Firiel, Emily, שִׁפְרָה
@firielofrivendell.bsky.social
✡️. Gamer. Avid Horror, Sci-fi, and Fantasy reader. Future Infectious Disease Researcher. Chronically ill.
@That_Southern_Chick on TikTok
@That_Southern_Chick on TikTok
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former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."
September 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."
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I think most people don't understand exactly what universities do or how they are funded. It's worth reading this and then talking with folks you know about it.🧪
www.npr.org/2025/04/25/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/25/n...
What losing billions in federal grants means for universities, and the nation
The Trump administration has so far frozen about $11 billion in research funding. University leaders say no other source can fill the void.
www.npr.org
May 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I think most people don't understand exactly what universities do or how they are funded. It's worth reading this and then talking with folks you know about it.🧪
www.npr.org/2025/04/25/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/25/n...
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4 artists & 3 scientists created a series of posters to communicate some of the science issues most important to us.
These posters are made to be shared!
We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online.
get 'em squidfacts.bigcartel.com
These posters are made to be shared!
We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online.
get 'em squidfacts.bigcartel.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM
4 artists & 3 scientists created a series of posters to communicate some of the science issues most important to us.
These posters are made to be shared!
We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online.
get 'em squidfacts.bigcartel.com
These posters are made to be shared!
We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online.
get 'em squidfacts.bigcartel.com
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“There is no joy more intense than that of coming upon a fact that cannot be understood in terms of currently accepted ideas."
Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who decoded spectral lines to deduce the elemental composition of stars, was born #OTD in 1900. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ 👩🔬
Image: Harvard Observatory
Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who decoded spectral lines to deduce the elemental composition of stars, was born #OTD in 1900. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ 👩🔬
Image: Harvard Observatory
May 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“There is no joy more intense than that of coming upon a fact that cannot be understood in terms of currently accepted ideas."
Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who decoded spectral lines to deduce the elemental composition of stars, was born #OTD in 1900. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ 👩🔬
Image: Harvard Observatory
Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who decoded spectral lines to deduce the elemental composition of stars, was born #OTD in 1900. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ 👩🔬
Image: Harvard Observatory
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🐀🧬 Rats & urban disease risk
A new study finds Leptospira bacteria (which cause leptospirosis) persist in local rat populations - shaped by rat group boundaries like major roads. One human infection strain was even found to match rat DNA.
🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#SciComm 🧪
A new study finds Leptospira bacteria (which cause leptospirosis) persist in local rat populations - shaped by rat group boundaries like major roads. One human infection strain was even found to match rat DNA.
🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#SciComm 🧪
Host population dynamics influence Leptospira spp. transmission patterns among Rattus norvegicus in Boston, Massachusetts, US
Author summary Leptospirosis is a common zoonotic disease caused by Leptospira spp. bacteria for which urban rats are a known reservoir. We tested 328 rats across Boston for Leptospira spp. and analyz...
doi.org
May 7, 2025 at 4:52 AM
🐀🧬 Rats & urban disease risk
A new study finds Leptospira bacteria (which cause leptospirosis) persist in local rat populations - shaped by rat group boundaries like major roads. One human infection strain was even found to match rat DNA.
🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#SciComm 🧪
A new study finds Leptospira bacteria (which cause leptospirosis) persist in local rat populations - shaped by rat group boundaries like major roads. One human infection strain was even found to match rat DNA.
🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#SciComm 🧪
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Does uneven vaccination coverage really decrease disease control? @khampson.bsky.social &co use fine-grained data of 20 years of dog #vaccination in Tanzania to show that reducing coverage gaps does indeed lower #rabies incidence; connectivity drives transmission @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4k4GL4G
May 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Does uneven vaccination coverage really decrease disease control? @khampson.bsky.social &co use fine-grained data of 20 years of dog #vaccination in Tanzania to show that reducing coverage gaps does indeed lower #rabies incidence; connectivity drives transmission @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4k4GL4G
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republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover
April 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover
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Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.
Top scientists warn that Trump policies are causing a 'climate of fear' in research
Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.
www.npr.org
April 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.
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The South
March 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The South
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💥 🏥 🧬
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“There is terrifically interesting stuff hiding in plain sight”
New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria discovered in technician’s garden
🧪
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria discovered in technician’s garden
🧪
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria discovered in technician’s garden
The molecule targets bacteria in a way that other drugs don’t.
www.nature.com
March 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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After that plane literally flipped upside down after smashing into the runway and 100% of people survived, I hope every person who ever said “what’s even the point of seatbelts on a plane” feels like a real doof.
