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Frieda grosgean

@bernaharbor.bsky.social
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Psychiatrist and accordionist. Retired from UCLA. Autistic & ND advocate. Books addict and book writing.

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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Amazing new discovery www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Inside the Interstitium, the Human Body’s Hidden Pathways (Gift Article)
The detection of another circulatory system in the human body could have enormous scientific implications.
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Not surprising but of course so disappointing, and very brave of the 94yo Dolores Huerta to set the records straigths www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/u...
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‘We’re Just Seen as Sex Objects’: Dolores Huerta’s Years in the U.F.W.
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Follow up on #HelenadeGroot 's podcast with her great interview with the NYT (gift article- audio) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/p...
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I Didn’t Want to Have Kids. My Husband Did. Could Our Marriage Survive?
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I know there are many Podcasts to choose from, this one is from my very dear friend Helena de Groot Iit is about life, in particular about having kids or not. It is moving, funny, loving, brilliant...unique....so check it on this link "Creation Myth" 1: Nothing Complicated link.mgln.ai/7GHhUX
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Personally: Creation Myth
Listen to Personally: Creation Myth
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Stan Stewart (muz4now) @muz4now.com · 07/08/2025
Sound designer Helena de Groot on the unglamorous parts of creative practice thecreativeindependent.com/people/sound...
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Sound designer Helena de Groot on the unglamorous parts of creative practice – The Creative Independent
Audio creator and sound designer Helena de Groot discusses asking difficult questions, paying attention to the banal, and finally doing The Thing
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Pentax he/him Junkie @m-bartosek.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
“ how to get better at taking in the horrors of the world”, this is a personal and frank question posed by Helena de Groot, in the opening seconds of this podcast. I’ve revisited this episode a few times since October, and I’m sure I will a few times more in the future.
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Chris Spaide @cspaide.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I got to talk about Helen—as a teacher, colleague, and friend—on the podcast Poetry Off the Shelf; many thanks to Helena de Groot for this marvelous episode on HV and Marjorie Perloff: www.poetryfoundation.org/audio/164604...
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Poets We Lost in 2024
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Aliya Rahman is a Minneapolis resident who is autistic and physically disabled. She describes admirably the ongoing traumatizing indiscriminate abuse of power existing currently in the US. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcW... #autism #disability #trauma
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WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Be aware....via Palantir and Cie...(free article- read it, it is about freedom...literally www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/01/2026
My cultural awakening: A Queen song helped me break free from communist Cuba
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My cultural awakening: A Queen song helped me break free from communist Cuba
Listening to Brian May’s multi-tracked epic on a battered cassette player when I lived in repressive Havana inspired lit a spark of rebellion inside me
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Biosecurity
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The Economist @economist.com · 12/01/2026
European governments are beginning to respond to warnings about the possibility of a war with Russia. But few of the continent’s western countries have anything comparable to the war readiness of the Nordics, Baltics and Poland
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Europe’s generals are warning people to prepare for war
But western European societies are in denial
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/01/2026
‘We want people to sit, pause, relax’: National Trust to open its libraries for public use
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‘We want people to sit, pause, relax’: National Trust to open its libraries for public use
Charity plans to make stately homes more welcoming by inviting visitors to use furniture and reading rooms
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/12/2025
A cast of Trump’s lesser-known political appointees and DOGE operatives cut programs in ways that guaranteed widespread harm and death in some of the world’s most desperate situations. From our friends at @propublica.org:
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Trump officials celebrated with cake after slashing aid. Then people died of cholera.
ProPublica uncovered that after USAID funding cuts, cases of cholera in South Sudan spiked.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
One predicaments Julia touches on here: IDEA remains an unfulfilled promise, the government has never fully funded it. And yet, it is constantly under assault. So advocates are always torn between defending the status quo and wanting to grow it.
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
One day I’ll write a book about how Systems are killing #doctors. Good, conscientious, caring doctors. Destroying their souls & bodies. In 2 decades they will be all gone, replaced by machines & a few humans w just enough training to do what machines & admin will ask them to do.Heartbreaking
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
We are driving straight to the wall of an incredible tragedy regarding access to medical care....what a shame, first abroad and now here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/h...
