Dr. Stephanie
@punkrockscience.bsky.social
PhD brain and genomic scientist. Ocean junkie. Computer wrangler. Open data believer. Geek. Punk. Not that kind of doctor. Views only my own. She/her
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The project is way too busy and everyone’s worried about deadlines? Reduce meetings by 50%, minimum. ✨✨ Magic! Happy team! Achievable deadlines! ✨✨
Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”
Captain Ahab, woman, cries out, “From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale.” First mate Starbuck replies, “You’re being super emotional about this whale. Maybe wait before making any decisions?"
Captain Ahab, Woman
Captain Ahab, woman, cries out, “From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale.” First mate Starbuck repl...
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My @peculiarityshop.bsky.social hummingbird earrings have arrived, and they’re adorable! THEY HAVE ITTYBITTY BIRDIE FEET!
Dear hivemind: recommend me an iOS mail client? I need multiple emails, colored labels, auto-filtering rules, and ideally user avatars/favicons (so not Apple Mail). I do *not* want something that AI-ingests all my email (so not Spark). I’m switching off Airmail because they hiked their price 4x.
This still makes me molten-lava furious and will until the day I die. People - good people - died because of these people’s unchecked, blatant greed. People sacrificed themselves for their patients. People will live with permanent disability. All so some rich guys could get a little richer.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 3d agoIt's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"
Easy like Sunday morning: - hung new racks for the dog leashes - framed and hung two (2) art - darned the holes in my partner’s tshirts (the old one and the one the puppy made today) - edited five pages of grant proposal - cleaned everything - laundry
If you want a big spectacular book-adaptation American movie about a reluctant clever hero on an impossible journey through weird places (which I do), Project Hail Mary is great.
I don’t *want* to be revising a grant proposal today. And yet here we go…
I’m officially old: my nightmares last night weren’t about missing a final exam - they were about yearly performance reviews.
can we sometimes be asking "what qualifies this guy to speak on this subject?" or has that ship sailed
I’m getting a pretty decent idea of the timing of when some of these shells are collected by knowing it was some time between 1946 and when some of these species names changed from what Mme. Noshpitz labeled them. Murex taxonomy, man. Oof.
From our teenage son who is off on adventures with a bestie this weekend. For all my Xenennials Bluesky uncs.
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It's been two and a half months since the Ebola outbreak in the DRC was declared and it is now the biggest the country has ever experienced and the second largest the world has ever seen. Dozens of cases continue to be reported each day across three separate provinces. 🧪 insp.cd/sitrep-n077-...
Earlier this month I had the opportunity to work with Elsi, this beautiful red-sailed ship. It looked so tiny in between the massive icebergs of Greenland.
I am ALSO observing it today. Observing it very carefully. August may have escaped containment and be invading July. Further updates to follow.
Joseph M. Adelman@jmadelman.bsky.social · 5d agoBecause the 1st is a Saturday, “How is it August already?!” will be observed today, Friday, July 31, 2026. Please panic accordingly.
Hoooooooly fuck. This is pretty worst-case-scenario in terms of controlling spread - hundreds of cases, months earlier than was officially known and reported?
EXCLUSIVE: Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detected
A remote mining town gripped by fear saw hundreds of suspected cases before the government declared an outbreak, report says
science.org
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
the happy sounds of a data scientist with a functional new workflow *noisy smashing punk music*
The truly stunning part of this story is that no one at Google was willing to say this was a bad idea *before* it got released into the world. The backlash was so quick and so intense because the inevitable bad outcomes were SO obvious.
NPR@npr.org · 5d agoJournalists, human rights advocates and open source analysts recoiled in horror at the move: "The opportunities for abuse and disinfo are literally boundless," said one. n.pr/4c7L91d
Aside from the embarrassment factor - I personally would have sunk through the floor - this is yet another blow for PEPFAR and the US amongst the international public health community.
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...
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“These DNA fragments have prompted scientists to think about smallpox in a new light. It may not have begun as the dreaded killer we think of it as today. It’s possible that it was a relatively mild infection for centuries, taking many generations to evolve into Jenner’s dreadful scourge.”
‘This Is Very Strange’: Ancient Smallpox May Have Been Less Deadly
Scientists have found smallpox viruses in the remains of people in Chile from around 500 years ago, revealing how the virus may have evolved into a global killer.
nytimes.com