Aidy
@itsaidy.bsky.social
Borinqueña 🇵🇷 | #medlibs | #pubhealth | #histmed nerd | Topics vary 📚📝🎧🎮🐕✈️🪴 | Deletes posts on the regular.
✍🏼 www.aidy.blog
👋🏽 Personal account
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👋🏽 Personal account
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Please stop calling the circulating sub-clade K strain of H3N2 a "super flu". It is a strain that drifted through a normal evolutionary process from the strains included in this year's vaccine. It means we are seeing more cases of flu and the vaccine may not work as well in preventing infections.
January 6, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Please stop calling the circulating sub-clade K strain of H3N2 a "super flu". It is a strain that drifted through a normal evolutionary process from the strains included in this year's vaccine. It means we are seeing more cases of flu and the vaccine may not work as well in preventing infections.
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Quick question: do you know of any individuals with a snail mail newsletter? Substack is fun and all, but I’m embracing offline connections this year. I’m thinking about starting my own too.
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January 5, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Quick question: do you know of any individuals with a snail mail newsletter? Substack is fun and all, but I’m embracing offline connections this year. I’m thinking about starting my own too.
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#Medlibs who work with APC funds and/or #scholcomm, curious if you’ve ever had a situation where an author was asked twice to cover an APC. Once for the article and then again to respond to article commentary (ie. Letter to the Editor)?
January 5, 2026 at 7:45 PM
#Medlibs who work with APC funds and/or #scholcomm, curious if you’ve ever had a situation where an author was asked twice to cover an APC. Once for the article and then again to respond to article commentary (ie. Letter to the Editor)?
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We’re not looking for cleverness.
We’re looking for work that carries weight.
If a poem hasn’t let you go, this window is for it.
#PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry
We’re looking for work that carries weight.
If a poem hasn’t let you go, this window is for it.
#PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry
Call for Submissions: Poetry That Remembers, Mourns, and Refuses to Let Go - The Broken Spine
Submissions Open Throughout January 2026 | Publication Later That Year
thebrokenspine.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 6:00 AM
We’re not looking for cleverness.
We’re looking for work that carries weight.
If a poem hasn’t let you go, this window is for it.
#PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry
We’re looking for work that carries weight.
If a poem hasn’t let you go, this window is for it.
#PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry
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Today’s Find: Newspaper article 4 Jan 1924 “Watched His Own Operation” a leg amputation under spinal anesthesia tinyurl.com/ycv8kzvr #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
January 4, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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Took time during this break to toss Linktree and move my little blog from WP to Pagecord.
So far, I've really enjoyed rekindling the joy of personal blogging. I hope to do more writing and digital gardening on this corner of the internet. My first blog post: www.aidy.blog/the-blog-shu...
So far, I've really enjoyed rekindling the joy of personal blogging. I hope to do more writing and digital gardening on this corner of the internet. My first blog post: www.aidy.blog/the-blog-shu...
💃🏻 The Blog Shuffle - @aidy
For some reason towards the end of the year, I get the sudden urge to blog like no tomorrow. Just write a ton of posts, scour the internet for others blogs,...
www.aidy.blog
January 4, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Took time during this break to toss Linktree and move my little blog from WP to Pagecord.
So far, I've really enjoyed rekindling the joy of personal blogging. I hope to do more writing and digital gardening on this corner of the internet. My first blog post: www.aidy.blog/the-blog-shu...
So far, I've really enjoyed rekindling the joy of personal blogging. I hope to do more writing and digital gardening on this corner of the internet. My first blog post: www.aidy.blog/the-blog-shu...
For the new year, I decided to remove and rearrange my BlueSky feeds to have more variety and holy caramba what a difference that makes. +
a cat is sitting on a couch with its mouth open and looking surprised .
Alt: a grey cat is sitting on a couch with its mouth open and looking oh so cute, but also surprised.
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January 3, 2026 at 1:08 AM
For the new year, I decided to remove and rearrange my BlueSky feeds to have more variety and holy caramba what a difference that makes. +
You had me at Pretzel 😍 🥨
Friday, Dec 19th, stop by RLML's first floor to get some love from therapy dog, Pretzel!!! A little holiday paws! 🐾 💕
#IUmedschool #RLML
#IUmedschool #RLML
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
You had me at Pretzel 😍 🥨
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
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It’s okay to not be doing okay.
YouTube video by GenericArtDad
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December 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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“'Librarians out in our branches are seeing a lot of young people who are really excited by these collections,' Langlais told 404 Media. 'Folks who are coming in just for the games are picking up program flyers and coming back for something like that.'"
The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
www.404media.co
December 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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He was traveling from Oklahoma to DC, not even an international trip
The professor was detained on his way to an academic conference in Washington, D.C., according to the colleague.
