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Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · 1d

In case anyone finds this helpful, I live in FL and was able to get my Covid shot at CVS today with no issues. The website made me state whether or not I a medical condition that put me at high risk so I checked yes (physical inactivity was listed and that sounds about right!). I wasn’t asked again.

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Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · 1d

Just realized my kid had some game on the iPad that was charging us $10/week…for…a while 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · 2d

Any cancer epidemiologists looking for a tenure track position? We (Dept of Epi at USF) are hiring. Happy to share more info if you’re interested 😊

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Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · 3d

Baked some sweet potato buttermilk cornbread and have a big pot of chili simmering on the stove 🍂🍁

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Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · 4d

I have this memory of sitting in my high school Latin class while my friend was peeling the label off her bottled water, then our teacher leaned over and said “I’ve heard that’s a sign of being sexually frustrated”

This was 20 years ago and I’m just now realizing how completely f*cked that was

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Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · 4d

Oooh guess I’ll have to keep watching 😅

Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · 5d

Why is TSITP so addicting? Every character is so annoying…and yet I keep watching

Maybe it’s the soundtrack?

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Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · 7d

Anyone else’s inbox look like this? So many requests to review 😭

Email inbox showing 5 emails from different journals to review articles, all received the same morning

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Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · 8d

Idk where my little red head came from but dang she is CUTE

Baby smiling and reaching for a peach cup

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Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · 8d

if i get one more email from a prospective phd student that's chatgpt-"I hOpE tHiS eMaiL FiNdS yOu WeLL"-crap about their research interests (which are actually *MY* research interests, lifted straight from my faculty webpage), i might seriously lose it

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Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · 15d

Is everyone just using AI to write their grant applications now??? Because I really don't understand how I'm supposed to churn these out out so fast when I also have teaching/research/service responsibilities

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 18d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · 23d

May I introduce you to salad nachos?

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Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · 25d

More important topics out there to discuss but: what is going on with women’s fashion right now??? So many tops that look like vests? The barrel jeans? Boots that are so slouchy they look like they’re about to fall off? I don’t get it.

Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · 25d

Cute baby alert

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Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · 25d

It’s finally “fall” in Florida and it is GLORIOUS. (Yes I know there will be a second summer soon, but just please let me enjoy 75 degrees with a cool breeze for a few more days)

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Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · 26d

She has Medicare + private so I’m not sure why it’s so much…I checked GoodRx and it was over 1k! Absolutely wild. Thank you for the well wishes 😊

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Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · 26d

Obviously a lot of other things going on right now, but my mom, who is on chemotherapy for aggressive lymphoma, has Covid and CVS is trying to charge her over $500 for a prescription for Paxlovid‼️

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Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · 26d

My 4yo has been running around the house singing “I like to move it, move it. I like to poop it, poop it” 😂

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Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · Sep 5

I want it!!

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Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · Sep 4

3yo busted into my bedroom at 10 pm as I was dozing off to sleep to announce “mama, I got myself a snack of raisins because they are healthy for me!”

Not wrong, baby girl, but

a painting of a very fat man with the words y tho above him

ALT: a painting of a very fat man with the words y tho above him

media.tenor.com

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Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · Sep 3

Me: <explaining how FL is abolishing vaccine mandates>
Person: I’m so glad my kids aren’t in school anymore…

Well my kids ARE in school and will be for a long time. So FL parents, what do we do??? I’m asking in earnest

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Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · Sep 2

Idk why this bugs me so much, but for some reason so many students will take SCREENSHOTS of tables and then put those into Word documents instead of just...copying and pasting the table. PLEASE JUST COPY AND PASTE THE TABLE!!!

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Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · Sep 1

3yo: mommy, mommy, you have to try this cookie. The frosting is BELLICIOUS

Reader, it was an Oreo 😂

Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · Aug 31

Hate this for you

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