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Evolutionary & population biology of vector-borne viral disease systems. 🦟 genetics PhD student in NC. Arbovirologist & orthobunyavirus wonk. Public health advocate. 80s mosquito. Archives enthusiast. Coaster-sized earrings. Opinions own. (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈

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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social · Jun 11

The Athens (GA) Immigrants Rights Coalition, which I volunteered with for several years, is currently fundraising for their Support for Immigrant Families in Crisis fund. 98.5% of donations go straight to families in need. Please boost & contribute if you can!
www.athensimmigrantrights.org/donate

SUPPORT FOR IMMIGRANT
FAMILIES IN CRISIS
SPRING 2025
ABOUT SIFIC
Support for Immigrant Families in Crisis (SIFIC) provides emergency assistance to local immigrant families who have limited access to resources, due to their documentation or economic status. SIFIC funds are used to help cover essential needs such as rent, utilities, food, medical expenses, attorney fees and legal fees. We are currently facing a deportation crisis that is separating families and the need for these kinds of support has escalated. Please help us to raise 25K this Spring, so that we can continue to help families in crisis! Thank you, Friend.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 4h

There's a lot going on in this article, and this is far from the most important criticism, but if I were a health system I would simply not implement a tool where the expected workflow is for physicians to copy and paste their patients' charts into a browser window. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

How Physicians Can Prepare for Generative AI

This Viewpoint discusses basic skills for using generative artificial intelligence (AI) and how to take an active role implementing AI into patient care.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 4h

After spending the past ten years getting stochastically terrorized with cyber attacks, large health systems are hanging "kick me" signs on their backs because of their fear of being left behind by a tech revolution they don't understand.

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Angutekaraq Qakvalria @angutekaraq.bsky.social · 2d

People's houses are floating away WITH PEOPLE IN THEM

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Angutekaraq Qakvalria @angutekaraq.bsky.social · 1d

From accounts with relatives from Kipnuk, the village is a total loss. One of my Elder relatives says it's wiped out. Those rectangular dots in the distance? Houses floating away

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 4h

AFN has a story today. This is the first that I heard someone died. So many villages devastated. It will take years to recover because it's so expensive to build in these rural villages.

www.adn.com/alaska-news/...?

Woman found dead, dozens rescued and over 1,000 displaced after storm devastates Western Alaska

Winds over 100 mph and record tidal surges pounded the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on Sunday as the remnants of Typhoon Halong inundated some Bering Sea coast communities.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 5h

There needs to be more coverage of this in the news. I have read so many stories bout this on Facebook, first hand stories of the terror of that storm, and very little coverage n media.
www.facebook.com/100000960660...

Screenshot of a Facebook post. Photo is an elderly woman holding a child on her ap on a couch with flood water around them. Both are wearing jackets inside. Text says: This was after our 1st drift.. staying put for awhile. Our 3rd and final drift was terrifying. House moving fast then we started spinning in circles. While we were spinning in circles my oldest daughter was just staring at me while I held onto my younger two. Kipnuk doesn't look like kipnuk anymore, like more than 3/4 of the homes displaced, power poles fallen. It smells like stove oil outside. Contaminated

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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social · 9h

it’s tummy tuesday

an extremely conked out tuxedo tort with her splotchy fluffy tummy on display

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 20h

I don‘t know who needs to hear this but your support and solidarity should be with those below you in the hierarchy not above, and only with your peers if they also adhere to this principle. Historically, middle management is who keeps bad people in power.

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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 17h

To paraphrase @michaelhobbes.bsky.social, if you're going to compare ultra-processed candy with minimally-processed salads, your study isn't very useful.

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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 17h

And if you look at the diets...lol.

You could eat a salad with steamed/poached protein or a sandwich with CHOCOLATE MILK AND CANDY.

Totally shocking that one of these did worse in the experiment. Who'd have thunk.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 3h

signing a bunch of LGBTQ+ protections into law but then vetoing two other ones bc they would cost health insurance companies 0.00001% in yearly profits is just so Newsom

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 15h

CA UPDATE:

Newsom has signed these queer rights bills:
- AB 82 / SB 497 (Medical privacy)
- AB 1084 / SB 59 (Name/Gender changes)
- SB 450 (Adoption access)

And vetoed these bills:
- SB 418 (HRT stockpile)
- AB 554 (PreP)

Final total: 8 bills signed, 2 vetoed.

transnews.network/p/california...

