Dr. Steph
@smreprophys.bsky.social
Postdoc, reproductive & vascular biologist, animal-lover, video gamer, and ttrpg enthusiast.
William & Mary '15
UC Davis '25
She/Her/Hers 🏳️🌈
William & Mary '15
UC Davis '25
She/Her/Hers 🏳️🌈
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also, by the way
a lot of us process our grief by making art
they're trying to replace that process with AI from both directions
a lot of us process our grief by making art
they're trying to replace that process with AI from both directions
December 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
also, by the way
a lot of us process our grief by making art
they're trying to replace that process with AI from both directions
a lot of us process our grief by making art
they're trying to replace that process with AI from both directions
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it's not just that I find it chilling to imagine Sam Altman wearing my dead mom's face in order to sell me ads
it's that the way we ACTUALLY keep our lost loved ones alive requires a myriad of human skills these assholes perpetually devalue, like storytelling and deep emotional connection
it's that the way we ACTUALLY keep our lost loved ones alive requires a myriad of human skills these assholes perpetually devalue, like storytelling and deep emotional connection
December 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
it's not just that I find it chilling to imagine Sam Altman wearing my dead mom's face in order to sell me ads
it's that the way we ACTUALLY keep our lost loved ones alive requires a myriad of human skills these assholes perpetually devalue, like storytelling and deep emotional connection
it's that the way we ACTUALLY keep our lost loved ones alive requires a myriad of human skills these assholes perpetually devalue, like storytelling and deep emotional connection
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your AI algorithm (or worse, the underpaid and horribly treated remote worker in India somewhere you are forcing to pretend to be your AI algorithm) doesn't know my dead mom. *I* know my dead mom. *I* know what she'd say to me. learning to give *yourself* that guidance is what wisdom looks like
December 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
your AI algorithm (or worse, the underpaid and horribly treated remote worker in India somewhere you are forcing to pretend to be your AI algorithm) doesn't know my dead mom. *I* know my dead mom. *I* know what she'd say to me. learning to give *yourself* that guidance is what wisdom looks like
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we talk a lot about the weirdo techbro obsession with immortality these AI necromancy projects embody, but I'm arguably even MORE fascinated by the terror of allowing yourself to experience deep, complex emotions they so obviously reveal
you cannot prevent yourself from feeling grief with an app??
you cannot prevent yourself from feeling grief with an app??
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
we talk a lot about the weirdo techbro obsession with immortality these AI necromancy projects embody, but I'm arguably even MORE fascinated by the terror of allowing yourself to experience deep, complex emotions they so obviously reveal
you cannot prevent yourself from feeling grief with an app??
you cannot prevent yourself from feeling grief with an app??
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I am currently on ID consult service. I saw my first severe case of post influenza staphylococcal pneumonia of the season today - very sick patient admitted to the ICU.
Every patient I have seen so far admitted with influenza this week is unvaccinated.
The vaccines keep you out of hospital!
Get 💉💉💉
Every patient I have seen so far admitted with influenza this week is unvaccinated.
The vaccines keep you out of hospital!
Get 💉💉💉
December 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I am currently on ID consult service. I saw my first severe case of post influenza staphylococcal pneumonia of the season today - very sick patient admitted to the ICU.
Every patient I have seen so far admitted with influenza this week is unvaccinated.
The vaccines keep you out of hospital!
Get 💉💉💉
Every patient I have seen so far admitted with influenza this week is unvaccinated.
The vaccines keep you out of hospital!
Get 💉💉💉
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Our collaborative artwork is finished 🎉
Created to mark the opening of the new Thornton Building, this piece celebrates the diversity and richness of the biological data held in EMBL-EBI’s 40+ open data resources.
A huge thanks to everyone who picked up a pen to bring this design to life!
Created to mark the opening of the new Thornton Building, this piece celebrates the diversity and richness of the biological data held in EMBL-EBI’s 40+ open data resources.
A huge thanks to everyone who picked up a pen to bring this design to life!
December 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Our collaborative artwork is finished 🎉
Created to mark the opening of the new Thornton Building, this piece celebrates the diversity and richness of the biological data held in EMBL-EBI’s 40+ open data resources.
A huge thanks to everyone who picked up a pen to bring this design to life!
