Aidy
@itsaidy.bsky.social
Borinqueña 🇵🇷 | academic medical librarian who believes high quality health care, access, and information is a human right | Posts may vary: #medlibs #histmed #publichealth #digitalgardening ✍🏼 www.aidy.blog 👋🏽 Personal account - views are mío.
Today’s Find: Harriet Hall, MD, as a retired family physician & U.S. Air Force flight surgeon she wrote about alternative medicine & quackery as The SkepDoc tinyurl.com/te6vuhn6 Her memoir was published in 2008; she died in 2013 #histmed #medicalhistory
📣CFPs extension 📣 @histmedjhu.bsky.social hosts the 18th annual Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine (JAS-Med) on September 25th and 26th, 2026, in Baltimore, MD. Graduate students Master’s, PhD, and MD/PhD - the deadline for submission of abstracts is now 26 June! 👇 #histmed
Call For Papers
The Call for Papers for our 2026 JAS-Med conference is below. We encourage diversity in the topics and papers that are submitted, which is why we have left our conference theme quite broad. …
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We have recently launched a Visiting Scholar Grant at Rochester to work with the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform. See attached flyer for details! #histmed #fellowship
I always love the desert plants they put in their drive-thru 🥰. Photo of a desert bird of paradise.
Service to “spend your money” Las Vegas. I can’t 😆.
Latto Says 'We Ready To Hit The Jackpot'
Alt: Latto Says 'We Ready To Hit The Jackpot'
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We’re playing music on the flight back to Vegas. Because of course 🤣
Happy Kid Dancing in a Club
Alt: Happy kid wearing sunglasses, a jean blouse, leather belt, and jeans, dancing in a club.
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Also, most weird find in Milwaukee…courtesy of the Milwaukee Public Museum store. I have lots of questions.
What should I write about on my blog this week? The places I visited in Milwaukee? The #MLA2026 Conference? My tips for comfy travel as I get older? Should these be together or separate?? #blogging #digitalgardening
Had this at the airport and loved it! My favorite chai latte combo at the moment is hot, with oat milk, two pumps of coconut syrup, one pump of hazelnut syrup. Taste like fall year round.
Wrapping up the #MLA2026 conference and got to learn so much and see some great frolleagues. But overall, Milwaukee has been amazing.
What can historical methods add to present-day public health research and practice? Check out my new article with PhD candidate Emily Kumpf on drunk driving prevention, behavioral health, and the Washington Regional Alcohol Program! #HistMed #HistSTM #InjuryStudies
Behavioral health and drunk driving prevention: The history and policy implications of the Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP)
Since its establishment in 1983, the Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP) has tried to decrease the costs of drunk driving and underage drinking…
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Dr Samuel Animates@samuelanimates.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew on my (NEW) personal blog! Health Literacy Glow-up #1: Usable Infographics. The three tips from this one: use relevant illustrations, write in active voice, and focus on action over facts. Sounds simple. Surprisingly rare in the real world. 🛟 😷 🧪 #academicsky #commsky
#medlibs doing any interdisciplinary work with our #nursing colleagues?
Dr Sally Pezaro@sallypezaro.bsky.social · 4mo ago📢 Call for Papers: Elevating Research in Nursing & Midwifery link.springer.com/collections/... Submission Deadline: 8 February 2027 (though we can be flexible for the right manuscript!). #NursingResearch #Midwifery #AcademicWriting #BMCNursing #HealthcareInnovation #CallForPapers #Nursing
With shortages of medical professionals and an aging population, thousands of community healthcare workers prevent older adults from falling through the cracks.
Community health workers offer older patients valuable assistance between doctor visits
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Revealing marginalia: Mattioli’s annotated copy of the Discorsi (1544) doi.org/10.1098/rsnr... | #NotesAndRecords #HistSci #HistMed #MedicalHistory
Tried out Atlas.ti to see its qualitative analysis features and found it to be mmm okay, any other qual tools (maybe more user friendly) that you might recommend?
In honor of #DenimDay, may I present to you the formidable Fredia Gibbs 🥊. A kickboxing, karate champion, and SA survivor. Her Unfiltered Stories video is trending and highly recommend watching it, but be aware of the SA warning.
Fredia Gibbs - Wikipedia
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Mother’s Day/Día de las Madres is Sunday, May 10, 2026
Lisandra Vazquez@lisandravcomedy.bsky.social · 5mo agoWanna know what #doordash grandma delivered to McSundown?
This commemorative silver skeleton ashtray celebrates the 1932 Queen's University Medical School Dance. It is marked "Medical at Home" and is a slightly eerie piece of medical history. #museumofhealthcare #histmed #medicalhistory #coolcollections #QueensUniversity
A group of health organizations just finished a massive 36-country effort to vaccinate 18 million children who were missed during Covid. Most of those children had never received a single vaccine before We can still do good things www.who.int/news/item/24...
Largest catch-up initiative delivers over 100 million childhood vaccinations
The Big Catch-Up (BCU), a historic multi-year, multi-country effort to address vaccination declines driven largely by the COVID-19 pandemic, has reached an estimated 18.3 million children aged 1 to 5 ...
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Finding another academic/digital garden blog in the wild 🤩- also great post on #learninginpublic - I'm definitely in the "learning for personal development and joy" group.
Why I Hate What’s Become Of ‘Learning In Public’
You’ve probably heard the advice to “learn in public.” Share what you learn as you learn it! Connect with a community of likeminded people! Expand your network and increase your future career opportun...
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There is something absolutely special about combining chai and oatmilk. Tastes like fall in a cup 🍂.
As a way to bid this semester ado, here's a new blog post about my favorite #lofi channel, it's whimsical universe, and how much it's helped as a source #relaxation and #productivity. Thanks @chillhop.com #studymusic #workmusic #chillhop #personalblog #blogging #pagecord
🦝 Seven Years as an Avid Listener of Chillhop Music - Aidy + Blog
Lofi music is popular among students, office workers, remote workers, coders, basically anyone having to work or study at a computer. But anyone can access a...
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Just learned how to airdrop a photo from my iPhone to my mac that I typically send via email to then download on said mac...oh my goodness, soy vieja.
a cartoon character is giving a thumbs up and smiling
Alt: A Pokemon character named Ash has a shocked expression on his face, while wearing a white and red cap and giving a thumbs up when suddenly turning white and disappearing in a cloud of dust.
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I was debilitated by mistakes in grad school. A dream reshaped my perspective “I began to see that mistakes are part of life for any scientist who is learning and doing anything new,” this researcher writes. #AcademicChatter https://bit.ly/3Q8sJWc