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‘Medicaid Cut Me Off’: A Rural Health Center Faces New Pressures
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DFahnz🌈🧚🏽‍♀️ @dfahnz.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Oh, fuck yeah.
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Reading the superb new Biography of #JamesBaldwin by #NicholasBoggs I just "side-read" Baldwin's powerful 1955 Essay. No words really but his... harpers.org/archive/1955...
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Me and My House . . ., by James Baldwin
In this searching portrait of his father and himself—the author of Go Tell It on the Mountain and of the forthcoming Notes of a Native Sun, explores some depths of the human condition.
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
What an extraordinary human being... learning, giving, sharing and fighting until no longer able to. #parkinson Thank you Dr Sue Goldie. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Sue Goldie Has Parkinson’s Disease (Gift Article)
An acclaimed researcher is an expert at explaining complicated problems. Now she has to confront the most vexing question: What is happening to her?
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Thankful to Linda Richmond and my colleagues Dr Katie Unverferth and Dr Stacy Greeter to collaborate and help with these important clarifications #autism #chronicpain "Acetaminophen Claims Obscure True Issues Facing Autistic Patients" | Psychiatric News www.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...
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Acetaminophen Claims Obscure True Issues Facing Autistic Patients | Psychiatric News
PsychiatryOnline.org is the platform for all American Psychiatric Association Publishing journals, DSM, and bestselling textbooks, as well as APA Practice Guidelines, and continuing medical education.
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Thankful I could share my insider perspectives 🙏”Working together. How what I learned as an autistic psychiatrist enables me to be an advocate inside a profession known for its resistance to change" #neurodiversity #AutismEuropeCongress #AsIAm #autism . m.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Ti...
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"Working Together." Bernadette Grosjean MD. 14th Autism Europe Congress. Dublin September 2025.
YouTube video by bernadette grosjean
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/10/2025
‘I think you’re testing me’: Anthropic’s new AI model asks testers to come clean
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‘I think you’re testing me’: Anthropic’s new AI model asks testers to come clean
Safety evaluation of Claude Sonnet 4.5 raises questions about whether predecessors ‘played along’, firm says If you are trying to catch out a chatbot take care, because one cutting-edge tool is showing signs it knows what you are up to. Anthropic, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company, has released a safety analysis of its latest model, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and revealed it had become suspicious it was being tested in some way. Continue reading...
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Important podcast about endometriosis (its auto immune potential link)- a problem that touches 10% of women (& autistic women being overrepresented) who experience lifelong pain and disability because of it, & yet it represented 0.03% of NIH 2024 research budget podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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A Surprising Cause Of Endometriosis Could Lead To Cure
Podcast Episode · Short Wave · 09/26/2025 · 13m
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
A.Wakefield falsified a Lancet paper about vaccine & autism & $$ expert in linked litigation is responsible for preventable death & pain from polio&measles A. Baccarelli sharing the spot of corrupted “$$expert” increasing the general pain level in this world #autism www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/h...
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Harvard Dean Was Paid $150,000 as an Expert Witness in Tylenol Lawsuits
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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Autism-Europe calls on international leaders to support the autistic community instead of spreading disinformation – Autism Europe
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Great piece in the NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...
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Opinion | ‘This May Be the Most Difficult Day in My Career’: Experts React to Trump’s Autism Remarks
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Antijen @antijen.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
1. Vaccines do not cause autism 2. Tylenol does not cause autism 3. Autistic people are actually pretty swell So many more thoughts but too angry/frustrated by this bullshit to pull it together. Sending a hug to all my neurodivergent friends and family. Love those freaky wonderful brains of yours.
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
it is mostly genetics....and autistic women proportionally experience more pain and might use more acetaminophen...and the result of this non scientific announcement is to increase confusion, pain and guilt....
