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A. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH @susanaramirez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey there #AcademicSky … anyone heading to @4sweb.bsky.social next week? It’ll be my 1st time & I’m looking for tips. Plug your panels! #CDoH #Foodstudies #STS #Histsci

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A. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH @susanaramirez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just got a notification from my building manager on "best practices for pest management" and EWWWWWW! Now I all I can think about is 🐭🪤🐀🐁 scurrying all over the emergency food I keep in my office.

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A. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH @susanaramirez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm on a webinar with someone whose podcast I listen to religiously and she seems to be talking soooo slllooooowwwwlllyyyy.....(oops, I guess it's bc I listen to podcasts on 2x).

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A. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH @susanaramirez.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today in class I tried to use Angelina Jolie to talk about media effects & I honest to goodness could not tell if they knew who I was talking about (I had a picture of her but…it was awkward.) My more contemporary example was Tom Hanks in 2020 &…not much better! #AcademicSky

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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If you live in an urban or suburban area and most or all public amenities are too far away for most people to walk, that did not happen by accident and it does not have to stay that way.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You cannot understand emergency management today without understanding how the Bush administration & Congress took advantage of the post-9/11 shock to create the homeland security apparatus.

Just a few months later, two planes crashed into the Twin Towers and the window was opened for the largest reorganization of the federal government since the National Security Act of 1947. US emergency management was turned upside down, as reckless policy decisions that contradicted decades of disaster research and emergency management expertise were imple-mented. 402 The cataclysmic post-9/11 policy changes laid the groundwork for the failed response to Hurricane Katrina and the levee failure only a few years later, 403 and still contribute to slow and ineffective responses today.

The most significant of these changes was the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. A month after 9/11, Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) cosponsored a bill that took inspiration from the concept of the National Homeland Security Agency, proposing the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As had happened when Representative Thornberry introduced nearly the same bill in the House months before, hearings were held, but no vote taken. The Bush administration, with support from the Hart-Rudman findings, presented a similar bill to Congress in June 2002. With pressure from the White House, the bill finally passed, and DHS was created. FEMA was subsumed by DHS along with other agencies, including the Coast Guard and Secret Service. In the reorganization, FEMA lost its status as an

independent, cabinet-level agency. Across the country, emergency management agencies got whiplash. 404
As this drastic reorganization and refocus of the federal government was underway, Congress wanted answers about the circumstances that led to the 9/11 attacks including an analysis of how intelligence agencies had failed to communicate with one another before the attack. Most relevant for emergency man-agement, Congress also wanted a better understanding of the effectiveness of the response at the Pentagon and in New York City. The answers to these questions were compiled into the 9/11 Commission Report released in 2004.405 The 9/11 Commission's findings concerned many emergency management ex-perts. 406 The Commission found that the immediate life-saving response measures conducted at the Pentagon had been success-ful. On the contrary, they criticized the response measures in New York City as uncoordinated.

This conclusion ran counter to the findings of disaster researchers in important ways. Disaster scholars documented first responders running into the towers, despite knowing they might never run back out. Inside the towers, people banded together to help each other out of the buildings, carrying coworkers who were disabled down dozens of flights of stairs, resulting in upward of sixteen thousand people evacuating in just 102 minutes.
Those who died were largely located on the floors above where the planes collided, making evacuation impossible.
Those who escaped the towers found people outside ready to guide them out of the dust. Local businesses opened their doors to offer refuge, and others handed out water or bandaged

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

WHAT THE FUCK

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Courtney (Dr. Version) @cakrolik.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Friends, thoughts on this method: #academicsky #skystorians #medievalsky

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News Literacy Project @newslit.org · 10/09/2026

Get FREE Daily Do Nows from @weareteachers.bsky.social! Our ready-to-use & regularly updated Google Slides include: ✨ Short bell-ringer exercises ✨ Discussion prompts and reflection questions ➕ Much more covering real-world examples Access your free download today ⤵️ #EduSky #AcademicSky

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Free Do Nows That Help Students Think Critically About News Literacy

Free Daily Do Nows that help students build news literacy, evaluate sources, and spot misinformation they encounter every day.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 05/09/2026

"Pinpoint a social ill, monetize it for your personal gain, then spread the problem to increase your market share. Before the pitchforks come out, set up a fake charity that claims to solve the problem you just exacerbated."

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How to Hustle Like a Tech Founder

“You can’t hustle alone. Move to a city where founders thrive and get to work. Head to Miami if you want to scam people with crypto, or San Francisco if you ...

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you're Catholic & believe in church-defined sin, there are a lot of new official sinners now, including fossil-fuel company execs, climate deniers, & billionaire eco-destroyers. "Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation & the Creator’ www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/09...

