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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I could not have guessed that in 2026 we would be back to this

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Like this is deeply bad and fucked up actually??? Making disabled, chronically ill, and marginalized people a national laughing stock?? Cause we don’t have enough trouble existing already?? Y’all already forced us out of your communities how about now just leave us alone? bsky.app/profile/yash...

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

MMR question RIGHT OUT THE GATE - holding a forever grudge against Cassidy but that was a good one

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 26/08/2026

At the start of the Trump administration, an executive order was released with certain words and phrases that will now be flagged by federal agencies. While an executive order is not law, the OMB ruling or NSF proposal would make it law. Enforcing a political rule where there should not be one.

Graphic with a teal textured background with text that reads "If we can't say "contaminants", we can't study... Followed by a bulleted list that reads " burn pits
9/11 related cancer
fertilizers and herbicides
food related illnesses
“forever chemicals” or PFAS
microplastics
endocrine-disrupting compounds
agricultural runoff
effects of UV filters on corals and coastal ecosystems
wastewater treatment
chemical spills
wildfires
health effects of smoking"

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

this is how my Alone - Alaska experience begins

text message depicting a CDC advisory for severe arboreal disease in patients receiving b-cell modulators and a reply to the text message suggesting a move to a glacier

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 08/08/2026

Real talk, I believe in the philosophy of double blind peer review but in practice I don't think I have ever reviewed a paper where it did not become clear to me in the course of performing the review who the authors were.

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

wait is anyone else going to the BRAIN conference in Rockville this week???

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

We all need to be very chill and calm about the fact that I got tickets to the Lost Weekend planetarium early release show

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It’s a kidney stone! It’s an ovarian cyst! It’s…checks notes…both!!!

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Fine

ALT: Fine

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I need a response essay from Dr. Timothy Quill, please. I beg.

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Absolute downpour at the AllStar skills challenge

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

lol holy shit this author has no fucks left to give and is spot on www.science.org/content/blog...

Science.org

Time for another note about the Trump administration's approach to funding US science. But let me make something clear right up front. When I talk to people about this subject (and that includes some journalists as well) and say what I'm about to at the end of this paragaph I am sometimes met with disbelief. But I mean what I say and I am trying my best to say what I mean: The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That's it. That's the story. They are naturally not putting it in those words, but instead talking about "gold standard science" and the "reproducibility crisis" and funding
"bold inquiry" for "transformational breakthroughs". This is all bullshit, and it's important to realize that.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Bhattacharya built his career opposing COVID lockdowns. The irony is unreal.

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I feel like I’m playing Oregon trail attempting to not die of dysentery - currently avoiding cyclosporiasis in NC, going to NYC next week where there’s an outbreak of legionnaires.

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Welcome Wagon: Pixel Art Adventure

ALT: Welcome Wagon: Pixel Art Adventure

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

back on all liquid/blended diet. I have to say - Aldi really did their big one with this flavor

picture of a baby food pouch in the flavor apple sweet potato

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Michael Bazaco @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Am I being over-sensitive here or does the term “side effects” have an inherent negative connotation and therefore this headline is sci-comm malpractice? The “side effects” are reduced risk of serious cardiac complications and reduced risk of all-cause cardiac events. Benefits. That’s the word.

ca.style.yahoo.com

COVID Vaccine Linked to New Side Effect, Especially in Older Adults

The COVID vaccine was linked to a new side effect for older adults.

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I will not fight with the anti-GoF lab-leak truthers on twitter today. I will not fight with the anti-GoF lab-leak truthers on twitter today. I will not fight with the anti-GoF

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I took my morning methotrexate with redbull so I expect to be an absolute monster in about 3 hours

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Re-applying to grad school becomes logistically and traumatically complicated when you’re reminded at every turn that your previous PhD supervisor can’t give you advice or talk or write you a letter because she went and got cancer and died. (I am coping totally fine it’s been a year)

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I need more people to be talking about the new Luke Bryan song

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

quick hot take from someone who was a pregnant teen during this “crash” in 2015 (love my child very much more than anything) 0/10 do not recommend teen pregnancy!!!! this is the most heteronormative, patriarchal, economically-controlling bullshit I have ever seen

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 02/04/2026

“It will just open up naturally,” Trump says about the Strait of Hormuz. He also once said, at the beginning of the pandemic, that COVID would end by itself. "One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear"

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Emily Hahn, MD @ehahnmd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

What percent of this is what is actually written down? How do people actually write like this for him?

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Has anyone done a mentoring program through their fields professional society? Is this a beneficial arrangement? Please help esp #academicsky #bioethics #philosophy

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Bluesky keeps sending me a little notification telling me about the “go live” feature and I assume you that is not what anyone wants

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

did I read the article on NOFOs? Yeah I did. Does it make me want to eternal sleep as someone who is still wanting to enter academia and has a PhD’d partner? Also yes. But we’re going to keep on doing the damn thing bc look at Princess Trout, she wants us to win.

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Listen I know how far we are in to this, and how unserious this point actually is among everything happening, but hearing an NIH spokesperson seriously saying they are upholding “MAHA priorities” *out loud* makes me want to peel my skin off

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 27/02/2026

Why tf is stolen in scare quotes?

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

doctrine of double effect mention?? big win for annoying bioethicists (me)

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

living here really doesn’t get boring

fake skeleton in yard with UNC jersey dunks basketball on fake skeleton wearing Duke jersey and a Christmas hat

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

noooooo not my 36 emotional support google tabs

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Christopher Terry @christopherterry.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I am learning as an adult that usually the number of corrupt murder investigations happening in your hometown at any given time is <2 and honestly cannot relate

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

well that was a very dystopian Lowe’s experience but I am 1+ home portable charger richer and $127 poorer

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Hm should I focus on the geopolitical doom or the weather doom or the health doom

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

it was never supposed to be like this

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bioethicsbarbie @jaimevalentine.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

very interesting how medicine works - when the drug you take for an autoimmune disease gives you another autoimmune disease

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