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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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Someone is not a fan of the thunderstorms and has decided cuddles are the only way to deal with it.
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)@jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social |
2030 followers 560 following 3938 posts
Evolutionary biologist and professional nerd. Current: postdoc UMass Amherst, instructor Mission College. Fall 2024: Asst Prof, University of Alaska Anchorage.
queer af, they/them. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✡️
jfmclaughlin.org
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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Someone is not a fan of the thunderstorms and has decided cuddles are the only way to deal with it.
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Ethan “Fink-Nottle” Kocak
@blackmudpuppy.bsky.social
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Writing the intro to the Backerkit page and some of you might find it uh...relevant.
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Andrew D Thaler
@drandrewthaler.bsky.social
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Library funding is almost always justified through patron numbers. The more people a library serves, the more funding it gets. So even if you don't regularly use a public library, get a library card. It costs you nothing and helps everyone in your community.
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Spider
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So uh... anybody with a bigger megaphone than me want to help a butch out? The Gilbert Baker Foundation & CMG are asking a settlement from us for referring to the Gilbert Baker flag/original color scheme as the "Gilbert Baker flag" of twice what we've ever made from anything with those colors.
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
@jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social
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HER LEG WARMERS i'm crying
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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The weather knows I'm trying to have a yard sale and is at this point just purposely fucking with me I swear, it's supposed to somehow thunderstorm literally all day tomorrow?
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈
@chimeracoder.bsky.social
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my takeaway is that we should complain to managers about bad public transit near their shops more often
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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For your consideration: ambulatory dryer lint
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Eb
@ebthen.bsky.social
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Suggestion for folks asking for mutual aid support (based on years of experience): There's no need to say you're embarrassed or ashamed or hate to have to ask. That's exactly how capitalism wants you to feel. And it wants you to reinforce the idea that asking for help is shameful.
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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Except that being a doctor requires doing a shit-ton of work in a way that is recognized internationally as a credential, not just being born fancy and/or getting booped on the shoulder with a sword by a specific country's mascot rich person
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mx elle is eepy
@ellearmageddon.bsky.social
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i want to add: if you’ve stopped masking for whatever reason, you can start again. it makes spaces more accessible, it helps preserve your health and the health of the people around you. it’s a tiny action you can take to make the world safer.
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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*side eyes Tähti*
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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Or wants me to get a move on lol
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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Overall living in a supposedly haunted former funeral home has been rather uneventful, but last night the dogs freaked out about something that then knocked on the back door- and obviously nothing was there when I looked. I am chosing to believe it was somehow Kyle the resident rabbit.
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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It's my last official day as a postdoc and idk how that happened??
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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Trump should debate RFK, loser gets eaten
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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You would *think* that one plus of having moved so recently is that there's still several unpacked boxes...but no, it's not, because foolishly I have decided that to try and organize them so I can consolidate and get rid of stuff 🙃
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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Weird FB video rec update: it has now added a couple of channels focused on guys in China renovating old farmhouses, the algorithm is very successfully continuing its intervention with my stress levels
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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looking at my art stash and thinking "please don't make me pack this all *again*", so periodic reminder that i have an etsy full of art and jewelry that i do not want to have to take on another cross-country move:
www.etsy.com/shop/DogStar...
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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*adds 'Birddoctor' to my list of potential DnD names*
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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I miss these! If you're in the Bay area, you are obligated to go on my behalf
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Mary (geographile)
@geographile.bsky.social
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Californians, if you don't need to know this, maybe one of your neighbors does.
County Cooling Centers and Resources by California county
Published: Jul 02, 2024, updated July 4th.
news.caloes.ca.gov/coolingcente...
sfba.social/@visionsofna...
sfba.social/@geographile...
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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Season's greetings
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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Ironically since my car is a 2004, I now am actually paying more bc it doesn't have as many safety features as newer ones that would get me discounts 🙃
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Dr. Stephanie
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Just saw a fireworks shack with the slogan FIREWORKS YOU CAN “TRUST” and guys, look, I know you think quotation marks mean emphasis, but they don’t, and your sign is a perfect example of why people need to know that
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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Absolutely wild- when I last had car insurance in AK, my payment was $68 a month. 7 years later, the exact same policy on the same car with only 1 speeding ticket in 2018 is now $102 a month 😳
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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I just have never gotten around to visiting the coast here after finding out that unlike California, I wouldn't be able to just hang out on any random beach looking for weird critters, and it makes me sad
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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Like in general "do not sexually abuse people" seems like an *incredibly* easy bar that people can't even manage, but even if that's not what happened here, the power differential is in best case scenario 👀👀👀 uhh not great
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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As someone who once broke off a potential relationship when I found out the other person was a grad student r/t a postdoc, even though they were in a different field and (iirc) older than me, it is baffling how many people seem to struggle with "do not have sex w those you have more power than"?
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petnoodle
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Here's an adorable lil bebe watersnake for you
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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This post was the first to show up in my feed and wow I read that in very different inflections before and after the context lol
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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Reminder from a Pittsburgher who was at one point Mr. Rogers neighbor: “Look for the helpers” was intended to be advice for his usual audience, children. We’re grown ups now. We’re supposed to be the helpers.
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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Never fails lmao
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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And when the other employee was like "Hey I think you just erased that" he was like "oh yeah she* must have pushed the wrong button" MFer I asked like 3 times "are you *sure* you need me to select 'erase', that seems off?" (*Note that my laptop has they/them pronoun stickers prominently displayed)
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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IT GETS WORSE SOMEHOW THE GUY AT THE STORE WENT TO TURN OFF "FIND MY DEVICE" AND ERASED IT INSTEAD
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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I have had more laptop issues this year than in the entire preceding decade
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
@jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social
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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME I went to grab a glass of water and the dogs knocked my laptop off the table, breaking the screen WHAT THE FUCK
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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(not making light of this but honestly just struck at how cruelty at so many levels of life is ultimately just down to like just three Types of Guys)
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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"let's make a fake college and then charge people who enroll in it thinking it's a real college with crimes, and also take their money" is the final form of the guy who invites you to prom and makes you pay for dinner just to humiliate you
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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so the bullies in school who fake being your friend just to get you in trouble for something grow up to be cops, is what i'm getting?
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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this thread is a saga on par with the iliad
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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Idk if y'all have been talking about it and I just missed it, or if it's genuinely flown under the radar? But I feel like I'm someone who is generally aware of national news, and I had literally no idea
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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Hey so I know there's a lot of terrible shit right now, but this week, cops in Utica NY killed a 13 year old kid named Nyah Mway, a Karen refugee, tackling him and then shooting him while they held him down. Idk why I haven't heard anything about it until a friend from Utica told me just now
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
@jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social
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It me
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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Used some locally made West African peanut sauce in dinner tonight ...and have unfortunately learned that my gut has decided to put peanuts back on the "absolutely not" list, rude.
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ONeillJones
@oneilljones.com
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A job I was looking forward to just fell through because I requested a very basic “please don’t feed my work into the AI garbage chute pls” clause in the contract That was apparently against company policy and non-negotiable If anyone needs a book cover I have an opening in my schedule
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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Yeppppp Gotta say, do not recommend 2 cross-country moves in less than a year
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Ashley Fairbanks
@ziibiing.com
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I just realized that after two years of waiting, my #KidLit book comes out NEXT MONTH.
This Land is my answer to "This Land Is Our Land," a way for you to talk to kids you love about land theft and the displacement of Indigenous people from the lands we've called home since time immemorial.
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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It was a Consolea with pretty small but still very poky spines- almost worse than an Opuntia imo because they're so small they're hard to get out. I am also baffled.
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