Bex
@bexk.bsky.social
Professional student want-to-be. Cat person who also loves doggos. Former EMT and student athletic trainer, sales rep. Applying to grad school. Wilderness med is fun!
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And now, my favorite Easter tradition.
April 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
And now, my favorite Easter tradition.
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WaPo doing my friend Acyn a solid on the open market with the ladies by noting that this single 40-something watches TV 18 hours a day. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
The 40-something single dad shaping liberal media from his laptop
Acyn Torabi dominates social media with fast-cut clips of political mayhem. Are they news, or something else?
www.washingtonpost.com
April 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
WaPo doing my friend Acyn a solid on the open market with the ladies by noting that this single 40-something watches TV 18 hours a day. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Honestly, me too.
April 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Honestly, me too.
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At every turn they're removing all the safeguards -- *all* of them. Disease, cybersecurity, financial and banking protections, housing, disability, inequity, social security, environmental, alliances with other nations, all of this and everything else. A willful and cruel dismantling of government.
All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.
In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help
All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted
www.npr.org
April 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
At every turn they're removing all the safeguards -- *all* of them. Disease, cybersecurity, financial and banking protections, housing, disability, inequity, social security, environmental, alliances with other nations, all of this and everything else. A willful and cruel dismantling of government.
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I wish more people understood this:
The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.
MIT following Harvard's lead here
April 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I wish more people understood this:
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You can’t overstate the historic importance of today’s speech to both American and Canadian citizens by Canada’s Prime Minister.
Please watch it and share it wherever you live, but especially if you’re in the United States. You need to know what Trump is doing, and why. youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w
Please watch it and share it wherever you live, but especially if you’re in the United States. You need to know what Trump is doing, and why. youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w
Watch Trudeau speak directly to Trump during blistering speech
YouTube video by CNN
youtu.be
March 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
You can’t overstate the historic importance of today’s speech to both American and Canadian citizens by Canada’s Prime Minister.
Please watch it and share it wherever you live, but especially if you’re in the United States. You need to know what Trump is doing, and why. youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w
Please watch it and share it wherever you live, but especially if you’re in the United States. You need to know what Trump is doing, and why. youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w
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Yesterday, a lead spokesperson for HHS abruptly quit after 2 weeks because of a disagreement with RFK Jr. over messaging related to the measles outbreak. Today, RFK Jr. refused to promote vaccination in the media and instead made comments undermining the safety and effectiveness of MMR vaccine.
March 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Yesterday, a lead spokesperson for HHS abruptly quit after 2 weeks because of a disagreement with RFK Jr. over messaging related to the measles outbreak. Today, RFK Jr. refused to promote vaccination in the media and instead made comments undermining the safety and effectiveness of MMR vaccine.
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At tonight’s State of the Union, Trump will have one goal: to distract.
His policies are wreaking havoc on the economy and upending American lives, and he will lie, blame, and distract to avoid any bit of responsibility. Don’t fall for it.
His policies are wreaking havoc on the economy and upending American lives, and he will lie, blame, and distract to avoid any bit of responsibility. Don’t fall for it.
March 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
At tonight’s State of the Union, Trump will have one goal: to distract.
His policies are wreaking havoc on the economy and upending American lives, and he will lie, blame, and distract to avoid any bit of responsibility. Don’t fall for it.
His policies are wreaking havoc on the economy and upending American lives, and he will lie, blame, and distract to avoid any bit of responsibility. Don’t fall for it.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] And I say when there are nine, people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.”
March 2, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] And I say when there are nine, people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.”
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All of the House Democrats are meeting tomorrow at the East Capitol Steps at noon to share the stories of everyday Americans who will be devastated by the oligarchic GOP budget scheme.
#holdtheline
#holdtheline
February 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
All of the House Democrats are meeting tomorrow at the East Capitol Steps at noon to share the stories of everyday Americans who will be devastated by the oligarchic GOP budget scheme.
#holdtheline
#holdtheline
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Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: the woman who found hydrogen in the stars – Physics World
Sidney Perkowitz on Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, from her stellar astronomical findings to her struggle with bias against women in the early 20th century
physicsworld.com
February 17, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time.
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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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A must read.
“In the end, politicians and the public are free to ignore medical advice and pursue policies that compromise health and safety, and they likely will, but this does not relieve the profession of its responsibility to make the dangers clear.”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
“In the end, politicians and the public are free to ignore medical advice and pursue policies that compromise health and safety, and they likely will, but this does not relieve the profession of its responsibility to make the dangers clear.”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
How Should Health Care and Public Health Respond to the New US Administration?
This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions, including withdrawing from the World Health Organization, taken so far during the first week of the Trump administration.
jamanetwork.com
February 10, 2025 at 5:43 AM
A must read.
“In the end, politicians and the public are free to ignore medical advice and pursue policies that compromise health and safety, and they likely will, but this does not relieve the profession of its responsibility to make the dangers clear.”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
“In the end, politicians and the public are free to ignore medical advice and pursue policies that compromise health and safety, and they likely will, but this does not relieve the profession of its responsibility to make the dangers clear.”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Everything is terrible so here are some adorable fox kits.
February 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Everything is terrible so here are some adorable fox kits.
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Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing
February 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing
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Our United Airlines pilot made sure to emphasize *Mexico* when he said we'd be flying over the Gulf of *Mexico* today.
It's the little things. Microdose hope.
It's the little things. Microdose hope.
February 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Our United Airlines pilot made sure to emphasize *Mexico* when he said we'd be flying over the Gulf of *Mexico* today.
It's the little things. Microdose hope.
It's the little things. Microdose hope.
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Here are some nice mushrooms
January 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Here are some nice mushrooms
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Bilingualism is associated with a bigger brain. Similar to other cognitively demanding skills, it leads to dynamic subcortical structural adaptations which can be nonlinear, in line with expansion-renormalisation models of experience-dependent neuroplasticity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dynamic effects of bilingualism on brain structure map onto general principles of experience-based neuroplasticity - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Dynamic effects of bilingualism on brain structure map onto general principles of experience-based neuroplasticity
www.nature.com
January 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Bilingualism is associated with a bigger brain. Similar to other cognitively demanding skills, it leads to dynamic subcortical structural adaptations which can be nonlinear, in line with expansion-renormalisation models of experience-dependent neuroplasticity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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You have no control over how others perceive you here. Then you realize it doesn’t matter. You know your own worth. You know the good and the not so good. You know you executed a perfect moonwalk in front of Strawberries Records & Tapes, Hanover Mall, February the 12th, 1987
January 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
You have no control over how others perceive you here. Then you realize it doesn’t matter. You know your own worth. You know the good and the not so good. You know you executed a perfect moonwalk in front of Strawberries Records & Tapes, Hanover Mall, February the 12th, 1987
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The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
www.kcur.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...