on that effort again today, wherever you are, I’d really appreciate it. Feel free to post links to your favorite charities. Here’s mine:
Every word of this re #Zverev and today's #USOpen men's singles final. The ATP, and ESPN/ABC, have been whistling on the porch hoping the parade goes by. Meanwhile two women accused Zverev of physical violence, including choking, against them. www.si.com/tennis/tenni...
Tennis Still Doesn’t Know How to Handle Alexander Zverev
The German star finally won his first major title at Roland Garros, bringing to light his complicated place in the sport.
si.com
dropped my mile run PR by 37 seconds in a week and accidentally doubled the distance I needed to swim by counting laps instead of lengths so it’s looking like I might be in an okay spot for this sprint triathlon next week??? maybe????
on the occasion of world suicide prevention day i just wanted to say that if it helps you can imagine your suicidal ideation as a weird little guy in your brain who lies to you and then you can imagine jack reacher is also up there beating the shit out of him
🚨 NEW: Biodiversity monitoring can guide surveillance for emerging pathogens. In a new PLOS Ecosystems study led by @mdcatchen.bsky.social, we present computational algorithms to select surveillance sites that capture the most actionable data. Out now: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
can’t believe tiafoe and shelton are playing one another in the semis 😭😭😭 I don’t want to have to lose one of them before the finals 😭😭😭
Phillies 1, Braves 0. A 109-pitch shutout for Jesús Luzardo. It's their first 1-0 CG shutout win since Roy Halladay did it Sept. 14, 2011.
jesús luzardo said “I want to get to my labor day bbq NOW!!!” and proceeded to throw 109 pitches in under two hours for a shutout complete game 😳
[Benoit Blanc during a Reacher Christmas episode crossover] Listen, son, I myself am of the conviction that violence is the crude weapon of an incurious mind, but I will admit that my gigantic friend here makes the most convincing argument I've yet heard on the virtues of expediency through force.
K.C. Mead-Brewer@kcmeadbrewer.com · 3y ago[benoit blanc in true detective] now i know you think time is a flat circle, but if i may, you’re thinking of a clock
I do not believe this is THE chonkers as we were in santa cruz, but this is certainly A chonker. he looks like a grizzly wandered onto the pier and fell in 😭
I keep debating if I’m willing to do another postdoc, but the reality is that when I left my paralegal role in 2018, I was making $69.5k base salary + OT + a $5k EoY bonus + a matched 401k, and the idea I would take a no benefits job paying $70k 8 years/two degree levels later is frankly ludicrous
This article succeeds where most on the same topic fail (most notably Heller's infamous New Yorker piece on the 'end of the English major') bc it shows the relationship between 'declining majors' and 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤, 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 defunding and disinvestment in programs administrators want to diminish or end.
Durba Mitra@durba.bsky.social · 3w agoThe attack and defunding of WGS at Harvard betrays the long tradition of wgs at Harvard’ with profound implications for the future of feminist scholarship @jennifercnash.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
1. Anti-trans Democrat Seth Moulton just lost his Senate primary in a LANDSLIDE to outspoken trans ally Ed Markey. To Moulton, trans kids were a liability the Democratic Party needed to abandon. But to Massachusetts voters, the only liabilities are Democrats like him.
Anti-Trans Dem Seth Moulton Loses Senate Primary to Outspoken Trans Ally Ed Markey in a Landslide
To Seth Moulton, trans kids were a liability the Democratic Party needed to abandon. But to Massachusetts voters, the only liabilities are Democrats like him.
transiticsnews.com
Yale’s Office of Public Affairs banned reporters from Yale’s campus today. It’s corroborated by Francie Diep in her story for the @chronicle.com. This was an attempt to squelch press coverage today of the rally protesting Yale’s attacks on freedom of expression, their pending deal with Trump. 1/
every day I come across dozens of jobs in academia and industry I’d be qualified for and would enjoy doing and every day not a single one of those jobs is in the Bay Area 😓
So sure, USAID was a tool of US soft power and political influence, and also, I sometimes get the sense that people saying this don’t quite comprehend the torrent of death, horror, and pain that is currently unfolding from the genuinely evil decision to suddenly destroy it.
pretty much my final act as a Yale postdoc was to vote “yes” on this union. I already knew I was leaving and wouldn’t see the benefits, but planting trees, future generations’ shade, etc etc now knowing I pissed off Mr “unyoke the sciences from the humanities,” the choice is all the sweeter 😇
Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 4w agoOpinion | Postdocs Aren’t Burger Flippers: Why Unionization Is a Bad Idea Unionization disrupts the bespoke mentor-mentee relationships that are central to the advancement of science. By Evan D. Morris: https://bit.ly/3Sus7fa #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
just opened a bag of dog food to find it completely full of webbing and teeming with moths so naturally I need to burn my fucking house and surrounding neighborhood to the ground California, I know wildfires are a problem, but you really want this one, trust me.
my niece turned five today and got her graduation email from the imagination library 😭😭😭
A tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that doesn’t need a fridge has passed its first human trial. UK scientists reformulated a licensed shot using trehalose, the sugar that lets desert plants survive without water, keeping it stable for up to two years at 30°C. Gavi buff.ly/1kNIUHB #ShareGoodNewsToo
Fridge-free vaccine passes first human trial, raising hopes for the hardest-to-reach
Unreliable electricity makes it hard to keep vaccines at the right temperature – this development could change that.
gavi.org
The real American 🇺🇸 “brain drain” isn’t that a few established scholars might get new jobs outside the US, it’s the enormous number of grad students - particularly international grad students - who can’t or won’t study in the US now or in years to come. That’s the body blow.
Major kudos to MIT, who just put out a report about AI on their campus that lucidly explains the threat posed by AI to cognition and the student experience, while at the same time prioritizes learning, students, and the value of education. 1/x aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
Report – AI and Education
aiandeducation.mit.edu
this was the most disrespectful camerawork at a sporting event I have ever seen in my life.
They don't even make arguments anymore. They just say the name of the fifth-best team's sixth-best player and look at you like this
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 4w agoLMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
I’m going through a health thing that affects my sleep but am at the limit of nights where I’m willing to use pharmaceutical sleep aids, so I’m falling asleep tonight the way nature intended: putting all 9 minutes 36 seconds of something corporate’s 2003 classic “konstantine” on repeat
