Things I think about often now. 😞

Candlelight service on Christmas Eve.

Christmas pizzelles. Happy holidays all. #italianamerican

Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated. Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...

New job, new headshot. #Pewcharitabletrusts

Happy holidays to all. A targeted alien abduction would be welcome in 2026.

There’s money for ICE There’s money to build detention camps. There’s money for Argentina. There’s money to invade Venezuela. But we’re supposed to believe there’s no money for healthcare, housing & food? Suffering is a policy choice.

2025 holiday decor

A large portion of government health care subsidies will expire soon, affecting the cost and availability of insurance for no less than millions of people. https://to.pbs.org/4oJ9wFZ

Somebody somewhere Needs flowers tonight

Check out our new perspectives piece, led by @5gyres 🌎 pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

I am first gen and went to a small 4-yr college supported by scholarships and a loan. It was a little more expensive but the personal attention I received / small classes is why I ended up going to grad school.

Remember, at the end of Alice in Wonderland, how the Queen of ❤️ screams, "Sentence first, verdict afterwards" & the King says, "If there's no meaning in it, that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any"? That's Prasad & Makary. 🧵1/3 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The EPA has removed references to human-caused climate change from its website — tweaking some pages to focus on the “natural processes” driving climate change and wiping other pages.

As the hour when the sky goes from lightish gray to black gets earlier and earlier, you may find yourself wondering: Will this ever end?

I don’t want to vote for a Democrat who promises to get Trump’s voters to vote for them. I want a Democrat who wants to put Trump in prison

Super happy with how these turned out. Having a hobby again is doing wonders for my mental health in 2025. #pottery

More than 80% of immigrants arrested in the DC surge had no criminal records. So why are they being grabbed? For being the wrong colour. The National Guard has been deployed to DC to assist with “violent criminals” and yet their own data show that most people have done absolutely nothing wrong

May i submit my candidates for 2026’s, Fuck White Supremacy, We Are Not Serene, We Got Stuff To Do ?

I work in a school. We have a mandated number of active shooter drills every year. School kids are shot & killed every year. Mostly by other kids or by white men. We just get thoughts & prayers. It's not the shooting they care about, it's the opportunity to advance their political agenda.

Last two talks given as an associate professor yesterday. Looking forward to a big career shift in one week to a Project Director position at the Pew Charitable Trusts. (I will keep an adjunct faculty appt at OSU). Onward!

While the administration has said it is cutting “woke programs” that “poison the minds of Americans", it actually funded fewer grants in every area of science and medicine. “They brought everything to a stop,” said Sarah Kobrin, a branch chief at the N.I.H.’s National Cancer Institute

Thankful for so many things.

Leftovers are quite possibly the best part of Thanksgiving. Here are some ideas for what to do with them, including this ridiculously easy enchilada pie. nyti.ms/4pwjziE

Bird flu poses risk of pandemic worse than COVID, France’s Institut Pasteur says https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/bird-flu-poses-risk-of-pandemic-worse-than-covid-frances-institut-pasteur-says/ More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Kids as young as 3 and 4 years old are being hauled into immigration court in Seattle and read their rights. They’re being told they have the right to an attorney despite having no capacity to hire one or understand what that means. As Rep Jayapal says, that’s not due process… it’s a farce.

Much fun was had at SETAC Portland this year 🌎 @setac.bsky.social @pnwmicroplastics.bsky.social

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Had a great time at the PICES conference in Yokohama last week! @pnwmicroplastics.bsky.social

Having fun in Japan at the PICES meeting this week 🇯🇵

Had some fun on Halloween with thrifted costumes. T-Rex vs Elastigirl, ended in a truce thankfully 😅

Joining the mud rebellion. #mudtherapy #nokings

Can we please have #nokings again this weekend? I don’t know where to put all of the rage and need to shout at clouds again with other sane people.

I’m returning from a work trip during the protest on Saturday so I made a portable sign 🪧

In case you need something … less dark… on your timeline: This week I started my seminar focused on the legacy of Rachel Carson. I’m thinking I’ll post here what we are reading/watching/doing, and if you are interested, you could follow along. Like a bit of a Carson book group. 📕 🐦

Sums up this moment. #portlandfrog #nokings

Widespread mortality of warm-water coral reefs is underway as the world reaches its first climate tipping point. The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 underlines that the only way to avert catastrophe is to act urgently. Research from @sthlmresilience.bsky.social www.su.se/english/news...

The Halloween hit we all needed 🎃 #themonsterslash #fundingcuts @ellecordova.bsky.social

Short sweet letter by @smbrander.bsky.social and others (including myself) on why the US, with our astronomical health care costs, should be at the forefront of a global #plasticstreaty. But we're not. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Please be aware of what might happen next. #insurrectionact Trump’s Plan open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Beautiful day out and about in “Joburg” @setac.bsky.social

If the government remains shut down, a program that feeds more than six million low-income mothers and their children is likely to run out of funding within the next two weeks, advocates and government officials say.

look at the map here -- more than 2000 protests planned already... www.nokings.org

BREAKING: A federal appeals court upheld a ruling that blocks President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship. The president can't rewrite the 14th Amendment with the stroke of a pen.

This woman can write a lyric or five 👀 “Every eldest daughter was the first lamb to the slaughter, so we all dressed up as wolves and we looked fire” music.apple.com/us/album/eld...

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science

If the regime can change your out of office reply, I assume that means they can read your emails as well? This is disgusting. Furloughed department of education employees had their out of office reply changed to one that blames the Democrats for the shut down. Written in the first person too!!

www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti... “I am saddened to share that we have had our first death from measles in the province. A child, born prematurely after the mother contracted measles during pregnancy, died shortly after birth,” Alberta Health Minister Adriana LaGrange, in a statement, said

At Climate Week NYC, the message was clear: progress is underway. While none of us can do this alone, the number of people who are committed to tackling climate together is growing every day. Read on Mailchimp: shorturl.at/yXmnn Read on LinkedIn: shorturl.at/bssRq