@julieinthewoods.bsky.social
Neurodivergent RN, wife, mom, science nerd, manic pixie forest crone. She/her.
Homeschooler, but believes in kids’ rights and teaches about things like Black and Indigenous history and lots of science, so kind of a lonely homeschooler.
Homeschooler, but believes in kids’ rights and teaches about things like Black and Indigenous history and lots of science, so kind of a lonely homeschooler.
Look at this little guy who found its way into my house. Eastern Red-backed Salamander? Northern VA, USA. 🐍 #herps #amphibians
September 18, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Look at this little guy who found its way into my house. Eastern Red-backed Salamander? Northern VA, USA. 🐍 #herps #amphibians
None of us are safe until all of us are safe. None of us are free until all of us are free.
it shouldn’t have to happen to you to matter to you.
Nobody gets thrown under the bus in a just world, which is what we should all be striving for without compromise. Human rights are non-negotiable.
it shouldn’t have to happen to you to matter to you.
Nobody gets thrown under the bus in a just world, which is what we should all be striving for without compromise. Human rights are non-negotiable.
I do not understand the folks furious at trans people for responding in anguish when the party that they've been told would protect them treats their existence as negotiable.
I do not understand thinking trans folks have political power and responsibility where candidates have none.
I do not understand thinking trans folks have political power and responsibility where candidates have none.
September 15, 2026 at 1:46 PM
None of us are safe until all of us are safe. None of us are free until all of us are free.
it shouldn’t have to happen to you to matter to you.
Nobody gets thrown under the bus in a just world, which is what we should all be striving for without compromise. Human rights are non-negotiable.
it shouldn’t have to happen to you to matter to you.
Nobody gets thrown under the bus in a just world, which is what we should all be striving for without compromise. Human rights are non-negotiable.
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"gambling expert" is an absolutely wild credential to put on someone on the the TV, whats next "elite cocaine snorter"??
September 13, 2026 at 6:20 PM
"gambling expert" is an absolutely wild credential to put on someone on the the TV, whats next "elite cocaine snorter"??
I just got an email about a textbook my kids need to have for the first day of a homeschool enrichment class that starts 14 hours & 20 minutes after the email was sent.
Off to a great start, everybody who is all “public school this and that is why I homeschool” is full of shit. Nothing’s perfect.
Off to a great start, everybody who is all “public school this and that is why I homeschool” is full of shit. Nothing’s perfect.
September 8, 2026 at 3:26 AM
I just got an email about a textbook my kids need to have for the first day of a homeschool enrichment class that starts 14 hours & 20 minutes after the email was sent.
Off to a great start, everybody who is all “public school this and that is why I homeschool” is full of shit. Nothing’s perfect.
Off to a great start, everybody who is all “public school this and that is why I homeschool” is full of shit. Nothing’s perfect.
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does your supplement do what you say it does? cool, prove it. if you can’t prove it and you keep saying shit you can’t prove, fines and jail.
September 7, 2026 at 3:40 PM
does your supplement do what you say it does? cool, prove it. if you can’t prove it and you keep saying shit you can’t prove, fines and jail.
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note that you do not have to do one damn thing to the customers to make this work, you just need to bring the exploitable vagueness of the supplements market under the regulatory umbrella
September 7, 2026 at 3:39 PM
note that you do not have to do one damn thing to the customers to make this work, you just need to bring the exploitable vagueness of the supplements market under the regulatory umbrella
I’m an RN and very pro-science-based medicine. I’m
AuDHD, so MAHA would want to, at best, send me to a camp or something. However, I also have been dealing with chronic illnesses and have begun to understand how some people end up going down the woo pipeline (that can end up at MAHA).
AuDHD, so MAHA would want to, at best, send me to a camp or something. However, I also have been dealing with chronic illnesses and have begun to understand how some people end up going down the woo pipeline (that can end up at MAHA).
It’s the enormous failure of the medical system to be trustworthy that has *created* space for the MAHA movement to flourish. If the US medical industrial complex was ethical, moral, and inclusive MAHA wouldn’t exist.
This article I wrote back in 2019 is unfortunately more relevant then ever.
This article I wrote back in 2019 is unfortunately more relevant then ever.
