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Christie @christiefancher.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Participants needed: this sociological study explores how people with Long COVID and ME/CFS utilize online chronic illness communities and content while navigating their journeys to diagnosis. Please share with anyone who might be interested! #chronicillness #mecfs #longcovid #chronicfatigue

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Christie @christiefancher.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

WHY does ProQuest E-book Central now have an AI "Research Assistant?" Instead of a worse-written version of the book's actual summary popping out at me I'd prefer they fix the fact that if you search a word that's in a chapter title, every single page of that chapter pops up due to the header 😪

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Caregivers to disabled people and aging adults (who do not have certain health conditions) will not be able to get the Covid booster in the future under new rules, putting people they care for at risk. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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FDA to cut Covid booster access, excluding in-home carers

By restricting vaccinations, "the FDA creates a dangerous public health gap."

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Christie @christiefancher.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I had an interview yesterday for a graduate student researcher position on a project that's directly in my research area and I am manifesting HARD that they hire me 😭🙏✨🔮😩

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Adriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants

Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

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🌲🌀🐾Colorado Citizen♻️🐾🌲🌲 @coloradocitizen.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Worth posting again for people who may not know. The names of what Medicaid is called in your state:

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 01/03/2025

Can we please stop with the "why aren't Americans doing anything" Discourse that I keep seeing? I'm not even talking about people in other countries. I'm talking about my fellow USians who I see every day On Here bemoaning how we aren't protesting. 1. PROTESTS ARE LITERALLY HAPPENING EVERY DAY.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/02/2025

no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

One thing for faculty to do rn: share info with your students about basic needs programs on your campus. The whole shit show over federal funding means there's some programs that people rely on for food and other needs that have been disrupted, and sharing that info could really help students.

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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Our govt actively encouraged the thinking that some lives were, by necessity, disposable & to settle oneself to that being the only way to continue to perpetuate the status quo. You bet that opens the door to widescale fascism as the list of disposables grows.

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Christie @christiefancher.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I’ve started saying this every time I hear the term “executive order” #Nosferatu

A screencap closeup of Ellen and Thomas in the film Nosferatu. Ellen looks pensively into the distance while Thomas looks at her in horror. The subtitle reads "it portends something awful for us"

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch. This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service. Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky

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Stream PBS and PBS KIDS Free on Prime Video

PBS and Amazon announced that more than 150 local PBS stations and the PBS KIDS Channel will launch ad-free as a Prime Video FAST offering. This marks the…

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Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook, MD FRCSC (she/her) @placentadoc.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

As the parent of a disabled student, I can tell you that the assessments & documentation necessary to get accommodations is time-consuming, difficult to access, & expensive. Students with documented disabilities aren’t “entitled,” “lazy,” or simply needing “extra time.”

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 11/01/2025

California identified roughly 800 women forcibly sterilized in state prisons from 2005 to 2013. Yet a reparations program for victims has compensated only a fraction, with most claims being denied. boltsmag.org/forced-...

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For Survivors of Forced Sterilization in California Prisons, a Rushed Shot at Justice

A state board deciding reparations for women sterilized against their will rejected most applications. Advocates are now racing against a January deadline for victims to appeal.

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Christie @christiefancher.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

My computational social sciences instructor made a really good point yesterday. In regards to online platforms like LLMs and social media, “if you’re not paying for it, you’re the product.”

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

Disabled people are not acceptable casualties. Not during natural disasters. Not during a pandemic. Not during climate collapse. Not for profit. Not for optics. Not at protests. Not at school. Not for election goals. Not for personal comfort. There is no justice without disability justice.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/01/2025

Your periodic reminder that if you need to get out of your house FAST, do not bother trying to stuff your cats into carriers, just scoop them up in pillowcases. (You can drop said squirming rage sacks into carriers for added security if you have time.)

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Emily Ladau @emilyladau.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

If there are any disability-specific support and relief efforts/mutual aid in the affected California areas, please amplify.

