Barbara Suess
@drsuess.bsky.social
Introvert. English Professor. In favor of preserving planet earth, the arts, science, and empathy. Wouldn’t mind hanging out in Brambly Hedge or a Beatrix Potter book for a bit.
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The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.
Cheers to the end of a !!!!! week
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Cheers to the end of a !!!!! week
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For your Saturday
~ Margaret Atwood
Handmaid's Tale
June —Nothing changes instantaneously.
In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.
~ Margaret Atwood
Handmaid's Tale
June —Nothing changes instantaneously.
In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.
October 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
For your Saturday
~ Margaret Atwood
Handmaid's Tale
June —Nothing changes instantaneously.
In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.
~ Margaret Atwood
Handmaid's Tale
June —Nothing changes instantaneously.
In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.
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"These findings suggest that COVID-19 may have created a new year-round baseline for work absences that is similar to influenza season conditions before the pandemic"
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market
This cohort study examines the extent to which COVID-19 continues to generate work absences and decrease labor force participation beyond the pandemic period in the US.
jamanetwork.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"These findings suggest that COVID-19 may have created a new year-round baseline for work absences that is similar to influenza season conditions before the pandemic"
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Such a perfect description.
LLM extruded essays are like being cornered by the most boring person at a party while they monotone monologue small talk at you, convinced that they’re pronouncing something profound.
October 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Such a perfect description.
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Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools Trump just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...
STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.
Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools Trump just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America...
alumni.controlshift.app
October 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools Trump just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...
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History repeats.
October 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
History repeats.
We need to fight this incursion on free speech!
Here's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
We need to fight this incursion on free speech!
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ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'
A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.
blockclubchicago.org
October 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
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The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability
This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.
jamanetwork.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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ScienceBlog: 'Hidden Heart Damage: How COVID Continues Haunting Millions'
'Five million people worldwide may be walking around with cardiac long COVID, their hearts silently struggling months or years after their initial infection cleared'
scienceblog.com/hidden-heart...
'Five million people worldwide may be walking around with cardiac long COVID, their hearts silently struggling months or years after their initial infection cleared'
scienceblog.com/hidden-heart...
Hidden Heart Damage: How COVID Continues Haunting Millions
Five million people worldwide may be walking around with cardiac long COVID, their hearts silently struggling months or years after their initial
scienceblog.com
September 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
ScienceBlog: 'Hidden Heart Damage: How COVID Continues Haunting Millions'
'Five million people worldwide may be walking around with cardiac long COVID, their hearts silently struggling months or years after their initial infection cleared'
scienceblog.com/hidden-heart...
'Five million people worldwide may be walking around with cardiac long COVID, their hearts silently struggling months or years after their initial infection cleared'
scienceblog.com/hidden-heart...
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People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
September 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
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🔫 GUN VIOLENCE
🔹 309 mass shootings have occurred so far this year, causing 302 deaths and 1,354 injuries.
🔹 Firearms are the leading cause of death for children and teens. This includes mass shootings, suicides and accidents.
It's time for action. #GunViolence #EndGunViolence #PolicyChangeNow
🔹 309 mass shootings have occurred so far this year, causing 302 deaths and 1,354 injuries.
🔹 Firearms are the leading cause of death for children and teens. This includes mass shootings, suicides and accidents.
It's time for action. #GunViolence #EndGunViolence #PolicyChangeNow
September 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
🔫 GUN VIOLENCE
🔹 309 mass shootings have occurred so far this year, causing 302 deaths and 1,354 injuries.
🔹 Firearms are the leading cause of death for children and teens. This includes mass shootings, suicides and accidents.
It's time for action. #GunViolence #EndGunViolence #PolicyChangeNow
🔹 309 mass shootings have occurred so far this year, causing 302 deaths and 1,354 injuries.
🔹 Firearms are the leading cause of death for children and teens. This includes mass shootings, suicides and accidents.
It's time for action. #GunViolence #EndGunViolence #PolicyChangeNow
This is despicable.
Let's be clear what this image represents.
Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders.
THAT is the reference here.
Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders.
THAT is the reference here.
Normal fucking country
September 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This is despicable.
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"Inspectors at the Agriculture Department’s food safety and inspection division no longer have a formal process to raise safety concerns about products without facing retaliation" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u... What could go wrong
Trump Orders Have Stripped Nearly Half a Million Federal Workers of Union Rights
www.nytimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
"Inspectors at the Agriculture Department’s food safety and inspection division no longer have a formal process to raise safety concerns about products without facing retaliation" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u... What could go wrong
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Rural communities and people with disabilities will have even more limited access to health care. Families with low incomes who rely most heavily on community clinics and health departments will have fewer resources available to them. Children will lose access to lifesaving vaccines due to cost.
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Rural communities and people with disabilities will have even more limited access to health care. Families with low incomes who rely most heavily on community clinics and health departments will have fewer resources available to them. Children will lose access to lifesaving vaccines due to cost.
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I understand that not all firefighters want to wear respiratory protection, but shouldn't we at least make it available and help them understand the risks? Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...
Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying
www.nytimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I understand that not all firefighters want to wear respiratory protection, but shouldn't we at least make it available and help them understand the risks? Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...
Come on now 😨
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www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit
Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.
www.npr.org
August 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Come on now 😨
www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
Whoa!
Significant portions of Article I of the U.S. Constitution were removed from the version published on Congress’ official Constitution website. Large parts of Section 8(which outlines the powers of Congress) were deleted, and Sections 9 and 10,
August 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Whoa!
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Those mRNA vaccine programs that RFK Jr. is killing because he claims they don't work?
The people who invented them got the f***ing Nobel Prize.
And they've saved literally millions of lives already.
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
The people who invented them got the f***ing Nobel Prize.
And they've saved literally millions of lives already.
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
RFK Jr. pulls funding for vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses
The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, COVID-19 and H5N1 infections.
www.pbs.org
August 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Those mRNA vaccine programs that RFK Jr. is killing because he claims they don't work?
The people who invented them got the f***ing Nobel Prize.
And they've saved literally millions of lives already.
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
The people who invented them got the f***ing Nobel Prize.
And they've saved literally millions of lives already.
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
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🚨 New study: In mice, Covid & the flu triggered dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs to wake up. Inflammation might fuel metastasis
The authors ask if we need to begin testing ppl in remission during viral bouts to check if dormant cancer cells are proliferating www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The authors ask if we need to begin testing ppl in remission during viral bouts to check if dormant cancer cells are proliferating www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Inflammation during viral infection can rouse dormant cancer cells
Sometimes, cancer cells that have spread become ‘dormant’ but can start proliferating again later. A cue that can reactivate them has been discovered.
www.nature.com
July 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
🚨 New study: In mice, Covid & the flu triggered dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs to wake up. Inflammation might fuel metastasis
The authors ask if we need to begin testing ppl in remission during viral bouts to check if dormant cancer cells are proliferating www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The authors ask if we need to begin testing ppl in remission during viral bouts to check if dormant cancer cells are proliferating www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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This.
July 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This.
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The EPA has eliminated its research division, which for decades has provided the science behind regulations on clean air, clean water, and toxic chemicals.
The US can afford to monitor, research, and regulate the impacts of industries on human and environmental health. We are just choosing not to.
The US can afford to monitor, research, and regulate the impacts of industries on human and environmental health. We are just choosing not to.
EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs
The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is eliminating its research and development arm and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees.
apnews.com
July 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Is it just me, or does this puppy look a bit like Jeremy Allen White?
July 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Is it just me, or does this puppy look a bit like Jeremy Allen White?