September 7, 2026 at 6:46 PM
I’m an RN and very pro-science-based medicine. I’m
AuDHD, so MAHA would want to, at best, send me to a camp or something. However, I also have been dealing with chronic illnesses and have begun to understand how some people end up going down the woo pipeline (that can end up at MAHA).
AuDHD, so MAHA would want to, at best, send me to a camp or something. However, I also have been dealing with chronic illnesses and have begun to understand how some people end up going down the woo pipeline (that can end up at MAHA).
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September 7, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Seagrams gave better advice in the 1970’s than Emily Oster did in 2014.
September 6, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Seagrams gave better advice in the 1970’s than Emily Oster did in 2014.
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There's plenty of reasons to be skeptical of centrists who bemoan "political polarization" and call for a politics that abandons the "tribalism of left and right."
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July 9, 2026 at 6:52 AM
There's plenty of reasons to be skeptical of centrists who bemoan "political polarization" and call for a politics that abandons the "tribalism of left and right."
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this rancid shit follows women EVERYWHERE. EVERY. WHERE. by "allies" and "good guys" who are SO fucking goddamn mothertits invested in fighting the MAGA people and the fascists but absolutely refuse to look inward and correct even the slightest behavior that's the beginning of the path to there
@glennh24.bsky.social, do not be like this. you had almost 20 women reply to you based on this bullshit and tried to spin it as me saying what women want, when what I said was don't be gross. don't be gross, man, you have too many followers to be gross, even if you got them by follow spamming
September 5, 2026 at 6:07 PM
this rancid shit follows women EVERYWHERE. EVERY. WHERE. by "allies" and "good guys" who are SO fucking goddamn mothertits invested in fighting the MAGA people and the fascists but absolutely refuse to look inward and correct even the slightest behavior that's the beginning of the path to there
Loudoun County, VA sheriff’s deputies allegedly called ICE on a *victim* of domestic violence. Truly despicable.
www.loudounnow.com/news/loudoun...
www.loudounnow.com/news/loudoun...
Loudoun Sheriff’s Office Has Turned Immigrant Information Over to ICE, Records Show
New Virginia Majority and the ICE Out of Loudoun Coalition said Thursday that documents they obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office alerts federal
www.loudounnow.com
September 4, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Loudoun County, VA sheriff’s deputies allegedly called ICE on a *victim* of domestic violence. Truly despicable.
www.loudounnow.com/news/loudoun...
www.loudounnow.com/news/loudoun...
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This is relevant because a major argument of those who claim the pandemic originated in a lab leak is that the "CGG-CGG" insertion in the SARS-2 furin-cleavage site (FCS) is so exceedingly unlikely that only lab manipulation could have produced it.
@spyroslytras.bsky.social alignment below.
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@spyroslytras.bsky.social alignment below.
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September 1, 2026 at 11:05 PM
This is relevant because a major argument of those who claim the pandemic originated in a lab leak is that the "CGG-CGG" insertion in the SARS-2 furin-cleavage site (FCS) is so exceedingly unlikely that only lab manipulation could have produced it.
@spyroslytras.bsky.social alignment below.
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@spyroslytras.bsky.social alignment below.
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I've spent that past 2 weeks beating my head against the wall trying to wrangle the most incorrigibly unruly mutation type of all—insertions.
I'm sure I'll find some more fine-tuning to do, but I'm finally satisfied with the results and will share a quick summary of them in this 🧵.
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I'm sure I'll find some more fine-tuning to do, but I'm finally satisfied with the results and will share a quick summary of them in this 🧵.
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Since I posted this ~2 weeks ago, we've seen two new insertions in SARS-CoV-2 sequences, and both fit well into the typical pattern we've long seen: Lots of G's (6/9, 5/12) & no close matches in the viral genome.
Both contain "CGG"; one has "CGGCGT".
Both singlets but high-quality sequences.
Both contain "CGG"; one has "CGGCGT".
Both singlets but high-quality sequences.
September 1, 2026 at 11:05 PM
I've spent that past 2 weeks beating my head against the wall trying to wrangle the most incorrigibly unruly mutation type of all—insertions.
