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nancylwayne

@nancylwayne@mastodon.social

Bad-ass scientist, educator, speaker. I help women advance their careers. Find me at UCLA and Women Advancing Together. Views are my own. She/Her

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nancylwayne, to india
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April 2024, seen in our hotel room in Pushkar, India. This cracked me up.

nancylwayne, to Michigan
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Straight out of Midland, Michigan, USA--just when you think you've heard it all. In the news: "Woman found living inside a Michigan grocery store sign".

Quote from article: "A woman in Midland had a novel approach to living rent-free: post up in a sign above a grocery store and turn it into a makeshift apartment."

Link to article here: https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw-bay-city/2024/05/sign-sational-surprise-woman-found-living-inside-michigan-grocery-store-sign.html?e=e0ecdb004e2748ed7845adbf12b9b077&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter_todays_top_stories%202024-05-09&utm_term=Newsletter_todays_top_stories

nancylwayne, to animals
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My husband and I just adopted this sweet girl from Michigan Humane. She is a very large lap dog and cuddlebug, and a crazy ball of energy. Unfortunately, she has heartworm and will need some powerful treatment that requires that her heart rate stay low for about 3 months. No walks longer than 5 minutes. No chasing squirrels in the backyard. Good luck to us!! (photo attached)

nancylwayne, to Bloomscrolling
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I'm thrilled that the native wildflower seeds I threw into my backyard garden three years ago are finally producing Columbine flowers. Yippee!!

(Last year they got eaten before flowering.)

Pale pink Columbine flowers with a blue-gray shed in the background.
Pink Columbine flowers with a blue-gray shed in the background.

nancylwayne, to Travel
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  1. Got home yesterday after more than 24 hrs of travel between Dharamshala, India and Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

  2. Ate great Indian food.

  3. A highlight was visiting the Dalai Lama's temple located adjacent to where we were staying in McLeod Ganj. We were fortunate to witness the hauntingly beautiful Tibetan Buddhist monks' throat singing. Their deep vibrations get you right in the heart and kishkes (Yiddish for "guts"). (Video attached, turn sound up.)

Short video clip of Tibetan Buddhist monks sitting on the floor of the Dalai Lama's temple in McLeod Ganj and throat singing while in prayer. The monks wear burgundy and saffron robes. The room is glowing with colorful paintings and murals.

indivisibleteam, to random
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We’ve developed a GOTV tool right here at Indivisible that appears to be the most effective form of direct voter contact in existence. We believe Neighbor2Neighbor could shift the outcome of the 2024 election. Sign up now if you’re in one of our target states or districts: https://indivisibleproject.formstack.com/forms/neighbor_to_neighbor_ge_prereg?source=mastodon

nancylwayne,
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@indivisibleteam This Michigander just signed up to GOTV. Thanks!

AnnaAnthro, to italy
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Restaurant in Verona offers free bottles of wine to customers who hand in cell phones before dining

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/15/restaurant-in-italy-offers-free-bottle-of-wine-to-customers-who-hand-in-phone

nancylwayne,
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@AnnaAnthro Brilliant!

dkiesow, to random
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How does The Onion stay in business?

nancylwayne,
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@dkiesow I've been getting MSM headlines confused with The Onion since 2016.

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    nancylwayne,
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    @rooster Ugh, I remember those awful times with my kids! The girls kept re-infesting one another with their relentless hugging other lice-infested kids at school. It seemed to go on forever. Just thinking about it makes my head itchy.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    What is a little white lie you were told as a child, that you believed for too long?

    I was way too old when I figured out a human couldn't actually get sucked down a drain or flushed down a toliet. I used to cling to my little brothers, and pull them out of the bath any time my Mum would pull to plug.

    nancylwayne,
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    @RickiTarr "If you step on a crack, you'll break your mother's back." Although I never really believed it, til this day I still try to avoid stepping on cracks in the sidewalk. Seems like tempting fate. However, my mother died a year ago, so maybe it's safe to step on the cracks.

    Sheril, to trans
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    Ben Barres was a trailblazing transgender neurobiologist who promoted equity & diversity.

    His pioneering research on glial cells changed science & he became the 1st person admitted into the National Academies of Science.

