Leslie Newcombe
@lanewcombe.bsky.social
Research coordinator and freelance editor | epidemiology, global health, biostatistics
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It has a name now 😜
Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed.
✅ zenodo.org/records/1808...
✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/
Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed.
✅ zenodo.org/records/1808...
✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/
December 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
It has a name now 😜
Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed.
✅ zenodo.org/records/1808...
✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/
Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed.
✅ zenodo.org/records/1808...
✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/
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If you’re interested in how gen A.I. is affecting academic publishing,
How’d you like to browse my new collection of gen A.I. images in journals?
doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
How’d you like to browse my new collection of gen A.I. images in journals?
doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
Pulled From the Trough: Slop Images in Academic Journals
This project collects images created using generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) that have appeared in academic journals.If you run across examples of gen AI images in journals or books - whethe...
doi.org
December 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
If you’re interested in how gen A.I. is affecting academic publishing,
How’d you like to browse my new collection of gen A.I. images in journals?
doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
How’d you like to browse my new collection of gen A.I. images in journals?
doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
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A bunch of us did a piece on RFK Jr.'s attacks on vaccines. Please circulate. Scientists and clinicians are sounding the alarm. It's time to act. youtube.com/shorts/4wnNy...
December 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A bunch of us did a piece on RFK Jr.'s attacks on vaccines. Please circulate. Scientists and clinicians are sounding the alarm. It's time to act. youtube.com/shorts/4wnNy...
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Emily Dickinson's herbarium – a forgotten treasure at the intersection of poetry and science www.themarginalian.org/2017/05/23/e...
Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Forgotten Treasure at the Intersection of Science and Poetry
An elegy for time and the mortality of beauty, composed with passionate patience and a sensuous cadence.
www.themarginalian.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Emily Dickinson's herbarium – a forgotten treasure at the intersection of poetry and science www.themarginalian.org/2017/05/23/e...
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Nothing feels as intimate as getting a reviewer who understood exactly what you were trying to hide
November 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Nothing feels as intimate as getting a reviewer who understood exactly what you were trying to hide
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wake up babe new phil trans cover just dropped.
November 20, 2025 at 12:53 AM
wake up babe new phil trans cover just dropped.
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Back in the late twelfth century Al-Baghdadi saw your post about how ancient aliens built the pyramids and is embarrassed for you.
October 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Back in the late twelfth century Al-Baghdadi saw your post about how ancient aliens built the pyramids and is embarrassed for you.
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Day 22, GOAT. The most iconic (if not the greatest phage of all time) in terms of looks are myovirus like phages. They look like a lunar lander and are instantly recognisable as a virus. #Drawtober #SciArt #PhageSky
October 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Day 22, GOAT. The most iconic (if not the greatest phage of all time) in terms of looks are myovirus like phages. They look like a lunar lander and are instantly recognisable as a virus. #Drawtober #SciArt #PhageSky
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@askhistorians.bsky.social has shared a few META posts in the past year that are relevant for #NoKings
"[Geenbaum] represented what everyone should strive to be: an obstacle, however small and seemingly inconsequential, in the path of fascism."
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"[Geenbaum] represented what everyone should strive to be: an obstacle, however small and seemingly inconsequential, in the path of fascism."
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October 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
@askhistorians.bsky.social has shared a few META posts in the past year that are relevant for #NoKings
"[Geenbaum] represented what everyone should strive to be: an obstacle, however small and seemingly inconsequential, in the path of fascism."
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
"[Geenbaum] represented what everyone should strive to be: an obstacle, however small and seemingly inconsequential, in the path of fascism."
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
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Look I know it'll shock you to know this, but we are almost out of archeologists AGAIN.
Do you know any archeologists? Are they willing to be matched with a LEGO team?
Please send 'em our way we need all hands on deck (STILL!)
We have had 585 requests for archeologists 🫠
forms.gle/PU3x7oayXGr3...
Do you know any archeologists? Are they willing to be matched with a LEGO team?
Please send 'em our way we need all hands on deck (STILL!)
We have had 585 requests for archeologists 🫠
forms.gle/PU3x7oayXGr3...
two men are pushing a small boat through the water .
Alt: Three young men are on a rowboat when it capsizes and then they salute as the ship sinks
media.tenor.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Look I know it'll shock you to know this, but we are almost out of archeologists AGAIN.
Do you know any archeologists? Are they willing to be matched with a LEGO team?
Please send 'em our way we need all hands on deck (STILL!)
