Decided to try a new food today and I’m halfway through this plate of edamame 🫛and had to google if I was even eating this right because my gums were starting to bleed 😌lmaooo I wasn’t supposed to eat the outside. 😌 See y’all on the other side 🫶🏿👋🏾💕 it has been real ✨✨✨ The bean pods are scraping my GI tract and have been scraping the whole way down 😭😭 i can still feel the bean pods in my esophagus bro

Turns out if you casually eat about 4 cups of cherries and then go for a brisk walk around the block, you probably won’t make that very important and critical home stretch to the bathroom without projectile pooping on every fiber of fabric covering your body A true jeopardy moment: do I completely ruin this outfit RIGHT NOW and strip butt naked outside at the front door and throw the clothes directly into the trash, or try to thug it out and risk a new paint job on the house and potential new carpet. ALL BECAUSE OF THE DAMN CHERRIES

I read up on some successful uses for NAD+ in alleviating Long COVID fatigue, and I went ahead and tried it, and WOW. I've been on it for the past month and that thing has steadily been knocking out that fatigue. To the point where I have been working out AND doing a day's work. This is what I've been taking amzn.to/4bTjDCF

Y’all can read about this absolutely distressing situation of me trying to buy a home + learning that the seller didn’t want to sell to me because I’m Black, in @nytimes. Thank you @debra_kamin for your hard work investigating this + educating people about the Fair Housing Act 1/

https://twitter.com/ravenscimaven/status/1791680744055595443

You can read the article here. There are resources and really important things to know about the home buying process included in the article. I highly recommend you read this.
nytimes.com/2024/05/31/rea…

So um…. Soooooooooo my sourdough starter exploded out of a sealed jar in a matter of hours what do I do??? It won’t stop PLEASE HELP I’m afraid to open it and it’s flowing out like crazy

https://twitter.com/ravenscimaven/status/1789747247871086773

Can I make the bread with it ????????

My real estate agent's BROKER just called me at 9pm on a Friday to tell me that the seller doesn't want to sell a house to me because I am BLACK. This is after the inspection, contract agreement, down payment. Baby, I'm either buying your house or buying YOUR BLOCK. CHOOSE ONE. We all confirmed, super illegal. My agent and the broker called and they both said in 25+ years of doing real estate they NEVER had this happen. Both are older white dudes, both pissed + sick to their stomach. My agent said he wasn't going to get sleep.

https://x.com/tthiking/status/1791681736608211296

This ceremony awards millions to scientists making breakthroughs. I went last year. A lotta pomp and circumstance around science that felt performative, not educational, lacking connection, & elitist. I offered to help them bridge the HUGE gap and there was like zero interest 1/

https://twitter.com/THR/status/1779320315098906931

2/ I do appreciate getting invited to stuff like this, but the entire thing felt centered around celebrities and not the scientists. There were multiple Nobel Prize winning scientists there. It was frustrating. But hey, I got to meet Danny DeVito right? He's awesome by the way.

Two margaritas deep, I heard a song playing called you can go your own way, and I was like wow they are really singing their ass off. Looked it up it’s two band members breaking up I am in TEARS! YOU CAN GO YOUR OWN WAY 😭😭 watched the live performance. he can’t even look at her YOU CAN GO YOUR OWN WAY

I'm going to let a virus rip through the country that can hide out in tissues in your body for months and mimic proteins in your body and cause autoimmune responses and potentially activate other viruses in our bodies linked to MS and cancer... what can possibly go wrong?

https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1754848204707779042

nature.com/articles/s4158…

So the videos of me breaking down primary sources + literally holding the primary sources of information in my hands, in the video, + showing my notes on the articles, keep getting taken down for misinfo on TikTok. I guess they would rather lobotomize us with those dumb dances 🤷🏾‍♀️ Tried to appeal @tiktok_us and it got denied. SMH.

