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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir

@kristjana.bsky.social

Epidemiologist, feminist, lottery immigrant 🇮🇸🇺🇸, nerd. She/her. Associate Prof at University of Iceland via University of Washington. Goddamnit, you've got to be kind.

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Maybe the Jennifers aren’t interested in discussing the show on you-dominated forums, Tyler.

24.10.2025 21:03 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow, you weren’t kidding. Exploring humanity and motivation of terrorists good, doing the same for trans people bad. Counter culture, but only the kind this one (1) viewer likes.

24.10.2025 21:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

On the plus side, at least you don’t suffer from mustache soreness, which was what I thought you needed advice on.

24.10.2025 20:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
But, upon further evaluation, the White House determined it was cheaper and more structurally sound to demolish the East Wing to construct the ballroom, rather than build an addition, the official said.

The new structure will also have enhanced security features, the official said.

But, upon further evaluation, the White House determined it was cheaper and more structurally sound to demolish the East Wing to construct the ballroom, rather than build an addition, the official said. The new structure will also have enhanced security features, the official said.

Scrooge McDuck’s Money Bin, with enormous gilded dollar sign on the front.

Scrooge McDuck’s Money Bin, with enormous gilded dollar sign on the front.

22.10.2025 20:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'Absurd': Hotez responds to RFK Jr. claims of autism-circumcision link RFK Jr.'s statements about autism are “increasingly untethered to reality,” says Peter Hotez.

Dr. Peter Hotez: RFK Jr.'s take on autism is 'increasingly untethered to reality'…

www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

12.10.2025 01:09 — 👍 101    🔁 25    💬 1    📌 0
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Acting CDC boss wants to break up MMR vaccine into three shots Jim O’Neill joins President Donald Trump’s call for three distinct measles, mumps and rubella shots, claiming a separation would ‘reduce the risk of side effects’ and ‘maximize parental choice’

The acting CDC Director has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health. Trump has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health.

Both are calling to make the MMR vaccine into 3 separate shots, which makes absolutely no scientific or public health sense.

09.10.2025 01:00 — 👍 864    🔁 303    💬 39    📌 15

WHAT?!

08.10.2025 12:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Decades of research have found that acetaminophen is safe for children when administered as recommended. Misleading claims link the medicine to autism. These false claims send a dangerous message to parents and does a disservice to autistic individuals. www.aap.org/en/news-room...

23.09.2025 21:25 — 👍 257    🔁 100    💬 1    📌 5

Really cool, conceptually simple approach here: cross-referencing grant proposal scores with literature citations and explicit acknowledgments in drug patents to identify patents linked to projects that wouldn't have been funded given a smaller budget

25.09.2025 21:32 — 👍 78    🔁 45    💬 1    📌 0

NEW: Nature trained AI to predict which NIH grants from 2014 would have been cut if the Trump admin had its way back then — and what science would have been lost to history.

"The results show the damage that cuts in funding can do to research, and the unpredictable nature of the research process."

25.09.2025 14:49 — 👍 128    🔁 60    💬 2    📌 4

Something devoid of vowels. Scrch or Blrbn.

23.09.2025 11:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Of course there’s a huge population based study from Scandinavia out there:
bsky.app/profile/kinl...

23.09.2025 10:59 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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This ought to be engraved somewhere.

23.09.2025 02:56 — 👍 17428    🔁 6171    💬 322    📌 194

This is the core of the wellness industry’s and RFK’s philosophy on illness generally. If health is fully within individual control, then the responsibility for disease or disability is our own, so why should the government help?

23.09.2025 10:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Using their enormous platform to spread misinformation may have very serious results. Now it’s not only risk of vaccine-preventable illness and death, but parents may pivot from using acitaminophen for pain and fever to medications that really are proven to be dangerous. Staggeringly irresponsible.

23.09.2025 10:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Reye's syndrome - Symptoms and causes

Pain relief and fever management is important during pregnancy and for infants. The options for both are limited! Ibuprofen during pregnancy is bad for the baby’s kidneys. Aspirin during infancy can cause Reye’s syndrome.

www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-con...

23.09.2025 10:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ah yes. The true cause of autism, “liquid”.

23.09.2025 10:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I think so. They chickened out of going all in on vaccines but still needed a parental error of commission, something they could blame moms for.

23.09.2025 10:30 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And drug prices by 1500%!

18.09.2025 19:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It must. I’ve been reviewing since I published my first paper as a grad student.

07.09.2025 09:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Can confirm. I receive an average of one review request per day. It’s an impossible deluge and sometimes I don’t even get around to declining, which I then feel guilty about.

07.09.2025 09:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sure, yeah, quiet part loud. Next let’s make RFK Jr the Secretary of Sickness.

05.09.2025 20:43 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Sen. Bill Cassidy: "Do you agree with me that President Trump deserves a Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed?"

RFK: "Absolutely."

Sen. Bill Cassidy: "But you just told Sen. Bennet that the Covid vaccine killed more people than Covid?"

04.09.2025 17:13 — 👍 1912    🔁 545    💬 127    📌 85

Ég held það sé svolítið að byrja á vitlausum enda. Meðan samfélagið kemur fram við fólk á ólíkan hátt eftir kyngervi þá er nauðsynlegt að gögn séu skráð þannig að það sé hægt að sýna fram á það.

04.09.2025 11:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Já, en við tölum samt sem dæmi um kynskráningu sem er í rauninni kyngerviskráning. Kannski við þurfum bara að vera duglegri að koma orðinu kyngervi að.

04.09.2025 10:26 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Okkur vantar áþreifanlega mismunandi orð yfir sex og gender. Það myndi ekki koma í veg fyrir þessa hegðun en það er óþolandi að geta ekki bent á það þegar þau þykjast vera að ræða eitt en vísa sífellt í annað.

04.09.2025 10:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I miss the old brand #CDC

28.08.2025 22:00 — 👍 7067    🔁 1749    💬 97    📌 72

Ég hélt að veislur væru tækifæri til að rækta tengsl við fólk sem mér þykir vænt um en er ekki svo náin að ég droppi mikið í heimsókn. Sé núna að það var rangt og læt af þessari sýndarmennsku hér með.

27.08.2025 08:43 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Kennedy today in cabinet meeting: "We’re finding interventions, certain interventions now that are clearly almost certainly causing autism, and we’re going to be able to address those in September."

We already know he's employed grifters to implicate vaccines. Get them while you can.

26.08.2025 21:27 — 👍 292    🔁 93    💬 14    📌 6

If you choose to engage in sexual activity with a clothed partner without reciprocation (the only way it’s not “necessarily discoverable”), well, you may be kinda selfish but you’re still consenting.

23.08.2025 17:52 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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