@rchaels.bsky.social
Me, going for a walk on a work from home day: Time change into my outside sweatpants!
I am doing just a bit of reminiscing on the internet tonight (should be writing, oh well) and I still cannot let go of the fact that I think someone used my blog title for a book title. It's silly and meaningless...but I had this blog since 2011. lab-girl-writes.blogspot.com/p/about.html
About
Hey y'all, I'm Rachael. I'm a lab girl. I've been a technician for four years in a psychiatric genetics lab. As of the summer of 2013, I...
lab-girl-writes.blogspot.com
Y'all I just have to say I don't think there's a better feeling than PREORDERING A FRIEND'S NOVEL. I hope I get to do this again and again and again and again forever and ever and ever for ALL MY FRIENDS www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796407...
Mercy Hill by Hannah Thurman: 9780385551823 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A debut family novel about four sisters growing up on the campus of the underfunded state mental hospital where their strong-willed mother serves as head of psychiatry. A richly moving story of sister...
penguinrandomhouse.com
Please next time I complain about my job someone remind me that I can walk to Wilson Library, make a special collections request, and revisit a poem that I haven’t thought of in years, and couldn’t find anywhere else.
Dear all, A scientist from UNC Chapel Hill, Paul Maddox, is running for congress in NC for a seat currently held by a republican. If you care about science (and democracy) please consider donating to his campaign #Standupforscience secure.actblue.com/donate/paul-...
Donate to Paul Maddox for Congress in NC 11
Paul is running for Congress because there’s a sickness in Washington, and no one is working to cure it.
secure.actblue.com
I need to drop everything and write a short story about a family that gives up their phones and then develops superpowers. My family is doing a no-screens challenge, and my husband is talking about renovating the bathroom and the teen took a book to school. WHO ARE WE?
I heard "there's artificial intelligence, and there's actual intelligence" and almost choked to death on this cough drop
Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 10mo agoWe are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
Godspeed to all the kids with AP Bio homework requiring them to use blast who don’t have a mom with a PhD in genetics to help them. Related, how is blast still just as slow as it was 10 years ago
has anyone correctly compiled a manuscript from scrivener the first time because if so I don't believe you
Me driving through campus this morning: aww it’s moving day how sweet. Me 10 minutes later realizing I work next to a dorm and everyone is parking in my lot: ohhhhh not cute.
William Carlos Williams if he was in an open marriage:
This story has everything! Colorful characters (a woman who lived in a child's playhouse paying rent to the 8yo who owned it), a who's who of Chapel Hill writers and foodies, GHOSTS? A PODCAST?? What more could you even ask for?
Sarah Edwards@eddysarah.bsky.social · last yr.I fell down a bit of a hole, writing this feature and listening to Elizabeth Woodman's fascinating podcast on Rachel Crook – a story about outsiders, murder, small towns and legendary spaces, debts to the dead. (or something along those lines). for @indyweek.bsky.social
Kind of like Tom Holland's lip sync battle, I will always repost a picture of my dad with his funny little paperclips.
American Society for Cell Biology@ascbiology.bsky.social · last yr.FEATURED MBoC ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Kerry Bloom, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "MBoC is run by your peers. We are practicing scientists and as Editors, share the philosophy that our job is to help make the paper the best it can be." www.molbiolcell.org/editorial-bo... #ASCB #CellBiology
There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · last yr.A must read
A little reader confession: I don't read anything in italics in a book. Epigraphs, poems, little italicized blurbs before new chapters, they will not be read by me. I've never read the Lord of the Rings but if I did, would not be reading all those songs!
Dorks, it’s time to throw sand in the gears. They want us to stop teaching, we will teach in the streets. They want us to stop our research, we will use archival data. They want to send us back to the dark ages, we will be a light. We will not lay down and take this.
Science Magazine@science.org · last yr.Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
I want them to bring back blue books because these were my favorite things to write in while I was in college. Bring these back and you will know where to find me during exam time!
Bobby Cump, J.D. M.D. MBA, Esq.@bobbycump.bsky.social · last yr.Humanities professors faces when I show them this hot new piece of cutting edge anti cheating tech:
The way I SCREAMED A SCREAM upon reading scanned lines of prose. This made my poet-heart so happy, and is also proof that time heals all wounds (thousands of lines of AP Latin scansion homework.) I read this short story then listened to the podcast and then read the story out loud to myself again.
Writing is Joy@writingisjoy.bsky.social · last yr.New podcast episode is out! If you've always wanted to better understand how rhythm, melody, and sound can play a pivotal role in making your writing sing, give this one a listen! writingisjoy.substack.com/p/season-3-e...
Sometimes my husband and I try to out 90s each other, and this morning I could only name 3/5 of the Space Jam basketball players but I at least knew how tall Muggsy Bogues is. (Thanks 6th grade health class??)
I had a creative writing professor in college who when he found out I had a kid gave me some wonderful advice about waking up early in the morning to write, which I have spent 17 years ignoring, and now I have realized that he was probably right and I need to become a morning person.
You in the Triangle area and thinking about standing up for science? Come to my beloved 2nd workplace and make a sign 😊🍻 supplies provided! You can leave a sign w me and i can bring it up to DC! @standupforscience.bsky.social
