Valerie Horsley @valeriehorsley@qoto.org

The unions are asking for FOUR DAYS of paid sick leave.

Congress could call in the CEOs of the major railroad corporations, which earned $23 billion in profit last year, and have them explain why their workers don't deserve paid sick leave

At this point in the decade I’m honestly impressed with the energy some folks are still putting into being toxic nightmare people

If you accomplished ~anything~ academically during the pandemic, such as:

• submitted an application
• earned a degree
• passed a class
• did research
• learned something
• taught somebody
• submitted a manuscript
• stuck with it
• changed course
• set healthy boundaries
• figured out what works for you
• helped a colleague

you did it in Very Hard Mode, and I salute you!

If you got your butt kicked, you’re not alone 💜

@academicchatter

Hello #ScienceMastodon! I am an assistant professor in the MIT Department of Biology with our lab based at the Koch Institute. We build tools for high-throughput functional genomics in mice in order to understand and modulate regenerative capacity across mammalian tissues.

https://www.knouselab.org/

Help me find more #BIPoC Accounts, for me, for you, for everyone on #Mastodon

If you're #black #indigenous or #peopleofcolor feel free to comment, if you like you can comment who you are and/or what you do, so other people can follow you more easily

I will report everyone who dares to comment something hateful or attacks anyone here

Please boost

#introduction I am an Associate Research Scientist at Yale University, interested in understanding cellular and signaling mechanisms underlying Secretory Granule biogenesis. These specialized vesicles store and secrete cargoes like insulin, mucins, neurotrophic factors in a regulated fashion. We recently published on the role of LLPS at the TGN in SG biogenesis in JCB. I soon plan to go in the academic job market to explore the mechanisms of SG biogenesis in development and disease contexts.

Tweets should just be called bird shit at this point.

Normalize Black people coming to this app being safe to speak their minds. What we bring up might abut internal discomfort and biases that you might hold. That is not the minoritized person’s responsibility, though, to educate you, coddle you, to do the work for you. It is your responsibility to not create yet another space where Black people are marginalized or silenced.
I’ve been calculated about bringing this up and now is the time.💖✊🏽
#Black #BlackPride #Minoritized #Responsibility #unity

@valeriehorsley
So much of this article resonated with me and made me think about how #grateful I am for the friendships in my life, and how/why we should work hard to maintain them.
I particularly liked "Friendship is a bulwark against stasis, a potential source of creativity and renewal." So important.

As if the #birdsite couldn't get more odious, a pack of right-wingers have decided to target several thousand fellow users there with harassment. #ApartheidClyde is fast becoming a right-wing internet mob boss for our times.

There was a recent piece in #ScienceMag by my friend @joncohen that suggested #COVID, #RSV & #flu are going to interfere with each other, but as we wait:

"Similar stories have been pouring in from around the nation for weeks. I recently spoke with a physician in Connecticut who called this 'by far the worst spike in illness I’ve seen in 20 years'; another in Maryland told me, 'There have been days when there is not an ICU bed to be found anywhere in the mid-Atlantic.'”

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/11/flu-rsv-covid-next-winters/672252/

Anything worth having is worth working for.

#NoireSTEMinistReflections #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFediverse #BlackFedi
#BlackAcademics #BlackDiaspora #BlackInEngineering #BlackInRobotics #BlackAndSTEM #BlackWomenSTEM
#TwitterImigration #BlackInSTEM #Blerd
#EngineeringQuizzes #TwitterQuizzes #MastodonQuizzes #NoireSTEMinist #MySTEMIsForTheStreets
👩🏾‍🏫👩🏾‍💻👷🏾‍♀️👩🏾‍🎓
https://youtu.be/Rt0bIzfdAvY

It’s #BlackFriday #FollowFriday #BlackMastodon #ObGynodon

Now Musk is saying if Apple and Google block Twitter on their app stores, presumably for failure to moderate hate speech and for safety, he will just create a new phone.

So it’s going well, right?

There is a lot of important conversation going on about the experiences of our #bipoc and #black friends on #Mastodon and in the #Fediverse. Fellow #Ally / #Allies folks, we should be paying attention.
#BlackMastodon
#BlackTwitter
#BlackFediverse
#BlackFedi

Super excited to see @ASCBiology here, especially as we are getting ready for the American Society for Cell Biology #ASCB #CellBio annual meeting in DC in a week!
See you there?!?

sometimes people come into your life and they need to stop doing that