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Kari Debbink

@karidebbink.bsky.social

Virologist, Director of Graduate Studies at JHU MMI, feminist, BLM, supports equality for LGBTQ+ people, New College alum, obsessed with big dogs, cake artist, bubble tea enthusiast (she/her), views my own-not my employer’s

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Kari Debbink@karidebbink.bsky.social · 4h ago

It would be nice if you could reasonably count on the weather forecast to be accurate like it used to be, but (just like everything he touches) Trump fucked it up SO MUCH you can’t even plan correctly for a weekend trip you pack for the night before.

Kari Debbink@karidebbink.bsky.social · 7d ago

Why order food at the farmer’s market and then complain about the price when it was clearly posted on the sign you read before ordering it? If it’s too much, just don’t order it. Why make yourself mad over something that is a choice? 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️😂 Some people are hilariously ridiculous.

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 2w ago

When Salk developed the polio vaccine, “Church bells tolled, factory whistles blew. People ran into the streets weeping…Eisenhower invited Jonas Salk to the White House, where he choked up while thanking Salk for saving the world's children” Today we have RFK Jr 😢 www.npr.org/sections/npr...

Defeating Polio, The Disease That Paralyzed America

On April 12, 2015, the world will celebrate the 60th anniversary of Jonas Salk's vaccine that helped defeat a contagious, crippling virus.

npr.org

Tara C. Smith@aetiology.bsky.social · 2w ago

My latest: Kennedy is undermining the #measles response in Pennsylvania by suggesting recent deaths were "fabricated," and his years of lies about vaccines have made it much more difficult to end our ongoing measles outbreaks throughout the country and prevent new ones from happening.

Opinion | America beat measles once. RFK Jr. is making it harder to do so again.

The U.S. is headed for more cases, more suffering, more deaths and enormous financial costs.

ms.now

Zen Faulkes@doctorzen.net · 2w ago

Past American dominance in science is not due to a few dozen “top scholars.” It’s due to America 🇺🇸 spending ENORMOUSLY more on science than other countries and distributing it widely. Canada 🇨🇦 boasting about attracting “top talent” of a few dozen people is not serious. And not US “brain drain.”

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's not just tumbling enrollment. Graduate programs rely on foreign students to sustain *critical mass.* Many (if not most) would collapse after a sudden 30% drop in enrollment. They think they're creating space for white, U.S.-born students, but they're actually destroying their own schools.

Chronicle of Higher Education@chronicle.com · 2w ago

An administrator on the flagship campus offered that estimate as part of a federal lawsuit, filed this month, against a new four-year limit on student visas. https://chroni.cl/4wMDqgw

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 4w ago

regular reminder that most of the millions of projected deaths from USAID's destruction HAVE NOT HAPPENED YET—which means they can still be prevented. but this is only possible if we demand that democrats prioritize it once in power. it is a moral imperative that we actually act on these numbers

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · last mo.

Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.

Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute@jhmrimalaria.bsky.social · last mo.

An invasive #mosquito that came to the US from the tropics in SE Asia has adapted to newer climates. @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social vector biologist Douglas Norris tells @mariannedhe.bsky.social in @slate.com, "They figure out ways to get to where they want to be." slate.com/technology/2...

They’re the Most Annoying Creatures on the Planet. You Don’t Know What They’re Going to Unleash on America.

They can do a lot more than ruin your summer day.

slate.com