Stephanie
@stephy.bsky.social
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chemistry, drugs, patents
mom 👦🏻🐶 hapa 🇹🇼 🍺🌮⚾️🖖🧶
steph@mastodon.social
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chemistry, drugs, patents
mom 👦🏻🐶 hapa 🇹🇼 🍺🌮⚾️🖖🧶
steph@mastodon.social
Pumpkin tea cake and cranberry swirl cake #ChemistsWhoCook
November 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Pumpkin tea cake and cranberry swirl cake #ChemistsWhoCook
NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) is now accepting applications #chemsummer #chemsky 🧪⚗️ www.nist.gov/surf
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Mission: SURF is designed to inspire undergraduate students to pursue careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) through a unique research experience that supports the NIST mi...
www.nist.gov
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) is now accepting applications #chemsummer #chemsky 🧪⚗️ www.nist.gov/surf
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I have just learned that when they found out CDC's search tool was down, The Immunization Action Coalition put together a page with various search tools for vaccines, with different categories - could be useful to people:
www.vaccineinformation.org/vaccine-basi...
www.vaccineinformation.org/vaccine-basi...
Where To Get Vaccinated | Vaccine Information
Our curated list of links to help you locate vaccine centers by state, plus other tools to help you locate a vaccine resource near you.
www.vaccineinformation.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I have just learned that when they found out CDC's search tool was down, The Immunization Action Coalition put together a page with various search tools for vaccines, with different categories - could be useful to people:
www.vaccineinformation.org/vaccine-basi...
www.vaccineinformation.org/vaccine-basi...
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Expose the vulnerable
NEW: A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other neurodevelopmental diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy
A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Expose the vulnerable
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Oh the irony: WSJ reports that Congress is considering loosening cars’ safety standards.
Meanwhile, there are PROVEN ways to bring down our country's number of car crash deaths.
As someone who's taken care of too many car crash victims... I vote for what works. 🩺🧪🛟
www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Meanwhile, there are PROVEN ways to bring down our country's number of car crash deaths.
As someone who's taken care of too many car crash victims... I vote for what works. 🩺🧪🛟
www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Motor Vehicle Crash Prevention | NEJM
The rate of fatalities on U.S. roadways is much higher than those in many other high-income
nations. The authors review evidence-based strategies for moving toward a future with
no traffic deaths.
www.nejm.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Oh the irony: WSJ reports that Congress is considering loosening cars’ safety standards.
Meanwhile, there are PROVEN ways to bring down our country's number of car crash deaths.
As someone who's taken care of too many car crash victims... I vote for what works. 🩺🧪🛟
www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Meanwhile, there are PROVEN ways to bring down our country's number of car crash deaths.
As someone who's taken care of too many car crash victims... I vote for what works. 🩺🧪🛟
www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Yesterday, the world was quite close to an apocalypse.
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Yesterday, the world was quite close to an apocalypse.
Laurel watched the MAGA summit so we don’t have to, thank you for your service! 🫡
So, remember that MAHA summit 2 weeks ago that @statnews.com broke the news of and @maxkozlov.bsky.social somehow got into for Nature, even though it was closed to the press?
The organizers posted the entire 6.5-hour conference proceedings to YouTube last week.
cen.acs.org/policy/MAHA-...
The organizers posted the entire 6.5-hour conference proceedings to YouTube last week.
cen.acs.org/policy/MAHA-...
At MAHA Summit, the NIH head pushes for research that risks failure
And 4 other takeaways for life scientists from the ‘off-the-record’ Make America Healthy Again conference
cen.acs.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Laurel watched the MAGA summit so we don’t have to, thank you for your service! 🫡
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So, remember that MAHA summit 2 weeks ago that @statnews.com broke the news of and @maxkozlov.bsky.social somehow got into for Nature, even though it was closed to the press?
The organizers posted the entire 6.5-hour conference proceedings to YouTube last week.
cen.acs.org/policy/MAHA-...
The organizers posted the entire 6.5-hour conference proceedings to YouTube last week.
cen.acs.org/policy/MAHA-...
At MAHA Summit, the NIH head pushes for research that risks failure
And 4 other takeaways for life scientists from the ‘off-the-record’ Make America Healthy Again conference
cen.acs.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
So, remember that MAHA summit 2 weeks ago that @statnews.com broke the news of and @maxkozlov.bsky.social somehow got into for Nature, even though it was closed to the press?
The organizers posted the entire 6.5-hour conference proceedings to YouTube last week.
cen.acs.org/policy/MAHA-...
The organizers posted the entire 6.5-hour conference proceedings to YouTube last week.
cen.acs.org/policy/MAHA-...
Next year’s NPS annual pass is awful! www.doi.gov/video/digita...
Digital Park Passes | U.S. Department of the Interior
The Department of the Interior announced the most significant modernization of national park access in decades, delivering new digital America the Beautiful passes, updated annual pass artwork, expand...
www.doi.gov
November 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Next year’s NPS annual pass is awful! www.doi.gov/video/digita...
I am making this again for the… I have lost count of how many years in a row
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I am making this again for the… I have lost count of how many years in a row
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Reporting from Boston papers makes it seem very plausible that Trump's Press Secretary had his paramilitary detain the mother of her nephew, because she was no longer romantically involved with her brother and he wanted her out of the picture.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Reporting from Boston papers makes it seem very plausible that Trump's Press Secretary had his paramilitary detain the mother of her nephew, because she was no longer romantically involved with her brother and he wanted her out of the picture.
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“There were no cervical cancer cases diagnosed in women aged <25 years in 2021 – the first time that this has occurred in data going back to 1982. This remarkable achievement is almost certainly due to the impact of HPV vaccination.” From report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
#vaccinationsaveslives
#vaccinationsaveslives
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM
“There were no cervical cancer cases diagnosed in women aged <25 years in 2021 – the first time that this has occurred in data going back to 1982. This remarkable achievement is almost certainly due to the impact of HPV vaccination.” From report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
#vaccinationsaveslives
#vaccinationsaveslives
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It really is
Our son got his first dose of HPV vaccine when he was 9
Vaccinating boys & men has benefits for BOTH women (e.g., helping to reduce HPV transmission to female sexual partners) AND men (e.g., reducing the risk of oral, head & neck, penile, & anal cancers)
Our son got his first dose of HPV vaccine when he was 9
Vaccinating boys & men has benefits for BOTH women (e.g., helping to reduce HPV transmission to female sexual partners) AND men (e.g., reducing the risk of oral, head & neck, penile, & anal cancers)
November 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
It really is
Our son got his first dose of HPV vaccine when he was 9
Vaccinating boys & men has benefits for BOTH women (e.g., helping to reduce HPV transmission to female sexual partners) AND men (e.g., reducing the risk of oral, head & neck, penile, & anal cancers)
Our son got his first dose of HPV vaccine when he was 9
Vaccinating boys & men has benefits for BOTH women (e.g., helping to reduce HPV transmission to female sexual partners) AND men (e.g., reducing the risk of oral, head & neck, penile, & anal cancers)
I think I follow this firm on LinkedIn just because their logo makes me laugh
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I think I follow this firm on LinkedIn just because their logo makes me laugh
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Put it on the calendar
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Put it on the calendar
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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There's a big divide in how Americans are thinking about vaccines:
♦️83% of Republicans don't want an updated COVID-19 vaccine.
🔷64% of Democrats want to get or have already received an updated vaccine.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 🧪
♦️83% of Republicans don't want an updated COVID-19 vaccine.
🔷64% of Democrats want to get or have already received an updated vaccine.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 🧪
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
There's a big divide in how Americans are thinking about vaccines:
♦️83% of Republicans don't want an updated COVID-19 vaccine.
🔷64% of Democrats want to get or have already received an updated vaccine.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 🧪
♦️83% of Republicans don't want an updated COVID-19 vaccine.
🔷64% of Democrats want to get or have already received an updated vaccine.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 🧪
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Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)
RTs appreciated.
RTs appreciated.
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)
RTs appreciated.
RTs appreciated.
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It's always Sasquatch, but never Sask Listen
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
It's always Sasquatch, but never Sask Listen
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Me discovering I have let somebody’s email sit in my inbox for three months: “Well, obviously I can never email him again. I guess I need to wait for news of his eventual death until I can stop feeling bad about this.”
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Me discovering I have let somebody’s email sit in my inbox for three months: “Well, obviously I can never email him again. I guess I need to wait for news of his eventual death until I can stop feeling bad about this.”
Something to think about before holiday gatherings
Newborns cannot get vaccinated for whooping cough until they are two months old.
So it is up to adults who plan to be around newborns to get those Tdap shots—and new parents need to encourage family members who plan to be around a newborn to get Tdap shots, too.
So it is up to adults who plan to be around newborns to get those Tdap shots—and new parents need to encourage family members who plan to be around a newborn to get Tdap shots, too.
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Something to think about before holiday gatherings