Created to mark the opening of the new Thornton Building, this piece celebrates the diversity and richness of the biological data held in EMBL-EBI’s 40+ open data resources.
A huge thanks to everyone who picked up a pen to bring this design to life!
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🚨 Looking for a PhD position? 🚨
Are you interested in reproduction biology, cool imaging, and zebrafish? 🔬 🎏 🐟 Join us in my new lab at ICB Münster (Germany) as a PhD student. #zebrafishrock #newPI
Apply here: jobs-sf.ukmuenster.de/job/UKM-PhD-...
Are you interested in reproduction biology, cool imaging, and zebrafish? 🔬 🎏 🐟 Join us in my new lab at ICB Münster (Germany) as a PhD student. #zebrafishrock #newPI
Apply here: jobs-sf.ukmuenster.de/job/UKM-PhD-...
PhD Student (gn*) Institute of Cell Biology
PhD Student (gn*) Institute of Cell Biology
jobs-sf.ukmuenster.de
December 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
🚨 Looking for a PhD position? 🚨
Are you interested in reproduction biology, cool imaging, and zebrafish? 🔬 🎏 🐟 Join us in my new lab at ICB Münster (Germany) as a PhD student. #zebrafishrock #newPI
Apply here: jobs-sf.ukmuenster.de/job/UKM-PhD-...
Are you interested in reproduction biology, cool imaging, and zebrafish? 🔬 🎏 🐟 Join us in my new lab at ICB Münster (Germany) as a PhD student. #zebrafishrock #newPI
Apply here: jobs-sf.ukmuenster.de/job/UKM-PhD-...
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I still can’t believe the National Science Foundation is being forced to move out of their brand new, purpose-built building because the HUD secretary thought his building was ugly.
The Trump administration is destroying the best parts of this country, and it will take decades to rebuild.
The Trump administration is destroying the best parts of this country, and it will take decades to rebuild.
NSF
- Forced reorg
- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)
- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)
I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃
- Forced reorg
- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)
- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)
I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃
December 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I still can’t believe the National Science Foundation is being forced to move out of their brand new, purpose-built building because the HUD secretary thought his building was ugly.
The Trump administration is destroying the best parts of this country, and it will take decades to rebuild.
The Trump administration is destroying the best parts of this country, and it will take decades to rebuild.
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Make no mistake. The anti-scientists in charge will launch many "safety scrutiny of approved vaccines against X", not because of any safety concern, not because the many past studies were not good. It is anti-sience ideology, all of it.
It will cost lives, missery, and preventable diseases return.
It will cost lives, missery, and preventable diseases return.
Exclusive: US FDA launches fresh safety scrutiny of approved RSV therapies for infants reut.rs/48JXrL2
Exclusive: US FDA launches fresh safety scrutiny of approved RSV therapies for infants
U.S. health regulators informed senior executives at Merck, Sanofi and AstraZeneca last week that their approved protective RSV treatments for infants would be subject to fresh safety scrutiny following concerns raised by vaccine skeptics, multiple sources familiar with the situation told Reuters.
reut.rs
December 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Make no mistake. The anti-scientists in charge will launch many "safety scrutiny of approved vaccines against X", not because of any safety concern, not because the many past studies were not good. It is anti-sience ideology, all of it.
It will cost lives, missery, and preventable diseases return.
It will cost lives, missery, and preventable diseases return.
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It's also the warmth - while historically such events may have seen more precipitation fall as snow at higher elevations, warmer temps mean more falls as rain and goes directly into streams and rivers, while also melting lower elevation snow.
Snow levels were up to 8,500ft yesterday. In December.
Snow levels were up to 8,500ft yesterday. In December.
Catastrophic flooding in BC and WA is putting thousands at risk.
We’ve always had heavy rain and floods; but as the world warms, they’re becoming more frequent and severe. And it was a UVic research team that ID'd the human fingerprint in increasing extreme precip. www.nature.com/articles/nat...
We’ve always had heavy rain and floods; but as the world warms, they’re becoming more frequent and severe. And it was a UVic research team that ID'd the human fingerprint in increasing extreme precip. www.nature.com/articles/nat...
