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BMB Graduate student @ UCSD At my best I am a student, a scientist, and a citizen. Always anti-fascist. @chemonstrating.com

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Tools β€” Holehouse Lab

Oops, yes www.holehouselab.com/tools

22.02.2026 22:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Check out some of these!

22.02.2026 06:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Papers are like buses... You wait for ages, then two come along at once.

Huge congrats to @bornanovak.bsky.social and @jefflotthammer.bsky.social for pushing and driving every aspect of this work, preprinted ~1 year ago to the day (Friday before BPS), now published!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

19.02.2026 03:30 πŸ‘ 86 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2

It's hard not to feel like I have a
responsibility to be a better writer about the state of the world. Paradoxically the only way to improve is to write, so I'm trying to write about things, and maybe in doing so learn to do it better. Some thoughts on modern American protest…

11.02.2026 22:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Extremely jarring to learn that Mark McCloskey, previously best known to me and mine for brandishing an assault weapon at BLM protestors in my hometown, is now representing the pardoned January 6th rioters in their pursuit of retribution? Not surprising, necessarily, just jarring.

13.01.2026 05:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s Monroe Doctrine 2.0 Outlines Imperial Intentions for Latin America The administration’s National Security Strategy signals a return to more outwardly interventionist policies.

β€œWhat really comes out of the National Security Strategy… is that the priority of the U.S. government is U.S. corporations… What this government is essentially saying is that governments are neoliberal puppets of corporations. And so we need to apply this to foreign policy.”

17.12.2025 07:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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San Diego Doesn’t Want You to Take a Seat The lack of benches is a small piece of the larger culture of exclusion that’s been embraced in cities across the nation.

Great @voiceofsandiego.org piece on hostile architecture in SD (and all over) and how it does nothing to actually alleviate homelessness! We can all benefit from more empathy and better public spaces.

voiceofsandiego.org/2025/12/04/s...

10.12.2025 19:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I can relate to this philosophy!

08.12.2025 02:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You drum too??!

08.12.2025 02:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

In retrospect I do think it was confusing to be taught the words manifest (list of things and people on a ship) and manifest (destiny) around the same time as a child

04.12.2025 06:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just heard a pet insurance ad use the line β€œyour pet is your therapist”… I hope they know a therapy dog is VERY DIFFERENT than a dog who is a therapist

03.12.2025 03:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Rightβ€” JUST writing an article that says that everyone knows the thing β€˜everyone knows’ doesn’t feel like journalism that adds much to the conversation…

02.12.2025 22:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I would rather have a world where we all trust each other and accept that a few people will take advantage of it than a world where folks have to perform disability constantly in order to get the help they need. Let kids have an extra 30 minutes on the test, jesus fucking christ

02.12.2025 20:32 πŸ‘ 1695 πŸ” 278 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 23

I’m not sure anyone who could be described as β€˜woke’ is writing books using the word woke…

02.12.2025 05:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Almost every time I wonder aloud why some terrible staircase or path was built on the UCSD campus (primarily constructed in the early-mid 60s), I’m informed I’m looking at anti-protest architecture. Sometimes things work poorly because they’re meant to.

01.12.2025 19:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.

Don't look up!

30.11.2025 20:04 πŸ‘ 4463 πŸ” 1526 πŸ’¬ 90 πŸ“Œ 101

Sounds like you have a photic sneeze reflex! @llepodcast.bsky.social

01.12.2025 02:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunately it seems like holding people accountable for abuse is mostly just a massive inconvenience for some people and the rest is just an abstraction for them.

30.11.2025 00:04 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not really an argument but currently listening to Unsleeping City S2 which feels very on topic

28.11.2025 07:05 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Did you just get THAT misleading text from the Republicans?

If you believe that out of state billionaires have no place in Missouri politics, ignore them and sign a petition to defend your constitutional rights as soon as you can! Who listens to random texts anyways?

25.11.2025 22:07 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Also a big thank you to @adriandaub.bsky.social @mattxiv.bsky.social and Sarah Marshall for a phenomenal @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social live show, you all rocked it!

21.11.2025 07:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Had the amazing opportunity tonight to meet a personal hero, the inimitable @moiradonegan.bsky.social , who it turns out is even cooler in person!! Thanks for a great show and for being so kind!

21.11.2025 07:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ah yes; everyone’s favorite science communicator… Tom Yum @tomlumperson.bsky.social

12.11.2025 02:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I love discovering a Wikipedia page which was clearly written with love.

05.11.2025 06:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We don’t need be measured in our tone when calling out assaults on pluralistic democracy.

28.10.2025 22:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think this points to a tendency towards many smaller concessions in the face of an overwhelming onslaught on truth, but also to an unwillingness to say that you didn’t and don’t have to be at all radical to feel that what Kirk said and did was pretty evil.

28.10.2025 22:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A little worrying to see newsrooms (ie NPR today) conceding Charlie Kirk’s murder as an act of β€œleft wing political violence” in the face of the admin repeatedly claiming that, when the evidence we have is at best indicative of an anti-right wing bent, which is not actually the same.

28.10.2025 22:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@xylafoxlin.bsky.social so many congratulations on getting your medical and for all your hard work helping so many others do the same in an unfair systemβ€” we’ve all been rooting for you!

28.10.2025 00:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The US government suing for the right to racially profile brown folks, winning the court case, and then self righteously denying any racial profiling in ICE operations is preposterous. They’re asking you to deny the evidence of your own eyes.

25.10.2025 00:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There are no circumstances where human beings should be without food. There are no qualifications that make someone undeserving of access to food. If you are a human being, you should get food. I don’t care about ability, job status, legal status, or anything else. If people are hungry, feed them.

23.10.2025 23:16 πŸ‘ 3165 πŸ” 856 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 33