Kelly Sheppard (he/him/his)
@kstrna62.bsky.social
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Spouse, parent, home cook, educator, cynical optimist, tRNA biochemist at a small liberal arts college, collaborative research w/ undergrads, flipped classroom, CUREs, assessment, pre-health advising, Californian living in upstate NY via CT
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From the SF Bay Area - people were using the racist slurs as well as with supporting maintaining the system. The racism was pretty blatant.
My senior year, the racist comments from a school in the district, including use of the n-word, made my school's student newspaper-No response. The two schools tried to have a joint event. I reminded administrators of the comments. School investigated & the only response was not to pursue the event.
The amount of vile racist comments directed at my teammates and coaches on the field and written on chalkboards in the 90s strongly argues against them being "good old days" especially the lack of response by people in positions of power.
I graduated high school in '95. The amount of vile racist comments directed at my teammates and coaches at games and written on chalkboards would strongly argue against the commenters point. As would the lack of response from anyone in positions of power.
My parents' generation was super racist, but they took pains to hide it from us. So a lot of young conservatives in the 90s and early aughts were earnest small government and/or evangelical types.

As I said, the overt racists and radicals had to form their own orgs.
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This piece made possible by the detailed data and analysis in CDC's MMWR reports, the staff of which was reportedly laid off in last night's purge...
Last year's flu season was brutal-280 kids died. That came amid a drop in flu vax rates among vulnerable groups. Convincing people to get the flu shot has always been hard-under RFK, doctors' job got much tougher. Anyway: it's October, get your flu shot! My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁):
This Flu Season Doesn’t Have to Be as Deadly as the Last
Last year’s flu season was long, brutal, and ultimately tragic. By the time infections had subsided in May, as many as 1.1 million Americans were estimated to have been hospitalized and as many as 100...
www.bloomberg.com
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Our department is hiring a tenure-track line in Organic Chemistry and related fields! We teach and do research with undergraduate students exclusively. For a PUI, we have very good facilities and instrumentation (400 MHz NMR, six mass specs).

@chemjobber.bsky.social

jobs.cofc.edu/postings/17246
Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Organic Chemistry. The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the College of Charleston invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position beginning in F...
jobs.cofc.edu
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15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵
mitochondria from bipolar patients are closer to the nucleus in these images; control patients' are spread out further
They are pretty amazing - though seem better aligned for the physiology/medicine prize (obviously not this year). GLP-1s have lead to other prizes/awards in recent years (e.g., Lasker).
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Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
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perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.
David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press
NSAIDs are discouraged, so not many options. Her mom and grandmother are also allergic as is our daughter. Grandmother once was hospitalized because she accidentally took Tylenol and had a strong reaction.
Spouse is allergic to paracetamol - not being able to get pain relief was horrible. She supports taking it if you can. Pregnant moms who aren't allergic should be able to get the pain relief it provides. Fever reduction is also good for health.
Disney even had a Emmy-winning show about it that they might want to watch where it was pointed out the "need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear." Andor, Nemik's manifesto
Authoritarianism is scary and dangerous but so very far from invincible. And if you let yourself be convinced too much of their power, then they've won. Authoritarianism is built on fragile illusions of control and competence. It's hard but brittle and shatters readily under even a little pushback.
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They are literally canceling culture
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So many were involved in this project, but I want to give a special shout out our guest editor Mona Minkara!

Mona had a hand in selecting our theme and the 12 Trailblazers featured here. She also wrote a stellar guest essay that I highly encourage you to read: cen.acs.org/careers/dive...
The tools we build become the questions we ask
Why inclusive design is good for more than access—it expands the boundaries of discovery
cen.acs.org
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Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
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To everyone who is confused:

Charlie Kirk DID NOT face a "free speech" issue. No government was censoring him. No government was arresting him for speech, like they are, say, Palestinian rights advocates.

He freely went from campus to campus to spread hatred.
Ultimately, they are white moderates who benefit from a particular system, order, so protect a negative peace by trying to cover-up "tensions".
They ultimately benefit and like the order that is - so they protect the negative peace.
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Charlie Kirk fans threaten HBCUs because they want to lash out at Charlie’s enemies, and theirs, and they’re conceding that means black people. Not ONLY, but definitely.
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I guess the main thing I’m learning this week is that lots of elite media people knew charlie kirk personally and didn’t know any minnesota state legislators
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Dear all writers: If you can't quote what the person you're defending actually said, maybe don't defend what he said?