Washington State Flooding Intensifies, Prompting Rescues and Evacuations
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
It's also the warmth - while historically such events may have seen more precipitation fall as snow at higher elevations, warmer temps mean more falls as rain and goes directly into streams and rivers, while also melting lower elevation snow.
Snow levels were up to 8,500ft yesterday. In December.
Snow levels were up to 8,500ft yesterday. In December.
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Golarion and the Pact Worlds are crawling with magnificent monsters! Check out today's blog and learn about the games the mightiest beasts are roaring about!
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buff.ly/0buPMPq
December 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Golarion and the Pact Worlds are crawling with magnificent monsters! Check out today's blog and learn about the games the mightiest beasts are roaring about!
buff.ly/0buPMPq
buff.ly/0buPMPq
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There is no evidence the Scottish child payment meaningfully encourages parents to avoid work, a study has found
No evidence Scottish child payment pushes parents to avoid work, study finds
www.thenational.scot
December 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
There is no evidence the Scottish child payment meaningfully encourages parents to avoid work, a study has found
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Pleased to announce the publication of talented postdoc Dr. Yeh's new paper "Ketogenesis is Dispensable for the Metabolic Adaptations to Caloric Restriction"!
December 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Pleased to announce the publication of talented postdoc Dr. Yeh's new paper "Ketogenesis is Dispensable for the Metabolic Adaptations to Caloric Restriction"!
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The hills are hungry, the shadows whisper...
All Your Gods Are Dead is a chilling new supplement for Old Gods of Appalachia, filled with eerie entities, cursed relics, and the kinds of GM tools that turn a good horror game into a legendary one...
All Your Gods Are Dead is a chilling new supplement for Old Gods of Appalachia, filled with eerie entities, cursed relics, and the kinds of GM tools that turn a good horror game into a legendary one...
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December 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The hills are hungry, the shadows whisper...
All Your Gods Are Dead is a chilling new supplement for Old Gods of Appalachia, filled with eerie entities, cursed relics, and the kinds of GM tools that turn a good horror game into a legendary one...
All Your Gods Are Dead is a chilling new supplement for Old Gods of Appalachia, filled with eerie entities, cursed relics, and the kinds of GM tools that turn a good horror game into a legendary one...
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Holy crap....this is a Pumpkin toadlet and it is the best
December 11, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Holy crap....this is a Pumpkin toadlet and it is the best
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Just what I fucking expected.
December 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Just what I fucking expected.
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Students who file disingenuous grade appeals and grievances should be penalized for wasting everyone's time and, in this case, for trying to bully an instructor.
November 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Students who file disingenuous grade appeals and grievances should be penalized for wasting everyone's time and, in this case, for trying to bully an instructor.
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Noting you approve of teasing to enforce certain norms and then flipping the fuck out and crying discrimination when you are challenged in perhaps the most kind way possible is so much of their entire ethos in one distilled bit.
November 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Noting you approve of teasing to enforce certain norms and then flipping the fuck out and crying discrimination when you are challenged in perhaps the most kind way possible is so much of their entire ethos in one distilled bit.
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I only taught college for one more year after I transitioned, but this shit was my nightmare, and why I left the field. 100 she is trying to get the TA fired. And this is appallingly bad writing for a Junior. Most Freshmen write better than this after their basic COMP sequence.
November 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I only taught college for one more year after I transitioned, but this shit was my nightmare, and why I left the field. 100 she is trying to get the TA fired. And this is appallingly bad writing for a Junior. Most Freshmen write better than this after their basic COMP sequence.
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This genuinely reads like a ten year old wrote it.
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This genuinely reads like a ten year old wrote it.
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And speaking as a trans person who got their PhD at OU...the university is absolutely fucking spineless when it comes to protecting grad students generally and trans ones in particular
November 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
And speaking as a trans person who got their PhD at OU...the university is absolutely fucking spineless when it comes to protecting grad students generally and trans ones in particular
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Even worse the instructor then. They don't even have actual protections of the job. They're just being sacrificed by the Uni to save the feelings of TPUSA folks.
Christ.
Christ.
November 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Even worse the instructor then. They don't even have actual protections of the job. They're just being sacrificed by the Uni to save the feelings of TPUSA folks.
Christ.
Christ.
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Grad student instructor, so was teaching the class but is not a professor.
November 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Grad student instructor, so was teaching the class but is not a professor.