SO MANY new people here, glad that you're here! I'm Dr. Raven Baxter. I'm a molecular biologist and educator. Rapper, model, fashionista, spicy shenanigan. I believe in the power of accessible science communication, and building community in STEM. There's so much I've done+do 1/ I have a BA and MA focused in molecular biology from @buffalostate. My first job as a drug discovery scientist was across the street from a homeless shelter. It wasn't lost on me that I couldn't share my science with them. I passionately left the lab for an education PhD. 2/

The SARS-CoV-2 COVID virus is a total a-hole that can suppress our innate AND active immune response. It sets up shop in our tissues, exhausting our T-cells for weeks, months. Which for some has reactivated latent "sleeping" viruses that many of us have. 1/ Anti-viral T cells are a key component of the adaptive immune response and contribute to the elimination of acute infections, restrict the reactivation of latent viral infections, and control viral loads at steady state levels during chronic infections. 2/

So the virus that causes COVID has the ability to hide from your immune system and mutate in different parts of your body. Places like your nervous system, gut, and more. So you'll have a negative PCR test and everything but your body is actually still being EFFED UP, BAD 😭😭 I'm reading these papers and WHEW, this virus is absolutely disrespectful. Like, a complete violation

I was having random dreams about some person since 2008, not a real person. Y'all. The person ended up being real. We met last year and now we're best friends. They just showed me pictures they had been drawing, posted in 2008 🫨 and they exactly match pictures I took in 2012... I am a molecular biologist, not a quantum physicist but this is really making me develop some ideas in quantum biology and consciousness. Things we don't have the tools to measure or directly observe yet. But super intriguing and now I wanna go deeper than the molecular level 😭

Y'all I am on an Ancestry dot com rabbit hole tracing my history back and learning who my grandparents are and I'm at this dude named Oliver Cromwell???? And this dude was WILD. Jaw on the floor. Jaw on theeee floor. I have NEVER heard of him. I literally traced the family tree straight from my grandma right to him. It just kept going. From what I'm reading on the website, seems like everybody in my family tree was on foolery. His descendants came over to the USA and ACTED A FOOL.

1/ I haven’t dated since 2015. My stories of re-entering the dating pool are comedy. Went on a date. Awkward small talk. He reached across the table and HIT me, HARD. I said WTF is wrong with you? He said he just killed a HUGE bug on my shoulder. Bug goop EVERYWHERE 😭 I left 😭 2/ Atlanta: A dude called me bougie via text bc he found out I was an AKA 🙄, but HE canceled on our first lunch date last minute because he couldn’t squeeze me in for lunch. He had to “get a mani pedi 💅🏾 for his vacay”. I called him Mr. Bad and Boujee. Never talked to me again.

1/ This is the story on how I almost didn't become Raven the Science Maven because a Chief Marketing Officer of a huge science ed company asked me to mask my Blackness. When I was first getting started in science communication, the company reached out to me for a partnership... 2/ The CMO set up a Zoom call with me to further discuss. I was so excited! When the video came on, I learned that he was a Black man, and I was excited to see him working as a higher-up at a science ed company. We're talking and he pulls up my science rap videos on YouTube...

Since I lost a significant percentage of my hearing from COVID, I’ve learned to be extremely unapologetic about telling people “I CANT HEAR YOU” 🫠

Im so glad I took that sign language course in college. I took it to talk to one of my friends not realizing I would need it for ME I’m nervous about wearing a hearing aid because some sounds I can hear really clearly it’s just people talking is very muffled. Even music I’m sitting somewhere public right now and a song is playing and I can mostly hear the cymbals on the drum set I can’t hear the lyrics

Big news-- I'm declaring my full recovery from #LongCOVID as of June! For me, #LongCOVID lasted SIX MONTHS. This thread details my experience in its entirety-- feel free to share so that others can be informed of what the #LongCOVID experience can look like. Buckle tf up! 1/ I tested positive for COVID on December 13, 2021. While I was in the thick of it, I (painfully) wrote about my experience being a 28 year old with no preexisting conditions, and what a moderate COVID case looked like for me. I had ALL of the symptoms👇🏿2/ scienceandtheculture.bulletin.com/covidjourney

If you've been following me since last year, you'd know that I got COVID then and have been recovering with #LongCOVID. For almost 6 months now. In this thread I want to bring awareness to some of the very generous people I've met in the group who really need your support. 1/n Dave @D_Bone, with Angela @TheExtraFiles, hosts 24hr zoom chats for #longhaulers. Like many, he is no longer able to work because of complications from Long COVID. He created the @initfortheLHpod platform. Please support if you can ♥️ bit.ly/3GIoWGj 2/n

I wanna know how professionals with ADHD manage long form writing tasks. My dissertation almost killed me. What accommodations have you asked for in your professional life? Y’all I am looking for solutions for severe ADHD. The pomodoro method does not work for me. I mean like actual accommodations