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Alexa Fleckenstein M.D.
@doctoralexa.bsky.social
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Board-certified internist & European Natural Medicine
Background math & philosophy (epistemology)
KNOWLEDGE & KINDNESS
Playing cello & piano badly
Hamburg > Boston
Gardening - REAL foods. Because plants & animals have the same biochemistry as we humans
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Yesterday the President dozed off again during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged for his courtiers to shower him with praise praise he couldn't even stay awake for He stirred long enough to spew racism Why is this not treated as an emergency
December 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Trump's ... Venezuela War Plans ... open.substack.com/pub/ryanmcbe... ...
Trump's Venezuela War Plans
Congress Strikes Back
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December 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Sunday thought ... The Bigot ... in the Oval Office ... open.substack.com/pub/robertre... ...
Sunday thought: The Bigot in the Oval Office
Like dictators before him, Trump’s road to tyranny is paved with hate
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November 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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I'm guessing their last words were "Watch this!"
November 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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A puzzle for your day! I’ll take Starmer and up you tRump.
November 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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a puzzle in the morning.
November 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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normalise general strikes.
would be a good first step.
A Blueprint for a General Strike in Our Time
John Silence describes three ways to make a general strike happen in the US or Canada. John Silence || One of the biggest challenges to building a general strike in the current environment is that …
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November 28, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Trump ... the Pope ... and me ... open.substack.com/pub/robertre... ...
Trump, the Pope, and me
The real meaning of Pope Leo’s and my favorite film
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November 29, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Russia violates Moldova‘s airspace With drones
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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April 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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How to Gaslight ... Your MAGA Relatives ... on Thanksgiving ... open.substack.com/pub/borowitz... ...
How to Gaslight Your MAGA Relatives on Thanksgiving
Helpful tips!
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November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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SWING LEFT ... www.mobilize.us/swingleft/ev... ...
Inside Ground Truth: How We Win in 2026 and Beyond · Swing Left
Trump and MAGA aren’t invincible. Together, we can stop their assault on our democracy, our neighbors, and our future. You’ve stood up this year—from protesting en masse to driving huge Democratic win...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Nursing no longer considered a professional degree by Trump administration www.wpr.org/news/nursing...

#nursing #education
Nursing no longer considered a professional degree by Trump administration
The Trump administration is no longer considering nursing as a professional degree. That means getting financial help to complete advanced degrees in nursing could become more difficult at a time when...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Interesting, Ian ...
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Our first double splash! LOOK HOW GOOD IT LOOKS

"Hellforged" Issue 6 campaign ends tomorrow! Don't miss your chance to support this latest chapter 👏

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November 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Sunday caption contest ... What was REALLY said ... before the cameras and reporters arrived ... open.substack.com/pub/robertre... ...
Sunday caption contest: What was REALLY said before the cameras and reporters arrived?
And last week’s winner
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November 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Yesterday was the 77th birthday of mathematician Raman Parimala, who developed the first example of a non-trivial quadratic space over an affine plane and has since dug into Clifford algebras, Witt groups, and the Grothendieck-Serre Conjecture.

tinyurl.com/yckhjhav

#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
Expectations Defied: The Algebraic Journey of Raman Parimala
If you have been reading this series over the years, you’re used to a particular narrative sequence: (1) Brilliant woman researcher establishes herself, with a good reputation and a solid position at ...
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November 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Florence Nightingale David: The Statistician Who Calculated Casualties and Saved London During the Blitz
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Statistics #Probability #Biostatistics
Florence Nightingale David: The Statistician Who Calculated Casualties and Saved London During the Blitz
Florence Nightingale David hand-cranked mechanical calculators to create correlation tables that enabled modern statistics, then forecasted bombing casualties before London was attacked – wor…
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November 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Let’s PEER into Science today! Add us on your favorite podcast platform now :) please :) unless you don’t support women in stem! Then that’s weird! #science #womeninstem
November 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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I wrote this in 2018 for a resource that doesn’t seem to exist anymore about how to respond to sexual harassment in STEM. I’m so disappointed, but not surprised, that I need to post it again

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November 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Women in Flora Brasiliensis: Therese of Bavaria. The scientist princess who came to Brazil in the 19th century, focusing on her time in Espírito Santo 👑🌱🦎🗺️

#Princess
#WomenInSTEM
#WyrdWomen
Women in Flora Brasiliensis: Therese of Bavaria - Google Arts & Culture
The scientist princess who came to Brazil in the 19th century, focusing on her time in Espírito Santo
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November 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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#DolphinADay 326

📷 ©️ Sarah Perry / Jul 2024

#CardiganBay #Dolphin #CBMWC #Wales #MarineConservation #WildlifePhotography #WTSWW #MarineWildlife #MarineLife #Nature #Wildlife #PhotoOfTheDay #CBWildlife #MarineMammals #Photography #BottlenoseDolphin #Cetacean #WomenInSTEM

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November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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#nurse #nursing #womeninstem #nursingisstem
November 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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#LiseMeitner was an Austrian physicist who helped discover #NuclearFission. Despite her key role, she was not included when her colleague won the #NobelPrize. As a #Jewish scientist during #WorldWarII, Meitner faced discrimination and had to flee Nazi Germany.
#WomenInSTEM
Lise Meitner: The Woman Behind the ATOMIC BOMB and NUCLEAR FISSION #shorts #womeninhistory
YouTube video by Hot For History
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November 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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sometimes I do field work in the most gorgeous water (Harrison river, BC) and you can see the sturgeon swim away forever 🥹

this is a nice close up of the scutes that cover sturgeon for protection, they have several rows of these bony plates that can be really sharp!

#sturgeonsaturday 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🌐
November 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM