When I need a break, I switch up my background slideshow. August will be all beach. ☀️ #amwriting #amediting

Food allergy isn’t just for children #allergy #sciencesky www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Food Allergies in Older Adults: An Overlooked Threat

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In this age of hallucinated journal references, I've just had to create a new TextExpander snippet: "Reference xx cannot be validated. Please confirm that you have accessed this primary source and update the doi and citation as needed." #amediting #journals

Helpful information on heat waves and heat risk from Your Local Epidemiologist @marisadonnelly.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

Heat wave, a blood shortage emergency, and World Cup updates

The NY Dose

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How extreme will the heat be where you are? Enter your zip code for the current heat risk for your area. #publichealth #wxsky 🌡️ ephtracking.cdc.gov/Applications...

#Allergy misinformation on social media: I did not find this surprising: Content related to conspiracy theories was concentrated on X (19%) and Facebook (17%), and content related to natural cures was concentrated on TikTok (39%) and Instagram (35%). www.jaci-inpractice.org/article/S221...

Allergy Misinformation Across Social Media Platforms: Content Analysis and Public Response

Allergy-related misinformation proliferates across social media platforms, potentially compromising evidence-based patient care, yet comprehensive analyses remain limited.

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An independent website fills the gap in reliable up-to-date climate information #sciencesky #climate www.climate.us/news-feature...

Climate.us launches independent website for trusted climate information

Built by members of the team behind NOAA’s Climate.gov, the new nonprofit resource is supported in part by more than 2,500 small donations from people who want reliable climate science information to ...

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I’m always on the lookout for studies on the benefits of caffeine. Here’s one from suggesting that caffeine could reduce the risk for obesity-related asthma through a pathway mediated by gut microbes. Note: caffeine intake was derived from dietary recall data. ☕ www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...

Caution: may cause your TBR to explode. So many good books this year! #booksky

Nancy Quinn@nancyquinn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A food #allergy triggered by a tick bite, thanks to a molecule called alpha-gal.

Yale Climate Connections@climateconnections.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Traditionally found in the South, the lone star tick is moving into the Northeast as the climate warms – and causing people there to develop an allergy to red meat.

“So dazzling she must be— a plump, dark lady wearing a gown of nails— white teeth tearing skin from the dark tree.” #SundaySentence from the poem Porcupine, by Mary Oliver 📷 Tomáš Malík on Unsplash

Hey, fellow freelance editors! Join the chat today about branding for your business. What's your niche? How do you stand out? #amediting #FreelanceFriends

Angela Tague@angelatague.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Q1: When you promote your freelance services/products, do you have a unique slant? What's your branding or differentiation that makes you stand out as the one to hire? Serving a niche audience? Your credentials? #FreelanceFriends

Bemotrizinol, which will be available in August, is the first new FDA-approved over-the-counter (OTC) sunscreen ingredient since 1999. Yes, mom, I'm wearing sunscreen. #publichealth www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

On Florida, from THE ORCHID THIEF, by Susan Orlean: “It has been added to, subtracted from, drained, ditched, paved, dredged, irrigated, cultivated, wrested from the wild, restored to the wild, flooded, platted, set on fire.” #SundaySentence

I’m back at my desk today after vacation in new favorite places. I’m recharged after soaking up city life in Montréal and mountain time in Stowe, Vermont. Do you take time to recharge your #freelancelife? Here’s your reminder!

Overcast days create #negativespace. A brown pelican on a channel marker for #birdoftheday

With Ebola impacting parts of Africa, and all the travel bans, I can already see stigmatizing language in the media Journalists must do better and this essay offers some tips (with Annalisa Merelli) 10 best practices for equitable global health journalism qz.com/10-best-prac...

10 best practices for equitable global health journalism

If journalists want to help make global health more inclusive, they can start with these guidelines

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Tini the turtle, the first known olive ridley sea turtle to nest in Florida 🌊 #naturesky ecbs12.com/news/local/r...

Rare olive ridley sea turtle nest documented in Florida for the first time

Researchers with Loggerhead Marinelife Center have documented what they say is the first known olive ridley sea turtle nest in Florida.

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These UC Davis researchers trained a GPT model to make “small, practical changes to improve nutritional quality”. I like the idea of using AI to tweak a few ingredients to make a meal more healthy. #nutrition #sciencesky medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05...

AI suggests simple food swaps to make meals healthier and cheaper

An artificial intelligence framework that suggests just one to three ingredient swaps can make meals meaningfully more nutritious and less expensive, according to a new study published in PLOS Digital...

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I love my clients! I was delighted to receive a Starbucks gift card today after finishing a huge grant edit with a note reading “We could not be happier to work with you” #amediting #freelancelife

UF researchers are working on a model to predict Vibrio levels and risk. The article gives an informative, rounded overview of risks. www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2026/05/23/a... #publichealth

A deadly bacteria is creeping up the Atlantic Coast. How worried should you be?

Warming ocean waters are priming beaches and raw shellfish for Vibrio. Scientists are trying to stay one step ahead.

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“Yet I believe that I know my tangible desideratum. It is a tree-top against a patch of sky.” —Marjorie Kinnam Rawlings, CROSS CREEK #morningread #mededitreads

Beach blooms. #bloomscrolling

Every Thursday we get together for a fun hour of #FreelanceFriends. Follow the hashtag and join us at noon ET.

Why you might want to pass on beer before #hiking: it makes you more attractive to mosquitoes! phys.org/news/2026-05...

Why are some people mosquito magnets? Clues are emerging

Ever felt like mosquitoes bite you while ignoring everyone else? Scientists are now making progress in deciphering the complex chemical cocktail that makes particular people more enticing to these dis...

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Summer Thursdays? Should be a thing. #FreelanceLife #morningwalk

I appreciate that even the editing experts at The Chicago Manual admit that Acrobat’s editing tools can be cumbersome to use. #amediting

The Chicago Manual of Style@chicagomanual.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The commenting tools in Adobe Acrobat have helped to make on-screen proofreading the norm. But how exactly do they work? PDF markup is once again in the spotlight, in a newly updated post from CMOS Shop Talk.

An edit I didn't sweat about: spelling out "burnout" and not allowing the abbreviation "BO" #amediting

Have you also read every historical fiction and nonfiction account of Franklin’s doomed 1845 Arctic expedition? Some modern-day DNA science is adding more facts for writers to draw from. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“They will accuse us of terrible things, and they shall do so ungrammatically.” #SundaySentence from A GHASTLY CATASTROPHE by Deanna Raybourn, which kept me entertained on my morning walks this past week.