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Dr Jill 👩🏻‍💻🇮🇪🇸🇪🏳‍🌈🩺🔬
@jillykid.bsky.social
👩🏻‍🔬Irish PhD,👩🏻‍⚕️Swedish MD, former cancer biologist now psychiatry resident, mother & wife in a neurodivergent family, dog & tech-lover, friendly introvert, same @jillykid elsewhere
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The guy who just a few years ago, by his own admission, was identified "as an extremist" by his own unit over one of his tattoos and was barred from working at President Biden's inauguration is now…Defense Secretary of the United Stated and sixth in line to the presidency.
January 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Not surprised and very happy to see #Bluesky becoming a safe, thriving hub for researchers! Fewer trolls, more science and meaningful connections, it’s what we’ve needed. Here’s to more civil, informed conversations and continued growth! Long may it continue! #ScienceMatters 🧪

go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
go.nature.com
January 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Stephen Miller and Homan’s goal is to shock and awe blue cities to terrify whole communities. They’ll deliberately targeting businesses, schools, hospitals churches and other places of worship. They want Americans to be afraid. Mayors and governors must stand up to them. Lawyers get on standby.
January 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Firing independent watchdogs is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Removes another obstacle to corruption and abuse of power www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump fires at least 12 independent inspectors general, Washington Post reports
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration fired the independent inspectors general of at least 12 major federal agencies late on Friday, the Washington Post reported.
www.reuters.com
January 25, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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The FDA has scrubbed from its website guidance on conducting medical trials with representative numbers of men/women and racial/ethnic minorities. these aren't symbolic issues. Drugs affect men/men, people with different genetic backgrounds differently. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/medic...
Medical Trial Guidance Scrubbed
Another detail out of FDA. The agency has removed pages which provide...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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BREAKING: Friday Night Massacre: Trump fires 12 inspectors general, including State, Veterans Affairs, HUD, Interior, Energy, Transportation, and Dept of Defense. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump fires at least 12 independent inspectors general, Washington Post reports
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration fired the independent inspectors general of at least 12 major federal agencies late on Friday, the Washington Post reported.
www.reuters.com
January 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Countries who aren’t part of the World Health Organization:

- Liechtenstein
- The United States

Countries who are part of the World Health Organization:

Literally everyone else
January 22, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

Hero.
January 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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How wearable sensors were used to detect subclinical inflammation up to 7 weeks before a flare of inflammatory bowel disease
www.gastrojournal.org/article/S001...
January 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Really? That's the name? Was this workshopped?!
January 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Them, an intellectual: Threatening tariffs on Denmark lol, how much blue cheese does the US eat?

Me, a medical writer: Have you heard of Ozempic?

Them: ...
January 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Trump is going to make Ozempic more expensive for Americans because Denmark won’t give him Greenland. (I can’t believe I just typed that sentence out.)
How Trump’s Greenland Plan Could Hit Ozempic, Legos and Hearing Aids
Putting tariffs on Denmark unless it cedes the island of Greenland could hurt access to a few key products, including popular medicines.
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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ConnorEatsPants turns out to be a brilliant and merciless interviewer. It’s not confirmed that Dittmann is Musk. If he is, though, this is quite extraordinary stuff. @niedermeyer.io listed a lot of the highlights in this thread, plus a link to the thing itself bsky.app/profile/nied...
elon's doppelganger is getting mugged by zoomers on a fortnite stream www.twitch.tv/connoreatspa...
January 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Thank you for pointing to the thread. I am online enough to be aware of the Adrian Dittman discourse but not online enough to know ConnorEatsPants (and too old to watch Twitch streams). So this filled in useful gaps.
January 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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A New Year's rant, for 2025 😊:
January 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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For #30DayChartChallenge - day 26 - ai

I wanted to make a chart that showed generative AI generates expected seeming results consistent with the kind of corpus associated with the prompt, with no understanding of truth, facts, logic, or causality. So I had chatGPT supply the data for the graph.
April 25, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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Why does this guy always look like CGI?!? I cannot explain it.
December 30, 2024 at 5:15 AM
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The n's justify the means
December 30, 2024 at 3:04 AM
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I’m with Denmark.
I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣
December 25, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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Silly psy cartoon for Christmas!
December 25, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Christmas books!
December 25, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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Yeah
December 23, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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Stress has been suggested to increase the risk of type 1 diabetes. We assessed the association of loss-of-1st-degree-relative on risk of type 1 diabetes in 3.5 million Swedish children with >86k losses and >18k diabetes events and found no evidence of such impact.
December 19, 2024 at 4:45 AM
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Hey corporate media,

Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.
December 16, 2024 at 10:57 PM