Rebecca Robare

Rebecca Robare

@robareowl.bsky.social

Scientist and writer, parent of twins, Sherlockian. PhD, Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience, CUNY Graduate Center, 2010. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/1935/

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Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

Also, don’t consumer electronics have shorter replacement cycles than many accessibility devices? What happens when glasses.os is no longer supported by your existing frames?

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Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

I am not sure how to tell my manager my work might be late because on top of everything else, Tim Curry died, and Rocky Horror Picture Show was a load bearing part of my psyche as a young adult.

Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

One of those moments when I feel like I’m selling myself short. “I don’t enjoy structured social activities so no one should be allowed to do them” and you get published in the Guardian? Can I pitch an essay about how great pizza is or how bedtime should be abolished for a similarly juvenile take?

Micah@rincewind.run

lmao this is a truly world class Take she isn’t even talking just video games here, this is a blanket ban on sports, board games, cards, darts, all of it

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist
@princess-vimentin.bsky.social

The COVID brain fog explained. The COVID-19 virus binds to the ACE2 receptor to enter cells. Dopamine producing neurons are rich in the ACE2 receptor. The virus causes disruption in the dopamine network in the brain. 🧪 tech-paper.com/scientists-f...

tech-paper.comScientists finally have a biological explanation for why long COVID patients lose motivation and can't think clearly. They scanned their brains and found the dopamine system was physically damaged - T...Millions of people with long COVID report the same cluster of symptoms: a crushing lack of motivation, an inability to think clearly, memory that slips, movements that feel slower than they should. Fo...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
@olivia.science

> We seek contributions that address science-related struggles in areas such as anti-imperialism, anti-militarism, Indigenous resistance, climate justice, racial justice, reproductive justice, disability justice, animal rights, food sovereignty, data sovereignty, and right-to-repair.

magazine.scienceforthepeople.orgCall for Proposals: Science on the Ground: Vol 28, no 1 • SftPCall for contributions to our next issue. Pitches accepted until July 31, 2026.
Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

This whole dysautonomia thing is so annoying. What do you mean, I have to pace myself? What do you mean I have a hard two-week limit on excessive stress before my body just collapses? My material existence is going on strike for better working conditions out here.

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Michael LaFrance
@mlafrance.bsky.social

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

There is a ST:TNG episode in which Dr. Crusher has an intern who has just found out she’s a Q. Crusher asks her to do something in a lab, and she uses her Q powers, then is shocked to find Dr. Crusher angry. She needed the observations during the process of the task more than the tidy result.

Jon Phillips@jowiph.bsky.social

Tapping the sign

Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

In the ‘90s, books with LGBTQ+ themes were challenged in my hometown library. The library director held several hearings, listened to everyone, and held firm. The ACLU gave her an award, and the local journalism earned a Pulitzer. We have fallen so far.

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MeidasTouch
@meidastouch.com

NEWS: Bette Midler just released a remake of Woody Guthrie’s classic protest song “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” updated to fit the current moment and urge action ahead of the midterms. You have to listen to this.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
@sarahmackattack.bsky.social

FYI, this grant program is open to anyone communicating science. It does not require that you went to school for science. You could be a Ph.D. student, an artist, a community organizer, a teacher, or any other profession. As long as you are communicating science IRL in the US, you're eligible.

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social

🚨🚨🚨 Attention science communicators! 🚨🚨🚨 The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN! Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*. The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026. Apply here! forms.gle/4emvpRPddmEt...

forms.gleSCIENCE IRL: SciComm mini-grant 2026Skype a Scientist is offering $300-$1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science mess...
Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

Systematic review lists a study as having 42 patients in a 3-way comparison. The study they reference has 6 patients in a single-arm study. Do researchers read the studies they cite? And these days, I have to wonder if they used AI.

Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

I have spent 3 days trying to figure out this systematic review. I want to say I don’t get paid enough to do other people’s work for them, but I don’t know that there is a rate at which I would accept having to do work that authors and editors should have done before publication.

Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

Now I need someone to explain why this feels like some sort of personal failure. The studies you included are not the studies you cited! Nobody could make sense of that!

Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

Another day, another systematic review. Inclusion criteria: RCT. So far 2 studies are not randomized. Countless abstracts of included studies don’t give n per group. What are we even doing here?

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Aunt Fancy
@auntiefancy.bsky.social

Donations to this rent fund from @ziibiing.com can count as entries, too! bsky.app/profile/ziib...

