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Erika Waters
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Professor @WUSTLphs. Health comm and behavior change, risk perception, medical decision making, health disparities, cancer, chronic disease. Owned by beagle
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The regime’s first stage of its plan to revoke birthright citizenship is inspired by the 1662 Virginia law that created chattel slavery in the American colonies.
On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14160, Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship. See 90 Fed. Reg. 8449 (2025) (E.O.). The E.O. provides that the following categories of individuals will no longer be considered to be born “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and therefore will no longer be U.S. citizens at birth: (1) children whose “mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth”; and (2) children whose “mother’s presence in the United States at the time of said person’s birth was lawful but temporary (such as, but not limited to, visiting the United States under the auspices of the Visa Waiver Program or visiting on a student, work, or tourist visa) and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth.”
July 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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I guess that explains the months of (none) listed under the Funding Opportunities section of the weekly NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts email.
May 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Finally, we have a couple flowering trees. I don’t know what these are either, other than “pretty.” 4/4
Looking down a sidewalk with a wooden fence on the right and three trees on the left. The tree closest to the foreground has pink, 4-petaled flowers. The tree next to it is the same type of tree, but it has white flowers instead of pink. The remaining trees on the block have leaves.
May 13, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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I know these! Tulips and daffodils 3/n
Yellow daffodils. Picture taken at ground level so the flowers take up the center of the frame, and their greenery covers 75% of it. There’s a partial picture of a piece of concrete stair in the foreground. Two pink tulips with the setting evening sun shining through the petals. Two tulip buds colored red, orange, and yellow. They look kind of like fire. They are backgrounded by stairs leading to a brick house. Magenta tulips. The petals taper outward. The picture is taken at the edge of a sidewalk looking down the block toward other houses. The tulips recede into the distance.
May 13, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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More flowers, still don’t know what they’re called. 2/n
Small pink flowers on a tiny bush about 6 inches across and 6 inches high. The leaves on the mini-bush are like soft little spikes colored a sage green-blue. Small pink flowers edged in white on a bush about 4 inches across and 6 inches high. The leaves on the bush are green soft little spike-looking things.
May 13, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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With the US falling apart in earnest, I thought some folks might appreciate a little brightness. I don’t know what these are called, but they’re pretty! 1/n
A bush about 6 feet long and 3 to 4 feet high with small white flowers with the sun shining on them. The bush is bordering the stairs going up to a brick house. There is bright green grass in front of the bush and a couple different types of trees of some sort in the background. A bush about 6 feet long and 3 feet high with small bright reddish-pinkish flowers with the sun shining on them. The bush is bordering the sidewalk and stairs going up to a brick house. There is a sidewalk in front of the bush and a couple different types of trees of some sort in the background. A bush about 6 feet long and 5 feet high with small bright magenta flowers with the sun shining on them. The bush is bordering the stairs going up to a brick house. There is a tree in the background.
May 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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She really is
Small tricolor beagle standing in a garden bed, poking her head out from among tomato vines
March 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Hi Ollie! So good to see you here! Bea says she’s excited to enjoy shenanigans 😆
Tricolor beagle Bea standing halfway under a desk next to a trash can that she pulled a bunch of paper out of and promptly shredded
December 12, 2024 at 11:29 PM
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We had an owl living in the park across the street who liked to check out our little white fluff ball
Newly-adopted white, brown, and black beagle sitting unhappily next to smaller white poodle mix. Poodle just took the beagle’s treat spot
December 11, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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Whew! Finally finished reading through and taking notes on summaries of all the codes in a large #Qualitative research project. The research staff did a great job! That said, I’m def looking forward to sitting down with a trashy novel this weekend to recharge my brain. #AcademicSky
Laptop, red and blue pens, and multi-colored narrow post-its clutter a table also containing a stack of code summaries. The summaries have been tagged with the post-its, each color representing a different category of key thought I had as I was reading. The code summaries have notes written in the margins, and the laptop contains ideas for papers to write.
December 7, 2024 at 12:37 AM
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Oh poor baby. I’m owned by a beagle and although sometimes I think it would be nice if she did’t bark *quite* so much, this is just sad.
Tricolor beagle named Bea curled up on a blanket, which is made into a nice nest on top of a sort-of-cream-colored-couch that has seen better days. Bea’s nose is smushed into the blanket and she appears to be snoozing.
December 3, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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Tricolor female beagle snuggling a woman, while the woman gently scratches the beagle’s neck.
November 17, 2024 at 4:12 AM
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This is Bea, my right-hand #beagle. I adopted her when she was 8, and named her after Bea Arthur because she is so strong-willed and vocal. 😆 Anyway, you’ll be seeing a lot of her in the future! (Not sure if hashtags work here, but we’ll see.)
Tricolor female beagle in a play bow looking at the camera (and me). She’s holding the remnants of a red, pink, white, and yellow snuffle mat between her paws, and has just about to howl at me.
November 15, 2024 at 4:18 AM