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Shaun Keegan

@shaunkeegan.bsky.social

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Infectious disease epidemiologist @lshtm.bsky.social Mathematical modeller, stats for epidemiology, AMR & vaccine development. Also occasional rants about football and whoever Liverpool FC are playing. 🖖 Add ♾️ + 🌈 🏳️‍🌈 (he/him) https://keegan.science/

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2h

After Careful Thought, Teen Applies To College Where Family Donated Building https://theonion.com/after-careful-thought-teen-applies-to-college-where-fa-1819577078/

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10h

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 5h

Last month Trump said he wanted proof that COVID vaccines are effective. Yesterday, during his "semiannual" physical, Trump received a COVID vaccine as well as a flu shot.

That's because vaccines — which Trump's administration have made harder to get — work.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 5h

He got the COVID and flu Vaccines like every 79 year old should this is a good thing.
"Cardiovascular age validated by by ECG and found to be 14 years younger than chronological age" is a nonsensical phrase.
I am an internist this is not something we do or write in medical reports.

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Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 6h

An excuse to buy adorable and nerdy heavy socks

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 13h

I do fear I have reached maximum weight drop 😓 Tho I am 22% lighter than at the start of May

Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 14h

Also, what’s the club team? I can hear something bad, on ye go…🤔😆

Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 16h

FOLLOW. UP. THE. LEADS!!!

Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 16h

🖖🏻 I mean, isn’t that what Starfleet trained them for?!

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Redshirts (a STAR TREK parody of "Starships" by Nicki Minaj)

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Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 16h

I need star trek and wine friends. Except wine is a pre-monjaro treat. So hard liquor

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanhneville.medsky.social · 1d

I am reading a reviewing a grant that is 278 pages long. People who think scientists and universities are getting "easy money" from the #NIH clearly know nothing about science.

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Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 1d

Hah! I get that - and also bloody great that you do, we wouldn't have the game without grassroots kids sports. If it's mid-game though, I don't think there's any harm in being reassured that you're either totally right, or "oh wow, I am in the minority here"

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Lïam from Online @custodianofrecords.online · 1d

The boomers who forced participation trophies on our generation and then pretended like we wanted them are finally giving them to themselves.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 1d

In a sea of utterly batshit nonsense, this is up there.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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The Ferrari Lab @theferrarilab.bsky.social · 1d

I deserve a piece of cake. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor myself with a piece of cake.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 1d

RE: BlueSky and football btw, it’s actually got a decent number of people who post about it regularly. Using any of the hashtags about teams or matches, unlike the other place, actually has people talking about the matches and teams, as opposed to hurling slurs at each other 🤣

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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 1d

I distinctly recall Roddy Dunlop Q/KC commenting that he'd worked with Ash so knew how clever she is in response to people making fun of her.

Doesn't fill one with much faith in the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, does it.

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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 1d

MSP who defected over party direction in resigning over party direction shock

Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 1d

Ash Regan, MSP for Edinburgh Eastern, candidate for SNP leader in 2023 and subsequently Alba leader in 2025, has now quit Alba citing it's "direction". She becomes an Independent and is re-standing as one next year. Alba's - never earned, only defected - parliamentary representation is ended.

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Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 1d

No way that’s a real account surely 🤣

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing could possibly go wrong with this. Creating a lifelike digital avatar on a third party platform will definitely not open teaching staff up to career destroying issues in the event of that platform being hacked.

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 1d

Exclusive: Teachers will use 'deepfake' technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school

Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below

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'Deepfake' teacher avatars to help pupils catch up

Academy trust staff to use AI generator to introduce resources for pupils returning to school

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 1d

Israel highlighting how many 100s of aid trucks they will now allow into Gaza is a tacit admission that they were using aid as a weapon of war, by the way. seems weird not to talk about this

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

Curious if folks are getting the impression that those around them are unaware antifa is not an org? We know this admin is dead set on pretending it is & many media are uncritically perpetuating that. Feels like we’re watching an elite disinfo campaign move in both a rapid and absurdist fashion.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 1d

Same, it’s a massive time saver