melinblue.bsky.social
Epidemiologist, but this is my account for parenting and extracurricular interests. Immigration policy/transit/urban planning/politics. Gymnastics, musical theater. Baltimore.
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Baltimore - JHU, UMB, then marc to DC to visit GWU/AU/Georgetown (the latter less accessible by transit)
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Has any outlet done an in-depth investigation of the grift? How much money did he make from the antivax propaganda that he was spreading while he watched his kids and others suffer?
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If a million isn’t much, how do they think those earning 50K or manage?
Just a total lack of imagination and compassion.
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My daughter haaated the doctor when she was a toddler and would scream bloody murder for basically the whole exam. He told me it was a good thing and that it “shows spirit” 😂
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Wagner (or “Africa corps”🤮) is in Burkina and Niger too. And I think Equatorial Guinea
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But seriously, there is some language saying that the travel ban can be lifted for countries that agree to accept deportation flights- I’m wondering whether that’s it
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CAR and Guinea Bissau like
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I am so sorry. I’m in public health, so we are seeing this as well. My institution guarantees funding for PhD students, so has cut way back on PhD admits for next year because of the funding situation. We’re at risk of losing a generation of researchers.
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Bring back streetcars. Frequent (every 5-10 min) shuttles up and down neighborhood arteries - Harford, Eastern, Fort, etc (I feel like this is what the circulator was meant to be, but the routes and headways got too long.
Also MARC from Penn station to the 270 corridor.
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I’ve started just responding truthfully when the cashier or whoever asks how I’m doing. I’m not good, I’m furious
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50% of the people I know in my field have lost their jobs, with more to come. Huge numbers of people are losing health services. We’ve lost key research studies and data sources and it isn’t coming back. Trump has declared war on us. I walk around every day like
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It wouldn’t be my choice, but I don’t really mind as long as people are spending their own money. However, my daughter was recently invited to a birthday party at a fancy venue and *after rsvping* we were told the cost for each child would be $60.
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I forget that people without kids often don’t know what “typical” behavior/development looks like (because they don’t need to!). My very child-free brother once asked me in all seriousness whether my 2 yr old was reading yet 🤣
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I was about to say metro!
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Some STEM fields are also structurally different. In soft money STEM fields, if you lose your grants, you lose your job, even for tenured/tt faculty. The university has made it very clear that they are not going to step in to cover funding gaps.
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These clowns defunded my colleague’s study, which aimed to reduce statistical bias in certain types of measurement. They don’t understand or care about reproducibility.
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How much of the “left is losing young men” narrative is just journalists/politicians/pundits treating anecdotes like data
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Effective public health is often invisible because it works.
We rarely notice the absence of disease when it's been quietly prevented. But when those interventions are rolled back, and the conditions they controlled return, then we notice.
Good PH prevents more than it treats. Let’s not forget that.
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My daughter listened to the entire Ramona series multiple times because she loved Stockard Channing’s narration so much.
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🤦♀️🤬 we need a code of conduct for generative AI use in academia. I’ve also gotten paper reviews that I am almost certain were AI-generated. None of this is acceptable.
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Also read it at 8 and remember being scared by that part!
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Island of the Blue Dolphins. Started it in 2nd grade, got to the part where her brother dies, and closed the book. Never finished it.
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Someone who cared about accuracy would note that this definition is based on a single (criticized) SCOTUS ruling about a specific group of individuals, that previous SCOTUS rulings used a much broader definition of corruption, and that SCOTUS is not the only arbiter of what counts as corruption
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Twos are delightful! Threes however 😬🤪😬
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Thinking of moving to P/F grading next year to reduce grade pressure and hopefully reduce the incentive to use AI. These are all grad students who are planning to use these skills in their research/jobs, so most of them are motivated to learn.
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Giving in-class exams means losing 2 class sessions (we don’t have a separate exam week). We’re on the quarter system so we only have 16 sessions total. And the things we are asking them to do (analyze data, visualize it and interpret) would take longer than 1.5 hrs.
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Aww, yay!! I’m glad he liked them! It’s such a cute series (and actually enjoyable to read). I was bummed when my daughter outgrew it
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This is top 5 parenting advice. Took us years to learn
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Jim Banks has forgotten what state he represents. Lilly, the IU health system, IU, Purdue, Roche are the economic engines of the state and provide well-paying jobs to Hoosiers. They will all be impacted by the HHS/FDA/NIH cuts, but apparently Banks doesn’t care about that…
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Talk to any liberal who grew up (or currently lives) in a red state and then get back to me. I don’t know why you think this is a unique experience for conservatives.
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This happened to us a month ago! Heard a giant crash from my daughter’s bathroom *while she was in there*. Turns out glass shower panel wasn’t properly installed (I blame previous owners). Thankfully it fell away from her and did not shatter and I survived my heart attack
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How relentless it is.
Also, my husband & I are introverts and it didn’t occur to me that we could have an extrovert. I love her more than life itself, but holy hell, the toddler and Covid years were hard. And it took me a while to realize *why* it was so hard - I thought I was doing something wrong
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Also, I’m so sorry that you had that experience. Advocating for yourself and baby while pregnant is so stressful.
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When I said that I didn’t want an *unnecessary* C-section, she argued with me (again, I didn’t need one, this was hypothetical), noted in my chart that I was noncompliant, and called in other OBs to argue with me. The kicker is that I’m a maternal and child epidemiologist.