Karen James
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Karen James
@kejames.bsky.social
Environmental geneticist & outdoorswoman into eDNA, botany, evolution, space, sci-comm, skiing, Outlander & kindness • auntie • cat mom • honorary dog mom (she/her)

📍Unceded Wabanaki land (aka Maine)
This is spectacular. I’ve watched it at least five times.
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
What’s next, “errant law student Ted Bundy”?
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Thank you 🙏🏻
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 AM
I only just found the pie discourse because of this thread. There’s holiday food disasters, too??
a cat wearing glasses and a bow tie is sitting on a laptop
Alt: a cat wearing glasses and a bow tie is sitting at a laptop meowing
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:43 AM
This makes sense. Filling an info deficit may not be *the one* thing that changes someone’s mind but we DO need to have the info at some point on our journey!
November 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
It’s really hard for me to pin down the beginning and end… I think it’s a lifelong process, tbh.

What does this mean? “all said at some point 'deficit model' material was important”? I mean, I know what the deficit model is but beyond that not sure..
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
And often posted as nunatak though it wasn’t a pseud, my real name was right there.
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Ooh, what was your blog? Did we know each other? I was The Beagle Project Blog and Data Not Shown, 2006-2011-ish.
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I was also raised religious right and deconverted over the course of about 5 years… which Spiers says is quick! Here I was thinking it was slow. Food for thought.
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I don’t think he meant to categorize that as a form of political violence but it sure has got me thinking.
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Not mine, but the most incredible example I've seen photographed (source: www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital...)
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I’m wrecked. I had to share it with my partner so he’d be wrecked too.
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Oh my god 😭😭😭😭😭😭
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM