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phageandfury.bsky.social
@phageandfury.bsky.social
Scientist / Biologist/ just a girl
Grad student UFL
Locked in and NOT crashing out
PNW 🌲
She/Her
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70-40=30
And I’m 28 it checks out
Your real age is 70 minus the number of musicians you recognize playing at Coachella 2025
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Tagging 🧪 🧬🖥️ #MLSky
Do large language models understand how cells work? To find out, we built a pipeline that generates logic-based models of signaling networks using general purpose LLMs GPT, Gemini, or Claude. We benchmarked LLM-generated networks against 3 large-scale literature-curated and validated networks. 1/
July 30, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Water quality in the western United States is affected by wildfires, with sediment and turbidity levels increasing up to eight years post-fire, according to an analysis in Communications Earth & Environment. go.nature.com/4nhBER6 ⚒️ 🧪
June 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Cat butt photo bomb. Photo from my collection. 1955.
December 30, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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I don't need to touch grass. We're past that. I need to be overtaken by lichen and moss.
December 29, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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400+ years after the "First Thanksgiving" most Americans have no idea that the Wampanoag people are still here. My tribe, the Aquinnah Wampanoag, is on Martha's Vineyard and we're still fighting for our land and rights. We’re also doing some cool stuff. 🧵👇 if you’d like to learn more & support us
November 28, 2024 at 4:10 PM
70-40=30
And I’m 28 it checks out
Your real age is 70 minus the number of musicians you recognize playing at Coachella 2025
November 21, 2024 at 7:41 PM
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Toxic waste: cigarette butts harm the environment twice 🧪🚬🦠

www.igb-berlin.de/en/news/toxi...
Toxic waste: cigarette butts harm the environment twice
Cigarette butts pollute Berlin’s waters with nicotine. New IGB study reveals toxic cyanobacteria might benefit.
www.igb-berlin.de
November 21, 2024 at 9:39 AM
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One of my favourite photos! Side by side comparison of white #shark vertebrae from a 1.6m and 5.2m individual. 🦈🦑
November 21, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.

Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
November 21, 2024 at 2:44 AM
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Last weekend I got to see NZ velvet worms in their native forest habitat. These animals are so bizarre, taxonomists gave them their very own Phylum, next to tardigrades - that's insane!

This Ooperipatellus sp. is an egg-laying genus, but there's another here that gives live birth!

Mind. Blown. 🧪
November 20, 2024 at 9:39 AM
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what?!?
November 19, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Agreed. Then maybe more Americans’ reading comprehension would be higher than a 6th grader reading level.
I think adults should get a personal pan pizza for reading books too
November 20, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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Yes, libraries are invaluable for their collections and public services they offer, but also social contact without the expectation to interact with anyone or spend any money is so important to so many people
November 20, 2024 at 4:04 PM
🦐 my posture as I was reading this 😭
Hi, are you bluescrolling? Have you eaten something today?
Drank a glass of water?
Taken your meds?

Deep breaths. One thing at a time. And try not to slouch.
November 20, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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Chloroplast elongation factors break the growth–immunity trade-off by simultaneously promoting yield and defence www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Chloroplast elongation factors break the growth–immunity trade-off by simultaneously promoting yield and defence - Nature Plants
Enhanced expression of chloroplast elongation factors StTuA/B increases potato disease resistance and photosynthesis, while oomycete effector Pi22926 inhibits their entry into the chloroplasts by disr...
www.nature.com
November 19, 2024 at 8:33 PM
www.fisheries.noaa.gov
November 19, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Damn. Space goes hard
The Hourglass Nebula seen by Hubble
November 19, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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We will be hosting 3rd Full Circle Symposium for Native Biologists hosted at UCSF in April 2025! We aim to build community and provide meaningful opportunities for Native scientists. If you are a Native biologist who is interested plz fill this out to stay up to date: forms.gle/AN7nfkhdB3Fv...
November 19, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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Libraries, providing free information to everyone, are the bedrock of a free society.

And a shoutout to all the librarians out there! Thank you for all you do!!!

#ILoveLibraries
November 18, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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Babe wake up,
the pterosaur species just dropped

www.popsci.com/science/new-...
New pterosaur species sliced through the air with a sword-like tail
Skiphosoura bavarica was about the size of a modern golden eagle.
www.popsci.com
November 18, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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Our "election rumor research" team's latest analysis describes online conspiracy theorizing alleging that Musk's Starlink satellites were used to alter election results in Trump's favor. uwcip.substack.com/p/conspiracy...
Conspiracy theory spreading on social media about Starlink interfering with election results
Rapid Research Note
uwcip.substack.com
November 18, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Me genuinely amazed and feeling enlightened about rhizobial symbionts. Plants and microbes are cool as heck. Yet ppl say wHy g0 bAçk t0 school u woNt make m0re $. Plz I like learning and I wanna be a wizard of science 🧙‍♀️
November 18, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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Advice from a Literature teacher and resister: read your history, but don’t forget your literature.

Resistance is woven through the words of abolitionism and feminism and anti-fascism. Read the history and the literature.
November 17, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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A safe place to hide from morons is a library or book store.
November 17, 2024 at 4:30 PM