Hilda Bastian
@hildabast.bsky.social
Scientist (PhD she/her), writer, cartoonist. 🦘 Blogging & Newsletter: Living With Evidence https://hildabastian.wordpress.com/ Mastodon enthusiast: @hildabast@mastodon.online
November 15, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Oh my! I didn't realize the Australian CDC already has a website: cdc.gov.au 🎉
It's technically the interim CDC, as it's only due in January 2026 (if all goes to plan).
www.cdc.gov.au/about/about-...
It's technically the interim CDC, as it's only due in January 2026 (if all goes to plan).
www.cdc.gov.au/about/about-...
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Oh my! I didn't realize the Australian CDC already has a website: cdc.gov.au 🎉
It's technically the interim CDC, as it's only due in January 2026 (if all goes to plan).
www.cdc.gov.au/about/about-...
It's technically the interim CDC, as it's only due in January 2026 (if all goes to plan).
www.cdc.gov.au/about/about-...
PubMed had some disruption in adding records this week, apparently recovering on Wednesday with over 9,800 records in one day. But if you have a Plan B for critical searches, maybe start using it... 1/2
Chart data: New daily records 2024/25. Some dip on weekends is normal. bit.ly/42MfAFM
#MedLibs
Chart data: New daily records 2024/25. Some dip on weekends is normal. bit.ly/42MfAFM
#MedLibs
October 31, 2025 at 4:24 AM
PubMed had some disruption in adding records this week, apparently recovering on Wednesday with over 9,800 records in one day. But if you have a Plan B for critical searches, maybe start using it... 1/2
Chart data: New daily records 2024/25. Some dip on weekends is normal. bit.ly/42MfAFM
#MedLibs
Chart data: New daily records 2024/25. Some dip on weekends is normal. bit.ly/42MfAFM
#MedLibs
First rose of the season! 😍
It's a deeply perfumed hybrid tea rose. Bliss!
(It's the Elle rose from Meilland.)
#BloomScrolling
It's a deeply perfumed hybrid tea rose. Bliss!
(It's the Elle rose from Meilland.)
#BloomScrolling
October 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
First rose of the season! 😍
It's a deeply perfumed hybrid tea rose. Bliss!
(It's the Elle rose from Meilland.)
#BloomScrolling
It's a deeply perfumed hybrid tea rose. Bliss!
(It's the Elle rose from Meilland.)
#BloomScrolling
Well, that's one good thing! PubMed still tracking as usual.
New records each day this year during shutdown compared to last year. (Dips for weekends.)
Data for chart: bit.ly/42MfAFM
Background including data source: hildabastian.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/t...
New records each day this year during shutdown compared to last year. (Dips for weekends.)
Data for chart: bit.ly/42MfAFM
Background including data source: hildabastian.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/t...
October 17, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Well, that's one good thing! PubMed still tracking as usual.
New records each day this year during shutdown compared to last year. (Dips for weekends.)
Data for chart: bit.ly/42MfAFM
Background including data source: hildabastian.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/t...
New records each day this year during shutdown compared to last year. (Dips for weekends.)
Data for chart: bit.ly/42MfAFM
Background including data source: hildabastian.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/t...
"I'm NOT cynical."
Stella Marrs, Riot Grrl.
Stella Marrs, Riot Grrl.
October 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
"I'm NOT cynical."
Stella Marrs, Riot Grrl.
Stella Marrs, Riot Grrl.
Just back from ...um... Hammerbarn, I guess. 🤣
Australia is Bluey's world now, we're just living in it. 💙
Australia is Bluey's world now, we're just living in it. 💙
October 13, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Just back from ...um... Hammerbarn, I guess. 🤣
Australia is Bluey's world now, we're just living in it. 💙
Australia is Bluey's world now, we're just living in it. 💙
October 8, 2025 at 6:35 AM
October 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Hard to compete with the glorious elegance of tulips in spring, but hoo boy, the fragrance and lasting power of freesias are overtaking them now! 😍
#BloomScrolling
#BloomScrolling
September 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Hard to compete with the glorious elegance of tulips in spring, but hoo boy, the fragrance and lasting power of freesias are overtaking them now! 😍
#BloomScrolling
#BloomScrolling
It's the 4th anniversary of the day I lost my son, Adam. 💔 This is him at a rally in 2010, up high, wearing the black. His example stirred my conscience, making me braver and more vocal. It still does.
September 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
It's the 4th anniversary of the day I lost my son, Adam. 💔 This is him at a rally in 2010, up high, wearing the black. His example stirred my conscience, making me braver and more vocal. It still does.
September 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
...She went on to dramatically improve the representation of First Nations Americans in the US Census: A stunning & vitally important achievement. 3/3
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absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/08/28/e...
August 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
...She went on to dramatically improve the representation of First Nations Americans in the US Census: A stunning & vitally important achievement. 3/3
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/08/28/e...
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/08/28/e...
...Paisano grew up on the Nez Perce reservation in Idaho in the 1950s, steeped in tradition.
While a student at the University of Washington in Seattle, she participated in the protest occupation of Fort Lawton, & was briefly imprisoned.... 2/3
While a student at the University of Washington in Seattle, she participated in the protest occupation of Fort Lawton, & was briefly imprisoned.... 2/3
August 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
...Paisano grew up on the Nez Perce reservation in Idaho in the 1950s, steeped in tradition.
While a student at the University of Washington in Seattle, she participated in the protest occupation of Fort Lawton, & was briefly imprisoned.... 2/3
While a student at the University of Washington in Seattle, she participated in the protest occupation of Fort Lawton, & was briefly imprisoned.... 2/3
..as forever as anything on the internet can be.
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It will get the text of the posts at least 2/2
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August 28, 2025 at 3:12 AM
..as forever as anything on the internet can be.
Here's how you prepare the export file from Typepad: help.typepad.com/import_expor...
Here's a screenshot of inside WP dashboard - click Tools then Import, then Choose from full list to get to that spot.
It will get the text of the posts at least 2/2
Here's how you prepare the export file from Typepad: help.typepad.com/import_expor...
Here's a screenshot of inside WP dashboard - click Tools then Import, then Choose from full list to get to that spot.
It will get the text of the posts at least 2/2
August 20, 2025 at 7:26 AM
...Also, bookmark lolz. An oldie from a spy museum bookshop.
August 15, 2025 at 5:56 AM
...Also, bookmark lolz. An oldie from a spy museum bookshop.
Finally catching up on reading this classic – and from Theodore Porter, it is as good as expected. With a new foreword for this edition...
#Statistics #HistSci #EpiSky
#Statistics #HistSci #EpiSky
August 15, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Finally catching up on reading this classic – and from Theodore Porter, it is as good as expected. With a new foreword for this edition...
#Statistics #HistSci #EpiSky
#Statistics #HistSci #EpiSky
August 3, 2025 at 5:05 AM
My doggo's favorite time of the week – off-lead time in the bush! Here he's catching his breath after a lot of running.
June 19, 2025 at 6:17 AM
My doggo's favorite time of the week – off-lead time in the bush! Here he's catching his breath after a lot of running.
Camellia perfection!
Just gorgeous – on the bush, and carpeting the ground pink. 😍
Just gorgeous – on the bush, and carpeting the ground pink. 😍
June 14, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Camellia perfection!
Just gorgeous – on the bush, and carpeting the ground pink. 😍
Just gorgeous – on the bush, and carpeting the ground pink. 😍
Autumn has arrived very late here in southern Australia this year. First frost today. (RIP basil 😞)
May 21, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Autumn has arrived very late here in southern Australia this year. First frost today. (RIP basil 😞)
Canada aced it 🇨🇦. Now it's our turn 🦘
If the polls are right, Australia understands the assignment. 🙏 🇦🇺
#AustraliaVotes
If the polls are right, Australia understands the assignment. 🙏 🇦🇺
#AustraliaVotes
May 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Canada aced it 🇨🇦. Now it's our turn 🦘
If the polls are right, Australia understands the assignment. 🙏 🇦🇺
#AustraliaVotes
If the polls are right, Australia understands the assignment. 🙏 🇦🇺
#AustraliaVotes
..Katō employed women in her lab - here she is hiking with co-workers in 1955.
She worked to progress women in science in Japan, including helping found the Japanese Society of Women Scientists in 1958. After retiring from RIKEN, she gave monthly science seminars to women for 15 years...
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She worked to progress women in science in Japan, including helping found the Japanese Society of Women Scientists in 1958. After retiring from RIKEN, she gave monthly science seminars to women for 15 years...
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April 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
..Katō employed women in her lab - here she is hiking with co-workers in 1955.
She worked to progress women in science in Japan, including helping found the Japanese Society of Women Scientists in 1958. After retiring from RIKEN, she gave monthly science seminars to women for 15 years...
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She worked to progress women in science in Japan, including helping found the Japanese Society of Women Scientists in 1958. After retiring from RIKEN, she gave monthly science seminars to women for 15 years...
11/
...In 1953, Katō became the first woman principal investigator at RIKEN. Here she is at a celebration for her achievement.
After the war, she studied the new antibiotics, penicillin & streptomycin, including developing pure streptomycin crystals....
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After the war, she studied the new antibiotics, penicillin & streptomycin, including developing pure streptomycin crystals....
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April 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
...In 1953, Katō became the first woman principal investigator at RIKEN. Here she is at a celebration for her achievement.
After the war, she studied the new antibiotics, penicillin & streptomycin, including developing pure streptomycin crystals....
10/
After the war, she studied the new antibiotics, penicillin & streptomycin, including developing pure streptomycin crystals....
10/