Amber Reed

@CAwkward Your advice is amazing, and just what I needed to firm my resolve given that my mother will likely pass before the end of the year.

TL;DR: The new Little Mermaid is exactly as "scientifically accurate" as any other mermaid movie that presents mermaids as skinny mammals living in the aphotic zone without blood dripping from their daggered teeth at every moment of the day.

idk man, I feel like "74% of American workers don't regret completely upending their careers during a pandemic" is actually a bigger story than "26% of people who changed jobs regret it"

@CAwkward Mine always involved somehow double or triple booking myself. I find out that I am supposed to be attending a class or going to a job at a certain time, but surprise I have a commitment also at that time and I need to do both and I can’t.

I wish we lived in a society where the *wants* of the loudest (not the majority) didn’t supercede the literal lives of the most marginalized. I get it. You’re tired of zoom. You want to see people. You miss bars or hockey games. I want to simply be alive at the end of this.

How annoying are those who still insist on wearing masks on staying in on minimizing contact on taking precautions how dare those insufferable worriers with their unacceptable audacity remind the rest of us that the pandemic has not ended.

Autism-related dietary preferences mediate autism-gut microbiome associations cell.com/cell/fulltext/… - important study refuting naive idea that gut microbiome somehow causes autism - arrow of causation goes the other way

A study in Nature profiles the effects of several classes of antibiotics on the gut microbiome and identifies drugs that mitigate these adverse effects without compromising their efficacy against pathogens. go.nature.com/3DIreCp

@HannahntheWolf I really want to read it! I’m sure the scholarship is brilliant.

I sent my radically reworked thesis to my advisor and I’m terrified she won’t accept the way I’ve found my way through the project. It is Mad and neurodivergent and so so crip that I’m terrified it can never satisfy my degree requirements. But it feels so urgent and necessary.