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Dr. Stephanie

@punkrockscience

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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Update: Having finally gotten inside, I see why people aren’t coming out. I would like to die in this library: 50% built-in bookshelves, 50% beautiful stained glass, giant overstuffed leather couches? Yes please.

06.03.2026 16:46 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

New Orleans gets a pass because that’s a whole major regional thing - and there are many reasons I avoid western PA. 🀣

06.03.2026 15:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m at an estate sale where people keep going in but no one is coming out. I’m seriously starting to worry the house is eating people.

06.03.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

….well, now I know I must be pronouncing all of those incorrectly! 🀣

06.03.2026 15:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

In Charlottesville, there’s a road that drives me nuts because it’s obviously β€œree-oh” - spelled Rio and over/along the river - and all the locals say β€œrye-oh”.

In the DMV, it’s the entire damn town of McLean.

06.03.2026 15:27 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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Analysing Darwin specimens without opening 200-year-old jars Scientists have successfully analysed Charles Darwin's original specimens from his HMS Beagle voyage (1831 to 1836) to the Galapagos Islands.

Analysing #Darwin specimens without opening 200-year-old jars

#scienceSky #evoSky

www.ukri.org/news/analysi...

06.03.2026 00:27 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

06.03.2026 04:02 πŸ‘ 1378 πŸ” 310 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 7

THE single most β€œwe only do twitter and don’t understand bluesky” behavior, STILL, is people not posting the link to the actual news story in the first post in a thread. There is no algorithm here! Posts are not demonetized or restricted or downvoted or whatever because they have links!

06.03.2026 00:41 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New NASA Asteroid Observations Eliminate Chance of 2032 Lunar Impact - NASA Science Using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observations collected on Feb. 18 and 26, experts from NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at the

Hey, so, we have some news about something that won't be happening in 2032.

05.03.2026 15:59 πŸ‘ 91 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 11
The β€œcome and take it” banner/meme, but instead of the Texan cannon under the star, it’s a Dunkin iced coffee

The β€œcome and take it” banner/meme, but instead of the Texan cannon under the star, it’s a Dunkin iced coffee

05.03.2026 23:59 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think the snarky bsky haters may be getting to you. 🀣

05.03.2026 21:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I also dreamt I was taking notes on my shoe(?!) because I didn’t have any paper.

05.03.2026 11:46 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Presentation nightmares, public health style: I dreamt I had measles.

05.03.2026 11:33 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

One of the wildest things about the AI movement is that people suddenly consider it not just acceptable but good to say, in front of the internet, their own bosses, and everybody: β€œI have stopped doing the majority of the job you hired and are paying me to do.”

05.03.2026 05:37 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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A new mystery emerges about Epstein's involvement in Harvard genetics study Someone seems to have altered the Personal Genome Project’s profile page believed to belong to Epstein to indicate he provided consent to join the study Jan. 31, 2026.

I have *so* many questions.

05.03.2026 03:55 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ex-Navy newspaper layout guy and ex-Navy construction worker and sometime farmer

05.03.2026 01:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This president can declassify things just by thinking about it, remember? /sarcasm

05.03.2026 01:46 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(

04.03.2026 20:02 πŸ‘ 1965 πŸ” 668 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 39
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RFK Jr has 'unreviewable' authority to reshape vaccine policy, DOJ lawyer tells judge A lawyer for the Trump administration told a judge on Wednesday that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has such broad authority over vaccine policy that he could even ​scrap re...

Given that the Supreme Court has weighed in on vaccine policy several times (Jacobson vs Massachusetts, 1905: states can compel vaccination; Biden vs Missouri, 2022, Healthcare Facilities can require vaccination unless religious or medical exemption), this seems like a losing argument...

04.03.2026 23:00 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is PERFECT.

04.03.2026 21:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I *know* I’m not the only person who’s seen this - Kurt’s family apparently sued over it. There’s no way it’s unintentional, right?

04.03.2026 21:48 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Image of a page from the Vonnegut book β€œBreakfast of Champions”. It reads: β€œI am programmed at fifty to perform childishly-to insult "The Star-Spangled Banner," to scrawl pictures of a Nazi flag and an asshole and a lot of other things with a felt-tipped pen. To give an idea of the maturity of my illustrations for this book, here is my picture of an ass-hole:” 
Beneath the text is a hand-drawn asterisk that looks suspiciously like the Claude logo

Image of a page from the Vonnegut book β€œBreakfast of Champions”. It reads: β€œI am programmed at fifty to perform childishly-to insult "The Star-Spangled Banner," to scrawl pictures of a Nazi flag and an asshole and a lot of other things with a felt-tipped pen. To give an idea of the maturity of my illustrations for this book, here is my picture of an ass-hole:” Beneath the text is a hand-drawn asterisk that looks suspiciously like the Claude logo

Everything else aside, I have one recurring problem with Claude, and it relates to having read a LOT - possibly an unhealthy amount - of Kurt Vonnegut.

04.03.2026 21:48 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I can tell you, but I almost feel bad doing so because that way lies deeeeeeeemons. 🀣

04.03.2026 19:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, exactly. I don’t laugh at that old joke about people in tech’s only β€œsmart home” device being a printer (and being suspicious even of it), I *am* that joke.

04.03.2026 18:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I WISH.

04.03.2026 18:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Someone added me to a blocklist for β€œsaying hateful things about people who use smart glasses” because I don’t want said glasses in or near my house, and maaaaaan, is that entitled attitude *exactly* why I don’t.

04.03.2026 18:05 πŸ‘ 67 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, this is much more helpful!

04.03.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. β€œI consider it to ...

β€œNearby Glasses” - they talk about it here:

04.03.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

There’s an android app that scans for the bluetooth pings from these glasses and alerts you when people are wearing them. I want to feed the app results to my home network and see if I can play screaming feedback into their speakers if someone tries to bring these near my house.

04.03.2026 16:33 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

No source besides the β€œWindowsLatest” tweet (that you don’t link)? And no indication in the PC World piece that it was AI-generated (though it may have been, who knows these days.)

I wouldn’t trust either report, tbh.

04.03.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0