Kelly Harrison
@kellyharrison.bsky.social
Mother, instructor, writer, editor, human, 😍 liberal arts & history of science, covid/h5n1 etc, some swearing...
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If Sarah Kendzior is indeed blocked on @bsky.app, this is a completely unjustified and highly questionable move. Sarah Kendzior is among the best voices of knowledge-based critical journalism in the US. See to it that this is corrected immediately and with an apology, @pfrazee.com!
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November 11, 2025 at 7:16 AM
If Sarah Kendzior is indeed blocked on @bsky.app, this is a completely unjustified and highly questionable move. Sarah Kendzior is among the best voices of knowledge-based critical journalism in the US. See to it that this is corrected immediately and with an apology, @pfrazee.com!
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UK: COVID-19 could cost UK £7 billion a year without autumn vaccinations.
"A new OHE model shows that stopping annual autumn COVID-19 vaccinations could cost the UK economy £7 billion each year, highlighting the importance of continued immunisation"
Source: archive.md/nyvSp
"A new OHE model shows that stopping annual autumn COVID-19 vaccinations could cost the UK economy £7 billion each year, highlighting the importance of continued immunisation"
Source: archive.md/nyvSp
October 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
UK: COVID-19 could cost UK £7 billion a year without autumn vaccinations.
"A new OHE model shows that stopping annual autumn COVID-19 vaccinations could cost the UK economy £7 billion each year, highlighting the importance of continued immunisation"
Source: archive.md/nyvSp
"A new OHE model shows that stopping annual autumn COVID-19 vaccinations could cost the UK economy £7 billion each year, highlighting the importance of continued immunisation"
Source: archive.md/nyvSp
Absolutely brilliant!
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Absolutely brilliant!
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The editors of West Trade Review are looking for essays that explore creative life expansively conceived.
We are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, hopes/desires/goals for the arts.
Details below:
buff.ly/5dqzrrG
#writingcommunity
We are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, hopes/desires/goals for the arts.
Details below:
buff.ly/5dqzrrG
#writingcommunity
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The editors of West Trade Review are looking for essays that explore creative life expansively conceived.
We are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, hopes/desires/goals for the arts.
Details below:
buff.ly/5dqzrrG
#writingcommunity
We are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, hopes/desires/goals for the arts.
Details below:
buff.ly/5dqzrrG
#writingcommunity
Data from Finland paints a scary picture of what SARS-COV-2 is doing.
Finland's epidemic 14 Sep 2025: total number of diagnoses continues to rise, despite price hikes in the private healthcare sector.
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September 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Data from Finland paints a scary picture of what SARS-COV-2 is doing.
For Anthony Bourdain day, I suggest this excellent essay.
#bourdainday
TW:suicidal ideation
westtradereview.com/springprevie...
#bourdainday
TW:suicidal ideation
westtradereview.com/springprevie...
West Trade Review Spring Preview: "Parts Unknown" by Les Brady
West Trade Review: Fearless. Crafted. Impassioned.
westtradereview.com
June 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
For Anthony Bourdain day, I suggest this excellent essay.
#bourdainday
TW:suicidal ideation
westtradereview.com/springprevie...
#bourdainday
TW:suicidal ideation
westtradereview.com/springprevie...
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The national security implications of DOGE was something @profsaunders.bsky.social and I worried about from the start www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... and our worries should grow given how entrenched Musk’s people are in the systems.
June 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The national security implications of DOGE was something @profsaunders.bsky.social and I worried about from the start www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... and our worries should grow given how entrenched Musk’s people are in the systems.
This is depressing. Everyone needs an update.
FDA significantly limits COVID-19 vaccine recommendations - CIDRAP
->Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy | #Health #Covid19Vaccine | More info from EcoSearch
->Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy | #Health #Covid19Vaccine | More info from EcoSearch
FDA significantly limits COVID-19 vaccine recommendations - CIDRAP
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that it will only recommend COVID-19 vaccines for adults 65 and older and people at risk for severe illness. In a marked departure from the current recommendations of seasonal vaccination for...
www.cidrap.umn.edu
May 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
This is depressing. Everyone needs an update.
So now @GavinNewsom like Trump is demanding in person work, while we have covid, bird flu, measles, TB and a whole bunch of increasing illnesses. What ever could go wrong with this policy?
They really want us dead, don't they?
So much for workers.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
They really want us dead, don't they?
So much for workers.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Newsom brings the back-to-office push to California
California's Democratic governor joins other leaders, including President Donald Trump, in calling for government workers to return to their desks.
www.politico.com
March 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
So now @GavinNewsom like Trump is demanding in person work, while we have covid, bird flu, measles, TB and a whole bunch of increasing illnesses. What ever could go wrong with this policy?
They really want us dead, don't they?
So much for workers.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
They really want us dead, don't they?
So much for workers.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Should I follow you? I mostly read and respond rather than create posts.
If you follow me and I haven't followed you back, like or reply and I'll do my best to fix that!
If you follow me and I haven't followed you back, like or reply and I'll do my best to fix that!
March 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Should I follow you? I mostly read and respond rather than create posts.
If you follow me and I haven't followed you back, like or reply and I'll do my best to fix that!
If you follow me and I haven't followed you back, like or reply and I'll do my best to fix that!
Most Americans have no idea how critical #NOAA is to the entire world. They have satellites to monitor and forecast weather, crops, oceans, pollution. They do critical research, especially in ocean systems. 1/
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Most Americans have no idea how critical #NOAA is to the entire world. They have satellites to monitor and forecast weather, crops, oceans, pollution. They do critical research, especially in ocean systems. 1/
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Apparently, the US opened a concentration camp in Gitmo.
