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A. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH
@susanaramirez.bsky.social
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Infodemiologist | Associate Professor | 🇲🇽🇺🇸 | Wife | Momx3 | 🐈‍⬛ Lover. I study media, inequality, & health especially re: food & nutrition. #healthcommunication #foodstudies #foodpolicy #AcademicSky #CommSky #CDoH
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Procrastiwriting this morning, I read one of my open tabs. Just what I needed; I've been told by early readers that certain parts of my 📕 need more showing, less telling. I've been struggling with HOW...and maybe why! Found some concrete tips #AcademicSky

www.publishnotperish.net/p/academic-w...
Image of quote from Jenn McClearen, PhD Academic Writing Doesn't have to Suck. PublishNotPerish.Net. "Confession time: When I am stuck on a difficult section of writing, I tend to use the most abstract, jargon-heavy language possible. It's like my insecure brain thinks, "If I make this sound complicated enough, no one will notice that I'm not entirely clear on what I'm saying."
October 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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I know there are a lot of serious ways to illustrate #CorrelationIsNotCausation, but I thought my #GenX friends would appreciate this. #Tylenol #EpiSky
Black background white text: I called my mom and asked her if she took Tylenol when she was pregnant with me. She said only when she had a hangover.
September 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Meredith Abarca from UT-El Paso shares her collection of food stories.
“Food means keeping my mom alive.”
This project emerged from an academic questioning her scholarship and responsibility, asking herself: To whom am I accountable? Who owns these stories?

#IntellectualHumility #FoodStories
Woman in hat in front of a projected slide showing graphic of a table set with food; 4 hands/arms of different skin tone shades holding beverages extend beyond the table. Title on slide El Paso Food Voices by Meredith Abarca
September 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Kicking off #FoodForAll conference on #Food & #Communication in Lille Is @charlottebiltekoff.bsky.social talking about the framing contest in which the food industry wants public to understand food as science, celebrating food tech, & becoming willing consumers.

#NutSky #FoodStudies
An auditorium. Woman at front is speaking in front of a projected slide showing cover of the book Real Food, Real Facts
September 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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On my way to Lille for the 4th Conference on #Food & #Communication. Had to stop in Paris, where the sky is showing off against the renovated Notre Dame. #ILoveMyJob #AcademicSky
Selfie of woman at bottom left. Main image is facade of Notre Dame de Paris and bright blue sky with puffy white clouds
September 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Celebrating 🎉 20 years of @ucmerced.bsky.social #library — the 1st research library 📚 established in the age of the internet. Some great stories about building something new shared by current & former librarians.
Sheet cake white frosting yellow and blue accents. Cursive text reads “Celebrating 20 years! UC Merced library” Woman at podium in front of library stacks Man w microphone in front of library stacks and table with cakes
September 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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2-plants can cure — or kill. Science and culture can help us understand the difference
Picture from the Chinese herb garden. One label indicates anti-cancer herbs while another label warns plants may be poisonous DO NOT EAT THEM
August 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Signs from my #writing retreat at the Berkeley Botanic Gardens

1-🐍 present! so are distractions & negative thoughts. To keep away snakes stomp loudly. To keep away neg 💭 keep a list of nice things people have said about your work, your accomplishments that seemed impossible until you did them
Signpost with information about the Berkeley botanical gardens. At the bottom a red and white rectangle WARNING: RATTLESNAKES ARE AT TIMES FOUND IN THE BOTANICAL GARDEN
August 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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No better way to spend the last week of summer “break” than at a #Writing retreat. #AcademicSky #amwriting
Selfie of smiling woman in front of University of California Botanical Garden sign
August 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Feeling this hard today. #AcademicSky
Woman on beach staring at giant wave (tsunami?)
August 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Happy #caturday! Coco the Fabulous Foster Fail wants you to stop rushing and enjoy a nap.
Gorgeous lynx point Siamese kitty asleep on a knee. Close up of his face featuring prominent snout.
July 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Anybody want to buy some books this week?
#Books #TBR #Read #Antiprime #Bookshop
Invitation to Bookshop.org's anti-prime sale. Styled as wedding invitation. Images of Venice, including a bridge, gondolas, feathers, butterflies, and doves. text reads: You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale. Date: July 8-11, 2025. Location: Bookshop.org Enjoy free shipping and the knowledge that your money will go toward supporting independent bookstores, not billionaires
July 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Well, you know it was great conference day when you’ve been off your phone 📱 & engaging In.Real.Life with friends & colleagues old & new!

