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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D.

@jlhatcher.bsky.social
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Narrative medicine author north of Boston. Once a wildlife researcher in Kenya & Columbia University. Mission to interest doctors-in-training in epilepsy psychology (tackingonthestyx.com). Between cats. Gene flow research & invisible illnesses don't mix

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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Anybody heard an update on how George Asakura is doing (Dance Dance Danseur)?
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Tuesdays can never come soon enough now that I'm a fanatical Eleceed fan. But I am thankful that this morning I saw a bobcat rather than the god-like Kaiden Break in his feline disguise. Massachusetts is too drought stricken to have lightening bolts tossed all about.
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Used to be that watching birds @ bird feeder was about birds. This morning, it was about seeing a never-seen-before bobcat dispatch a squirrel. Might be 1st report for Boxford, Ma, but BC's are increasingly common all around New England. Still waiting on a puma.
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Webanalyst @webanalyst.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
What a great world we would have if all we had left was the left…
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Pats Rule!
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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dawn of the debb @debbshock.com · 17/07/2025
dress for the job you want
the meep-meep guys, costumed, adult-sized, strolling down a path
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
So this Massachusetts resident was just admiring the rhododendron flowers but did not see EVEN ONE species of pollinator, or any insect species at all. I guess all those eco-fascist academic types must have gotten something right.
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Brain Ablaze @brainablaze.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
DYK nearly half of all people with Cerebral Palsy also live with #Epilepsy? #CP is caused by brain damage or abnormal development, often before or around birth. Listen as @patchcomedy310.bsky.social describes his life as a comedian navigating both conditions: brainablaze.com/the-brain-ab...
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011: Cerebral Palsy with Trevor Harris - The Brain Ablaze Epilepsy Podcast
In this very special episode, we welcome up-and-coming comedian Trevor Harris to discuss his fight with Cerebral Palsy and Epilepsy.
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
So 5 stars for "Putting a Name to It" that my med-type friends might like - good choice for a university literary seminar. tackingonthestyx.com/related-feeds/
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Tampa Bay resister 🇺🇸🇨🇿🇨🇴🏴‍☠️⚡️🐶🎧 @depechemodefan101.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/05/2025
When you’re used to being the center of the universe, equality feels like oppression—and accountability feels like persecution. Republican panic.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
no literally 😭😭😭
Frodo: What a week, huh?
Gandalf: Frodo, it’s Tuesday.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 06/04/2025
“Historically, the most terrible things—war, genocide, and slavery—have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” —Howard Zinn
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
For any follower involved in (or just interested in) brain surgery, please have a look - tackingonthestyx.com/sniffing-out...
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Sniffing out Emotions in Epileptic Brains
Can emotional cognition be mapped to the left or right side of the cerebrum using the sense of smell?
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A. Rivera @bloodravenlib.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
In follow up. > My book was just banned from the US Naval Academy library religionnews.com/2025/04/07/m... #books #reading #BannedBooks #censorship #USNA #libraries 💙📚
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My book was just banned from the US Naval Academy library
(RNS) — Book bans are an aggressive, systemic form of lying. This one takes aim at key texts at the intersection of religion and racial justice.
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Well Duh! :) time.com/7272667/swea...
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The Surprising Health Benefits of Swearing
Profanity can come with numerous physical, psychological, and social perks.
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Mikela Ritter @mikelaritter.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Condemning and correcting just spreads the DISINFO we are trying to defeat. Here is how to stop doing it, with a LIST OF TERMS WE SHOULD NEVER USE in association with vaccines, Ukraine, immigrants, etc. and WHAT TO SAY INSTEAD: ReframingAmerica.Substack.com/do-not-associate
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Louer l'audace du gouvernement francais face au congres Americain!
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Vive le France
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
AI = accurate b/can miss a lot! So exploring "Perplexity" srch engine. I studied in Africa for 1 semester via St Lawrence U. and did PhD in Anthro for decade @Columbia. Typed in 'where did Jeffrey Hatcher study anthropology". ANSWER is SLU w/grt descrip. Nothing about CU. True/Concise/Unbalanced
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Dr Liz Geriatrics @drlizgeriatrics.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Fascists.
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Still trying hard to keep my politics off Bsky and solely on FB.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
BREAKING: The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes. It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 08/02/2025
My Statement on How the Trump and Musk Attack on National Institutes of Health Funding Is Targeted Attack on Massachusetts. www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-r...
Senator Market Statement. Full text linked in the reply.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
When you hear “Make America Healthy Again” please remember who the Nazi’s targeted first. They wanted to make Germany healthy and “pure” The Aktion T4 program mass murdered people with disabilities. They tested the gas chambers on us. Please do not obey in advance. Speak out. Save lives.
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Juan José Ponce Vázquez @jjponcevazquez.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
No one is reporting on this, even though the bird flu has reached pandemic proportions in other countries in the Americas.
