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Skye Grove
@skyegrove.bsky.social
Public health and social behaviour science enthusiast. Photographer. Social democrat. Believer in the power of the collective. Endlessly curious about the world we live in. 🇿🇦🏳️‍🌈
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The world breaks my heart every day in multiple ways, but also a bluebird alerted me to a barred owl this evening
July 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.
Government AI, defending DOGE and more: Takeaways from Elon Musk’s three-hour interview with Joe Rogan
The wide-ranging interview between the two prominent Trump supporters comes as Musk remakes the federal government.
www.politico.com
March 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Cape Town of hearts. I also give you life in the Cradle of Humankind. As far from Jozi as Hout Bay is from the City Bowl.
March 6, 2025 at 4:53 AM
“The clinic that I used to get my HIV medicine from has closed. What risks do I face from stopping my HIV medication?”

groundup.org.za/qanda/1052/

Via @groundup.org.za
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March 6, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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From my amazing @Yale colleagues @reshmagar.bsky.social and Joe Ross: Gutting FDA Won't Make America Healthy www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Opinion | Gutting FDA Won't Make America Healthy
The administration's deregulatory approach poses a threat to health and safety
www.medpagetoday.com
March 5, 2025 at 11:21 AM
March 2, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Learners at 287 South African public schools only have access to pit toilets. 174 of those schools are in the Eastern Cape. The Department of Basic Education had an initial target of supplying all schools with appropriate sanitation by the end of 2016. https://theoutlier.co.za/charts/chart/88628
January 13, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.
February 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Thank you @gregggonsalves.bsky.social: "Yes, sometimes you persist & you fight “the long defeat.” As health justice champion @partnersinhealth.bsky.social Paul Farmer said, you don’t turn back on those who have most to lose. And sometimes, just sometimes, you win." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
Opinion | When ‘Just Asking Questions’ About Science Turns Into 300,000 Dead
We have to go toe-to-toe with this administration and resist its attacks on public health.
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
February 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM