Erin Carroll
@hidinginalabama.bsky.social
Reproductive health researcher || Proud Georgia Bulldog || Total history nerd
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9 in a row over Auburn.
9 in a row over Tennessee.
8 in a row over Tech.
5 in a row over Florida.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: my favorite thing about Kirby is that he *personally* enjoys beating these rivals.
9 in a row over Tennessee.
8 in a row over Tech.
5 in a row over Florida.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: my favorite thing about Kirby is that he *personally* enjoys beating these rivals.
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
9 in a row over Auburn.
9 in a row over Tennessee.
8 in a row over Tech.
5 in a row over Florida.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: my favorite thing about Kirby is that he *personally* enjoys beating these rivals.
9 in a row over Tennessee.
8 in a row over Tech.
5 in a row over Florida.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: my favorite thing about Kirby is that he *personally* enjoys beating these rivals.
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The next Democratic president cannot fail like Biden did by appointing Garland.
It is hard but necessary to bring up murder charges on Hegseth and other top level officials who did this.
It is hard but necessary to bring up murder charges on Hegseth and other top level officials who did this.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The next Democratic president cannot fail like Biden did by appointing Garland.
It is hard but necessary to bring up murder charges on Hegseth and other top level officials who did this.
It is hard but necessary to bring up murder charges on Hegseth and other top level officials who did this.
Has anyone considered that Mercedes Benz might be cursed for us
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Has anyone considered that Mercedes Benz might be cursed for us
My husband took my phone, his phone, and our son’s phone and put them on the basement stairs during that last drive so we’d all see the outcome at the same time.
November 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
My husband took my phone, his phone, and our son’s phone and put them on the basement stairs during that last drive so we’d all see the outcome at the same time.
Since they’ve been doing this with the Bible for decades, it was only a matter of time.
Caught: Republican Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Annette Ziegler invented a fake quote in her dissent to the court’s new congressional redistricting decision on Tuesday. It marks a continuing trend in the adulteration of legal precedent in right-wing jurisprudence. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Conservative Justice Uses Fake Quote to Justify Wisconsin Republican Gerrymander
It is not clear how Ziegler’s misquotation wound up in the published opinion of a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice.
slate.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Since they’ve been doing this with the Bible for decades, it was only a matter of time.
If I didn’t already believe strongly in tribalism, watching college football constantly reinforces the truth of it for me.
November 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
If I didn’t already believe strongly in tribalism, watching college football constantly reinforces the truth of it for me.
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
Doing my annual rewatch of the thanksgiving episodes of Felicity and realized Felicity’s mom is younger than I am now. 😩
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Doing my annual rewatch of the thanksgiving episodes of Felicity and realized Felicity’s mom is younger than I am now. 😩
My 16 year old is downstairs watching Stranger Things and I’m in my office listening to West End Girl. That means I snicker when I go downstairs and see David Harbor on the tv.
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
My 16 year old is downstairs watching Stranger Things and I’m in my office listening to West End Girl. That means I snicker when I go downstairs and see David Harbor on the tv.
LOL, my nephew’s name is one of the red state ones listed and the other day my sister had an absolute shit fit because a bartender assumed she was a Republican.
I'll be approaching retirement when Rayleigh goes to college
To zoom in on the partisan names, here, we're looking only at names used >100 times (in 2023) and only 50 names on the outskirts of the partisan divide, labelling the 5 outliers on each side and the 5 most commonly used on each side. inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/p...
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
LOL, my nephew’s name is one of the red state ones listed and the other day my sister had an absolute shit fit because a bartender assumed she was a Republican.
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Qual researchers who work in the repro field: if you use Zoom for interviews, are you also using Zoom to record the interviews or do you use an external recorder?
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Qual researchers who work in the repro field: if you use Zoom for interviews, are you also using Zoom to record the interviews or do you use an external recorder?
I’m also really interested in this line of thinking that’s really prominent where people who are vaxxed (or who use other mainstream treatments, like chemo) insist that their outcomes are a result of the supplements rather than the vax or treatment.
Vaccine-preventable diseases are unimpressed with your consumption of beef tallow and peptides and supplements in lieu of vaccines.
You’re the antelope and the lion is going to track you down.
You’re the antelope and the lion is going to track you down.
November 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I’m also really interested in this line of thinking that’s really prominent where people who are vaxxed (or who use other mainstream treatments, like chemo) insist that their outcomes are a result of the supplements rather than the vax or treatment.
Quit a job I hated, was unemployed for 3 months and happened to be the first person to apply for a job and the receptionist begged the folks doing the hiring to hire someone her age. Fun fact: 20 years later, we’re both tangentially still in the field and still friends.
November 23, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Quit a job I hated, was unemployed for 3 months and happened to be the first person to apply for a job and the receptionist begged the folks doing the hiring to hire someone her age. Fun fact: 20 years later, we’re both tangentially still in the field and still friends.
But I’ll never do it better than I do it with you
So long
So long
And I would do anything for love
Oh, I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love
But I won’t do that, no
No, I won’t do that
So long
So long
And I would do anything for love
Oh, I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love
But I won’t do that, no
No, I won’t do that
The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
Roy Orbison's singing for the lonely
Hey, that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
Roy Orbison's singing for the lonely
Hey, that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
November 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
But I’ll never do it better than I do it with you
So long
So long
And I would do anything for love
Oh, I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love
But I won’t do that, no
No, I won’t do that
So long
So long
And I would do anything for love
Oh, I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love
But I won’t do that, no
No, I won’t do that
Telling my mom she’s not eating tonight because she taught me to read
November 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Telling my mom she’s not eating tonight because she taught me to read
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If I can ever get a PhD and get this funded, I am dying to study the pathway from skepticism around medicalized birth to anti-vax. I saw it over and over and over again as a La Leche League leader.
If I can ever get a PhD and get this funded, I am dying to study the pathway from skepticism around medicalized birth to anti-vax. I saw it over and over and over again as a La Leche League leader.
Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
November 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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If I can ever get a PhD and get this funded, I am dying to study the pathway from skepticism around medicalized birth to anti-vax. I saw it over and over and over again as a La Leche League leader.
If I can ever get a PhD and get this funded, I am dying to study the pathway from skepticism around medicalized birth to anti-vax. I saw it over and over and over again as a La Leche League leader.
It might make more sense if we consider that two of the founders of modern obstetrics were 1) an owner of enslaved people who experimented on enslaved women by operating on them without anesthesia and 2) a guy who said women were incapable of thought and barely capable of love.
The whole "natural birth natural life no medicine" crowd is actually more unfathomable to me than even nazis, like I understand what drives a nazi, I cannot wrap my head around the thought process that argues that the best plan is to embrace the methods that historically led to a lifespan of 27 yrs
November 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It might make more sense if we consider that two of the founders of modern obstetrics were 1) an owner of enslaved people who experimented on enslaved women by operating on them without anesthesia and 2) a guy who said women were incapable of thought and barely capable of love.
A LOT of researchers who use CDC data and otherwise wanted to preserve what the CDC said prior to 1/20/25 have archived pages, too. If you’re looking for something, Bluesky is a great place to see if someone has it.
good advice from YLE yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/i/179508318/...
November 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
A LOT of researchers who use CDC data and otherwise wanted to preserve what the CDC said prior to 1/20/25 have archived pages, too. If you’re looking for something, Bluesky is a great place to see if someone has it.
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No wonder the Olson Twins began dressing like kooky old ladies draped in full-coverage layers in early adulthood.
the fact I can say “countdown clock“ and you can instantly think of about a dozen teenage girl celebrities should about sum it up
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 AM
No wonder the Olson Twins began dressing like kooky old ladies draped in full-coverage layers in early adulthood.
I don’t know about other researchers, but I don’t even give a second glance to the AI offerings that journals, etc have. That’s what the abstract is for…
Google Scholar also just implemented a beta AI feature to “summarize for you” & the whole freaking point of scholarly research IS TO READ AND ANALYZE THE RESEARCH
Disable it. Because not only is it ridiculous, I’m sure (and luckily Sarah is the expert here) there could be IP issues for the authors
Disable it. Because not only is it ridiculous, I’m sure (and luckily Sarah is the expert here) there could be IP issues for the authors
I just learned that HeinOnline is now inserting "AI" summaries at the start of law review articles when I download the PDFs.
Um, what the heck? I don't want this.
Um, what the heck? I don't want this.
November 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I don’t know about other researchers, but I don’t even give a second glance to the AI offerings that journals, etc have. That’s what the abstract is for…
Not only do they work, but that’s fucking amazing as someone who had HELLP Syndrome and would like for my daughter to not have that if she chooses to have a baby.
Serious pregnancy complications 'dramatically reduced' in HPV-vaccinated women medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11...
"Vaccinating boys alongside girls enhances herd immunity, significantly reducing the risk of HPV-related cancers in all genders..."
#VaccinesWork
"Vaccinating boys alongside girls enhances herd immunity, significantly reducing the risk of HPV-related cancers in all genders..."
#VaccinesWork
Serious pregnancy complications 'dramatically reduced' in HPV-vaccinated women
Pregnant women who were vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV) at school are less likely to experience serious pregnancy-related complications, according to University of Aberdeen research.
medicalxpress.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Not only do they work, but that’s fucking amazing as someone who had HELLP Syndrome and would like for my daughter to not have that if she chooses to have a baby.
I made it to the third paragraph and had to stop.
Anti-choicers are the murderers.
Anti-choicers are the murderers.
NEW:
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I made it to the third paragraph and had to stop.
Anti-choicers are the murderers.
Anti-choicers are the murderers.
Don’t Dream It’s Over by Crowded House in the 1996 miniseries adaptation of @stephenking.bsky.social The Stand.
Literally cannot hear the song without thinking of the camera panning over the devastation.
Literally cannot hear the song without thinking of the camera panning over the devastation.
November 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Don’t Dream It’s Over by Crowded House in the 1996 miniseries adaptation of @stephenking.bsky.social The Stand.
Literally cannot hear the song without thinking of the camera panning over the devastation.
Literally cannot hear the song without thinking of the camera panning over the devastation.
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I was a socially and politically ignorant teen for both of these “scandals” and all I can remember is how those two women were treated by the media. I swear there was more coverage of cigars, a blue dress, and Coke cans than their humanity.
The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.
Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
November 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I was a socially and politically ignorant teen for both of these “scandals” and all I can remember is how those two women were treated by the media. I swear there was more coverage of cigars, a blue dress, and Coke cans than their humanity.