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Rachael French

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Chair of Biology @SJSU, nerd, mom, Social Justice Ranger. The Matriarchy is Coming. She/Her. Opinions are my own. I swear a lot. drrachaelfrench on Threads.

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My husband says, “Almost everyone in every job.”

11.03.2026 03:24 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

absolutely not a dig at OP or any other person whose palms are (correctly) permaglued to their faces about this insanity, but I just cannot dredge up an ounce of surprise about how stupid and helpless men can be

11.03.2026 02:59 👍 51 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0

the hypochondriacs are gonna be the true heroes of the zombie apocalypse, make friends with us now

11.03.2026 03:07 👍 58 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
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‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities – and society at large

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

11.03.2026 03:07 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I have thought about this long and hard and I know exactly which one of my coworkers would hide a zombie bite from the rest of the team.

11.03.2026 02:56 👍 33 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 5
Learned more horrible secrets from messages left by Veronica #ZombiesRun

Learned more horrible secrets from messages left by Veronica #ZombiesRun

Back to running in the dark. God, I hate daylight savings time.

Learned more horrible secrets from messages left by Veronica #ZombiesRun

10.03.2026 14:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You do sort of have to wonder if she was really listening to the voices.

10.03.2026 01:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The thing is, she has songs by both Elvis Costello and Elvis Presley in her Spotify list. Because she likes the music her parents like and I liked the music my parents liked.

She just didn’t realize until that moment that they were different people.

10.03.2026 01:50 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Reader, she thought I was talking about Elvis Presley.

We had a bit of a conversation and a few sample songs from both men’s careers. 😉

10.03.2026 01:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

My daughter (16) and I were listening to an Elvis Costello song on the drive to school this morning. I said something about him managing to be a rock ‘n’ roll star and look like a nerd at the same time.

She asked, “I thought he was supposed to be hot?”

10.03.2026 01:49 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

One of the biggest signs of this I've noticed is how female body hair has been demonised over the years.
When I was a teen it was only underarms and legs that had to be shaved to 'look good' but now I know men who are genuinely revolted by ANY body hair at all. And you know what....?

09.03.2026 13:05 👍 89 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 0

Purity culture is a fetish that sexualizes children.

09.03.2026 06:08 👍 21 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Also, who’s not ready? The parents? Because kids generally won’t ask you questions unless they’re ready for the conversation.

If the parents aren’t ready for the conversation, they’re cowards and bad parents because you should always be ready to talk to your kids about whatever they want.

08.03.2026 17:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It must be so weird to live in parts of the country where people actively make sure their children are confused by seeing two people of the same gender kissing.

I gotta tell you, if you just don’t call attention to it, kids aren’t confused by it at all.

Speaking from experience and…California.

08.03.2026 16:12 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm too bored of this to try and be clever about it anymore.

If you think that two men kissing, or two women kissing, requires any more explanation than a man kissing a woman, that is homophobia.

08.03.2026 09:56 👍 5814 🔁 1398 💬 60 📌 19

in a way this is fascinating because in the family you hide this member from guests at dinner parties and the US is like buddy he's doing a daily off the cuff 30 min sesh with the press

07.03.2026 17:46 👍 1210 🔁 156 💬 56 📌 6
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Study suggests most Americans would be healthier without daylight saving time According to a new analysis by Stanford Medicine scientists, changing clocks twice a year disrupts circadian rhythms, leading to higher rates of stroke and obesity.

You spelled "Standard Time" wrong. Please follow the research on this med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

06.03.2026 20:57 👍 26 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Doctors in your state have given you every reason not to make DST permanent. Health and safety need permanent Standard Time instead!

07.03.2026 00:21 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Biologist here - there is reason. There’s evidence (lots of it) that DST is harmful to human health. Not just the switch - DST itself.

We should lock the clock on permanent standard time.

07.03.2026 02:55 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Yeah, someone told me recently that "the future of computational biology is all AI" and referenced the Nobel Prize in Chemistry as his evidence.

06.03.2026 23:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Everyone else is doing it isn’t as compelling as people might thing it is for the Just Say No generation

06.03.2026 22:56 👍 125 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0

The machines. Do not. Have feelings.

Because feelings are, lol I have to inform you, a combination of brain and biology. They don’t have an amygdala releasing cortisol into their circuitry, ffs.

*screams into the void*

06.03.2026 15:13 👍 34 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0

And finally: Try to watch this show and tell me it’s reasonable to say the portrayal of Daryl Hannah comes from a place of compassion.

06.03.2026 14:51 👍 103 🔁 2 💬 6 📌 0

I HATE the Where’s My Mommy subplot monster Fleet Academy.

I don’t care, I don’t like either of you, stop wasting my time.

06.03.2026 05:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Secretly…

06.03.2026 03:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

FFS, they have Hugh Laurie as an avatar. They’re secret 55. 😉

06.03.2026 03:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Someday he'll fire RFK Jr. too, because he's a savvy politician, and RFK Jr. is viscerally disgusting to the human sensibility. When he does - and he will - public health will have to grapple with the fact that it was doable, and we could have tried harder, sooner

05.03.2026 20:12 👍 1859 🔁 320 💬 2 📌 1

Trump just gave Oklahoma Dems such a golden opportunity, filing deadline (unlike most places) hasn't passed yet. Any appointed Sen is easier than Millionaire Mullin

If they wanted to [they don't] they have 4 whole weeks to find someone. Maybe @runforsomething.net has someone great in their rosters

05.03.2026 20:03 👍 174 🔁 55 💬 9 📌 5

[Exit Murderer.]

05.03.2026 18:25 👍 5472 🔁 1276 💬 46 📌 45