the other Rebecca, PhD
@rebelipar.bsky.social
Schadenfreude appreciator, cat person, terminally online, bike commuter, amateur (film) photographer, EmoryUnite! (SEIU/WU Local 29) bargaining committee member-emeritus, postdoc in my spare time. VA → NOLA → RVA → ATL → Philly! (She/her)
I should have done more catching up on work today, but it was too lovely outside to stay inside. And, shout out to Previous Me for refreshing my sealant before leaving the house because halfway through this I was *so* close to getting a flat. Never had a tire hiss out so much sealant before!
Once again, I love when my employer is in the news. But they are the good guy this time, so that's an improvement.
Ironbound@ironbound.bsky.social · 4d agoMan this guy sucks
Oh damn! Many thanks to the braconid wasps for helping out in the garden
I'm going to be thinking about this for a while, lol. Why in the world would faculty get any input into whether postdocs unionize? Thinking they would is *exactly* why the postdocs are unionizing. Seriously the stupidest shit I have read in a while. Beyond parody.
the other Rebecca, PhD@rebelipar.bsky.social · last wk.Why would comments be solicited about a unionization vote? Once the cards are submitted and the NLRB finds that a sufficient number have been signed, there has to be an election, it's illegal not to. (It should also be illegal to talk about unions with this little knowledge.)
This is some of the stupidest shit I have ever read.
Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 2w 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
I was at work 16 hours yesterday and, frankly: I am tired. But today, the garden provides
Fun fact: I will never give you money if you send me emails like this.
Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 3w agoThis isn't just a story about rogue spam PACs and fundraising firms like PTP and Mothership that the party hasn't reined in. There's a cottage industry of spam vendors, and the DCCC/DSCC's fundraising bears the hallmarks of elder financial exploitation, just toned down. Side-by-side comparison 👇🧵
Bluesky is the best social media app because when you click on a link it opens in your actual normal browser.
I think both kinds of mountains are nice, in their own way. One you see and are like "Woah." The other you see and are like "oooooo".
Kris 🎃 Lorischild@direkris.itch.io · 4w agoIt's so cute when people on the east coast talk about mountains
Not a fan of getting to work at 4:30am for a harvest followed by 9 hours of sample prep, but I *am* a fan of leaving work at 3:15 and getting a beer on the way home. You win some, you lose some.
I think I need to make a yellow tomato sauce. These Lemon Boys are ridiculous.
All the people who are anti-car, I have one question: if cars disappeared tomorrow, could you still live your life????? Would you actually give up your car??¿???¿ (Yes.)
Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · last mo.I have one answer.
I only saw that still and he looked like he was about to hit someone, so obvious
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last mo.Every adult woman that I have been deeply familiar with has had a moment with a man when she knows that he would hit her if be could get away with it. Some even know what he looks like when he does it. You never forger what it looks and feel like. That Miller video has it all.
Rode my bike again, picked up my film, reported a bunch of cars parked in the bike lane, snagged some nice stuff at the thrift store... Hell yeah 🚲
Rick Steves for President
The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 2mo agoTwo big names have joined the campaign to defeat a ballot measure that would repeal Washington state's new "millionaire's tax": @kenjennings.bsky.social & @ricksteves.bsky.social. Steves: “A new tax on fat paychecks like mine was just signed into law in my home state — and I like it.”
This shit happens everywhere, and still somehow there are people in university admin who don't understand why we want unions. THIS IS WHY WE WANT UNIONS (Yes, also to push for better pay and benefits, but really it's so that we can call out the fuckers and not get fired over it.)
the other Rebecca, PhD@rebelipar.bsky.social · 2mo agowww.science.org/content/arti... Despite being a circadian researcher, I'm bad at names (and, sorry, I haven't paid that much attention to last authors, being a "first author stage" person) so I only heard about this guy like two months ago. Happy to return to not knowing who he is.
![Tiffany Chin, a graduate student at Salk who left Panda’s lab in April, said the research assistant approached her in late February. She told Chin that Panda had been harassing her, including giving her massages in his office. She said on one occasion she turned down a foot massage, and he later screamed at her that she would never make it in science, which “scared her,” Chin told Science in a text. “It made her realize that unless she complies with him that she’d lose her letter of recommendation, might get fired, etc.” The research assistant also showed Chin texts Panda sent her that she found inappropriate. She told Chin she planned to make a formal complaint against Panda to Salk’s human resources (HR) department.
Other people who spoke with the research assistant said she reported that Panda had drunk alcohol with her in his office and made sexually explicit references in conversation. One person Science spoke with witnessed Panda regularly meeting with the research assistant for hours in his office—far more time than he usually spent with his postdocs and graduate students. “She was the favorite among the lab personnel—[the favorites] were mostly women,” the person says.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5hs3fgxenbpgmtogulc43hnw/bafkreibwxqahwyfnj46mpjwhbudgg4vjttmutcjinth7f4w66pnaxddcjy)
www.science.org/content/arti... Despite being a circadian researcher, I'm bad at names (and, sorry, I haven't paid that much attention to last authors, being a "first author stage" person) so I only heard about this guy like two months ago. Happy to return to not knowing who he is.
You've heard of a sore loser, but have you tried a sore winner?
Re: smoking, are there just more/denser people in Philly, or do way more people smoke here? Literally every time I am at the work bike rack, people are using it to smoke. (I work at a research hospital!)
Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · 2mo agoI genuinely hate the push to make smoking a thing again. I have watched so many drawn out, ugly, painful deaths from smoking. It makes everything disgusting. It enslaves us to the worst kinds of corporations. There’s ZERO positive here.
My first Philly package theft. I must really live here now.
I can't stop thinking about this melon that I had no idea was growing until yesterday's storm disheveled the leaves... She's so perfect. I must protect her at all costs
Again, sorry for accidentally telling Flock employees to their face multiple times at a wedding that it's evil, but also actually not sorry. Sorry for lying about being sorry, I guess.
Yes, and what follows in my mind is that the candidates with histories of being rapists just don't consider what they did to actually be bad.
Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 2mo agoI don’t understand how people can run for office knowing they have insane baggage and/or crimes. Like I spent the entire campaign expecting AIPAC to somehow dig up my middle school livejournal fanfic account. I prepared my family for it. I’m still amazed it didn’t happen.
