Ellen LeMosy

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Science Ellen, curious but a little frazzled. Working toward another career chapter and life balance. Sustained by cats. Motivated by young people and IDEA(s). Personal beef with cancer and crushers of dreams/careers.

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This seems like a good time to introduce everyone to Bobby WaffleCone

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I am also an agnostic who’s pretty convinced that Trump is the actual Antichrist at this point - or at least the type of figure that humanity came up with the term “Antichrist” to describe.

I am not a religious man and specifically think evangelical mythology is funny as shit, but at some point I have to question my priors and consider he is the actual antichrist. They do believe this figure will pull the wool over the eyes of the gullible and lead people away from their jesus.

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Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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Meteor passed over Statue of Liberty Tuesday, disintegrating high above Midtown: NASA

Meteor passed over NYC, Statue of Liberty Tuesday: NASAwww.nbcnewyork.com A number of tri-state area residents reported feeling a shaking or hearing a loud boom Tuesday morning leading to quite the mystery. NASA is estimating a meteor passed through the area around the same...

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Anyone in the Boston area looking for a lab tech? I've got a ✨stellar✨ undergrad who graduated & is looking for a lab position (industry or academia). Strong background in microbio, molecular & cell bio. Was in my lab for 3yrs, including 2 summers, and did an REU and an internship. 1/2

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My mom just sent me a picture of the waterfall inside Union Station in Toronto. Aka: the stairs inside Union Station leading to the trains. Aka: not actually a water feature, but is a death trap today because of flash-flooding. They left the building when the flooding got worse, so this “isn’t bad”

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When I read The Book of Laughter and Forgetting as a young man, I didn't understand the line “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting” but I do now. Fuck, do I ever.

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This made me laugh

The theme of the first night of the Republican convention? Identity politics. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The Republican convention kicks off with a focus on identity politicswww.washingtonpost.com The party and its candidate tried to show that it was okay for union members and Black, Hispanic and young Americans to vote Republican. Policy details were light.

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Ellie asks if the core grant I’m working on will pay for kibble. Not your kibble, Ellie. Other’s kibble. Core module directors don’t receive compensation for their labor which feels an awful lot like service. Academics do a lot of unpaid service. This is another case of that.

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In Florida, the Department of Education has declared it a month for patriotism--"Freedom Summer"-- & said that to impart to students "a sense of American pride," you should have them read Austen's Pride and Prejudice. I'm not making this up. I wish I were. www.fldoe.org/newsroom/lat...

Commissioner Manny Diaz, Jr. Announces July Books of the Month to Celebrate American Pride MonthCommissioner Manny Diaz, Jr. Announces July Books of the Month to Celebratewww.fldoe.org Commissioner Manny Diaz, Jr. Announces July Books of the Month to Celebrate American Pride Month

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school vouchers are designed to starve public schools and they’re working in that regard

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.www.propublica.org Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

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Any discussion of Musk and Thiel requires this quote: A person who has talked to each man about the other put it more succinctly: “Musk thinks Peter is a sociopath, and Peter thinks Musk is a fraud and a braggart.” nymag.com/intelligence...

Book Excerpt: Peter Thiel’s Untold College Storiesnymag.com His ideology dominates Silicon Valley. It began to form when he was an angry young man.

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this is why I got so volatile talking about the meritocratic myth successful people spout all the time. what about folks who do everything we're all told to do: got the education, dedicated years to work and/or family, took chances, learned from failures & setbacks, but still can't just survive?

Ugh Just explained to someone today I'm in emergency mode and self care is 4th behind 3 things I have no choice but to put ahead of me to survive. I see a way out, but it seems no matter how hard I work, it's always just at the horizon, never closer.

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From America's hardest-hitting investigative journalists at @teenvogue.bsky.social, a BEAUTY of an introductory piece (I've gifted annual subscriptions to random small-town libraries; you can, too!) www.teenvogue.com/story/everyt...

Every Gen Z Issue JD Vance Is Againstwww.teenvogue.com From guns, and climate change to abortion and LGBTQ rights, the Republican VP is being called “Anti-Gen Z.”

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The Republican Party has nominated a man for Vice President who says he would have ended American democracy if he’d had that role in 2021. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jd-...

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Is it bad when the VP pick’s hometown paper (owned by high profile GOPers) publishes an anti-Vance op-ed within an hour of learning he is Trump’s running mate? Because that doesn’t seem good.

Vance will hurt Trump's reelection chances. Ohio junior senator isn't ready to be VP.www.dispatch.com Opinion: Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance probably will not help former President Donald Trump win – and might cost him votes.

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Vance is he guy you ask join your team when you want someone eager to do something very illegal and very violent.

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Trump is very interested in the unity you get when you are a dictator without any legal opposition

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It’s a complete repudiation of the idea that Trump has changed or is interested in unity.

Trump’s VP pick … — demanded the DOJ open a criminal investigation of a journalist for “insurrection” over an op-ed critical of Trump — spouted replacement theory garbage — called for criminal prosecutions of other Trump critics — blamed Biden for Trump shooting — called for Biden’s prosecution

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Guy literally had secrets in his bathroom, selling them to foreign nationals. Calls people to steal votes. Sends a mob to keep himself in office. This country pissing all over its history to bend over backwards for this guy? This is the guy we bring down the whole experiment for?

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I'm heading to Germany for the second time this week. Let's hope it goes better than my first trip 😣 ("Let's call it Vienna" was Berlin) artologica.blogspot.com/2018/07/lets...

Let's Call it An Adventureartologica.blogspot.com After five years of successfully showing my work at science meetings in various cities in the US, I decided to try showing at one in Europ...

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This is deranged. The press has just decided that criticizing Trump is no longer okay. www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/m...

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I have never read anything more credulous than Axios’s thing about Trump this morning. Like…

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#LongCovid www.statnews.com/2024/07/15/l...

Functional neurological disorder is not an appropriate diagnosis for people with long Covidwww.statnews.com With long Covid continuing to be a leading cause of disability, physicians, researchers, and policymakers should follow the science — and the science does not point to functional neurological disorder...

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@JBouie ( :) ) on Threads has a similar take:

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“Nobody seems to have language to say: We abhor, reject, repudiate, and punish all political violence, even as we maintain that Trump remains himself a promoter of such violence, a subverter of American institutions, and the very opposite of everything decent and patriotic.“ #giftarticle

The Gunman and the Would-Be Dictatorwww.theatlantic.com Violence stalks the president who has rejoiced in violence to others.

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More sunsets are definitely called for. Hang in there everyone #TimelineCleanse #SkySky

The sunset posting will continue until morale improves I might run out of sunset photos #birds 🌿

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Reading Project 2025, and ... JFC. There really are people walking among us who can type out bile decrying the "federal catering program" BY WHICH THEY MEAN SCHOOL LUNCHES and not spontaneously combust.

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😻😻😻CLEANSING THERMONUCLEAR FIRE IS CANCELED FOR THE EARLY AFTERNOON! KITTENS ARE WARM, FED, & CARED FOR UNTIL THEY CAPTURE FOREVER HUMANS! GOODNESS REMAINS IN THE WORLD!😻😻😻

Take two kittens and log out until morning.