Leah Robin (leduck)
@universalduck.bsky.social
She is a health researcher and full-time, unrepentant geek who lives in Atlanta with her husband, David; 5 cats; and two marine aquariums in progress, David's big fish aquarium and her little reef aquarium.
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I just made a thing-- a feed called GenJones which is for the Generation Jones micro birth cohort born between 1954 and 1965. The list is to capture discussion for and about us. Come join the feed if you're GenJones or want to discuss this generation.
WTH? So Academia.Edu, a research sharing site, informed me they had generated an AI podcast on paper I was an author on: "Examining the Relationship Between LGBTQ-Supportive School Health Policies and Practices and Psychosocial Health Outcomes of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Heterosexual Students".
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July 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
WTH? So Academia.Edu, a research sharing site, informed me they had generated an AI podcast on paper I was an author on: "Examining the Relationship Between LGBTQ-Supportive School Health Policies and Practices and Psychosocial Health Outcomes of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Heterosexual Students".
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The MAGA movement isn’t fueled by misinformation—it’s built on meaning. To confront it, we must stop fact-checking and start offering a better story: one that restores trust, renews civic life, and reclaims the moral imagination of democracy.
Understanding MAGA: A Worldview, Not a Wedge Issue
How Trumpism offers a sense of belonging, purpose, and revenge—by rewriting who counts, what’s true, and what power is for.
jamesbgreenberg.substack.com
June 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The MAGA movement isn’t fueled by misinformation—it’s built on meaning. To confront it, we must stop fact-checking and start offering a better story: one that restores trust, renews civic life, and reclaims the moral imagination of democracy.
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Interesting. A step in the right direction to better contextualize BMI.
New Obesity Definition Challenges Current Use of B.M.I.
An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Interesting. A step in the right direction to better contextualize BMI.
Many raids near my homes, including outside churches. Here is one city's response. I'm proud of Chamblee!
Chamblee Response to Recent Federal Immigration Raids
www.chambleega.com
January 28, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Many raids near my homes, including outside churches. Here is one city's response. I'm proud of Chamblee!
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CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960.
Until today.
Until today.
January 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960.
Until today.
Until today.
Who is harmed by learning about the Tuskegee Airmen and the WASPs? What good is done by eliminating these lessons and for whom?
Donald Trump DEI order sees female and black WWII pilots cut from air force training
It comes after the US president imposed a ban on diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) programmes.
www.bbc.com
January 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Who is harmed by learning about the Tuskegee Airmen and the WASPs? What good is done by eliminating these lessons and for whom?
So much for just rounding up undocumented folks with violent criminal offenses. Anyone surprised?
ICE makes arrests in metro Atlanta, announces ‘targeted operations’ elsewhere
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Sunday announced “targeted operations” in Chicago, and made several arrests in metro Atlanta, federal officials said.
www.ajc.com
January 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
So much for just rounding up undocumented folks with violent criminal offenses. Anyone surprised?
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Evidence of misogynistic racism.
January 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Evidence of misogynistic racism.
@stlthmc.bsky.social -- you got me in a Red Hot and Blue mood! Sharing my favorite from that album. We have more fences than we need. A good GenJones reference!
David Byrne - Don't Fence Me In. Red Hot + Blue.mp4
YouTube video by Raul Martins JazzMania
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January 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
@stlthmc.bsky.social -- you got me in a Red Hot and Blue mood! Sharing my favorite from that album. We have more fences than we need. A good GenJones reference!
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I'm pretty sure this is a confrontation bot.
Look at it's comments and you'll see what I mean.
Look at it's comments and you'll see what I mean.
January 24, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I'm pretty sure this is a confrontation bot.
Look at it's comments and you'll see what I mean.
Look at it's comments and you'll see what I mean.
For now, at least, this is why Bluesky is an important place.
Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts
Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
For now, at least, this is why Bluesky is an important place.
This is a decently accurate summary of the week.
A week of chaos in public health
The truth is, there’s a lot we don’t know yet.
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This is a decently accurate summary of the week.
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January 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Maternal care in Georgia is shrinking with over a third of Georgia counties having no hospital-based care for childbirth nor birthing centers. Georgia legislation may make birthing centers more accessible.
Could a recent Georgia law change make midwife care more accessible? Maternal mortality experts hope so
Maternal mortality experts in Georgia say that midwife-led birth centers help improve maternal and infant health. A recent change in state law might make it easier to access that kind of care.
www.wabe.org
January 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Maternal care in Georgia is shrinking with over a third of Georgia counties having no hospital-based care for childbirth nor birthing centers. Georgia legislation may make birthing centers more accessible.
I have mushroom corals, and they do indeed move around a good bit as many corals do.
These Corals Are Made for Walking
With time-lapse video, scientists show how tiny mushroom corals can move themselves to influence their fate.
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I have mushroom corals, and they do indeed move around a good bit as many corals do.
