Kaitlin E Mara
@kaitlinemara.bsky.social
Main quest: Advocating for better public policy, mostly on access to medicines. Also keen on access to tech to combat climate change, other challenges. Side quests: vegan baking, planning festivals, LED art, sharing obscure facts about unicorns.
“Transitioning to self-reliance sounds good but what is happening today is not a transition. It is a shock to the system of which the most vulnerable will carry the brunt”, says @ellenthoen.bsky.social in a new @thelancet.com here:
Global health aid cuts: WHO urges urgent action to protect vulnerable populations
With drastic reductions in health aid threatening essential services and millions
of lives, WHO issues new guidance for countries to safeguard health budgets, limit
out-of-pocket payments, and mobilis...
www.thelancet.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
“Transitioning to self-reliance sounds good but what is happening today is not a transition. It is a shock to the system of which the most vulnerable will carry the brunt”, says @ellenthoen.bsky.social in a new @thelancet.com here:
Inspiring young women. The new wave of young leadership in the US is one silver lining in all of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo54...
Trump Wrongly Indicted Me, I’ll Rightly Impeach Him | Kat Abughazaleh Speaks at Lincoln Memorial
YouTube video by Kat Abughazaleh
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Inspiring young women. The new wave of young leadership in the US is one silver lining in all of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo54...
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That they have lived with this trauma & pain for so long is truly heartbreaking. How anyone can support protecting the perpetrators any longer is hard to believe & a complete disgrace!
#Justice4TheEPSTEIN_SurvivorsNOW ✊
#Justice4TheEPSTEIN_SurvivorsNOW ✊
Epstein survivors just demanded the release of the files in this new PSA. Watch it here.
November 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
That they have lived with this trauma & pain for so long is truly heartbreaking. How anyone can support protecting the perpetrators any longer is hard to believe & a complete disgrace!
#Justice4TheEPSTEIN_SurvivorsNOW ✊
#Justice4TheEPSTEIN_SurvivorsNOW ✊
Shameful move by Schumer (who should really leave) and 7 other Democrats that is going to drive millions off their healthcare. What is the point of having a Democrat party that just capitulates to every awful impulse of the Republicans? This is not what voters want.
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Shameful move by Schumer (who should really leave) and 7 other Democrats that is going to drive millions off their healthcare. What is the point of having a Democrat party that just capitulates to every awful impulse of the Republicans? This is not what voters want.
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It’s been a decade since the world met in Paris and embraced a historic agreement to stop the planet’s runaway warming.
Ten years on, nations are falling short of those goals.
Can things be turned around? Follow our coverage of the UN's climate summit:
Ten years on, nations are falling short of those goals.
Can things be turned around? Follow our coverage of the UN's climate summit:
COP30: UN climate summit — latest updates
News, highlights and analysis from the 2025 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil
www.politico.eu
November 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It’s been a decade since the world met in Paris and embraced a historic agreement to stop the planet’s runaway warming.
Ten years on, nations are falling short of those goals.
Can things be turned around? Follow our coverage of the UN's climate summit:
Ten years on, nations are falling short of those goals.
Can things be turned around? Follow our coverage of the UN's climate summit:
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
"At the heart of the problem is a broken model": skyrocketing medicines prices used to reward shareholders, not drive new innovation, says a recent @thelancet.com editorial: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Drug pricing and pharmaceutical innovation: a false promise
The UK is facing a pharma exodus. Major pharmaceutical companies have withdrawn about
£2 billion in proposed investment from the country, blaming insufficient government
investment. Central to the dis...
www.thelancet.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"At the heart of the problem is a broken model": skyrocketing medicines prices used to reward shareholders, not drive new innovation, says a recent @thelancet.com editorial: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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📢🔎💊 Regering, vergroot de transparantie in de farmaceutische sector.
Dat is de boodschap van onze open brief die we vandaag hebben overhandigd aan het ministerie van VWS. Ondertekend door tal van organisaties en experts.
Lees de brief en lijst van ondertekenaars 👉 www.wemos.org/open-brief-a...
Dat is de boodschap van onze open brief die we vandaag hebben overhandigd aan het ministerie van VWS. Ondertekend door tal van organisaties en experts.
Lees de brief en lijst van ondertekenaars 👉 www.wemos.org/open-brief-a...
October 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
📢🔎💊 Regering, vergroot de transparantie in de farmaceutische sector.
Dat is de boodschap van onze open brief die we vandaag hebben overhandigd aan het ministerie van VWS. Ondertekend door tal van organisaties en experts.
Lees de brief en lijst van ondertekenaars 👉 www.wemos.org/open-brief-a...
Dat is de boodschap van onze open brief die we vandaag hebben overhandigd aan het ministerie van VWS. Ondertekend door tal van organisaties en experts.
