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@blondescientist.bsky.social

Someone told me this is like old Twitter so I’m here for it.

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a man in a jail cell says i hate everyone and everything seems stupid to me . ALT: a man in a jail cell says i hate everyone and everything seems stupid to me .

I was in row 8, which is first row after first class. When we pulled up to the gate here in Burlington, Vermont, there was a total rush of people from the back of the plane. I had a bag basically above me that I couldn’t get to. I am so sick of most people right now.

19.06.2025 20:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The fanbase surrounding CC includes an awful lot of people who are not fans of women’s basketball and the WNBA… they are fans of her whiteness.

27.05.2025 14:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I just want any team except OKC to win. Any one of the other three left.

27.05.2025 03:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This dude on HGTV right now wants a colonial, with lots of character, and also open concept… dude. Google those terms and see what you find. 🙄🙄🙄

26.05.2025 17:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Or watch one episode of House Hunters on HGTV.

My budget is $175,000 max, and I want 3+bedrooms and 2+ bathrooms, two car garage, a pool, all hardwoods, colonial and character, also open concept, marble countertops…

26.05.2025 17:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

just absolutely insane that this is what Trump accused Biden of doing, and now he's done it himself.

26.05.2025 01:41 — 👍 3520    🔁 773    💬 142    📌 44
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Some basic facts about international students, who they are and who they are not

Please pass on the message

@shashikalb.bsky.social

26.05.2025 11:27 — 👍 113    🔁 41    💬 2    📌 2

Now, imagine them being able to understand study designs, bias, statistics, results… and then be able to consider new information with what was previously know to determine the implications. Whew.

26.05.2025 12:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If you want to know how well most people do their own research, go on a group message board on social media and look at the questions asked. People can’t even use Google proficiently nor the search bar on social media to answer they own questions.

26.05.2025 12:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Diversity in the academic workforce objectively increases novelty#, impact* and technical innovation$. References for each claim in 🧵. So, some of you may be thinking "this doesn't affect me". It 💯 does if you want medical breakthroughs, or if, as a scientist, you want to do your best work. 🧪

01.05.2025 17:20 — 👍 31    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 1
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NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’ After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding

"Virtually all NIH-funded training programs aimed at attracting underrepresented groups to science are now gone. 'I’m concerned that these events are very likely to affect who decides to stay in science and we will lose important and necessary scientific talent'"

www.science.org/content/arti...

01.05.2025 01:42 — 👍 80    🔁 54    💬 1    📌 5
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Were vaccines tested against placebos? Vaccines are sometimes tested against other vaccines or adjuvants instead of saline placebos to protect participants’ health when an effective vaccine is already available.

I wonder how Sen. Bill Cassidy is doing today.

www.voicesforvaccines.org/jtf_topics/w...

01.05.2025 12:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you, Grizzlies players and the staff behind the scenes.

The rest of yall are trash and robbed us this season. Fire the coaches now. And get some damn players to help the good ones.

26.04.2025 22:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dear Social Scientists,

Just a reminder: Amidst attacks on the social sciences & higher ed, now is a very good time to be posting here &/or elsewhere abt your latest research, topics in the news that hit on your expertise, or both.

If you believe your field has public value, show it.

sociology

26.04.2025 21:12 — 👍 70    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 0

Does the Memphis Grizzlies coach know English? That is at least the fifth foul/call he should have challenged in this game. And what are the assistant coaches doing? Scrolling social media? Like y’all, we are in this game and you’re acting like you’ve never seen a basketball game.

26.04.2025 21:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don’t even know how his name, but the Grizzlies head coach is the worst basketball coach in the playoffs by orders of magnitude and it isn’t close. He doesn’t challenge bad calls. He doesn’t call timeouts. And he can’t seem to address Caruso guarding JJJ.

26.04.2025 20:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The level of ineptitude by the Memphis Grizzlies front office and coaches is why the FedEx Forum is 60% full (or less) for this PLAYOFF game. What happened on Thursday night isn’t on the players but is on the front office and coaches. And here we are at this game today and same sh*t. Poor.

26.04.2025 20:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Things don’t always go according to plan and in public health, we have to learn how to pivot. The more flexible and adaptable you are, the less disappointed you will be in your career. This allows you to see potential opportunities that you might not have otherwise considered.
Venice Haynes
Ph.D. in HPEB, 2019

Things don’t always go according to plan and in public health, we have to learn how to pivot. The more flexible and adaptable you are, the less disappointed you will be in your career. This allows you to see potential opportunities that you might not have otherwise considered. Venice Haynes Ph.D. in HPEB, 2019

Ph.D. in HPEB alumna Venice Haynes is the senior director for @usofcare.bsky.social, where she leads all research and community engagement efforts for the Washington D.C.-based nonprofit. ow.ly/SANg50VHTj2
#50CareersFor50Years #ForeverToThee
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25.04.2025 16:34 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Supreme Court Sides With Wrongly Deported Migrant A trial judge had ordered the Trump administration to take steps to return the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, from a notorious prison in El Salvador.

Dude how bad is it that Clarence Thomas said you were wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

11.04.2025 00:02 — 👍 527    🔁 61    💬 6    📌 1
Fact Checked Pediatricians weigh in to address the latest misinformation by providing clear, science-backed messaging to support children and families.

The American Academy of Pediatrics is working to fight misinformation with this helpful resource: www.aap.org/en/news-room...

10.04.2025 18:21 — 👍 13    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

RFK Jr. is a major threat the health of Americans right now. He peddles misinformation for profit. He misrepresents federal safety processes. He lies about piles and piles of evidence. It’s absolutely unacceptable.

But eggs.

11.04.2025 00:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Kennedy’s Comments On Novavax Delay Scientifically, Legally Inaccurate, Experts Say The HHS Secretary publicly acknowledged the unusual delay of Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine licensure, but his justification was neither scientifically accurate nor legally justifiable, experts said.

Kennedy’s comments on the Novavax covid vaccine approval delay aren’t scientifically accurate and don’t conform with FDA law, experts said.

10.04.2025 22:53 — 👍 235    🔁 92    💬 10    📌 8

I don’t know what will happen in the women’s basketball natty tomorrow. But I know this. Both teams are exceptionally well coached and talented. Both teams have the ability to win. And alllllll the money is on UConn.

05.04.2025 14:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations to Texas on a great season. If you want to be the champs, you have to beat the champs. It was a bold move to show up wearing A’ja’s shoes to play against A’ja’s team.

05.04.2025 10:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When I was on the academic calendar, this time of year was always “just hold on for one more month.” I’m no longer on the academic calendar and feel the same right now. But worse.

02.04.2025 23:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I keep seeing all these super cute OOTD from Walmart. What Walmarts are yall shopping at? Not the same ones as me.

31.03.2025 13:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Trump administration wants more studies replicated. That won't be easy A key question is which studies get repeated and, with limited resources, at what expense.

Re vaccines and autism- “It wastes valuable resources to revisit the same question…” Dr Higgins told Axios. “Reexamining settled questions that have already been repeated, replicated, and tested many times is not healthy skepticism; it’s cynicism and science denial.”

www.axios.com/2025/03/24/m...

28.03.2025 12:38 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

Destroying everything. That’s the goal.

28.03.2025 12:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Seriously though… what’s Congress doing?

28.03.2025 12:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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