Esme of the D'Urbervilles
@esmelala.bsky.social
Science Believer. Midwife. Maverick. Public Health Heroine. "I did it for the rats"
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I'm feeling grumpy, so in an attempt to change that I am posting these old fake Antiques Roadshow pictures that make me laugh
July 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I'm feeling grumpy, so in an attempt to change that I am posting these old fake Antiques Roadshow pictures that make me laugh
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It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
July 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
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Work and reporting requirements for Medicaid enrollees may be particularly challenging for people with mental health or substance use disorders.
We explore the challenges they may pose: on.kff.org/3ZMJ6cX
We explore the challenges they may pose: on.kff.org/3ZMJ6cX
June 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Work and reporting requirements for Medicaid enrollees may be particularly challenging for people with mental health or substance use disorders.
We explore the challenges they may pose: on.kff.org/3ZMJ6cX
We explore the challenges they may pose: on.kff.org/3ZMJ6cX
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Technically, Chicken Pox Parties are Herpes Parties
a rainbow and a star with the words " make you know " on it
Alt: a rainbow and a star with the words "the more you know " on it
media.tenor.com
June 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Technically, Chicken Pox Parties are Herpes Parties
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Turns out my talk at @renner-institut.at on the situation in the U.S., and the lessons for Europe, is also online. 👇
This week, renowned expert Cas Mudde (@casmudde.bsky.social) held a lecture on Trump’s second-term agenda, the media-driven normalisation of the far right, and democratic counter-strategies. Watch the insightful talk online:
youtu.be/2F3GmvDmrac
Cas Mudde is currently a fellow at @iwm.at
youtu.be/2F3GmvDmrac
Cas Mudde is currently a fellow at @iwm.at
Cas Mudde: The Far Right in the Trump Era
YouTube video by Karl-Renner-Institut
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June 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Turns out my talk at @renner-institut.at on the situation in the U.S., and the lessons for Europe, is also online. 👇
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There are two other awesome #MMWR articles today for #AltComms - but our brains can only handle so much as bedtime 🛌💤 approaches
Public health in action 👊💥 by CDC global health staff 👉 dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmw...
A new way to gather info about homelessness 👉 dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmw...
Public health in action 👊💥 by CDC global health staff 👉 dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmw...
A new way to gather info about homelessness 👉 dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmw...
June 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
There are two other awesome #MMWR articles today for #AltComms - but our brains can only handle so much as bedtime 🛌💤 approaches
Public health in action 👊💥 by CDC global health staff 👉 dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmw...
A new way to gather info about homelessness 👉 dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmw...
Public health in action 👊💥 by CDC global health staff 👉 dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmw...
A new way to gather info about homelessness 👉 dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmw...
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What an extraordinary, beautiful thing. Sometimes the only sensible response to scientific discovery is wonderment and awe.
June 5, 2025 at 5:26 AM
What an extraordinary, beautiful thing. Sometimes the only sensible response to scientific discovery is wonderment and awe.
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
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Let your Democratic congress people know that your donations to PBS and NPR will be coming out of your political donations to them 🤗
May 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.
February 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.
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We will not be stopping the Wild to Mild Flu vaccine media campaign. Thanks to @waybackmachine.bsky.social here are archived graphics. Share widely! Make them your screensavers, backgrounds, and profile pics! Print on T-shirts!
#resist #vaccinessavelives #fedstrong
web.archive.org/web/20241224...
#resist #vaccinessavelives #fedstrong
web.archive.org/web/20241224...
Wild to Mild
Access CDC Flu Vaccination Campaign resources to encourage annual flu vaccination.
web.archive.org
February 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
We will not be stopping the Wild to Mild Flu vaccine media campaign. Thanks to @waybackmachine.bsky.social here are archived graphics. Share widely! Make them your screensavers, backgrounds, and profile pics! Print on T-shirts!
#resist #vaccinessavelives #fedstrong
web.archive.org/web/20241224...
#resist #vaccinessavelives #fedstrong
web.archive.org/web/20241224...
Yo' these young men shopping at Trader Joe's these days underestimate the female gaze. Crop tops, full sleeve tattoos over corded forearms... Had to wear a mask so they couldn't see me biting my lip. Rawr. 👄
February 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Yo' these young men shopping at Trader Joe's these days underestimate the female gaze. Crop tops, full sleeve tattoos over corded forearms... Had to wear a mask so they couldn't see me biting my lip. Rawr. 👄
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You say: they shutdown USAID.
You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.
You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.
February 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
You say: they shutdown USAID.
You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.
You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.
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Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”
February 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”
Preparing for a child's funeral. What a way to end the week.
January 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Preparing for a child's funeral. What a way to end the week.
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i feel like this picture of a headstone i took today has some real potential
June 21, 2024 at 9:30 PM
i feel like this picture of a headstone i took today has some real potential
I went to a dinner tonight for a new social group. During introductions, I made a dark joke about my previous healthcare specialty (OB). Results were totally unhinged. Whoops. 😬
June 22, 2024 at 3:00 AM
I went to a dinner tonight for a new social group. During introductions, I made a dark joke about my previous healthcare specialty (OB). Results were totally unhinged. Whoops. 😬
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I honor Alan Turing every day by posting gay stuff with my computer
December 27, 2023 at 12:18 AM
I honor Alan Turing every day by posting gay stuff with my computer
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So whatcha going to read?
"Well dude, I'm a Reylo. So probably some fanfiction."
Girl cashier says: "Ohhhh yeah!!"
The amount of respect for her that just effing Care Bear'd out of my chest...
"Well dude, I'm a Reylo. So probably some fanfiction."
Girl cashier says: "Ohhhh yeah!!"
The amount of respect for her that just effing Care Bear'd out of my chest...
October 15, 2023 at 2:56 AM
So whatcha going to read?
"Well dude, I'm a Reylo. So probably some fanfiction."
Girl cashier says: "Ohhhh yeah!!"
The amount of respect for her that just effing Care Bear'd out of my chest...
"Well dude, I'm a Reylo. So probably some fanfiction."
Girl cashier says: "Ohhhh yeah!!"
The amount of respect for her that just effing Care Bear'd out of my chest...