I'm sure I'll find some more fine-tuning to do, but I'm finally satisfied with the results and will share a quick summary of them in this 🧵.
1/13
I'm sure I'll find some more fine-tuning to do, but I'm finally satisfied with the results and will share a quick summary of them in this 🧵.
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Oh no, looks like I have to spend some time this evening on the porch bat watching. 🦇
(Most evenings involve sitting on the porch bat watching.)
(Most evenings involve sitting on the porch bat watching.)
Happy International Bat Night from your friends at BCI. 🖤🌝🦇
August 29, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Oh no, looks like I have to spend some time this evening on the porch bat watching. 🦇
(Most evenings involve sitting on the porch bat watching.)
(Most evenings involve sitting on the porch bat watching.)
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We end up presented with two portraits: Wiley’s, which is dope, and a textbook-perfect picture of white fragility.
“[A State Department official called the painting] ‘very woke’ and ‘aesthetically terrifying.’”
The painting:
The painting:
August 25, 2026 at 2:12 AM
We end up presented with two portraits: Wiley’s, which is dope, and a textbook-perfect picture of white fragility.
My goal is to be a parent that my kids don’t ever feel the need to cut off. To love and accept them, and to deal with conflicts with respect, both when they were young and as they are growing into adulthood. Why is that so difficult for some in my generation to understand?
This has been a slowly metastasizing moral panic for years: Liberals, drunk on therapy-speak, are cutting off their parents over minor slights and miscommunications.
There is little evidence of the underlying phenomenon and even less of the cause. Look at this egregiously thin nut graf.
There is little evidence of the underlying phenomenon and even less of the cause. Look at this egregiously thin nut graf.
August 17, 2026 at 9:59 PM
My goal is to be a parent that my kids don’t ever feel the need to cut off. To love and accept them, and to deal with conflicts with respect, both when they were young and as they are growing into adulthood. Why is that so difficult for some in my generation to understand?
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These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin.
These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives.
In plain language: torture.
These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives.
In plain language: torture.
Zero surprise that these are explicitly designed to cause pain without leaving a mark, not to incapacitate.
Yes, we're spending $20M to buy ICE agents torture devices.
Yes, we're spending $20M to buy ICE agents torture devices.
August 15, 2026 at 4:38 AM
These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin.
These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives.
In plain language: torture.
These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives.
In plain language: torture.
As much as is wrong with the region, it has a deep magic to it too. A feeling of being protected by and connected to something much bigger and mystical and more beautiful than I feel anywhere else, but with a dark side too. And a sense of thin places.
personally I love the ‘Appalachians are older than bones’ discourse that we get into every couple months. It’s probably one of my favourite discourses. people learning in real time what ‘the old gods’ actually means
August 13, 2026 at 8:50 PM
As much as is wrong with the region, it has a deep magic to it too. A feeling of being protected by and connected to something much bigger and mystical and more beautiful than I feel anywhere else, but with a dark side too. And a sense of thin places.
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I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians.
I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Mamdani's city-owned grocery stores are a socialist trap | Opinion
No matter how good Zohran Mamdani makes grocery affordability sound, he's selling New Yorkers the same broken promise that has failed everywhere else.
bit.ly
August 3, 2026 at 11:11 PM
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians.
I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
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A must-read for women who have or suspect they might have ADHD and for those who love someone who does:
For decades, ADHD was viewed as a childhood condition that mostly affected boys. Researchers now know ADHD manifests differently in girls, but many still go undiagnosed until adulthood.
ADHD looks different in women and poses unique health risks
For decades, ADHD was viewed as a childhood condition that mostly affected boys. Researchers now know ADHD manifests differently in girls, but many still go undiagnosed until adulthood.
n.pr
August 2, 2026 at 2:37 PM
A must-read for women who have or suspect they might have ADHD and for those who love someone who does:
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Odyssey this.
Odyssey that.
We Odyssey ICE abolished.
Odyssey that.
We Odyssey ICE abolished.
July 30, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Odyssey this.
Odyssey that.
We Odyssey ICE abolished.
Odyssey that.
We Odyssey ICE abolished.
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July 29, 2026 at 2:23 PM