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Aileen Duldulao PhD MSW

@dakilangpilipina.bsky.social
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Community-led epidemiologist, organizer, and maker of good trouble. Here for #epidemiology and cat content. #episky #epitwitter All views my own.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 04/02/2026
This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
a brown wire-haired pup stands on a wooden deck in a grassy yard. he looks at us with golden eyes and his right ear flipped inside out. he has a pipe-shaped stick in his mouth, giving him the appearance of a sophisticated and dapper gentleman. just give him a deerstalker cap and a cloak, and he'd give Sherlock Holmes a run for his money.
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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
You deserve joy. I deserve joy. Things are a dumpster fire right now, but we can only be prepared for future challenges when our hearts & spirits have joy. Joy is respite. Joy is love. Joy is fuel. Get your joy.
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CAUSALab @causalab.org · 08/06/2026
CAUSALab's Summer Courses on Causal Inference are back @hsph.harvard.edu! We are thrilled to kick off CAUSALab's week one courses today, Key Topics in Causal Inference (KTCI) & Target Trial Emulation (TTE). Attending KTCI or TTE? Be sure to tag us.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Oh, come on.
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Emily Jane Rothwell 🖤🌸🖋️ @emjanerothwell.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
the world needs more guinea pig cartographers
A guinea pig cartographer works amongst his maps, using his instruments, with a quill and ink next to him on a wooden table; he looks at the viewer obliquely with a black background in a style that is reminiscent of early modern portraiture. The artist enjoys exploring the histories of art through homages to previous paintings in his whimsical works.
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House & Field Negro Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
the hungry observatory
black and white photo of domed observatory beneath a full moon; opened at the top resembling the pac man video game about to eat an energy dot
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Mountain bluebird (Sialia currucoides) Original post
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Kort Duce @kortduce.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A yellow-headed blackbird prepares to land on last year’s cattails at a nature area in Longmont, Colorado. #FlyDay #BirdOfTheDay #photogenic #Corvidae #EastCoastKin #bird #birds #birdphotography #BirdsSeenln2026 #nature #wildlife #wetland #wetlands #blackbird #blackbirds
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A yellow-headed blackbird prepares to land on last year’s cattails at a nature area in Longmont, Colorado. In this vertical color photograph, the blackbird fills the frame facing the camera, its wings raised behind it, tail fanned wide, and claws extended forward to grasp the reeds below. The background is a sea of softly blurred cattail reeds in warm earth-tone colors. A striking action portrait capturing the precision and agility of the bird in flight.
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Guy Oron @guyoron.net · 26/04/2026
Community members are demanding justice for Seattle activist Kai Sorem, 26, who was killed on April 19 by the Armed Forces of the Philippines in what is being described as a massacre of civilians. Sorem was a part of an activist delegation to visit peasant communities of Toboso, Negros Island.
Black and white Justice for Kai Sorem graphic with Kai's photo
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Beautiful
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Those of us in public health don't just have to become better storytellers, we need go out into our communities and co-create a better future for all of us. The story of public health in the 21st century should be one embedded in communities that need us most. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Public Health Needs to Get Off the Laptop and Into the Streets
Too often, we reduce our outreach to distant communication. We have to embed ourselves in communities to make a real difference.
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Kaia 📚 @anjaciske.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Morning! xx
A dog looking through the decorative of a metal fence.
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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Fun fact: An "endearing" nickname for male Oregon Juncos is "Executioner Bird" He would never! #BirdOfTheDay #BlackHeads #birds #becurious 🪶
photo of a very pale male oregon junco with a very dark black hood. he is perched on the top of a cut blackberry cane. he is facing the camera looking slightly to the left.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
If you're in Chicago, come join me, Nabarun Dasgupta and Mary Pounder a week from Saturday. www.chicagohumanities.org/events/atten...
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The Infrastructure of Compassion: Rethinking Public Health in the Fentanyl Era
MacArthur Fellows Nabarun Dasgupta and Gregg Gonsalves on their life-saving work
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Aileen Duldulao PhD MSW @dakilangpilipina.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Hi all - Hiraya Health Collective, a new grassroots organization I’m part of made up of Filipino medical and public health practitioners and their allies fighting for health justice, is hosting their first event in Portland, Oregon.
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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Cherry blossoms in Japan.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 24/02/2026
@drplantel.bsky.social #medsky
When the President mocks the US women’s hockey team after a win, that’s not harmless banter.  Misogyny is alive and well.  And as a physician, let me be clear: misogyny is a public health threat to women’s health.
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 07/02/2026
Little is known about the orchardist in Oregon who forever changed the international fruit market in 1875 by cultivating the popular Bing cherry. But two artists used their keen imagination to grow the few seeds of Ah Bing’s biography into a poignant children’s book
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Who was Ah Bing? New children’s book reveals Oregon story behind famous cherry
Author Livia Blackburne and illustrator Julia Kuo transform Ah Bing's sparse biography into a fable about family, prejudice and the fruit that changed the global market.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
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Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade
The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 06/02/2026
On the way to a hospital for an uncontrolled nosebleed, 7 yr old Diana Crespo and her family were snatched by ICE. She is now in Dilley detention center where a measles outbreak is occurring and conditions are very poor Unacceptable Call 5calls.org Write democracy.io www.opb.org/article/2026...
