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Amber Ying 應緣

@amberying.com

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Robots and neuroscience and sex. (But not that way.) Disabled and glorious. Leftist activist who works in biotech. Taiwanese American. Queer AF. #BiInSci. Sincere and earnest. Our struggles are intertwined. (she/they) #CambMA https://linktr.ee/amberying

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · Nov 12

#Introduction: Hello! My name is Amber Ying (應緣) and I am a Taiwanese American non-binary woman living in Greater Boston. I work in biotech but am also a local grassroots organizer. My interests include cats, D&D, neuroscience, keto baking, and tarot! Let’s get to know each other!

A blonde Asian non-binary woman leans back against a peach-colored wall. They are wearing a bright orange dress that drapes over one shoulder and a pair of glasses with clear frames.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 3h

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth.

I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.

Alt text:
Statement from Fenway Health explaining that due to new federal requirements effective October 1, 2025, they can no longer provide medical gender-affirming care such as hormones and puberty blockers to patients under 19, but all other services for patients of all ages will continue unchanged.

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 1d

That's great! Also sounds like what type of screen time matters for little kids!

Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 1d

I don't think the problem is solely screen time or social media but the lack of human guidance that parents give their children. Critical thinking and social skills still need to be practiced, and unguided screen time doesn't allow for those skills to be practiced.

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 1d

Parents who use TV and the Internet as babysitters aren't as involved in their children's education and development. Very young children who have a lot of screen time are developmentally behind their peers with no, little, or regulated screen time.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Screen Time Exposure at Age 1 Year and Developmental Delay at Ages 2 and 4 Years

This cohort study examines the association between screen time exposure among children aged 1 year and developmental delay at age 2 and 4 years.

jamanetwork.com

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 1d

Since I'm expecting, I looked up the relationship between screen time and cognitive development in infants. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no screen time (except for video chats with family and friends) before 18-24 months. But I also think screen time is a proxy for something else.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens.

Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 6d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 6d

Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 6d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 6d

First approved drug for mitochondrial disease could pave way for more treatments. buff.ly/f6qmmWP

First approved drug for mitochondrial disease could pave way for more treatments

Researchers are testing multiple treatments for the rare genetic conditions

www.science.org

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 6d

FFS reading the report on the article, the author makes a very clear reference to "blood and soil", which is a Nazi dogwhistle.

Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 6d

PS: The number to the dean's office is 617-496-7700 and the email is [email protected]. (This is both public information.)

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 6d

Dean of Harvard College says that he will not investigate a conservative student publication that echoes Hitler because he has not yet received complaints. (Guess it's time to complain.) buff.ly/jb1cghb

Harvard College Will Ignore Student Magazine Article Echoing Hitler Unless It Faces Complaints, Deming Says | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard College Dean David J. Deming said during an interview on Friday that he would not review or comment on an article in a conservative student publication that echoed language from an Adolf…

www.thecrimson.com

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 7d

I am saying once again that the Conservative attack on the Arts is because they are incredibly envious of artists who they perceive as a group that has “too much” cultural power, a type of influence Conservatives crave but will never have because they’re anti-intellectuals with no imagination.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 7d

cornell alums sign and share and fight and then some docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Alumni in Support of Cornell’s Independence, Democracy, and Academic Freedom

Please add your name below if you agree to be a signatory of the following message to be delivered to the Cornell Board of Trustees: Dear Members of the Cornell Board of Trustees, Ongoing attacks on A...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 7d

doomscroll break

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Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 7d

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 7d

ICE wants to surveil your public social media 24/7: archive.today/nYgTS

archive.today

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 7d

Valuing "getting along" more than, say, human rights just legitimizes the side that does not believe in those rights. The learned helplessness of Klein and his ilk comes from a moral center that lacks understanding and clarity about basic human rights.

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 7d

Reposting the link because it's a good read: www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

I'd also say that "we are going to have to live with each other" is a common sentiment in elite spaces, or at least as part of my experience at Harvard. The shared status is more important than any other difference.

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Dr. Semuhi Sinanoglu @semuhi.bsky.social · 8d

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 #𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 #𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬?

They face huge risks, especially during economic crises, when dictators choose to financially extort or #purge their business allies. And yet, despite their power to disrupt, business elites rarely switch sides.

My research shows why.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 18d

In less than a month (10/22 at 1:00 pm), I will be celebrating yet another 29th birthday. And I want all of you to celebrate with me. I'm having a mutual aid themed Zoom party and you can all be at invited!

All you have to do to get an invitation is either:

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Sep 5

Hello Thriends! My birthday is coming up (October 22) and I want to celebrate getting old with all of you! I'm hosting a Zoom hangout on my birthday and I want you all to join me. All you have to do to get the Zoom login info is... (Cont)

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#StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · 11d

I OFFICIALLY CALL BLUESKY USERS TO DO A MUTUAL AID / DIRECT SUPPORT POSTER'S STRIKE.

No content except things that directly support marginalized people.

Flood the site with the people Jay would love to forget she is personally killing.

And nothing else.

#StrikeForMutualAid

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 11d

You could try a poster’s strike. I hear that works

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