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Lindsay Baxter

@lbax.bsky.social

Medical Entomologist studying insecticide resistance in disease vectors. Previous work includes mosquito mating biology and Powassan virus ecology. Interested in all infectious disease news and connecting with others in my field.

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How it started/How it's going

28.02.2025 11:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15186    ๐Ÿ” 4586    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 353    ๐Ÿ“Œ 267

The same people claiming that immigrants took their jobs are releasing potentially millions of extremely qualified workers into the job market all at once.

27.02.2025 16:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Paul Farmerโ€™s Moral Clarity Offers Hope, Amidst Chaos And Darkness On the 3rd anniversary of Dr Paul Farmer's death, several leaders reflect on his lessons for dealing with the ongoing crisis in global health and development

Paul Farmerโ€™s Moral Clarity Offers Hope, Amidst Chaos And Darkness, by @madhupai.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk... via @forbes.com @gregggonsalves.bsky.social #GlobalHealth

21.02.2025 11:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Cook them

19.02.2025 20:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Regarding the Delta airline crash, I can assure you that as a vector-borne disease researcher I have no idea how it happened or how it could have been prevented. Maybe that should be left the the experts rather than app developers who I assure you also do not know.

18.02.2025 22:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When I mentioned the thousands of skilled works in the federal government losing jobs I had someone comment โ€œyour friends need to learn to codeโ€ and itโ€™s just a perfect representation of the ignorance people have about the federal government. I can think of a thousand jobs coding isnโ€™t a part of.

17.02.2025 23:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This year I have learned, over and over, that I really do not know how airplanes or airports work. Not even a little bit. Would be cool if other people who didn't know how airplanes or, ya know, aviation generally, could admit that, and let the professionals do their jobs ๐Ÿ™ƒ

17.02.2025 20:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 281    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

That link is bad

06.02.2025 02:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I scored this excellent sweatshirt at the Mid Atlantic/Virginia Mosquito Control Association annual meeting today. So many great talks; so many public servants working to keep their communities safe.

05.02.2025 22:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the maskless mafia that *still* struggles to grasp that COVID is airborne is about to get WHOPPED by the fact that H5N1 is airborne

and that birds fly...through the air!

05.02.2025 15:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is how the federal government bloats during every republican administration. They are so concerned about people receiving the benefit of having a government that they create more work for themselves. Austerity costs money. They could review spending while programs run.

29.01.2025 01:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hey, fancy meeting you here โค๏ธ

23.01.2025 03:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The mission of my project is to increase communication and collaboration between the public, private and academic sectors to improve our understanding of insecticide resistance and address the problem with better efficiency.

How exactly is banning communications improving efficiency?

23.01.2025 02:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œPut Them in Traumaโ€: Inside a Key MAGA Leaderโ€™s Plans for a New Trump Agenda Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Voughtโ€™s โ€œshadowโ€ plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.

If you're upset about all the executive orders that have been launched in the last few days you should call your Senators and tell them not to confirm Russell Vought. He's likely one of the primary authors behind many of them.
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23.01.2025 01:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 315    ๐Ÿ” 133    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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If youโ€™ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you

22.01.2025 22:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2767    ๐Ÿ” 1611    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 75    ๐Ÿ“Œ 35

He tried to stop Covid reporting in 2020 so this is not at all surprising to me.

22.01.2025 23:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What I donโ€™t understand is that this would be the perfect moment to highlight the fact that the Biden administration did not de enough to contain avian influenza. Why conceal the situation on day 2?

22.01.2025 23:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a man in a snl sweater says inspired by true events ALT: a man in a snl sweater says inspired by true events

Spotify is recommending a playlist just for me called โ€œSad Bopsโ€

22.01.2025 21:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New paper! Need to collect mosquitoes but traditional sources of CO2 arenโ€™t available? Our research offers a solution to assist mosquito-borne disease surveillance. Congratulations to Christine Hong! https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/16/1/90

18.01.2025 07:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
I knew one day Iโ€™d have to watch powerful men burn the world down โ€“ I just didnโ€™t expect them to be such losers

I knew one day Iโ€™d have to watch powerful men burn the world down โ€“ I just didnโ€™t expect them to be such losers

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

17.01.2025 21:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 78187    ๐Ÿ” 17070    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 752    ๐Ÿ“Œ 551

Birds to cats?

09.01.2025 14:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They have been doing this in San Francisco for decades

05.01.2025 16:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Our beloved and goofy cat Harry slipped out and was in the 15 degree windy snowy weather for 48 hours. So relieved to have him home and laughing about him gagging on this Churu. Maybe Iโ€™ll show him this next time he starts thinking about an escape.

05.01.2025 14:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes. We do a rough separation once they are pups. Iโ€™ll be pulling the eager males out tomorrow.

01.01.2025 01:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a man is making a funny face while wearing a black shirt and a silver chain . ALT: a man is making a funny face while wearing a black shirt and a silver chain .

2025 is starting off with 5000 mosquito larvae pupating two days ahead of schedule. Yay. Happy New Year!!!

01.01.2025 00:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s been awhile since I took care of little kids but I recently had a friendโ€™s kid overโ€ฆ yaโ€™ll know Dino nuggets have pterodactyls now?!

Side note: is it ok to buy these as an adult? ๐Ÿ˜‚

30.12.2024 21:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have seen so many takes on how badly RFK and Trump will handle an avian flu pandemic and while I am also not looking forward to that, this virus has been spreading in the US for two years almost completely unchecked by the Biden administration. Maybe we need less finger pointing and some action?

26.12.2024 15:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you are concerned, just leave the bird feeder empty and leave it alone. Cleaning it everyday is just bringing you in closer contact with wild birds.

26.12.2024 02:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Today I baked a pumpkin pie in a frozen pie shell without its tin, only realizing when the cooking time was up, scooped up the filling into a new pie shell and then baked it until the frozen shell was cooked and it WORKED. It tasted great. Christmas miracle. ๐ŸŽ„

26.12.2024 02:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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