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Gabrielle @gabbklein.myatproto.social · 23/09/2026

I think you've got a winning tourism slogan there

A landscape in Iceland with a deep blue sky, white clouds, pointy mountain, light green meadows, a lake, and some solitary buildings with the caption "everywhere in Iceland feels like you're being driven into the countryside to be murdered"

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“I side with Republicans on made up culture war issues… to make YOUR life more affordable” Excuse me??

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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland

A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Gleðilegan kjördag! Kosningar2026: 2 fast 2 furious. Hér í Hlíðaskóla er stemning og megakjörsókn. Nýtum kosningaréttinn, og nörd geta fylgst með framvindunni (í Reykjavík) hér: www.reykjavík.is/kosningar

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Born into poverty, became a superstar and a billionaire and just - shared and gave and promoted good causes and left this outsized mark on the world. Gave away as many books as there are people in the US! Funded a vaccine during a pandemic! Legend.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

You know y’all complain about the kids not knowing how to read, but Dolly was trying to teach them. She was mailing books to the children. She was working on it.

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Since Kennedy has taken office, we've had 5 #measles deaths in the US. We had 3 total deaths from the virus in all of 2001-2024. And outbreaks are still growing here in Ohio and in Pennsylvania. Utter madness that our government is encouraging this.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I am indeed a professor. I read ugh, theory. I read a lot of history; articles and books. Its because the stuff I read for work is so dark, and intense that I need something to change the gears. So hell yes, I read absolutely trashy romance novels, and I read smut. We can do it all, I believe.

When people say they’ve read 100 books a year and it’s all smut I get mad. That shit does not count.

Wanna know who actually reads hella books per year? Professors. On top of journal articles. On top of student essays.

Saying that porn counts is stolen valor
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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Executive order couldn’t change the constitution, but maybe he’ll have better luck changing reality?

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hi, international grad student here; I might have had $2000 when I graduated. This is so out of reach it’s almost funny.

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Probably AI? But did not a single human look over this graphic before the State Department presented it to an audience that would immediately notice how embarrassingly wrong it was? I’m at #AIDS2026 but missed this session. Maybe a good thing, the cringe might have killed me.

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The US State Department Redraws the Map of Africa at the AIDS2026 Conference

And rewrites history, too. All before the official opening.

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Playboy joins Taco Bell on the 2026 alt public health team

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 21/07/2026

the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Ever since that line about how there is only one god ma’am, which turned me off the entire franchise. If you’re making movies incorporating polytheistic pantheons that aren’t yours, don’t also insert smug little one liners to reassure the audience it’s not for real. (I know it’s not that deep.)

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Chris Evans as Captain America Salutes

Alt: Chris Evans as Captain America Salutes in an annoying Boy Scout fashion, the same way he does everything

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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/07/2026

What To Know About Cyclosporiasis theonion.com/what-to-know-about-cyc…

Q: How many cases have been recorded?

A: Oh, the CDC doesn’t do that anymore.

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I have sent these to everyone I know. I am not ok.

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

One sibling is a parent of a teen & toddler, which I think I’d do reasonably well at, and an equestrian to which I’d bring moderate enthusiasm and zero skill. The other is a CEO and, uh, I hope the team is on top of things.

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

SOME psychiatrists report ANECDOTAL cases of improvement. Nice framing.

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Do these deportees have any ties to Eswatini? If not, can you imagine how terrifying this is? Were the two who were released tossed out on the streets to fend for themselves in a strange country? Reminder that ICE released people in Minnesota without coats or transportation in the dead of winter.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 09/07/2026

Oh, have I not told this one here? Okay. So Grandma had The Charisma.

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Higher ed! This would have hobbled faculty across a huge variety of disciplines in ways I’m sure DeSantis has no understanding of. This is good news.

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

WHO launches database to track sexually transmitted infections. The organization hopes the database will help improve understanding of STI prevalence in low- and middle-income countries. Read more: ow.ly/a5SO50ZkMRN

Blue-gloved hand holding black card with names of sexually transmitted infections.

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This first hand account of the wasted opportunity that was Freedom 250 is a great (if sad) read. 🧵

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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Neal continues his war on bollards.

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

When you find yourself writing this, when you’re scoffing “what is a child, really”, how can it not give you pause?

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

“Moderate” is not a statement about your beliefs, but about your position in relation to others. In a world of runaway authoritarianism that means being dragged rightward like a tin can on a string behind a car

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Support for “one gender rules, another serves” surprisingly higher among would-be rulers.

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Fanfuckingtastic. Like I needed more reasons to despair over the impact of LLMs on academia.

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Brian Wasik @brianrwasik.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The HPV vaccine outcome epi just keeps getting better and better. From England, a 100% mortality reduction in the most recent female adult cohort (20-24yo) that had proper high coverage at ~12yo. Still one of the greatest ID AND oncology successes ever observed. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Cervical cancer mortality trends following HPV vaccination in England, 2001–24: an analysis of population-based mortality data

Our findings provide the first robust national-level evidence, albeit observational, that high HPV vaccination coverage is associated with a substantial reduction in cervical cancer deaths. This is sh...

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I generally don't like cross-posting from Twitter, but Mike Young absolutely nails how the US wound up with a resurgence of the flesh-eating screwworm decades after it had been eliminated.

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The goal is *a* free press, not *the* Free Press, we did not in fact want the entire media to be the video arm of Bari Weiss’ Substack

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Metrics for this editorial. This, friends, is called the Streisand Effect. Nice work ADA Leadership!!

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

“There was a thumb on the scale for the president’s version of events that I felt was a level of political influence that I had never seen in 37 years at CBS News.” My god. In a normal world, Bari Weiss would not survive this explosive Pelley interview. Gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/7/ma...

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Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

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Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people. Sound efficient? HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

Graphic showing various statistics around the inefficiency of cars, including car utilization, tank to wheel energy flow, deaths and injuries each year on the road, etc.

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Scientists--I'm a journalist looking for interesting examples of global health research that has managed to continue or adapt following the dismantling of USAID. Re-posts appreciated!

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Ronny Chieng was a commencement speaker at Harvard this year, and he had some thoughts about AI: youtube.com/shorts/0z7Q0...

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Harvard Grads Cheer Comedian Ronny Chieng's AI Speech

YouTube video by 404 Media

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Fun fact: when I had more energy to debate antivaxxers, I would fall back on tetanus and rabies as the ones we could find common ground on. Because the vaccines can be given post-exposure, the argument that the disease is “so unlikely” falls apart, 1/x

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Husbands “love”? Guess we’ll never know who the rest of the family are obeying and submitting to.

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Well that could not possibly be more on the nose.

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Juliana Stratton @julianastratton.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

So Texas, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, and Tennessee can redraw districts without a referendum and that stands, but when Virginia lets voters decide directly at the ballot box, it gets overturned?

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