aka vicka
@werpiper.bsky.social
neuroscientist, horseback riding instructor, writer, and freak. very short. it/she/they or neopronouns; i'm not super fussy. citations to my peer-reviewed publications should use "she".
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Today!
NYC YIDDEN
Jews Say: Let Food Into Gaza!
When: Monday 7/28, 6pm
Where: Across from the Israeli Consulate
(800 2nd Ave. between 42 St. & 43 St.)
Jews Say: Let Food Into Gaza!
When: Monday 7/28, 6pm
Where: Across from the Israeli Consulate
(800 2nd Ave. between 42 St. & 43 St.)
July 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Today!
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Let's keep that momentum going! Find the bundle here: itch.io/b/3200/fight...
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July 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM
We've sold a bunch of the bundles already! You have no idea how much this level of support means to me.
Let's keep that momentum going! Find the bundle here: itch.io/b/3200/fight...
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i'm worried about the implications of this paper, which indicates that bone marrow doesn't retain information about how to respond to covid spike proteins after six months.
the implication is that EVERYONE needs covid shots twice yearly.
we update flu shots 2x/year.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
the implication is that EVERYONE needs covid shots twice yearly.
we update flu shots 2x/year.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
SARS-CoV-2-specific plasma cells are not durably established in the bone marrow long-lived compartment after mRNA vaccination - Nature Medicine
The rapid waning of SARS-CoV-2-specific serum antibodies observed after immunization with COVID-19 mRNA vaccines may be accounted for by the absence of long-lived plasma cells in the bone marrow speci...
www.nature.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
i'm worried about the implications of this paper, which indicates that bone marrow doesn't retain information about how to respond to covid spike proteins after six months.
the implication is that EVERYONE needs covid shots twice yearly.
we update flu shots 2x/year.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
the implication is that EVERYONE needs covid shots twice yearly.
we update flu shots 2x/year.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
www.politico.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
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The New York Times "accepts" millions of dollars a year from fossil fuel interests
drilled.media/news/drilled...
drilled.media/news/drilled...
May 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The New York Times "accepts" millions of dollars a year from fossil fuel interests
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See this? It's called a non-inferiority trial. It compares the new vaccine with the current vaccines to see if the new vaccine does better. This new vaccine did.
Placebo-controlled trials are not needed to test most new vaccines. Demanding them will only reduce vaccine access. Which is the point.
Placebo-controlled trials are not needed to test most new vaccines. Demanding them will only reduce vaccine access. Which is the point.
May 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
See this? It's called a non-inferiority trial. It compares the new vaccine with the current vaccines to see if the new vaccine does better. This new vaccine did.
Placebo-controlled trials are not needed to test most new vaccines. Demanding them will only reduce vaccine access. Which is the point.
Placebo-controlled trials are not needed to test most new vaccines. Demanding them will only reduce vaccine access. Which is the point.
no. op asserted (violently) that benadryl pre-vaccine was a good idea. i asked for documentation for that, and was pointed at some irrelevant references. this is more irrelevancy.
? I was merely pointing out that this concern was referenced by the person looking into the link btw Mast cell activation and Covid at least once. Your post didn't mention looking for a research paper but ofc you're more than free to look.
May 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
no. op asserted (violently) that benadryl pre-vaccine was a good idea. i asked for documentation for that, and was pointed at some irrelevant references. this is more irrelevancy.
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Even though CBS News plagiarized my first scoop in this series, the fact that Trump's nominee for surgeon general lied for years about every relevant aspect of her qualifications is getting relatively little attention—and her confirmation hearing is on Thursday:
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open.substack.com/pub/lastcamp...
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open.substack.com/pub/lastcamp...
Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Distorted Key Parts of Her Résumé
Nesheiwat falsified, misled, selectively omitted, or lied about her medical education, board certifications, and military experience
open.substack.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Even though CBS News plagiarized my first scoop in this series, the fact that Trump's nominee for surgeon general lied for years about every relevant aspect of her qualifications is getting relatively little attention—and her confirmation hearing is on Thursday:
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open.substack.com/pub/lastcamp...
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you could tell a pretty comprehensive history of America by breaking it down era by era into which group(s) whites decided to hate so much that they unearthed previously unimaginable levels of society-breaking cruelty. the 21st century is defined by anti-Arab bias and Islamaphobia in bone-deep ways
May 4, 2025 at 7:20 AM
you could tell a pretty comprehensive history of America by breaking it down era by era into which group(s) whites decided to hate so much that they unearthed previously unimaginable levels of society-breaking cruelty. the 21st century is defined by anti-Arab bias and Islamaphobia in bone-deep ways
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"The British Medical Association (BMA) resident doctors conference has condemned the Supreme Court’s “scientifically illiterate” Supreme Court trans ruling."
www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/28/b...
www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/28/b...
BMA resident doctors condemn Supreme Court's 'scientifically illiterate' trans ruling
The British Medical Association (BMA) resident doctors conference has condemned the Supreme Court's “scientifically illiterate” Supreme Court trans ruling.
www.thepinknews.com
May 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"The British Medical Association (BMA) resident doctors conference has condemned the Supreme Court’s “scientifically illiterate” Supreme Court trans ruling."
www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/28/b...
www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/28/b...
but we're not talking about lc here? we're talking about whether or not pre-vaccine diphenhydramine is good advice. i quote you:
>I HAVE A CONCLUSIVE PAPER TO SHOW PEOPLE WHO WHINE AT ME ABOUT MY FUCKING DIPHENHYDRAMINE PRE-VACCINE ADVICE NOW
i don't think that's justified by that paper.
>I HAVE A CONCLUSIVE PAPER TO SHOW PEOPLE WHO WHINE AT ME ABOUT MY FUCKING DIPHENHYDRAMINE PRE-VACCINE ADVICE NOW
i don't think that's justified by that paper.
May 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
but we're not talking about lc here? we're talking about whether or not pre-vaccine diphenhydramine is good advice. i quote you:
>I HAVE A CONCLUSIVE PAPER TO SHOW PEOPLE WHO WHINE AT ME ABOUT MY FUCKING DIPHENHYDRAMINE PRE-VACCINE ADVICE NOW
i don't think that's justified by that paper.
>I HAVE A CONCLUSIVE PAPER TO SHOW PEOPLE WHO WHINE AT ME ABOUT MY FUCKING DIPHENHYDRAMINE PRE-VACCINE ADVICE NOW
i don't think that's justified by that paper.
people who need prophylactic antihistamines aren't comparable to people who don't need them. this doesn't follow. you'd want to measure immune response in people with normal immune responses, not already-overactive ones, before you went shutting down an immune response pre-vaccine.
May 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
people who need prophylactic antihistamines aren't comparable to people who don't need them. this doesn't follow. you'd want to measure immune response in people with normal immune responses, not already-overactive ones, before you went shutting down an immune response pre-vaccine.
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Good morning Saturday! Can I interest you in a little magic? I've got all kinds of gorgeous labradorite wrapped up and ready to travel the world.
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#Handmade #ShopIndie #Etsy
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#Handmade #ShopIndie #Etsy
May 3, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Good morning Saturday! Can I interest you in a little magic? I've got all kinds of gorgeous labradorite wrapped up and ready to travel the world.
oishiny.etsy.com
#Handmade #ShopIndie #Etsy
oishiny.etsy.com
#Handmade #ShopIndie #Etsy
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Trump's budget proposal calls for a 40% cut to NIH because it has not disproven the lab leak hypothesis! The language is very similar to Vought's Center for Renewing America budget proposal from a couple of years ago.
Nothing about the actual science that NIH is producing!
Nothing about the actual science that NIH is producing!
May 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Trump's budget proposal calls for a 40% cut to NIH because it has not disproven the lab leak hypothesis! The language is very similar to Vought's Center for Renewing America budget proposal from a couple of years ago.
Nothing about the actual science that NIH is producing!
Nothing about the actual science that NIH is producing!
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Science isn’t like tap water, you can’t just turn it on and off. It’s like an oyster: it builds over time until it eventually creates pearls. This sort of senseless destruction is going to haunt us for a long time.
My research portfolio has now lost four federal grants to the Trump administration.
May 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Science isn’t like tap water, you can’t just turn it on and off. It’s like an oyster: it builds over time until it eventually creates pearls. This sort of senseless destruction is going to haunt us for a long time.
Poetry was my first love as a reader and a writer.
Choose 20 Poems that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One poem/day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just a link.
#BookSky
#PoetrySky
#Poem
18/20 Pet Panther by AR Ammons
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Choose 20 Poems that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One poem/day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just a link.
#BookSky
#PoetrySky
#Poem
18/20 Pet Panther by AR Ammons
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“Pet Panther,” by A.R. Ammons
Pet Panther A.R. Ammons My attention is a wild animal: it will if idle make trouble where there was no harm: it will sniff and scratch at the breath’s sills: it will wind itself tight around …
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May 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Poetry was my first love as a reader and a writer.
Choose 20 Poems that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One poem/day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just a link.
#BookSky
#PoetrySky
#Poem
18/20 Pet Panther by AR Ammons
allyshenandoah.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/p...
Choose 20 Poems that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One poem/day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just a link.
#BookSky
#PoetrySky
#Poem
18/20 Pet Panther by AR Ammons
allyshenandoah.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/p...
i'm concerned re this line from the paper:
> MastCells function as sentinels to recognize invaded pathogens and regulate the innate and adaptive immune responses (1, 6–8).
which implies that antihistamines would inhibit the immune responses that vaccines are *for*. would this reduce efficacy?
> MastCells function as sentinels to recognize invaded pathogens and regulate the innate and adaptive immune responses (1, 6–8).
which implies that antihistamines would inhibit the immune responses that vaccines are *for*. would this reduce efficacy?
May 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
i'm concerned re this line from the paper:
> MastCells function as sentinels to recognize invaded pathogens and regulate the innate and adaptive immune responses (1, 6–8).
which implies that antihistamines would inhibit the immune responses that vaccines are *for*. would this reduce efficacy?
> MastCells function as sentinels to recognize invaded pathogens and regulate the innate and adaptive immune responses (1, 6–8).
which implies that antihistamines would inhibit the immune responses that vaccines are *for*. would this reduce efficacy?
Poetry was my first love as a reader and a writer.
Choose 20 Poems that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One poem/day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just a link.
#BookSky
#PoetrySky
#Poem
17/20 The More Loving one by WH Auden
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f2y...
Choose 20 Poems that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One poem/day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just a link.
#BookSky
#PoetrySky
#Poem
17/20 The More Loving one by WH Auden
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f2y...
The More Loving One - W. H. Auden
YouTube video by Cody Reads
www.youtube.com
April 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Poetry was my first love as a reader and a writer.
Choose 20 Poems that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One poem/day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just a link.
#BookSky
#PoetrySky
#Poem
17/20 The More Loving one by WH Auden
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f2y...
Choose 20 Poems that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One poem/day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just a link.
#BookSky
#PoetrySky
#Poem
17/20 The More Loving one by WH Auden
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f2y...
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"Those who would give up Liberty to get Cheaper Eggs, deserve neither." -Ben Franklin
April 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"Those who would give up Liberty to get Cheaper Eggs, deserve neither." -Ben Franklin
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happy #nationalunicornday 🦄💜
an old fav watercolor... I will always love The Last Unicorn
an old fav watercolor... I will always love The Last Unicorn
April 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
happy #nationalunicornday 🦄💜
an old fav watercolor... I will always love The Last Unicorn
an old fav watercolor... I will always love The Last Unicorn
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Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27
South Sudan cholera patients died walking to clinic after US cut aid, charity says
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after U.S. aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said on Wednesday.
reut.rs
April 9, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27
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The White House. The actual White House.
This is the attitude of every abuser, who is now fearful of the consequences of their abuse.
This is the attitude of every abuser, who is now fearful of the consequences of their abuse.
April 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The White House. The actual White House.
This is the attitude of every abuser, who is now fearful of the consequences of their abuse.
This is the attitude of every abuser, who is now fearful of the consequences of their abuse.