AHeise
@aheise.bsky.social
Recently retired community college instructor - I taught micro to future healthcare people especially nurses. Also curious about astronomy, geology, museums, art, funny things.
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Yikes! One of my generic scrips just more-than-doubled from $18 to $47. I've seen a lot of discussion about premiums doubling, but not scrips. Is this part of the negotiated price changes? #MedSky
December 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Yikes! One of my generic scrips just more-than-doubled from $18 to $47. I've seen a lot of discussion about premiums doubling, but not scrips. Is this part of the negotiated price changes? #MedSky
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Know something a Dem President CAN do w an Executive Order, bc this is what EOs are actually meant to do?
Take away ICE’s toys.
Take away ICE’s toys.
Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Know something a Dem President CAN do w an Executive Order, bc this is what EOs are actually meant to do?
Take away ICE’s toys.
Take away ICE’s toys.
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1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time
By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.
theintercept.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
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talking to reporters last night, Trump claimed of Hegseth's double tap strike that "I don't know anything about it," then moments later claimed "I don't who you're talking about" when asked his plan to pardon the former Honduran president
December 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
talking to reporters last night, Trump claimed of Hegseth's double tap strike that "I don't know anything about it," then moments later claimed "I don't who you're talking about" when asked his plan to pardon the former Honduran president
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See this one yesterday?
The folks pushing this inside the National Archives are the ones who fired me as director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library right before the shutdown started. Happy to share more if you’re interested.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
The folks pushing this inside the National Archives are the ones who fired me as director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library right before the shutdown started. Happy to share more if you’re interested.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
The campaign to make Richard Nixon great again
The late president, who resigned in disgrace in 1974, actually wasn’t a crook, pundits on the right argue.
www.nbcnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
See this one yesterday?
The folks pushing this inside the National Archives are the ones who fired me as director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library right before the shutdown started. Happy to share more if you’re interested.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
The folks pushing this inside the National Archives are the ones who fired me as director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library right before the shutdown started. Happy to share more if you’re interested.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing
To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. Their approach uses CRISPR gene editing.
www.cbsnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
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This is fab: 🧪
Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing
To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. Their approach uses CRISPR gene editing.
www.cbsnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:21 AM
This is fab: 🧪
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December 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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i’m less pessimistic than offit, tbh. i think we can make real progress on the vaccine education front, but it’s going to be largely contingent on congress’s success in addressing the underlying conditions, like our broken info ecosystem (and their ability to keep these states united)
December 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
i’m less pessimistic than offit, tbh. i think we can make real progress on the vaccine education front, but it’s going to be largely contingent on congress’s success in addressing the underlying conditions, like our broken info ecosystem (and their ability to keep these states united)
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A diorama of the scorched earth on display at the Nagaoka Air Raid Center, one of many small memorial museums facing closure as survivor memory activists who fought to establish them pass away
December 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
A diorama of the scorched earth on display at the Nagaoka Air Raid Center, one of many small memorial museums facing closure as survivor memory activists who fought to establish them pass away
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For #mosaicmonday a #mosaic of the catasterism of Orion, #Pompeii 1st c. BC.
✨ Orion was a legendary hunter in Greek mythology who became a constellation upon his death. Gaia had been angered by Orion and she sent a scorpion to kill him.🦂
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #archaeology 🏺
✨ Orion was a legendary hunter in Greek mythology who became a constellation upon his death. Gaia had been angered by Orion and she sent a scorpion to kill him.🦂
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #archaeology 🏺
December 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
For #mosaicmonday a #mosaic of the catasterism of Orion, #Pompeii 1st c. BC.
✨ Orion was a legendary hunter in Greek mythology who became a constellation upon his death. Gaia had been angered by Orion and she sent a scorpion to kill him.🦂
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #archaeology 🏺
✨ Orion was a legendary hunter in Greek mythology who became a constellation upon his death. Gaia had been angered by Orion and she sent a scorpion to kill him.🦂
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #archaeology 🏺
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How the cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core and will mean millions more infections ahead
How the cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core and will mean millions more infections ahead
Reports highlight devastating impact of slashed funding, especially in parts of Africa, that could lead to 3.3m new HIV infections by 2030
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:41 AM
How the cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core and will mean millions more infections ahead
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This is the most important op-ed you'll read this week. The Trump administration is about to get rid of the birth-dose of hepatitis B vaccine. That is a deadly choice for many families. @helenouyang.bsky.social tells her story. Now call your member of Congress. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
Opinion | My Father Died of Hepatitis B Before the Vaccine. We Must Not Go Back.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
This is the most important op-ed you'll read this week. The Trump administration is about to get rid of the birth-dose of hepatitis B vaccine. That is a deadly choice for many families. @helenouyang.bsky.social tells her story. Now call your member of Congress. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
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and you know what? these students should also be judged, and judged harshly for this. running to the admins and state legislators and the press because you got a fairly earned failing grade on an assignment is and should be seen as a mark of extremely poor character. it makes you a very bad person.
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
and you know what? these students should also be judged, and judged harshly for this. running to the admins and state legislators and the press because you got a fairly earned failing grade on an assignment is and should be seen as a mark of extremely poor character. it makes you a very bad person.
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I’ve only TA’d one semester, and humanities TAships might be different, but the grad TA nearly immediately taking the fall for a reasonable evaluation of intellectually shoddy work that ignored the prompt (as judged per IOR rubrics, one imagines?) feels…inappropriate?
December 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I’ve only TA’d one semester, and humanities TAships might be different, but the grad TA nearly immediately taking the fall for a reasonable evaluation of intellectually shoddy work that ignored the prompt (as judged per IOR rubrics, one imagines?) feels…inappropriate?
