Etche_homo
@etche.bsky.social
Co-director of MoPED (Mechanisms of Paracrine & Endocrine Disorders) lab in Marseille 🇫🇷 on cell signaling & determination of self & beyond during neural crest differentiation. Personal account.
Fantastic read. "The same logic that built the factory shaped the classroom & the office: linear, measurable, externally paced. The mind became another tool on the assembly line, expected to perform at a steady rhythm.... Compliance drains energy, while honesty restores it."
This piece explores how the neurodivergent mind uses the Default Mode Network to think deeply, imagine, and stay true to itself in a world that pressures sameness.
The Default Mode Rebellion: Why Divergent Brains Refuse to Conform
A science-based look at how neurodivergent minds challenge conformity and fuel human evolution
medium.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Fantastic read. "The same logic that built the factory shaped the classroom & the office: linear, measurable, externally paced. The mind became another tool on the assembly line, expected to perform at a steady rhythm.... Compliance drains energy, while honesty restores it."
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The New York Times take on the Ashland ABC store drunken raccoon: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
A Drunk Raccoon Passed Out in the Bathroom of a Virginia Liquor Store
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The New York Times take on the Ashland ABC store drunken raccoon: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
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Après l'eau, les céréales (surtout à base de blé). Une contamination généralisée, massive et diffuse et chronique des milieux. Pas très éloigné d'un préjudice écologique d'ampleur, non ?
Si l'UE réagit mollement - via une modification de REACH - la loi du 27/02/25 est aussi très insuffisante. Pffff
Si l'UE réagit mollement - via une modification de REACH - la loi du 27/02/25 est aussi très insuffisante. Pffff
PFAS : les aliments à base de céréales sont aussi massivement contaminés par le TFA
PFAS : les aliments à base de céréales sont aussi massivement contaminés par le TFA
Une étude inédite publiée jeudi 4 décembre par le réseau PAN Europe révèle que ces aliments constituent une importante source d’exposition au plus petit des PFAS.
www.lemonde.fr
December 4, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Après l'eau, les céréales (surtout à base de blé). Une contamination généralisée, massive et diffuse et chronique des milieux. Pas très éloigné d'un préjudice écologique d'ampleur, non ?
Si l'UE réagit mollement - via une modification de REACH - la loi du 27/02/25 est aussi très insuffisante. Pffff
Si l'UE réagit mollement - via une modification de REACH - la loi du 27/02/25 est aussi très insuffisante. Pffff
Apropos of nothing, I was humming these lyrics this morning.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAE...
Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Apropos of nothing, I was humming these lyrics this morning.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAE...
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JOURNALIST REQUEST: I'm writing a story about how organizing/joining resistance movements can build community and fight loneliness, particularly in the US.
If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail.
Signal boosts appreciated!
If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail.
Signal boosts appreciated!
December 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
JOURNALIST REQUEST: I'm writing a story about how organizing/joining resistance movements can build community and fight loneliness, particularly in the US.
If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail.
Signal boosts appreciated!
If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail.
Signal boosts appreciated!
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*looks around at assorted trash fires*
HEY KIDS, WANNA COOK A STREET CORN SMASH BURGER TACO WITH UNCLE KEVIN? LET’S GO!
You don’t even have to do the burger part. Just the street corn will measurably improve your life. So let’s start there. Open a can of corn, dump in a skillet with oil, & char
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HEY KIDS, WANNA COOK A STREET CORN SMASH BURGER TACO WITH UNCLE KEVIN? LET’S GO!
You don’t even have to do the burger part. Just the street corn will measurably improve your life. So let’s start there. Open a can of corn, dump in a skillet with oil, & char
1/
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
*looks around at assorted trash fires*
HEY KIDS, WANNA COOK A STREET CORN SMASH BURGER TACO WITH UNCLE KEVIN? LET’S GO!
