Tara Kirby
@tarak.bsky.social
Nerd, scientist, tech transfer professional. Opinions are all my own.
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Carol of the Bells in #
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Carol of the Bells in #
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
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I'm still having trouble containing my rage about this. Treating African children as disposable toys in a desperate effort to bolster RFK Jr.'s anti-vax conspiracism. Expanding the moral stain on our nation from the USAID cuts. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I'm still having trouble containing my rage about this. Treating African children as disposable toys in a desperate effort to bolster RFK Jr.'s anti-vax conspiracism. Expanding the moral stain on our nation from the USAID cuts. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Yes, to be clear: with measles, there's a heterogeneous range of combinations of outcomes — but the idea that you can sustain an illness, recover, then have it kill you years later more or less without warning is fairly astonishing considering very powerful people are calling for "natural immunity"
One thing I have to stress here that folks also don't get.
Diseases like the ones we vaccinate against? That shit isn't just "oh, you recover or you die." It's just "you don't die." For a lot of them, you just plain never recover. Ever. There's always lingering scars that are debilitating.
Diseases like the ones we vaccinate against? That shit isn't just "oh, you recover or you die." It's just "you don't die." For a lot of them, you just plain never recover. Ever. There's always lingering scars that are debilitating.
It's very clear people don't realize how terrifying measles is, or this would be front page news. Measles is absolutely brutal. Earlier this year a child died in years after recovering from the virus. Others experience vision and hearing loss, or have seizures.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/la-c...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/la-c...
December 13, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Yes, to be clear: with measles, there's a heterogeneous range of combinations of outcomes — but the idea that you can sustain an illness, recover, then have it kill you years later more or less without warning is fairly astonishing considering very powerful people are calling for "natural immunity"
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Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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Trump just continually shooting our country in the face. This unwarranted (and likely illegal) destruction of Goddard is madness. It jeopardizes the next several decades of space exploration.
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Trump just continually shooting our country in the face. This unwarranted (and likely illegal) destruction of Goddard is madness. It jeopardizes the next several decades of space exploration.
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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This is how they claim you were 'over the line'. They pull you over and start the riot for themselves.
This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
October 27, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This is how they claim you were 'over the line'. They pull you over and start the riot for themselves.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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a live look this morning at the demolished East Wing of the White House
October 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
a live look this morning at the demolished East Wing of the White House
Disaster.
Is this accurate?!? Re Harvard CCB
"Chemistry and Chemical Biology will go down to four or five admits, one of the professors added."
"Chemistry and Chemical Biology will go down to four or five admits, one of the professors added."
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
October 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Disaster.
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This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com
Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3
Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3
October 21, 2025 at 12:28 AM
This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com
Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3
Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3
October 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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War torn Portland.
I am
I am
October 14, 2025 at 3:52 AM
War torn Portland.
I am
I am
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I've always said this, but since last November, I've been pointing this out frequently in whatever venues to whatever audiences I can: "The planet NASA studies most is Earth."
A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L
October 14, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I've always said this, but since last November, I've been pointing this out frequently in whatever venues to whatever audiences I can: "The planet NASA studies most is Earth."
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When someone defines a woman as an adult human female get them to define each word separately.
‘Biological Female’ is NOT a scientific term, it's a PROPAGANDA TERM used by Putin & other RWNJ politicians!
‘Biological Female’ is NOT a scientific term, it's a PROPAGANDA TERM used by Putin & other RWNJ politicians!
Acknowledging sex is complex isn’t “unscientific.”
The fact is: sex has several domains:
-Chromosomes
-External genitalia
-Internal sex organs
-Sex hormone profile
-Neurological sex
Acknowledging complexity isn’t denying biology. It’s recognizing its reality.
The fact is: sex has several domains:
-Chromosomes
-External genitalia
-Internal sex organs
-Sex hormone profile
-Neurological sex
Acknowledging complexity isn’t denying biology. It’s recognizing its reality.
October 14, 2025 at 6:27 AM
When someone defines a woman as an adult human female get them to define each word separately.
‘Biological Female’ is NOT a scientific term, it's a PROPAGANDA TERM used by Putin & other RWNJ politicians!
‘Biological Female’ is NOT a scientific term, it's a PROPAGANDA TERM used by Putin & other RWNJ politicians!
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Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
October 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
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@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social ‘s speech at the Capitol on Monday.
“As a federal worker, I am here to tell you that every awful thing that would happen in a shutdown—shuttering programs that Americans rely on, damaging our economy, firing federal workers—all of this is already happening.”
“As a federal worker, I am here to tell you that every awful thing that would happen in a shutdown—shuttering programs that Americans rely on, damaging our economy, firing federal workers—all of this is already happening.”
"Nearly impossible for NIH staff to do our jobs": Jenna Norton's speech for the Civil Servants Coalition
At the Capitol, Monday 9/29
scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social ‘s speech at the Capitol on Monday.
“As a federal worker, I am here to tell you that every awful thing that would happen in a shutdown—shuttering programs that Americans rely on, damaging our economy, firing federal workers—all of this is already happening.”
“As a federal worker, I am here to tell you that every awful thing that would happen in a shutdown—shuttering programs that Americans rely on, damaging our economy, firing federal workers—all of this is already happening.”
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my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter
September 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter
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NEW: Maryland just issued a standing order for anyone to get the Covid vaccines, and they also announced they'll be joining the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. health.maryland.gov/newsroom/Pag...
September 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
NEW: Maryland just issued a standing order for anyone to get the Covid vaccines, and they also announced they'll be joining the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. health.maryland.gov/newsroom/Pag...
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Our politics seems to be entering a phase of "right supremacy" where only the lives of right-wingers have value. Assassinating the leader of a state legislative body in her own damn home was business as usual, but all of America has to have a reckoning if it's a far-right online influencer.
September 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Our politics seems to be entering a phase of "right supremacy" where only the lives of right-wingers have value. Assassinating the leader of a state legislative body in her own damn home was business as usual, but all of America has to have a reckoning if it's a far-right online influencer.
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Trying to imagine a world where 57-year-old Hillary Clinton drew a penis that looked like it maybe belonged to a barely-pubescent male in the birthday book of a prolific child molester and wrote a note referencing "a wonderful secret" on it
September 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Do NOT allow them to rewrite history with disinformation. #COVID vaccines worked remarkably well and allowed us to come out of a global pandemic. A picture is worth a thousand words.
August 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Do NOT allow them to rewrite history with disinformation. #COVID vaccines worked remarkably well and allowed us to come out of a global pandemic. A picture is worth a thousand words.