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Greg Powell
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Biosafety professional.
The number of people in a public restroom that start washing their hands after I do but finish before me is too damn high.
December 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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presented without comment
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
First time I'm seeing Adam Mohamed run the ball for Washington, but wow.
November 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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As public health citizens, we rely on agencies like the CDC for science-based guidance. But last night’s change to its “Vaccines & Autism” page - now hinting at a possible vaccine link - deeply undermines that trust. When credible institutions shift in ways that echo anti-vax rhetoric, we all lose.
November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:

“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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WHO to lose nearly a quarter of its workforce – 2,000 jobs – due to US withdrawing funding

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
WHO to lose nearly a quarter of its workforce – 2,000 jobs – due to US withdrawing funding
Donald Trump’s administration withdrew from the World Health Organization in January, prompting the agency to scale back its work
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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The Supreme Court has denied the appeal of the ostrich cull, and as I wrote, the ostrich case was not about the ostriches: it was about governance, law, and biosafety. What I did not include: this will likely become even more of a shitshow when the birds are culled. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Bruce Arthur: The B.C. ostrich affair is not about the birds
This isn’t really about the ostriches, but rather it's about basic biosecurity in the age of viruses, and whether a government can make and enforce laws and policy.
www.thestar.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Seeing this chart as an impressionable young man was a formative moment in my political development
November 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Gen X man
But it's also weird they ask people if No Kings was violent, like it was a matter of opinion rather than fact that it wasn't. It's true some people think the earth is flat; it's not true that it might be flat as a result of those opinions.
November 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Arizona High Schools To Now Teach Spanish Entirely In English
October 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
When labs I get to work with intersect with WHO communications - so cool!

@wildwormslab.bsky.social
who.int WHO @who.int · Oct 27
A worm that can cause epilepsy? Meet Taenia solium, the pig tapeworm that travels from gut to brain, causing seizures & preventable #epilepsy in millions.

Dr Abela explains how this parasite spreads when pigs eat human feces & humans consume contaminated food or water & what we can do to stop it.
WHO's Science in 5 - Pig Tapeworm: from gut to brain - 24 October 2025
YouTube video by World Health Organization (WHO)
youtu.be
October 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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A worm that can cause epilepsy? Meet Taenia solium, the pig tapeworm that travels from gut to brain, causing seizures & preventable #epilepsy in millions.

Dr Abela explains how this parasite spreads when pigs eat human feces & humans consume contaminated food or water & what we can do to stop it.
WHO's Science in 5 - Pig Tapeworm: from gut to brain - 24 October 2025
YouTube video by World Health Organization (WHO)
youtu.be
October 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Justice Sotomayor with a graphic dissent as the Supreme Court allows Alabama to move forward with the execution of Anthony Boyd by lethal gas:
October 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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NEW: Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, has issued a new statement declaring that Chicago "communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants."
October 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Trump now wants @arizonastateuni.bsky.social to sign his compact policing education.

Here's my letter to ASU urging them to reject any offer that denigrates its academic freedoms and independence:
October 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Real Yankees fan energy
October 17, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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What Would it Take for Bird Flu to Go Pandemic? Exposure rasmussenretorts.substack.com/i/168253861/...
October 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.
October 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Hey, a cool biosafety/field safety thing I got to be a part of is going to be discussed at an upcoming BioPrevail/Global Health Security Webinar Session!
October 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Just an amazing sports day. A&M wins, texas loses, Liverpool loses, Mariners lose. Savoring this one.
October 5, 2025 at 4:17 AM
A Wins Above Replacement discussion in the…Mississippi State vs Texas A&M game? My how football has changed.
October 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!
October 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
October 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Texas and Penn St losing in the first half?
a man is sitting on a couch with his eyes closed and says that 's a shame .
Alt: a man is sitting on a couch with his eyes closed and says that 's a shame .
media.tenor.com
October 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This article could be titled "How to keep your biosafety officer up at night."
October 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM