Kristin Kondrlik
@kekondrlik.bsky.social
Assoc Prof @WCUofPA. Health/tech writing teacher. 19th c medical rhetoric/writing scholar. Grown up Lisa Simpson, insufferable triathlete, horror buff, salsera.
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“An accessible alternative to the Pap smear has been endorsed by the American Cancer Society. On Thursday, it released new guidelines saying that self-collection is an acceptable way to test for the virus that causes cervical cancer.
The guidelines reflect years of data &recent regulatory approvals”
The guidelines reflect years of data &recent regulatory approvals”
American Cancer Society Endorses Pap Smear Alternative
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
“An accessible alternative to the Pap smear has been endorsed by the American Cancer Society. On Thursday, it released new guidelines saying that self-collection is an acceptable way to test for the virus that causes cervical cancer.
The guidelines reflect years of data &recent regulatory approvals”
The guidelines reflect years of data &recent regulatory approvals”
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Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
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'Tis the season!
“One Night Cough Syrup” from the 1930s, which contained cannabis, morphine, chloroform, and alcohol! In 1934, the FDA ruled that the claims of the cough syrup's therapeutic properties were misleading, and remaining stock was destroyed.
#skystorians #medhist #science 🧪
“One Night Cough Syrup” from the 1930s, which contained cannabis, morphine, chloroform, and alcohol! In 1934, the FDA ruled that the claims of the cough syrup's therapeutic properties were misleading, and remaining stock was destroyed.
#skystorians #medhist #science 🧪
December 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
'Tis the season!
“One Night Cough Syrup” from the 1930s, which contained cannabis, morphine, chloroform, and alcohol! In 1934, the FDA ruled that the claims of the cough syrup's therapeutic properties were misleading, and remaining stock was destroyed.
#skystorians #medhist #science 🧪
“One Night Cough Syrup” from the 1930s, which contained cannabis, morphine, chloroform, and alcohol! In 1934, the FDA ruled that the claims of the cough syrup's therapeutic properties were misleading, and remaining stock was destroyed.
#skystorians #medhist #science 🧪
GDI now I want paprikash (extra spicy).
WELCOME TO THE DRACULA PAPRIKA DISCOURSE!!
(meme from tumblr, not my own, original link seems to be dead now)
(meme from tumblr, not my own, original link seems to be dead now)
December 4, 2025 at 1:46 AM
GDI now I want paprikash (extra spicy).
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Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family
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Lithgow saying that a family friend with a trans kid came to him and literally said “please don’t do this” and he did it anyway really gives the game away. they don’t not know
Once again thinking about every actor trying to justify taking the money for the new HP series.
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Lithgow saying that a family friend with a trans kid came to him and literally said “please don’t do this” and he did it anyway really gives the game away. they don’t not know
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The goal is never to have no rules, no standards, no structure. The goal is to have rules and standards and structure that serve your students' needs, your needs, and the needs of the material—rules and standards and structure that facilitate teaching and learning rather than gatekeeping.
December 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The goal is never to have no rules, no standards, no structure. The goal is to have rules and standards and structure that serve your students' needs, your needs, and the needs of the material—rules and standards and structure that facilitate teaching and learning rather than gatekeeping.
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This is a lovely illustration of how every prof needs to figure out for themselves—and with an eye toward their own students' needs and peculiarities—what will work for them.
Because as loosey-goosey as I may appear, neither of these would work AT ALL for me. At all at all at all.
Because as loosey-goosey as I may appear, neither of these would work AT ALL for me. At all at all at all.
YES! This is why, in my classroom, EVERYONE can turn in late work with no penalty. EVERYONE can access lecture notes 48 hours before the lecture. Many accommodations that started as part of an IEP made so much sense I just gave them to everybody.
December 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
This is a lovely illustration of how every prof needs to figure out for themselves—and with an eye toward their own students' needs and peculiarities—what will work for them.
Because as loosey-goosey as I may appear, neither of these would work AT ALL for me. At all at all at all.
Because as loosey-goosey as I may appear, neither of these would work AT ALL for me. At all at all at all.
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Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
Fellowship
theonion.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
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Can people please educate themselves on asexuality? It's just a sexual orientation. That's it.
Asocial males are a problem, agreed. Asexual males are just males who are asexuals. I'm one of them. We're not newsworthy.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Asocial males are a problem, agreed. Asexual males are just males who are asexuals. I'm one of them. We're not newsworthy.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’
When his book Notes on Being a Man was released last month, it raced to the top of the bestseller lists. The US author, tech entrepreneur and podcaster explains his theories on dating, crying – and th...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Can people please educate themselves on asexuality? It's just a sexual orientation. That's it.