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The thing I keep coming back to about this is it’s the OU administration coming out against… learning
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The thing I keep coming back to about this is it’s the OU administration coming out against… learning
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I'm just a g̶i̶r̶l̶ "Space Artist" standing in front of a "Bluesky" asking them to love my JWST ornament.
🔗 sciencesocks.co/collections/...
🔗 sciencesocks.co/collections/...
December 1, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I'm just a g̶i̶r̶l̶ "Space Artist" standing in front of a "Bluesky" asking them to love my JWST ornament.
🔗 sciencesocks.co/collections/...
🔗 sciencesocks.co/collections/...
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I haven't hyped my JWST #umbrellas in a while! Why are they awesome?
🛰️ First released #JWST deep field image on the canopy
🪐 “Unfold the Universe” printed on the strap and sleeve (mission slogan)
🔗 sciencesocks.co/products/jam...
🔭🐡🧪🎨
🛰️ First released #JWST deep field image on the canopy
🪐 “Unfold the Universe” printed on the strap and sleeve (mission slogan)
🔗 sciencesocks.co/products/jam...
🔭🐡🧪🎨
December 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I haven't hyped my JWST #umbrellas in a while! Why are they awesome?
🛰️ First released #JWST deep field image on the canopy
🪐 “Unfold the Universe” printed on the strap and sleeve (mission slogan)
🔗 sciencesocks.co/products/jam...
🔭🐡🧪🎨
🛰️ First released #JWST deep field image on the canopy
🪐 “Unfold the Universe” printed on the strap and sleeve (mission slogan)
🔗 sciencesocks.co/products/jam...
🔭🐡🧪🎨
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Another concerning study found pesticides in 93.5% of plants in Sacramento CA & Albuquerque NM. Atrazine was in 70% of Albuquerque plants. Some plants had up to 18 pesticides in them. Two compounds exceeded lethal concentrations f/ insects in 71/336 plants (21%). 🧪
academic.oup.com/etc/advance-...
academic.oup.com/etc/advance-...
Pesticides detected in two urban areas have implications for local butterfly conservation
Abstract. Human-managed green spaces in urban landscapes have become important focal points for insect conservation, partly because of the desirable insect
academic.oup.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Another concerning study found pesticides in 93.5% of plants in Sacramento CA & Albuquerque NM. Atrazine was in 70% of Albuquerque plants. Some plants had up to 18 pesticides in them. Two compounds exceeded lethal concentrations f/ insects in 71/336 plants (21%). 🧪
academic.oup.com/etc/advance-...
academic.oup.com/etc/advance-...
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This is gonna seem like a nitpick, but I think it's significant: It's not a professor, it's a graduate TA.
Thinking back on my time as a TA thirty years ago, universities use TAs as cannon fodder, asking them to hold certain rigorous lines but reliably failing to support them.
Thinking back on my time as a TA thirty years ago, universities use TAs as cannon fodder, asking them to hold certain rigorous lines but reliably failing to support them.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This is gonna seem like a nitpick, but I think it's significant: It's not a professor, it's a graduate TA.
Thinking back on my time as a TA thirty years ago, universities use TAs as cannon fodder, asking them to hold certain rigorous lines but reliably failing to support them.
Thinking back on my time as a TA thirty years ago, universities use TAs as cannon fodder, asking them to hold certain rigorous lines but reliably failing to support them.
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This is not an academic paper. She doesn't even cite her fucking Bible sources. Never mind that her reading of the biblical sources is entirely off -- that's another fisking for another day -- she does not say, "From an evangelical Christian pov, this approach does not hold. +
November 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This is not an academic paper. She doesn't even cite her fucking Bible sources. Never mind that her reading of the biblical sources is entirely off -- that's another fisking for another day -- she does not say, "From an evangelical Christian pov, this approach does not hold. +
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For example, Christians of the XX type would read Genesis 1:27 (OH HAI A SOURCE) as arguing ... This is seen in (namecheck hateful transphobes here, FN). This complimantarian approach is also developed (CITE MORE FUCKING SOURCES BB)...
but that's not this. This is a blog post for youth group.
but that's not this. This is a blog post for youth group.
November 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
For example, Christians of the XX type would read Genesis 1:27 (OH HAI A SOURCE) as arguing ... This is seen in (namecheck hateful transphobes here, FN). This complimantarian approach is also developed (CITE MORE FUCKING SOURCES BB)...
but that's not this. This is a blog post for youth group.
but that's not this. This is a blog post for youth group.
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And the fact that OU has been cowed into suspending a professor who had the barest of academic standards is TERRIFYING because the theocracy is billowing at an increasingly rapid rate and our collective standards are all at risk.
The future of our leadership for the next generations are at risk.
The future of our leadership for the next generations are at risk.
November 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
And the fact that OU has been cowed into suspending a professor who had the barest of academic standards is TERRIFYING because the theocracy is billowing at an increasingly rapid rate and our collective standards are all at risk.
The future of our leadership for the next generations are at risk.
The future of our leadership for the next generations are at risk.
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There was 0 data about the pediatric vaccine at the time.
Journalists, please remind your readers that Prasad was always against the covid vaccine for kids.
Always.
Journalists, please remind your readers that Prasad was always against the covid vaccine for kids.
Always.
December 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM
There was 0 data about the pediatric vaccine at the time.
Journalists, please remind your readers that Prasad was always against the covid vaccine for kids.
Always.
Journalists, please remind your readers that Prasad was always against the covid vaccine for kids.
Always.