ICE Detains University of Oklahoma Professor With H-1B Visa, Colleague Says
www.newsweek.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 AM
He was traveling from Oklahoma to DC, not even an international trip
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“No one paid attention to the fact that people were living here without heat before ICE came,” said Infiniti Gant, a housing organizer with Southside Together. “People were living here with mice and roaches and flea infestation before ICE.”
Building raided by ICE now ‘falling apart from the inside out,’ South Shore residents say • The TRiiBE
“No one paid attention to the fact that people were living here without heat before ICE came,” said Infiniti Gant, a housing organizer with Southside Together. “People were living here with mice and r...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:27 AM
“No one paid attention to the fact that people were living here without heat before ICE came,” said Infiniti Gant, a housing organizer with Southside Together. “People were living here with mice and roaches and flea infestation before ICE.”
What do you call an archivist who catalogues and stores thousand+ year old ice cores?
Antarchivist 🧊 😆
Pretty cool right…sorry, couldn’t help it.
Antarchivist 🧊 😆
Pretty cool right…sorry, couldn’t help it.
Two miles of ice core on the shelf at our national ice core facility in Lakewood, Colorado. The WAIS Divide core from West Antarctica is a 3400m long (deepest US core, 2nd deepest ice core ever) 68,000 year old record of high resolution climate.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
What do you call an archivist who catalogues and stores thousand+ year old ice cores?
Antarchivist 🧊 😆
Pretty cool right…sorry, couldn’t help it.
Antarchivist 🧊 😆
Pretty cool right…sorry, couldn’t help it.
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
I finally have some downtime to read the Wellcome report and work on my conference poster, I can’t explain it but this my mood right now. #histmed #historyofhospitals
a man in a plaid shirt is sitting in front of a sign that says ' wp ' on it
Alt: a man in a plaid shirt is sitting in front of a sign that says ' wp ' on it and shrugging their shoulders, smiling and visibly happy.
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I finally have some downtime to read the Wellcome report and work on my conference poster, I can’t explain it but this my mood right now. #histmed #historyofhospitals
#medlibs 👀
New Wellcome report examines how archives, manuscripts and material culture are currently used in life, health and wellbeing research, identifying 15 recommendations to enhance methodological innovation and cross-disciplinary experimentation.
#histmed #medhumanities
#histmed #medhumanities
From hospital records to family papers, collections give unique insights into health across time and place.
But they don’t just have historical value. Collections have incredible potential for discovery research – and we need to unlock it.
Learn more in our report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...
But they don’t just have historical value. Collections have incredible potential for discovery research – and we need to unlock it.
Learn more in our report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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My contribution for our upcoming #medhum #humanities art exhibit…it’s not a new piece but very fitting #elutero #womb #ovomorph
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
My contribution for our upcoming #medhum #humanities art exhibit…it’s not a new piece but very fitting #elutero #womb #ovomorph
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As the conflict in Ukraine nears its fourth year, what help is available for vulnerable children caught in the crossfire?
@irwinredlener.bsky.social discusses how he’s operationalizing care for children’s medical, psychological, and educational needs.
podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/974-caring-f...
@irwinredlener.bsky.social discusses how he’s operationalizing care for children’s medical, psychological, and educational needs.
podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/974-caring-f...
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
As the conflict in Ukraine nears its fourth year, what help is available for vulnerable children caught in the crossfire?
@irwinredlener.bsky.social discusses how he’s operationalizing care for children’s medical, psychological, and educational needs.
podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/974-caring-f...
@irwinredlener.bsky.social discusses how he’s operationalizing care for children’s medical, psychological, and educational needs.
podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/974-caring-f...
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Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
November 8, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
After a much needed break, I went ahead and submitted three conference proposals and now I’m like…🫠
a man says what have i done in front of a statue
Alt: A distraught Darth Vader (pre-suit era) says what have i done in front of a statue.
media.tenor.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 AM
After a much needed break, I went ahead and submitted three conference proposals and now I’m like…🫠
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
FYI - For those donating to Puerto Rico's food bank distributor, there's something funky with their default URL. Instead visit this URL: alimentospr.org/en/
Amigos que Alimentan - El Banco de Alimentos de PR
En el Banco de Alimentos de Puerto Rico trabajamos para que nadie en Puerto Rico se quede sin comer. A través de la distribución de alimentos, programas de apoyo y alianzas con comunidades y organizac...
alimentospr.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:58 AM
FYI - For those donating to Puerto Rico's food bank distributor, there's something funky with their default URL. Instead visit this URL: alimentospr.org/en/
If you’re thinking of a Halloween skeleton costume this year, may I present to you…
Also don't forget how essential eyeglasses were to the scholarly medical uniform used when examining a flask of urine while a worm-sprouting skeleton dances to a funky musical beat in front of you: digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/touch/totent... (from the Heidelberger Totentanz, ca. 1488) #HistMed
October 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
If you’re thinking of a Halloween skeleton costume this year, may I present to you…