Heather Moulton-Meissner, PhD
@fowl-language.bsky.social
Public Health Microbiologist, Backyard Chicken Keeper. Enjoys Paleoart, Transformers, and Community Building
I have F3 peeps! They will be joined in a few weeks by another clutch of half-siblings. I like their red heads and the obvious rooster with his head spot and prominent comb. #EgyptianFayoumi #BielefelderKennhuhn #DiseaseResistance #Autosexing #ChickensOfBSky #BackyardChickens
December 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I have F3 peeps! They will be joined in a few weeks by another clutch of half-siblings. I like their red heads and the obvious rooster with his head spot and prominent comb. #EgyptianFayoumi #BielefelderKennhuhn #DiseaseResistance #Autosexing #ChickensOfBSky #BackyardChickens
@gquail.bsky.social Seems easy enough to recreate!
Almost Christmas, so it's time to break out the traditional Missile Toad to really get into the festive mood 😁
December 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
@gquail.bsky.social Seems easy enough to recreate!
Brilliant milestone; the US's healthcare is nowhere close.
"Brazil met all the criteria for EMTCT validation, including reducing vertical transmission of HIV to below 2% and achieving over 95% coverage for prenatal care, routine HIV testing, and timely treatment for pregnant women living with HIV."
"Brazil met all the criteria for EMTCT validation, including reducing vertical transmission of HIV to below 2% and achieving over 95% coverage for prenatal care, routine HIV testing, and timely treatment for pregnant women living with HIV."
✨ Public Health Success Story ✨
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Brazil achieves crucial WHO certification: elimination of vertical transmission of HIV. 🏆
👶 Babies born HIV free
💪 Most populous country in the Americas to achieve this.
📉 Only 19 countries and territories worldwide have achieved this certification.
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Brazil achieves crucial WHO certification: elimination of vertical transmission of HIV. 🏆
👶 Babies born HIV free
💪 Most populous country in the Americas to achieve this.
📉 Only 19 countries and territories worldwide have achieved this certification.
December 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Brilliant milestone; the US's healthcare is nowhere close.
"Brazil met all the criteria for EMTCT validation, including reducing vertical transmission of HIV to below 2% and achieving over 95% coverage for prenatal care, routine HIV testing, and timely treatment for pregnant women living with HIV."
"Brazil met all the criteria for EMTCT validation, including reducing vertical transmission of HIV to below 2% and achieving over 95% coverage for prenatal care, routine HIV testing, and timely treatment for pregnant women living with HIV."
My birthday is on HIV Testing Day. Please do not be silent about this.
World AIDS Day is tomorrow.
US government doesn’t want us to champion it - we can anyway.
Honor lives stolen.
Fight like hell for everyone living with HIV.
Do everything we can to prevent new infections.
Show up. Speak up.
At the very least:
🔴 wear a red ribbon tomorrow to work 🔴
US government doesn’t want us to champion it - we can anyway.
Honor lives stolen.
Fight like hell for everyone living with HIV.
Do everything we can to prevent new infections.
Show up. Speak up.
At the very least:
🔴 wear a red ribbon tomorrow to work 🔴
Home - World AIDS Day
Get Involved There are loads of ways to get involved: in school, college or university, in your workplace or in any other setting.In your school Never too young to raise awareness (and money) to help ...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
My birthday is on HIV Testing Day. Please do not be silent about this.
I learned about @profanity.accountant from @firedbutfighting.bsky.social -- something tells me I'm slacking, given my username. ;) Let's see:
November 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I learned about @profanity.accountant from @firedbutfighting.bsky.social -- something tells me I'm slacking, given my username. ;) Let's see:
Yippee! All five of my F2 #ResistanceProject ladies are now laying! I still need to perform #RrstrictionMapping to see who is homozygous or heterozygous for these sweet sweet immunity markers. #EgyptianFayoumi #BielefelderKennhuhn #Chickens #ChickensOfBSky
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Yippee! All five of my F2 #ResistanceProject ladies are now laying! I still need to perform #RrstrictionMapping to see who is homozygous or heterozygous for these sweet sweet immunity markers. #EgyptianFayoumi #BielefelderKennhuhn #Chickens #ChickensOfBSky
This museum has the greatest resources for students and public health awareness!
