How it started/How it's going

The same people claiming that immigrants took their jobs are releasing potentially millions of extremely qualified workers into the job market all at once.

Paul Farmer’s Moral Clarity Offers Hope, Amidst Chaos And Darkness On the 3rd anniversary of Dr Paul Farmer's death, several leaders reflect on his lessons for dealing with the ongoing crisis in global health and development

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Regarding the Delta airline crash, I can assure you that as a vector-borne disease researcher I have no idea how it happened or how it could have been prevented. Maybe that should be left the the experts rather than app developers who I assure you also do not know.

When I mentioned the thousands of skilled works in the federal government losing jobs I had someone comment “your friends need to learn to code” and it’s just a perfect representation of the ignorance people have about the federal government. I can think of a thousand jobs coding isn’t a part of.

This year I have learned, over and over, that I really do not know how airplanes or airports work. Not even a little bit. Would be cool if other people who didn't know how airplanes or, ya know, aviation generally, could admit that, and let the professionals do their jobs 🙃

That link is bad

I scored this excellent sweatshirt at the Mid Atlantic/Virginia Mosquito Control Association annual meeting today. So many great talks; so many public servants working to keep their communities safe.

the maskless mafia that *still* struggles to grasp that COVID is airborne is about to get WHOPPED by the fact that H5N1 is airborne

and that birds fly...through the air!

This is how the federal government bloats during every republican administration. They are so concerned about people receiving the benefit of having a government that they create more work for themselves. Austerity costs money. They could review spending while programs run.

Hey, fancy meeting you here ❤️

The mission of my project is to increase communication and collaboration between the public, private and academic sectors to improve our understanding of insecticide resistance and address the problem with better efficiency.

How exactly is banning communications improving efficiency?

“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.

If you're upset about all the executive orders that have been launched in the last few days you should call your Senators and tell them not to confirm Russell Vought. He's likely one of the primary authors behind many of them.
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If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you

He tried to stop Covid reporting in 2020 so this is not at all surprising to me.

What I don’t understand is that this would be the perfect moment to highlight the fact that the Biden administration did not de enough to contain avian influenza. Why conceal the situation on day 2?

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Spotify is recommending a playlist just for me called “Sad Bops”

New paper! Need to collect mosquitoes but traditional sources of CO2 aren’t available? Our research offers a solution to assist mosquito-borne disease surveillance. Congratulations to Christine Hong! https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/16/1/90

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

Birds to cats?

They have been doing this in San Francisco for decades

Our beloved and goofy cat Harry slipped out and was in the 15 degree windy snowy weather for 48 hours. So relieved to have him home and laughing about him gagging on this Churu. Maybe I’ll show him this next time he starts thinking about an escape.

Yes. We do a rough separation once they are pups. I’ll be pulling the eager males out tomorrow.

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2025 is starting off with 5000 mosquito larvae pupating two days ahead of schedule. Yay. Happy New Year!!!

It’s been awhile since I took care of little kids but I recently had a friend’s kid over… ya’ll know Dino nuggets have pterodactyls now?!

Side note: is it ok to buy these as an adult? 😂

I have seen so many takes on how badly RFK and Trump will handle an avian flu pandemic and while I am also not looking forward to that, this virus has been spreading in the US for two years almost completely unchecked by the Biden administration. Maybe we need less finger pointing and some action?

If you are concerned, just leave the bird feeder empty and leave it alone. Cleaning it everyday is just bringing you in closer contact with wild birds.

Today I baked a pumpkin pie in a frozen pie shell without its tin, only realizing when the cooking time was up, scooped up the filling into a new pie shell and then baked it until the frozen shell was cooked and it WORKED. It tasted great. Christmas miracle. 🎄