Polly Dartin'
@jewnadienne.bsky.social
Science writer. I've studied iron and copper metabolism in worms and mammals. A chazer bleibt a chazer. She/her. Profile pic is my dog. Banner pic is my dog.
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john waters' 1995 christmas card with steve buscemi as him
December 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
john waters' 1995 christmas card with steve buscemi as him
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“Black people make up 71 percent of Maryland’s prison population while only accounting for 30 percent of the state’s population, the highest gap in the nation.”
March 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
“Black people make up 71 percent of Maryland’s prison population while only accounting for 30 percent of the state’s population, the highest gap in the nation.”
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A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
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Great thread on why hepatitis B is such an issue and why the vaccine at birth was SO important.
Why do babies need the hepatitis B vaccine if they aren’t high-risk?
Short answer: Because hepatitis B is a tricky virus.
Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️
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Short answer: Because hepatitis B is a tricky virus.
Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️
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December 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Great thread on why hepatitis B is such an issue and why the vaccine at birth was SO important.
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The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is seeking input on Federal policy updates to accelerate the American scientific enterprise.
This is your chance to give some feedback on how the past ~10 months have gone for science.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
I plan to highlight:
This is your chance to give some feedback on how the past ~10 months have gone for science.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
I plan to highlight:
Notice of Request for Information; Accelerating the American Scientific Enterprise
The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) requests input from all interested parties on Federal policy updates that aim to accelerate the American scientific enterprise, enable groundbreaking...
www.federalregister.gov
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is seeking input on Federal policy updates to accelerate the American scientific enterprise.
This is your chance to give some feedback on how the past ~10 months have gone for science.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
I plan to highlight:
This is your chance to give some feedback on how the past ~10 months have gone for science.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
I plan to highlight:
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Heated Rivalry is giving Ovi/Crosby slashfic 😍
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Heated Rivalry is giving Ovi/Crosby slashfic 😍
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The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
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Whale fall pins are now back in stock, just in time for the holidays!! The perfect gift for deep sea lovers & marine biology fans 🐋🦀
Check them out here! shop.fossilforager.art
Check them out here! shop.fossilforager.art
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Whale fall pins are now back in stock, just in time for the holidays!! The perfect gift for deep sea lovers & marine biology fans 🐋🦀
Check them out here! shop.fossilforager.art
Check them out here! shop.fossilforager.art
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
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In agreement with my friend @kkjetelina.bsky.social who writes today: "I suggest the general public avoid the CDC website."
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/cdc-false-...
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/cdc-false-...
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
In agreement with my friend @kkjetelina.bsky.social who writes today: "I suggest the general public avoid the CDC website."
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/cdc-false-...
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/cdc-false-...
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
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US judge resigns after being disciplined for wearing Elvis wig in court
US judge resigns after being disciplined for wearing Elvis wig in court
In court, Judge Thornhill would play the singer's music from his phone and make "irrelevant" references to him.
www.bbc.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
US judge resigns after being disciplined for wearing Elvis wig in court
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As I keep saying, I do not think people know that there is basically no legal way to immigrate here by applying.
This is remarkable. New Quinnipiac poll finds support for path to legalization for most undocumented immigrants has risen to 64%. Only 31% want most of them deported.
That's a 14 point net swing for legalization since Trump took office.
On immigration generally, he's at 41-57!
That's a 14 point net swing for legalization since Trump took office.
On immigration generally, he's at 41-57!
June 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
As I keep saying, I do not think people know that there is basically no legal way to immigrate here by applying.
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Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies
June 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies
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This is fucking insane. Seriously what the fuck.
THEY F*CKING TOOK THE ICE CREAM MAN! The photo says it all.
Masked ICE goons grabbed Enrique Lozano in front of a Culver City, CA church. A Community Coalition helped the family identify the abandoned cart, locate his belongings. For 20 years, loved in the community. "Hardened criminals" - my ass.
Masked ICE goons grabbed Enrique Lozano in front of a Culver City, CA church. A Community Coalition helped the family identify the abandoned cart, locate his belongings. For 20 years, loved in the community. "Hardened criminals" - my ass.
June 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This is fucking insane. Seriously what the fuck.
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Very cool, and also very safe, that everyone people trying to live their lives now have to account for the possibility of these absolute dorks doing Sicario Fantasy Camp maneuvers at random.
New footage just dropped of ICE agents in Bell running through an intersection and driving erratically — in private vehicles (with no lights or sirens), causing a traffic accident after which they jumped out of their pickup truck with machine guns drawn. This is what set everything off in Bell.
June 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Very cool, and also very safe, that everyone people trying to live their lives now have to account for the possibility of these absolute dorks doing Sicario Fantasy Camp maneuvers at random.
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Cat owner kidnapped by ICE. Cats need a place to land. Can anyone step up? Cats are in the Baltimore area.
June 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Cat owner kidnapped by ICE. Cats need a place to land. Can anyone step up? Cats are in the Baltimore area.
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June 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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thread of photographs i took at my local protest (3)
this trump supporter was the only counter-protestor i saw, and the police forced him to stand on the other side of a creek far away from the crowd of thousands — all alone, he helplessly kept trying to shout "you are the minority!"
this trump supporter was the only counter-protestor i saw, and the police forced him to stand on the other side of a creek far away from the crowd of thousands — all alone, he helplessly kept trying to shout "you are the minority!"
June 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
thread of photographs i took at my local protest (3)
this trump supporter was the only counter-protestor i saw, and the police forced him to stand on the other side of a creek far away from the crowd of thousands — all alone, he helplessly kept trying to shout "you are the minority!"
this trump supporter was the only counter-protestor i saw, and the police forced him to stand on the other side of a creek far away from the crowd of thousands — all alone, he helplessly kept trying to shout "you are the minority!"
Senator Maimonides?
I love that a politician can say something like “I believe mice naturally spawn out of grain” and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought
June 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Senator Maimonides?
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One thing about white people doing protest chants........they gon lose the beat lmao
June 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
One thing about white people doing protest chants........they gon lose the beat lmao
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think of it like this: we eat cause we need nutrition for our bodies
both producing and consuming art is how we nourish our minds. you can actually see people who don't have art in their life going off the fucking deep end. it's a processing/centering mechanic. it's a meal for the human in you
both producing and consuming art is how we nourish our minds. you can actually see people who don't have art in their life going off the fucking deep end. it's a processing/centering mechanic. it's a meal for the human in you
June 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
think of it like this: we eat cause we need nutrition for our bodies
both producing and consuming art is how we nourish our minds. you can actually see people who don't have art in their life going off the fucking deep end. it's a processing/centering mechanic. it's a meal for the human in you
both producing and consuming art is how we nourish our minds. you can actually see people who don't have art in their life going off the fucking deep end. it's a processing/centering mechanic. it's a meal for the human in you