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Tara C. Smith
@aetiology.bsky.social
33K followers 2.8K following 5.2K posts

Collector of social media sites. Infectious disease epidemiologist. Writes about vaccine hesitancy, science misinfo, zombies. Probably somewhere on a trail. Views own etc.

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The Smith special counsel investigation was a special counsel investigation that was opened by U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland on November 18, 2022, three days after Donald Trump announced his campaign for the 2024 United States presidential election. The investigation was created to continue two investigations initiated by the Justice Department (DOJ) regarding former U.S. president Donald Trump. Garland appointed Jack Smith, a longtime federal prosecutor, to lead the independent investigations. Smith was tasked with investigating Trump's role in the January 6 United States Capitol attack and Trump's mishandling of government records, including classified documents. .. more

Political science 39%
Economics 19%
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 5h
Also wut.
Re Speaker Johnson and his wife. "Neither could name a single thing that they disagree about. They even agreed that men’s brains are like waffles — good at compartmentalizing — and women’s brains are like a mess of spaghetti and meatballs."

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 5h
Highly recommended!
profwehrman.bsky.social Andrew Wehrman @profwehrman.bsky.social · 6h
My book The Contagion of Liberty, which, among other things, explains the enthusiasm early Americans had for public health and inoculations. Is coming soon to paperback and can be preordered for 40% off with code HHOL25 www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

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Andrew Wehrman @profwehrman.bsky.social · 6h
My book The Contagion of Liberty, which, among other things, explains the enthusiasm early Americans had for public health and inoculations. Is coming soon to paperback and can be preordered for 40% off with code HHOL25 www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 8h
He’s gotta be the most shameless yet skilled liar I have ever seen.

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Rabbit Cohen @bathyspherehat.bsky.social · 8h
Even if HPV only caused cancer in people with cervixes, it would be essential to vaccinate people without cervixes because they can carry and spread the virus. You don't control infectious diseases by only vaccinating the people who might die, you control them by vaccinating everyone.

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 17h
Aw thank you ❤️

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 17h
Hey hey team #mealioidosis - (Infectious Disease, public health, anyone who still believes that vaccines work)-- donate starting tomorrow!
shematologist.medsky.social Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 1d
5 years ago I started a team competition on Twitter to raise $ to fight hunger.

@tmprowell.bsky.social gave us a hashtag & much needed organization

Our team of teen volunteers work wonders in the background & we’ve raised >$3.1 million!

Competition starts tomorrow, join us?

HCWvsHunger.org
Healthcare Workers vs Hunger
Healthcare workers vs Hunger is an annual friendly competition between teams of healthcare workers to help relieve food insecurity.
HCWvsHunger.org

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Jonathan M. Gilligan, Smith , and 3 more

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 18h
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com

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Tom Turkey [redacted] DO 🦃 @tom.medsky.social · 19h
1 minute of our bunny eating an apple peel

Reposted by Sanford F. Schram, Smith, Alan Richardson , and 3 more

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 20h
A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...

Reposted by Ian Campbell, Daniel W. Drezner, Smith , and 2 more

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 20h
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 20h
This is a very sweet (if very Christian-centric) trans-led mutual aid project that connects anonymous gift givers with unhoused or in-foster care trans kids.

www.transanta.com/about
About — Transanta
www.transanta.com

Reposted by Smith, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 23h
National Guard soldiers didn't sign up to be deployed as local police indefinitely as part of someone else's political stunt.

They're not set up to be local police, they never should have been deployed.

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 1d
5 years ago I started a team competition on Twitter to raise $ to fight hunger.

@tmprowell.bsky.social gave us a hashtag & much needed organization

Our team of teen volunteers work wonders in the background & we’ve raised >$3.1 million!

Competition starts tomorrow, join us?

HCWvsHunger.org
Healthcare Workers vs Hunger
Healthcare workers vs Hunger is an annual friendly competition between teams of healthcare workers to help relieve food insecurity.
HCWvsHunger.org

Reposted by Smith

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 1d
(h/t @helenbranswell.bsky.social)

PSA: Please do not buy Botox off the internet and try to perform your own treatment.

Botulinum toxin literally has among the lowest lethal doses of anything on the planet

Also, how are people just purchasing select agents on the internet
Notes from the Field: Severe Illnesses After ...
This report describes the public health response to three patients from different states who developed severe illness after self-injecting botulinum toxin.
www.cdc.gov

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d
It’s Wednesday and that means it’s time for Defend Public Health’s Whopper of the Week!

This week @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy @benecal.bsky.social and @aetiology.bsky.social take on RFK Jr.’s AIDS Denialism. It’s a great read.
Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Has Plainly Stated His Belief in the Falsehoods of AIDS Denialism | Defend Public Health
In June 2023, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told New York Magazine, "There are much better candidates than HIV for what causes AIDS." This is blatantly false, contradicted by mountains of data and real-world ...
www.defendpublichealth.org

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d
Donations of money, rather than food, help food banks to feed more people and help to keep them resourced through the summer months, when kids are out of school and need for food assistance is greatest.
ACCFB Donate Now
Help support ACCFB today!
donate.accfb.org

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 1d
More white dudes failing upward.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Fabián Muniesa, Smith , and 2 more

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d
Breaking News: The last pending criminal prosecution against President Trump was dismissed by a judge in Georgia, effectively ending efforts to hold Trump criminally responsible for attempts to overturn the 2020 election. trib.al/EnJu57H
Donald Trump's back as he stands in front of a crowd and an American flag. A headline reads: "Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against Trump." Photo credit: Doug Mills/The New York Times.

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The Museum of English Rural Life @themerl.bsky.social · 1d
First up: scientists said it couldn't be done. But we put our logo on a scroll, and then got a mouse to hold it while riding a lobster.

Be wowed:
merl-shop.co.uk/shop/curiosi...

Original artwork from @uorspeccoll.bsky.social.
A mug and a coaster are adorned with an artwork of a mouse riding a lobster, holding a scroll decorated with the device of The Museum of English Rural Life.

Reposted by John R. Hutchinson, Smith, Silvia Secchi , and 2 more

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Robin G Nelson @robingnelson.blacksky.app · 1d
The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Colin F. Camerer, Steve Peers , and 28 more

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Miami DSA @miamidsa.org · 1d
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 1d
Ugh haven't read that yet.

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 1d
Mint hot chocolate is the only drink I get at coffee shops.

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 1d
Yep. Indefinitely.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1d
Listen I’m just saying if you need some signed and personalized and stickery books of mine for the holidays AND you want to support a truly excellent indie bookstore, then hey psst look, PS tell your friends
Merry Happy Wendigmas
HEYYYY so every year, I tend to get Very Cool People who decide to buy my books as holiday gifts for friends, loved ones, cherished foes, or, y’know, themselves. And I like to offer the oppor…
terribleminds.com

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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 1d
More attack on vaccine from RFK Jr.
CDC Quietly Turned Off Its Vaccine Search Tool. It’s Not Clear When It’s Coming Back.
“I have heard that they are planning to ‘update it’ and shudder to think what that will mean,” Demetre Daskalakis, a former member of CDC leadership, told NOTUS.
www.notus.org

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 1d
I know there are many of you on here who've dealt with this.
virginiagewin.bsky.social Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 1d
Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)

RTs appreciated.

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 1d
We’re experiencing the worst measles outbreak in years. And it’s in no small part because Sec. Kennedy is casting doubt on vaccines.

This kind of reckless rhetoric has consequences.

Especially when it’s coming from the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Lisa W. Fazio, Gavin A. Schmidt , and 11 more

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 1d
Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)

RTs appreciated.