Kat Blake
@kitkat6.bsky.social
Medical editor, biological anthropologist, accessibility advocate, 🏳️🌈 ally, Covid conscious, avid traveler, reader, writer, knitter, dog lover, and yoga enthusiast (former twitter @4n6_doc)
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My university offers Communication in Science, but it isn't required for any of those departments. It's so important we try all the angles to change how we communicate about science.
When science is understandable, we all win. I've started a national petition calling on all institutions of higher education, and their accreditors, to require science communication and public engagement training for all STEM degrees. Share and sign today, it only takes a few seconds: bit.ly/3LbnfHB
November 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
My university offers Communication in Science, but it isn't required for any of those departments. It's so important we try all the angles to change how we communicate about science.
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“A new global review of cardiac sequelae of Long COVID found that about 1 in 5 people with Long COVID report heart-related symptoms such as chest pain, palpitations, or shortness of breath. The rate of myocarditis was much higher after COVID infection…”
✨Please share! My newsletter is out.
🤰COVID infection in Pregnancy & Autism link
💉Get your COVID, Flu & RSV vax now (together) to ⬇️ winter hospital strain
🚨3x risk of Heart Attack, Stroke after COVID, 4-5x after Flu
🪄Stem cells help heart after MI
& much more buff.ly/dOMy7CU
#medsky 🛟😷🧪
📷 Tama🐱
🤰COVID infection in Pregnancy & Autism link
💉Get your COVID, Flu & RSV vax now (together) to ⬇️ winter hospital strain
🚨3x risk of Heart Attack, Stroke after COVID, 4-5x after Flu
🪄Stem cells help heart after MI
& much more buff.ly/dOMy7CU
#medsky 🛟😷🧪
📷 Tama🐱
November 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
“A new global review of cardiac sequelae of Long COVID found that about 1 in 5 people with Long COVID report heart-related symptoms such as chest pain, palpitations, or shortness of breath. The rate of myocarditis was much higher after COVID infection…”
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Turns out Trump's "Defending Women" executive order is not, in fact, about defending women's health. It has led to the removal of of a lot of crucial information about women's health. This just out in a peer reviewed article by Patricia Homan and Susan Short. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Rewriting women's health: a content analysis of the Trump administration's revisions to womenshealth.gov
In 2025, the Trump administration instituted rapid changes to the data and information available on US government websites. We conducted a content ana…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Turns out Trump's "Defending Women" executive order is not, in fact, about defending women's health. It has led to the removal of of a lot of crucial information about women's health. This just out in a peer reviewed article by Patricia Homan and Susan Short. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Feeling sick? Yes, it’s probably Covid. Test, isolate, mask is just as important today as a few years ago
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🧒After COVID, kids can get High Cholesterol
👃66% have unrecognized loss of smell after COVID
💊Venetoclax is a double COVID blocker
🧠4 vaccines that reduce Dementia
🔬Type I Diabetes breakthroughs
& much more buff.ly/IGmElom
#medsky #pedsky #nursesky🛟😷🧪
🧒After COVID, kids can get High Cholesterol
👃66% have unrecognized loss of smell after COVID
💊Venetoclax is a double COVID blocker
🧠4 vaccines that reduce Dementia
🔬Type I Diabetes breakthroughs
& much more buff.ly/IGmElom
#medsky #pedsky #nursesky🛟😷🧪
September 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Feeling sick? Yes, it’s probably Covid. Test, isolate, mask is just as important today as a few years ago
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Give Charlie his wish:
September 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Give Charlie his wish:
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Good options:
*BBC News / BBC World Service
*Deutsche Welle (DW News)
*France 24
*Al Jazeera
*The Associated Press (although U.S.-based...it operates globally and is widely regarded as a fact/reporting wire service more than opinion.)
*Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
*CBC News (Canada)
*BBC News / BBC World Service
*Deutsche Welle (DW News)
*France 24
*Al Jazeera
*The Associated Press (although U.S.-based...it operates globally and is widely regarded as a fact/reporting wire service more than opinion.)
*Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
*CBC News (Canada)
September 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Fascism is an objective thing that exists, and some people fit that description.
Yeah. It’s Fascism.
Earmuffs, JD.
www.thebulwark.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Fascism is an objective thing that exists, and some people fit that description.
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✨Please share!✨ My newsletter is out.
🌊COVID in wastewater HIGH to VERY HIGH (S & W)
👧Kids post-COVID infection Depression & Anxiety
💊Why combo therapies for Long COVID?
🧠Neurocognitive Long COVID
💉House Approp. Cte tries to fund mRNA technology
& much more buff.ly/Wjn9EvL
#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪
🌊COVID in wastewater HIGH to VERY HIGH (S & W)
👧Kids post-COVID infection Depression & Anxiety
💊Why combo therapies for Long COVID?
🧠Neurocognitive Long COVID
💉House Approp. Cte tries to fund mRNA technology
& much more buff.ly/Wjn9EvL
#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪
September 15, 2025 at 5:31 AM
✨Please share!✨ My newsletter is out.
🌊COVID in wastewater HIGH to VERY HIGH (S & W)
👧Kids post-COVID infection Depression & Anxiety
💊Why combo therapies for Long COVID?
🧠Neurocognitive Long COVID
💉House Approp. Cte tries to fund mRNA technology
& much more buff.ly/Wjn9EvL
#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪
🌊COVID in wastewater HIGH to VERY HIGH (S & W)
👧Kids post-COVID infection Depression & Anxiety
💊Why combo therapies for Long COVID?
🧠Neurocognitive Long COVID
💉House Approp. Cte tries to fund mRNA technology
& much more buff.ly/Wjn9EvL
#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪
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Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams says he will get the updated COVID vaccine to protect himself, his community, & to model trust in public health. buff.ly/wTvEHIW
COVID vaccination reduces risk of:
- severe disease,
- Long COVID
- transmission to others
#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷
COVID vaccination reduces risk of:
- severe disease,
- Long COVID
- transmission to others
#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷
September 12, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams says he will get the updated COVID vaccine to protect himself, his community, & to model trust in public health. buff.ly/wTvEHIW
COVID vaccination reduces risk of:
- severe disease,
- Long COVID
- transmission to others
#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷
COVID vaccination reduces risk of:
- severe disease,
- Long COVID
- transmission to others
#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷
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Sing it.
September 3, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Sing it.
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This... it's all about priorities
August 20, 2025 at 5:30 AM
This... it's all about priorities
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I think this thread might be the most fascinating read on Bluesky right now!
Biologist folk (especially in evolutionary biology and/or ecology, but it don’t matter):
Can you give me your favorite examples of trade offs in biology? Organism or system don’t matter. Primary literature or reviews preferred.
Can you give me your favorite examples of trade offs in biology? Organism or system don’t matter. Primary literature or reviews preferred.
July 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I think this thread might be the most fascinating read on Bluesky right now!
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I LOVE Jason Bateman 💕
July 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I LOVE Jason Bateman 💕
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KEEP THE PRESSURE ON THESE REPUBLICAN SENATORS!
CALL (202) 224-3121 AND TELL THEM TO VOTE NO ON TRUMP’S BIG BULLSHIT BILL!
CALL (202) 224-3121 AND TELL THEM TO VOTE NO ON TRUMP’S BIG BULLSHIT BILL!
July 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
KEEP THE PRESSURE ON THESE REPUBLICAN SENATORS!
CALL (202) 224-3121 AND TELL THEM TO VOTE NO ON TRUMP’S BIG BULLSHIT BILL!
CALL (202) 224-3121 AND TELL THEM TO VOTE NO ON TRUMP’S BIG BULLSHIT BILL!
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The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe, and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.
~ James Baldwin
~ James Baldwin
June 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe, and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.
~ James Baldwin
~ James Baldwin
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absolutely!! dissent, advocate, resist www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
May 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
absolutely!! dissent, advocate, resist www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Make your voice heard
You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
May 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Make your voice heard
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🚨HIT THE PHONES TO SAVE MEDICAID - PLEASE AMPLIFY & ACT 🚨
TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts.
MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here.
Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️
OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid
TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts.
MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here.
Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️
OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid
Save Medicaid
Please call your Representative right now and leave a voicemail, or first thing on Monday morning before the mark up session begins.
OcasioCortez.com
May 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🚨HIT THE PHONES TO SAVE MEDICAID - PLEASE AMPLIFY & ACT 🚨
TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts.
MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here.
Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️
OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid
TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts.
MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here.
Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️
OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid
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"Sex Is a Spectrum will be important for introducing a
wide readership to the nuances of scientific
understandings of variability in sex and of
the biocultural constitution of humans, and
I believe that there is much for biologists to
appreciate in the book as well." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
wide readership to the nuances of scientific
understandings of variability in sex and of
the biocultural constitution of humans, and
I believe that there is much for biologists to
appreciate in the book as well." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The variable nature of sex
An anthropologist shows why we should think beyond the binary
www.science.org
April 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"Sex Is a Spectrum will be important for introducing a
wide readership to the nuances of scientific
understandings of variability in sex and of
the biocultural constitution of humans, and
I believe that there is much for biologists to
appreciate in the book as well." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
wide readership to the nuances of scientific
understandings of variability in sex and of
the biocultural constitution of humans, and
I believe that there is much for biologists to
appreciate in the book as well." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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It's never about the science. It's always about having a legal basis for your fear and hatred of other people.
My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic
Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male
www.scientificamerican.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
It's never about the science. It's always about having a legal basis for your fear and hatred of other people.
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"Race does not provide an accurate representation of human biological variation. It was never accurate in the past, and it remains inaccurate when referencing contemporary human populations."
the text that annoyed Trump is from the AABA Statement on Race & Racism... share it widely...BioAnth doing the work-- bioanth.org/about/aaba-s....
April 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
"Race does not provide an accurate representation of human biological variation. It was never accurate in the past, and it remains inaccurate when referencing contemporary human populations."
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Thanks for this @killgrove.bsky.social, much appreciated update. We are excited ot have folks read the revised MS and the reviews. Just as an update from me, the revised version of the Fuentes et al. manuscript has been with eLife and reviewers since last October. Hope will be out soon too.
We updated our 2023 story given the announcement today of new evidence and new peer reviews regarding purposeful burial in H. naledi. 🧪🏺
A 'landmark finding': Homo naledi buried their dead 250,000 years ago, according to newly updated research
Controversial claim that Homo naledi buried its dead gets new proof from 2025 research study.
www.livescience.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Thanks for this @killgrove.bsky.social, much appreciated update. We are excited ot have folks read the revised MS and the reviews. Just as an update from me, the revised version of the Fuentes et al. manuscript has been with eLife and reviewers since last October. Hope will be out soon too.
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March 13, 2025 at 1:43 AM
We're a liberal, pro-LGBT+, pro-choice, cat-loving bookstore, and we'd like to buy this building for the bookstore so we can reopen in a brick and mortar format, so we're running a sale on the website. Get 20% off your order with promo code Baltimore at checkout.
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🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
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