Crystal
@clpatil.bsky.social
Anthropologist, UM School of Nursing women’s health, implementation science, and CIH researcher. Family, pets, flowers, hikes, and taking pictures make me happy. Standing up for democracy.
The misogyny, ignorance, and cruelty of this regime…
Hate and disdain for women, democracy, 🧪, 🏳️🌈, and ____ [fill in the blank] continues…
🤬 #WHI #NIH
Hate and disdain for women, democracy, 🧪, 🏳️🌈, and ____ [fill in the blank] continues…
🤬 #WHI #NIH
The #WomensHealthInitiative is an amazing, longitudinal study thats been following a set of women for over 30 years! I assume the "Women's" part is a big part of why it's been cut 😡
#WHI #Health #HHS #FundingCuts
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#WHI #Health #HHS #FundingCuts
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4/20/2025
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April 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... This is the article he's quoting from. Apparently erroneously attributed to Liz Cheney, it was actually written by Dr. Pru Lee. Thank you, John, for reading this and giving it a bigger platform. ❤️
Going Viral: An actual plan for the Democratic Party - and everyone else who's ready to take action
The post below is going viral. It’s been attributed to Liz Cheney, apparently by mistake, but it appears it was actually written by a Dr. Pru Lee. I’ve taken the liberty of formatting it to make it mo...
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April 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... This is the article he's quoting from. Apparently erroneously attributed to Liz Cheney, it was actually written by Dr. Pru Lee. Thank you, John, for reading this and giving it a bigger platform. ❤️
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In the last interview of his life (1996), astronomer Carl Sagan gave an eerily prescient warning of the dangers that come when you cannot ask skeptical scientific questions of those in authority. Watch and ask yourself: was he right?
April 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
In the last interview of his life (1996), astronomer Carl Sagan gave an eerily prescient warning of the dangers that come when you cannot ask skeptical scientific questions of those in authority. Watch and ask yourself: was he right?
Well said @meganranney.bsky.social
Today is one of those days where I feel ... overwhelmed by the decisions I have to make, by the import of those decisions, and by being unclear as to whether I know enough/have enough expertise to make the decisions well.
April 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Well said @meganranney.bsky.social
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HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is a danger to the public’s health and should resign or be fired, says APHA. In just a few short weeks, his actions on vacccines, fluoride and other public health science have shown how wrong he is for the job. Read & share our statement: apha.org/news-and-med...
April 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is a danger to the public’s health and should resign or be fired, says APHA. In just a few short weeks, his actions on vacccines, fluoride and other public health science have shown how wrong he is for the job. Read & share our statement: apha.org/news-and-med...
#HandsOff science, NIH, CDC, FDA, HHS, K12 schools, universities, civil servants, our bodies and personal health, healthcare, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, nat’l parks, libraries, the economy, economic data, veterans, Canada 🇨🇦 Greenland 🇬🇱 Panama 🇵🇦 NATO, Penguins #RESIST
April 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Arjun Appadurai and Sheldon Pollock on boards of trustees: “Who actually runs Columbia University?” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
April 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Arjun Appadurai and Sheldon Pollock on boards of trustees: “Who actually runs Columbia University?” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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March 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.
March 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.
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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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March 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.