Karen Poole

@renpoole.bsky.social

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Dinosaur paleontologist teaching human anatomy to medical students. Interests: ornithischians, systematics, diversity in science and medicine. Avi by @blackmudpuppy

Screen cap of Aileen B posting “thank God for Elon Musk” with a picture and quote of Musk saying “A government that treats foreigners better than its own citizens is, by definition, treasonous and illegitimate”. Adam Carolla shared this, saying “agreed”. Musk replied with a USA flag emoji.
Cartoon in four panels. Panel one: Character in baseball cap says “Hey, is everything okay?”. Another character, reading phone and wiping eyes says, “It’s just…the bone farmer…has died”. Panel 2: Baseball cap says, “he was that thing that would break into people’s homes and steal their skeletons while they slept, right?”. Response, “So sad”. Panel 3: Cryer, “I mean obviously, ideologically, I didn’t agree with him, with regards to skeleton ownership. But his smart lil bow tie!” Baseball cap says, “you have to admire his tenacity for a cause he believed in”. Panel 4: Reveals a third character with distorted human features held together in a large glass tube saying “Gonna have to disagree with you folks here.” Baseball cap replies “Too soon, Geoff!”
Clip from Archer, who is saying "are you Flemish or Waloon? It would really help my specificity."
Goose meme with goose chasing a guy asking “Whose religious interests does SCOTUS defend?”
Blue and red stripes showing strong warming trend from 1850 to present day in Memphis, Tennessee.
Cursed AI image showing very very wrong placement of a menstrual cup in an anatomy diagram that is also very wrong, reasons in thread.
Facebook post by Jack Horner So, while I'm being investigated by SVP, why don't you outraged paleo-people get back to doing some factual science, using the scientific method. You seem to have forgotten how that works, you know, using actual evidence? For Darren, I think this is essential, as I get the impression from his DinoCon disinvite, he's still cheesed off from Kevin and I pummeling him over the whole Darwin sexual selection argument back in 2013. But, I do thank you Darren, for weeding out the invasive nuisances from my social media platforms, I was curious as to how I was going to do that on my own.
Screenshot from the show Futurama with an advertisement for Bachelor Chow, “now with flavor”.
A book cover with a cartoon dinosaur titled “Dinosaur Time: An Early I Can Read Book”.
Line drawing of a smiling Iguanodon giving a thumbs up. Caption reads “Iguanodon: he’s pretty okay with everything”.
The Butterfly meme, asking “Is this infrastructure week?”
Figure 3 depicts the FDA's preferred study design for such trials. Given that there is global equipoise about yearly boosters for the 50-64-year-old age group, we assert that this is an ideal population for future trials. The FDA's preferred primary end point in these trials will be symptomatic Covid-19, with special attention paid to several secondary end points: severe Covid-19, hospitalization, and death. Sample-size calculations should aim to demonstrate that vaccines reduce the incidence of the primary end point with a lower confidence interval bound that is ideally above 30%. People who have had Covid-19 in the past year should not be excluded — since evidence is needed for the average American. Follow-up should extend for a minimum of 6 months to ensure that early booster gains persist. The control group could receive a saline placebo, to permit documentation of the full adverse-event profile. Ultimately, these studies alone can provide reassurance that the American repeat-boosters-in-perpetuity strategy is evidence-based.
Graph showing the percent of US adults who identify as Christian at ages 30-34. One line shows those raised Christian: 90% identified as Christian in 1990, while only 65% did in 2020. Another line shows those raised religiously unaffiliated. 44% identified as Christian in 1990 while 21% did in 2020. Another graph shows the inverse of this: that more 30-34 year olds identify as religiously unaffiliated in 2020 than in 1990, whether they were raised Christian or religiously unaffiliated.
Opening credits of the TV show Friends, showing Ross, Monica, Phoebe, Rachel, Chandler, and Joey splashing each other in a fountain.
deportation noun 1 : an act or instance of deporting 2 : the removal from a country of an alien whose presence is unlawful or prejudicial
Are there any autistic writers or artists that inspire you? Gosh, too many to name! Coming across Joanne Limburg's collection, The Autistic Alice (Bloodaxe: 2017) was one of the first times I saw autistic experience reflected in poetry. I still think that collection didn't get anywhere near the amount of attention it should have got. I think that, when the histories of autistic poetry come to be written, that book will be seen as a landmark, groundbreaking collection. I've been re-reading the poetry and prose of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, a writer who deserves to be more well-known on these shores. I've been revisiting Cyree Jarelle Johnson's book, Slingshot, too. It's always a joy to be shown what a poem can do, and how much a poem can hold, and Johnson's expansive book reminds me of what poetry is capable of in droves. I'm looking forward to Jane Burn's forthcoming collection, Be Feared, from Nine Arches Press. I've been returning to a poem by Mollie Russell called 'My Nephew's Second Birthday: A Saga of Self-Stimulatory Behaviour' that people can find in The Emma Press Anthology of Illness. Each time I read Russell's poem I get so much pleasure out of this line: 1 am not broken. My bones just need more oiling.' I've been enjoying the erasure poems of Chloe Erin a great deal, too. There's an optimism to them that I like a lot, but it's not a twee or hokey optimism, it's hard-edged, hard won and earned.
A diagram showing the distribution of median, ulnar, and radial nerves to the skin of the hand.
Sec. 7. Rules of Conduct Guiding Federal Employees’ Interpretation of the Law. The President and the Attorney General, subject to the President’s supervision and control, shall provide authoritative interpretations of law for the executive branch. The President and the Attorney General’s opinions on questions of law are controlling on all employees in the conduct of their official duties. No employee of the executive branch acting in their official capacity may advance an interpretation of the law as the position of the United States that contravenes the President or the Attorney General’s opinion on a matter of law, including but not limited to the issuance of regulations, guidance, and positions advanced in litigation, unless authorized to do so by the President or in writing by the Attorney General.
Tweet by Donald J. Trump stating “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”
Cartoon of an Iguanodon stabbing a Raptor with its thumb spike captioned “talk dumb, get the thumb”
Although RFK, Jr., and Luigi Mangione are both responses to the same underlying problem of US healthcare corruption, there is a major difference between them: one allegedly operated outside the law to kill one person in defense of millions, whereas the other-via his egomaniacal disregard for scientific evidence-seeks to use law itself to inflict preventable death on those millions.
Section. 8. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States, To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; To establish Post Offices and post Roads; To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
Scene from “The Sound of Music” in which Baron Von Trapp rips in half a Nazi flag that had been placed on his house.
Screenshot showing that Scott Williams has 1000 followers.
A cartoon Iguanodon giving two thumbs up with the caption “Iguanodon: he’s pretty okay with everything”.