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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸

@organicbotanic.bsky.social

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Health academic, #IDSky, sailor⛵, photographer, botanist🌿, writer. Memoir, poetry, children’s stories. AI, public health, education, climate, UCU, films N Ireland 🇪🇺 Avoid🦠Covid. Photographs mine unless credited X: @organicbotanic Blue Sky 3/9/23

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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · Jun 16

Honoured to be in this #poetry collection (p.14):

Thoughts from the other side of the Mid Atlantic Rift

Written on #Rathlin Island on a #Sailing boat. Grateful to @chaossectionpoetry.bsky.social for the call, curation & publication. Means so much to me to support #US #Protest #Politics #Metaphor

Front cover of newly published collection of poems on Dissent and protest against Trump politics in US https://thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/record-of-dissent-poems-of-protest-in-an-authoritarian-age-summer-2025/

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Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 10h

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

“We may be witnessing the emergence of a population-level acquired immune deficiency — not sexually transmitted, but airborne.”

That line isn’t from a tweet. It’s from a peer-reviewed paper in AJPM Focus (2025).

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SJ Thompson 🍁🇨🇦 @sjsthompson.bsky.social · 18h

I'd like to believe that “FEMA is in direct contact with state & local officials & has an incident management team traveling to Alaska as we speak" but for some unfathomable reason I'm having difficulty believing anyone Republican is keen to aid these Indigenous people. 🤨
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/w...

One killed, dozens rescued after storm slams western Alaska as search for missing continues | CNN

Rescuers in western Alaska are working to find missing residents and help the more than 1,000 people displaced after ferocious, hurricane-force wind gusts from what once was Typhoon Halong tore throug...

www.cnn.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 18h

"Once you start teaching loyalty instead of critical thinking, you stop creating scholars & you start creating followers. That's not the America we signed up for."

#noloyaltyoaths
#academicfreedom

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💥Richard with an R @rbwaltonthereal.com · 5d

It is absolutely insane . . .

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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 18h

And thank you SJ or I would not have seen #Alaska

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SJ Thompson 🍁🇨🇦 @sjsthompson.bsky.social · 18h

@astroeric12.bsky.social Thanks muchly for reposting that story about the disaster in Western Alaska from Typhoon Halong.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI — with electricity rates already skyrocketing, Trump just canceled the largest solar project in North America.

Utah’s Republican governor seems to understand this is probably not the best idea: “This is how we lose the AI/energy race with China” 👇🏽

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 1d

I think Clan centre is shores of L Ness so Inverness to beyond Elgin and the hinterland of moor back from the sea maybe 30-50 miles was stamping ground including Culloden

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Chris Packham, "This country voted in a party with a massive majority and a mandate for change"

"All we see is Labour kowtowing to the far right. This causes me enormous concern"

"I'm frustrated, I'm angry, and I've frightened"

"And I get more scared every single day"

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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 1d

My father (a Scot from the original line, born NE of Inverness) told me he thought we were nearly extinct but we seem to be very prolific!

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

BBC News's Lyse Doucet, "After two years of sustained attacks on the infrastructure of Gaza"

"90% of the territory now lies in utter ruin"

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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 1d

Oh - hope you are now all sorted. Cataract? I had them prematurely - I had no idea they could occur early!

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 2d

Do not less this attack on our public health system stand. Complain and resist. Call your Senators and Representatives.

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 2d

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 2d

A massive study of 100M+ people shows:
🔁 VZV reactivation(shingles)= higher dementia risk

💉 Shingles vaccine = lower dementia risk
Protect your nerves and your neurons. #PublicHealth #VaccinesSaveLives
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#BlueSky #amedSky #SciSky #IDSky #NeuroSky #EMSky #NurseSky

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 1d

ah! We already follow, should be more observant!!

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 1d

Came across another McBean (of the same mind it seems) accidentally - Hello!

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings