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A President’s ‘Surreal’ Advice Worries Pregnant Women

Also my favorite thing about this article is the person who avoids tylenol for pregnancy by instead getting a massage. Never mind the cost of that, there's also recommendations (albeit not always credible) out there to avoid pre-natal massages!

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/u...

Like let's just fucking mention the emotional and mental health impacts for pregnant people by adding YET ANOTHER thing to the extremely long list of things we "must avoid" when pregnant.

My point is that being pregnant is fucking hard and for many it's also a period of external- (from the medical community and just from cultural stigma) and self-imposed restriction. Stripping away one more of the SAFE things available to pregnant people to get through pregnancy is fucking horrible.

For one pregnancy, I had to completely shift what I ate and how often I ate into a completely different eating pattern from my usual. It was absolute torture. I was simultaneously constantly hungry and totally bored of eating.

I had allergies and got sick with a cold and did not use any OTC meds.

One of the hardest things about being pregnant was how restricted I was for otherwise innocuous part of my life, particularly when combined with health-/pregnancy-related complications. I watched every aspect of what I ate - no coffee, limited fish (no sushi), no deli sandwiches.

Just adding to this. Pregnancy can be a transformative experience. It also can be - even under the best of circumstances - deeply uncomfortable and even physically painful. It's also a time when every single thing you do is scrutinized - by you, your doctor, & others

Telling pregnant folks not to take fever reducers during pregnancy will absolutely increase the KNOWN risk of adverse outcomes due to delayed treatment (or failure to treat) a dangerously high fever during pregnancy.

Science: only when you write up the manuscript, you realize what you should have done.

Trying to protect my novid status.

Was so delighted that the pharmacy downstairs of my PCP’s office had walk-ins for combined COVID/flu. Got the shots on the spot.

Felt kind of under the weather for the evening. Totally fine by morning.

Access Intimacy: The Missing Link There are many ways to describe intimacy.  For example, there’s physical intimacy, emotional intimacy, intellectual, political, familial or sexual intimacy.  But, as a physically disabled woman, th…

I was reminded of this gorgeous article by @miamingus.bsky.social today. Its a short read but it describes everything I'm always reaching for, and often missing, in life as a disabled person

leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/a...

Is it okay to say regardless of whether DJT signed that poem (and we all know he did), and even though we can all agree on the misogyny of the whole thing, the whole poem and birthday book thing is also just really, really deeply weird?

This ep hit a little too close to home

(Mine’s a Garmin I bought for exercise and it’s fantastic for that, but I found I use a lot of its ‘apple watch’-like features too.)

And because I survive my day job with meticulous calendaring for both structured events and unstructured time, it’s set up to buzz me for all upcoming events which is very useful for keeping me on track throughout the day.

And being able to find your phone like everyone said.

Not Apple Watch but same concept. Heart rate and steps monitor. Tracking distance during exercise, and providing emergency contact access and location pinging for outdoor runs when I want someone to know where I am. I use it a lot to give me text message previews to manage my team and their work.

For fuck's sake, gun control now.

Meanwhile they are pulling COVID vaccines from US pharmacies.

Just thinking again about how they’re going to talk about this period in US history 20, 50, and 100 years from now.

So yeah, I don’t get this article and it’s framing. It’s impossible to advocate for and as a scientist without that being political.

That’s also really not a bad thing. I am not ashamed that I do my research because *gasp* I believe in making people’s lives and health better.

Science does not, and cannot, and should not exist in an apolitical vacuum. We do this work FOR THE BETTERMENT OF PEOPLE. That is inherently political, and cannot be divorced from the people who are ultimately the reason we do this at all.

I’ve long believed that we don’t do enough at the trainee level to prepare our junior scientists for a career in which they not only conduct science but also communicate it to the public.

This means we should also acknowledge that science (like everything!) is an inherently political act.

I’m first in line that scientists should be speaking up and functioning as advocates - not just now but always. I believe it’s our responsibility to both speak to and listen to the public. This drives better science at the bench and also fits within the larger reason for why we do this at all.

Today, it’s not just attacks on funding agencies that matter for scientists; we are and should be deeply concerned by attacks on immigrants, attacks on public education, human rights violations, etc - because we are scientist and also just because we are people too.

From who has been allowed to conduct science, whom we imbue with the title of expert, what kinds of knowledge we consider valid, why we do science, and how science has been applied (and misapplied) throughout history, it’s a misnomer to assert that science has ever been apolitical.

Scientists Are Caught in a Political Trap Fighting back against the Trump administration means they start to look more like activists.

I’m sorry, but the framing of this article confuses me because science has always been political.

www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Many may have already spent time trying to conceive without medical intervention. Fertility treatments are also never a guarantee, and procedures like IVG can require a lot of time before being successful.

All this does is muddy the waters for patients while blaming them for their infertility.

As Trump Weighs I.V.F., Republicans Back New ‘Natural’ Approach to Infertility

This is so fucked up because it's really just a new way to blame and shame a patient by positing infertility as a consequence of "lifestyle choices". Yet, we know most fertility patients go to clinics bc they need actual medical procedures to enable conception.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

Every single fucking time.

www.usatoday.com/story/entert...