You don’t even have to do the burger part. Just the street corn will measurably improve your life. So let’s start there. Open a can of corn, dump in a skillet with oil, & char
1/
HEY KIDS, WANNA COOK A STREET CORN SMASH BURGER TACO WITH UNCLE KEVIN? LET’S GO!
You don’t even have to do the burger part. Just the street corn will measurably improve your life. So let’s start there. Open a can of corn, dump in a skillet with oil, & char
1/
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Here's Part 2 of my interview with @pbsnews.org, where we talk about the "toxic stress" homeless families are subjected to—and the multiple systems, from housing to healthcare to wages and childcare, that have produced this disaster.
December 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Here's Part 2 of my interview with @pbsnews.org, where we talk about the "toxic stress" homeless families are subjected to—and the multiple systems, from housing to healthcare to wages and childcare, that have produced this disaster.
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As I show in Holding It Together, the resulting trickle down of care is crushing women, particularly the low-income women (disproportionately immigrant, Black, and Latina women) who have been forced to do an outsized share of the underpaid work of care.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
Holding It Together by Jessica Calarco: 9780593538128 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding society...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
As I show in Holding It Together, the resulting trickle down of care is crushing women, particularly the low-income women (disproportionately immigrant, Black, and Latina women) who have been forced to do an outsized share of the underpaid work of care.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
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Et joyeux anniversaire hein.
6 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill, becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Et joyeux anniversaire hein.
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Came across this piece in a thread yesterday. It explains much, & unfortunately reveals poor reading/comprehension as a multi-generational problem that prolly can only be remediated by multiple generations literally relearning how to read.
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Came across this piece in a thread yesterday. It explains much, & unfortunately reveals poor reading/comprehension as a multi-generational problem that prolly can only be remediated by multiple generations literally relearning how to read.
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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My quote of the day
I will offer those who suffer all my attention, my science and my love. Never will I betray them or risk their wellbeing to satisfy my vanity.
The Oath of Hippocrates (Amelia Arenas translation)
I will offer those who suffer all my attention, my science and my love. Never will I betray them or risk their wellbeing to satisfy my vanity.
The Oath of Hippocrates (Amelia Arenas translation)
November 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
My quote of the day
I will offer those who suffer all my attention, my science and my love. Never will I betray them or risk their wellbeing to satisfy my vanity.
The Oath of Hippocrates (Amelia Arenas translation)
I will offer those who suffer all my attention, my science and my love. Never will I betray them or risk their wellbeing to satisfy my vanity.
The Oath of Hippocrates (Amelia Arenas translation)
"Oh, I have coinage. We are living in the enshittocene. I’m in favor of disenshittification. My adversaries are anti-disenshittifiers. I can do this all day like a Latin student."
"ppl are really sick to the back teeth of concentrated corporate power. & I think that while they havent put their finger on it, there is a sense that a lot of our problems—genocide, climate inaction, xenophobia, authoritarianism, worsening labor conditions—are all downstream of concentrated power"
Cory Doctorow Explains Why Everything is Getting Shittier
The author and tech activist sits down with Current Affairs to discuss his new book, “Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It”
www.currentaffairs.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
"Oh, I have coinage. We are living in the enshittocene. I’m in favor of disenshittification. My adversaries are anti-disenshittifiers. I can do this all day like a Latin student."
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My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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West Point is committing "a crime of serious proportion" then.
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
West Point is committing "a crime of serious proportion" then.
This was exactly my thought when I had a pull-tab soda in Morocco recently (followed by: 50 years of small gestures for the environment do add up).
I am an archaeologist. The federal and state laws that apply to the work I do state that anything more than 50 years old is historic. That means pull tab cans are historic. I drank out of pull tab cans as a kid. Now, I have to record them as historic. It is painful.
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
This was exactly my thought when I had a pull-tab soda in Morocco recently (followed by: 50 years of small gestures for the environment do add up).
Sen. Inouye: "The uniform code makes it abundantly clear that ...'Members of the military have an obligation to disobey unlawful orders.'
This principle was considered so important that we, we the Government of the United States, proposed that it be internationally applied in the Nuremberg trials."
