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Never not awkward Mom, wife, neuro ICU RN, National Park enthusiast, and a hardcore fan of the moon
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🧪🌋⚒️ Powerful fire fountains from the 13th (latest) episode of active Kilauea volcanism in Hawaii, 11 Mar 2025, estimated to be about 50 m (160 ft) high. The #volcano has been #erupting intermittently in a series of short events since 23 Dec. 2024, tirelessly monitored by USGS with public funds.

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Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Measles is a respiratory virus that can survive in the air for up to two hours. Up to 90% of people who are susceptible, predominantly those unvaccinated, will get #measles if exposed. time.com/7258273/what...

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

The mighty River Spey, at Laggan in the beautiful Scottish Highlands. The brownish colour in the water comes from the peat in the area. It’s a long exposure of 30sec f/2.8 ISO100 using an ND filter. Have a great evening #Bluesky

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

A freeze on meetings of expert panels that peer review grant proposals at the National Institutes of Health is kicking in this week. Follow Science’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally. ⬇️ scim.ag/40XtSSi

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

@kkjetelina.bsky.social From Your Local Epidemiologist:

submitted 29 days ago • 19 comments

Henceforth, any plane that lands and flips will be known as the Fetterman landing.

submitted 29 days ago • 411 comments

Two essential CDC training programs—the Public Health Associate Program (PHAP) and Laboratory Leadership Service (LLS)—are reportedly being dismantled. Our ability to detect and contain health threats including H5N1 is already strained. This not the way to make America healthier.

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

"These findings suggest that restrictive abortion policies may be reversing decades of progress in reducing infant deaths in the U.S.,” says Alison Gemmill, associate professor in @hopkinspfrh.bsky.social and the infant-death study’s co-lead author.

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FFS! 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 are firing National Park Service EMTs There will be no one to attend to you if you get attacked by wildlife, fall while climbing/hiking, have a skiing incident, are drowning, break a leg/arm/your neck, etc Alex Wilds is one such federal employee. Read what he's saying

submitted 30 days ago • 674 comments

Share FAR and WIDE: The American Medical Association is our source for information on health. BELOW is their YouTube page. Bird flu is spreading throughout our country & most people have NO clue. Please stay UPDATED and BOOKMARK this page for your health & well-being. www.youtube.com/@americanmed...

submitted 29 days ago • 35 comments

At least 20 FDA staffers reviewing Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant company, were fired in an ongoing DOGE purge of federal workers.

submitted 29 days ago • 279 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 30 days ago • 2390 comments

Here's a very good boy at a #50501 protest today. @50501movement.bsky.social @indivisible.org

submitted 29 days ago • 9 comments

Don’t you just love how the people who wanted school open during the pandemic think we don’t need a Department of Education?

submitted 30 days ago • 250 comments

On hold at the CDC: An analysis suggesting that flu cases *may* be at a record high. That could mean a surge of deaths comes next. The CDC is delaying analyses to inform the situation & has cut off usual communication w/hospital networks & WHO. My latest: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

The old inn, back entrance, on a cold snowy night. The snowfall makes it all so magical.

submitted 30 days ago • 25 comments

MEASLES UPDATE: Additional cases of measles "are likely to occur" as an outbreak of the virus is spreading rapidly, the Texas Department of State Health Services warned in its latest update. Thus far, 48 cases have been confirmed in West Texas — 24 of which were reported in the last four…

submitted 31 days ago • 447 comments

This chart humorously combines four famous concepts: Chekhov's Gun, Schrödinger's Cat, Occam's Razor, and Murphy's Law.

submitted 65 days ago • 5 comments

Is it spring yet?

submitted 65 days ago • 3 comments