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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙

@drlaurahaynes.bsky.social

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Miami native & U Miami🙌🏽 grad now in Connecticut’s Farmington valley Immunologist/Gerontologist/Professor #TrustScience #VaccinesWork Opinions are my own & do not represent my employer

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · Jan 3

About me: I’m an immunologist & gerontologist. I study how aging influences immunity including the response to vaccines.
#VaccinesWork
#VaccinesSaveLives
#VaccinesDoNotCauseAutism

a sticker that says vaccines save lives on it

ALT: a sticker that says vaccines save lives on it

media.tenor.com

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 6h

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
(🎶)

DAY 16 OCTOBER 2025

THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES

WE'RE GETTING READY TO MARCH....NO KINGS DAY
SATURDAY OCTOBER 18TH

A PEACEFUL PROTEST
IN AMERICA WE DON'T HAVE KINGS

Now is our time to rise up
So please
Join us
Go to
nokings.org

I thank each one of you.
We rise

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 6h

The universe is being a real bitch lately…this makes me so sad😞

In Pictures: NPR Founding Mother Susan Stamberg

www.npr.org/sections/the...

In Pictures: Remembering Susan Stamberg, one of NPR's Founding Mothers

Susan Stamberg joined NPR at its start, originally to cut tape — literal tape, with a single-sided blade — at a time when commercial networks almost never hired women.

www.npr.org

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks Jim

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 10h

I’ve been working on our NIH grant that is due on Monday. We are studying how to keep older adults healthier. But the 🤡🍊 cult is more interested in chemtrails…I’m going to have several gummies now because I just can’t deal with the stupid

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 16h

"It doesn't get more tinfoil hat."

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is preparing to investigate *chemtrails,* according to an internal memo @stephaniearmour.bsky.social obtained.

A department spokeswoman notably did not deny it.

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Chemtrail? New Conspiracy Theory Takes Wing at Kennedy's HHS - KFF Health News

The idea that airplane vapors are toxic to people or that there are ongoing efforts to intentionally change the climate made the social media rounds. Now, it has found advocates at the Department of Health and Human Services.

kffhealthnews.org

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 10h

This dude is so fucking clueless.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

RFK Jr: "When my uncle was president, the fertility rate in this country was 3.5%. Today it is 1.6%. The replacement rate -- in other words the amount of fertility you need to keep your population even -- is 2.1%. We are below replacement. That is a national security threat to our country."

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Rep Jahana Hayes @repjahanahayes.bsky.social · 11h

House Democrats held another Steering & Policy hearing this week to gather testimonials from those who will be impacted if ACA tax credits are allowed to expire.
The urgency is clear and the time to negotiate is now.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 13h

As long as I live, I will never forgive Mitch McConnell for both causing irreparable damage to the Supreme Court, and not voting to convict Donald Trump.

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 13h

Read the whole thread

I find the VP of the United States to be one of the most genuinely terrifying & repulsive people on earth

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 15h

The thing about Nazis is their speech is all hate speech, all of it, not free speech, because Nazism is predicated on violence and contemporary Nazism is predicated on knowing about genocide and approving of it and wanting to do it again.

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Rep Jahana Hayes @repjahanahayes.bsky.social · 14h

The Hub Project & Unrig Our Economy hosted a call to break down the impact of the gov. shutdown. ACA tax credits, WIC, SNAP & public trust were discussed. Participants expressed fear, frustration & legitimate concern over what would happen if they lost insurance coverage or cuts to vital programs.

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 17h

Same here

Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 18h

Just one more reason to ditch network TV news

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Veterans Against Trump @vetsat.bsky.social · 1d

He's firing missiles into California because he's a clinical psychopath who dreams of doing it for real, not as a military exhibition. You DO know that, right?

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Trump may launch missiles from warships into California this Friday and Saturday as part of what is being described as a “vanity parade” and shut down portions of the I-5 during the No Kings protests meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 2d

Happy spooky season, witches!🔮

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 4d

I am going to re-up this a third time:

Please read this excellent piece by Lincoln Caplan about why John Roberts—more than Mitch McConnell, more than Stephen Miller or Russell Vought, more than anyone else—owns the destruction of Constitutional order.

www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 5d

Re-upping:

Excellent assessment of John "Roger Taney" Roberts.

In @harvardmagazine.bsky.social , by Lincoln Caplan.

As careful, legally informed, judicious-minded writer as you're going to find. With an unsparing judgment.

www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...

What Trump Means for John Roberts's Legacy | Harvard Magazine

Executive power is on the docket at the Supreme Court.

www.harvardmagazine.com

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 20h

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 1d

Why is the Vice President of the United States so insistent on defending this inexcusable, vile behavior?

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Vance on public outrage over the "I love Hitler" group chat: "Grow up! Focus on the real issues. Don't focus on what kids say in group chats... The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys — they tell edgy, offensive jokes. That's what kids do."

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 20h

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judithbolyard.bsky.social @judithbolyard.bsky.social · 1d

So cute!

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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to this nurse: when families can’t afford food or rent, doubling their health premiums will push them off insurance. Communities will suffer. People will die.

And what did Republicans do?
They shut down the government and took a vacation.

#TrumpsShutdownDragsOn
#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 1d

Who needs vaccines and antibiotics and other antimicrobials, right? Per RFK Jr./MAHA types, if you just take care of your diet/nutrition, your immune system should protect you... /s 🙄🫣

Study: We're losing the war against drug-resistant infections faster than we thought

Antimicrobial resistance is responsible for some 1.2 million deaths a year and contributes to millions more. Data in the new report shows that the problem is growing at an alarming rate.

www.npr.org

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 1d

RFK Jr. keeps repeating this ridiculous, ignorant bullshit.

Trust in expertise is literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I wrote a whole-ass thread about it last time around; maybe worth revisiting.

bsky.app/profile/carl...

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Dr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 1d

@jeremymberg.bsky.social has done a really nice analysis of 2025 NIH trainee funding. Thanks Jeremy! Kinda depressing as I'm helping my grad student preparing a new F31 application. Can you break any of this down by institute please?