This principle was considered so important that we, we the Government of the United States, proposed that it be internationally applied in the Nuremberg trials."
webhelper.brown.edu/cheit/Unders... it’s easy to find and Inouye mentions “unlawful orders” as well
Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs
webhelper.brown.edu
November 25, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Sen. Inouye: "The uniform code makes it abundantly clear that ...'Members of the military have an obligation to disobey unlawful orders.'
This principle was considered so important that we, we the Government of the United States, proposed that it be internationally applied in the Nuremberg trials."
This principle was considered so important that we, we the Government of the United States, proposed that it be internationally applied in the Nuremberg trials."
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Global equity of data is only possible when countries can have ownership and generate their own data. Data equity and access to infrastructure is so important. A great presentation by @ebi.embl.org Interim Director Dr. Joanna McEntyre @abacbs.bsky.social #ABACBS2025
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Global equity of data is only possible when countries can have ownership and generate their own data. Data equity and access to infrastructure is so important. A great presentation by @ebi.embl.org Interim Director Dr. Joanna McEntyre @abacbs.bsky.social #ABACBS2025
"Her last trip to China was in 2013, and by 2018 she had long stopped talking to her friends in the region for their own safety. By then, she says, it had become clear that a system of state- imposed forced labour was happening in internment camps all over the region."
Even taking into account the revelation that Professor Murphy's research on repression of Uighurs in Xinjiang region of China had been muted, the failure to recognise basic legislative parameters of the NSA 2023, or indeed any form of complicity in HSA, is mind-boggling.
November 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
"Her last trip to China was in 2013, and by 2018 she had long stopped talking to her friends in the region for their own safety. By then, she says, it had become clear that a system of state- imposed forced labour was happening in internment camps all over the region."
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Hattie Scott Peterson (1913–1993) is the first known African American woman allowed to gain a degree in civil engineering, and the first woman to join the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1954.
She worked on flood risk reduction, and advocated for women in engineering and women's rights.
#WomenInSTEM
She worked on flood risk reduction, and advocated for women in engineering and women's rights.
#WomenInSTEM
November 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I supposed we don't need to see more horror, but I feel it is a moral obligation in my relative comfort to not look away.
www.npr.org/2025/11/22/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/22/n...
More than 300 children were abducted in an attack on a Catholic school in Nigeria
A total of 303 schoolchildren and 12 teachers were abducted by gunmen during an attack on St. Mary's School, a Catholic institution in north-central Nigeria's Niger state, the Christian Association of...
www.npr.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I supposed we don't need to see more horror, but I feel it is a moral obligation in my relative comfort to not look away.
www.npr.org/2025/11/22/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/22/n...
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Good piece.
www.npr.org/2025/11/22/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/22/n...
Meet the peace activist who persuaded France's Macron to recognize a Palestinian state
Israeli-French peace activist Ofer Bronchtein helped shape President Emmanuel Macron's plan to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations this year. Here's how he did it.
www.npr.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Good piece.
www.npr.org/2025/11/22/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/22/n...
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Already have a copy (that apparently subsidized the publisher, not the author 😑) but I do recommend it.
I'll also send one of these and a print entirely for free to one person who reposts this.
I know people love this book and I will not let it be lost.
I will not let my ex-publishers, who ran off with £20,000+ of my combined earnings from it and six other books, win.
Many thanks for any shares.
I know people love this book and I will not let it be lost.
I will not let my ex-publishers, who ran off with £20,000+ of my combined earnings from it and six other books, win.
Many thanks for any shares.
If you would like a signed Everything Will Swallow You hardback for RRP + P&P, I have a fabulous selection of art by my mum, Jo, which I'm sending out for free (one linoprint with each book). Let me know your address via [email protected] while stocks last.
Sorry, this is just for UK folk, BUT...
Sorry, this is just for UK folk, BUT...
November 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Already have a copy (that apparently subsidized the publisher, not the author 😑) but I do recommend it.