Julianne Meisner

The thing about being a parent of young children is when you see someone wiggling you feel compelled to ask if they need to use the bathroom, even if said person is a fully grown adult stranger sitting next to you at the airport lounge (this guy definitely needs to pee and should really just go)

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Also this presumes all pandemics are caused by pathogens that have more severe manifestations in people with comorbidities. That is not necessarily the case.

One house we trick-or-treated at tonight was giving out potatoes and the kids were THRILLED.

What a week-- three 6am meetings, two kids with headlice, and one kid who is devastated that we can't just set the nits free ("But it's just the start of their life! And their parents are gone?"). Guest first grade is as good a time as any to learn what a parasite is.

So far this week has involved three 6am meetings in a row, and now headlice. Hopefully things look up for Thurs/Fri

Seattle PD’s post seemed proud of the turnout

Just realized there’s also Yerba Mate involved.

Guy reading a hardback book while also stretching at the bouldering gym is the most Seattle that it gets. Yes he has a puffy on

What to Do When Your Professional Association Breaks Your Heart BY AMY HAGOPIAN Public health professionals are charged with responding to humanitarian crises. When hospitals are bombed, when children are deliberately starved, when doctors are assassinated, we’…

Wow. My University of Washington colleague Amy Hagopian was expelled from APHA for her pro-Palestinan advocacy. 🧵

academeblog.org/2025/10/07/w...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Why would this former mafia member share his first and last name but not show his face?

Wow

In just 4 months, nearly 1400 American healthcare workers have applied for jobs in just one province in Canada 🇨🇦

Headline from the New York Times, 1939: “Goebbels ends careers of five “Aryan“ actors who made witticisms about the Nazi regime.”

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

My final public walking tour of 2025 is about Black Abolitionists in NYC on Sunday October 5. I am fundraising for REBUILD so please donate generously if you'd like to join me. Space is limited. www.eventbrite.com/e/black-abol...

The veterinary field gives us a preview of how this will play out— with no major federal funding for companion animal medicine, potential return on investment dictates what is or is not researched and developed. It’s one of the reasons we have far fewer drugs licensed for cats than dogs.

Daskalakis: I very specifically use the term pregnant people, and very specifically added my pronouns at the end of my resignation letter to make the point that I am defying this terrible strategy of trying to erase people

Ugh ignore the “is”

I don’t think it’s humanly possible to scroll pass an Amaury Guichon video. That bicycle is absolutely blew my mind.

My neighbors hosted a small gathering today to check in on each other and spend time together 3 weeks after the fire-- the hosts and most attendees were in their 70s or older, and they were all bada*s. Elder Seattleites are living proof that age is not some gravitational pull towards conservatism.

My 4 year old reminded me last night that I need to renew her passport soon, and today I received a reminder email from the state dept. I guess my work here is done?

Unconscionable

RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’ HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

Ughh federally-funded

Great example of what federal-funded research can accomplish

Took advantage of rain on San Juan to visit @whaleresearch.bsky.social. The kids loved the VR whale watching experience and learning about the Whale Survey, which has conducted a census of Southern Resident Killer Whales each year since 1976, with support from @noaa.gov and other donors.

Hi Bskyers,

Last week our nexdoor neighbors lost everything in a house fire. They (two adults and a 20 month old little boy) are now re-building from scratch, and in need of support.

Jose's CashApp is $josefbarrera89. Any help you can give is appreciated.

What a way to start the day. Amazingly, the playhouse we’ve been building for our kids was only minimally damaged. Our collection of Christmas decorations, including the stockings my mother hand made for all of us (mine in 1985) are gone, and the tree skirt I made while pregnant with my daughter.

Out now: new guidance for research that attributes health outcomes to climate change led by @krisebi.bsky.social, Andy Haines @lshtm.bsky.social, myself, supported by a fantastic team of co-authors and @wellcometrust.bsky.social.