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Gresham family detained by immigration officers while seeking medical care for their 7-year-old
The family’s detainment marks the first confirmed detainment of an entire family in Oregon, advocates say.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/02/2026
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 25/01/2026
Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 22/01/2026
I just thought everyone should see this
Dr Kareem Carr
man: i wish to publish
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reviewer 2: your paper is no good
man: i'll do anything to improve
reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini
man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini
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@apagliar
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a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini
Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 22/01/2026
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95. “Her painstaking calculations and programming helped transform raw satellite data into precise geodetic models, enabling reliable satellite-based navigation.” [thezebra.org]
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Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
One day, if we are lucky, the erasure of American history will itself be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 05/01/2026
CMS is rolling back state vaccine reporting requirements for Medicaid-covered children (40% of US children) from the 2026 core dataset and exploring measures on whether families were informed about vaccines, risks and alternative schedules.
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Brock’s Photographic Journey @bar44.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Clouds among the power lines this afternoon in Portland, Oregon #Photography #Bluesky #Clouds #Portland 📷🐸
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monika4.bsky.social @monika4.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
#ForestFriday 💚 Trees and morning glow 💛 Sun and fog are dancing here today ☀️🌁✨ Happy Friday 🦋💫🌲✌️
Dark trees with a golden morning sun behind one in the middle. A pale blue and a bit clouded sky above other distant trees and mist.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
Screenshot from project 2025 that says By statute or regulation, CDC guidance must be prohibited from taking on a prescriptive character. For example, never again should CDC officials be allowed to say in their official capacity that school children "should be" masked or vaccinated (through a schedule or otherwise) or prohibited from learning in a school building.
Such decisions should be left to parents and medical providers. We have learned that when CDC says what people "should" do, it readily becomes a "must" backed by severe punishments, including criminal penalties. CDC should report on the risks and effectiveness of all infectious disease-mitigation measures dispassionately and leave the "should" and "must" policy calls to politically accountable parties.
Conflicts of Interest. There was a time when the CDC could not take money
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20/12/2025
Leaving you tonight with a reminder of the works of our forebears. The greatest generation. Funded by moms across America mailing in their dimes to help prevent a disease they all feared.
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April 12 1955: Polio Announcement
YouTube video by March of Dimes
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
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.
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WIRED @wired.com · 28/09/2025
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
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How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.
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Councilor Candace Avalos @counciloravalos.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Trump is using his 2020 playbook again, but I want Portlanders to remember what 2020 was actually like. 🧵
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Avalos Responds to Trump Deployment of Federal Agents
I made a promise to East Portland that I would fight for them and I’m not going to back down now. We’re going to remind Trump why he lost the first time around.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The interim CDC director who will rubber stamp the ACIP recommendations on MMRV vaccine and COVID vaccine is neither a scientist nor a physician. He is a former silicon valley executive. When was the last time you consulted a corporate executive for guidance on your health? 🤔...I'll wait.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Now here is my summary of the ACIP meeting itself. 1. The chair permitted people to present harmful misinformation about vaccines throughout the entire meeting. 2. Retsef Levi and several other members appear to have no understanding of basic public health principles and IMO should be removed.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/09/2025
Encourage folks who think like this to buy and actually carefully read Banu Subramaniam’s Ghost Stories for Darwin, which is in part about how much of biological categories is socially constructed Also read anything about how scifi allegories work 🖖🏽 www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
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Ghost Stories for Darwin
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
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TRAstonDrs @castltrastondrs.medsky.network · 15/08/2025
#Medsky🧪 #episky #microsky #publichealth The Swiss Cheese Model, originally developed by James Reason in the context of accident causation & human error, offers a powerful framework for understanding & addressing complex challenges such as #antimicrobialresistance (AMR).
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
This man is destroying vaccination as a public health intervention in the US. Top to bottom. It has nothing to do with science. He is a fanatic, know-nothing ideologue.
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Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Another piece (this one by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social) underlining the reality that public health has always been political, and its practitioners should understand that to get better traction for their aims.
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If We Want to Save Public Health, We Need to Get Out of Our Bubble
The struggle to save public health and biomedical research in the US must be seen as part of a global battle against antidemocratic forces.
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Best part of visiting @lshtm.bsky.social means seeing the ORIGINAL broad street pump! Not the public replica, but the actual pump that spread actual cholera in Soho in 1854! One day, I dream this will be in a public museum focused on John Snow! #EpiSky
Me pointing at the original broad street pumpThe original broad street pump
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Aileen Duldulao PhD MSW @dakilangpilipina.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Tita Maria, a Filipino migrant caregiver in OR was exploited & abused by her Filipino employer for 14 years. Migrante PDX found that her former employer stole almost $200k in wages from her. We must fight alongside Tita Maria!
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Read Maris's piece, then go show your local indie bookstore some love. They're so much more than places to get books--they are places to engage with ideas and others in your community. Staffed by actual humans to help you find the books you didn't know you needed!
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