I complimented someone socks and they were super proud to show me it was a painted, bedazzled ankle monitor 😂 Not sure you're supposed to do that but it's very cute lol

Just rude...

Cediopsylla simplex 🙂

The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office. A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: https://scim.ag/4boPkq8

I got a DM asking if I think it's reasonable to empathize with these parents right now. 1. You don't achieve anything meaningful by calling people stupid. 2. The only difference between me and the hesitant people is that I already have the answers to my questions because of my education.

You know what's funny? People always accuse scientists of being disconnected from reality, caring only about their science. They have no idea how much empathy and understanding of the broader picture is required for good Public Health work. So you get stuff like this...

My gentle nugget just turned 6 🥹

This should give you an idea of what my friends have to endure. They hear about my work so often that they're capturing FLEAS 💀

Come work with us!!

Guinea-Bissau "terminated a contentious hepatitis B vaccine trial bankrolled by the Trump administration following a sharp ethical rebuke from the WHO, which warned the study risked causing irreversible harm to newborns" "It's not going to happen, period," said Foreign Minister Joao Bernardo Vieira

what even is the fucking point

Nothing like a $2 tax return 💀

Mind you, this is the type of take you also hear from AI-brainwashed senior academics...

I'm tempted to start a thread on the type of people who should never be in leadership roles... I'll start with just one today. 1. The people who think the most important thing is to always remain nice to awful people. That moral high road only leads to more abuse that they let you endure alone.

In honor of the proposal written and submitted by @tattooed-bug.bsky.social on extremely short notice. Looking forward to collaborating!

Today, I'm proud to announce that we've erased over $1.1 billion in medical debt for more than half a million Illinoisans. No one should be forced to choose between life-saving care and feeding their families. Stay tuned for more news on affordability in Illinois tomorrow.

I would be curious to know how many male colleagues ever had their slides overridden without warning by another man who couldn't resist showing his own results during someone else's online presentation. Like... I'm actually baffled.

Most people don't believe that I'm a very introverted person. But then a colleague gifted me this sweater...

Bad Bunny floating our real flag separate from the French colonial flag ❤️🇲🇶🇲🇶🇲🇶❤️

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

Guess whose visa expires in May... apnews.com/article/h1b-...

Happy 3 year anniversary to this post

You couldn't pay me to admit something like this 💀

You need to brush up on your history friend. That is literally not true. These guys fled abroad and lived nice cosy lives. Some faced consequences, mainly because, after a few years, they started feeling nostalgic and began acting in a nazi-ish way again.

“.. People take part in a rally on the day of a general strike to protest U.S. President Donald Trump's deployment of thousands of immigration enforcement officers on the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota.” @reuters.com

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

The way this man talks makes me feel I've forgotten to take my meds and I can't process what he's trying to say. We need to get off this ride. Expeditiously 😩

I hate that students are now too young to get the "dishonor on you, dishonor on your cow" reference ☹️

People are sharing photos from their best 2016 moments. 2016 is the year I found out I was very allergic to Anopheles stephensi saliva...

crazy to think how i struggle to ask for any kind of help but the president of the united states asks "can i have your nobel peace prize?"

US higher education was a crown jewel, generating knowledge, wealth, prestige, and power unrivaled by anyone. And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.

My dog makes it very clear he's not to be disturbed once he's sent himself to bed.

I genuinely feel like we're all asleep and he's our sleep paralysis demon.

Also announced it on LinkedIn and some guy private messaged me to say "Congratulations to your PI" lol. Maybe one day Academia will take its foot off my neck. Not today apparently 😅

Fieldwork is so random. One moment things are going according to plan. The next, you're collecting ticks from a very polite cemetery-roaming sweet baby.

I'm having one of the most important work meetings of my life tomorrow. Please sacrifice a metaphorical chicken to the Academia gods for me thank youuuu

Very proud to announce that my baby is finally here! This new program at UTMB will support a variety of training opportunities in medical and veterinary entomology. It will also focus on developing a broad network of partners interested in vector biology and ecology across the state of Texas.

Let's not even talk about those who call it "liberation" 🥴

When people ask if Galveston is really that humid...

My very insomniac brain is clearly aware that I'm going back to work tomorrow 🫩

It’s hard to believe a president would time an illegal military attack to distract the public’s attention, but today is the statutory deadline for DOJ to release its report on the Epstein file production. Maybe it is just a coincidence.

Obsessed with this juxtaposition

I know productivity is radically opposed (in the mind of some) to any sort of rest but someone is going to have to explain to me the logic of expecting exhausted people to yield high productivity. I'm bitter. Just as last year. Because these academic deadlines on 12/31 and 1/2 are dumb.

Some personal in/out suggestions for 2026: IN: - more regulated use of AI in higher ed - rebuilding trust in science - vaccines - more balanced life for public health academics. We nearly lost our minds this year. OUT: - measles - internal grant deadlines on January 2 - deadlines at 9 or 12AM

Now friend, your movies are visually beautiful, there's no denying it... but there's no substance there. People are reading, but what you have to say could fit as a paragraph of a food menu.

I've never seen anything as damaging for students as AI. In such a short amount of time, it completely annihilated so much of their critical thinking skill(s). I'm not an AI hater, but kids have become 100% reliant... And then it helps them kill themselves. Like, hello? Are we asleep at the wheel?

Looking for a Christmas miracle for a kitty (aging parent situation) for Baltimore pals: (1/2) ""My mom can no longer keep Angelo (alas!!!) and we are looking to rehome him. Angelo is a total sweetheart. He is 6 years old, gentle, playful, friendly, and a lovebug."

My students gifted me a personalized 2026 calendar with 12 original photos and it's the sweetest Christmas gift ever.

Do people realize that this is also happening with case law? Like Do You Understand What That Fucking Means???

Someone needs to study why -80°C freezers always choose to die after 6pm and between 12/15 and 1/2.