Ologies with Alie Ward

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A comedyish science podcast hosted by @alieward. Asking smart ologists not-smart questions about their professional obsessions. Every Tuesday. May be NSFW. https://linktr.ee/alieward

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A screencap of the doodl app — with my last drawing, one of a person balancing on a ball labeled “life,” another teacup with a life almost falling off, a color drawing of a brain holding up a rainbow colored sign reading MY SANITY, and a cartoon if a cat swatting at a leaf in another cat’s head,
An index card with a simple watercolor pencil doodle of a balance beam teeter-totter. One side has a crystal ball with the word FUTURE and the other has a red book with the word PAST
Tiny sweet baby striped skunk with an itty bitty pink nosie, standing against a green fence. It is very cute.
Alie in a conference room, sitting and holding a mic and laughing while skunk legend Dr. Jerry Dragoo also holds a mic and smiles.
Design by Andrea Diaz. Whistles, markers, megaphones, cameras documenting ICE raids and other human rights abuses, first aid kits, and masking up against crowd dispersal have become vital tools during protest work. These icons of resistance surround a passage from our Revolutionology episode with scholar Dr. Jack Goldstone in a speech bubble. The quote reads: “One day with a million people in the streets, that's a holiday, that's not a campaign. What you need is to have people in the streets every weekend for months on end. Despite rain, despite snow. That's how they showed their resolve to stand against the government.”
Don Draper from Md Men in a wood-paneled elevator wearing a suit and saying "I don't think about you at all."
A headline that says “Here Are 29 of the Coolest Gifts for This 2025” with an image of a white slatted gadget and a a fluff ball of lettuce?
A fucked up looking Kermit the Frog with teeth and stoney looking eyes against a backdrop of an inferno
Cotinis mutabilis: the fig eater beetle which is a big gorgeous scarab that's a shimmering metallic emerald green with two gold stripes at its sides.
A screenshot of my instagram story of Gazan women and children with empty soup pots begging for food and aid amid blockades and rubble with a link to our Genocide episode about crimes of atrocity, and a reply to that story from an older white couple with the message "Please. I'm trying to enjoy my cruise."
Gremmie, a small poodle mix, stands on the sidewalk after a groom. Her hair and tail are fluffy but her face legs are close cropped and skinny
Alie (which is me) on a stage at a mic, in front of a tall red curtain
I could not be any more excited about the slate of final presentations for my Sociology of Reality TV class: Sociology of Reality 1 • Final Presentation Schedule 3rd The Sociology of Homophily in Love is Blind The Sociology of Lesbian Relationships in The Ultimatum: Queer Love The Sociology of Women's Work in Wife Swap The Sociology of Perfectionism on Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders The Sociology of Age Stereotyping on The Golden Bachelor The Sociology of Emotions in Too Hot to Handle The Sociology of Class in Weddings in Four Weddings The Sociology of Pregnancy in Unexpected The Sociology of Competition in America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders The Sociology of Work and Inequality in Below Deck The Sociology of Social Media in The Circle The Sociology of Alcohol in Floribama Shore 5th The Sociology of Conflict in The Amazing Race The Sociology of Family Business in Duck Dynasty The Sociology of the Working Class on Dirty Jobs The Sociology of Expertise in Shark Tank
A Washington Post headline reading "Fired federal workers demand senators stand up to Elon Musk" with the thumbnail of a laid off worker, screenshot frowning, and who has a cool dyed turquoise wavy undercut. Watching the videos, most of the workers were very ordinary-looking, but they selected this to paint a picture culturally and sew divide. Which I find disgusting and insidious.
Lisa Kudrow in Romy & Michelle in aged prosthetics and a red shirt, saying “I’m the Mary!”