We have had 585 requests for archeologists 🫠
forms.gle/PU3x7oayXGr3...
Do you know any archeologists? Are they willing to be matched with a LEGO team?
Please send 'em our way we need all hands on deck (STILL!)
We have had 585 requests for archeologists 🫠
forms.gle/PU3x7oayXGr3...
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There's a lot happening but this shouldn't get overlooked: The Trump administration is walking away from Biden-era rules requiring airlines to pay for damaged wheelchairs / mobility devices.
This move is cruel, dangerous & unjustified
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
This move is cruel, dangerous & unjustified
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
US will not enforce Biden wheelchair passenger protection rule
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Transportation Department said on Monday that it will not enforce key provisions of a rule issued in December by former President Joe Biden's administration that require...
www.yahoo.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
There's a lot happening but this shouldn't get overlooked: The Trump administration is walking away from Biden-era rules requiring airlines to pay for damaged wheelchairs / mobility devices.
This move is cruel, dangerous & unjustified
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
This move is cruel, dangerous & unjustified
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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I am a well educated, pretty media literate person whose job it is to be professionally annoying. I cannot figure out if my cancer medication, which costs $17k a month (I do not pay anything thanks to a combo of insurance/access programs), is going to be tariffed 100%.
September 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I am a well educated, pretty media literate person whose job it is to be professionally annoying. I cannot figure out if my cancer medication, which costs $17k a month (I do not pay anything thanks to a combo of insurance/access programs), is going to be tariffed 100%.
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New from me: A "heterodox" writer took a week to teach himself immigration law, then reprimanded me for daring to suggest that Trump is violating the due process rights of immigrants.
He's wrong -- about pretty much everything.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/what-to-wa...
He's wrong -- about pretty much everything.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/what-to-wa...
As Trump vows to end asylum, a tech bro site valiantly defends him -- from accusations that he wants to end asylum
An editor at the "anti-woke" site Pirate Wires scolds me for criticizing Trump's immigration policy. He has no idea what he's talking about.
radleybalko.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
New from me: A "heterodox" writer took a week to teach himself immigration law, then reprimanded me for daring to suggest that Trump is violating the due process rights of immigrants.
He's wrong -- about pretty much everything.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/what-to-wa...
He's wrong -- about pretty much everything.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/what-to-wa...
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🦟 🪱 🦠 25 tracks on a theme of infectious disease....
We start with a banger that's 24 years old, Four Tet's magnificent "No More Mosquitoes" (it's a rallying cry for this playlist 'cuz they're a vector for all sorts of diseases, like malaria and Zika)
1/25
youtu.be/l651f3mucXA?...
We start with a banger that's 24 years old, Four Tet's magnificent "No More Mosquitoes" (it's a rallying cry for this playlist 'cuz they're a vector for all sorts of diseases, like malaria and Zika)
1/25
youtu.be/l651f3mucXA?...
Four Tet - No More Mosquitoes (2001)
YouTube video by Domino Recording Co.
youtu.be
September 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
🦟 🪱 🦠 25 tracks on a theme of infectious disease....
We start with a banger that's 24 years old, Four Tet's magnificent "No More Mosquitoes" (it's a rallying cry for this playlist 'cuz they're a vector for all sorts of diseases, like malaria and Zika)
1/25
youtu.be/l651f3mucXA?...
We start with a banger that's 24 years old, Four Tet's magnificent "No More Mosquitoes" (it's a rallying cry for this playlist 'cuz they're a vector for all sorts of diseases, like malaria and Zika)
1/25
youtu.be/l651f3mucXA?...
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from worst to best versions (off the top of my head)
September 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
from worst to best versions (off the top of my head)
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If that meme is your intro to jungle, watch this fantastic short video that gives you a little taste of the history and ethos of the art form that is jungle
@gavinyamey.bsky.social
youtu.be/vDZHEAwDAVo?...
@gavinyamey.bsky.social
youtu.be/vDZHEAwDAVo?...
September 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
If that meme is your intro to jungle, watch this fantastic short video that gives you a little taste of the history and ethos of the art form that is jungle
@gavinyamey.bsky.social
youtu.be/vDZHEAwDAVo?...
@gavinyamey.bsky.social
youtu.be/vDZHEAwDAVo?...
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I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research.
And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?
And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?
Trump to impose $100,000 fee per year for H-1B visas, in blow to tech
The Trump administration said on Friday it would ask companies to pay $100,000 per year for H-1B worker visas, prompting some big tech companies to warn visa holders to stay in the U.S. or quickly return.
www.reuters.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research.