Aunt Fancy@auntiefancy.bsky.social

I’m giving away a hand embroidered, one of a kind jacket! All you have to do is support my neighbors by making a small donation to one of the crowdfunding campaigns on www.standwithminnesota.com and email me a screenshot of the receipt - keep reading for details

Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

I am a mom with a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, and now I work in health care technical assessment — which means my job is to read the scientific literature about medical devices or treatments and write reports. Vaccines are safe and effective!

Virginia Schutte@vgwschutte.bsky.social

How many good mothers on Bluesky ARE the expert?? I’ll start: I have a PhD in ecology. I’m a science communicator: an award-winning creator, strategist, and impact producer. I make stuff for the internet that brings people together 🧪 Your turn! GO OFF, GOOD MOMS OF BLUESKY

Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

There’s an episode of M*A*S*H (there’s always a relevant episode of M*A*S*H) in which Hawkeye is so distressed and enraged about the lack of progress toward ending the war that he drives to the peace talks, talks his way in, explains how desperate everyone is for the war to end, and leaves. 1/9

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Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

So I guess, if I’m going to take a lesson tonight, it’s to celebrate even the little wins, the ones that amount to “did not get shot today” and, of course, M*A*S*H’s forever lesson, that some silliness and absurdity and friendship will keep us going when we can’t fix the big things. 8/9

Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

There’s an episode of M*A*S*H (there’s always a relevant episode of M*A*S*H) in which Hawkeye is so distressed and enraged about the lack of progress toward ending the war that he drives to the peace talks, talks his way in, explains how desperate everyone is for the war to end, and leaves. 1/9

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Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

Time is meaningless. Three years might as well be eleven. Anyone and everyone can shout their little piece of truth to power but the best we can hope for is to let off some steam and then go back to stitching together our shared reality. 6/9

Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

There’s an episode of M*A*S*H (there’s always a relevant episode of M*A*S*H) in which Hawkeye is so distressed and enraged about the lack of progress toward ending the war that he drives to the peace talks, talks his way in, explains how desperate everyone is for the war to end, and leaves. 1/9

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Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

But back to Hawkeye - his excursion releases some pressure, his safe return is celebrated by his friends. But ultimately it changes nothing. The war goes on. Hawkeye finally lands in a locked ward for a while because of it. 4/9

Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

And I’m musing on this now because I always want to believe that the right words will change something - soften a stony heart, make someone change their mind. But we’re living in M*A*S*H world, now. 5/9

Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

There’s an episode of M*A*S*H (there’s always a relevant episode of M*A*S*H) in which Hawkeye is so distressed and enraged about the lack of progress toward ending the war that he drives to the peace talks, talks his way in, explains how desperate everyone is for the war to end, and leaves. 1/9

Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

(This reminds me of my father’s great aunt, a suffragette, who was part of a group who chained themselves to the White House gates and demanded to speak to the president. I cannot imagine this strategy being viable today.) 3/9

Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

I don’t need an umbrella because the umbrella is keeping me dry.

Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com

“The FDA seems to be moving towards laxer regulations of all drugs, except for vaccines," said @joho.bsky.social. Høeg has said she wants to eliminate "unnecessary" vaccines that have been given in childhood for decades. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

theguardian.com‘She has no expertise’: the US medical community girds for Tracy Beth Høeg’s tenure at the FDAThe Danish American who doubted Covid shots is meant to lead drug regulation – but has focused on vaccines
Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

It has been an absolutely exhausting week for public health, and having CVS now be unable to fill my child’s prescription (ADHD meds, so impossible to do normal things like call around to find a pharmacy that has it) 1/3

Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

And it just feels like another demonstration of the ways our health care is broken. It’s not like denying vaccines or gender affirming care. My kid will not die if he goes without meds for a few days. 2/3

Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social

This is such a terrific book! I love the queernorm society and the model of families being polyamorous or involving multiple couples. The worldbuilding is so compelling and it interrogates colonization and its aftermath in a tremendously humane way.

Susie Williamson@susiewilliamson.bsky.social

Day 3 of Book Advent 📚 Fire Logic by @lauriejmarks.bsky.social, epic war fantasy with guerrilla warfare among the farmsteads and iron workers, with a wonderfully diverse cast reflecting the equality they are fighting for, and elemental magic and touches of fantasy bringing colour to life.