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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 20/10/2026

I refuse to turn the heat on when it was nearly in the 90s last week and probably will be again

Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026

One of my Ph.D. grads is from Ukraine. She taught me about pickled cherry tomatoes and mushroom foraging and the right to roam on undeveloped land. The other day she reported that her brother's workplace in Kyiv had been hit in one of the latest Russian strikes. This betrayal is so maddening.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

Everyone used big ol’ cans of old-timey aerosol hairspray with CFC propellants in the 60s and by the end of the 70s it was not a thing. The public stopped buying it and demanded alternatives. This memory brought to you by Susan Solomon’s book “Solvable”, which I was just reading in the bath.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 12/10/2026

Hill talking about running for student government president at University of Alabama:

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 12/10/2026

I'm slowly reading my way through this 387-page interview with Lister Hill. He just really cared about biomedical science and education. Incidentally he was about the same age as my grandfather, who I remember little about because he was so very old by the time I came along.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 10/10/2026

Look I know Vannevar Bush was cool and all but I am starting to think we basically couldn’t have had late 20th century American prosperity* without Lister Hill. Like it or not, this is what Peak (government-builder-type) Senator Performance looks like. (Hill, right) *flawed though it certainly was

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 10/10/2026

Who has two thumbs and an odd fascination with Lister Hill? This girl. The clipping is from a 378-page transcript of an oral history interview that Hill sat for at NLM before his retirement. Hill's words are the ones sans underline.

Int: Things happened in the thirties

Hill: Oh sure, that was a time of action.

Int: Actually I don't remember a happier time than the thirties

Hill: We were doing things.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 10/10/2026

Behold, the graceful, dignified and majestic Felis domesticus

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 07/10/2026

So are we all, kid, so are we all. Seriously I don't know who's advising them to use this subject line (probably ChatGPT) but this is 100% the way to get me to not answer your cold-email.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 05/10/2026

Spotted near campus. Wonder who’s making this happen.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

Homan failed to comply with a law about not taking bribes 🤔

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

Local Republicans getting desperate. Like I’m supposed to believe that somehow a Republican would be LESS Netanyahu-friendly than Adams? C’mon man.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

I never see crows in my neighborhood, not in all the years I have lived here but these sure seem to be crows in the tree at the strip mall half a mile from my house. How do I invite them to be my crows?🐦‍⬛

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

He’s pondering whether a Claude subscription could streamline his getting petted workflow

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

I was just reading Deborah Blum’s The Poison Squad the other day. 📚 (It’s excellent and you should read it, especially if you are a student in my class in spring) but holy 💩 do we really want to go back to the pre-FDA days of “microbial diversity” in our milk?

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

Lippman on removing vital functions from the sphere of profit:

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

If this fish on a string toy ever breaks I am not sure how I will console him

A very soft black mediumhair cat playing with his precious, a fishing rod toy with three small cloth fish on a string

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

I need someone to record a cover of this yellow fever song from the JHU archives:

Remember the poor sufferers of the South -- a song about the Yellow Fever epidemic of the late 1870s

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

It’s Second Caturday today and that means he gets whatever he wants

An orange cat looking quite happy as he gets ear scritches

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026

My weekend’s gonna be 🔥🔥🔥 I maintain more people would know about this guy if his biography was available in graphic novel form

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026

Hunting down some disease-eradication-era photos for my class and found this one of D.A. Henderson (CDC EIS) out in the streets with a mobile polio unit, reassuring a young mother while he prepares to give a baby an oral polio vaccine. (CDC Archives)

D.A. Henderson with the CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) working on eradicating polio in Atlanta in 1962.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 23/09/2026

My reading list is getting real strange these days:

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026

Ranked choice voting is fully spelled out in The Wisconsin Idea

A worked example of a ranked choice voting result from the 1912 book by Charles McCarthy

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026

Also, Fightin’ Bob had hair almost as cartoonish as some of the cartoonish leaders of our times, but had far superior ideals. This one definitely showed up in public school history class from time to time.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026

I think I am unavoidably getting wet

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 19/09/2026

There’s a head in all that fluff somewhere. #caturday

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 17/09/2026

Hmm how much of our oil do we get from Canada again. I swear he’s down here trying to kill us all.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 13/09/2026

After you die you see whatever this creepy little monkey in the white hat is supposed to be

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 10/09/2026

It’s a great day for a belly scritch apparently

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 10/09/2026

Notice anything conspicuously absent from the first sentence of this bot response?

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026

One of my Seattle friends turned me on to Jesse Link:

A very cool brown owl with a little musical thought bubble, painted by Jesse Link

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 06/09/2026

Even they have not entirely escaped the Great Enshittification

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 05/09/2026

Had a Tesla and now an Ioniq5, Hyundai got it right with these displays. Big, but you need to touch it exactly zero while driving. All you need to look at is a quick flick of the eyes to the right for nav or down to check speed. Amount of sexy distraction is 0. Physical controls are on the wheel.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 05/09/2026

This is cool and (spoiler) they all die as infants (statistically)(so many)(of infectious diseases) anyhumanever.com

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