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adam whalen, mph 🐳

@awhale.bsky.social

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phd student at Columbia Mailman SPH, social/spatial epidemiology of polysubstance use, transportation injury, firearm violence, and SGM populations, warriors basketball, he/him

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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · Aug 8

very happy to share that my first, first-author paper has been published in AJPH! we found that transgender women of color achieve insufficient and poor-quality sleep, and that those who experience discrimination are at greater risk. #episky #medsky
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Discrimination and Sleep Health Among Transgender Women of Color in New York City: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations From the TURNNT Cohort Study | AJPH | Vol. Issue

Objectives. To determine whether discrimination is associated with sleep health among transgender women of color. Methods. We included 269 participants from the Trying to Understand Relationships, Net...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

The Great Barrington Declaration remains one of the best-timed confidently-wrong statements ever published. Usually there's some wiggle room in the data when it comes to science, medicine, public health, etc; it's rare to make a big generalized assertion that is instantly proven wrong.

CDC chart of weekly COVID deaths, with the Great Barrington Declaration noted. It was before the majority of deaths, and right before the largest spikes in deaths.

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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 16h

I will say that the best version of true big tent no purity test solidarity I've personally seen was no kings this weekend. you had lots of "orange man bad" but also lots of trans rights and free palestine and fuck ICE and no one was getting pissy at each other. a big tent stretches left too!

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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 20h

every serious critique of the ACA I've seen is basically 1) it was transformational and saved countless lives and 2) it didn't go far enough. 1 is a precondition for 2; why would you want more of a thing you didn't like?

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

one of the consistently interesting things about ACA criticism since it was signed into law is how critics discount or ignore the medicaid expansion

adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 21h

is this the official logo or is this a rheum cat special?

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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 22h

probably not ideal that an AWS outage means half the internet doesn't work. oh well no greater lessons to be learned here I'm sure

adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 22h

it's so funny that they put podcasters in charge of the US health system and that's all they know how to do

Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 23h

I didn’t listen, but Makary and Prasad seem to be saying that private citizens should mindlessly obey government doctors without question or criticism.

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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 2d

he’s crashing out so hard, I don’t think he’s ever been so mad and that’s giving me strength lol

adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 2d

this is also their worst album ever and it’s embarrassing that this is one of their most popular songs if not the most popular. loser shit embraced by losers

adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 2d

the fact that this is tracked to avenged sevenfold is honestly so revealing. it doesn’t really matter but I hope those losers from Huntington Beach consider what they’re now explicitly a representation of

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 2d

It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle.

And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.

adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 2d

I know we’re fully past the bounds of reality but this is so crazy lol

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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 2d

overheard a cop on the radio saying the march stretches from 14th all the way to 49th. hell yeah new york

adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 2d

the other major takeaway from the march is zohran is going to win by a landslide. so many zohran for mayor signs, and almost as many joint fuck ice/fuck trump/fuck cuomo ones

adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 2d

“from Palestine to Mexico, all these walls have got to go”

adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 2d

it is kinda funny to see so many “fight oligarchy” signs in… times square lol

large protest with giant billboard signs in the background

adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 2d

all ages out, kids to older adults using mobility aids. overall the sentiment is very much fuck you, this is new york city. it’s rad lol

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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 2d

I was wrong: there are thousands of people out here. signs and slogans run the spectrum: anti trump/no kings, lots of fuck ice, free Palestine, LGBTQ+/trans rights, and everything in between

adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 2d

7th ave. the start of the march is around 37th but it stretches back past times square

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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 2d

hundreds of people out for No Kings NYC, led by @bradlander.bsky.social and a contingent of drag queens carrying signs that read “no kings only queens”. solidarity is palpable

photo of the protest, lots of people and signs

Brad lander poking out of the front of the march crowd

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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 3d

I love visiting the five boroughs of New York City: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Brokkyn, Queens, and Broad.

Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 3d

ChatGPT is not doing the subway system too well.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 3d

this, who like a block hath denied my access to thee.

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 3d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 3d

what’s kt tunstall up to these days? I hope she’s well

adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 3d

when taking notes or annotating a document, it’s important to remember that they are for you, so make them useful and informative for yourself. also write jokes for you for later. for example:

(“honor societies” means Greek life/frats)

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…of students that are known to run a heightened risk for harmful substance use. For example, a skills training for first year members of honor societies to teach them to resist social pressure from fellow members and a personalized normative feedback intervention on campus to provide corrective information about actual levels of peer substance consumption and to counter the tendency for overestimation of peer substance intake. Targeting multiple risk factors for…

“skills training for first year members of honor societies” and “resist social pressure from fellow members” are highlighted. in the margin, the word “lol” is written

adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 3d

kevin parker wrote the new tame impala record, deadbeat, specifically to be played at the lot radio. I will not be elaborating

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 3d

This is functionally a robbery of New York City and New York State taxpayers, who contribute billions more to the federal government annually than we get back.

Stealing our money, blocking our bus lanes.

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.

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