kate 🌱🧶📚😻

this is a niche post but every time I involuntarily learn about a DALY weight determination method I want to quit public health. like why are we using this batshit measure like it’s real and actually measuring disability and not ableism

signing off from a day looking at the big screen full of data about people harming themselves and picking up the little screen to learn about the latest in masked agents kidnapping people off the streets

hashtag just injury epidemiology things

I’ve been a cyclist for transportation for one week and I’ve already gotten screamed, sworn, and swerved at by someone upset about me taking the whole Weaver Street lane in the area where cyclists are entitled to the whole lane bc there is no bike lane 😌 close it to cars

a linen mesh polo I knit, which will be perfect for the heat dome

at what point can we stop saying that we are “on the road to” an authoritarian state

like it would be that big of a deal if they weren’t so MAD when you do it wrong and it’s like well it was a totally different process on my way in so idk what to tell you

sitting at an airport underneath a billboard trying to convince us to keep vaccinating against polio while overhearing a woman’s Siri say “here’s some news about Iran and Israel!”

I need all the airports to come to a collective decision regarding laptops and shoes thank you

a little bit, which I enjoyed a lot

Look at this DAG and feel something: emotion in DAG drawing in epidemiology research Kate Vinita Finch

There’s a lot of amazing work at #SER2025 but this DAG poetry art poster is the best poster I’ve seen at any research conference in a decade

@epidbydesign.bsky.social

oh wow, thank you so so much. I’m so happy that so many people resonated with it

Thanks for stopping by!

come find me and my DAG poetry at poster 1190 at @societyforepi.bsky.social at 6:30, I want to know how it makes you feel

being broke/on a budget in the pistachio cream era of internet food is a special hell

they simply took all the time in the whole world, lots of energy drink sipping, some luxuriating in the truck box, handling my 30 lb dining table so gently with four hands

it didn’t work

Movers are coming in the morning for my furniture and my goal is to pay for exactly one hour of their services so I’m hauling everything into two rooms wish me luck

Donate to the itsmekatevee dessert dance grant 4 trans epidemiologists, organized by Kate V The immediate tuition need was met, but now we are raising money t… Kate V needs your support for the itsmekatevee dessert dance grant 4 trans epidemiologists

Support a trans epidemiologist doc student whose funding was terminated by the federal government. I did. Supporting marginalized people who study marginalized people is cool. Thanks to @itsmekatevee.bsky.social for organizing it.

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Thank you!

‘Recession meals’: Food creators brace for economic impact with budget-friendly recipes “Showing people the meals I was able to make out of random ingredients could be helpful to other people facing financial difficulties,” says food creator Dean Boskovich.

I leaned into being an internet character on TikTok to make money because of all this research funding stuff. I’m in an article about it today. What a weird few months.

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aw thank you 🥰

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Every day I open this app thinking “okay, I’m ready, I can take it, what did the administration do today?” I’m never ready and I can’t take it, I’m going to go crawl in a hole.

yes

I sewed this dress

🔊 Listen Now: The CDC staff in charge of injury prevention — a lead cause of death — has been cut All Things Considered on NPR One | 3:36

Thank you @npr.org for reporting on this public health crisis. Elevating the voice of injury & violence prevention research & practice. @thesavir.bsky.social Safe States & UNC IPRC

The CDC staff in charge of injury prevention — a lead cause of death — has been cut one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5367...

I accomplished applying for an incredible research fellowship as well.

Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

sorry today the only task I am able to accomplish is choosing to not walk into the forest and dig a hole to pass away in, try contacting me tomorrow regarding this manuscript formatting

this is about the HHS budget proposal

I don’t need a wellness check

I’m a grocery influencer so now I have my finger on the pulse of grocery prices and me and my audience will simply not be tricked and hoodwinked into believing lies about grocery prices 😤 really I’m doing gods work out here, tip me on ko-fi