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Verónica Hoyo

@vbhoyo.bsky.social
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Political scientist and evaluator. Comparative political parties; survey methods; program evaluation. Always willing to talk about food. Views are my own only.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I can actually feel the diseases being cured and the outbreaks being prevented through such visionary strategic investments...
An NIH Communication email to all staff about converting the use of "AI" to "SI" in all communications due to a recent Executive Order.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
How to learn to make a finger cobra to scare your friends. Original post
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If the regime is stifling free speech, it must be...any day of the week. This is how frogs get slowly boiled (into an authoritarian stew). The regime "plans to add a permanent fence around the park, with gates that officials could close at their discretion." ... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Inside Trump’s Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/10/2026
The CDC just re-opened a previously shelved study that would withhold the hepatitis B vaccine from children in Guinea-Bissau, despite decades of evidence showing it is safe and effective. This is a violation of human rights, using “science” to harm some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
Breaking-news graphic featuring a photo of RFK Jr with headline that reads "RFK JR. TO GIVE 1.6M IN CDC FUNDS TO EXPERIMENT ON AFRICAN BABIES IN UNETHICAL TRIAL"
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sea turtle sleeps upside down inside a giant sponge. [📹 Oliver David Richardson] [📍 Moalboal, Philippines] Original post
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This guy shows how to rescue yourself if you fall through ice. [📹 rewildu] Original post
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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Important article here. Russell Vought is not done trying to destroy the NIH. jmwidder.substack.com/p/trumps-omb...
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Trump’s OMB is Winning the Ground Game Against American Science
The NIH veto board got the headlines. The quieter plays are the ones moving the ball.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Soulless ghoul, Stephen Miller, has ordered DHS officials to have “inhumane” & "cruel" detention facilities. ICE is still on our streets terrorizing men, women, & children. I share one of the latest horrors in NJ & explain how ICE may be violating yet another court order: youtu.be/aA8UE8DDmPw?...
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Trump’s ICE SPIRALS After COURT ORDER VIOLATION EXPOSED!?!
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Verónica Hoyo @vbhoyo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I totally want my children's school to be like this (also, I have a "fun run" next Tuesday 😞)
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Commie Machinist @commiemachinist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What a crazy time to be a woman. I feel for Jane Doe. On Tuesday, she & her family were swatted. Someone reported a fake active shooting in her home, triggering a heavy SWAT response. You wonder why women don't speak up. www.themirror.com/news/us-news... #pinks
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Cornell Jane Doe forced to paper over windows over fear of being assassinated
WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT: Police drew weapons after swarming the home of Jane Doe of the Cornell gang rape lawsuit following a swatting attempt, which has Doe increasingly worried for her safety,...
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
4 reasons the Trump administration is attacking science. 🧵 This is still one of the most common questions I hear from people - but why!? Isn't science good for everyone?! So, here is my current thinking on why...
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
RFK Jr is funding a grotesquely unethical study on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau; ethicists, pediatricians, clinical trial experts, & infectious disease experts are calling this horrific trial The New Tuskegee. It is unethical to withhold a life saving intervention from half of newborns FFS.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Trump admin (specifically Russell Vought) violated the Impoundment Control Act when it decimated AHRQ last year, leaving $78M in Congressionally appropriated funds on the table. Vought did it again last month. As we look toward new leadership in 2027, we need accountability. impeachvought.com
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Impeach Vought
We are current and former federal workers from across the government. We have witnessed first-hand the harm Russell Vought has inflicted on American communities. We are urging Congress to act now to p...
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In case you hadn't been following this disturbing sequence of events, here's a recap: RFK Jr wanted to fund a randomized trial, run by Danes, involving newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau Ethicists across the world, including in Nigeria, Cameroon, & Ethiopia, were horrified: it's an unethical study
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The unethical, racist study of a birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau is back. Last year, we made a lot of noise and they dropped it. Time to get loud again! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
One important purpose of art is to communicate values across cultures. This sculpture has been exhibited in a few spots since last year; now it's in Strasbourg, at the European Parliament. The 23k gold piece is by Danish artist Jens Galschiot & is called The Orange Plague.
Image of the 8.5' sculpture The Orange Plague, which shows a Trump like image riding on top of a man & holding tiny scales a large, long golf club. It is near a golf ball meant to look like the world.

It sits on a black pedestal, on which words read "I am sitting on the back of a man. He is sinking under my burden. I will do anything to help him. Except stepping down from his back. —The King of Injustice."
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I haven't been posting about this b/c we don't yet have any facts to consider. (Russia hasn't even said the researcher's pneumonia was definitely pneumonic plague.) But this explainer contains some background info., so here you go. (🎁 🔗) Upshot: keep calm; carry on. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/w...
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Fears of a Plague Outbreak in Russia: What to Know (Gift Article)
Russian authorities aren’t saying much about the death of a woman who worked in a lab studying plague. But experts say any risk of contagion would be limited.
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Verónica Hoyo @vbhoyo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Given all the disinformation around public health issues today, more important than ever to be precise.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not to be *that guy* (sorry), but measles was eliminated in the US (not eradicated) We’ve only ever eradicated one human disease (smallpox); it’s when the global incidence is permanently zero due to deliberate efforts (for smallpox, vaccination) & you can stop interventions…
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There is a suspected outbreak of the plague in Russia. Yes, you read that right. And we cannot trust RFK Jr. and the Trump administration to be prepared to deal with this. We need a Democratic public health doctor in the US Senate.
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Scoop: White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia
Administration is "aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options," an official told Axios.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hi Everybody Today 😊
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As prepared as it is for measles?
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This feels like what life was like before modern medicine. Four young kids, born to "Followers of Christ" family died of treatable illnesses. This is willful ignorance enabled by religious exemptions. Parents were not touched due Idaho's child abuse laws. www.propublica.org/article/idah...
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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Incredible scandal. First the ex-BvS chief turns out to be a far-rightist and now the ex-BND chief turns out to be a traitor (we already knew that he also was a nativist). Germany is rotting from the top.
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Former German spy chief arrested for treason
Ex-intelligence head August Hanning suspected of selling state secrets to foreign power
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Rick Paisano @sicilianrick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yeah, who thought he was actually going to pay back what he stole from taxpayers? Nah. $11.5 million of your money & mine, spent on glorifying him. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads (Gift Article)
A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Listen to Jim, he’s 100% correct.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There is no NSF leadership. They were removed and never replaced.
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks to Russ Vought for exposing this woke research
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Republicans in the greater LA/SD metro areas (including LA, SD, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino counties): there are about 3.2 million of you and Trump has just admitted he does not care about your lives. Vote Blue in November to hold this mad man accountable!
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In case you missed it: Trump: "[Iran] can take out a city. Let them take out Lo Angeles or San Diego. This is a very small price to pay. It's essentially almost over with,"
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump suggesting he would let Iran take out San Diego or Los Angeles is absolutely absurd. There’s just never a bottom with this administration.
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Verónica Hoyo @vbhoyo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Impeachable offense, high crime but in this day and age, just another Monday. Lest we forget.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The White House today prohibited Politico from traveling on Air Force One.
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Verónica Hoyo @vbhoyo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
C'est Zizou, c'est normal pour lui
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Latinus @latinus-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
¡Qué elegancia la del DT de Francia! Zidane baja una pelota como 'dios' y desata la ovación del público en Saint-Denis. #Latinus #InformaciónParaTi
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¡Qué elegancia la del DT de Francia! Zidane baja una pelota como 'dios' y desata la ovación del público en Saint-Denis
El exjugador redondeó la goleada de los Bleus por 4-1 ante Bélgica con una vistosa recepción en su zona técnica para 'matar' el esférico.
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Nachrichten @de-nachrichten.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Die Franzosen kommen mit Joker Michael Olise zurück und behaupten die Tabellenspitze. Der Bayern-Star erzielt drei Scorerpunkte in zehn Minuten. Die Fans haben eine Forderung.
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Später Olise-Wahnsinn! Erster Heimsieg für Zidane
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Sports 🇫🇷🇬🇧 @sports.skyfleet.blue · 06/10/2026
Olise, Doué, Cherki... La cavalerie magnifique qui a permis aux Bleus de renverser la Belgique
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Olise, Doué, Cherki... La cavalerie magnifique qui a permis aux Bleus de renverser la Belgique
Menés jusqu'à la 77e minute, et médiocres jusque-là, les Bleus ont su tout renverser (4-1) grâce aux entrées vertigineuses de Michael Olise, Désiré Doué et Rayan Cherki, qui ont donné une autre couleur au début de l'ère Zidane.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t remember anyone giving Jerome Powell a check for $100 million. Who gave it to Kevin Warsh, days before he was confirmed and why?
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I see some folks asking: what motivates RFK Jr to tell such horrific, dangerous, repulsive lies about the HPV vaccine? Well, he has made $856,559 from suing the HPV vaccine maker (his vaccine adviser, Dr Kulldorff, also got rich the same way) Always follow the 🤑! www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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RFK Jr. plans to keep a financial stake in lawsuits against the drugmaker Merck
RFK Jr. plans to keep collecting referral fees in lawsuits against the drug company Merck even if confirmed as HHS secretary, according to new filings with the Office of Government Ethics.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is the key point in a good thread: People want leaders with conviction, who stand up for what’s right, regardless of the political positioning.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,
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Verónica Hoyo @vbhoyo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Science-ing at 100 degrees...because global warming is real.
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Jack Santucci @jacksantucci.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reminder: if you are teaching urban politics, NYC politics, or electoral systems… …you can view all the 2025 council results here (jacksantucci.github.io/nyc-pr-simul...), simulate other electoral systems, and compare several resulting indices used in comparative politics.
Observed results by partyObserved indicesCandidate-level results under current rulesParty-level results under MMP with options to adjust assembly size and the allocation formula
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