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Bookstores are just as important and will help stop not only the cultural war, but more importantly, the class war, ignorance is NOT bliss and books are the only safe guard against ignorance…
We are about to enter an era of extreme and dangerous culture war in the United States. How do we protect our communities and work toward a cultural ceasefire? In this piece I wrote a couple months ago, I offer one possible path. wapo.st/40q1BDn
Opinion | Libraries can help end the culture wars. That’s why they’re under fire.
Nothing threatens authoritarianism like a free, quiet place to absorb a full range of information.
wapo.st
January 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Bookstores are just as important and will help stop not only the cultural war, but more importantly, the class war, ignorance is NOT bliss and books are the only safe guard against ignorance…
Residential sorting continues apace, with young adults leaving anti-abortion states.
Leaving anti-abortion states
18 January 2025
natpernick.substack.com
January 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Residential sorting continues apace, with young adults leaving anti-abortion states.
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Enormous crowds. If these photos make it to the media, someone is going to feel awfully embarrassed.
Share, share, share.
🙏❤️🔥🙏
We. Are. The. Media
#HOPECORPS
#BLUEWAVE
#GVerse
#SHIELDOFRESISTANCE
#CANCELTRUMP
Share, share, share.
🙏❤️🔥🙏
We. Are. The. Media
#HOPECORPS
#BLUEWAVE
#GVerse
#SHIELDOFRESISTANCE
#CANCELTRUMP
January 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Enormous crowds. If these photos make it to the media, someone is going to feel awfully embarrassed.
Share, share, share.
🙏❤️🔥🙏
We. Are. The. Media
#HOPECORPS
#BLUEWAVE
#GVerse
#SHIELDOFRESISTANCE
#CANCELTRUMP
Share, share, share.
🙏❤️🔥🙏
We. Are. The. Media
#HOPECORPS
#BLUEWAVE
#GVerse
#SHIELDOFRESISTANCE
#CANCELTRUMP
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Share these photos widely across platforms. Let your amigos and amigas know that they are not alone in this fight against the tyrannical, fascist GOP.
Because you will not see these photos on television. We are the media now.
🙏❤️🔥🙏
#HOPECORPS
#BLUEWAVE
#GVerse
#SHIELDOFRESISTANCE
Because you will not see these photos on television. We are the media now.
🙏❤️🔥🙏
#HOPECORPS
#BLUEWAVE
#GVerse
#SHIELDOFRESISTANCE
January 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Share these photos widely across platforms. Let your amigos and amigas know that they are not alone in this fight against the tyrannical, fascist GOP.
Because you will not see these photos on television. We are the media now.
🙏❤️🔥🙏
#HOPECORPS
#BLUEWAVE
#GVerse
#SHIELDOFRESISTANCE
Because you will not see these photos on television. We are the media now.
🙏❤️🔥🙏
#HOPECORPS
#BLUEWAVE
#GVerse
#SHIELDOFRESISTANCE
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Honor his name: Raoul Wallenberg.
Wallenberg wasn’t Jewish. He was a successful Swedish businessman who chose to save Hungarian Jews by the thousands from the Nazis.
The Soviets seized him on January 17, 1945, tortured & disappeared him.
A righteous hero.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
Wallenberg wasn’t Jewish. He was a successful Swedish businessman who chose to save Hungarian Jews by the thousands from the Nazis.
The Soviets seized him on January 17, 1945, tortured & disappeared him.
A righteous hero.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
January 18, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Honor his name: Raoul Wallenberg.
Wallenberg wasn’t Jewish. He was a successful Swedish businessman who chose to save Hungarian Jews by the thousands from the Nazis.
The Soviets seized him on January 17, 1945, tortured & disappeared him.
A righteous hero.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
Wallenberg wasn’t Jewish. He was a successful Swedish businessman who chose to save Hungarian Jews by the thousands from the Nazis.
The Soviets seized him on January 17, 1945, tortured & disappeared him.
A righteous hero.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
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🔥📚💙📚🪐📚🌶️ #BookSky
Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
January 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
🔥📚💙📚🪐📚🌶️ #BookSky
Thinking about media depictions of our childhoods as GenJones-- what do you think have been the best representations of our generation? For me, it's gotta be Freaks and Geeks. What do you think?
January 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Thinking about media depictions of our childhoods as GenJones-- what do you think have been the best representations of our generation? For me, it's gotta be Freaks and Geeks. What do you think?
In additional Christian nationalist news Oklahoma (one of the states that want to prosecute women who get abortions for homicide), also wants to incentivize Christian "covenant marriages" for which no-fault divorce is not provided.
‘Us here in Oklahoma, we are not ok’: Oklahoma wants to incentivize marriages that are harder to leave with Covenant Marriage Act
Oklahoma Sen. Dusty Deevers introduced a Senate Bill that incentivizes couples to enter a covenant marriage, which makes divorce harder.
www.themarysue.com
January 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM
In additional Christian nationalist news Oklahoma (one of the states that want to prosecute women who get abortions for homicide), also wants to incentivize Christian "covenant marriages" for which no-fault divorce is not provided.