Useless (Les)bian
@plxntbxbe.bsky.social
call me RNA cause I break down easily | scientist by trade, idiot at heart | PhD student in Dev Bio @ WashU (it's in STL) | they/she 🏳️🌈 | views my own
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Eating palak paneer on charcuterie tiny toasts like a heathen bc I forgot to make rice
January 1, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Eating palak paneer on charcuterie tiny toasts like a heathen bc I forgot to make rice
Waaaaaaaaa qual exam qual exam I'm gonna poop myself during my qual exam
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Waaaaaaaaa qual exam qual exam I'm gonna poop myself during my qual exam
I love working with old ass unhinged scientists, my coworker (Bulgarian, minimum 70) presented lab meeting one day and was like CHINA AND RUSSIA MET RECENTLY BECAUSE THIS STUDY WHERE THEY TREAT STEM CELLS AND "REVERSE AGING," IT SEEMS PUTIN IS TRYING TO LIVE FOREVER and then presented the study
December 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I love working with old ass unhinged scientists, my coworker (Bulgarian, minimum 70) presented lab meeting one day and was like CHINA AND RUSSIA MET RECENTLY BECAUSE THIS STUDY WHERE THEY TREAT STEM CELLS AND "REVERSE AGING," IT SEEMS PUTIN IS TRYING TO LIVE FOREVER and then presented the study
No one told me about the New Sudan Archives album from October?? Holy no skips
December 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
No one told me about the New Sudan Archives album from October?? Holy no skips
What's the one thing you wish you could take from an animal to modify yourself? I wish I had the shark capacity for gastric eversion
November 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
What's the one thing you wish you could take from an animal to modify yourself? I wish I had the shark capacity for gastric eversion
Holidays were always my fav as a kid not bc of family time, but bc family time meant I could go sit in a corner and chug through multiple books in a weekend without having to talk to people much
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Holidays were always my fav as a kid not bc of family time, but bc family time meant I could go sit in a corner and chug through multiple books in a weekend without having to talk to people much
Accidentally made myself 6 shots of espresso so I'm speedrunning shitting myself
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Accidentally made myself 6 shots of espresso so I'm speedrunning shitting myself
I motion we rename "Perpetual Stew" to "Stew of Theseus"
November 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I motion we rename "Perpetual Stew" to "Stew of Theseus"
Can I go out dancing ONCE without a weird man standing awkwardly near me and inching closer the whole fucking night
November 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Can I go out dancing ONCE without a weird man standing awkwardly near me and inching closer the whole fucking night
I would like to propose a ban on the word "important" in a hypothesis. What does important MEAN??? required? sufficient for things? do you know what the thing does? (I'm tired of grading)
November 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I would like to propose a ban on the word "important" in a hypothesis. What does important MEAN??? required? sufficient for things? do you know what the thing does? (I'm tired of grading)
Where did I pick up the verbal stim "michael wave" instead of microwave and why is it compulsive lately?
November 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Where did I pick up the verbal stim "michael wave" instead of microwave and why is it compulsive lately?
My new post workout routine + protein has me leaving the gym and then chugging 16 oz straight of kefir
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
My new post workout routine + protein has me leaving the gym and then chugging 16 oz straight of kefir
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In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
November 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
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Watson was deeply influential to me as a genomicist, but not how you may assume
From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person
Don't idolize bad people
From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person
Don't idolize bad people
BREAKING: James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix whose work reshaped medicine, forensics and genetics, dies at 97.
James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97
Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died. He was 97.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Watson was deeply influential to me as a genomicist, but not how you may assume
From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person
Don't idolize bad people
From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person
Don't idolize bad people
Great week for the downing of racist ass old white men
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Great week for the downing of racist ass old white men
Every single woman I have dated had adopted a cat right before we broke up and makes an Instagram for them. Why?
November 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Every single woman I have dated had adopted a cat right before we broke up and makes an Instagram for them. Why?
Demonias in the workplace
October 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Demonias in the workplace
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
Good morning from my soup-obsessed cohort
October 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Good morning from my soup-obsessed cohort
My friend studies the effects of alcohol on memory formation and so he has to bring alcohol over to the mice every day for his work. Today we asked him what its like to introduce alcoholism to a species that does not understand fermentation and he was like "I'm like the mouse Prometheus"
October 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
My friend studies the effects of alcohol on memory formation and so he has to bring alcohol over to the mice every day for his work. Today we asked him what its like to introduce alcoholism to a species that does not understand fermentation and he was like "I'm like the mouse Prometheus"
My friend and I (autistics) have a new bit where we mention some sort of corn byproduct + a hot dog and then claim it's a corn dog
October 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
My friend and I (autistics) have a new bit where we mention some sort of corn byproduct + a hot dog and then claim it's a corn dog
I come to 7brew for the caffeine yes, but I mostly come here for the trap anthems blasting out the coffee hut. Rolled up to get my coffee and these suburban white kids in the hills blasting Rich Amiri
October 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I come to 7brew for the caffeine yes, but I mostly come here for the trap anthems blasting out the coffee hut. Rolled up to get my coffee and these suburban white kids in the hills blasting Rich Amiri
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"Genes, Traits, and Identities: Navigating Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Research"
Frequently the trans and intersex communities are excluded from population-based genomics studies because they cannot be put in a neat box. But sex is a complex trait, like many other traits we study #ASHG25
Frequently the trans and intersex communities are excluded from population-based genomics studies because they cannot be put in a neat box. But sex is a complex trait, like many other traits we study #ASHG25
October 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM