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Beth 🌵🚀🖖🏻🌈🐻‍❄️🐻🦇
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She/her. Mom. Gamer. Umbraphile. Resister. Pro-democracy. Humanist. Acute care SLP. #bskySPEECHIES

High quality masks/filtrate/ventilate. #COVIDisAIRBORNE #COVIDisnotOVER

“Doors and corners kid. That's where they get you.” Belta lik pashang. #Expanse
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reminder that using AI to generate those action figure things is 1) harmful to the environment. like literally just look up the impacts AI has on energy use and water use. and 2) based on plagiarized art that was stolen and chewed up without consent so you can generate AI slop that looks bad.
April 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Since 1960, childhood mortality has dropped by a factor of five.

A large portion of this is due to the benefits of vaccines.
April 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Please, everybody... if you need something light & funny… If you need a romcom… If you need a feel-good… Please pull up NORTH OF NORTH on Netflix and rate it highly.

Inuit deserve so much more of this.
For the 1st time, I'm watching a sitcom full of people like my family in a place similar to the land that, due to diaspora, while still my home, I've never felt under my feet.

I'm seeing & hearing the work of artists I know.

The starlet gets to be messy & imperfect.

You can't quantify this.
April 12, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
April 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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A lot of things they don’t want kids to learn in educational settings are just subjects they don’t want to talk about with their kids AT ALL. They also hate feeling in any way judged or assessed by their children, and feel like the child’s knowledge might compromise parental control.
If you teach this stuff now, especially above about 3rd grade, you will 100% have parents coming at you for teaching things that should be taught in the home. They do not have any interest in teaching it there either- that’s just a tactic to get teachers to stop doing it, too.
April 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Our paper on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia is now out in Nature! 🎉

Huge thanks to Felix Michalik, Seunghun Chung, @pascalge.bsky.social and especially Min Xie (@minxiesci.bsky.social) & Simon Heß (@hesss.org) making the analysis so much fun!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature
Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...
www.nature.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have found that getting vaccinated against shingles- a painful and debilitating condition that can flare up years after infection from varicella zoster virus- not only LOWERS the risk of infection, but can also PROTECT against dementia. 🧪🧵⬇️
April 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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We’re all Dr. Birx now.
April 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Sen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they “probably deserved it” and they “seem like a clown.”
April 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Corey Booker: “IF AMERICA
HASN'T BROKEN YOUR HEART, THEN YOU DON'T LOVE HER ENOUGH." 💙🥹
April 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Kindness ain’t free…
March 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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A much-needed moment of calm 🐺
March 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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This bears repeating.

The whole, ‘good for your immune system’ rhetoric is nonsense generally, but it’s PARTICULARLY dangerous when it comes to measles 👇
March 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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🧵1/3

Are you an #AlliedHealthProfessional
Speech& Language
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Do you work with
GPs, Early Years, Schools, Social Care, Aged Care, Community settings , Hospitals ?
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#LongcovidAwarenessDay
#LongCovidAwarenessDay

Understand lived experience
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Acknowledge
#CovidIsAirborne
In public health
@drmarianeira.bsky.social
#CleanAir
prevention action is ESSENTIAL
in
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Universal Design
Sustainable living
It's #LongCovidAwarenessDay & my 3rd anniversary since developing covid-induced #ME/CFS.

It's been quite the journey. This year I learned how to walk distances again 💪. Next year's goal is to be able to chat to folk for more than an hour without needing a long rest afterwards. Onwards & Upwards!
March 16, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Never underestimate the power of wearing a mask. It’s a simple and safe act of compassion, resistance & self care

Sick of being sick? Wear a mask.

Want to keep a vulnerable loved one safe? Wear a mask.

Want to show solidarity with disabled people? Wear a mask.

Want to fight fascism? Wear a mask.
March 7, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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February 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Beautiful photo of the Pleiades star cluster taken by Dheera Venkatraman in 2019. Seen above Half Dome in Yosemite National park in California, USA.
Complimented by an unexpected blackout!

Image credit: Dheera Venkatraman

🔭 #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #California
January 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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GAME TOKENS!!! THEY'RE HERE!!!

this is an experiment. if people buy these i will make more.

nora.jewelry
January 31, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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loving this happy gargoyle guy who's being moved to a new spot and is clearly having the time of his life
June 29, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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Dear viewers,
January 25, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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May this little murder bird help you get through the day ❤️ #birds
January 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM