Everyone is just one medical event away from their life being turned completely upside down.

We have “good” health insurance, too, because my husband is a federal employee. We pay for the most expensive plan and have a moderate out of pocket max. We worked hard to build savings after I took one million years to get a PhD.

I was laid off during treatment. Seeing the numbers really sucks.

We filed our taxes last night and spent a lot of time tallying my medical expenses from last year. The number is…horrific. I really wish I’d done a gofundme because we spent most of our savings on medical bills.

I just turned 39 and worked so hard to build up my life. Financially, its gone.

Ah thank you so much!

Holy moly I’m so floored and honored and encouraged by this, thank you! Hope ya love the Ologies ep 🤗

But I sure do miss it.

I literally don’t know how to yak online anymore. Since I’m not actively doing wildlife research, I’m simply not sure what to offer ya.

Life update! I’m alive. Been a long recovery from last year, I just turned 39, I’m still looking for a job in my field, my 18 year old cat has stage 4 kidney disease, I was recently on Ologies, things are mixed but looking up.

This remains one of my favorite incidences of twitter!

This is insane. ICE is out of control here, still. They must leave.

Murder looks like murder from every angle, which is why the Trump regime is telling you your eyes are wrong.

Shooting a man, who didn’t attack you, who was on hands and knees, in the back 5+ times… and you’re the victim?

What Bovino is saying is that Border Patrol have complete immunity to act however they want and anyone who inconveniences them slightly has victimized them and can be executed. Madness

Phenomenal

Wow, it’s been a really long year. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in February. I completed 5 rounds of egg retrieval, had my tumor removed, was laid off from my federal research contract, had 5 weeks of radiation, got shingles 2x, started 5 years of endocrine therapy, and am now in remission.

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It’s been a terribly difficult time for me, and I’m quite scared- and sad- to go thru this, I’m thankful for the community who rallied around me as soon as I got the diagnosis.

I’ve felt every emotion. This is extremely unfair, but biology never is.

I found the lump over Christmas, two weeks after my miscarriage. I had scans and a biopsy.

In the 3 weeks since being diagnosed, I’ve had close to 2 dozen appointments for surgery, fertility, reconstruction, and genetic testing.

I don’t have all the answers yet, but we think I caught it early.

Well, here goes everything: I have breast cancer.

My PhD lab is hiring a postdoctoral researcher on bobcat ecology! Great location, project, and community. Highly recommend for those working in quantitative ecology: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

Y’all I am STRESSED.

Just in general. And also specifically.

Wait I want to do this, there’s a free mini library across the street from me!

Love it

Brianna Keilar: Do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging?

Congressman Robert Garcia: Well, he is a dick.

a picture of 4 insect valentines cards, including the cards up front with the rosy maple moth and the praying mantis. The rosy maple says "Are you a lamp because I wanna be around you" and the mantis says "You look good enough to eat". The image is superimposed with the words "Love bugs valentines" and then on the bottom, Skype a Scientist's logo and Michele's Logo and "Sales support Skype a Scientist"

I think we can all agree the vibes are *not* wonderful.

You know what always makes my day better? Getting a cute card in the mail from a friend.

I propose that we send valentines this year for vibe enhancement. Skype a Scientist has got *just* the pack.

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I won’t respond to any arguments to this thread. My post is to highlight how miscarriage is awful enough without religious zealots inserting themselves into something they know nothing about. A national abortion can could kill me. It will be the fault of pro-lifers.

Mind your own fucking business.

If you don’t like abortions, don’t have them. If you think the problem is doctors misinterpreting the law and not that lawmakers have no medical knowledge, you are the problem. Access to medical care is private, and it’s a civil right. 14/n

Miscarriage is one of those weird underbellies of society. It’s so common, yet rarely talked about. We can’t legislate medicine and then blame folks who experience the consequences of a problem -created by someone else -for not finding a solution. The solution is always access to care. 13/n

Making doctors verify a patient is an exception to a rule wastes critical time that has resulted in trauma, permanent damage, and death of patients. Telling me I’m the exception does no good if my doctor has to wait for confirmation that we won’t go to jail if they save my life via surgery. 12/n

Abortion bans criminalize pregnancy complications as much as they criminalize the right to choose. Unless you assume a patient is a criminal, and act accordingly, there really isn’t an easy way to know if someone is having a miscarriage, or has attempted to abort themselves. 11/n

I wasn’t made to wait for care. I didn’t have to wait for sepsis, I wasn’t asked if I’d taken anything to stop fetal development. Had this been the case, I could have become very ill. The simple point is that not legislating my body allowed me to help my body during a difficult time. 10/n