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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Accidentally left my sticker stash out when my kid was having his friends over for a graduation party, so apparently a pile of 18 year olds sat around discussing medication abortion in our living room 🥰🤩

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Someone please introduce me to the man who pondered the best possible design for a blood pressure pill taken by elderly folks with shaky fingers and decided “tiny, narrow, and beige” was the way to go. I just want to talk.

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Put phone down to make tea. Made tea. Picked up tea. Remembered I’d put phone down … somewhere? Put tea down to find phone. Eventually find phone. Remember I put tea down … somewhere? Is this hell this is hell isn’t it

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Love it when someone I’ve supported through an abortion reaches out later to ask how they can support others ❤️

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The best revenge is training abortion doulas so that’s what I’m going to do this weekend. Teaching everyone how to support and care for folks having abortions just as hard i can

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Turn to the person on your left and repeat after me: don’t report your patients to the cops for the love of all that is holy what is wrong with you

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

College admissions are brutal. That is my update from our home with twin seniors.

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

You can love science and also find arguments for abortion safety that lean hard into medical authority gross and problematic.

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I have some bad news for the vast majority of folks who take gabapentin

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Reading @ruha9.bsky.social’s Imagination Manifesto and about to require both my kids to read this as a prerequisite for going to college. This is some beautiful, accessible, inspiring work.

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Update: it is very hard to focus on ANYTHING with fascism growling so loudly

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

We're all trying to be careful with our language, so as not to offend, or not to lose federal funding for talking about paragraph transitions. To help you out, here's a worksheet to guide you in swapping out troublesome phrases for real, historical eel expressions. 🗃️🧪

Worksheet titled: "Evolving from Eel-less Language" and it includes a column titled "Instead of" with a red X, and a column titled "Say this" with a green checkmark. The "Instead of" column includes sayings like "You're doing it wrong" and "Look at those used condoms in the water!" The "Say this" column includes sayings like, "You're grabbing an eel by the tail" and "Hey! Manhattan eels!"

I don't have the space here to list all of them. But each expression in the "Say this" column is a bonafide (read that in a Wharvey Gal's accent) historical eel metaphor. We'd all be better off if we talked more about eels.

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Thrilled to share this work, and beyond grateful to the folks who co-authored, collaborated, and contributed. So excited to amplify community expertise.

Doulas and acompaňantes: non-clinical abortion support after Dobbs

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I took a mixed levels modern dance class taught by my bff tonight. Failed to remember choreography, pulled several glutes, and had to take a break when I got dizzy. 10/10 would recommend.

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Every time I look at Kushner’s stupid face I hear my Bubbe muttering Shanda fur di goyim

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Voting is a privilege, huh? Not a right? We’re just saying that out loud now?

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The SOTU is an abomination but listening to my 91 year old mom curse at the TV is giving me some small pleasure

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Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

87% of NPs are primary health care providers. “Yet an obscure committee now promises to strip them of access to educational funds, putting the healthcare system, the nursing workforce, and patients at risk,” writes Cory Ellen Gatrall in this week’s ER essay. nursingclio.org/2026/02/23/p...

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“Professional” Program Redefinition Endangers the US Healthcare Workforce

Nurse practitioners are a lifeline for the millions of Americans who live in healthcare deserts: 87% are trained as primary care providers, and 80% care for Medicaid patients. Yet an obscure commit…

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Got two articles through the proofing process this weekend, my book is officially under review, and I submitted an NIH grant proposal. Two speaking engagements this week, more coming up soon. Now all I need is a job for next year!

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Some days start out feeling good and then abruptly gut-kick you with no warning. Lord.

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

poets: …hear me out, though

"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."

Gustave Flaubert

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Trying to remember that I’m frustrated because I’m ambitious. I could settle for less, or take on easier challenges. But I don’t. And that’s the person I want to be.

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

My kitchen tonight is like the Island of Misfit Bakes

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

When you pointed out that it looked like a duck, they called you hysterical. When you pointed out that it also swam like a duck, they said sheesh Bluesky is such an echo chamber. When you said and now it's really quacking a lot like a duck, they accused you of relativizing earlier ducks.

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Evidently it is time for my semiannual social media comments fight.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

a nurse who worked for the VA govsalaries.com/pretti-alex-...

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti was a nurse and an an alum of UMN.

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

It is very hard to focus on this NIH Biosketch with fascism growling so loudly

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Andrea Pitzer, the scholar who wrote an entire history of concentration camps, has been very very clear about how in her literally expert opinion that term is entirely appropriate here

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The joy of multigenerational living (ages 91-17) becomes extra special at laundry time

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Put two pairs of cute glasses in my cart, then cancelled the transaction and sent that money to a friend living in a van. This timeline. Whew.

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I am not allowed to buy more yarn I am not allowed to buy more yarn I am not allowed to buy mo - *weeps*

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The Times passed on my op ed about the federal redefinition of “professional” to exclude nursing being a pronatalist Project 2025 tactic for … this?

NYT article “America is turning against gay people”

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

A true hero. Rest in power.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Abolishing ICE is the moderate position, or it’s our job to make it the moderate position. Abolition was impossible before it was common sense. Civil rights were impossible before they it became common sense. Abolishing ICE is possible and that's what we should push for.

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I know the world has bigger problems but I might die of revising citations and I need someone to know

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I cheerfully chirped “influenza is at a 25 year high! ERs are overwhelmed!” at my 91 year old mom’s unmasked geriatrician yesterday. To her credit, she sighed and masked up.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

If you don’t live in California, you might be unaware of all the ICE mayhem. Here’s just part of the @latimes.com front page right now

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Have you ever had to leave a coffee shop because the date happening next table over was too awkward to witness anyway if you’ll excuse me

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

DON'T BRING YOUR PHONE TO A PROTEST

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I cast my eyes unto the mutual aid networks whence cometh my help.

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