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I am a scientist who looks at the portrayal of infectious diseases in pop culture. Also I have a cat and she's the best. Also on ⏰️ and 📷 apps with same name, and Substack. Find the podcast Tierah Ruins Things With Science on all platforms.
Episode 2 is out today, featuring the 1918 influenza as shown on Downton Abbey. The 1918 influenza was so incredibly deadly, but why? We have H1N1 still today, and it was an H1N1, so what gives? Full details in the episode, available on all podcast platforms!
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S2E2 - Downton Abbey S2E8
In which the Spanish Influenza strikes
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November 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Episode 2 is out today, featuring the 1918 influenza as shown on Downton Abbey. The 1918 influenza was so incredibly deadly, but why? We have H1N1 still today, and it was an H1N1, so what gives? Full details in the episode, available on all podcast platforms!
open.substack.com/pub/tierahru...
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Season 2 starts today with episode 1 about typhus and typhoid fever, as depicted on screen in Little House on the Prairie and Outlander.
Listen on all podcast platforms now!
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Listen on all podcast platforms now!
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S2E1 - Little House on the Prairie and Outlander
Typhus and Typhoid, two illnesses that are preventable with access to good hygiene
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November 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Season 2 starts today with episode 1 about typhus and typhoid fever, as depicted on screen in Little House on the Prairie and Outlander.
Listen on all podcast platforms now!
substack.com/@tierahruins...
Listen on all podcast platforms now!
substack.com/@tierahruins...
Oh yeah, by the way, Season 2 of the podcast starts on Monday! This season is all about world-changing diseases.
November 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Oh yeah, by the way, Season 2 of the podcast starts on Monday! This season is all about world-changing diseases.
This is more terrifying than the measles outbreak. Why? Bc there's an effective vaccine for measles, but the TB one does not work in adults. Also as few as 1-10 bacterial cells can transmit TB & you may not show symptoms for 2-10 *years*. Treatment involves up to 2 yrs of antibiotics.
November 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
This is more terrifying than the measles outbreak. Why? Bc there's an effective vaccine for measles, but the TB one does not work in adults. Also as few as 1-10 bacterial cells can transmit TB & you may not show symptoms for 2-10 *years*. Treatment involves up to 2 yrs of antibiotics.
Hey Alberta, you have until Dec 15, 2025 to book your covid and flu shots for NEXT year (2026). You can do this through the Alberta Vaccine Booking System.
Please share. If you don't book next year's vaccines by this Dec, you may not get them.
Please share. If you don't book next year's vaccines by this Dec, you may not get them.
October 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Hey Alberta, you have until Dec 15, 2025 to book your covid and flu shots for NEXT year (2026). You can do this through the Alberta Vaccine Booking System.
Please share. If you don't book next year's vaccines by this Dec, you may not get them.
Please share. If you don't book next year's vaccines by this Dec, you may not get them.
Tea is useless in the kettle, it'll just get cold.
October 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Tea is useless in the kettle, it'll just get cold.
Headache cure: pinching my eyebrows, strong coffee, eating pickled asparagus, and acetaminophen.
Don't worry, I already have autism, so nothing will change.
Don't worry, I already have autism, so nothing will change.
September 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Headache cure: pinching my eyebrows, strong coffee, eating pickled asparagus, and acetaminophen.
Don't worry, I already have autism, so nothing will change.
Don't worry, I already have autism, so nothing will change.
Today's Friday Science Fun Fact ia about how antivaccine sentiments have existed since before the word vaccine was coined. Surprise surpruse, they're rooted in religious retribution.
September 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Today's Friday Science Fun Fact ia about how antivaccine sentiments have existed since before the word vaccine was coined. Surprise surpruse, they're rooted in religious retribution.
I forgot that editing my podcast is 95% cutting out pauses while I breathe and clipping the little sounds of me opening my mouth before I speak. Can you get misophonia against your pwn mouth noises?
September 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I forgot that editing my podcast is 95% cutting out pauses while I breathe and clipping the little sounds of me opening my mouth before I speak. Can you get misophonia against your pwn mouth noises?
Why can't you have grapefruit while on some meds? Is it all meds? All classes of meds? It's actually random, drug by drug, so ask your doctor or pharmacist if grapefruit juice is right for you.
September 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Why can't you have grapefruit while on some meds? Is it all meds? All classes of meds? It's actually random, drug by drug, so ask your doctor or pharmacist if grapefruit juice is right for you.
The worst part of doing a literature search is finding yourself in a reference wormhole, ie when papers use a reference for a fact that is not the original claim, but another paper making the same claim & also referencing something else.
September 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The worst part of doing a literature search is finding yourself in a reference wormhole, ie when papers use a reference for a fact that is not the original claim, but another paper making the same claim & also referencing something else.
Friday science fun fact this week comes from more podcast prepping, it's about smallpox
September 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Friday science fun fact this week comes from more podcast prepping, it's about smallpox
While watching For All Mankind, I watched S1, S2, & then started S4 by accident. Took me 3 eps to realize & go back to 3.
