Jacqueline Houtman, PhD
@jjhoutman.bsky.social
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Gift article about the across-the-board *slowdown* in federal funding for science - on ALL the topics. But especially for up-and-coming scientists.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 🎁
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 🎁
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Gift article about the across-the-board *slowdown* in federal funding for science - on ALL the topics. But especially for up-and-coming scientists.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 🎁
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 🎁
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Reposted by Jacqueline Houtman, PhD
Just when I thought I'd seen it all........
endpoints.news/new-acip-cha....
endpoints.news/new-acip-cha....
December 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Just when I thought I'd seen it all........
endpoints.news/new-acip-cha....
endpoints.news/new-acip-cha....
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NEW Review by Lawrence Gostein:
The Trump presidency: Cascading global shocks on global health
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
The Trump presidency: Cascading global shocks on global health
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
The Trump presidency: Cascading global shocks on global health
journals.plos.org
December 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
NEW Review by Lawrence Gostein:
The Trump presidency: Cascading global shocks on global health
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
The Trump presidency: Cascading global shocks on global health
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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There are still a few tickets to this incredible event tomorrow!
Bay Area friends! Where do we find the hope that fuels our resistance and protests? In stories! On Dec. 2, come out to @booksmith.bsky.social for an unforgettable evening with speculative fiction authors and activists, celebrating our new anthology "We Will Rise Again"! booksmith.com/event/WWRA1125
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
There are still a few tickets to this incredible event tomorrow!
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Fight like Rosa🔥
Seventy years ago today, one woman sat down and changed the country. Her resolve lives on every time we refuse to back down from injustice.
Seventy years ago today, one woman sat down and changed the country. Her resolve lives on every time we refuse to back down from injustice.
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Fight like Rosa🔥
Seventy years ago today, one woman sat down and changed the country. Her resolve lives on every time we refuse to back down from injustice.
Seventy years ago today, one woman sat down and changed the country. Her resolve lives on every time we refuse to back down from injustice.
On this, the 70th anniversary of the arrest of Rosa Parks, which led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, I'm re-sharing this post from last year's MLK day. jacquelinehoutman.substack.com/p/before-the...
Before They were Heroes
Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. put up with Jim Crow buses . . . until they didn't.
jacquelinehoutman.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
On this, the 70th anniversary of the arrest of Rosa Parks, which led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, I'm re-sharing this post from last year's MLK day. jacquelinehoutman.substack.com/p/before-the...
I use old leg warmers as gaiters when shoveling snow and I wore pink hi-tops at my wedding.
Things I still own:
Leg-warmers
Sparkly gym clothes
A pink gym headband. (Really)
A Walkman
A boom box
Floppy discs
The shoes I wore to my junior high prom (they still fit. I think)
Chucka boots.
Ancient pink hi-top Keds.
And so much more…..
Leg-warmers
Sparkly gym clothes
A pink gym headband. (Really)
A Walkman
A boom box
Floppy discs
The shoes I wore to my junior high prom (they still fit. I think)
Chucka boots.
Ancient pink hi-top Keds.
And so much more…..
They are selling stirrup leggings again.
I repeat: THEY ARE SELLING STIRRUP LEGGINGS AGAIN.
File that under: things you never imagined would come back.
I repeat: THEY ARE SELLING STIRRUP LEGGINGS AGAIN.
File that under: things you never imagined would come back.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I use old leg warmers as gaiters when shoveling snow and I wore pink hi-tops at my wedding.
Reposted by Jacqueline Houtman, PhD
Things I still own:
Leg-warmers
Sparkly gym clothes
A pink gym headband. (Really)
A Walkman
A boom box
Floppy discs
The shoes I wore to my junior high prom (they still fit. I think)
Chucka boots.
Ancient pink hi-top Keds.
And so much more…..
Leg-warmers
Sparkly gym clothes
A pink gym headband. (Really)
A Walkman
A boom box
Floppy discs
The shoes I wore to my junior high prom (they still fit. I think)
Chucka boots.
Ancient pink hi-top Keds.
And so much more…..
They are selling stirrup leggings again.
I repeat: THEY ARE SELLING STIRRUP LEGGINGS AGAIN.
File that under: things you never imagined would come back.
I repeat: THEY ARE SELLING STIRRUP LEGGINGS AGAIN.
File that under: things you never imagined would come back.
November 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Things I still own:
Leg-warmers
Sparkly gym clothes
A pink gym headband. (Really)
A Walkman
A boom box
Floppy discs
The shoes I wore to my junior high prom (they still fit. I think)
Chucka boots.
Ancient pink hi-top Keds.
And so much more…..
Leg-warmers
Sparkly gym clothes
A pink gym headband. (Really)
A Walkman
A boom box
Floppy discs
The shoes I wore to my junior high prom (they still fit. I think)
Chucka boots.
Ancient pink hi-top Keds.
And so much more…..
Reposted by Jacqueline Houtman, PhD
Reposted by Jacqueline Houtman, PhD
POLL TIME: what is your all time favorite bird? (Can be flightless as well, ahem).
Bonus points if you say why you love them.
Bonus points if you say why you love them.
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 AM
POLL TIME: what is your all time favorite bird? (Can be flightless as well, ahem).
Bonus points if you say why you love them.
Bonus points if you say why you love them.
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A Ruby-crowned Kinglet in the Central Park Ramble. These tiny migratory birds can linger into January in small numbers. ❤️
November 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
A Ruby-crowned Kinglet in the Central Park Ramble. These tiny migratory birds can linger into January in small numbers. ❤️
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Presenting the 2025 Wild Ones Photo Contest Events Category Winner! 🌿
Congrats to Catherine McKenzie of the Fox Valley Area Chapter for capturing this stunning Pale Purple Coneflower during a Butterfly Class in Madison, WI.