Asocial males are a problem, agreed. Asexual males are just males who are asexuals. I'm one of them. We're not newsworthy.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Asocial males are a problem, agreed. Asexual males are just males who are asexuals. I'm one of them. We're not newsworthy.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
“There is no way to create a symphony out of clammy self-interested buskers who (correctly) understand their job as being louder than everyone else…” 1/
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The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
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December 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
“There is no way to create a symphony out of clammy self-interested buskers who (correctly) understand their job as being louder than everyone else…” 1/
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I teach big classes, so I get a lot of accommodation letters and I simply follow them and go on with my day because why the hell wouldn‘t I. If I wanted to be a cop, I would have applied.
We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.
December 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I teach big classes, so I get a lot of accommodation letters and I simply follow them and go on with my day because why the hell wouldn‘t I. If I wanted to be a cop, I would have applied.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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ACT UP NY announces HEALTHGATE, “a campaign released on the heels of World AIDS Day…that condemns Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s deadly pseudoscience-led healthcare death circus while calling for the implementation of the New York Health Act & sustained funding for public & global health”
December 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
ACT UP NY announces HEALTHGATE, “a campaign released on the heels of World AIDS Day…that condemns Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s deadly pseudoscience-led healthcare death circus while calling for the implementation of the New York Health Act & sustained funding for public & global health”
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I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
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If you are a chair of a department or supervise grad students, it might be important to collaborate with your colleagues on ways to strategize when a "problem essay" comes down the pike. It's one small way of protecting each other.
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
If you are a chair of a department or supervise grad students, it might be important to collaborate with your colleagues on ways to strategize when a "problem essay" comes down the pike. It's one small way of protecting each other.
I give my undergrad business and organizational writing students free rein to write a policy proposal for a government, university, or organizational audience on pretty much whatever issue they want.
By far their biggest concerns this semester? Wages and housing.
By far their biggest concerns this semester? Wages and housing.
December 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I give my undergrad business and organizational writing students free rein to write a policy proposal for a government, university, or organizational audience on pretty much whatever issue they want.
By far their biggest concerns this semester? Wages and housing.
By far their biggest concerns this semester? Wages and housing.
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Join us on Friday for "Mediating Medicine: Health and Illness in the Victorian Age", an online workshop organised by the DACH Victorianists Network.
Registration is free & you can take part in the full workshop or individual panels depending on your schedule.
#19thCentury #Victorian #MedHum
Registration is free & you can take part in the full workshop or individual panels depending on your schedule.
#19thCentury #Victorian #MedHum
UPDATE: 8th DACH Victorianists Workshop Programme
dach victorianists network
dachvictorianists.blogspot.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Join us on Friday for "Mediating Medicine: Health and Illness in the Victorian Age", an online workshop organised by the DACH Victorianists Network.
Registration is free & you can take part in the full workshop or individual panels depending on your schedule.
#19thCentury #Victorian #MedHum
Registration is free & you can take part in the full workshop or individual panels depending on your schedule.
#19thCentury #Victorian #MedHum
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“Bad ideas can be beaten back at the ballot box, in the public square, and through the halls of Congress. The country is under no obligation to tolerate institutionalized quackery or elected officials who, through feckless appeals and half measures, have become complicit in it.”
The Undermining of the C.D.C.
The Department of Health and Human Services maintains that it is hewing to “gold standard, evidence-based science”—doublespeak that might unsettle Orwell.
www.newyorker.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
“Bad ideas can be beaten back at the ballot box, in the public square, and through the halls of Congress. The country is under no obligation to tolerate institutionalized quackery or elected officials who, through feckless appeals and half measures, have become complicit in it.”
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if you’re cold they’re cold
let your demons in
let your demons in
November 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
if you’re cold they’re cold
let your demons in
let your demons in
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"Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott (D), who was first elected in 2020, has brought the city’s homicide rate down by treating violent crime as a public health crisis... a symptom of multiple factors, including racism, poverty, and past violence."
National media ignores this bc the solution isn't police.
National media ignores this bc the solution isn't police.
November 29, 2025 at 11:25 PM
"Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott (D), who was first elected in 2020, has brought the city’s homicide rate down by treating violent crime as a public health crisis... a symptom of multiple factors, including racism, poverty, and past violence."
National media ignores this bc the solution isn't police.
National media ignores this bc the solution isn't police.
Jail for whoever carved that turkey.
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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November 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Jail for whoever carved that turkey.
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Happy Thanksgiving, America!
November 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Happy Thanksgiving, America!