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RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 1h

Then how do I guide and support my teen autistic son to best get his needs met? Trying to learn how to best help him

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RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 10h

And this was from April! Imagine what this is now?! #science

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 13h

Special education office has been wiped out from layoffs 😢 #edusky

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 13h

WTF: "An Education Department staffer told USA TODAY the agency laid off just about every employee who works to administer funding for IDEA, the primary federal law supporting students with disabilities. He was unsure how those programs will exist moving forward."

www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 13h

Do you think they would work if I swapped the honey for maple syrup?

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RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 23h

Same food? Want to answer…

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RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 23h

I just changed my return flight back to beat the nor’easter in Bos, here’s hoping I chose well 🤞🏻

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Reposted by RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪

Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 1d

Research methods note: I wish software papers such as this one would stop saying things like "Only 10% of software engineers express concern that AI might take their jobs" and cite a study that is is ENTIRELY a sample from Microsoft.

arxiv.org/abs/2508.00178

The SPACE of AI: Real-World Lessons on AI's Impact on Developers

As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become increasingly embedded in software development workflows, questions persist about their true impact on developer productivity and experience. This paper pre...

arxiv.org

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RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 1d

#science #scicomm please share!

Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 2d

Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

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RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 1d

The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report is no more!! A big hit to #data #science #medsky 😢

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 1d

Proudly, and thankfully, vaxxed 💉💪🩹

Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 2d

“A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 1d

@petebouchard.bsky.social am I going to be able to fly into #boston Sunday morning before this #noreaster hits? Or am I stuck in the Midwest? 🤞🏻

RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 1d

#AI

David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve all seen a great deal of repetitive slop written about potential existential dangers of AI.
This piece by Stephen Witt does not merely repeat what we’ve already heard but attempts to apply data to the question. Definitely worth reading, and highly concerning.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

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

www.nytimes.com

RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 2d

What a loss for MIT and the USA. #economics

Department of Economics @Universität Zürich 🇨🇭 @econ.uzh.ch · 2d

We are thrilled to welcome Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee as the new Lemann Foundation Professors to our department, beginning in the summer of 2026.

RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 2d

#edusky

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

The Education Department has hired at least 9 people from the America First Policy Institute, co-founded by Secretary Linda McMahon.

The think tank’s listed goals include ending the separation of church and state and “plant[ing] Jesus in every space.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 2d

I’m pretty sure that #science doesn’t quite work like this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 2d

This is an #ai issue in addition to an #energy and #climate one

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

BlackRock is seeking to buy Aligned Data Centers, a data center construction company.

It’s also going to buy AES, one of the major power providers for Big Tech data centers.

While these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

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RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 3d

Can you point them to your IRB with an approved protocol?

RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 3d

Omg 😂

RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 3d

horror movie posters but with muppets: thread

Oscar the Grouch in the movie poster for Alien.

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RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 3d

Crazy story but check out the subplot ✈️ 🛬

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 3d

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 3d

This is just dangerous for the country, humanity, business, and science. Period

Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 3d

The new head of NOAA, in addition to having violated the agency's code of ethics by criticizing NWS forecasters as part of Sharpiegate, said in his confirmation hearing that "he stood by the Trump administration’s proposals to dismantle much of NOAA’s climate science enterprise."

Guest link.

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

www.nytimes.com

RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!🙏🏻

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RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 3d

Have you ever made a gluten free bread that you liked and would recommend? I really miss 🍞 bread

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RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 5d

Wtaf #astronomy

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 5d

Whisper: Maybe we should stop messing with the radiative balance of Earth.

Plan to Reflect Sunlight to Power Solar Panels at Night Upsets Astronomers

Reflect Orbital aims to launch its first of a planned 4,000 satellites into orbit next year. Scientists worry that it would be “ruinous” for research.

www.bloomberg.com

RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 5d

“The issue is that, under our laws and Constitution and the American tradition of academic freedom, the executive branch cannot coerce independent institutions of higher learning to “align” with the ideological orthodoxies of the moment.” #mit 👏

Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 5d

I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Letter Regarding Compact

MIT Chapter of the American Association of University Professors October 6, 2025 Statement on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” MIT has been invited by the federal governmen...

docs.google.com

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RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 5d

a man is sitting on a couch playing two drums .

ALT: a man is sitting on a couch playing two drums .

media.tenor.com