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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 17h

ASV is a proud sponsor of #BiM2025 #BlackInMicro

Check out the awesome events happening this week!

Black Microbiologists Assoc (Black In Micro) @blackinmicro.bsky.social · 17h

🌟 Don't miss CAREERS & RESEARCH Day on Oct 15. Hear highlights from Dr. Lauryn Alexander, Dr. Shanna Ashley, and Dr. Corey Reynolds. Secure your spot now by pre-registering: linktr.ee/BlackInMicro. Show your support by donating here: tinyurl.com/GiveBiM (links in bio) #BlackInMicro #BiM2025

Black in Microbiology Week 2025 Panel: Navigating Careers in Microbiology – Careers & Research. Event time: 2–3 PM EST, Oct. 15, 2025. Speakers: Lauryn Alexander, PhD (Law Student, West Virginia University), Shanna Ashley, PhD (Medical Science Liaison, AbbVie), and Corey Reynolds, PhD (Regional Medical Scientific Director, Merck).

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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social · 9h

i’d pick up my direct tin can line to its three remaining employees if i were to witness such villainy in the wild 🫡

Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social · 9h

it’s tummy tuesday

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 4d

Hanging onto every bit of good news

The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.

This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.

lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social · 9h

no :) hope that helps

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Joseph Marcus @josephmarcusid.medsky.social · 12h

The Maldives 🇲🇻 became the first country in the world to eliminate mother to child transmission of:
-HBV
-HIV
-Syphilis

#IDSky

www.who.int/news/item/13...

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 12h

I really like this clear messaging on vaccine safety. I would caution, though, that 25% of Americans don't have a primary doctor. So there needs to be other ways people can get information.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12h

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 1d

My longer form take on what this means...

"With Malice Toward All and Charity for None"
substack.com/home/post/p-...

With Malice Toward All and Charity for None: Oct. 10-11 CDC (Un)Firing Edition

A post interpreting the Friday night firing of more than 1,000 CDC experts only to have some of these layoffs termed an ‘error’ & reversed on Saturday night.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 1d

Friday night: ~1,250 fired in CDC, immediate pushback.

Saturday: administration says layoffs were in 'error'.

*But* does not specify how many.

Now, @axios.com reports ~600 remain RIFed by an admin that blends incompetence & malice to public health.

Mismanagement should have consequences.

Axios @axios.com · 1d

About 600 CDC staff in offices dealing with health statistics, injury and violence prevention, congressional outreach and human resources are out of work as a result of the Trump administration's mass layoffs of agency workers Friday, sources familiar said.

CDC purge hits 600 workers in key offices despite reversals

The casualties include employees working on health statistics, injury and violence prevention, congressional outreach and human resources.

www.axios.com

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

The WHO has verified the elimination of both measles & rubella in all Pacific Island countries, alongside rubella elimination in Japan. The achievement follows 2 decades of coordinated immunisation campaigns, regional surveillance, and high routine vaccine coverage. buff.ly/EpFb7HK
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Rubella elimination verified in Japan, and measles and rubella elimination verified in Pacific island countries and areas

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that the 21 Pacific island countries and areas that are part of the WHO Western Pacific Region have collectively been verified as having eliminated…

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 2d

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Poster with QR code linking to the position

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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social · 1d

I suspect this is Katz’s Deli (one of my faves 😇) - it’s a bit outside of town (by West Rock) but absolutely worth the small pilgrimage

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1d

Views of the Devil's Graveyard, a stretch of Big Bend country canyonland that preserves an incredible (and highly volcanic) slice of the Eocene

A bright late morning overlook of the South Fork of the Devil's Graveyard Formation: on the left, white cliffs of ancient ash fall down into a dry creekbed lined by yellow green brush and a few old cottonwood trees. To the right, desert hills rise beneath a sky lined with skidding white clouds

A spring-fed trickle runs down the dry strembed sediment of the South Fork, below an old cottonwood.

An eocene fossil collecting site, notable for the pinkish purple layer in the white ash deposits. Volcanic rocks are everywhere.

A morning view of the Devil's Graveyard. A bright, lurid sunrise peaks over the horizon; below, banded white and red cliffs roll in a badlands around a mostly dry creek canyon

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

This post needs an updated re-issue because AI companies have truly come up with some incredibly novel ways to push this technology that no one wants onto people.

The AI age is the "age of no consent"

"Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.

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