Kellyn
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Kellyn
@kwilkezz.bsky.social
Infectious Disease PGY-4 🩺 🦠💊
🐈‍⬛🏃🏻‍♀️🎮
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Lab-kept bumble bees roll small wooden balls around for no apparent purpose other than fun, a 2022 study reveals.

Learn more on #WorldBeeDay: scim.ag/4dAwCuD
May 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩‍🔬
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State.

H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.
February 21, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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February 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Photo of two boys - one vaccinated against smallpox, the other not - published in 1901 by Dr. Allan Warner.

Smallpox killed over half a billion people in the 20th century alone. On 8 May 1980, the WHO announced its eradication, which was achieved through #vaccines, surveillance, and containment.
February 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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February 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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H5N1 Bird Flu Spreads Rapidly Through California Dairy Herds

The USDA has confirmed that five more dairy herds in California are infected, bringing the total number to 732.

As of now, 74% of the state's dairy herds have tested positive for the virus.
January 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Abortion is being scrubbed from all DHHS websites. Nothing appears in results when you search. Again if you a person capable of giving birth in a state that will comply with rolling back your rights to access reproductive care, please prepare and act accordingly.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
January 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Just notified that the 2025 Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (PACCARB) meeting was cancelled as a result of this.

Valuable meeting on antimicrobial resistance & such a disappointment this is cancelled.

#IDSky #EpiSky

PACCARB: www.hhs.gov/ash/advisory...
January 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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The letter signed by >15,000 physicians re: RFK Jr
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
January 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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New World Biologists🌿✨
January 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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In this day and age, living in a place that
- you like,
- you can afford,
- you can find a job,
- you have family/friends,
- you feel safe, and
- you *are* safe from natural disasters/bad laws/worse

is luxury and privilege. Almost no one gets to check all the boxes.

So maybe don’t be an asshole.
January 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM