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Katherine Sale

@katherinesale.bsky.social
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Epidemiology PhD candidate @uiowa (she/her), clinical trials and health services research

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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 13h
Wait, you can submit them earlier than 15 minutes before they close?! That’s a superpower right there.
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
So sorry for your loss. I hope he is frolicking in a big field of clover in the great bunny beyond.
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Bonus points if he ate it while making aggressive eye contact.
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
They’re really scraping the bottom - he doesn’t even have a felony…yet.
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Shared pumpkin munchkins with these two goofballs
A fawn colored greyhound and a black lab are snoozing on a bed, dreaming of more pumpkin donut bites.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WHAT a life!! Margaret Hamilton, who lead the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30 in Cambridge, Mass. She was 90. Her death, in a hospital, was confirmed by her daughter, Lauren.
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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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Democratic Party of Illinois @illinoisdems.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As an Air Force Veteran, cancer research scientist, and resident of Southern Illinois for 25+ years, @fortier4congress.bsky.social has seen firsthand how MAGA’s cuts to health care and veteran services hurt families. In 28 days, let’s vote out Mike Bost and send Julie Fortier to Congress 💪
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Facts.
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The only person who is responsible for sexual assault is the person who committed it.
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Not always towards the null: reconsidering the direction of overadjustment bias" - read our new paper in the @intjepidemiol.bsky.social led by Frerik Smit! Overadjustment for a mediator is often thought to 'bias towards the null', but the bias can be in any direction - as the paper explains!
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Not always towards the null: reconsidering the direction of overadjustment bias
Abstract. Overadjustment bias occurs when adjusting for a variable increases rather than decreases bias. It commonly arises in studies estimating the total
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A cri de cœur from a emeritus professor of biochemistry at Yale. inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-re...
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Opinion: I Miss When The NIH Payline Was 40% And We All Mouth-Pipetted Phenol
By Dr. Douglas R. Waverly, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Yale University
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You didn’t choose the shower life, the shower life chose you.
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
More famous: “This is your brain on drugs” Most quoted by my peers: “I learned it by watching you” As with so many things, the lesser known is the better version, imho.
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You get cinnamon rolls and you get cinnamon rolls…Karen at the holidays, maybe
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 25/09/2026
Hidden in the rice fields of Kyoto was a mold that would turn into one of the most important preventative therapies in modern medicine. Let's talk about it 🧵 🧪
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey @governor.pa.gov , want the easiest win of the year? Wildly popular, good policy, real impact, low cost? Help save the academy of Natural Sciences in Philly. creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...
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America's oldest natural history museum is closing this week — but not without a fight
The oldest natural history museum in America shuts its doors this month. Here's what we're losing inside (it's big), and why City Hall is fighting back.
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yes! They got me with a little Gn’R “Sweet Child O’ Mine” earlier this month.
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 19/09/2026
if you’re the white woman who was picking up a bat in downtown minneapolis on hennepin ave between washington & 3rd on 9/15 at noon, the minnesota department of health would like to talk to you because that shit was RABID! i would also like to talk to you because girl, wtf
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
protecting, maintaining and improving the health of il Minesotans
RABID BAT FOUND ON SIDEWALK
On Tuesday, September 15 at about 12pm, a bat was found on the sidewalk on Hennepin Ave between N. Washington Ave and N 3°St.
The bat died and was sent for rabies testing. This bat tested positive for
rabies.
A woman was seen crouching by the bat and putting it into a bag. She was described as a 25-to-30-year-old white woman, about 5'5", with curly brown hair and a curly-haired golden retriever-like dog. If this was you, please call 911 and ask to be connected to Animal Care & Control.
Bites from bats are tiny, may be painless, and may not leave a mark. An person who had physical contact or touched this bat should talk with health care provider this weekend for assessment. During the week, Minnesota Department of Health can also provide rabies assessments at 651-201-5414.
If vou did not touch or have any contact with the bat, you have no risk of rabies and do not need shots.
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Coping by living in novels until conditions improve📚
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Why are people still telling scientists that we need to compromise with MAHA? How about if we tell MAHA that they can come to the table when they respect the scientific method instead.
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Not to be a Debbie Downer, but the day is still young. 🤞🏼🤞🏼you can continue to evade his notice 😉
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Has Mike Rogers disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ken Paxton disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Mike Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Jon Husted disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Susan Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Moody disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Hinson disavowed Elon Musk yet?
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 02/09/2026
Angel S. Rampersad Michael Swinton Tyler J. Feehan Isabella Gonzales Gabriel Edwards John Klinner Ariana Savino Ashley Pruitt Seth Koval Curtis Angst Tyler Simmons Benjamin Pennington Jeffrey O’Brien Robert Marzan Nicole Amor Declan Coady Cody Khork Noah Tietjens Stop lying.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/09/2026
NEW: Christopher McCurdy, the leading scientist urging policymakers not to criminalize kratom, has accepted travel reimbursements, donations to his university’s foundation and funding for symposiums from the American Kratom Association. None of this is mentioned in the papers he publishes.
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The Scientist Trying to Keep Kratom Legal Has Not Disclosed Longstanding Ties to Kratom Lobbyists
University of Florida professor Christopher McCurdy has accepted travel reimbursements, donations to his university’s foundation and funding for symposiums from the American Kratom Association. None o...
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I just got my bird of the day on the Cornell ornithology app while in a pool drinking sangria. That’s it, I’ve won.
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
New zodiac sign?!?
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Dr. Implorable @drimplorable.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Want to keep her memory alive? Do a lot of kind things, for a lot of people, no matter who they are. And do it with a happy and humble heart.
Mural portrait of Dolly Parton
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Serving size says ~2.5 per can @ 120 ml per serving. ~300 ml per can.
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 20/08/2026
ICYMI our most recent episode of the Clean Water Works podcast featured a panel of public works, research, and academic experts talking about data centers from a utility's perspective. listen and subscribe wherever you get your award-winning podcasts: neorsd.buzzsprout.com/1924356/epis...
Clean Water Works podcast cover art
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A paper that was recently referenced in a **US Senate hearing** to try to link COVID vaccines to deaths has been retracted by the journal, after the paper’s author’s (and their entire institution) requested the retraction “due to concerns about misinterpretation … and subsequent public health risks”
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BMJ Group retracts paper on COVID-19 vaccines and mortality featured in Senate hearing
BMJ Public Health has retracted a paper some — including a witness at a recent U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing — have used to link COVID-19 vaccines to deaths. The action comes more than two years…
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The. Worst.
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Fred Armisen: Right To Jail. Right Away.
Alt: Fred Armisen: Right To Jail. Right Away.
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Saltines with margarine and a sprinkle of sugar! Grandma ftw!
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Just in time for back to school.
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Taylor Farms really is the *worst* Before this outbreak I wasn’t aware of the brand. I guess there is such a thing as bad publicity.
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Such a good point. Will this also make it harder for public health departments to provide low/no cost vaccination clinics? Just infuriating.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/08/2026
Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. (Published April 2025)
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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Missed Connections, Chicago Reader circa 2003…
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I am so triggered by RJK Jr's comment about ICU's being empty during #COVID. I re-read what I wrote after one of the surges. How do others forget. The trauma was--and is--real.
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I'm An ICU Doctor. I’m Haunted By What I’ve Seen During The Recent COVID-19 Surge.
“I can’t stop thinking about the 40-something man who told me, ‘I can’t die like this. I just got engaged and have a 6-month-old baby.’ I encouraged him to be positive, but that didn’t stop him from d...
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Allow us to introduce them to the ✨cardboard box✨
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I’d wonder if they’d sold their soul but do these individuals have souls to trade?
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Did they add a gold mine feature in the garden?!?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/08/2026
FYI: Blanche rescinded the ORDER establishing the slush fund, not the underlying “settlement.” The settlement says any changes must be agreed to by ALL parties, not just Todd. This “rescission” isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Yesterday RFK Jr. claimed that the measles outbreak arose from kids not getting vaccinated during “lockdowns”. As the Secretary of Health and Human Services, he has had the power to roll out a massive vaccine program to fill the alleged gaps since February 13th, 2025. He has failed to do so.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Here's what I think about how Marco Rubio is doing:
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 02/08/2026
America’s legal system To practice law: —4 year degree, LSAT, 3 year JD, pass BAR, buy malpractice insurance, total cost ~$300K To enforce law: —Here’s paid 13-week training & a gun To write law: —0 qualifications needed, a billionaire can buy your seat Vote only for people funded by people.❤️✊🏽
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FASD United @fasdunited.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
If you're part of the #FASDCommunity National FASD Impact Week is for YOU. Registration is free: fasdimpactweek.org/registration Real change doesn't happen in isolation; it happens when people come together with a shared purpose! #FASD #FASD2026 #Advocacy #Neurodiversity #PublicHealth
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GONZO the Ca'at @gonzo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Can anny nyc peeps help to foster tha kittys?
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Scissors @scissors.myatproto.social · 31/07/2026
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My bff and I send each other voice texts with rants, generally closing with “thanks for letting me rant.” Helps me not say things when/where I shouldn’t. I hope things are better after snacks, rest, and perhaps a beverage?
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Katherine Sale @katherinesale.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
How I imagine that debate would go:
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The Simpsons: Stop, Stop! He's Already Dead
Alt: The Simpsons: Stop, Stop! He's Already Dead. In this version, Dr. Fauci is clearly dominating our current Secretary of HHS (naturally).
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