Lees de brief en lijst van ondertekenaars 👉 www.wemos.org/open-brief-a...
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BREAKING: South Africa has become the first African country — and our medicines regulator the third worldwide — to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir (LEN). The shot could bring an end to Aids if enough people take it.
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bhekisisa.org/health-news-...
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bhekisisa.org/health-news-...
[BREAKING] SA becomes the first African country to register the twice-a-year anti-HIV jab — at record speed - Bhekisisa
South Africa has become the first African country — and our medicines regulator the third worldwide — to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir (LEN). The shot could bring a...
bhekisisa.org
October 27, 2025 at 6:29 AM
BREAKING: South Africa has become the first African country — and our medicines regulator the third worldwide — to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir (LEN). The shot could bring an end to Aids if enough people take it.
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bhekisisa.org/health-news-...
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bhekisisa.org/health-news-...
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Yayoi Kusama’s spotted pumpkins have been spreading far and wide for years, with no slowdown in sight.
They function like instant landmarks, putting remote islands and small museums on the map.
They function like instant landmarks, putting remote islands and small museums on the map.
How a polka-dotted pumpkin became the world’s most coveted art installation
They’re in museums, on buzzy art islands, on the sides of buses and — if you spend any time thinking about art — probably living rent-free in your head. Here’s why the artist’s signature squashes keep...
www.washingtonpost.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Yayoi Kusama’s spotted pumpkins have been spreading far and wide for years, with no slowdown in sight.
They function like instant landmarks, putting remote islands and small museums on the map.
They function like instant landmarks, putting remote islands and small museums on the map.
Congrats to @justtreatment.org and Right to Breathe on getting the price of a lifesaving medicine to drop from $360,000 a year to $6,375 a year. This will give children with cystic fibrosis longer, healthier lives. @medslawpolicy.bsky.social 's take is here: medicineslawandpolicy.org/2025/10/gene...
October 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Congrats to @justtreatment.org and Right to Breathe on getting the price of a lifesaving medicine to drop from $360,000 a year to $6,375 a year. This will give children with cystic fibrosis longer, healthier lives. @medslawpolicy.bsky.social 's take is here: medicineslawandpolicy.org/2025/10/gene...
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‘The health situation in #Gaza is a crisis for generations to come’
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in his latest interview with Anna Foster and BBC Radio 4's Today news programme
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in his latest interview with Anna Foster and BBC Radio 4's Today news programme
October 23, 2025 at 8:20 AM
‘The health situation in #Gaza is a crisis for generations to come’
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in his latest interview with Anna Foster and BBC Radio 4's Today news programme
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in his latest interview with Anna Foster and BBC Radio 4's Today news programme
@hankgreen.bsky.social In case you haven't seen Rebecca Watson's excellent video on Avi Loeb's total obsession with aliens (every time a "Harvard prof" says it's aliens, it's the same guy): www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD8E... (re this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZYS...)
Avi Loeb, the Harvard Physicist Who Thinks It's Always Aliens
YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
@hankgreen.bsky.social In case you haven't seen Rebecca Watson's excellent video on Avi Loeb's total obsession with aliens (every time a "Harvard prof" says it's aliens, it's the same guy): www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD8E... (re this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZYS...)
Picture worth 1000 words (none of them flattering)
October 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Picture worth 1000 words (none of them flattering)
World Risks Losing Future Medicines Unless We Fund Research into Traditional Knowledge and Medicines, Warns @tcih-coalition.bsky.social
World Risks Losing Future Medicines Unless We Fund Research into Traditional Knowledge and Medicines, Warns TCIH Coalition
On the World Traditional Medicine Day (22 October 2025), TCIH Coalition warns that climate change, coupled with insufficient funding for traditional medicine research, could put the future of the...
www.tcih.org
October 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
World Risks Losing Future Medicines Unless We Fund Research into Traditional Knowledge and Medicines, Warns @tcih-coalition.bsky.social
“Traditional medicine – the people’s medicine – is used by billions. It’s time for a bold leap in research to match reality”, said Dr. Tabatha Parker, @tcih-coalition.bsky.social Board Member.
Despite high funding gaps in research, scientists and Indigenous leaders unite for the first time to advance Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine | 3rd WCTCIM
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - October 19, 2025 - In a historic first, scientists, policymakers, and indigenous leaders from more than 70 countries came together in
wctcim.cabsin.org.br
October 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
“Traditional medicine – the people’s medicine – is used by billions. It’s time for a bold leap in research to match reality”, said Dr. Tabatha Parker, @tcih-coalition.bsky.social Board Member.
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I’m absolutely exhausted in the best possible way. I love us. We did it! #NoKings
October 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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💊💰🔎 What can the EU do to improve pharmaceutical transparency?
