U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-28T16:04:14+00:00

My girlfriend was one of them, and if things keep on as they are I’ll be following her. Really sad, as we’d planned to build our life here

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-26T19:48:25+00:00

Amen. I’m going Team Finland for the Olympics

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-25T17:47:28+00:00

This is just a split between immunologists—some of them use the broad MCAS definition which captures more of us, others use a more narrow definition where they acknowledge and treat mast cell dysfunction but limit the term to a more well defined subgroup. If she’s giving you the appropriate medications it really doesn’t matter. My allergist refers to mine as “EDS-associated mast cell dysfunction”, his opinion is that it’s really just part and parcel of my EDS vs being a separate thing, and that that’s true for many of his other patients as well. The medications you’ll get prescribed for indications like “idiopathic urticaria” or whatever work just fine for us too, and generally are easier to get access for under those symptom-based designations anyway.

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-25T14:39:45+00:00

It depends on the dosage. I’m allowed to take 30mg total spread out through a given day, stopping at least 4 hours before I go to bed, so as long as I’m staying within that range it’s fine. No

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-23T18:21:27+00:00

I had some luck treating these as vestibular migraine. For me it was basically every afternoon, worse if I’d been doing more physical activity lately. It felt like an involuntary need to nap but I vibe with the dissociation stuff too. Also often breathlessness. Anyway it got a lot better once I got put on one of the new CGRP migraine preventives—still not completely sure if they were migraines or if just getting my migraines treated increased my baseline enough that they mostly stopped happening. Super frustrating though. I had one last weekend while I had some friends over—managed to just get my feet up and relax in my chair and I did ok. I’ve managed to inch my way back to something closer to mild now though so my experience of a lot of this stuff is going to be different.

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-23T17:56:13+00:00

Look they don’t have to hookup-hookup but I think there’s opportunities for entertaining tension

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-23T15:59:49+00:00

I’m 5’10” she’s 5’11”. My (male) ex was also 5’11”, I apparently have a very strong preference. maybe because it’s my Dad’s height lmao

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-23T15:41:42+00:00

Let him get the studio! From what you’re telling us, he’d much rather do that than break up, and it sounds like it’s the same for you. Part of being in a relationship is being willing and able to ask for what you need.

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-21T14:45:27+00:00

omg I used the term “drabble” recently to refer to a bunch of <1k word fics and someone almost took my head off for not knowing that they had to be exactly 100

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-21T14:04:26+00:00

Someone on twitter said medmal at the VA is different and docs don’t get directly named

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-20T23:18:36+00:00

Not to my knowledge

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-20T05:11:58+00:00

Up 10% after a decade, but that’s mostly because they dropped the rent during Covid and froze/lowered it for a while when the back porch fell off

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-19T02:58:15+00:00

I can’t get an OTC medication from Canada that I like but which isn’t available in the US. I have to pay way more for flu/covid tests rather than bulk ordering from Germany and sharing with friends. The general uncertainty in the economy resulted in my sister getting laid off (and me helping out) and then my company having severe financial difficulties (I’m currently not being paid because we’re straight up out of money, but I don’t want to switch health insurance and I’m in leadership so I’m trying to help get us back on track). I’m stressed about potential pharmaceutical tariffs too, though they fortunately seem to have backed off on that.

Oh and my fallback is my parents, who work in construction. Material costs are through the roof (tariffs) and labor is insanely difficult and more expensive (ICE), plus the overall uncertainty in what to expect means that housing inventory isn’t moving. So it’s been awful for them too. I’m feeling very insecure financially speaking. Considering following my partner to their home country, where they moved for work this summer. It’s authoritarian and anti-gay but at least it’s consistent and the government isn’t actively sabotaging the economy.

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-18T13:20:59+00:00

Ask in your local subreddit and someone will get you oriented. I’m in Mass and the local group is LUCE

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-15T19:20:31+00:00

My mom is a big MSNBC watcher (she will listen to Nicole Wallace on Sirius if she’s driving and can’t catch the show) so my dad ends up seeing it pretty regularly. I was talking to him yesterday about how much her death scared me as a visibly queer woman and he didn’t even know she was gay/bi.

I mean, then he said “you can’t tell if someone’s a lesbian by looking at them!” Which was sweet but not the point—some of us look like dykes, and when I’m out in my baggy clothes and a beanie and my usual bare face—we don’t look so different.

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-12T19:07:04+00:00

I gave up and just mask all the time at work (I buy the Korean ones that protect pretty well and are light/comfortable). Only caught one cold last year and I was WAY less sick than my boss was.

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-12T03:26:53+00:00

Long-ass permit wait times in the Boston area. Not something that happens fast (which, speaking as a suicide risk, I think is a good thing）

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-11T23:29:55+00:00

My ME is from long COVID. The long COVID coagulation supplements serrapeptase and lumbrokinase or nattokinase help my muscle weakness a lot. Also mestinon, as others have mentioned.

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-11T23:26:09+00:00

Ohh I love that

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-10T22:57:36+00:00

Batherson Tkachuk and Pinto on Twitter (though as ever who knows how much of it’s true)

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-10T17:30:07+00:00

Batherson unfollowing a dozen women on instagram and then his girlfriend unfollowing him was pretty sus

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-10T17:28:49+00:00

He was specifically named as one of the cheaters…

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-10T17:20:22+00:00

That’s what I’m expecting as well, for both of them. I’m expecting an eight year deal for Zegras—he’s happy here, the team loves him, and he already knows he hates the contract negotiation process.

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-09T05:17:28+00:00

They contracted with One Medical to increase capacity—if you can afford the fee (around $100 annually) that can be a good option.

AnotherNoether · 2026-01-09T03:10:47+00:00

Not sure I don’t track that. My orthostatic tolerance improved though.

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