🚨🚨
🧵1/6 #FedFam, reporters - urgent help needed
🚨CDC Museum (a Smithsonian affiliate) is being shuttered🚨
Staff are being “un-RIFed” just to close the museum permanently — then RIFed again in Jan
This is bureaucratic cruelty & cultural vandalism
CDC Library is a national treasure
#SaveCDCLibrary
🧵1/6 #FedFam, reporters - urgent help needed
🚨CDC Museum (a Smithsonian affiliate) is being shuttered🚨
Staff are being “un-RIFed” just to close the museum permanently — then RIFed again in Jan
This is bureaucratic cruelty & cultural vandalism
CDC Library is a national treasure
#SaveCDCLibrary
The David J. Sencer CDC Museum: In Association with the Smithsonian
Free museum exhibiting public health topics and the history of CDC.
www.cdc.gov
November 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
This museum has the greatest resources for students and public health awareness!
A most excellent anniversary! 🦠
Happy birthday to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, the "Father of Microbiology" and first person to observe bacteria with a microscope! 🔬
Learn how microscopes made microbiology possible, leading to innumerable insights for biology, medicine & technology. asm.org/articles/202...
Learn how microscopes made microbiology possible, leading to innumerable insights for biology, medicine & technology. asm.org/articles/202...
Suddenly I See: How Microscopes Made Microbiology Possible | ASM.org
The direct observation of microorganisms in the 17th century was essential for the field of microbiology to flourish, leading to innumerable insights for biology, medicine and technology.
asm.org
October 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
A most excellent anniversary! 🦠
Hmm, perhaps I should have replaced "fine" with "okay". This is a #MentalHealth and #HormoneModidication positivity post. Take care of yourselves in these trying times. #ChixkensOfBSky #ChickenArt
October 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Hmm, perhaps I should have replaced "fine" with "okay". This is a #MentalHealth and #HormoneModidication positivity post. Take care of yourselves in these trying times. #ChixkensOfBSky #ChickenArt
I insist that we ALL are just another sack of meat as far as antibiotic resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa is concerned. 🦠
Germs don’t care if you’re red, blue, or in between. They don’t stream shows or scroll social media. They infect. They spread. They definitely don’t wait.
Stop arguing about science like it's a team sport.
Because pathogens don’t play politics.
But people sure do, & it's already starting to kill us.
Stop arguing about science like it's a team sport.
Because pathogens don’t play politics.
But people sure do, & it's already starting to kill us.
October 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I insist that we ALL are just another sack of meat as far as antibiotic resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa is concerned. 🦠
I'm quite pleased with FUBAR's development! She is as large as her half-brother, and twice the size of hell her sister. Got #EgyptianFayoumi looks with the #BielefelderKennhuhn size and chill. I'm looking forward to her ChB6 allele restriction mapping results! #BackyardChickens #DiseaseResistance
October 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I'm quite pleased with FUBAR's development! She is as large as her half-brother, and twice the size of hell her sister. Got #EgyptianFayoumi looks with the #BielefelderKennhuhn size and chill. I'm looking forward to her ChB6 allele restriction mapping results! #BackyardChickens #DiseaseResistance
Oh, we're back to the "work camps or ovens?" rhetoric again. 😮💨
Wow....... a fascist scheme that wants to separate autism into useful people and impaired people..... this sounds familiar with some reason..................
Azeen Ghorayshi at the NYT has moved on from going after trans people and is now pushing the leasing question that autism diagnoses are too common because of its expansion of it to a spectrum.
archive.ph/Whji1
archive.ph/Whji1
October 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Oh, we're back to the "work camps or ovens?" rhetoric again. 😮💨
Some helpful resources!
We're collecting resources for furloughed CDC workers (and other feds!) on our new Shutdown Survival Guide page. Check it out (and let us know if we've missed something!) www.cdcresourceportal.org/resources/sh...
October 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Some helpful resources!
The absolute best novel in the Pern setting.
MORETA: DRAGONLADY OF PERN (1983)
Acrylic on Masonite - 44” x 32”
I had my painting hand in a cast for six weeks prior to doing the cover painting for the fourth book in Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series. 1/4
Acrylic on Masonite - 44” x 32”
I had my painting hand in a cast for six weeks prior to doing the cover painting for the fourth book in Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series. 1/4
September 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The absolute best novel in the Pern setting.
The US has had quite a few watershed moments this year -- notorious, even.