And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?
And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?
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The Black Death ripped through the world to devastating effect. /u/Noble_Devil_Boruta has a surgically precise post on how medieval people tried to fight it, and what effective ways were just beyond their capabilities. #Skystorians #HistMed
What would some actually effective treatments for the Black Death be?
Given what is known about the practical and theoretical knowledge of medicine and related field around mid-14th century, not only in Europe but generally in the world, it can said with quite a high degree of certainty that there were no efficient curative for any internal bacterial or viral infection.
buff.ly
September 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The Black Death ripped through the world to devastating effect. /u/Noble_Devil_Boruta has a surgically precise post on how medieval people tried to fight it, and what effective ways were just beyond their capabilities. #Skystorians #HistMed
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Never let it be said that we do not recognise excellence in question-asking.
September 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Never let it be said that we do not recognise excellence in question-asking.
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Come check out this fantastic AMA with @kweingarten.bsky.social we have going on today! (One of several @nursingclio.bsky.social appearances on @askhistorians.bsky.social in the near future!)
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September 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Come check out this fantastic AMA with @kweingarten.bsky.social we have going on today! (One of several @nursingclio.bsky.social appearances on @askhistorians.bsky.social in the near future!)
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24 Hours to Save AIDS Research is just minutes away! Join us on YouTube at 11am ET as @judyauerbach.bsky.social and @jeffwickersham.bsky.social usher in a full day and night's worth of programming! bit.ly/45Qftts #saveAIDSresearch #HIV #HIVresearch
September 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
24 Hours to Save AIDS Research is just minutes away! Join us on YouTube at 11am ET as @judyauerbach.bsky.social and @jeffwickersham.bsky.social usher in a full day and night's worth of programming! bit.ly/45Qftts #saveAIDSresearch #HIV #HIVresearch
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We have an AMA today on @askhistorians.bsky.social with @bachynski.bsky.social discussing the history of youth football and public health! Be sure to check it out!
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September 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
We have an AMA today on @askhistorians.bsky.social with @bachynski.bsky.social discussing the history of youth football and public health! Be sure to check it out!
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
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Crested pigeon for @lanewcombe.bsky.social ! Thanks for your #Waymakers donation! These pigeons are so cool!
To donate & request a bird, see: act.theyoungcenter.org/a/birdsbeyon...
All funds support unaccompanied immigrant kids in the US via @theyoungcenter.bsky.social 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
To donate & request a bird, see: act.theyoungcenter.org/a/birdsbeyon...
All funds support unaccompanied immigrant kids in the US via @theyoungcenter.bsky.social 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
September 11, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Crested pigeon for @lanewcombe.bsky.social ! Thanks for your #Waymakers donation! These pigeons are so cool!
To donate & request a bird, see: act.theyoungcenter.org/a/birdsbeyon...
All funds support unaccompanied immigrant kids in the US via @theyoungcenter.bsky.social 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
To donate & request a bird, see: act.theyoungcenter.org/a/birdsbeyon...
All funds support unaccompanied immigrant kids in the US via @theyoungcenter.bsky.social 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
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Thank you so much for setting up this egg-citing fundraiser for immigrant children.
We can't stop raven about it.
Also, birds! We love them (lot's of birders on staff make for a backed up collection of bird puns waiting for an opportunity to soar).
We can't stop raven about it.
Also, birds! We love them (lot's of birders on staff make for a backed up collection of bird puns waiting for an opportunity to soar).
For datubooty on tumblr, a California Towhee! Thanks for your #Waymakers donation!
For more info and to request a bird, see: act.theyoungcenter.org/a/birdsbeyon...
All money goes to @theyoungcenter.bsky.social , supporting unaccompanied immigrant kids in the US. Ends Sept. 30!
🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
For more info and to request a bird, see: act.theyoungcenter.org/a/birdsbeyon...
All money goes to @theyoungcenter.bsky.social , supporting unaccompanied immigrant kids in the US. Ends Sept. 30!
🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
September 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Thank you so much for setting up this egg-citing fundraiser for immigrant children.
We can't stop raven about it.
Also, birds! We love them (lot's of birders on staff make for a backed up collection of bird puns waiting for an opportunity to soar).
We can't stop raven about it.
Also, birds! We love them (lot's of birders on staff make for a backed up collection of bird puns waiting for an opportunity to soar).