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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
mangakatana.com/manga/elecee...
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Chapter 1: Episode 1 - Eleceed
Read Chapter 1: Episode 1 - Eleceed online at MangaKatana. Support Two-page view feature, allows you to load all the pages at the same time
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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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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
posting to another site.
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Even being a WASP, my epilepsy gives me stronger than a hint of what your saying. I wish my home state of MA would secede from this abomination.
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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 · 05/03/2026
Can def mess up a life if people you know set it off, even if they're not present.
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
A satisfying birthday present.
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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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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
So are people studying and/or counseling on the impacts of elective brain surgeries?
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Haven't needed to so long as I have a carnivorous breakfast. The 2x vision was the reason I switched from trileptal, however. It was just intolerable.
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Nope, she (RIP) just loved rough-housing in her youth. Highly problematic when wearing a thin, summer shirt cuz I took blood thinner and could bleed out from a paper cut . . . well, try and stand up with a cat on your back w/out blood-staining a nice shirt.
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
lacosamide is a godsend, but I get terrible 2x vision w/out high-protein and fat serving (whole milk yogurt, brkfst sausage, etc) B4 taking it. But this is strictly a morning phenomenon. Trileptal was even worse. Eye-patch was useful to stop 2x vis. when it was temporary.
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
and jumping on shoulders for a ride when her human servant stoops to tie a shoe.
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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 · 13/07/2025
From the 70's. I may be giving my age away
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
this is why Mom doesn't keep sugar on the dining table
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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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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Night-time highway driving has never triggered me, but the strobe-light experience of fast & heavy traffic is worth being mindful of. It gives me a sense of tension. Forested areas with the sun low in the sky in winter can also have strobe effects at >20 MPH
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Yeah, though certainly not the deepest.
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Be careful about too much detail in too short a time - might lose some friends.
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Stigmatization is just so high, yet covert. I didn't realize how awful it was until involved in publishing about epilepsy. Publishers have lottery-style give-aways at websites. Books on mental ill get 20 X the interest as books on E. 400 sign ups f/mi books vs 11 for Ep books in some cases.
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
However, that doesn't in and of itself, pertain to possibilities of modern food processing and vaccines stimulating seizures (which I am also skeptical of). Strobe lights can trigger seizures. They certainly did not exist hundreds of years ago.
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
animals can have seizures, so basically forever. However, the mortality rate must have been quite higher before a significant level of altruism evolved, and life expectencies must have been dramatically lower.
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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 · 19/04/2025
I walked out of a NYC Ivy League school with PhD totally eclipsed by a deep and enduring hatred of my thesis topic and my profs.
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Wondered if I should submit deception for peer-review. Would dance around porch door - standard communication. Then, when bipedal slave arose from seat, she'd run to food dish in next room. Sounds trivial, but actually is not.
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Very sadly one departed due to stomach cancer @ 10 yo. The other of FIV @ 9 :( . FWIW, cancer victim was only 1 that I knew to engage in out-right deception - very rare @ cognitive level.
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Hard not to think of getting pissed as being a side effect of a sense of justice - royal wrath (or whatever the term).
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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 · 08/04/2025
disgusting and the list really says it all
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Not much help for those w/out computer, b/for those folk for whom the Embarrassment and his administration have nothing but contempt, DeepL is a great free translator to help weather the sh*t sh*w
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
and yet people want to hear nothing about it (vs any other disease you can think of)
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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 · 12/03/2025
Yeah, I haven't had to read between the lines for very long to know that psychologists and psychiatrists are very ableist if you have epilepsy. They try to define us out of existence.
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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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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
If into superheroes checkout Eleceed - strictly for escape purposes. For fewest pop-ups use mangapark.net/title/87295-... . Highly recommended.
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
which is why patients need 3 things for big decisions - their own doc; a 2nd opinion; and patient-patient communication via social connection or patient-authored lit
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D. @jlhatcher.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Doc had no science to depend on. I don't fault doc's judgement whatsoever. But I had subjective info that he lacked and with that subjective info, I trusted my gut more than any person. I trusted new pharma and was rewarded. Healthy skept is not same as lack of trust.
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