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University of Vermont @uvmvermont.bsky.social · 7m

A historic $16M gift to UVM's College of Nursing and Health Sciences, from George Bemis ’60, MD, in honor of his late wife, Nancy Bemis, RN, will significantly expand access to nursing education through scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students. Learn more ⬇️ go.uvm.edu/nursinggift

Historic $16M Estate Gift Will Expand Nursing Scholarships at UVM | College of Nursing and Health Sciences | The University of Vermont

Largest gift to UVM's College of Nursing and Health Sciences will help address nursing shortage in Vermont and nationally.

go.uvm.edu

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Dr. Teresa Graziano (they/them) @teresagraziano.bsky.social · 22h

The #GarlickBLT (book launch tour) has hit my mailbox!!!

@garlicksauce.bsky.social

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 2d

“I’m still searching...looking around to see where else I can use these skills"

Thank you @apoorvanyt.bsky.social for profiling these amazing US scientists @nytopinion.nytimes.com

I hope they all find new careers

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/h...

They Fought Outbreaks Worldwide. Now They’re Fighting for New Lives.

www.nytimes.com

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 13d

“The military would never turn on its own people”

I’m from Philadelphia, a city where the police firebombed citizens.

They sent troops to Kent State in 1970. They sent troops to NYU last year.

I really need y’all to sit & examine what makes you think you were ever exempt from state violence.

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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 16d

Very relevant today.

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Prospero @prospero53.bsky.social · 21d

‘As Deleuze and Guattari wrote fascism in the 1930s was not fundamentally a problem of ignorance: ‘The masses were not innocent dupes; at a certain point, under a certain set of conditions, they wanted fascism’’
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

Claire Wilmot | Fascistic Dream Machines

Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Dr. Teresa Graziano (they/them) @teresagraziano.bsky.social · 21d

That's on a #GarlickBLT (book launch tour)

Alex Garlick @garlicksauce.bsky.social · 22d

Huge day for the PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS book launch tour. I'm on the local CBS today discussing why YOUR health care costs are so high and what lobbyists have to do with it. #GarlickBLT

Why Are Your Healthcare Costs so High?

YouTube video by Across the Fence

www.youtube.com

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Chris Friese, PhD, RN @chrisfriesern.bsky.social · 22d

Oncology nurse here.
Leucovorin is a drug critical to safe administration of life-saving cancer treatment (colon cancer, lymphoma, leukemia, toname a few). We've experienced very severe shortages in the past.

Please, just no.

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 24d

We Should Be So Much Further Ahead….

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov.

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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 25d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28d

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

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Dr. Teresa Graziano (they/them) @teresagraziano.bsky.social · 29d

Lol why do 2 negative evaluations overshadow 30 positive ones

Dr. Teresa Graziano (they/them) @teresagraziano.bsky.social · Sep 15

Your pie threw me through a minor loop bc pumpkin exists but I immediately calmed down and am on board - including the donut, as a vermonter who has access to farm fresh plain cider donuts (ik this is baked good privilege)

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · Sep 14

I don't know, can an AI doula massage your back during transition? Hold your hand? Hold your cup when you take a drink? Hold your hand to balance in yoga poses? Walk down the street to pick up dinner for you after delivery? Physically position your baby for breastfeeding?

I thought not.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Sep 14

🤔

Can AI doulas improve maternal health?

First, tech companies have to establish trust

www.fastcompany.com

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Sep 13

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts

At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.

www.nbcnews.com

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Dr. Teresa Graziano (they/them) @teresagraziano.bsky.social · Sep 13

I was also so fortunate to have @garlicksauce.bsky.social present as part of the #GarlickBLT this week in Public Health Nursing!

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Dr. Teresa Graziano (they/them) @teresagraziano.bsky.social · Sep 13

MY BROTHER IS OFFICIALLY DR. GRAZIANO!!!!!!!! @vinnieviruses.bsky.social

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · Sep 8

J. Sotomayor dissent: "The Government, and now the concurrence, has all but declared that all Latinos, U. S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents’ satisfaction."

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Sep 8

#BREAKING: With no explanation (save for a solo concurrence by Justice Kavanaugh), #SCOTUS has frozen lower-court rulings that had enjoined allegedly suspicion-less arrests as part of "roving" immigration patrols in California.

Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson, dissents:

www.supremecourt.gov

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 7

TAPPER: Hepatitis A, whooping cough, & chickenpox cases are rising in Florida. Before you made this decision to lift vaccine mandates, did your dept do any analysis of how many new cases there will be?

LADAPO: Absolutely not

T: You didn't even do a projection?

L: It's an issue of right & wrong

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Dr. Teresa Graziano (they/them) @teresagraziano.bsky.social · Sep 6

The NRA defending trans people['s rights to guns] was NOT on my 2025 timeline.... but.... ok....

Dr. Teresa Graziano (they/them) @teresagraziano.bsky.social · Sep 2

AMAZING scholar and colleague Dr. @laura4n.bsky.social and some colleagues wrote this informative article about fradulent participants targeting qualitative research incentives, and the consequences for qual research: www.jmir.org/2025/1/e68393

Striking a Balance: Mitigating Fraud While Ensuring Equity in Online Qualitative Research Recruitment

After the COVID-19 pandemic, online recruitment became a critical component of qualitative research in health care fields. However, fraudulent participants targeting research incentives have become mo...

www.jmir.org

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · Aug 26

We need "you are not immune to propaganda" but for AI use risks

We have seen too many cases of
1. Highly educated folk starting to believe LLMs are sentient.
2. Folk with no prior mental health issues becoming delusional.
3. Prrofessionals becoming reliant on it to do things they could do better.

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Dr. Teresa Graziano (they/them) @teresagraziano.bsky.social · Aug 31

Came here to say this and you beat me by 2 minutes with fewer swears - kudos!

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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · Aug 30

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Dr. Teresa Graziano (they/them) @teresagraziano.bsky.social · Aug 29

In their reflection, a student hit me with "While I do not know who, or how, I do know that there will be brave nurses who will make change for the better and while some of us will be immortalized in history it is the actions of every nurse that will create change."

Not me crying in bed grading it!

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