Reposted by Dr. Laura CallowayL.R.S. Hagerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Now's a great time to turn off auto play on Bluesky videos. Settings > Content & Media > Autoplay videos & GIFs 04135
Reposted by Dr. Laura CallowayDr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Your 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. 0319
Reposted by Dr. Laura CallowayProPublica @propublica.org · 10/01/2026Your 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.orgFind Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your ClaimYou 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... 4450186
Dr. Laura Calloway @lkcalloway.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Never post here anymore but I added a couple new letters to my name (finally)! 140
Reposted by Dr. Laura CallowayEsther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025An explainer about how health research funding happens and why this NIH funding cycle shutdown matters: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...msnbc.comOpinion | 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. 16502265
Reposted by Dr. Laura CallowayGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 09/01/2025there 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 2034565
Reposted by Dr. Laura CallowayPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/12/2024A 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... 920237113775
Reposted by Dr. Laura CallowayJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 21/12/2024It'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. 04615
Dr. Laura Calloway @lkcalloway.bsky.social · 29/11/2024this! 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. 1145
Reposted by Dr. Laura CallowayMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Check your carrots. The CDC warns of a bad E. coli outbreak across at least 18 states with one death identified so far.cdc.govE. coli Outbreak Linked to Organic CarrotsPage describes an outbreak of E. coli linked to organic carrots. 5611871118
Reposted by Dr. Laura CallowayLydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Re-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. 2023783
Reposted by Dr. Laura CallowayR. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 11/11/2024for 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 💌 324174354033
Reposted by Dr. Laura CallowayCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/12/2023Hey, 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. 29115
Reposted by Dr. Laura CallowayEd Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 11/12/2023I 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...nytimes.comOpinion | Reporting on Long Covid Taught Me to Be a Better JournalistCovering long Covid solidified my view that science is not the objective, neutral force that it is often caricatured to be. 701393544
Reposted by Dr. Laura Calloway🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 19/10/2023Ever community moderator/ thinker you know is head in hands 34214
Reposted by Dr. Laura CallowayChantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 14/10/2023I 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.docs.google.comBlack-Owned Bookstore Invites to BlueskyRequest an invite to the social media network Bluesky from users who are donating them to bookstores owned by African-descended people 27330217
Reposted by Dr. Laura CallowayJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 30/08/2023Powerful 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. 291364611
Reposted by Dr. Laura CallowayDaniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 27/08/2023We 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 24414
Reposted by Dr. Laura Callowayashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 24/08/2023If 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. 3126091119
Reposted by Dr. Laura CallowayDr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 04/08/2023It'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-…cfiesler.medium.comPhD Admissions AdviceSorry about the hidden curriculum. :( 243
Reposted by Dr. Laura CallowaySarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/08/2023The 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). 44249145
Reposted by Dr. Laura CallowayMartha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 07/07/2023This 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.gofundme.comHelping Avery Get Through University, organized by Martha CrawfordHi, 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 11013
Reposted by Dr. Laura CallowayJeff Day @jeffday.bsky.social · 03/07/2023reskeeting 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! 01913