Liz Highleyman
@lizhighleyman.bsky.social
Freelance medical journalist. Science editor for @pozmagazine.bsky.social, Hep & CancerHealth. Words for aidsmap, Slate, Bay Area Reporter. Research beagle adopter.
I've long wondered whether all the random stuff we toss in the recycling bin, beyond glass bottles & paper, can actually be recycled efficiently, or in some cases, at all. worksinprogress.co/issue/just-b...
Just bury your trash - Works in Progress Magazine
What if everything we know about recycling is wrong?
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💯 I recently had my phone stolen in another country & recovery with th a replacement was relatively painless because I’m meticulous about manual backups.
Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · 19h agoHi, this is your seasonal reminder to back up your computer, your cell phone, your voice recorder, your memory cards, anything you think is important. Make multiple copies, because hard drives fail and are very expensive right now. Sometimes you drop you phone into a lake. Do it sooner than later.
Despite the psychological “end of summer,” hurricane season isn’t over until it’s over.
WMBF News@wmbfnews.com · 18h agoTropical Storm Edouard could reach hurricane strength. Here’s when forecasters expect it to make landfall #usnews
This may only be a delay until investigation is complete, but it doesn't bode well.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · yesterdayThe new CDC Director is indeed the one who ordered the count of measles deaths to be changed from 2 to 0. “The highly unusual decision departs from the agency’s practice of including such data from state health departments, which historically make the determinations”.
Worth keeping an eye on if you’re in the HIV or gay men’s health space. This is how the 2022 global mpox/monkeypox outbreak first emerged. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
re: everyone yelling about Google Maps - Maps just ingests the official data source for each country, which is GNIS in this case, and most other online maps will follow for American users nobody at Google is making an active decision to go in and change names in Maps directly
Colin McMillen@mcmillen.dev · 5d ago[taps the sign] According to USGS GNIS "Per Secretarial Order 3453, Lake Ontario has been renamed to Lake America. The basemaps for GNIS are in the process of being updated." So Google (& Apple, OpenStreetMap, & everyone else who ingests GNIS) will start calling it Lake America within a few weeks.
Aid workers in Nepal laid off by USAID cuts - including trans women who were working on community HIV outreach - have been forced to turn to sex work to survive.
Sex work or starve: Aid workers in Nepal left jobless by USAID cuts turn to sex work to survive
After the United States slashed its foreign aid funding last year, more than 280,000 aid workers worldwide lost their jobs.
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Hurricane Katrina was 21 years ago today. At the time, I was a protest street medic & EMT. Our rag-tag group figured we'd be treating storm-related injuries, but it turned out most patients were older folks who ran out of their meds & poor people who had little or no health care in normal times.
21 years ago today. As it happened, Katrina turned out not to be that strong in terms of wind when it made landfall (Cat 3) — it was the storm surge, paired with the city's unique geography, that did in New Orleans.
Trump's me me me me me routine is not going over well during his speech at the NASA space center
Gilead's new once-daily single-tablet regimen containing bictegravir & lenacapavir could offer a simpler alternative for people with HIV who are currently on complex antiretroviral regimens -- especially older people managing comorbidities & multiple meds. www.poz.com/article/fda-...
FDA Approves Bixlenvo, a New Daily HIV Combination Pill
The single-tablet regimen containing bictegravir and lenacapavir is a new option for people switching from complex antiretroviral regimens.
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Having lost an uncle to pancreatic cancer, this approval is especially meaningful. But the $40,000/month cost is a barrier. Medical advances deserve to be well-rewarded, but I don't see how prices like this can be sustainable.
FDA Approves Revolution-ary New Drug for Pancreatic Cancer
Rasonque (daraxonrasib) nearly doubled survival time for patients with hard-to-treat metastatic disease.
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No way. www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane...
Tropical Storm Dolly forms in Atlantic, tracking toward northeast Caribbean
Tropical Storm Dolly has formed over the south-central Atlantic, but hostile wind shear may threaten its survival near the Caribbean. Downpours and rough seas are forecast for the Lesser Antilles rega...
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On the US West Coast, the moon will be partially eclipsed as it rises. Hoping for mercy from @karlthefog.bsky.social. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5672/
NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | August 27-28, 2026 Deep Partial Lunar Eclipse
On August 28, 2026 (the evening of the 27th in some time zones), the Moon passes into the shadow of Earth, creating a deep partial lunar eclipse. At the moment of greatest eclipse, 4:13 a.m. Univeral Time, 96.3% of the Moon's disk will be within Earth's umbra. The Americas are centrally located for observing this eclipse.
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We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...
Dolly Parton is credited in at least 37 research papers on the COVID vaccine, including the first phase I trial results published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2020.
I don’t see how this kind of pricing can continue. The new pancreatic cancer drug is a remarkable advance that should be rewarded & most patients won’t pay anything close to this amount. But someone pays — employer insurance, Medicaid, Medicare — & that ultimately costs us all.
Revolution Medicines prices RASONQUE at $39,800 per month
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AURORA ALERT 🚨 NOAA has a G2 (moderate) geomagnetic storm watch up for Friday Aug 28, with G1 conditions Thursday. Two CMEs from Tuesday's M7 flare may clip Earth. Northern U.S. and Canada in play, plus a nearly total lunar eclipse Thursday night. Here's the rundown 👇 #heliophysics
A massive flash flood swept away villages near the Nepal-China border on Wednesday, killing many and prompting a helicopter rescue operation, while Tibet reported major casualties from a related mudslide. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/4wPHWuU
There's probably some misanthrope somewhere celebrating Dolly Parton's death, but I have yet to see a negative word on either Bluesky or X. Fuck cancer.
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · last wk.The Empire State Building went pink at exactly 9:25pm for Dolly Parton. Because of course they made it 9 to 5. That’s how you honor an icon. 🩷
RIP Dolly, you were magical.🙏 Dolly Parton performs "Jolene" with Pink, Annie Lennox, Pat Benatar, Brandi Carlile, Sheryl Crow, Rob Halford, Simon Le Bon and Dave Stewart at The 37th Rock & Roll of Fame Induction Ceremony (November 5th, 2022 at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles).
Dolly Parton - Jolene (Live at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2022)
YouTube video by A. L. Media
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Some people might not be aware, but it is entirely possible that without Dolly Parton we wouldn’t have had a COVID vaccine. She partly funded Moderna’s research and gave the largest individual contribution to make it all happen. Just gives you an idea of the kind of person she was.
R.I.P. Everyone gets old & dies, but it somehow seemed Dolly would be around forever.
Rolling Stone@rollingstone.com · last wk.Dolly Parton, the beloved global entertainment icon who sold more than 100 million records and whose songwriting prowess and sure-handed approach to her career reshaped the face of country music, popular music, and the entertainment industry at large, has died. 🕊️
Whatever you think about York or billionaires or the 49ers, paying a consenting adult for sex via a discreet nonpublic arrangement shouldn’t be a crime. www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
49ers owner Jed York contacted fictitious prostitution ad 3 times before arrest
49ers owner Jed York used a pseudonym and responded multiple times to a fictitious ad for a prostitute prior to his arrest in Ohio over the weekend.
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