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Harris Bland

@harrisbland.bsky.social
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MPH, MBA, and PhD in process. Musician turned health care researcher.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/05/2025
“People, especially new parents looking for awesome bedtime stories, need to be reading everything they can possibly find about these ancient and powerful beings instead of blindly accepting the narrow range of depictions put forth by the mainstream media,” Kennedy wrote theonion.com/rfk-jr-...
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RFK Jr. Encourages Americans To Do Their Own Research About Dragons
WASHINGTON—Claiming the fantastical creatures were “way too cool” to leave their investigation to a handful of so-called experts, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issued a statement Friday encouraging Americans to do their own research about dragons. “People, especially new parents looking for awesome bedtime stories, need to be reading everything they […]
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We are at the point in history where Germany is having to lecture the US on the need to fight fascism.
A post by Marco Rubio attacking Germany for tackling the alt right extremism of the AfD.
The German foreign office responds.

Rubio’s posts says:

Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That's not democracy—it's tyranny in disguise.
What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD-which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment's deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes.
Germany should reverse course.

The German foreign office responds with:

This is democracy. This decision is the result of a thorough & independent investigation to protect our Constitution & the rule of law. It is independent courts that will have the final say.
We have learnt from our history that rightwing extremism needs to be stopped.
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American Thoracic Society (ATS) @atscommunity.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
German research institute launches program to match threatened NIH grants with pharma funders www.fiercebiotech.com/research/ger...
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German research institute launches program to match threatened NIH grants with pharma funders
As scientists across the U.S. face increasing uncertainty due to funding freezes and mass layoffs at health agencies, German research institute BioMed X is stepping in to offer a lifeline. | As scient...
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Air-rum @aarum.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
And again WE AINT GOING BACK we meant that part. On big sandals 🩴 period.
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Informatics in the Round @infointhernd.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Our final episode is live! Tune in on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts to join the farewell party! Thank you to our hosts, @kbjohnsonmd.bsky.social, @harrisbland.bsky.social and Ellie Shuert! #informatics #healthcare #medicine #science #datascience #healthequity #podcast #ai #publichealth
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Christie Wilcox @nerdychristie.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Thousands of people around the world gathered on Friday to protest what they consider the antiscience actions of President Donald Trump. That story and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
"I’m worried about my country right now." —a geneticist who recently left the National Institutes of Health
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/03/2025
WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025
Map of Stand Up for Science events, with official SUFS events in Red and solidarity events in Blue
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Ross Allen @allenross.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
🇬🇧🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇺🇦 The Prime Minister reiterated that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are key partners of the UK, including through the Joint Expeditionary Force, and welcomed their leading contributions in support of Ukraine since Russia’s illegal invasion began. www.gov.uk/government/n...
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PM call with leaders of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: 2 March 2025
The Prime Minister spoke to President Alar Karis of Estonia, Prime Minister Evika Siliņa of Latvia and President Gitanas Nausėda of Lithuania this morning.
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 28/02/2025
Ted Cruz said he’d found $2 billion in “woke” science grants, but his team used keyword searches that flagged things out of context, like a grant to develop a device to treat severe bleeding that mentioned “victims” and “trauma.” www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
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A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.”
The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude meth...
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Harris Bland @harrisbland.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
As a millennial, why did they push us to wear ankle socks that never protected my ankles? The sensory torture of ankle socks dipping below the show heel. And why were our pants inseams so long they dragged and got torn up and wet? Why were some clothes so baggy they’d fall off? Why?
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Sen. Danica Roem @pwcdanica.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
In #Virginia, VCU Health and CHKD — if they haven’t yet — need to follow suit. Immediately. “At least one health system — the hospital affiliated with the University of Virginia — said it would resume providing services that had been paused under the order.” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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Federal judge blocks Trump order on health care for transgender youth
A federal judge in Baltimore blocked executive orders signed by President Donald Trump that targeted transgender people and their health care, giving temporary relief to LGBTQ individuals and their fa...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/02/2025
Erasing our history won't erase us. Transgender people have always been here — and we always will be.
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U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website
The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights. Later, the Q+ also disappeared.
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actioncookbook @actioncookbook.com · 13/02/2025
looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.
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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Please talk to people in your family, coffee shops, etc., about what’s happening with federal #funding and what it means for #science 🧪, #research, and #medicine. I was chatting with folks at my gym this morning (after the 💪, of course), and they were all like 😵‍💫🫨 they had no idea #ScienceFunding
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Allison Raine Chapman @alli.gay · 13/02/2025
‼️ The National Park Service has REMOVED mentions of transgender people being involved with Stonewall. Not only did the remove the world "Transgender" but changed "LGBTQ+" to "LGBQ+". The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history. This pride, we riot.
A national park service webpage about Stonewall.

"Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer (LGBQ+) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in
the quest for LGBQ+ civil rights and provided momentum for a movement."
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GLAAD @glaad.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
It's been 2 years since we asked the @nytimes.com to improve their trans coverage, meet with trans community leaders, and hire trans journalists. Why won't they meet with trans leaders?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
University leaders have not been especially vocal about the new administration *because* they were so worried about Trump just gutting the research infrastructure. And now they have done so anyway.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/02/2025
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 02/02/2025
The police who attacked people protesting ICE raids in San Diego, Atlanta, and elsewhere this weekend are the same police that Joe Biden made excuses for and increased funding to. The future will be tyranny or liberation. It's no longer possible to sit on the fence. crimethinc.com/posters/the-...
Demonstrators in San Diego throw back tear gas as riot police attack them.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
People need to fundamentally understand - Democrats don't lead: they aren't going to call for a protest, general strike or for Trump to be held accountable. They're more terrified of their own base than they are of Trump. Want them to move? People have to mobilize + make a massive push in society.
Photo from Occupy Oakland port shutdown in 2011. People on shipping container with the word, "Occupy" on a banner.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Trump yesterday tried to blame "dwarfism" for the crash!
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Media : why were people cheering for Luigi People :
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22-Year-Old With Chronic Asthma Died After Inhaler Price Went From $66 to $539: Lawsuit
Cole Schmidtknecht's parents are now suing Walgreens and pharmacy benefit manager OptumRx.
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Cathy @cathyby.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
"Should the adequacy decision fall despite all efforts, data controllers can still fall back on standard contractual clauses. Although this will not make data transfers to the USA impossible, it will involve significantly more effort."
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/01/2025
In 24 hours we've gotten executive orders attempting to ban gender affirming care, ban recognition of trans youth in schools, ban trans employees in the federal government. It's a full on societal purge of trans people. They meant it when they said they wanted to eradicate us.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/01/2025
If you replaced their made up term "gender ideology" with judeo bolshevism, it would be no different from the Nazis who purged Jews from government, schools, business etc. The wording and rationale are different but the intent is the same.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
As a free market conservative, I want the federal government run like a business. A shitty, money-losing social media business plagued by hate speech and spam bots.
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Jeanne @jeannelambkin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Call Costco (425-313-8100) to express support for their DEI commitment. I had a great chat with a Costco person. They asked that when in warehouse, share support with employees, they need the + feedback. 🛒Costco💙
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I just donated $50 to @transjournalists.org because they do important work and deserve the support. I strongly encourage anyone who can match me to do so. It also feels better than becoming more overwhelmed from doomscrolling: www.transjournalists.org/donate/
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Support the TJA
Together, we can promote more accurate, nuanced coverage of trans issues and communities in the media while also supporting gender-expansive journalists in their workplaces and careers. Join the TJA'...
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯
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💥🪷TruthBeTold🪷💥 @somapsycheyogi.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” ~President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 6, 1941
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It’s literally and explicitly part of the plan. www.americanprogress.org/article/proj...
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Project 2025’s Distortion of Civil Rights Law Threatens Americans With Legalized Discrimination
Far-right extremists have a plan to dismantle many civil rights protections that have advanced equality in America over the past 60 years.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23/01/2025
let's remember that it was an NIH scientist who designed the core of the Moderna Covid vaccine *over a single weekend*
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
