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Defending my PhD Dissertation at the University of Washington this spring! Public school science teacher interested in education and healthcare access, the environment, and urbanism. New Orleans | Seattle
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Excellent research from students at The Hoya, Georgetown University showing flight data suggesting GU men’s basketball team used same planes to travel for away games that ICE uses to transport detainees & deport migrants — including detained researcher Badar Khan Suri. thehoya.com/news/inside-...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I'm late to this one, but it's got a bump on Reddit. It is so painful that 3 R state senators have put forth legislation to ban fluoridated water across Louisiana. It was prefiled as SB2. This was their top priority: to push anti-science and anti-health legislation. legiscan.com/LA/bill/SB2/...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

A more updated picture, I swear I have University of Washington on here guys, don't worry. That's home.

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This kind of killing and cover up will continue to happen as long as the rest of the world allows the Israeli government to operate this way. Western media is complicit whenever it voices IDF "mistakes" over independent sources. All of this is deliberate. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

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Just doing some casual errands on a weekday morning in Southeast Louisiana. I have seen several open carry Trump / MAGA / Elon cultists be unable to order their Taco Bell or checkout their groceries w/o help from staff and casually making the comment “It’s not like it used to be.”

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Driving through stroads and HOA suburban hellscapes w/ back-to-back traffic lights that should be stop signs made me want to play Cities Skylines. I've had a decent no-shop streak but had to pick up my parents' medicines. It took about 45 min; in Seattle, it would be a 5 minute Link ride both ways.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I'm looking for free, easy-to-use online data tools for a high school biology and chemistry course for high school students at a 6-week School of Medicine summer enrichment program. Sleep, diet, and exercise would be fun to explore and seem to have tools available. www.gkbrk.com/wiki/caffein...

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Doctor Mike demonstrates restraint and charitability to folks who have been misinformed or let down by failing education and healthcare systems. It's a Jubilee video designed for watch time, but some segments highlight how to counter bad faith vaccine claims. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o69B...

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For fun, I looked at voting in the Louisiana parishes w/ the largest cities. Only Orleans voted significantly differently from the state average. East Baton Rouge, Caddo, Lafayette, and Calcasieu voted slightly more "No" but still like the rest of the state. Walk Scores included bc I was curious.

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My April reads: Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green, Pulse of Perseverance (biographies of three Black doctors from Xavier University, a Catholic HBCU in New Orleans, Louisiana), and Daredevil: Born Again by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli. Two are health research adjacent, and DD for fun.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The deliberate weakening of science in the United States is so tough to witness. Science funding was already extremely competitive, and the list of terminated NIH grants documents so much lost potential, especially in community and clinical work impacting the most marginalized. tinyurl.com/ycym5eue

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During my spring cleaning, I found a binder of old Pokemon cards. It affirmed how influential Pokemon has been to me for the past 29 years. I picked my favorites from over 1000! Here are my favorite Normal Type, Fire, Water, and Grass Pokemon. ajbalatico.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/m...

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