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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1h

Mmmm. Delicious and yet apparently my body, being a jerk, doesn’t think so! Sigh. I hope you find some relief soon!

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, I was just realizing that perhaps my Ethiopian meal last night was what made things flare (injera is fermented).

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1h

Ive got nothing — but sympathy. I am dealing with sthg similar atm. Anywhere clothes touch my upper body the urticaria fires up. Sooooooooo itchy.

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1h

I completely agree and use a human-staffed checkout whenever I can. It’s really sad to see they’ve all but disappeared in big cities in the UK.

rebecca 🔱 @ridethekick.bsky.social · 2h

#lrt my shouldn't-be-a-hot take is that self-checkout is a bane on community-building. as a former checker, i promise you cannot check yourself out faster. a little harmless small talk with your neighbors as they ring up your groceries or whatever is good for you, like taking ur vitamins

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1h

Everything goes to hell when the suitcase comes out.

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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 2h

Cognitive and mental health outcomes in long covid
Rapid Response: Research must consider Post Exertional Malaise as a neurological event underpinning fluctuating cognitive dysfunction in Long Covid
www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Excellent letter by Dr Selina Shaw

Research must consider Post Exertional Malaise as a neurological event underpinning fluctuating cognitive dysfunction in Long Covid

www.bmj.com

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rebecca 🔱 @ridethekick.bsky.social · 2h

#lrt my shouldn't-be-a-hot take is that self-checkout is a bane on community-building. as a former checker, i promise you cannot check yourself out faster. a little harmless small talk with your neighbors as they ring up your groceries or whatever is good for you, like taking ur vitamins

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 7h

i am hanging out here with the lovely people from portland immigrant rights coalition, they talk to people who have appointments, remind them of their rights, keep track of who goes in and out. they say every once in a while someone goes in that doesn’t come out

pircoregon.org/donate

a photo of the portland ICE facility in the morning

Signs posted outside the facility displaying people who have been taken

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 23h

Utterly horrifying

Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 23h

Oh dear, no thank you.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/s...

Plastic Surgery Comes for the Waist

www.nytimes.com

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 23h

Oh dear, no thank you.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/s...

Plastic Surgery Comes for the Waist

www.nytimes.com

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody wants to be a statistic in one of their own reports — let alone in one of YOUR reports!!

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 1d

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

I stuck w lesson plan (long activity on immigration trends in Euro ctries and likely impact on welfare state programs) but I did make the connections to what was happening in the US more explicit. In the end, I was just wary of the 3 Latina students being traumatized by a big discussion.

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow I teach a 3-hour class on race, immigration and welfare in comparative perspective. I can’t decide whether to ditch my lesson plan and just let students talk, or ignore what’s happening in the US right now and just work on other countries. Thoughts?

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

Come for the cats, stay for the groundhogs and brassicas

Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 1d

so no one was going to tell me that mountain lions and cougars are the same animal? as are pumas? and panthers?????????

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 1d

Scholars & pundits have focussed a lot on the electoral demise of center left, but in doing so we paid to little attention to the electoral problems of the center right.

Case-in-points here not only British conservatives or center right in France, but increasingly also the center right in Spain.

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Population Aging Research Center @pennaging.bsky.social · 1d

“‘The Chaos in the Point:’ Tumult as Covid Vaccine Boosters Deployed Under RFK Jr.”

PARC Research Associate Julia Lynch (@jlynch13.bsky.social) is quoted in @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

‘The chaos is the point’: tumult as Covid vaccine boosters deployed under RFK Jr

People attempting to obtain vaccine report major hurdles amid new limitations brought in by Trump health secretary

www.theguardian.com

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

I’d do another PhD….

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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 1d

New study finds Democrats represent public opinion better than Republicans: "the quality of statehouse democracy, here meaning the dynamic relationship between opinion and policy, is substantially weakened by Republican Party control of state government."

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 1d

Jefferson on Race by @agordonreed.bsky.social | Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Jefferson on Race

From The New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson’s writings on race that every American should read

press.princeton.edu

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Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 1d

so no one was going to tell me that mountain lions and cougars are the same animal? as are pumas? and panthers?????????

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

Really interested to read this

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 2d

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

That’s prob what I will do. The exercise I had planned for them was a very long one (90 min plus discussion) but I might cut it down to give them more time to talk about the US.

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

They’re mostly juniors and seniors, class is comparative politics of the welfare state. They’re good but not used to conflict.

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow I teach a 3-hour class on race, immigration and welfare in comparative perspective. I can’t decide whether to ditch my lesson plan and just let students talk, or ignore what’s happening in the US right now and just work on other countries. Thoughts?

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

Take care of yourself. We need your voice for other stories, too!

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1d

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 2d

#medsky #episky #laborsky

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 2d

Work and Health alert!

I'm putting together a panel for the Council for European Studies mtg in Dublin in June on Work and Health. I've got room for a couple more papers. Please email me ASAP at Penn if you've got something you'd like to present. Papers on any aspect of the relationship welcome.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

The WHO has verified the elimination of both measles & rubella in all Pacific Island countries, alongside rubella elimination in Japan. The achievement follows 2 decades of coordinated immunisation campaigns, regional surveillance, and high routine vaccine coverage. buff.ly/EpFb7HK
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Rubella elimination verified in Japan, and measles and rubella elimination verified in Pacific island countries and areas

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that the 21 Pacific island countries and areas that are part of the WHO Western Pacific Region have collectively been verified as having eliminated…

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 2d

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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