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Return-to-office (RTO) mandates lead to abnormally high employee turnover, especially for female/more senior/more skilled employees. It also takes significantly longer to fill these job vacancies after RTO mandates. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Sam (formerly Barisan Hantu) 🇸🇬🍉 @neuroliminality.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Being disabled is walking the tightrope of proving you're competent enough to matter and disabled enough to require support

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 11/12/2024

Abstracts authored by all-female teams are less likely to get accepted for presentation at economics conferences than those authored by all-male teams, even after adjusting for the authors’ prior track records and institutional prestige

Tweet from JohnHolbein1:

“All-female-authored papers are less likely to be accepted at economics conferences than all-male papers even when adjusting for...
1. the number of authors on a paper,
2. referees' traits,
3. subtield,
4. # of cites,
5. previous record of the authors,
6. connections between the authors of a given paper and the referees that evaluate it, AND
7. authors' institutional prestige.”

Screenshot of the study:
OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS, 83, 3 (2021) 0305-9049
doi: 10.1111/obes.12409
Gender Gaps in the Evaluation of Research: Evidence from Submissions to Economics Conferences*
LAURA HOSPIDOT and CARLOS SANZ

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 11/12/2024

I had to reread this to be sure I understood since it is so Kafkaesque: hospitals are giving medications to patients in labor, only to report them to child welfare authorities when they or their newborns test positive for *the same medications the hospital just gave them*

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Christie @christiefancher.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Chronic pain has truly changed my entire outlook on society and especially the medical field. Because pain isn’t visible it’s often not believed (especially in women and other marginalized groups) by doctors, professors, bosses, loved ones. You become suspect without evidence of suffering.

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Patients with Power @ptswithpower.com · 08/12/2024

As a scientist and patient, I’ve been shocked (over and over) at how little questioning & investigation happens in the doctors’ office when a patient talks about their symptoms. And how rarely physicians ever look into conditions they’re unfamiliar with. #neisvoid #medsky

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

That about sums it up (Artist: teabag.comics)

A cartoon showing a daily cycle for a little green frog-like creature. At the top it is on a bed and it says 'every day I wake up'. On the right it is surrounded by question marks. At the bottom it is next to a loaf of bread with a bite taken out and it says 'little treat'. On the left it is surrounded by messy purple scribbles and it says 'performs chaotic movements and task switching'. There are arrows between each of these stages to depict the continuous cycle through them.

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Christie @christiefancher.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Advertise your account with just one image.

A screenshot of a post by the Instagram account too_chronicallyilltochill_82. The post is the meme format of a photo of a black man wearing a backwards black baseball cap leaning on a porch railing looking into the distance with text that reads “I bring a sort of chronically ill & disabled vibe to the doctors office that medical professionals don’t really like”

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Let this sink in: there’s not a single state, city, or county in America where someone with a disability who receives SSI can afford a one-bedroom apartment. SSI payments are capped at $943 a month nationwide. The average monthly rent is $1,399—or an astounding *148%* of an SSI recipient’s income.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Blue Cross Blue Shield in Connecticut, New York and Missouri has declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia for the full length of some surgeries. It the procedure goes over a certain time, anesthesia will not be covered for the duration. www.asahq.org/about-asa/ne...

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Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Won’t Pay for the Complete Duration of Anesthesia for Patients’ Surgical Procedures

In an unprecedented move, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield plans representing Connecticut, New York and Missouri have unilaterally declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia care if the surgery or pro...

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Kyle Lamoin Callen, PhD ♿️ @kylecallen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The following is a recruitment letter for an IRB approved research project I'm doing on disabilities and masculinity, along with an alt-text summary. Please share with anyone you know who might be interested in participating. #academia #disability #masculinity #gender

My name is Kyle Callen, and I am a disabled sociologist. My research seeks to know more about men with disabilities, impairments, and/or chronic illnesses and their understandings of and experiences with masculinity throughout their lives. I invite anyone with a disability, impairment, or chronic illness who identifies as male to participate in an interview with me (either in person, via Zoom, or by phone). You will be asked to talk about the relationships between disability, impairment, chronic illness, and masculinity across different stages of your life. Privacy and anonymity will be ensured through the use of pseudonyms. You can stop the interview, refuse to answer any questions you aren’t comfortable answering, and ask to be removed from the study at any time. Interviews will be audio recorded, transcribed for analyses, and will last anywhere from an hour to 90 minutes. If you're interested in participating, my email is Kyle.L.Callen-1@ou.edu. I look forward to hearing from you!

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Jude @judeinlondon.com · 30/11/2024

It was only 4 years ago disabled ppl with Covid were being put on DNR requests in hospitals without consent. It’s only 4 years ago, Covid treatment was rationed based on who needed less treatment due to lack of planning and equipment. This country isn’t responsible enough for assisted dying

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QuyetPawz @quyetpawz.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Anyone who tells me that disabled people aren't being coerced or pressured into MAID need to read Normand Meunier's experience because something as simple as a damn mattress would have prevented him choosing MAID. AID (as in care and help) before MAID.

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Christie @christiefancher.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.

A close up of a calico cat laying on a black blanket with her head turned partly to the left looking deep in thought and doing a blep with her tongue.

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

On the shelf, it would look like an ordinary book, but when opened you’d find drawers to hide poison. The inside cover has a woodcut from Vesalius’ De Fabrica. The glass bottle says STATUT UM EST HOMINIBUS SEMEI MOR - it is well established that all people die once. It was made in Germany in 1682

A hollow book containing drawers with the names of poisons on, and a glass bottle. The inside cover has an image of a skeleton leaning on a gravedigger’s spade.

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 26/11/2024

Good morning to everyone who doesn’t dismiss women and their very real complaints.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23/11/2024

Elimination by starvation. Republican legislators may not be shuttering Sociology programs (yet), but restrictions on what can be taught and what subjects can count for gen ed credit are forcing programs to cut courses and driving students elsewhere for majors. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...

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Republicans Target Social Sciences to Curb Ideas They Don’t Like

Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing subjects like sociology from core requirements.

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GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Optimist: the cup is 1/2 full Pessimist: the cup is 1/2 empty Excel: the cup is January 2nd

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

When we said this years ago on Twitter… based on maths… they said it was ridiculous. Slowly, slowly… this train is pulling out of the station. We’ll see what full speed looks like. www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

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“Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans

In a candid discussion with INET's Lynn Parramore, Dr. Phillip Alvelda highlights the imminent dangers of long COVID, criticizing governments and health agencies for ongoing preventable suffering and ...

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Oh my god. I had no idea: Medicaid: 73 million low-income people are exposed to AI-related decision-making SNAP: 42 million low-income people are exposed to AI-related decision-making Social Security disability benefits: About 13.8 million people are exposed to AI-related decision-making

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Georgetown Law told a pregnant student due amid exams that she has to take her final with everyone else, because accommodation would be “inequitable” to “non-birthing” peers. They suggested she bring her newborn to campus as she does her exam. “Motherhood is not for the faint of heart,” they said.

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URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED: Support the Accommodations and Rights Protection for Brittany Lovely and All Pregnant Students

We, the Georgetown Law community and classmates of 2L Brittany Lovely, support her request for accommodations to her final exams this fall because of her pregnancy and the upcoming birth of her first ...

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Coach Rusty @coachrusty.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

They told me my English degree was worthless and yet here I am using words to get 12 likes on the internet so

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Dr. Anna Maria Valdez ( RN) 🩺 @drannamvaldez.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

I was going to write something eloquent about disability justice today, but I am tired. I will keep it simple. If your DEIJ and health equity work does not include people who have disabilities it is incomplete.

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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

So we beat on, boys against the milkshake, borne back ceaselessly into the yard

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