@laurgour.bsky.social
California native social working in the Midwest via NYC. Perinatal mental health and childhood trauma by day, tired mama at night.
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
Is Advocates for Children still running? They’d be my first call.
June 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Is Advocates for Children still running? They’d be my first call.
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I am going to comment to allow people to get vaccinated when they want/need to.
I would encourage you to do the same. Even if you’re not going to get the booster, you should worry about people being able to choose medications and what’s right for them.
I would encourage you to do the same. Even if you’re not going to get the booster, you should worry about people being able to choose medications and what’s right for them.
The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
May 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I am going to comment to allow people to get vaccinated when they want/need to.
I would encourage you to do the same. Even if you’re not going to get the booster, you should worry about people being able to choose medications and what’s right for them.
I would encourage you to do the same. Even if you’re not going to get the booster, you should worry about people being able to choose medications and what’s right for them.
@drjessigold.bsky.social thank you for this beautiful book. As a therapist who takes care of medical providers, therapists, and other helping professions we need more opportunities to acknowledge the toll of the work we do, and push the systems that we work within to do better.
May 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
@drjessigold.bsky.social thank you for this beautiful book. As a therapist who takes care of medical providers, therapists, and other helping professions we need more opportunities to acknowledge the toll of the work we do, and push the systems that we work within to do better.
Oh Rebecca! Always here to be a thinking partner, introduce you to any/all connections that might be helpful, or whatever.
March 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Oh Rebecca! Always here to be a thinking partner, introduce you to any/all connections that might be helpful, or whatever.
I don’t know you but this post brought me a moment of joy and levity today. Thank you. I hope your new shark friend eventually gets to their new home. 🦈
March 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I don’t know you but this post brought me a moment of joy and levity today. Thank you. I hope your new shark friend eventually gets to their new home. 🦈
This makes me so sad and angry. You’re right, we all need to use our voice to keep fighting the good fight. Along the way though, I’ve been so grateful for your tweets and posts and work for many years now.
February 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
This makes me so sad and angry. You’re right, we all need to use our voice to keep fighting the good fight. Along the way though, I’ve been so grateful for your tweets and posts and work for many years now.
I did not have it on our family bingo card to have a beautiful image of my husband Paraic, captured during the very dark days of the Covid lockdown when his lab pivoted to genetic transmission research, used today to document heartbreaking & infuriating cuts happening to NIH grants.
Instead of cutting costs for working families, Donald Trump is slashing the federal investments that fund their lifesaving care, fuel their local economy, and lower their health care costs.
It’s cruel, short-sighted, and will cost jobs and devastate millions of families.
It’s cruel, short-sighted, and will cost jobs and devastate millions of families.
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
Researchers say it would hurt facilities that work on medical issues such as cancer research and heart disease. Elon Musk contends the old policy was ‘a ripoff.’
www.washingtonpost.com
February 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I did not have it on our family bingo card to have a beautiful image of my husband Paraic, captured during the very dark days of the Covid lockdown when his lab pivoted to genetic transmission research, used today to document heartbreaking & infuriating cuts happening to NIH grants.
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Moody lab pic of me in a grim piece on this wrecking ball for biomedical research. To explain “indirects": If research is a restaurant, direct costs cover ingredients & cooks' wages. Indirect costs cover kitchen, light & heat, furniture, bookkeeper etc. Lose one, the other follows!
wapo.st/3Q9DrIH
wapo.st/3Q9DrIH
February 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Moody lab pic of me in a grim piece on this wrecking ball for biomedical research. To explain “indirects": If research is a restaurant, direct costs cover ingredients & cooks' wages. Indirect costs cover kitchen, light & heat, furniture, bookkeeper etc. Lose one, the other follows!
wapo.st/3Q9DrIH
wapo.st/3Q9DrIH
Awful. (Other than the hopeful IEP!) hoping for safety for the folks involved and a calm night ahead to recover from all of the rest. It’s wild how much heavier everything at work feels (and is) this week every year.
December 20, 2024 at 2:19 AM
Awful. (Other than the hopeful IEP!) hoping for safety for the folks involved and a calm night ahead to recover from all of the rest. It’s wild how much heavier everything at work feels (and is) this week every year.
Hiiiiiiiiiii!
November 16, 2024 at 12:52 AM
Hiiiiiiiiiii!