    Barres was a strong advocate for women, early career scientists & the + community at a time when few people openly discussed gender identity. https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2017/12/28/mourning-ben-barres-the-transgender-scientist-who-changed-neuroscience/

    Excerpt from his autobiography: https://stanmed.stanford.edu/ben-barres-autobiography-transgender-scientist/

    nancylwayne, (edited )
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    @Sheril One of the most striking examples of the impact of gender bias is from a story that Dr. Barres told in the journal Nature: “Shortly after I changed sex, a faculty member was heard to say “Ben Barres gave a great seminar today, but then his work is much better than his sister’s.” There was no sister. Ben and “the sister” were the same person. Gender bias would have made it much more difficult to be a respected scientist when Ben was formally known as Barbara.

    https://www.nature.com/scitable/content/does-gender-matter-by-ben-a-barres-10602856/

    fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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    Is the rancid pisswitch being sponsored by Palantir or something? 🤬 💙

    nancylwayne,
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    @BashStKid @fkamiah17 Please, no. We have enough problems as it is.

    nancylwayne, to nyc
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    March 2024. Seen in New York City. Sweet Pickle Books really does sells sweet pickles and used books. The jars of pickles are all over the place, including in the book shelves. Photographic evidence attached.

    nancylwayne, to random
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    My latest blog, “A True Story of Sexual Harassment and Bullying, Part 5: Loyalty, At What Cost?” is the fifth of a six-part interview series with a woman lawyer who endured years of first being sexually harassed and then bullied by the manipulative and abusive man she reports to.

    In this installment, Anna needs to decide what is more important—her loyalty to the nonprofit organization she helped develop, or her mental and physical well-being.

    Link to blog: https://wp.me/p4LWPX-xQ

    nancylwayne, to nyc
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    March 2024, Central Park, New York City. A rainy walk in the park. Spring is just starting to get going.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Y'all this is the inside of a pinecone! I don't know what I expected, but not this.

    nancylwayne,
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    @RickiTarr Looks like a cross-section of an ovary with follicles in different stages of development and decay (says the reproductive physiologist).

    Gargron, to BelieveInFilm
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    First scans of Silbersalz arrived. It's motion picture film (really, it's Kodak Vision3 in different packaging) developed in ECN-2. It is impressive how fine the grain is. But their lab processing time is much slower than I expected.

    📷 Canon AE-1 Program
    🎞️ Silbersalz 250D
    🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8
    💃 Wife

    nancylwayne,
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    @Gargron Ooo…your photo has a buttery quality to it. Scrumptious!

    skaly, to random
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    Really overwhelmed lately, wasn't as active. Miss y'all though, how's it going?

    nancylwayne,
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    @skaly Sorry to hear about you being overwhelmed.

    I'm doing pretty well; thank you for asking.

    Any day that I can spend time in the pottery studio is a good day--even when things don't go according to plan. I spent a couple of hours this morning glazing some pots. The photo attached shows one of them. The rough spots usually smooth over in the kiln firing.

    nancylwayne,
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    @skaly Thanks! It might look like crap once it's fired. Crossing my fingers that the kiln gods are kind to my little pot.

    nancylwayne,
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    @skaly And my little covered pot came out of the kiln today--and I like how it turned out!

    nancylwayne,
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    @skaly Thanks!

    nancylwayne, to random
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    February 2024, Los Angeles, California, USA. Morning view looking out of my in-law's front room.

    nancylwayne, to random
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    jeffjarvis, (edited ) to random
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    Just finished proofreading the galleys of my next book, "The Web We Weave: Why We Must Reclaim the Internet from Moguls, Misanthropes, and Moral Panic," and I discover it and its cover are now up on Amazon! Good day.
    https://www.amazon.com/Web-We-Weave-Internet-Misanthropes/dp/1541604121

    nancylwayne,
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    @jeffjarvis Congratulations!

    bicmay, to science
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    "Duke University has decided to close its herbarium, a collection of 825,000 specimens of plants, fungi and algae that was established more than a century ago. The collection, one of the largest and most diverse in the country, has helped scientists map the diversity of plant life and chronicle the impact of humans on the environment.

    The university’s decision has left researchers reeling."

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/science/duke-herbarium.html?_hsmi=295219570&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--49-1nkXMbh-xwvpU36ZVfMCLhO7_9YXbh3TiDO_u8FYKsy-xSY1mFj2WTFp20g_wfTIS-YGXpABnnLm2siwYodUXVFw

    nancylwayne,
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    @bicmay You gotta' love this juxtaposition:

    The ending sentence of one paragraph: “We are a university with limited resources.”

    And the starting sentence of the very next paragraph: "Duke University has an endowment of $11.6 billion."

    Really makes you wonder WTAF??

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