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Dr. Laura Calloway

@lkcalloway.bsky.social
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Computer scientist and tech (health tech, public health) privacy and security PhD. Dislike: waffle charts (can't eat 'em) and sprinkles (why eat 'em). Like: fashion history and procrastibaking.

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L.R.S. Hagerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Now's a great time to turn off auto play on Bluesky videos. Settings > Content & Media > Autoplay videos & GIFs
Screenshot of Bluesky settings in the mobile app to turn off autoplay on videos & GIFs.

Settings > Content & Media >  Autoplay videos & GIFs
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Your reminder that the secrecy, anonymity, falsification, and deception that are the hallmarks of US adoption practices have life or death consequences for adoptees. 🥚 Insurance companies will not reimburse for certain cancer screenings or genetic tests without an attested family history.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/01/2026
Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim. We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
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Dr. Laura Calloway @lkcalloway.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Never post here anymore but I added a couple new letters to my name (finally)!
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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
An explainer about how health research funding happens and why this NIH funding cycle shutdown matters: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | I’m a health researcher. NIH’s pause on research grants could have a devastating cost.
This is a potentially devastating event — not just for the scientific community, but for all Americans.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 09/01/2025
there is no "safe driving" on ice when you live in a state with almost no plows, no gravel trucks, no salt trucks... no infrastructure I learned to drive in Minnesota in March, and my ass doesn't leave the house when there's ice down here in Alabama
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
A huge barred owl flew down a Virginia family’s chimney, knocked over the star on top of their Christmas tree, and perched himself on top www.wusa9.com/article/life...
An owl stares into the camera from atop a family’s Christmas tree An owl perched on top of a Christmas tree inside a Virginia home
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
It's really important in general (but especially this time of year, with lots of gatherings) to make sure you have *good* options for guests who don't drink. It's not just great for those I'm recovery- it also includes those who don't drink for medical or religious reasons, or just don't want to.
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Dr. Laura Calloway @lkcalloway.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
this! but also you don't even have to be old(er). needless changes can make using tech incredibly frustrating to people with chronic illness & disabilities (the likelihood of having one or both of these increases with age). certain changes can make tech impossible to use for a variety of users.
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Dr. Laura Calloway @lkcalloway.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This X 100.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Check your carrots. The CDC warns of a bad E. coli outbreak across at least 18 states with one death identified so far.
cdc.gov
E. coli Outbreak Linked to Organic Carrots
Page describes an outbreak of E. coli linked to organic carrots.
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Re-sharing a thread before I delete it from x because I think it’s a useful one: In a work email, we had a fantastic thread about the use of "stakeholder" — many collaborators have stated they do not want this term used, and scholarship has supported this.
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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/12/2023
Hey, if you want to do historical research, let me suggest to you: (a) looking for historical newspaper archives--many are free, and some have low monthly costs which is great if you can fit your research needs in a month, and (b) doing date-restricted searches on Google Books.
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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
I wrote an op-ed for the NYT about what reporting on long COVID has meant to me—how I approached it, the impact it had, and how it taught me to be a better journalist. This piece is sort of a manifesto for a journalism grounded in compassion, rigor, and care. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/o...
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Opinion | Reporting on Long Covid Taught Me to Be a Better Journalist
Covering long Covid solidified my view that science is not the objective, neutral force that it is often caricatured to be.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Ever community moderator/ thinker you know is head in hands
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 14/10/2023
I created a form to be shared with contacts at Black owned bookstores to request an invite to bluesky. I chose the model of the form for invites to the disability community cuz it seemed like I have a lot of people already willing to donate that we can quickly get codes to places that want them.
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Black-Owned Bookstore Invites to Bluesky
Request an invite to the social media network Bluesky from users who are donating them to bookstores owned by African-descended people
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 30/08/2023
Powerful front page of tomorrow's edition of The Daily Tar Heel, UNC's student newspaper. From text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday.
At the top of the page, the logo of The Daily Tar Heel. The rest of the page is a stream of block letters, getting smaller as it goes down the page, that reads:

ARE YOU SAFE?WHERE ARE YOU? ARE YOU ALONE? GUYS I'M SO FUCKING SCARED.
HEY- COME ON SWEETHEART- I NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU. CAN YOU HEAR ANY GUNSHOTS? PLEASE STAY SAFE.
BARRICADE THE DOOR OR IF YOU THINK YOU CAN RUN AND GET TO A PLACE THAT CAN LOCK DO SO. MY TEACHER IS ACTING LIKE NOTHING IS HAPPENING AND I'M LOWKEY FREAKING OUT. I WISH THESE NEVER HAPPENED. STAY CALM AND SAFE -WE LOVEYOU. IAM SO SORRY THIS IS HAPPENING.
1 LOVE YOU. WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING? MULTIPLE VOICES AND LOUD BANGING. I'M IN CLASS EVERYONE IS LOSING IT PEOPLE ARE LITERALLY SHAKING. STILL GOING ON AND COMING CLOSER, HOPING IT'S COPS. I'M GONNA FUCKING THROW UP. KINDA WISH I HAD SOMEONE ELSE HERE THOUGH. PLEASE PRAY FOR US. PLEASE STAY WHERE YOU ARE AND KEEP YOUR DOORS LOCKED OR FORTIFIED. LOVE YOU SO SO MUCH. ARE YOU HOME? SOMEONE IS ALREADY SHOT.
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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 27/08/2023
We have done such a disastrous job really communicating that investment in public health EXPANDS freedoms rather than LIMITS them, or at least the trade-off of expansions to limits can be hugely favorable given appropriate public health investment and action. #bioethics #LawSky #PHLaw #PHEthx
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 24/08/2023
If you share Trump’s mugshot today please share that the Fulton County Jail where it was taken, is at 3x it’s capacity, infested with bugs, holding 87% Black people, most of whom haven’t even been convicted of a crime. 6 people have died in custody this year alone. Fuck cops, shut down jails.
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 04/08/2023
It's August, which means PhD admissions season kicking off! If you or someone you know is applying for #PhD programs (especially in U.S. & STEM fields), I have a YouTube playlist trying to help demystify the hidden curriculum. Overview: cfiesler.medium.com/phd-admissions-…
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PhD Admissions Advice
Sorry about the hidden curriculum. :(
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/08/2023
The collapse of twitter has made it much harder to publicize Skype a Scientist. Very open to any ideas on how to get the word out to teachers about our program. It has to be either free or very low-cost (twitter collapsing has also made fundraising harder lolololol).
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 07/07/2023
This Go Fund Me is to support an incredible young woman, who our family loves deeply - and who has been through so much. I hope you will donate, or please amplify. She deserves all the support in the world.
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Helping Avery Get Through University, organized by Martha Crawford
Hi, This is Martha Crawford LCSW, and I am asking for help in supporting an … Martha Crawford needs your support for Helping Avery Get Through University
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Jeff Day @jeffday.bsky.social · 03/07/2023
reskeeting for the new folks - please make a concerted effort to make your content here accessible by adding alt text. don’t know how to write good alt text, or what it is, or why it’s needed? read the quoted thread below!
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