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Erin Purcell

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Alarmone signaling and stress survival in C. difficile. Why are these bacteria so hard to kill? I sort of love them for it. Books, board games, and baking when I remember to protect the time. She/her. Views my own.

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Jess Calarco

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Meanwhile, even if a reader takes the time to click on and read the article, they still have to scroll past two ads and a list of related stories to get to the "okay but" paragraph explaining that real scientists are highly skeptical of these new FDA claims.

But those public health experts have also pointed to the number of lives saved by the shots and to the fact that the virus caused more than a million deaths among Americans. About 2,100 children have died of Covid since the pandemic began, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The findings of the new F.D.A. review have not been published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.

Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a critic of Mr. Kennedy’s vaccine policies, called the memo an example of science “by press release.”

He said the memo was devoid of context such as the number or rate of deaths from the virus itself among vaccinated and unvaccinated children.

Dr. Offit said children with vaccine-related myocarditis showed up at the hospital, with cases that resolved quickly.

November 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM

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Jes Battis

@jesbattis.bsky.social

Admin are continually pressuring us to make the course "more accessible," by which they mean "devastatingly easy to complete," but it's not about access. Many students refuse to read or write in any capacity that isn't tech-aided, no matter how simple the assignment, no matter how process-based.

November 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM

Erin Purcell

@erinpurcell.bsky.social

If I could time travel and meet my 20 year old self, she wouldn't think I'd sold out so much as gotten WAY more intensely pro-choice after experiencing pregnancy and learned a whole lot about racial justice and trans issues that she was completely unaware of.

November 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM

Erin Purcell

@erinpurcell.bsky.social

Very true! I also remember feminism at the beginning of the girl-boss era when a lot of messaging was 'mission accomplished, we've got access to the schools and entry level jobs, and everything after that comes down to individual hustle.'

November 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM