Roselie Bright, ScD
@roseliebrightscd.bsky.social
Doctoral epidemiologist with emphases in medical products and enviro health. Master in food science. Retired. Advocate for public health science and practice. Live in USA. Support: ALT text. Don't support: sexist/racist/ableist cursing.
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Christopher Cartwright@chriscartwright.bsky.social · 3w agoscientists found that the area of #Europe that is affected by fires will essentially triple within a lifetime, or by 2100 With +3.6c No mention of 4.5c of course 🤣🤣 #Wildfires #Climatemergency #ClimateCrisis #Metacrisis www.scientificamerican.com/article/euro...
GOOD NEWS! Phase I clinical trial results out of Johns Hopkins show a first-of-its-kind vaccine designed to target common KRAS mutations was safe AND stimulated KRAS-specific T-cell responses in 90% of study participants who were at HIGH risk of developing pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC).
Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Triggers Immune Response Before Tumors Develop
Phase I results show early promise for a vaccine designed to prevent pancreatic cancer in people at high risk of developing the disease.
insideprecisionmedicine.com
when i worked at sbux in high school they kept scheduling me for like 35 hours a week and i kept saying i can't work this schedule i have to go to school. turned out they were hugely overscheduling kids to avoid giving enough hours to the adults that they would've qualified for health insurance
Jaya Saxena@jayasaxena.com · 3d agoI spoke to a member of the SBWU boycott committee about the call to boycott Starbucks. As a reminder, boycott Starbucks! www.weareravenous.com/starbucks-wo...
Trump's corruption has infected nearly every aspect of American life. From our economy to our national security, we are worse off & less safe because of it. Thank you to my friend @merkley.senate.gov for helping us shine a light on the most corrupt presidency in American history.
Senator Jeff Merkley@merkley.senate.gov · 3d agoThank you to @warren.senate.gov, @vanhollen.senate.gov, and @smith.senate.gov for joining me to expose how Trump’s corruption puts America in jeopardy. Full video out now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw-G...
Tyson CEO Donnie King made $34.4 million in 2025. The week before Thanksgiving, he told 3,200 workers in Lexington they'd be losing their jobs. Just weeks after, Tyson donated to the Pete Ricketts campaign.
New records released today tell us Rudy Giuliani knew the air at Ground Zero was dangerous but lied to New Yorkers. People died because of this. Yet no right wing media outlet will ask him about it abcnews.com/US/nyc-mayor...
NYC Mayor Mamdani releases thousands of long-sought city documents on 9/11 air quality
First responders who rushed to the World Trade Center on and immediately after the 9/11 attacks were likely exposed to dangerous toxins, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.
abcnews.com
"The effect in a short time is astonishing. From dense tangled woodland, the beavers have created a light and airy wetland teeming with life above and below the water, from dragonflies, diving beetles and butterflies to frogs and newts." timesofindia-indiatimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/timesofi...
England released beavers into a Dorset woodland in 2025; one year later, their dams had turned dense forest into wildlife-rich wetland - The Times of India
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🇺🇸🏛💰🔍 Voluntary compliance/ deregulation isn’t working so well. 🧪🩺🛟☠️
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 3d agoTurns out you really do need food inspectors after all
170,000 pages. That’s how much NYC has now released about post-9/11 air quality, including evidence officials knew Ground Zero was dangerous to breathe. Those documents belong to every survivor, responder, and family still burying someone stolen by toxic exposure. #momsky#sheshed
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VirusSucks.com@virussucks.com · 4d agoSARS-CoV-2 → #LongCOVID → Activate JAK/STAT pathway → pro-inflammatory cytokines contributing to chronic inflammation → immune evasion, reservoir maintenance, and viral reactivation from latency → cellular senescence and senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) We need JAK-inhibitors
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
The cherry trees Trump is cutting down were a gift to the United States from a Japanese immigrant named Jokichi Takamine Takamine was the first person to isolate adrenalin, or epinephrine, in 1904 - a milestone that saved countless lives The trees were a symbol of his gratitude to his new home
We now know harmful “forever chemicals” are likely in the bodies of most people on Earth. Decades ago, 3M knew that these chemicals had seeped into the public’s blood, but they kept that a secret. One 3M scientist helped reporter Sharon Lerner understand how they kept it quiet for so long:
How the Planet-Altering Disaster of “Forever Chemicals” Was Kept Secret
propublica.org
when more people develop severe ME and the housebound population explodes, when caretaker shortages go from acute to catastrophic and outpace profitability, and more folks fall through canyon-sized cracks? more people will talk about it, but the conversation will be "how did we let this happen?"
Billy Hanlon@bhanlon15.bsky.social · 4d agoMedPage Today: Why Is No One Talking About Long COVID? — Attention has waned but patients are still suffering by Jeffrey D. Klausner, MD, MPH, and Lao-Tzu Allan-Blitz, MD, MPH www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · last mo.NEW: The NIH is quietly restricting funding for research that evaluates how public policy impacts human health. According to internal documents I obtained, the agency no longer considers policymakers "mission relevant" — a massive shift for the biomedical funder. My latest for @nature.com:
Half a century ago, a group of lavishly financed economists from the University of Chicago (the "neoliberals") convinced governments all over the world to completely upend the way they treated monopolies.
ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’ — my latest, w/ @kolyncheang.bsky.social. Spend some time with it www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’
ICE owes millions in unpaid bills to hospitals and, in some cases, detainees themselves have been directly billed for care, records show.
sfchronicle.com
Welker: "Do you still have confidence in Secretary Hegseth?" Sen. John Kennedy: "Um, well, it's not my place to have confidence in him." Welker: "Well, you're a senator."
Yes, 'El Niño-fuelled wildfires', but these wildfires are also fuelled by deforestation, land clearing, the drainage of peatlands for palm oil plantations, etc. While dry conditions exacerbate the problem, they are not the sole cause; there is also a direct human impact 🧪🌍🔥🌳🍁 wildfire #conservation
Guardian Environment@environment.theguardian.com · 5d agoEl Nino-fuelled wildfires destroy precious Indonesian forests – in pictures
rejecting AI isn’t a failure to prepare children for an “inevitable” future, it’s a vital statement of belief in our agency to chose a future for them, rather than letting it be dictated to us by a small group of the richest men, who are increasingly - I wish this was just hyperbole - openly fascist
Chris Moran@chrismoranuk.bsky.social · 5d agoI am so pleased we have Daniel Susskind writing for us today about LLMs, parenting and learning (and not just because he mentions my little project PlotLines). It’s essential we have informed, balanced dialogues about GenAI’s strengths and weaknesses www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The DOJ has fired Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Evans, the local prosecutor who sought the civil rights charges against Castro and "objected in the strongest possible terms" to the DOJ's decision to downgrade the charges, per CBS News
Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say
A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an ICE officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
cbsnews.com
madi mcvan@madisonmcvan.bsky.social · last wk.The feds have charged ICE agent Christian Castro with making false statements in the Jan. 14 shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, per NYT. DOJ leaders in Washington overruled local federal prosecutors, who wanted to bring hefty civil rights charges against Castro, ProPublica reported this morning.
⚠️ In yet another attempt to indulge Trump’s obsession with “election integrity,” DHS is now threatening a pro-voting organization over a years-old research project. The project focused on states’ efforts to register more voters. Here’s how the organization is responding:
DHS threatens pro-voting group over its voter registration research
The letter isn’t the first thinly veiled threat Mullin has made while indulging President Donald Trump’s dissembling obsession with “election integrity.”
democracydocket.com
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