📸 See all winners: wildones.org/2025-photo-contest-results/
Congrats to Catherine McKenzie of the Fox Valley Area Chapter for capturing this stunning Pale Purple Coneflower during a Butterfly Class in Madison, WI.
📸 See all winners: wildones.org/2025-photo-contest-results/
November 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Presenting the 2025 Wild Ones Photo Contest Events Category Winner! 🌿
Congrats to Catherine McKenzie of the Fox Valley Area Chapter for capturing this stunning Pale Purple Coneflower during a Butterfly Class in Madison, WI.
📸 See all winners: wildones.org/2025-photo-contest-results/
Congrats to Catherine McKenzie of the Fox Valley Area Chapter for capturing this stunning Pale Purple Coneflower during a Butterfly Class in Madison, WI.
📸 See all winners: wildones.org/2025-photo-contest-results/
Reposted by Jacqueline Houtman, PhD
Reposted by Jacqueline Houtman, PhD
A rare and beautiful visitor to Central Park today, this Barn Owl resting high in the Pinetum in a fenced-off area. 🦉 ❤️
November 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
A rare and beautiful visitor to Central Park today, this Barn Owl resting high in the Pinetum in a fenced-off area. 🦉 ❤️
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boar’s head products are basically biohazards at this point lol
“Grated cheese sold under four brands has been recalled at various stores nationwide, including Walmart, Sam’s Clubs and Target, after testing found listeria.
The Ambriola Company’s FDA-posted recall notice said the recall is limited to grated Pecorino Romano cheese”
Boar’s Head among cheese brands in listeria recall from Walmart, Target, others
The recall is limited to grated Pecorino Romano cheese made at a New Jersey facility.
www.mcall.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
boar’s head products are basically biohazards at this point lol
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Tomorrow on my live webcast “History Matters:”
There ARE Things To Give Thanks For!
Join us!
We’ll be using the link below!
m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
There ARE Things To Give Thanks For!
Join us!
We’ll be using the link below!
m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
Dr. Joanne Freeman
Professor Joanne Freeman is an award-winning historian who studies the politics and culture of America's past to better understand our history as a nation, and the roads and choices that have led us t...
m.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Tomorrow on my live webcast “History Matters:”
There ARE Things To Give Thanks For!
Join us!
We’ll be using the link below!
m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
There ARE Things To Give Thanks For!
Join us!
We’ll be using the link below!
m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
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While Thanksgiving in the US has some pretty … loaded origins, we can all benefit from practicing gratitude in the darkness of fall and in this political moment. A few of the many efforts we’re thankful for here at Unbreaking:
November 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
While Thanksgiving in the US has some pretty … loaded origins, we can all benefit from practicing gratitude in the darkness of fall and in this political moment. A few of the many efforts we’re thankful for here at Unbreaking:
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"a debilitated CDC unable to protect the health of the American people."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancet.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
"a debilitated CDC unable to protect the health of the American people."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancet.com
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We’re out till December. I am so grateful to the folks who do this work with us, and to all y’all who read and pass it on ❤️❤️❤️
Unbreaking will be taking some downtime for the rest of November, so you’ll see our next briefing in December. In the meantime, you can catch up on our Data Security, Immigration, Medical Research, and Equality at Work work: unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
This week at Unbreaking, November 20 — Unbreaking
This week's update covers what the immigration crackdown is doing to our communities, the ongoing exploitation of our personal data, and what's going on with federal workers and medical research fundi...
unbreaking.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
We’re out till December. I am so grateful to the folks who do this work with us, and to all y’all who read and pass it on ❤️❤️❤️
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One last reminder today of the upcoming important webinar TUESDAY, DEC 2, at 11am ET on what journalists should expect & know ahead of the upcoming #CDC #vaccine #ACIP meeting next week, esp re #hepB birth dose and #MMWR. Register at bit.ly/CDC-Dec-2025. Please share widely!
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Key Issues Before a Key Meeting: Essential Vaccine Information for Reporters. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
When the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meets on December 4 and 5, they will be considering changes, some dramatic, that could affect vaccine access and protection throughout the…
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Notes From the Field: Severe Illnesses After Self-Injection of Botulinum Toxin Purchased Online — New York, Texas, and Wisconsin, 2025 - CDC MMWR
Umm, ‘self-injection’ and ‘botulinum toxin’ and ‘purchased online’ should never be in the same headline.
🧪 #IDsky #medsky
Umm, ‘self-injection’ and ‘botulinum toxin’ and ‘purchased online’ should never be in the same headline.
🧪 #IDsky #medsky
Notes from the Field: Severe Illnesses After ...
This report describes the public health response to three patients from different states who developed severe illness after self-injecting botulinum toxin.
www.cdc.gov
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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We’re excited to welcome a new bat-eared fox to Zoo Boise! Fern, a six-month-old female, joins male Fletcher in their African Plains home.
📷: Zookeeper Emily
📷: Zookeeper Emily
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
We’re excited to welcome a new bat-eared fox to Zoo Boise! Fern, a six-month-old female, joins male Fletcher in their African Plains home.
📷: Zookeeper Emily
📷: Zookeeper Emily
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History buffs, we’ve got an activity to occupy your digestion downtime this holiday season. Our crowdsourced transcription program, By The People, presents new documents for transcription in collaboration with @PBS and "The American Revolution," a new Ken Burns series. crowd.loc.gov/topics/ameri...
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
History buffs, we’ve got an activity to occupy your digestion downtime this holiday season. Our crowdsourced transcription program, By The People, presents new documents for transcription in collaboration with @PBS and "The American Revolution," a new Ken Burns series. crowd.loc.gov/topics/ameri...