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Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document

The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

D. Everyone benefits from less car driving, not just those in the bike lane. GHG reduction mitigates CC. Children breathe fewer particulates & air pollution. Road deaths & severe injuries are most strongly determined by exposure to kinetic energy. Reduce cars & spds bsky.app/profile/wesm...

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Please repost! Drexel announced that it will close the Academy of Natural Sciences public museum- the oldest nat history museum in the US. There are 2 petitions to support the academy. Please sign both & come to our rally Tues. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe... www.change.org/p/the-academ...

A poster featuring the T-Rex at the cognitive natural sciences, which says save the Academy natural sciences, museum rally in front of the academy 1900 Ben Franklin Parkway, Tuesday, September 8 10 AM. The T-Rex is saying tell Drexel keep the museum open. There’s an RSVP QR code and then the logos of Philly Science Action Skype scientist In Philly on the bottom.

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TAGHIVscience @taghivscience.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

To provide @nationalacademies.org with feedback on Dietram A. Scheufele's continued membership of their Center for Health, People, and Places (CHPP) advisory committee, there's a form here: www8.nationalacademies.org/pa/feedback....

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A. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH @susanaramirez.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I've been going around for a week thinking 1926 was such a great year, and what losses (and they keep coming!). But. Apparently 80 years ago was...1946, not 1926. 🫣 Yes, yes I did just have my mammogram and a full set of labs. Don't forget the colonoscopy. #GenX #Feelingit

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Totally Spies Clover: Too Young to Be Old

Alt: A blond cartoon girl is opening her mouth. Text under her face reads "I am too young to be old." Totally Spies Clover: Too Young to Be Old

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Alison Young @alisonannyoung.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The growing threat of measles has some universities urging faculty and staff to find their old vaccination records or other proof of immunity now — before an exposure happens on campus. www.healthbeat.org/2026/09/01/m... #publichealth #highered #IDsky #MedSky #Episky #AcademicSky #highereducation

A photo of a green lawn and tan building above a headline: Colleges are urging faculty and staff to have measles immunity proof ready — or risk weeks in quarantine

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Maya Wiley @maya4rights.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“I understand people having to make themselves known and felt and seen,” she told Billboard. “And of course Black lives matter. Do we think our little white asses are the only ones that matter? No!” - Dolly Parton #RIP theblackwallsttimes.com/2026/08/25/d...

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Dolly Parton, Country Icon Who Reached Across Racial Divides, Dies At 80

"The Queen of Country," Dolly Parton, dies at 80. Her legacy includes music that touched millions and efforts that crossed racial divides.

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

something that has soothed my soul a bit today: learning that there is an unreleased Dolly Parton song that she sealed in a vault with instructions not to share it until 2045, so in nineteen years the world will be blessed with one last Dolly song from beyond the grave ❤️

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why2cake.bsky.social @why2cake.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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Benson Shum @bshum79.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I will never forget the day I got the email from my editor that ALEX'S GOOD FORTUNE was selected for the Imagination library. And learn and understand why she created this program. Thank you Dolly for the incredible impact you made on all of us. #imaginationlibrary #dollyparton

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In honor of Dolly and her commitment to getting books to kids, tell me about a book you read as a child that changed your life. I’ll start: so many, but tonight maybe I’ll say A WRINKLE IN TIME, a book that taught me anger wasn’t wrong.

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A. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH @susanaramirez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Guys my kids are jamming together instead of being on screens, 15 on piano 🎹 , 10 on vocals. My mama ❤️ is overflowing. I often doubt my parenting, but seeing siblings enjoying time together, & using the skill they FOUGHT HARD to quit makes me feel I am doing at least a little bit ok.

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Peanuts Sis & Bro Dance Party

Alt: Peanuts Sis & Bro Dance Party

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A. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH @susanaramirez.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

💯 explanation of #MAHA strategy by @rajpatel.org “If you can recast Marion Nestle, one of world’s most relentless critics of food industry influence, as a paid shill for Big Sugar, you can collapse the distinction between legitimate public health research & corporate capture…” #FoodPolitics

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MAHA's Fascist Turn

A recent attack on Marion Nestle starts to make sense if you're far less kind to the Make America Healthy Again movement than Marion has been.

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A. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH @susanaramirez.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Why isn't there a "d" in privilege and why can't I ever remember that?

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A. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH @susanaramirez.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

How I feel about the academic year starting. But since I have a mortgage to pay and mouths to feed, back to school I go…read for tips on how I plan for a productive semester. #AcademicSky #BacktoSchool #Productivity desperatelyseeking.substack.com/p/back-to-sc...

Picture of a kid in a floaty in a pool outdoors crying. Text: When you realize summer vacation is over. Back to school! Tips for making the most of a new academic year from a mid-career academic. Desperately seeking.

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A. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH @susanaramirez.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Hey, #AcademicSky, #WritingSky, any academic authors of monographs (vs. textbooks) who have created supporting materials for their books and willing to share? I'm thinking of powerpoint slides or discussion questions or other kinds of materials that can help faculty & students use your book?

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A. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH @susanaramirez.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Am I sad that my kids are growing up so fast & one is a senior in high school? Yes, yes I am. Am I DELIGHTED to have the house to myself for 6 whole hours a day? Also YES! Taking advantage of the next 2 days before my semester starts to ✍️📝 #AmWriting #AcademicParenting #AcademicSky

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A. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH @susanaramirez.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

You guys I spent all morning writing a really good Substack post directly on the website and did all kinds of research and linked to my favorite specific episodes of podcasts and somehow that section got erased and now I am so, so sad. And I feel extra bad bc I KNOW BETTER! #AmWriting #Backup

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A. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH @susanaramirez.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Excited to be in NYC 🗽 for #SSSP26 #SSSP2026 — see you soon for the session on #institutionalethnography where I’ll be sharing lessons from 🇨🇱 food policy development process.

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A. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH @susanaramirez.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I'm so grateful for the R&Rs but I'm also just, like,....over them? I've been writing and revising and revising some more. The articles are genuinely better after revision. But I might be on verge of burnout. #AcademicSky

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A. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH @susanaramirez.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I just hit a word count that is the last 4 digits of my childhood home phone number and that made me remember all 10 digits and these are the memories that are in my head but I can't remember why I walked into the kitchen 10 minutes ago. #AmWriting #GenX

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 20/07/2026

"At first, I didn’t comprender what the announcers were saying. Except “¡Gooooooooooooool!” which is like the americano word for “goal,” but más grande. After a few días, I started to understand más y más. Los announcers on Telemundo were muy excited about fútbol! ¡It was contagioso!"

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I Watched the Copa Mundial Non-Stop on Telemundo for Cinco Weeks and Now I Don’t Hablar Inglés Anymore

“Hola, Chad aquí, de Greenwich, Connecticut, a muy blanco área of los Estados Unidos. A few weeks ago, I decidir to watch Estados Unidos vs. Paraguay in fútb...

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A. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH @susanaramirez.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I rarely reference pop culture bc I am usually out-of-date. BUT I'm getting lots of targeted ads #Odyssey movie & I also reading my way through Rick Riordan's #TheOlympians w my 9-yo (#audiobooks ftw!) AND we are going to see #Hadestown... #Greekmythology is having a moment & I am here for it. 🧌 🐉🐲🦄

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

For those who haven't heard of this yet, the fastest/easiest way to reduce indoor air pollution from wildfire smoke is to get a basic 20x20 box fan, and slap a single 20x20 air filter (make sure it's very high MERV) on the back. No tape or anything, it just sticks to the back of the fan.

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Kauweloa, Ph.D. @kauweloa.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

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Joanna Pepin @joannapepin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Likely a terrible idea, but I'm going to persist in assigning a hopefully AI resistant assignment for my Family Policy class. It is process focused and assignments without full citations will fail. jrpepin.github.io/Family-Polic... #AcademicSky

1. **You will write a concise 1200–1500 word policy analysis** that
examines the issue, evaluates the accuracy of major claims, and
develops a well‑supported policy recommendation grounded in credible
evidence. This written component emphasizes critical thinking, media
literacy, and source evaluation (i.e., this is not general essay
writing).
2. **You will create a short (60–90 second) TikTok‑style video** in
which you demonstrate your fact‑checking process for one claim
related to your policy issue. This is a process‑based media literacy
task, and production quality is not graded. What matters is that you
clearly show your reasoning, your steps, and your ability to connect
evidence to policy analysis.

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A. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH @susanaramirez.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

You think you're a model for clear academic writing and then your smart 16yo points out where you write too fancy just to impress (and instead fail to actually make the point). Nothing like a teenager to serve some humble pie. #AcademicSky #Writing

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Sara Rouhi @rouhiroo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

For those that want to keep their heads down bc they'r not affected are sliding into acceptance/political support. @vkempe.bsky.social Anti-autocracy handbook visual #DefendResearch #academicsky

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A. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH @susanaramirez.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Oh my gosh I had two huge things to do this month and I did them and now I’m figuring out all the stuff I didn’t do. Email (ugh), paying bills (oops. Ugh), laundry 🧺, oh and play w my kids!

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