Esme of the D'Urbervilles

COVID-19 vaccination status during pregnancy and preeclampsia risk: the pandemic-era cohort of the INTERCOVID consortium COVID-19 vaccination with a booster reduces the odds of PE by 30% approaching 60% reduction among women with pre-existing morbidities.

Remember when RFK Jr. unilaterally decided that COVID19 vaccines should no longer be recommended during pregnancy?

Well, COVID19 increases the risk of preeclampsia.

And it turns out that getting boosted, either before or during pregnancy, significantly reduces the risk of preeclampsia.

Quote from Dr. Foege's oped August 2025: "How public health can fight back in a time of dangerous nonsense: Three steps to surviving the drought of principles, values, and facts.
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Shout out to @cdcmutualaid.bsky.social for their post:
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Every time I start to imagine myself as compassionate, people act foolishly and I realize that my patience is in fact thin. So thanks for that, universe.

In these desperate times- I beg you for distraction. Please friend, just a crumb/story to get by..

Appraiser touching a coat. Caption: coat that if touched loses all value $0-$0

Model plane. Caption: plane from when people were smaller $22,000-$30,000 (in big people money)

A mirror in which you can see the photographer. Caption: photographer trapped in mirror. $5,000-$6,000

Appraiser and man both laughing, looking at some weird bowls. Caption: bowls that make you laugh $350-$500

I'm feeling grumpy, so in an attempt to change that I am posting these old fake Antiques Roadshow pictures that make me laugh

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.

It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

KFF chart titled “Expansion is the primary Medicaid pathway for people with mental health or substance use disorders.” The chart has a donut chart for substance use disorder, opioid use disorder, any mental health disorder, and serious mental illness showing the distribution of eligibility pathways for Medicaid-covered adults with diagnosed mental health disorder or substance use disorder in ACA Medicaid expansion states.

Work and reporting requirements for Medicaid enrollees may be particularly challenging for people with mental health or substance use disorders.

We explore the challenges they may pose: on.kff.org/3ZMJ6cX

a rainbow and a star with the words " make you know " on it Alt: a rainbow and a star with the words "the more you know " on it

Technically, Chicken Pox Parties are Herpes Parties

Turns out my talk at @renner-institut.at on the situation in the U.S., and the lessons for Europe, is also online. 👇

There are two other awesome #MMWR articles today for #AltComms - but our brains can only handle so much as bedtime 🛌💤 approaches

Public health in action 👊💥 by CDC global health staff 👉 dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmw...

A new way to gather info about homelessness 👉 dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmw...

What an extraordinary, beautiful thing. Sometimes the only sensible response to scientific discovery is wonderment and awe.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨

WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.

4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.

Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

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No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.

Wild to Mild Access CDC Flu Vaccination Campaign resources to encourage annual flu vaccination.

We will not be stopping the Wild to Mild Flu vaccine media campaign. Thanks to @waybackmachine.bsky.social here are archived graphics. Share widely! Make them your screensavers, backgrounds, and profile pics! Print on T-shirts!

#resist #vaccinessavelives #fedstrong

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Yo' these young men shopping at Trader Joe's these days underestimate the female gaze. Crop tops, full sleeve tattoos over corded forearms... Had to wear a mask so they couldn't see me biting my lip. Rawr. 👄

I just saw a post implying that the Pentagon is getting an IT visit?...

You say: they shutdown USAID.

You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.

Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”

Preparing for a child's funeral. What a way to end the week.

JFC

i feel like this picture of a headstone i took today has some real potential

I went to a dinner tonight for a new social group. During introductions, I made a dark joke about my previous healthcare specialty (OB). Results were totally unhinged. Whoops. 😬

I honor Alan Turing every day by posting gay stuff with my computer

So whatcha going to read?

"Well dude, I'm a Reylo. So probably some fanfiction."

Girl cashier says: "Ohhhh yeah!!"

The amount of respect for her that just effing Care Bear'd out of my chest...