Terrific day at #ica25 — it’s sleepy time now; have a great night & see you tomorrow!
Photo of a closeup name badge Susana Ramirez ICA conference 2025 with green sticker “life member”. Hand is holding badge up against a window. It’s night outside and city lights
June 14, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Just landed 🛬 Denver! Hello 👋 #ica25 #ica2025 Having dinner with a friend tonight & then excited about all the good stuff tomorrow.
Picture from inside window of airplane close to landing at Denver airport. Lush green fields mountains and a sky with kind of ominous clouds above a sunshine filled green
June 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Currently reading 📖 : These are all new (2024-25) & need to be integrated into my 📕 ! Doesn’t include the great ebooks I’m also reading this month. 🤯 May write mini reviews as I digest them. #ILoveMyJob #BookSky #AcademicSummer #IfOnlyReadingWereWriting
Close up of stack of books, from top to bottom: Titans of Industrial Agriculture- Jennifer Clapp México Between Feast & Famine - Enrique Ochoa Sweet & Deadly - Murray Carpenter Barons - Austin Frerick The Problem with Solutions - Julie Guthman Ruin Their Crops on the Ground - Andrea Freeman
June 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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View from the stage: the joyful grads!
View of faculty in academic regalia on a stage overlooking hundreds of graduates
May 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Beautiful day to celebrate 🙌 the 2025 graduates 🎓 of @ucmerced.bsky.social

🎓 🧑‍🎓 👩‍🎓 👨‍🎓 🎓

#Commencement #EduSky #CongratsGrads
Smiling woman in academic regalia selfie in front of the University of California flag
May 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Major announcement & leadership stand by @icahdq.bsky.social: The current climate in the USA is not conducive to global scholarship. No more conferences in the USA until 2029.

I'm proud to be a lifetime ICA member. #AcademicSky #Science

Full announcement at:
www.linkedin.com/posts/intern...
Image of ICA President's Column by Silvio Waisbord and Laura Sawyer announcing changes to ICA meetings during the current US administration. Full text linked in post.
May 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Happy Easter! ✝️ 🐣🐇🐰
Smiling woman next to Pope Francis (well, next to a cardboard cutout of the Pope!)
April 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Happy Cat Lady Day!

A literal basket of kittens came to my kids’ piano recital…smart place to try to unload those cuties. #catladyday #caturday
A woven wood basket with 3 tiny kittens A black background with stars and a line drawing of a girl or woman holding a cat. Text reads Happy National Cat Lady Day April 19
April 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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OOH! Look what the mailman just dropped off!! 📘📖Looks like I have some fun weekend reading ahead... 🤩 @falklab.bsky.social
Portrait mode close up of a hardcover book held up by a hand. The book cover is white and the text reads: The Neuroscience of Choice & Change WHAT WE VALUE (the all-caps are a rainbow from dark blue to orange, and the word VALUE is tilted and underlined on top of a triangle, evoking a scale). The author's name, Emily Falk, is below the scale.
April 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Proud to be part of the UC

At a special meeting today, the Academic Council unanimously endorsed The Defense of the University, a statement reaffirming UC’s public mission amid growing national threats to higher education. #HigherEd #AcademicSky #AcademicFreedom
Screenshot of text document on UC Academic Senate letterhead: Academic Council Statement: The Defense of the University April 8, 2025 Higher education is under direct and sustained attack. Deliberate and systemic shifts in the federal government’s approach to higher education—which include defunding crucial research, intervening in academic affairs, and policing expression—will have profound downstream consequences, threatening the integrity of knowledge production and the public role of universities in a democratic society. The mission of the University of California is thus existentially at risk. Unity will be critical in the weeks, months, and years ahead, as the University of California fights to preserve its capacity to prepare the next generation of the workforce. These graduates will be leading health care providers, educators, authors, entrepreneurs, and innovators. Given the opportunity, they will conduct the research leading to breakthroughs in science and technology, new treatments for disease, new forms of creative expression, and new insights about the world we inhabit. Let us remember that our university played a foundational role in the development of the Internet, satellite communications, nuclear energy, biotechnology, agronomy, and many other domains that have substantially improved our collective well-being. If our research and teaching mission is compromised, what future discoveries will be lost, and at what cost to the public health and welfare of all Californians? The Academic Senate is one of the pillars of shared governance of the University of California, along with the Regents and the administration. Policies and practices of shared governance have served the institution well during previous crises, and we will have even greater need of them as we move forward. The urgency and complexity of the problems we confront necessitate collaborative efforts. We need to stand, speak, and work together—informed by our shared, fundamental principles—i… 2/2 screenshots of letter from UC Academic Senate. We thus call on the Regents, President, and Chancellors of the University of California to expend every effort, commit necessary resources, and use all legal measures to defend our ability to conduct consequential, transformative research and provide high-quality teaching and mentoring. We call on our leaders to ensure the safety and privacy of students, faculty, and staff. And we further call on our leaders to protect academic freedom and faculty control of the curriculum—proactively and publicly. While current events may seem shockingly unprecedented, there are historical parallels. From these we learn that the future is contingent upon how we respond now. We must come together as a community to strengthen our ability to fulfill our institutional mission and uphold our commitment to the state of California. These collective efforts extend to working together with colleagues at other universities to envision and implement plans for preserving higher education’s ability to contribute to the common good. Let the future historical record show that we rose to the challenge of defending the University of California, and we did so in ways that did not betray its core values. The distinctive mission of the University is to serve society as a center of higher learning, providing long-term societal benefits through transmitting advanced knowledge, discovering new knowledge, and functioning as an active working repository of organized knowledge. That obligation, more specifically, includes undergraduate education, graduate and professional education, research, and other kinds of public service, which are shaped and bounded by the central pervasive mission of discovering and advancing knowledge. Fiat Lux. University of California Systemwide Academic Senate Council, 2024-2025
April 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Social media is funny. This suggestion popped up on my LinkedIn timeline. Not sure this particular work anniversary is celebratory given the circumstances under which position was assumed & the current…situation.

But the algo works since there are a dozen randos who’ve congratulated her already. 😬
Screen shot from LinkedIn suggesting I should “Congratulate Katrina Armstrong on their work anniversary.” Below the suggestion is a link to her profile with a a headshot, name, & title: Interim President, Columbia University, and the timeline event: Celebrating work anniversary
March 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Locals: Girl Scout cookies for sale! If you drive by, you may see my little Brownie Scout's booth setup. If you give me a heads up I'll make sure it happens. 🤩

Non-locals: Find a local troop to support! Cookie selling is MORE than fundraiser; it's girl empowerment #GirlScouts #gscookies #thinmints
Picture of man with mustache from The Princess Bride movie with words paraphrasing his famous quote: My Name is Inigo Montoya. My daughter is selling Girl Scout cookies. Prepare to Buy.
March 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Happy #Caturday from my beautiful princess RooBee, who woke us up at 3am with her loud and terrifying defense of our home against a would-be intruder.

Happy to know my house is safe from a large neighborhood cat.
A beautiful tortoiseshell kitty winking at the camera in a sly maybe evil manner. One paw is extended and one paw is folded under her chin. She has been disturbed in her sleep and unhappy about it.
March 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM