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Kari Debbink

@karidebbink.bsky.social
1.9K followers 1.2K following 773 posts

Virologist, Director of Graduate Studies at JHU MMI, feminist, BLM, supports equality for LGBTQ+ people, New College alum, obsessed with big dogs, cake artist, bubble tea enthusiast (she/her), views my own-not my employer’s

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
the other thing is that this is a totally incoherent and arbitrary standard for deciding who has rights and who doesn't. you could say the same, for instance, of alito's vision of inviolate "religious liberty" or expansive gun rights.
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Newest Super Group,,, FLAVOR DAVES,!! #DaveMatthews #DaveGrohl #FooFighters
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/10/2026
It’s weird to see so many higher education leaders beat their chests about “the decline of trust” from the public while refusing to acknowledge the conservative movement organizing to destroy it. Imagine someone stabbing you repeatedly while you complain about not having enough blood to bleed out.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
An entire generation of faculty and students (rightfully!) fully internalized “the institution cannot love you” and institutional leaders wonder where trust went 🙄
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyone who suggests we just turn the page is in league with the GOP. This guy is telling you they tried to overthrow the government. You don't just pretend it never happened @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Requiring scientists to be political neutral is to require scientists to shut up when the facts are inconvenient.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow essential health care to be withheld from transgender people in federal prisons. Denying medically-necessary care to any incarcerated person is cruel and unusual punishment — period.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Kari Debbink @karidebbink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Imagine trusting Chris Rufo with…well…anything.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
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Kari Debbink @karidebbink.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
God, THIS!!!
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The real “brain drain” is not the handful of high-profile scientists taking a top position abroad. It's the international scholars who have to leave the US halfway through their postdoc, or the international students who never apply for grad school in the US because of visa policies
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
These centers are the guy who thinks hot young women aren’t showing up to the bar he stocked with weird dude things because pink-haired woke commie broads won’t let them.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Meanwhile you all are making so much money, hand over fist, from the scientific community that you can ignore a mystery "unpaid invoice" for 5 years before noting..... 7/n
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nominations are open for the ASV Ann Palmenberg Junior Investigator Award! www.asv.org/ann-palmenbe...
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Ann Palmenberg Junior Investigator Award
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Kari Debbink @karidebbink.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It would be nice if you could reasonably count on the weather forecast to be accurate like it used to be, but (just like everything he touches) Trump fucked it up SO MUCH you can’t even plan correctly for a weekend trip you pack for the night before.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
Anyone calling the refusal to compromise on trans rights a "purity test" can get into the bin as far as I'm concerned
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Fund abortion @rahulastrohl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Portland and Austin work day and night to advertise themselves as weird. Baltimore effortlessly rolls out of bed just being weirder than either.
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Jason E. Dunlap, Valeyard @redeyedjedi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Amy Acton attacked at campaign event near Youngstown; multiple people reportedly injured www.wlwt.com/article/amy-...
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Amy Acton attacked at campaign event near Youngstown; multiple people reportedly injured
Amy Acton was reportedly attacked at a campaign event near Youngstown on Sunday.
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Kari Debbink @karidebbink.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Why order food at the farmer’s market and then complain about the price when it was clearly posted on the sign you read before ordering it? If it’s too much, just don’t order it. Why make yourself mad over something that is a choice? 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️😂 Some people are hilariously ridiculous.
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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
grape nuts darth what is happening there
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 01/09/2026
How the fuck is it September
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Kari Debbink @karidebbink.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
What do we want? Diarrhea!!! (Apparently) When do we want it? Forever!!!
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IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026
I wonder what else he is scared of that resembles a button
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
When Salk developed the polio vaccine, “Church bells tolled, factory whistles blew. People ran into the streets weeping…Eisenhower invited Jonas Salk to the White House, where he choked up while thanking Salk for saving the world's children” Today we have RFK Jr 😢 www.npr.org/sections/npr...
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Defeating Polio, The Disease That Paralyzed America
On April 12, 2015, the world will celebrate the 60th anniversary of Jonas Salk's vaccine that helped defeat a contagious, crippling virus.
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My latest: Kennedy is undermining the #measles response in Pennsylvania by suggesting recent deaths were "fabricated," and his years of lies about vaccines have made it much more difficult to end our ongoing measles outbreaks throughout the country and prevent new ones from happening.
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Opinion | America beat measles once. RFK Jr. is making it harder to do so again.
The U.S. is headed for more cases, more suffering, more deaths and enormous financial costs.
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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 27/08/2026
Past American dominance in science is not due to a few dozen “top scholars.” It’s due to America 🇺🇸 spending ENORMOUSLY more on science than other countries and distributing it widely. Canada 🇨🇦 boasting about attracting “top talent” of a few dozen people is not serious. And not US “brain drain.”
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It's not just tumbling enrollment. Graduate programs rely on foreign students to sustain *critical mass.* Many (if not most) would collapse after a sudden 30% drop in enrollment. They think they're creating space for white, U.S.-born students, but they're actually destroying their own schools.
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Kari Debbink @karidebbink.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Not sure you can still call it a department of health. 🤦‍♀️
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Kari Debbink @karidebbink.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What a loss. This is a life well lived.
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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The noblest of professions these days. God speed.
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Patrick R. Secor @prsecor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I’ll soon be #Hiring a postdoc to join the Secor Lab at Montana State University. This NIH-funded position will investigate phage biology in Lyme disease spirochetes. The official ad will be available soon. Please share with anyone who might be interested! #MicroSky #PhageSky 🔬🦠🧪🧫
An engorged tick with fluorescent bacteria in its midgut
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Kari Debbink @karidebbink.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Because it is.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
regular reminder that most of the millions of projected deaths from USAID's destruction HAVE NOT HAPPENED YET—which means they can still be prevented. but this is only possible if we demand that democrats prioritize it once in power. it is a moral imperative that we actually act on these numbers
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Literally a dictatorship
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
But what if someone else doesn’t suffer?
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Kari Debbink @karidebbink.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
How EMBARRASSING for him. 😬
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The simple way to prevent a backdoor AI bailout: Change the bankruptcy laws to be less friendly to private equity cepr.net/publications...
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The Simple Way to Stop the Hidden AI Bailout: Rewrite Bankruptcy Law
Changing bankruptcy law could prevent taxpayers from bailing out risky AI investments by making private equity firms liable for insurers' debts.
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Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute @jhmrimalaria.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
An invasive #mosquito that came to the US from the tropics in SE Asia has adapted to newer climates. @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social vector biologist Douglas Norris tells @mariannedhe.bsky.social in @slate.com, "They figure out ways to get to where they want to be." slate.com/technology/2...
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They’re the Most Annoying Creatures on the Planet. You Don’t Know What They’re Going to Unleash on America.
They can do a lot more than ruin your summer day.
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Kari Debbink @karidebbink.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
New puppers! ❤️ #GreatestDane #NoNameYet
Woman holding a great Dane puppy in a car. Puppy is brown and white and very cute.
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George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Pls share. Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences - Genetics/Genomics at Smith College. apply.interfolio.com/190342
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Micklefield Lab @micklefield-lab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Hello Bluesky! 👋 We're a research group at Imperial College working at the interface of chemistry, biology & biotechnology. 🔬 #BiosyntheticPathways, #NaturalProducts & #Antibiotics 🧬 #EnzymeStructure, #EnzymeMechanism & #EnzymeEngineering ⚗️ #Biocatalysis & #SustainableSynthesis. News to follow
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Global Scholar Satellite Symposium: Virology in One Voice #asv2026 1/n
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Taking away someone's food and medicine makes you responsible for their death
Standing up guy by Norman Rockwell meme
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Kari Debbink @karidebbink.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Whoa, you weren’t kidding about that last paragraph. Damn.
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Paulo E. Abreu @g0shie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
www.science.org/content/arti... The last paragraph ...
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Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public
Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is a blunt assessment of what the Trump regime is proposing for US science: they plan to take all the funding, essentially collapsing university-based research, in order to give that money to themselves, and they are lying about it.
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Today it is fifteen years since the worst terrorist attack on Norwegian soil, and fifteen years since I survived the massacre on Utøya. A whole generation has grown up in a less innocent Norway, a Norway where terror is a reality.
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Kari Debbink @karidebbink.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Good.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Thinking about how so many people I know said Don’t Look Up was so stupid and over the top and ridiculous but my environmental scientist brother was like “Nope, that’s exactly how it feels”
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