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Brandy Schillace

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Author+ Historian+ Mystery Novelist, Host of Peculiar Book Club, as seen on THE UNBELIEVABLE & SECRETS DECLASSIFIED. Latest mystery: THE DEAD COME TO STAY. Nonfiction: THE INTERMEDIARIES @SciAm @WSJ @wired #ActuallyAutistic #NB she/her

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · Aug 18

THE INTERMEDIARIES covers the time period leading to the Nazi take-over. I have been keeping time with current developments like a doomsday clock. We are getting damn close to ‘midnight’ (1933). We need to know our enemy’s moves to fight them. Book at discount:

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The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story book by Brandy Schillace

Buy a cheap copy of The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story book by Brandy Schillace. Set in interwar Germany, The Intermediaries tells the forgotten story of the Institute for Sexual Science, the world's ...

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 5h

Still waiting diagnosis but we got him a steroid shot and antibiotics

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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 7h

I actually gasped. As a former public health reporter the MMWR is a big deal

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 16h

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 22h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 7h

Now he has a weird haircut

A black cat in a tartan vest with a shaved belly

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 7h

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 8h

The Supreme Court of the United States is not a legitimate body.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 9h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 11h

The cutest conversation😍

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 8h

Waiting outside the veterinarians office at 8 o’clock in the morning on a Saturday. Wallace has been having some autoimmune issues. We’re here to have an ultrasound and see if we can figure out what’s going on internally, poor little chap, but he is a great car companion.

A black cat in a red tartan vest curled up and sitting quietly in the lap of Brandy, who is still strapped into her car seat by seatbelt

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 9h

Unsolicited Bic pic

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 9h

Unsolicited Mick pic

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 1d

Stray #cat Mendel 🐈‍⬛ was asleep on the patio furniture this morning :)

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Lisa S Gardiner @lisasgardiner.bsky.social · 21h

Hopping in here to share how scientists and engineers are solving the problem of Sargassum seaweed blooms. Amid the 2025 chaos, there are still people trying to help the environment. nautil.us/new-life-for...

New Life for Rotting Seaweed

New Life for Rotting Seaweed: Problematic piles of Sargassum could serve as useful raw material for a variety of products.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 23h

New England can only dream of California’s bold “eat my ass and hair” approach to rich sociopaths trying to keep people off the state’s 100% public beaches.

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 1d

HAHAHAHAHAHA get fucked you rich asshole

Carlsbad homeowner ordered to remove private gate to public beach, fined $1.4 million

John Levy was penalized by state Coastal Commission for a string of Coastal Act violations stretching back years

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 1d

Hopping onto this thread! A piece I wrote in @aeon.co in the Plague Years about how black holes are like #seamonsters:

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How black holes are like sea monsters at the edge of our vision | Aeon Essays

Like sea monsters on premodern maps, deep-space images are science’s fanciful means to chart the edges of the known world

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 1d

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 1d

Today I’m thankful my hair grew back. (Last year at this time I was prepping for mastectomy). There are good things.

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 1d

Stray #cat Mendel 🐈‍⬛ was asleep on the patio furniture this morning :)

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 1d

Hey, happy #friday! I’ve decided to post a list of things I’ve written that have nothing to do with the garbage fire we call 2025. Cause we could use a flipping break. Have some #HISTORY & #SCIENCE! 🧪

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What Really Happens in a Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber?

Fountain of youth or fatuous fad, hyperbaric oxygen therapy requires a lot of nerve

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 1d

And here is a piece I wrote on #lyme disease—I have quite a lot of essays on Medium, and need to get back in the habit of providing y’all with weird #science.

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Once Bitten: the Silent epidemic of Long Lyme Disease

What if one of the worst epidemics of chronic illness was also it’s most ignored? What if that wasn’t entirely an accident?

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 1d

.I did a lot of work on #cloning research a few years ago—

I’ve decided to post a list of things I’ve written that have nothing to do with the garbage fire we call 2025. Cause we could use a flipping break. Have some #HISTORY & #SCIENCE! 🧪

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Chasing Eve:

Is Cloning the Future?

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 1d

.Honestly, if you’re a science writer, hop on in to this thread.

I’ve decided to post a list of things I’ve written that have nothing to do with the garbage fire we call 2025. Cause we could use a flipping break. Have some #HISTORY & #SCIENCE! 🧪

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Pig Brains and Butterfly Goo

The strange science of life, death, and consciousness

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 1d

.And here’s another! #head #transplant

I’ve decided to post a list of things I’ve written that have nothing to do with the garbage fire we call 2025. Cause we could use a flipping break. Have some #HISTORY & #SCIENCE! 🧪

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Yes, You Can Transplant a Head

A bizarre experiment in the 1970s proved this in primates —now an Italian surgeon suggests that are humans next

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 1d

(This had a second part:)

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The Future of Clones

Part two of Chasing Eve — have we really cloned a human?

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