chris pratt’s character in jurassic world in a pen with snarling velociraptors, arms outstretched trying to calm them
Hey guys, I just wanted to say I know I’ve been abruptly absent from the family thread. I just have been really upset at what is happening politically in the US right now and really trying to understand varying positions on it and have felt really hurt that people I love, who I know have kind generous hearts, might support an administration that is harming a lot of friends of mine: people of color, trans friends, gay friends, children of immigrants, women, friends who have needed reproductive care, and scientists I know and respect doing valuable work in human health. It’s really scary and I hope that you have gotten chance to absorb some executive orders, and try to understand the direct impacts. Political factions in the country are really divided at the moment, and I know neither of us agree fully with our own party’s policies, but I have been having
AP News headlines that read: AP Live updates: Inauguration Day Day 1 executive orders Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, taking charge as Republicans claim unified control of Washington and setting out to reshape the country's institutions. READ MORE • Parade honors rallygoer killed during Trump assassination attempt • Trump closely passes supporters at parade arena • It's called an inaugural parade. But is it? • Trump arrives at Capitol One Arena for inaugural parade • Protests denouncing Trump break out across the country Migrants have appointments to enter the US canceled immediately after Trump sworn in Elon Musk's prominence during inauguration ceremonies stamps tech titan's place in Trump's orbit What Melania Trump wore to the inauguration - including the hat
A billionaire immigrant oligarch standing before an United States inaugural podium doing a Third Reich salute, sporting a white man overbite of triumph and exertion
An illustration of an ancient human dressed in fur and leather in the snowy woods, fending off (OR WORKING WITH??) wolves with a burning stick. Credit: David Ian Howe
NYT screenshot "Last year was the hottest on record, surpassing 2023 for the top spot. Global temperatures last year also averaged more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, above those the planet experienced at the start of the industrial age. The increasing temperatures are tied to more extreme weather events like heat waves, hurricanes and wildfires" with an alarming graph showing a steep upward trend from 1980 on
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A simmering hot pic of mulder and scully from the x-files
Alie sitting at a wooden table with her body shoved into a curve of it. She is facing forward with arms like a Sphinx statue and wearing a golden yellow sweater with a neutral expression.
VOICEOVER: So genocide from a legal and a punitive standpoint is very difficult to prove no matter what the civilian toll or the horrors. Now if it's hard to prosecute, then is there ever even a consequence? Or a deterrent? ALIE: And you mentioned locked away for decades, possibly forever. Is there a very different punishment or reparations? Why would a country that is already, say, committing atrocities or has committed atrocities wanna avoid that label if they did the things that they did? DR. DIRK MOSES, GENOCIDOLOGIST: Yeah. It's a good question. So when the Darfu case was raging 20 years ago -- you know, which is a region in Sudan -- and was widely regarded as genocide here in particular in the U.S., the U.N. sent in an investigative committee, or commission, and it said that crimes against humanity were being committed but not genocide. And there was an audible sigh of relief in the African Union saying, “Well, okay. Nothing to see here. It's not genocide; it's just crimes aga
Tweet thread that reads: A: FYI: "obese" is a slur even if a doctor/medical professional uses it. their degree doesn't stop it from being a slur; it just gives them the "authority" to use it without consequence. "obese" is a slur. debate no one, because that's what it is. B: Why/how is obese a slur? A: because it is not real. B: Then how is a doctor to diagnose someone whose health is suffering as a result of their weight? A: no one's "health" is suffering because of their
Adam Wall wears a lobster print shirt and a felt crab hat at the Natural History Museum, and Alie stands in front of him smiling. The Ologies logo appears in the lower left corner.
A GIF of an aye-aye: the size of a small cat, but resembling a wingless bat with possum ears and a shock of black and silver hair that looks like a middle-aged hangover. And the name aye-aye, which is spelled A-Y-E-A-Y-E, it's thought to come from a Malagasy term for, I don't know what the fuck that is. It literally means, I don't know. Imagine a creature. So weird. So unsettlingly horrifying and cute that its name translates to I-D-K-I-D-K. On top of that they have long beef jerky fingers that look like twigs but alive and they use one skinnier finger to drum on branches and then they lean their ear on the wood to listen for some chubby maggot snacks inside. And then they use a different thicker finger to dig them out like a toddler would plumb a nostril. I love them more than they'll ever know. Photo: VCG Photo
Two still frames of James Burke in 1977 standing in front of a rocket launch, with a lower photo of him now, at 86, hosting a reboot of his long-running show, Connections.
A triptych of photos of James Burke from 1977 standng in front of the Voyager 2/Titan 3E rocket launch, and one still from his new series Connections.
A squirrel in a tree peeking toward camera all cute like
Your dad standing on an LA sidewalk doing a fancy arm pose and wearing jeans, a tank and an ologies sweatshirt wrapped around her head