BREAKING: In a new executive order sent out by the White House, Donald Trump has revoked the federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order, EO 11246, that was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 and has protected employees of businesses seeking federal contracts from discrimination ever since.
(b) The Federal contracting process shall be streamlined to enhance
speed and efficiency, reduce costs, and require Federal contractors and subcontractors to comply with our civil-rights laws. Accordingly:
(1) Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965 (Equal Employment Opportunity), is hereby revoked. For 90 days from the date of this order, Federal contractors may continue to comply with the regulatory scheme in effect on January 20, 2025.
(ii) The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs within the Department of Labor shall immediately cease:
(A) Promoting "diversity";
(B) Holding Federal contractors and subcontractors responsible for taking "affirmative action"; and
(C) Allowing or encouraging Federal contractors and subcontractors to engage in workforce balancing based on race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion, or national origin.(iii) In accordance with Executive Order 13279 of December 12, 2002
(Equal Protection of the Laws for Faith-Based and Community
Organizations), the employment, procurement, and contracting practices of Federal contractors and subcontractors shall not consider race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion, or national origin in ways that violate the Nation's civil rights laws.
(iv) The head of each agency shall include in every contract or grant
award:
(A) A term requiring the contractual counterparty or grant recipient to agree that its compliance in all respects with all applicable Federal
anti-discrimination laws is material to the government's payment
decisions for purposes of section 3729(b) (4) of title 31, United States
Code; and
(B) A term requiring such counterparty or recipient to certify that it does not operate any programs promoting DEI that violate any applicable
Federal anti-discrimination laws.
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Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
🧵 A lot of people do not click on links so I give you a summary: Mussolini pulled a lot from Roman history. The word FASCISM and its symbol come straight from Latin: In ancient Rome, lictors (attendants to magistrates) would hold the fasces as a symbol of the penal power of their magistrate. 1/1
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
alright you wanna know how to support trans people? hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit. Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/01/2025
TLDR: There is nothing enforceable for the immediate future. It will take months or years to implement this via rulemaking or bureaucratic changes which are then subject to legal challenge. While it's worrying, there's no immediate change yet for most trans people. Do not comply in advance.
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Harris Bland @harrisbland.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Keolu Fox has some excellent work to prioritize indigenous people in research and including them in not only the research but in the benefits of the work. One of the best talks at @pacsym.bio thus far!
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Marylyn Ritchie, PhD, FACMI @marylynritchie.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Great scenery for the opening reception at the 30th Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. @pacsym.bio is my favorite conference every year. Looking forward to our 30th Anniversary Session tomorrow morning followed by a keynote by Dr. Kevin Johnson. Aloha from the Big Island 🏝️ 🍍 🌺
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Harris Bland @harrisbland.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
It’s not every day that you go to a conference and get to see a volcano erupting. Thanks, @pacsym.bio!
Volcano eruptingVolcano eruptingVolcano erupting with smoke and clouds
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
To help you understand ECGs....
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Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo @kbibbinsdomingo.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Remembering President Jimmy Carter with the 2 @JAMA_current editorials he authored- Closing the Gap: The Burden of Unnecessary Illness (9/13/1985) Physicians and Human Rights (5/23/1986)
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JAMA @jama.com · 26/12/2024
Viewpoint: Medical students and residents need to be educated on health policy issues like insurance, payment models, and drug regulation to better understand the factors that impact patient health outcomes. ja.ma/3BuTE7P
Website preview of article.
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pacsym.bio @pacsym.bio · 21/11/2024
Hi, we're on Bluesky now and getting ready for #PSB25, our 30th anniversary year! Follow for more information about the conference
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