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Jessie Seiler

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MPH, PhD in epidemiology | she/her | science writer focused on health misinformation at Center for Science in the Public Interest | affiliate faculty, University of Washington Public Health | opinions my own but I'm sure we all agree that my cat is cute

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Jessie Seiler @jessieish.bsky.social · Aug 18

Good morning, I’m canceling all my plans for the rest of my life because this is how Mookie looks at me when she figures out I’m leaving the apartment, thanks for understanding!!

A tortie cat with massive yellow eyes wide open in shock stares at the camera from a green couch with red and orange pillows on it.

Jessie Seiler @jessieish.bsky.social · 13h

The baby... in her... placenta??

Just failing the basic stuff, y'all. No wonder the rest of it goes right above their heads.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

Jessie Seiler @jessieish.bsky.social · 17h

On Tylenol and autism:

"However, in line with prior KFF polling on a variety of health misinformation topics, many adults express uncertainty and fall into the “malleable middle,” saying this unproven claim is either “probably true” (30%) or “probably false” (30%)."

Misinfo creates uncertainty.

KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: Tylenol-Autism Link and Vaccine Policies | KFF

Following the Trump administration’s warning last month that using acetaminophen – the active ingredient in Tylenol – during pregnancy can increase the risk of autism in children, very few adults say ...

www.kff.org

Jessie Seiler @jessieish.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty sure we all agree with you there! I saw Sandy Koufax was in attendance tonight, maybe he’s got something left 🫠

Jessie Seiler @jessieish.bsky.social · 1d

It's data day in our class on racism in public health. We're talking about this article, Trump's Jan. 2025 data purge, and the history of how people of various races and ethnicities have been categorized in the United States today.

The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinic

The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology

www.scientificamerican.com

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Jessie Seiler @jessieish.bsky.social · 2d

And then there's their wildly anti-labor policies and the way they treat their employees (no, not the software engineers and other white-collar ones).

We can't fix Amazon ourselves as individuals but we can (and should) choose to spend our own hard-earned dollars elsewhere.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 3d

11 appearances
8 innings
12 hits
11 runs (9 earned)
8 walks
7 strikeouts
1-4, 1 blown save
10.13 ERA
since Treinen's hat nonsense.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 22d

Blake Treinen's stats since he wrote Charlie Kirk on his hat:

3.0 IP, 5 Runs, 9.00 ERA, 0 Ks, 1.667 WHIP, and 3 LOSSES

Charlie Kirk written on Dodgers Blake Treinen hat

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Jessie Seiler @jessieish.bsky.social · 4d

Everything is awful but today I got to write a letter of reference for an amazing student and a letter of support for a colleague going up for an award, and holy shit, I love my field and colleagues and students so much.

.... Also the Yankees lost, and that was pretty nice too.

Jessie Seiler @jessieish.bsky.social · 5d

Not only have the Mariners been doing this all season, but they've also been selling blue corndogs -- dipped in nacho cheese and covered in blue Takis -- all year.

A corndog being held up in a baseball stadium. It's covered in crushed up blue Takis.

Jessie Seiler @jessieish.bsky.social · 7d

Finished my PhD in 2023 and rolled right into teaching! Been up here since 2019 though

Jessie Seiler @jessieish.bsky.social · 8d

Man we are one week into the quarter here at UW and I bet most of those students were total strangers to each other before this class, that right there is community building

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Jessie Seiler @jessieish.bsky.social · 8d

This is my campus, and I’m sure the right-wing weirdos who are obsessed with college students are gonna be super normal about all this….

Anyway, no Nazis on campus 💜

Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 8d

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off

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Jessie Seiler @jessieish.bsky.social · 8d

Hi, I teach an undergrad course on racism in the United States in 2025 and just made it through my first week of class without cursing or melting down in front of my students, please clap, please send treats

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Amy Johnston, PhD @amydjohn.bsky.social · 8d

I am looking for a uterus-bearing person between the age of 18-24 years (inclusive) with lived experience of endometriosis to support a population-based study on this condition (led by me).

🇨🇦 Canadian resident(s) preferred!

Please re-post and share widely!

#Endometriosis #MedSky #EpiSky

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Jessie Seiler @jessieish.bsky.social · 9d

Hey public health folks, I'm guest lecturing on the social determinants of health again in a few weeks but the usual talk and activities feel... outdated, given all this. What have you added to you SDOH talks that address the current climate? Any good readings or activities to suggest?

Jessie Seiler @jessieish.bsky.social · 11d

mason.gmu.edu/~rmatz/giama...

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"That is why it breaks my heart, that game--not because in New York they could win because Boston lost; in that, there is a rough justice, and a reminder to the Yankees of how slight and fragile are the circumstances that exalt one group of human beings over another. It breaks my heart because it was meant to, because it was meant to foster in me again the illusion that there was something abiding, some pattern and some impulse that could come together to make a reality that would resist the corrosion; and because, after it had fostered again that most hungered-for illusion, the game was meant to stop, and betray precisely what it promised.

Of course, there are those who learn after the first few times. They grow out of sports. And there are others who were born with the wisdom to know that nothing lasts. These are the truly tough among us, the ones who can live without illusion, or without even the hope of illusion. I am not that grown-up or up-to-date. I am a simpler creature, tied to more primitive patterns and cycles. I need to think something lasts forever, and it might as well be that state of being that is a game; it might as well be that, in a green field, in the sun."

Jessie Seiler @jessieish.bsky.social · 11d

Happy closing day.

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"From A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti, by A. Bartlett Giamatti, et al
'The Green Fields of the Mind'

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Today, October 2, a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped, and summer was gone."

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Jessie Seiler @jessieish.bsky.social · 12d

It's wild that any joy or pleasure we can get these days feels wrenched away from the ever-increasing fascism. Anyway, I picked up a violin for the first time and started taking lessons, hope you can find your joy too.

A violin in a blue case. We're looking down from the scroll and pegs to the top part of the beck and fingerboard.

Jessie Seiler @jessieish.bsky.social · 17d

I hope you’re right because a lot of Trump’s thing was just him saying over and over that you should just “tough it out“ when you’re pregnant and in pain or have a fever. Lol my guy, you first.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 17d

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

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Jessie Seiler @jessieish.bsky.social · 17d

Same. One ridiculous moment among so, so many.

Jessie Seiler @jessieish.bsky.social · 17d

Fevers and pain in pregnancy are linked to poor outcomes for both the parent and baby. Childhood vaccines save lives. This man is the leader of a death cult.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17d

Trump: "I think it has -- I think it's very bad. They're pumping, it looks like they're pumping into a horse. You have a little child, a little fragile child, and you get a vat of 80 different vaccines, I guess. 80 different blends. And they pump it in. So ideally, a woman won't take Tylenol."

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Jessie Seiler @jessieish.bsky.social · 17d

He goes on to struggle to pronounce acetaminophen and tell people that they need to "tough it out" when they experience pain or fever during pregnancy. Which will kill people.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17d

Trump: "I think I can say there are certain groups of people that don't take vaccines and don't take any pills that have no autism. Does that tell you something? Is that a correct statement, by the way? ... I'm not so careful with what I say."

Jessie Seiler @jessieish.bsky.social · 17d

Hmmmm, now that it's started, I'm watching and finding myself increasingly miserable somehow.... Did he just stumble over pronouncing acetaminophen?

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Jessie Seiler @jessieish.bsky.social · 18d

Hey folks, if you want some early insight into this coming week's shower of health and science misinformation, check out Thinking Person's Guide to Autism's summary of what FDA/RFK Jr. are going to be up to in the coming days, and what their motivations could possibly be (hint: $$$).

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 18d

The White House is "gonna make a big autism announcement" tomorrow. We'll be delaying our usual Monday TPGA Newsletter publication until Tuesday, so that @ejwillingham.bsky.social can give that news the scrutiny it… deserves. Why not sign up for the salty goodness (it's free!)?

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