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Kathleen Rhoades, PhD

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Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · Mar 12

UGH FINE I'M HERE. I have BROKEN my PROMISE to MYSELF I am ONCE AGAIN MICROBLOGGING UNDER MY GOVERNMENT NAME.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1d

Always worth revisiting, @edyong209.bsky.social talking about his reckoning with The Atlantic and why he left, including a nod to @prisonculture.bsky.social. (And skip back to 13:15 or so for a very satisfying truth-telling about Jesse Singal) youtu.be/ddy5uMdzZB8?...

Ed Yong, Journalist/Author - XOXO Festival (2024)

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Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 1d

This is Blasphemy

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 1d

how to lose friends and alienate people

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Mock Strawberry Jam
4.3 stars (28) 24 Reviews 6 Photos
Make a batch of this mock strawberry jam recipe whenever you have a bumper crop of zucchini squash. It tastes like the real thing! Your family and friends will never know the difference unless you tell them.
Submitted by Patricia Canerdy | Updated on July 8, 2025
Buttons for Save, Rate, Print, and Share; the top of a photo of jars.

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Ingredients
Original recipe (1X) yields 96 servings

5 cups peeled, shredded zucchini

5 cups white sugar

2 (3 ounce) packages strawberry-flavored gelatin (such as Jell-O)

3 tablespoons lemon juice

The little "Local Offers" box cannot find any ingredients on sale near me, because I don't live in the United States of America.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

You can save yourself a lot of time by never arguing with people who don't protest *ever* about protest. Keep it moving and reclaim your time.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 3d

I don't feel good about this baseball game

Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 3d

(as for why I am able to be kinder to other people than I am to myself: no comment)

Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 3d

nobody's getting any runs

Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 3d

In my last surgery recovery I had good results reframing myself as my own 90 year old grandmother. Gotta be gentle on grandma. Grandma can't be on her feet too long, she gets tired easily.

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Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 3d

Just convinced spouse to go to a bar where we can watch the tigers game 😈

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

Knowing who to be mad at truly is praxis.

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Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 3d

I am not a virologist but "we used AI to design a virus" feels similar to "I used AI to design a fruit tree"

Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 3d

the thing about biology is that it often doesn't give a shit what your carefully-trained model says is going to happen

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Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 3d

call me when they successfully culture it

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 4d

“In September, scientists at Stanford reported they had used A.I. to design a virus for the first time.”

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

www.nytimes.com

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Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 3d

got me there

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white2tea @white2tea.bsky.social · 5d

here’s something we can all agree on (bee on tea flower)

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Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 3d

this is GORGEOUS

Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 4d

Whale Fall pin 🦀🐋🦑

A photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras.

Kathleen Rhoades, PhD @kathleenrhoades.com · 3d

Pan-Disease Blood Atlas is the name of my new experimental metal band

Chris Sundling @chrissundling.bsky.social · 3d

New study on a human pan-disease proteomic blood atlas out in @science.org! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... The resource is available at the human protein atlas website: www.proteinatlas.org/humanproteom...

#immunology #Health #Disease @ki.se @scilifelab.se @peternilsson-kth.bsky.social

A human pan-disease blood atlas of the circulating proteome

The human blood proteome provides a holistic readout of health states through the assessment of thousands of circulating proteins. Here, we present a pan-disease resource to enable the study of divers...

www.science.org

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 3d

AltNPS's return to the world of code words and resistance LARPing was inevitable, because this is who they are. This is what got them their fervent audience, and it's what their true believers are here for.

This account owes everything to this LARP. Without it, they're nothing. But they have it.

AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 4d

It's been a while. But somehow, I always knew AltNPS would get back to their roots. They could only resist the LARP for so long.