Sarah O

Front page of a Nature paper on SARS-CoV-2 immune escape published January 31 2025

Excerpt from 2025 Nature paper with highlighted phrase: “Our work suggests that the ongoing pandemic continues…”

I highlighted the most important part of yesterday’s Nature paper.

We’re in year six.

Can you please stop saying “during the pandemic” and “post-Covid”?

You sound dangerously uninformed or just really stupid when you say it.

Maybe I'm just not following the right people, but there's no true posters on this site.

Right, I don't think it will stop him from getting anything done, because I don't see who would use it as a check against him? Not his own party, not the supreme court.

The Constitution is just a piece of paper. If he wants to ignore it, he will, and who will stop him?

This is not a safe place without locked accounts. ✌🏻

"If we're going to be kin, then we must accept that these relationships come with responsibility." - Patty Krawec, "Becoming Kin: an Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future"

DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review DoJ report acknowledges attack ‘was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence’

More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”

I'm for it. Alcohol is poison

Just like the “male loneliness epidemic” the imbalance in men going to college is entirely their own doing. A whole generation has decided to make themselves uneducated and unfuckable because they’re addicted to resentment. Manosphere influencers line their pockets by ensuring they stay that way.

However hard your life is, remember that you have more dignity than the richest man to ever exist, who used a sock puppet to post this about himself.

Implicit in a lot of anti-vaccination and anti-public health narratives like those of RFK Jr is a deep disgust/fear of disability; but also an unspoken hope that unchecked disease will "cull" the population of "weaker/less fit" people.
I really just can't see past a lot of that.

It went so much better than I could've expected! I am all recovered now

UK doctors and nurses with long Covid to sue for compensation Health workers who fell ill on Covid pandemic frontline sue employers as they confront life-changing disabilities

UK doctors and nurses with long Covid to sue for compensation
"Nearly 300 British doctors, nurses and other health workers with long Covid are suing the health service for compensation, saying they were not given proper protection during the pandemic. 1/
www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...

Thinking of all the disabled folks having a lonely holiday season bc ppl couldn't be bothered with COVID precautions, the space wasn't accessible, funds are tight, you need the time off to recover, ppl are disappointed you're not who you used to be, invitations are simply no longer forthcoming, etc.

I have an incredibly unfun medical appointment tomorrow morning. Send good vibes that it goes easily and without complications

Joe Biden is the president.

Can the Rodeo Save a Historic Black Town? One woman’s quest to rescue Boley, Oklahoma

In its heyday, Boley, Oklahoma, a town built by Black people, was known for hosting the oldest Black rodeo in America — attracting visitors nationwide

Today, a group of volunteers hope the 121-year-old rodeo can help revitalize the dying town

Food sovereignty is the way

Alt text: Square yellow post with dark green text reading: “Why do peeple post about their illness online? • To connect with others who share the same experiences • To find community • To support others • To help others feel seen • To feel less lonely and isolated” “To raise awareness and showcase what it's like to live with chronic illness • To educate healthy folks • To document their journey • To have an outlet • To help their mental health • It's cheaper than therapy” Credit to The Twenty Something Spoonie on Instagram.

If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds…

NEW: Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.

We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. ⤵️

This book made me remember how my dad grew up eating squirrel. His family is Cherokee and Polish, in Indian Territory since before removal and immigrants who arrived from Poland between 1899 and 1909, and coal mined in the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory

[my house, 20 years from now, listening to "baby, it's cold outside"]

my son: man, this song is real weird
me: it used to get cold outside

"Today, southern food serves as an American lingua franca. Like the Black power fist and the magnolia blossom, fried chicken discloses, cornbread suggests, potlikker tells." - a beautiful couple of sentences from John Edge's "The Potlikker Papers: a Food History of the Modern South"

The thing about Oklahoma is yes you will frequently actually see a pair of hawks making lazy circles in the sky AND I FUCKING LOVE IT

I need to delete like at least half the academics I'm following here.

Over 300 COVID outbreaks hit Alberta acute care facilities last year Read the full story and comment on stalbertgazette.com

“The reality is that people are dying from COVID in our hospitals, and we really are doing very little to prevent them getting ill and getting infected. And we wouldn't do the same for any other infectious disease,” Vipond said.
www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/o...

Oh my god