Erika Allen

Microbiologist. Writer. Works in a COVID-19 lab. Likes bacteria, growing cells, and supporting vaccination. Reads, bakes, and listens to way too many podcasts.

[Erika Allen @ErikaSloop]

@WorstYearPod Okay listening to this week's episode: DO NOT WEAR A RESPIRATOR to prevent the spread. They can protect you, but do NOT protect the people around you. (Air in is filtered, air out is not). Please blast that correction. #ppetips

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

As bad as the Trump Administration looks today, I firmly believe history will judge it much more harshly.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Everybody knows if a crowd of Black protesters attacked the Capitol building, they'd have been beaten, tased, shot, and dispersed in less time than it took you to read this tweet.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

A reminder that the people who breached security today at the Capitol find what @Kaepernick7 did to be offensive.

[MicrobeTV @profvrr]

Musings of an anonymous, pissed off virologist https://t.co/3H76Yip30G by @PaulBieniasz on how to ensure that SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are rendered impotent - exactly what we are doing now

[Lin-Manuel Miranda @Lin_Manuel]

True Story From Tonight-A One Act Play

[Dinner.]
The Six Year Old: Mommy, are you younger than Daddy?
@VAMNit: Yes. Two years younger.
The Six Year Old: But how come you know so much more than him?
[I look up from my pizza. End of play.]

[Erika Allen @ErikaSloop]

My soul just died a little.

[🐌🐙yackson🦑🦀 @CryForKelp]

"This year has been tough for a lot of us" #MBMBaM #MBMBaMLive

[Erika Allen @ErikaSloop]

@emerald1910 Hey Edmund. It might not feel like you can get through it now, but there really is a light at the end of it. Drink some water, unclench your jaw, and do something just for you.

[Erika Allen @ErikaSloop]

I HAVE A MIGHTY NEED FOR THIS. AHHHHHHHHHH

[DUAL WIELD STUDIO - SOCIALS MOVED @dualwieldstudio]

We just got in the first round of photographs for our @TamoraPierce Skysong plush designed by the wildly talented @quietsnooze.

We've got a few more changes and tweaks, so probably a sample or two before she's finished!

What do you guys think?👀👀

[SparkNotes @SparkNotes]

Apropos of nothing in particular, we'd like to start today off with a book recommendation: No Man of Woman Born by @AnaMardoll. Great for anyone seeking fantasy books about trans and nonbinary characters subverting gendered prophecies.

[Graycen Wheeler @GraycenWheeler]

One time when I was in a deep, hopeless funk, @kelsie_anson took me to a lecture on joy at the Boulder Shambhala Center to cheer me up, & the speaker concluded by being like “yeah, joy isn’t really a thing? the closest thing I feel to joy is when my wife cooks me some nice eggs”

[SparkNotes @SparkNotes]

Some of you have never dragged your daughter's boyfriend through the sewers of Paris and it shows

[AP Sports @AP_Sports]

BREAKING: Caster Semenya loses her long legal battle against track and field’s rules limiting female runners’ naturally high testosterone levels. https://t.co/gMzy1f9llv

[Nerd Girl Says @Rachael_Conrad]

Cast John Boyega as the lead in a period romance, you cowards.

[Erika Allen @ErikaSloop]

My goddess Tammy knows what's up. #birthcontrol #tamorapierceisthebest

[Tamora Pierce @TamoraPierce]

If I could make them, I would-- and they'd be free. ;-)

[Erika Allen @ErikaSloop]

GIVING BLOOD TODAY TO FEEL LESS USELESS!

[Erin Sullivan @sullivem]

k-pop stans we need you to mobilize for the USPS

[SparkNotes @SparkNotes]

Sorry it took me so long to text you back, I was caring for my dear friend Bunbury whose extraordinarily poor health requires my constant attention