Felon47, in some delusion, wants to take over Gaza.
Racist/sexist South African Nazi Elon Musk broke about a dozen laws or more in an ongoing coup via the US Treasury.
This is in the last 2 days & I haven't even mentioned the stupid tariffs.
Felon47, in some delusion, wants to take over Gaza.
Racist/sexist South African Nazi Elon Musk broke about a dozen laws or more in an ongoing coup via the US Treasury.
This is in the last 2 days & I haven't even mentioned the stupid tariffs.
February 5, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Apparently, the US opened a concentration camp in Gitmo.
Felon47, in some delusion, wants to take over Gaza.
Racist/sexist South African Nazi Elon Musk broke about a dozen laws or more in an ongoing coup via the US Treasury.
This is in the last 2 days & I haven't even mentioned the stupid tariffs.
Felon47, in some delusion, wants to take over Gaza.
Racist/sexist South African Nazi Elon Musk broke about a dozen laws or more in an ongoing coup via the US Treasury.
This is in the last 2 days & I haven't even mentioned the stupid tariffs.
Great movie based on the amazing book!
Black History Month. Watch the film version of Desert Flower for free on YouTube! Adapted from the true story of supermodel Waris Dirie, based on the book we wrote together—the tale of her extraordinary journey that stretches from the African bush to the catwalks of Milan to the halls of the UN.
Desert Flower 2009 (FULL MOVIE)
YouTube video by Somali Cents
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February 2, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Great movie based on the amazing book!
Dear world, I apologize for what the USA has been doing and for what hell is to come. Remember that most of us (65% of eligible voters) did not vote for this.
I hear Mother Nature crying out.
I hear Mother Nature crying out.
January 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Dear world, I apologize for what the USA has been doing and for what hell is to come. Remember that most of us (65% of eligible voters) did not vote for this.
I hear Mother Nature crying out.
I hear Mother Nature crying out.
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Would appreciate a RT from the scientists for this one! We have 665 scientists in the spring database and I want to get us to about 1000 before we set the teachers loose on the database for January matches.
Scientists!
We are trying to get 1000 of us into the volunteer database by Jan 1.
You'll be volunteering to speak with classrooms over video chat about your work, and answer their questions! You can volunteer for up to 5 sessions per semester.
Sign up here! www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
We are trying to get 1000 of us into the volunteer database by Jan 1.
You'll be volunteering to speak with classrooms over video chat about your work, and answer their questions! You can volunteer for up to 5 sessions per semester.
Sign up here! www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
December 30, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Would appreciate a RT from the scientists for this one! We have 665 scientists in the spring database and I want to get us to about 1000 before we set the teachers loose on the database for January matches.
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If you are a scientist (including graduate students) or professional science communicator who is at least 18 years old and are using Bluesky for any kind of professional purposes, please consider taking our survey.
Link:
umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Please help share. 🧪🌎 #SciComm
Link:
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Please help share. 🧪🌎 #SciComm
December 30, 2024 at 3:04 PM
If you are a scientist (including graduate students) or professional science communicator who is at least 18 years old and are using Bluesky for any kind of professional purposes, please consider taking our survey.
Link:
umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Please help share. 🧪🌎 #SciComm
Link:
umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Please help share. 🧪🌎 #SciComm
Caturday is almost over and I think I want to spend the rest of the year in bed with this guy. Actually maybe the next 4 years...
December 29, 2024 at 7:31 AM
Caturday is almost over and I think I want to spend the rest of the year in bed with this guy. Actually maybe the next 4 years...
Omg y'all. Had flight issues & ended up w/ me and hubby 2 rows apart in middle seats. Granted, short flight 1h but the guy with the aisle saw both me & DH wore same masks, so he offered to swap...aisle for middle! Generosity or not wanting to sit by masker, don't care! HAPPY!
November 21, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Omg y'all. Had flight issues & ended up w/ me and hubby 2 rows apart in middle seats. Granted, short flight 1h but the guy with the aisle saw both me & DH wore same masks, so he offered to swap...aisle for middle! Generosity or not wanting to sit by masker, don't care! HAPPY!
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Our newest paper on #CorsiRosenthalBox es.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Gr8 prolonged performance at 9 hrs/day & 7 days/week for $70. Degradation of CADR over study, but still well above $250-$600 HEPA units for particles in size range of respiratory aerosols.
Never been rocket science, folks.
Longevity of size-dependent particle removal performance of do-it-yourself box fan air filters
Filtration performance of do-it-yourself (DIY) box fan filters deployed across a university campus was assessed over an academic year. Four DIY air filters were constructed from box fans and air filte...
pubs.rsc.org
November 16, 2024 at 9:12 AM
Our newest paper on #CorsiRosenthalBox es.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Gr8 prolonged performance at 9 hrs/day & 7 days/week for $70. Degradation of CADR over study, but still well above $250-$600 HEPA units for particles in size range of respiratory aerosols.
Never been rocket science, folks.
In the before times, I never knew anyone who got sick and kept coughing for months. Now, almost everyone I know gets a nasty cough that lasts 2-3 months.
Hint: if you coughed while reading this...<mirror>
Hint: if you coughed while reading this...<mirror>
November 16, 2024 at 6:56 AM
In the before times, I never knew anyone who got sick and kept coughing for months. Now, almost everyone I know gets a nasty cough that lasts 2-3 months.
Hint: if you coughed while reading this...<mirror>
Hint: if you coughed while reading this...<mirror>
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Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find.
So I built it:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database.
Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.
So I built it:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database.
Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.
All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
blueskydirectory.com
November 11, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find.
So I built it:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database.
Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.
So I built it:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database.
Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.