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 22/09/2025
so i mean there are some silver linings here
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
It does not… and please listen until the end thanks! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Does Tylenol Cause Autism?
Podcast Episode · Science Vs · 09/18/2025 · 28m
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 19/09/2025
Under the Trump Administration, federal offices and programs that insure equal treatment are being shuttered and scaled back.
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Donald Trump’s Assault on Disability Rights
Federal offices and programs that insure equal treatment are being shuttered and scaled back.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 19/09/2025
Trump plans to raise cost of H1-B foreign worker visa to $100,000 on.ft.com/3VmsxSF
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Donald Trump plans to raise cost of H1-B foreign worker visa to $100,000
Shares in IT consulting firms dropped on news of changes to scheme popular with Silicon Valley
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Hopefully I will meet some of you over there. Otherwise my talk should be on youtube later and I will post the link here as soon as it is available Thank you! #workingtogether #AECongress2025 #AutismEurope #AutisticDoctorsInternational #AutismCongress2025
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dabxdee.bsky.social @dabxdee.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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Why this well-known Jewish leader is endorsing Mamdani | NY1's You Decide
YouTube video by Spectrum News
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Keep thinking and walking…https://www.phillyvoice.com/dementia-prevention-sense-purpose-alzheimers/#
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
omg, this is so horrific i couldn't read all of it.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
New from me: Trump and RFK Jr. blathered on about autism being a “horror show.” But all the while, RFK Jr.’s the Department of Health and Human Services has terminated millions of dollars of grants midway through research projects, rendering the money wasted. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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RFK Jr and Trump fearmonger about autism in cabinet meeting but kill research
Kennedy has said he will release his own report on the ‘epidemic’ of autism next month
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
How did we come here? Well read this amazing historical recap open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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August 23, 2025
“It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future,” President Donald Trump wr...
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I can't help thinking that eugenics is the goal. To make old, sick or disable people die faster due to lack of support or vaccine. T's admin admire Curtis Yarvin who wanted to address homelessness in San Francisco: by "converting them into biodiesel, to power buses". www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
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Opinion | I’m a Proud Conservative. My Disabled Son Needs Medicaid to Live.
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 20/08/2025
"All girls described facing racism, ableism and sexism from peers and teaching staff through microaggressions, harassment, and abuse." "All participants reported being labelled as aggressive or having an attitude, often due to teachers’ misinterpretation of unmet learning needs." #AutRes #BlackSky
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The lived experiences of masking black Autistic girls in UK education: “before people see the autism, they see my race.”
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Something that gets overlooked but is a giant health miracle: We've drastically reduced veteran homelessness. Between 2009 and 2023, the number of veterans experiencing homelessness fell by 51.5 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/h...
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Trump’s Get-Tough Approach on Homelessness May Sweep Up Veterans
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Remember when House Republicans tried to prevent states from enforcing any "law or regulation … limiting, restricting, or otherwise regulating" related to AI?
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
and it is not The Onion...
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
"1984"' Ministry of Truth :) www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...
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RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.
While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals,...
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
These supposed scientists are nothing less that serial killers and should be thrown in jail with life sentences (free article) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism (Gift Article)
Data can easily be manipulated to show causation that doesn’t exist.
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
On the same subject very similar perspective, if you prefer audio :) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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What Makes A Man? Richard Reeves on Addressing the Struggles Facing Boys and Men
Podcast Episode · On with Kara Swisher · 08/14/2025 · 1h
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Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Important read…. We need more men mentor and teacher…we need to work together asap… Boy Crisis of 2025, Meet the ‘Boy Problem’ of the 1900s www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...
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Opinion | Boy Crisis of 2025, Meet the ‘Boy Problem’ of the 1900s
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Nature doesn't do binary “We think of sex chromosomes as being sex determining,” says Mank, who also wasn’t involved in the new research. “That’s not true.” www.science.org/content/arti...
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‘Sex reversal’ is surprisingly common in birds, new study suggests
Survey of five Australian avians finds numerous discordant individuals, including a genetically male bird that had laid an egg
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