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Anna @annaritzy.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
International Epilepsy Day- epilepsy affects up to 1:25 people & up to 30% do not have medical control (that’s me!) #refractoryepilepsy as an educator I wish I’d known more. epilepsyWA offer great PL in schools. #EduSkyAU #EduSky #epilepsyeducate or check out these @epilepsyscotland.bsky.social
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
We don't have an elf on the shelf but we do have a
The book Smart Blonde by Dolly Parton on a blue library trolley
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
@cuimcmedicinedept.bsky.social followed me. They should know Gloucester U. was modeled after Columbia in my book. They could learn what it's like w/ invisible illness at Columbia. They could also teach their students some good things to do and also not to do.
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
So almost all librarians who are kind enough to follow me mention a love for cats. So check out "Caticons: 4,000 Years of Art Imitating Cats" by Sandy Lerner on my book review page: tackingonthestyx.com/related-feeds/
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Brightest ever -
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Like medical narrative & ground-breaking (i.e. 19th century) feminist lit? Check my rev of "The Prisoner’s Hidden Life or Insane Asylums Unveiled" By E.P.W. Packard on tackingonthestyx.com/related-feeds/
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
BREAKING ...
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Musk is a pasty dough boy Andrew tate with hair plugs @hellcatfury123.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Anybody got a guillotine?
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Operation Dark Ages is going well so far. ✔️Putting the livelihoods & careers of 1000s of researchers in jeopardy ✔️Not publishing the MMWR, which has been going strong for 6 decades ✔️Withholding key reports about H5N1, which is a rapidly increasing pandemic risk www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel
In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
@mcuban.bsky.social had asked what he could do in the era of the convicted felon Donald Trump. Here's an example. "Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's philanthropy and other U.S. funders said on Thursday they will cover U.S. financial obligations to the UN climate framework…"
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Bloomberg philanthropy to cover U.S. climate dues after Paris withdrawal
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's philanthropy and other U.S. funders said on Thursday they will cover U.S. financial obligations to the UN climate framework after President Donald Trump called for the U.S. to withdraw - for a second time - from the Paris climate agreement.
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
A young sibling of patient w/epilepsy could learn a lot from 'Mis(h)adra' by Ata; 'Parenthesis' by Durand; or 'Epileptic' by David B. that a doctor could recommend. Comic format, yet very informative and very accurate. tackingonthestyx.com/related-feeds/
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Nik dedidis @nikdedidis.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
One of the worst aspects of consumerism is often purposefully ignored. The consumption of emotions. People consume people as if they are goods bought at the supermarket. Social media corporations have thrived by the "farming" of emotions while selling the longing of connection, the need to belong.
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Love a retrospective study on young drug use vs. future party affil & C if those health warnings were legit.
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Useful to know about: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms | Johnny Ryan
The latest actions of Musk and Zuckerberg are a sign of things to come, but the EU already has the power to give people back control, says Johnny Ryan, director of Enforce, a unit of the Irish Council...
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
So do when does it benefit a patient to reclassify a disease? If X entails effects A, B, and C and each occur in most cases but none in absolutely all, if one is >> signif than others does it make sense to classify it reflecting so?
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
What do people think are the real, the legitimate, the desirable or the effective bounds btwn clinical psych & neurol? How does a condition get embraced by CN? Does history trump science in determining role psych's vs. neurol's take?
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Democratic Values can be embedded directly into Social Media via the recommendation algorithms dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1... A social media feed that downranks anti-democratic content reduces partisan animosity compared to engagement-based algorithms (d=.25).
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Lorraine Turner calicohorses @lorraineturnerart.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
#Januarty Leopard! Day 1🐆 Lace, wool, silk, doilies, cotton and satin. Horse tail whiskers. Hand felted, background all scraps of fabric sewn together. 3D leaves. Please share. #fabriccollage #embroidery #felted #leopard #collage #artshare @bsky.art #artquilt #quilt #art #cat #fiberart #textileart
Golden orange and black spotted leopard on a blue and teal background with a tesl satin border. Leopard is felted and background is a fabric collage. Art supports endangered animals
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Finished my rev of the upbeat manga series "Dance Dance Danseur". Awesome art technique (though entirely b&w). Story really grabs emotions. Not about my focal topic. epilepsy, like "Mis(h)adra" which has great color usage (also rev'd) but grt read. tackingonthestyx.com/related-feeds/
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 27/12/2024
The best thing you can do for an author is to request their book from your library. The library will usually get it for you! The author will get an immediate sale, and libraries will know there is a demand for their future books! Just google your library name plus "book request" or walk in and ask
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
www.huffpost.com/entry/mental...
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The Most Important Program You've Never Heard Of Is This Retiring Senator’s Legacy
Debbie Stabenow learned about the scarcity of mental health care when she was a child. Her crusade to change that turned into bipartisan, potentially transformative legislation that's already having a...
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