Elizabeth C. Neilson, PhD (she/her)

London: if ambiguous rain signs were a city

I found a non-exhausted list of Indigenous radio stations that you can donate to in order to keep them afloat after the defunding
If anyone has a better list, please let me know, and I will happily repost it (I couldn't find anything on here)

Chris Martin of Coldplay playing the piano and smiling

If I send this to you, I’ve been pointing out awkward dynamics in faculty meetings

News paper clipping: 'There is no ethical way to use the major Al image generators. All of them are trained on stolen images, and all of them are built for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing real, human artists. - MOLLY CRABAPPLE, artist and activist

Every episode we watch of Stick, Daniel says it isn’t as good as the first two episodes, and I explain it’s because there’s not enough Judy Greer.

I am DYING

Oh this one will be front and center

If you need a distraction, help me with a meaningless (or is it??) task. We are at the point of the summer where it is clear certain objectives will not be met. I do refuse to give up on one: Meme. Vision. Board. So please send me your favorite memes. Relatable memes. Aspirational memes. All memes.

Think I’m going to be done with email for the day

The real offense is I said “complementary” instead of “complimentary”

It is wild (complementary) whenever I go to a city where old parents (like me) are entirely common. We were at a playground in Denver today and I swear, 90% of those parents had Jagged Little Pill come out during their formative years.

There are no red states, no blue states, only purple, from Idaho fuchsia to Vermont violet. And in every state there are children, non-citizens, and prisoners who can't vote. In every state where one candidate won, a bunch of people voted for the other candidate. And so forth.

Measles cases surge to record high since disease was declared eliminated in the US | CNN There have been more measles cases in the US this year than any other since the disease was declared eliminated a quarter-century ago.

Measles cases surge to record high since disease was declared eliminated in the US www.cnn.com/2025/07/05/h...

My neighbors: setting off fireworks

Me, screaming into the night: Read the goddamn room

And then there's this nonsense. WE CANNOT SUBSTITUTE ANIMAL TRIALS WITH AI. We don't even know some of the basics of the immune system bc it's so fricking complicated. AI is based on what we know. Man, I was happier on the plane without wifi. Utter nonsense.

Me (a former resident of both Michigan and Chicago): Where does that person hauling a boat think they’re going?
My husband: You do realize that landlocked states also have lakes?
Me: They think they do.
My husband: It’s not Great Lakes or nothing
Me: For me, it is

No one has created a Miranda Priestly soundboard? This feels incorrect, please send guidance.

The UK is talking about eliminating cervical cancer by 2040. The results coming out of Scotland’s HPV vaccine programming are the dream of prevention science—an outcome you don’t see because the number of cases is 0. Meanwhile…

"There is no Pride worth marching for if it forgets the people who were here first—and are still being buried first too."

#indigenous #alaska

Publishers don’t pay for nonfiction books to be fact-checked, the author does out of their advance.

Wise of one of my students to reference both The Real World and Sex and the City in their discussion post. Know your audience indeed.

I'm going to say once again that shame is good.

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government.

That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

Florida child welfare agency calls ICE on teen migrant in foster care, sparking criticism ‘If this is a policy decision, it is a huge deal.’

Floridas’s child-welfare agency — in a reversal of a 30-year policy — is now willing to turn minors over to ICE.

This 17-year-old was taken from his foster home in handcuffs and shackles.

www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Now more than ever, it is absolutely essential that we practice the skills necessary for recognizing propaganda when we see it. The best way to practice that is by learning how to ask questions of a piece of media you encounter.

Media and source literacy are some of our most crucial requirements rn

Dismantling CDC’s chronic disease center ‘looks pretty devastating’ to public health experts HHS plans to fold the CDC's chronic disease center into the new Administration for a Healthy America. Experts fear for coordination with local health departments, among other things.

Ah yes, nothing says “we’re fighting chronic disease” like abolishing the CDC’s chronic disease center. $14B to fix the problem… but not the team that’s been working on it for decades.

zurl.co/Dl3TN
#StandUpForScience
#ChronicDisease
#PublicHealthMatters

A depressingly common response whenever nature collapse is highlighted.

It's as if it somehow doesn't matter that:
* Vast numbers of species that took millions of years to evolve get driven to extinction
* Planet Earth will have no complex ecosystems for millions of years
* Everyone will be dead

Fabulous thread that later asks us to be more transparent about our values in science and the practical nature of our values and goals.

Pleased to report that we are 3 for 3 on health psych classes loving the Maintenance Phase ep on anti-fat bias and I should probably send @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @yrfatfriend.bsky.social a guest lecturer honorarium or a thank you card at the least

As if this country needs worse pelvic floor health