February 19, 2025 at 11:26 PM
After that plane literally flipped upside down after smashing into the runway and 100% of people survived, I hope every person who ever said “what’s even the point of seatbelts on a plane” feels like a real doof.
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An email obtained by NPR says NIH employees are subject to a travel freeze and offers of employment are being rescinded. Scientists worry about disruptions to critical research.
National Institutes of Health cancels scientific meetings after Trump directives
An email obtained by NPR says NIH employees are subject to a travel freeze and offers of employment are being rescinded. Scientists worry about disruptions to critical research.
www.npr.org
January 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
An email obtained by NPR says NIH employees are subject to a travel freeze and offers of employment are being rescinded. Scientists worry about disruptions to critical research.
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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...
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I need you to understand that when conservative politicians called for Bishop Budde’s “deportation”, despite the fact she was born here, it means that “deportation” no longer just means “deportation”. What are they going to do with all the “enemies” that have nowhere to be deported to?
January 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I need you to understand that when conservative politicians called for Bishop Budde’s “deportation”, despite the fact she was born here, it means that “deportation” no longer just means “deportation”. What are they going to do with all the “enemies” that have nowhere to be deported to?
Not me throwing myself into reading and studying to take my mind off of everything right now. Reading “Slewfoot: A Take of Bewitchery” oddly feels apt for the times.
January 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Not me throwing myself into reading and studying to take my mind off of everything right now. Reading “Slewfoot: A Take of Bewitchery” oddly feels apt for the times.
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You don’t have to be fearless to be brave.
Do it scared.
Do it scared.
January 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
You don’t have to be fearless to be brave.
Do it scared.
Do it scared.
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The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
’Tis mightiest in the mightiest, it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
’Tis mightiest in the mightiest, it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown.
January 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
’Tis mightiest in the mightiest, it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
’Tis mightiest in the mightiest, it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown.
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Me, stressed out by the news and the weather: “I’m gonna drink a Dr. Pepper about this.”
January 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Me, stressed out by the news and the weather: “I’m gonna drink a Dr. Pepper about this.”
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Do not
Do not
Do NOT
Announce or even hint on your social media that you’re doing illegal or potentially illegal things. Even if for excellent reasons.
You will be a target and make the people you aid targets.
Do not
Do NOT
Announce or even hint on your social media that you’re doing illegal or potentially illegal things. Even if for excellent reasons.
You will be a target and make the people you aid targets.
January 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Do not
Do not
Do NOT
Announce or even hint on your social media that you’re doing illegal or potentially illegal things. Even if for excellent reasons.
You will be a target and make the people you aid targets.
Do not
Do NOT
Announce or even hint on your social media that you’re doing illegal or potentially illegal things. Even if for excellent reasons.
You will be a target and make the people you aid targets.
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This seems like a good book quote for right now.
I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
January 21, 2025 at 1:28 AM
This seems like a good book quote for right now.
I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
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I didn't have "The ADL does Nazi aplogetics" on my bingo card but we do live in interesting times.
January 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I didn't have "The ADL does Nazi aplogetics" on my bingo card but we do live in interesting times.
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Me: logs in
ADL: so what Elon did technically wasn’t a Nazi salute…
Me:
ADL: so what Elon did technically wasn’t a Nazi salute…
Me:
bart simpson is giving a speech at a podium while homer simpson is standing in the doorway
ALT: bart simpson is giving a speech at a podium while homer simpson is standing in the doorway
media.tenor.com
January 20, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Me: logs in
ADL: so what Elon did technically wasn’t a Nazi salute…
Me:
ADL: so what Elon did technically wasn’t a Nazi salute…
Me:
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If you posted anything about MLK and didn’t drop a dollar or raise awareness for an Alabama org….
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January 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
If you posted anything about MLK and didn’t drop a dollar or raise awareness for an Alabama org….
www.yellowhammerfund.org
www.tkosociety.org
www.takebhm.org
www.hsvbailfund.org/intake/
hicaalabama.org/en/home
www.prisonbirth.org
www.alarise.org
altrac.works
faithandworkscollective.com
www.yellowhammerfund.org
www.tkosociety.org
www.takebhm.org
www.hsvbailfund.org/intake/
hicaalabama.org/en/home
www.prisonbirth.org
www.alarise.org
altrac.works
faithandworkscollective.com