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karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social
Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her)
@karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist studying epilepsy and looking for cures. LGBTQ ally. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Warning from George Orwell “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” No DMs. Also, I am proud to be woke.
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Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her) @karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social · 17h
Now we need those universities to follow suit
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d
Solidarity is the only way
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 22h
Saturday is going to be huge, boisterous and joyful: “It doesn’t matter if you’ve never protested before. This is a place for you if you believe we don’t do kings in this country.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social to @maddow.msnbc.com

Please join us on No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
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Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her) @karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social · 20h
thank you - please hold that line
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Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her) @karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social · 1d
Not signing it? Well that’s good
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2d
My quote of the day

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

Linus Pauling
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d
Be there. Saturday, October 18th.
www.nokings.org
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d
Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans
Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.
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Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her) @karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social · 2d
we saw her speak in utah a number of years ago -incredibly powerful
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d
On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d
Do you know what you are doing on Saturday, October 18?

If the answer is no, you are deserving of nonlethal, but firm slap. #NoKings
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Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her) @karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social · 3d
Yikes
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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 3d
“A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water."

–Eleanor Roosevelt ☕️
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Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her) @karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social · 3d
Got ours today
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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 3d
Before you hit the streets- join the know your rights, protest safety, and de-escalation training on 10/15/25 at 7 PM ET.

Together, let’s send a clear message: the people will not be silenced. act.aclu.org/a/no-kings-k...
No Kings: Protest Safety, Know Your Rights & De-Escalation Training 10/15
I'm attending this event - sign up now to join me!
act.aclu.org
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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 3d
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Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her) @karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social · 4d
probably right....
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 21d
Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child.

RFK Jr. has now cut her entire division.
RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.
While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals,...
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4d
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
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Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her) @karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social · 4d
This is destroying a generation of junior scientists - it will take time to rebuild as they either leave for other countries or take up other careers. Also, it takes awhile to rebuild labs. and if the data is gone.....it's gone.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 4d
There are more of us than there are of them—and we know our right to assemble peacefully and protest. I’m counting on my fellow Americans to prove that at the No Kings protest on Oct. 18.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 4d
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
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Blue Laura @bluelaura.bsky.social · 4d
The knitting 🧶 & that some of us don’t like driving home in the dark had me 🤣😹😂😹
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Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her) @karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social · 4d
Welcome to the boycott Neil!
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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 4d
Neil Young Pulls Music From Amazon: “Don’t Go Back to the Big Corporations Who Have Sold Out America." "Take America Back together, stop buying from the big corporations, support local business," the rock star wrote. Read more: bit.ly/3IDnbQg
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Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her) @karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social · 4d
Jimmy Kimmel is collecting them from youtube with #ShowMeYourHellHole hashtags...
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Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her) @karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social · 4d
they are evil...
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