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Writer, mainly health and science. Psychology, addiction, medicine, public health. Ex #NIH, ABC News, Forbes. Public transport & walkable city aficionada. Fueled by books, beans and yoga.
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We did pick up, though. At least that’s how it felt to us. Typically, my co-writer would do a first fast “vomit draft” and I went from there. We used to call ourselves two halves of the same brain. Quite rare, I suppose!
True, but I have editors that have done wondrous things to my work. Not continuing, but bringing it to the next level. Some have a true gift. And I’ve co-written things with a few people. Very cool experiences.
Yaaas here for it! Saw Heretic 🔥
I guess for some people it’s early for spooky movie season, but September 1 my engine starts.
I’m always down for cheap eats, especially if they include beans, but we are in spooky movie season so I’m going to need a lot of recommendations there, too!
Childhood vaccination rates are declining in the U.S. Medical experts say hesitancy is likely to increase as a result of misinformation pouring from the Trump administration — and turmoil at the federal agency responsible for setting vaccine policy ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/as-cd...
Gorgeous. Thanks for sharing.
🌫️ Air pollution and mental health A new study found that PM2.5 and NO2 are causally linked to psychiatric disorders, partly through brain changes. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #SciComm #MentalHealth #AirQuality 🧪
China didn’t even start keeping records until about 1,600 BC and Chinese medicine evolved quite a bit. modern “traditional Chinese medicine“ didn’t really take off until the 1960s during the Cultural Revolution. Not dissing the tradition, but much more research is needed.
Thanks to AI, there's a new way to take away women's control over their bodies and identities
My nerves go right to my stomach, and I have barely been able to eat today. And there’s not a ton of people who totally get it, so it makes it hard to talk it out.
Not overly dramatic at all. I’m right there with you.
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu x.com/dr_demetre/s...
Meanwhile, in conservation reality and #whales - A good article by Sue Arnold in Independent Australia on the population crash of Western Pacific gray whales. "The latest estimate of 13,000 animals is less than half of the 27,000 population ten years ago." 🐳🌍🦑🧪 1/3
Aren’t bodies weird? Keeps us humble.
I did a story on this eons ago and the average is about 18 farts a day.
cost based rent FTW i gave a talk on this coop (le bled) for AIA seattle's transformative housing symposium in june fun thread here bsky.app/profile/holz...
What about a tattoo of a burning flag?
"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat." www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
I cannot stress enough how incredibly vulnerable the U.S is to a disastrous response should a significant outbreak of an infectious disease emerge. I actually lose sleep over this. This article is an alarming read. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
An immediate 40 percent drop in pediatric asthma ER visits (!) People will look back at our fossil era and wonder at why it was allowed to last insideclimatenews.org/news/0508202...
Also, missed the /s, apologies.
Is there congestion pricing in DC?
Vaccine deniers bringing back contagious diseases and causing everyone to drive instead of taking public transportation thereby making us miss our climate goals is a link I hadn’t made before.
Ah, sorry! Duh. Stressed out DC area resident. Well, everybody now knows it’s pretty nice in New York.
Huh? Are you talking about New York? Here right now and it’s bustling along as usual, and buses and taxis can actually move.
Slideshow of today in Washington DC, and how it looks when a terrorizing government scares people away. By me, no paywall: fallows.substack.com/p/a-summer-a...
Another $13,000 per Texas household to be put into roads, roads, evermore roads.
Good. I agree with the American College of Ob-Gyns. I was horrified when RFK Jr, Jay Bhattacharya, & Marty Makary announced, in a video on X, that they were advising against vaccination in pregnancy—a closed-door decision that flies in the face of science & evidence www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/h...
Breaking News: The Trump administration ordered construction to stop on a $4 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that has already mostly been built.
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Some incredibly good news: One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print. In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast. In short, it’s working. So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.
What a blow to Antarctic research in the US and all of us in the international Antarctic science community that rely on the logistical and intellectual infrastructure - sending strength to colleagues affected this 🌊
15 years of radio observations yielded this amazing view down the throat of a black hole. We're looking into a jet of plasma shooting out from a supermassive black hole, called PKS 1424+240. The lines depict intense magnetic fields threaded through the jet. 🧪🔭 www.mpg.de/25171297/eye...
He seems not to grasp the concept that an anecdote is not data.
US state department stops issuing visas for Gaza’s children to get medical care
You hurt his widdle feelings!
I thought I saw you across the street when that cybertruck passed!
Are you going to correct your headline or what? Read the comments.
I didn’t know that was the sign! I just held up my thumb and index finger at a distance of about an inch.
This is devastating, and part of a larger move to entirely push science out of NASA's mission. It is horrific betrayal of so much work, not to mention the fact that it violates NASA's charter.
Parking lots are low contributors when it comes to supporting tax bases for cities. Just a lot of ugly space that causes water runoff and heat domes.
And now they’re even bigger and uglier thanks to macho huge trucks and SUVs.
I just watched this about a dozen times over.
9!
Schnitzel
Also, most cities take care to provide public spaces to foster community.
The sense of community. That doesn’t just happen in small towns. Millions of people can and do know that they’re all in this together.
Access is definitely an issue. But there’s a lot of prep work involved typically in the therapy. It will be interesting to see how things evolve.
What about the women driving the Denali’s, the Wagoneers, the Tahoes? Perhaps different dynamics at play.
Powell rightly notes that military aesthetics have crept into vehicle design, with deadly consequences. It's much like the way in which weapons manufacturers, having exhausted military sales, expanded into the consumer market, selling a paranoid fantasy to Americans — with deadly results.
We need to talk about oversized trucks and the aesthetic of fascism.
Dean @meganranney.bsky.social joined @pbsnews.org last night to reflect on the CDC shooting and an increasing hostility against health professionals.
If they’re still there when I catch my Amtrak next week, I’m going to have a hard time not being salty.
Taking photos and video of law enforcement officers performing their duties in public is our constitutional right. This includes police, FBI, National Guard troops, ICE agents, and other government officials.
My first piece for @damemagazine.bsky.social, about the promise of #psychedelics for women's #mentalhealth. 🧪 www.damemagazine.com/2025/08/14/c...
In the before times, you would need sound reason to do that. If they just stop the contracts, they’re going to be paying hefty fees on top of that. Gadsdssss
The Air Force and Navy are poised to cancel two nearly complete projects worth about $800 million because they want Salesforce and billionaire Peter Thiel's Palantir, to have a chance to win similar projects. The result could be a costly do-over. www.reuters.com/world/us/how...
My partner has a thing about broccoli rabe. Eats a lot almost every day. I guess there are worse things, but it's getting a little strange!
New from @budgetlab.bsky.social: the combined effect of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” and his tariffs leave the bottom 90% of America poorer on average, with only the top 10% of America better off.
What about asking companies to cut down on junk mail?! Particularly if you deliberately do not opt in when buying something. Also may have positive mental health benefits for many of us.
How many of the influencers are funded, and who pays them if they are? Any idea how many are legit?
“Adolescent psychiatric inpatients exhibited increased energetic arousal following visits by clowns.” Every month in our Findings column, Rafil Kroll-Zaidi presents a constellation of the most—and least—important scientific discoveries.
I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
And where are the funds from the cut going? Truly into government coffers?
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
The New York City mass shooter had been diagnosed with multiple mental illnesses and had been the subject of two "mental health holds" in Las Vegas, but none of that limited his legal right to own firearms.
She said she had no health issues- just the orange tone! I love carrots.
It does! I had a colleague with that unusual hue.
The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.
The financial loss every year as a direct result of climate change is double the rate of global economic growth.
Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it
The number of people receiving treatment at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center — the renowned research hospital that cares for patients with rare or life-threatening diseases — has tumbled under the second Trump administration. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
D.C. would like a word.
A former Jan. 6 defendant who urged rioters attacking the police guarding the U.S. Capitol to “Kill ’em! Kill ’em!” … is now working for the Trump Justice Department.
"GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert."
"If the U.S. can't get its greenhouse emissions under control, they need to face real consequences" said the rest of the world.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Sadly prescient reporting from May on mRNA vaccines (a Nobel prize winning technology) being maligned by the administration. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
reminds me of those grey floor home remodels
Also, he should be in jail.
Pandemic preparedness in the US has been leveled a crippling blow with the cancellation of multiple #BARDA contracts to help develop mRNA vaccines. No other vaccine platform produces vaccine so quickly; without mRNA, Americans will have a long wait for pandemic vax. www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...
A DOJ investigation had determined that South Carolina officials illegally denied community-based services — required by federal law — to over 1,000 people diagnosed as seriously mentally ill. The lawsuit over these allegations is now on hold. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social
Every Second Counts.
I’ve never heard an audience laugh like the deli scene in When Harry Met Sally. Gives new meaning to the phrase “erupted in laughter.”
Scientists Discover Gene Responsible For Eating Whole Goddamn Bag Of Chips theonion.com/scienti...
Climate Skeptics Are Tapped by Trump Administration to Justify Regulatory Rollback
This photo of Gaza City had to be illicitly taken during a Jordanian food drop because Israel has threatened to cancel drops of any photos are taken.
I think there’s a lot more than that on Instagram. Often when there’s a random trolling comment and you drill down, the account has no pic and zero posts.
Except for the “university” part. And the logo font. Thanks for playing, flagging brand.
'big ass truck abundance' is incompatible with a habitable planet, with safe streets, and with public health
Parking spaces, too.
Smithsonian's American History museum does a White House "content review" then rewrites history, removing Trump's impeachments. A spokesperson says "it became clear that the ‘Limits of Presidential Power’ section ... needed to be addressed" wapo.st/3HhfyxU @janaykingsberry.bsky.social
NEW: A JAMA study finds that "between August 2022 and December 2024 ... Idaho lost 94 of the 268 OBGYN physicians practicing obstetrics." Just 20 new OBGYNs moved to Idaho in that time, "and 114 of the 268 baseline obstetricians" stopped practicing, left the state, or retired.
#climate change increases the chances of such events. Sigh.
Crazypants.
NEW The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year Chokes off billions in research funding Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social
If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.