I did the same thing with Kate Quinn's Empress of Rome books: 1, 2, 4, then 3.
Clearly I need to double check series I'm into before starting the 4th part.
I did the same thing with Kate Quinn's Empress of Rome books: 1, 2, 4, then 3.
Clearly I need to double check series I'm into before starting the 4th part.
September 12, 2025 at 3:26 AM
While watching For All Mankind, I watched S1, S2, & then started S4 by accident. Took me 3 eps to realize & go back to 3.
I did the same thing with Kate Quinn's Empress of Rome books: 1, 2, 4, then 3.
Clearly I need to double check series I'm into before starting the 4th part.
I did the same thing with Kate Quinn's Empress of Rome books: 1, 2, 4, then 3.
Clearly I need to double check series I'm into before starting the 4th part.
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Maybe infinite content was a bad idea.
September 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Maybe infinite content was a bad idea.
Forgot to post last Friday's Science Fun Fact
September 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Forgot to post last Friday's Science Fun Fact
I will never understand selfish people who knowingly ruin other people's lives for their own gain and then pretend they did nothing wrong. That's good, because it means I would never do that to anyone.
I wish that was more comforting right now, but it doesn't heal as much hurt as I would hope.
I wish that was more comforting right now, but it doesn't heal as much hurt as I would hope.
September 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I will never understand selfish people who knowingly ruin other people's lives for their own gain and then pretend they did nothing wrong. That's good, because it means I would never do that to anyone.
I wish that was more comforting right now, but it doesn't heal as much hurt as I would hope.
I wish that was more comforting right now, but it doesn't heal as much hurt as I would hope.
There should be a thing that zaps pedestrians who start walking through a crosswalk after the red stop walking light is flashing. That time of no pedestrians is for cars to be able to turn.
August 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
There should be a thing that zaps pedestrians who start walking through a crosswalk after the red stop walking light is flashing. That time of no pedestrians is for cars to be able to turn.
I've been doing this little thing called Friday Science Fun Fact for a few weeks now, where I share a fact about infectious diseases that I find fun and will make you question my definition of that word. Enjoy this week's. Previous ones are all on my ⏰️ account.
August 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I've been doing this little thing called Friday Science Fun Fact for a few weeks now, where I share a fact about infectious diseases that I find fun and will make you question my definition of that word. Enjoy this week's. Previous ones are all on my ⏰️ account.
For someone who hates getting app notifications, I sure do have a smart mouth online and comment a lot.
August 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
For someone who hates getting app notifications, I sure do have a smart mouth online and comment a lot.
I need a new logo card for the podcast! Currently it's the 2nd pic, but the lettering is too small & there's too much dead space. Sound off in the comments which one you like! I did previously use Option 1 and wouldn't be opposed to going back to it.
August 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I need a new logo card for the podcast! Currently it's the 2nd pic, but the lettering is too small & there's too much dead space. Sound off in the comments which one you like! I did previously use Option 1 and wouldn't be opposed to going back to it.
It's too hot and I don't have any spoons for cooking. Cheese and crackers for dinner it is, but I do have a cranberry goat cheese available, so it's like bougie girl dinner.
August 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
It's too hot and I don't have any spoons for cooking. Cheese and crackers for dinner it is, but I do have a cranberry goat cheese available, so it's like bougie girl dinner.
Rewatching #SNW S2E03 Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. The thing about ST is it hits you diff @ diff times in your life. Today, La'an's autism coding is hitting me hard, esp her telling Kirk that ppl are hard for her but he feels easy & safe.
August 26, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Rewatching #SNW S2E03 Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. The thing about ST is it hits you diff @ diff times in your life. Today, La'an's autism coding is hitting me hard, esp her telling Kirk that ppl are hard for her but he feels easy & safe.
Does anyone know what the cookie means?
Pips #3 Easy 🟢 0:52
Pips #3 Medium 🟡 0:31 🍪
Pips #3 Hard 🔴 1:04
I had one on Pips #2, and none on Pips #1.
#nytgames #wordle #connections #nyt
Pips #3 Easy 🟢 0:52
Pips #3 Medium 🟡 0:31 🍪
Pips #3 Hard 🔴 1:04
I had one on Pips #2, and none on Pips #1.
#nytgames #wordle #connections #nyt
August 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Does anyone know what the cookie means?
Pips #3 Easy 🟢 0:52
Pips #3 Medium 🟡 0:31 🍪
Pips #3 Hard 🔴 1:04
I had one on Pips #2, and none on Pips #1.
#nytgames #wordle #connections #nyt
Pips #3 Easy 🟢 0:52
Pips #3 Medium 🟡 0:31 🍪
Pips #3 Hard 🔴 1:04
I had one on Pips #2, and none on Pips #1.
#nytgames #wordle #connections #nyt
When you're an emotional support game time chicken, but it's off season and is 33 days until hockey starts again, so you have to work your summer job to keep busy.
August 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
When you're an emotional support game time chicken, but it's off season and is 33 days until hockey starts again, so you have to work your summer job to keep busy.