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Rebecca Fielding-Miller

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Mom. Social epidemiologist. Professional angry feminist. Jewish San Diegan. "So-called expert" on terminated science Associate Professor of Public Health at UC San Diego.

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · Apr 3

I am *so* proud to have co-authored this piece with my brilliant colleagues @abigailmhatcher.bsky.social and @kldunkle.bsky.social. It was initially written over a month ago, but becomes more timely every day.

We lay out 5 principles:

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A refusal to abandon HIV science : AIDS

An abstract is unavailable.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19h

if you’re not Catholic, let me real quick tell you about the breathtaking audacity of bringing the monstrance with him

a monstrance is a big bedazzled gold ornament with a round glass window in the middle where you put a consecrated wafer, usually the bigger ceremonial one and not the bite-size

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19h

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

Did not expect to get emotional over this ...,

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 1d

I spent five years working alongside demographers and population researchers before joining @propublica.org - info below on how to reach us.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 1d

"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having"

Also...lmfao

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 2d

This is awesome.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder how many ICE dudes read Anne Frank’s diary in high school and thought, “I’d have gotten her sooner.”

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3d

Whether it’s Joe Biden attending weekly mass or Donald Trump’s ICE agents shooting a priest in the face with a pepper ball, presidents of both sides have directly engaged with the Catholic faith.

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 3d

Exactly. How are you defining "know someone" and how do you know if you're not just measuring that 1 in 5 kids have heard a rumor about the same 1 kid in their school?

Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 3d

This is such a misleading headline. To put it in perspective, imagine the difference between "1 in 5 Americans have wrestled an alligator" and "1 in 5 Americans say that at least once in their life they have met someone who claims that they have wrestled an alligator"

Screenshot of a headline that reads "1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has"

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 7d

I am still working on this, tbh. Nobody is their best self in the third hour of an all day faculty meeting.

Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 7d

It's a new moment in faculty organizing for collective power. We cannot solve this problem one by one. Only in community. Messy, squabbly, put-aside-that-moment-that-person-was-annoying-in-a-faculty-meeting community.

Cornell AAUP @cornellaaup.bsky.social · 7d

Who else should we add to our academic freedom starter pack? We’ve got all the AAUP chapters we could find on here and a few other orgs and people!

go.bsky.app/6bkKToU

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 8d

So, so, so many opportunities for catastrophe.

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 8d

::Uber driver in a Tesla performs a particularly terrifying maneuver at 70mph, brakes 8 inches shy of the car in front of us::

Me: 😱
Driver: "Don't worry, it's impossible to crash in a Tesla! They have all these sensors!"
Me: 🫠

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 8d

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 9d

I'm sorry, but what exactly is the "smart" way to send military troops into US cities led by the president's political opponents?

NPR @npr.org · 9d

As President Trump ramps up efforts to send federal officers and troops into cities, criminologists are watching closely. Are the feds doing this in a smart way?

National Guard presence may deter crime, but experts warn of the long-term costs

As President Trump ramps up efforts to send federal officers and troops into cities, criminologists are watching closely. Are the feds doing this in a smart way?

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 10d

So many leaders today desire power, wealth, control, and (sometimes) visibility & fame...

What they don't quite get is that good leadership means fostering a deep sense of empathy, having some integrity, taking accountability, learning how to listen, knowing how to serve, even when to be humble.

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 10d

If nothing else, the last 10(!) months have certainly been clarifying about who falls into that category.

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 10d

It is SO EASY to know these things if you are willing to put in even a minimal amount of effort. Acting on the new knowledge is harder, and that's a whole other skill set! But the lack of intellectual curiosity in *scientists* whose job it is to ask questions makes me crazy.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 10d

LMAO the scientists that were BIG MAD about contributions to DEI statements and Plans for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives (PDEPs)

Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 10d

This is what all the nastiness from them people is about. Being confronted with the fact that some things can't be learned via elite, exclusive institutions. They can only be learned via lived experience.

Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 10d

What Klein couldn’t seem to admit was that his core political analysis is born of his personal experience, and nothing about his personal experience prepared him to face the complexity of the current moment. What he could not cope with acknowledging, is that he never thought that would matter.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 10d

This is an excellent piece from @georgianndavis.bsky.social on the wave of anti-scientific censorship sweeping the country and what it means to teach honestly in the moment.

Contributor: I'm an intersex professor. Am I supposed to lie by teaching 'only male and female'?

A campaign against teachers who acknowledge realities of human biology forces a choice: Teach truth and risk your job, or lie and maybe keep it.

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 11d

Spends at least two hours every year figuring out what elaborate bribes it will take to incentivize reading the syllabus

Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 11d

My 2nd grader was SO EXCITED on the first day of school when she found out she gets a dictionary at her desk. "The words are just in there! And I can look up how to spell them!" Hell yeah, kid.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12d

scientists shocked about how funding is being handled: "but i thought we were above everyone"

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12d

RACISM COSTS EVERYONE, SHE SAID

WE ARE AT THE COSTING EVERYONE PART

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The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee: 9780525509585 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that...

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 11d

No capitulation

a woman is sitting on a couch and says shut it down

Alt: Liz Lemon says says shut it down

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🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 12d

when I worked in an independent bookstore, the owner told me the most stolen book was one about getting your first period and if I saw anyone walking out with it, I should just let them go.

🎃Spooky Emily🎃 @emmy.baby · 12d

Okay, funny bookstore category

Book section labeled "Most Stolen Books"

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