Join our event with @hai-org.bsky.social at the European Parliament to discuss this critical issue.
Co-hosted by MEPs Romana Jerković & @tillymetz.bsky.social.
📆 Date: 4 November, 13:00-15:00 CET
✍️ Register: forms.gle/1JhLqrNjeoe9...
Join our event with @hai-org.bsky.social at the European Parliament to discuss this critical issue.
Co-hosted by MEPs Romana Jerković & @tillymetz.bsky.social.
📆 Date: 4 November, 13:00-15:00 CET
✍️ Register: forms.gle/1JhLqrNjeoe9...
October 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
💊💰🔎 What can the EU do to improve pharmaceutical transparency?
Join our event with @hai-org.bsky.social at the European Parliament to discuss this critical issue.
Co-hosted by MEPs Romana Jerković & @tillymetz.bsky.social.
📆 Date: 4 November, 13:00-15:00 CET
✍️ Register: forms.gle/1JhLqrNjeoe9...
Join our event with @hai-org.bsky.social at the European Parliament to discuss this critical issue.
Co-hosted by MEPs Romana Jerković & @tillymetz.bsky.social.
📆 Date: 4 November, 13:00-15:00 CET
✍️ Register: forms.gle/1JhLqrNjeoe9...
... this is just so delightfully Portland. www.portlandmercury.com/photo-essay/...
Photos: Portland Emergency World Naked Bike Ride Die-in on Burnside Bridge
Elayna Yussen and Suzette Smith
www.portlandmercury.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:27 AM
... this is just so delightfully Portland. www.portlandmercury.com/photo-essay/...
OMG <3
Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹
This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨
Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...
This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨
Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...
No Cats In The Library 🐱📚 | Reading Rainbow 📖 🌈 | Full Episode | @Kidzuko
YouTube video by Kidzuko
youtu.be
October 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
OMG <3
Interesting/concerning
COVID-19 and other viruses that spread through the respiratory route linked to the onset of vascular dementia.
Clean the air. Crosswords alone are not enough.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...
Clean the air. Crosswords alone are not enough.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...
COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in older adults
Prior COVID-19 infection was associated with a 41% increased risk of all-cause dementia.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
October 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Interesting/concerning
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In this era of hyper-partisanship, shockingly the FDA did…. a normal bureaucratic thing. Which is what it should do.
FDA approved a generic version of mifepristone, an abortion med.
FDA approved a generic version of mifepristone, an abortion med.
FDA quietly approved a generic abortion pill ahead of shutdown
The FDA quietly approved a generic form of mifepristone, one of the two medications used in most U.S. abortions, on Tuesday.
www.yahoo.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In this era of hyper-partisanship, shockingly the FDA did…. a normal bureaucratic thing. Which is what it should do.
FDA approved a generic version of mifepristone, an abortion med.
FDA approved a generic version of mifepristone, an abortion med.
Jane Goodall was one of my earliest childhood heroes and remained an inspiration all my life. I saw her speak at the UN 15 or so years ago -- one of the few speeches I've seen that moved me to tears. What an amazing woman.
'An extraordinary legacy': Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91
The primatologist was a
www.bbc.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Jane Goodall was one of my earliest childhood heroes and remained an inspiration all my life. I saw her speak at the UN 15 or so years ago -- one of the few speeches I've seen that moved me to tears. What an amazing woman.
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What's the future of Traditional Knowledge, given resistance to the WIPO TK Treaty?
Join Wend Wendland at American University & online on 25 Sept and hear more about the Centre on Knowledge Governance.
Registration: t.ly/DnrRK
@pijip.bsky.social
@profseanflynn.bsky.social
@gvagrad.bsky.social
Join Wend Wendland at American University & online on 25 Sept and hear more about the Centre on Knowledge Governance.
Registration: t.ly/DnrRK
@pijip.bsky.social
@profseanflynn.bsky.social
@gvagrad.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
What's the future of Traditional Knowledge, given resistance to the WIPO TK Treaty?
Join Wend Wendland at American University & online on 25 Sept and hear more about the Centre on Knowledge Governance.
Registration: t.ly/DnrRK
@pijip.bsky.social
@profseanflynn.bsky.social
@gvagrad.bsky.social
Join Wend Wendland at American University & online on 25 Sept and hear more about the Centre on Knowledge Governance.
Registration: t.ly/DnrRK
@pijip.bsky.social
@profseanflynn.bsky.social
@gvagrad.bsky.social
If you're at the WHO today, we have copies! But else you can get the digital version here: medicineslawandpolicy.org/2025/04/phar...
September 15, 2025 at 10:33 AM
If you're at the WHO today, we have copies! But else you can get the digital version here: medicineslawandpolicy.org/2025/04/phar...