Our associate editor Ghazal is looking to leave Tehran as soon as possible, so if anyone knows of an art residency or work opportunity or uni posting that they can apply to, please let us know (dm or email). These are scary times, and we must protect each other as best we can.
Proud alumna moments
Nothing quite like the love and support of a parent 😬🤐😶😶🌫️☁️🚀
Our ✨February 2026 Issue✨ is now free to read online!
Find it here:
havenspec.com/issues/issue...
Or get the PDF and EPUB:
ko-fi.com/s/805c9b3a99
In it, you'll find five stories and five poems for your reading pleasure. Please spread the word!
Took my MIL to the botanical garden greenhouse.
Me: Oh look, a sun dew!
MIL: Whats a sun dew?
Me: It's our star that puts out light and warmth, but that's not important right now...
MIL: ???
Hubs: 🤣
Name the single worst thing from this year challenge! Simply impossible.
If you like a city stroll, taking Unter den Linden from Brandenburger Tor to Alexanderplatz takes you past lots of nice things, museums, cathedral, city hall, etc.
this is a really important study and the first of its kind
Public health detective work by @delauro.house.gov!
(throwing open my window) you there, boy, what day is this?
The ants can quarantine, the ants can do social distancing.
That is tragically evergreen.
RSV is starting to act up, cool to see the data from www.pophive.org getting used by the LA times: www.latimes.com/california/s...
🦠🔬👩🔬I got invited to be a plenary speaker and workshop organizer at ISPPD! 👩🔬🔬🦠
I'm so excited! Copenhagen 2026 let's gooooo
Pneumococcal pneumonia in adults - Re-emergence of vaccine serotypes: a prospective multicentre cohort study in Germany, 2020-2023 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10....
New research finds that anti-vaccine networks on Facebook were smaller but more tightly coordinated, spreading emotionally charged misinformation faster, while pro-vaccine networks were larger and more institutional, sharing accurate info but with less engagement.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The impact of vaccine products, schedules and geographic regions on immunogenicity of pneumococcal vaccines in children under 2 years old: a systematic review and meta-analysis www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10....
I didn't think that was how whistleblower complaints were supposed to work.
It's letters of recommendation season, and for the first time, I think I'm writing as many as I'm asking for.
Showing my age with this, but look it's a fancy QWOP!
This might be one of my favorite things I've ever gotten to work on, so far--a call to action from the @xercessociety.bsky.social ! Did you know you can help protect endangered insect species just by going out and taking pictures of cute bees and butterflies?
vimeo.com/1055252108
Meet the #EHFG2025 speakers ⬇️
On 2 October, join Pamela Rendi-Wagner, Director of the @ecdc.europa.eu, in the session:
🛡️ Investing in health security for a resilient European future - Are we prepared?
📍 Conference Centre | 💻 or follow online for free 👉 bit.ly/46wmEHF
#SolidarityInHealth
You'll have to pry these 87 tabs out of my cold, dead hands! I swear I really am going to use them
Very cool! Hope you get to do some interstate cooperation as well, really get some regional coordination going.
after a few well-publicized cases, I always associate this with nasal irrigation.
Vaccines save lives AND health care dollars. Total win-win.
