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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD
@bethpathak.bsky.social
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Epidemiologist and program director in Bethesda; @Wesleyan_U @UNC grad; pro-labor anti-racist scholar. I stan Black radicals. Solidarity forever 👊🏼
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what is happening? 🙀
November 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Color me surprised 🙄
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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How it's going 🤦🏼‍♀️
#medsky #episky #publichealth #idsky
Satiric meme which reads "In order to appeal to suburban christian women, vaccine to be distributed through a pyramid scheme"
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Bruh 🤨
Spelling Bee game shows the word "tiffin" as not in the word list
October 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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f#ck me
February 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Where can we order these tests in the US? Links appreciated!

#episky #medsky #pedsky #publichealth #idsky
photo of a rapid test for covid, rsv, and flu a/b
November 30, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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Good afternoon #episky #publichealth #medsky
painting with overlay: "cows kill more people than sharks" "I'm surprised cows kill any sharks at all"
November 23, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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If you're not following Sarah Kendzior and reading her newsletter please do!
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social
screenshot of a long text passage from Sarah Kendzior's latest newsletter.
November 18, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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I'm good! 😏
November 12, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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Current minimum central pressure of Milton is 911 mb.

Hurricane Camille was 909 mb at landfall in 1969 and entire buildings just vanished in her path.

Katrina was a Cat 5 with pressure below 900 before weakening to a Cat 3 920mb at landfall.

This is a truly historic storm.
NOAA report table of the most intense US hurricanes at landfall ranked by pressure. #1 1935 FL Keys #2 Camille 1969 #3 Katrina 2005 #4 Andrew 1992
October 7, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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Make it make sense 🤦🏼‍♀️
Screenshot of website which says in part: “PDFs of the guidelines can be downloaded until August 16, 2024, when the website will be shut down.”
July 30, 2024 at 10:27 PM
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Playwright Gillian Slovo interviewed in The Nation @thenation.com

True for science as well!
#episky #academicsky #womeninSTEM
April 21, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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I would like to introduce these bozos to an advanced engineering device called the CHECKLIST 🙄

www.reuters.com/technology/s...
Quote from the article which can be found at the link … last sentence reads “The safety lock, akin to a firearm’s safety switch, can only be disabled by hand”
February 27, 2024 at 9:34 AM
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Good morning #episky #publichealth #medsky #pedsky #academicsky #womeninSTEM 🧪
Mary Engelbreit drawing of a person with a watering can looking sad … caption “you gotta stop watering dead plants”
January 18, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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It’s embarrassing (to myself) how truly bad I am at spelling bee sometimes. Words I use every single day as part of my job elude me!
face palm avatar
January 17, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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Good morning #episky #publichealth #medsky #pedsky #academicsky #womeninSTEM 🧪
An infographic titled “How to Walk on Ice” … key message is keep your center of gravity over your front leg and take small steps like a penguin
January 16, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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Good morning #episky #publichealth #medsky #pedsky #academicsky #womeninSTEM 🧪
Coffee - a warm delicious alternative to hating everyone forever Step aside coffee, this is a job for alcohol
January 14, 2024 at 12:20 PM
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Our new paper on the epidemiology of #COVID19 in infants is out in Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal

#episky #medsky #pedsICU #pedsky #publichealth

@jasonsalemi.bsky.social

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38134379/
A chart showing incidence of Covid-19 in infants over time, with the highest incidence during the omicron variant time period of Jan-Mar 2022
December 31, 2023 at 2:37 PM
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Good morning #episky #publichealth #medsky #pedsky #academicsky #womeninSTEM 🧪
December 26, 2023 at 5:41 PM
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If only it were this simple 😭

#episky #publichealth #medsky #pedsky #academicsky #womeninSTEM 🧪

Credit: @xkcd.com
Comic: Invention of clinical trials adds “3. Check whether it works” before “adopt new idea”
December 20, 2023 at 2:25 PM
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Good morning #episky #publichealth #medsky #pedsky #academicsky #womeninSTEM 🧪

Credit: @xkcd.com
Comic titled Curve Fitting Methods and the messages they send
December 18, 2023 at 11:57 AM
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Good morning #episky #publichealth #medsky #pedsky #academicsky #womeninSTEM 🧪

Credit: @xkcd.com
Comic titled “types of scientific papers”
December 17, 2023 at 12:12 PM
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pro tip include at least 3 speeding tickets in your holiday gift shopping and shipping budget 😬
December 16, 2023 at 6:54 PM
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Good morning #episky #publichealth #medsky #pedsky #academicsky #womeninSTEM 🧪
Source: @xkcd.com
Comic: My new year’s resolution this year was to reject empiricism. How’s that working out for you? What does that have to do with anything?
December 16, 2023 at 2:33 PM
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Pay attention to the atrocious level of authoritarianism happening in Texas right now. The attacks on medical autonomy, hospitals, and #PublicHealth will NOT stop with abortion. Physicians use your political power before it’s gone forever!

#medsky #episky #WomeninStem #AbortionIsHealthcare
Press release from TX Attorney General Ken Paxton stating that hospitals and doctors will be criminally prosecuted if they provide abortion even under a court-ordered restraining order.
December 9, 2023 at 11:44 AM