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Artist turned biologist turned programmer Tried doing a master in biology at UQAM rOpenSci's bold 📦 maintainer AuDHDer • they/them #QueerInSTEM #NonBinaryInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM Mastodon zeroes.ca/@salixdubois Twitter @salixduboi
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Yep. It's not all hesitancy. Access and just apathy play roles as well. Antivaxxers have convinced many the #flu shot is worthless so why bother?
Today is the last day that you can repost this image
A quantified explanation for why women make up more than 50% of biomedical graduate student cohorts but occupy only about 1/3 of faculty positions 🧪
Today is opening day for Avatar Fire & Ash. Even if you go see this film, or enjoy the franchise, or James Cameron's other works, it doesn't mean that you can't also support, sign, and share this petition.
"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out
pick up a pencil and a napkin
This is exactly why things like ethics, unconscious bias and general confronting of people’s racism in science IS necessary and will always be necessary.
For a sec, I thought it was about that. *Those* are very often (if not always?) unecessary.
The only reason “hallucinates less” is now a metric of progress is rich people decided so and our media landscape is almost entirely captured by these rich people’s rich mates. That’s the only reason.
I think the norm where academic presses own copyright of the author’s work is not a good norm
Smart! A Raven doing Raven things.
With alt text.
Also, these aren't antics. These are public threats to another country's sovereignty by the Secretary of Homeland Security. We keep treating it like a joke because to your average American the idea of invading Canada seems ridiculous. They're not laughing.
cowards
(re)designing a class to encourage deep reading by simulating a grant panel 🧪
And they rarely make the venue accessible too.
If it's so important to meet in person, don't disabled people deserve to meet in person as well?
20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.
The law only ever serves capital.
Considerably more people regret Lasik (3%), joint replacement (as high as 28%!), carpal tunnel release (7%), non-gender related cosmetic plastic surgery (20% or even higher)
No one is raising alarm bells about any of these surgeries in the way people are panicking over trans healthcare
Guess what? My ADHD brain also makes it very hard for me to lie, or it at least shows on my face; so when I say I am able to collaborate on a project or fit a role, it is because I truly believe I have something of value to add.
There's not a perfect overlap between what research members of my lab enjoy and what I enjoy, and this is a Good Thing!
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i'm at the point where i don't fucking care what the article is, if the image on the link card is obviously AI, i'm not clicking it
(i have been at this point for a while really, but it's becoming less theoretical and a more active choice every damn day)
The playbook they ran against abortion is now being run against gender-affirming medical care and will be used against birth control. Oklahoma just proposed a bill to limit IUDs this week.
You need to defend trans people's health care like your birth control depends on it.
It's not too late to join this week's #GlobalStrikeForPalestine.
You can check @USCPR_'s Public Toolkit (tinyurl.com/er43a854) which has lots of ideas.
You can contact your Congress persons (yes, multiple times).
You can amplify and re-share information.
All of it helps.
Organizers of crips esims for Gaza which has delivered esims that tangibly allow Gazans to communicate with each other & the world in communications blackouts are @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social & @sfdirewolf.bsky.social As y'all amplify their vital effort keep in mind they're here among us on bluesky.
You can learn why Anti-Zionism is NOT Antisemitism or why "From the river to the sea" is NOT calling for the end of the Jewish people. This is a good resource for those looking to learn.
It's stunning that the technical leader of the World Health Organization's COVID-19 response, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, publically reaffirmed that COVID-19 is still a global health threat and still a pandemic, yet hardly any media outlet has covered this except for this one.
Now that we have embedded video here, I decided to be the one to start this round:
learned recently that Bengalis made a pun with Biden's name calling him "jobai den" which roughly translates to "butcher them"