The measles website at CDC continues to share updated data. 1514 cases reported in 2025. 3 deaths. CDC scientists working hard but have to manage vaccine attacks from @SecKennedy and his minions. This will be the year that ends US’s measles elimination status. Not one word at #UNGA.
https://cdc.gov/measles/data-r…
September 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The US has had quite a few watershed moments this year -- notorious, even.
Hmmm.
Silencing smart people so dumb people won’t be offended is like unplugging the smoke alarm so the fire won’t feel bad.
September 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Hmmm.
September 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Oh, you know, a couple weeks' worth of groceries, since 60% of households are struggling to make ends meet.
3/
Almost $300* 😲
And now, if a parent wants MMRV but their kid isn't eligible for VFC, they have to decide if they can spare that kind of money
*Per current VFC price data for the private sector cost per dose, the red number in the photo
Almost $300* 😲
And now, if a parent wants MMRV but their kid isn't eligible for VFC, they have to decide if they can spare that kind of money
*Per current VFC price data for the private sector cost per dose, the red number in the photo
September 19, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Oh, you know, a couple weeks' worth of groceries, since 60% of households are struggling to make ends meet.
Ah, what it's ACTUALLY supposed to be used for. #antihelminthic
New Research:
Efficacy and safety of ascending doses of orodispersible ivermectin co-administered with albendazole for Trichuris trichiura infections in preschool-aged children in Tanzania: a single-blind, randomised, controlled, dose-ranging, phase 2 trial
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Efficacy and safety of ascending doses of orodispersible ivermectin co-administered with albendazole for Trichuris trichiura infections in preschool-aged children in Tanzania: a single-blind, randomised, controlled, dose-ranging, phase 2 trial
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Efficacy and safety of ascending doses of orodispersible ivermectin co-administered with albendazole for Trichuris trichiura infections in preschool-aged children in Tanzania: a single-blind, randomis...
In preschool-aged children with trichuriasis, orodispersible ivermectin showed an
increasing cure rate with ascending doses, together with a dose-independent safety
profile. Our study paves the way fo...
www.thelancet.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Ah, what it's ACTUALLY supposed to be used for. #antihelminthic
Glad I wasn't the only one thinking this.
Alert! Mark Calendars for Sept 17. Dr Monarez will be testifying in front of Congress, along with @drdebhoury.bsky.social.
We will be watching. We know they will speak truth to power.
Enjoy this gifted article.
Get popcorn & drinks on your grocery list now.
#saveHHS #USAnotRFK #savepublichealth
We will be watching. We know they will speak truth to power.
Enjoy this gifted article.
Get popcorn & drinks on your grocery list now.
#saveHHS #USAnotRFK #savepublichealth
Fired CDC director who clashed with RFK Jr. set to testify in Senate
The hearing would give Susan Monarez a high-profile opportunity to respond to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claims about her ethics and their conversations about vaccines.
wapo.st
September 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Glad I wasn't the only one thinking this.
Thought of the day: examine your thoughts.
A necessary, critical look-back at how public health has been misused. We cannot let it happen again!
A necessary, critical look-back at how public health has been misused. We cannot let it happen again!
👩⚕️CDC and Disability Rights 🦼
Before we talk more about disability, we need to address the history of eugenics, ableism and racism that haunts US public health work.
Before we talk more about disability, we need to address the history of eugenics, ableism and racism that haunts US public health work.
September 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Thought of the day: examine your thoughts.
A necessary, critical look-back at how public health has been misused. We cannot let it happen again!
A necessary, critical look-back at how public health has been misused. We cannot let it happen again!
Document, document, document.
Warnock: did you demand she fire experts at CDC?
RFK: Yes.
W: Did you ask her to approve vax changes?
RFK: she made a comment that she would not approve changes. (Caught in a lie)
Warnock repeats a bunch of slurs RFK has made about CDC. RFK denies. It’s all on tape.
We love you Rev Warnock.
RFK: Yes.
W: Did you ask her to approve vax changes?
RFK: she made a comment that she would not approve changes. (Caught in a lie)
Warnock repeats a bunch of slurs RFK has made about CDC. RFK denies. It’s all on tape.
We love you Rev Warnock.
September 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Document, document, document.
Those in the poorest ZIP codes have the least amount of time and resources to advocate for themselves, and often are in the worst health.
RFK wants us to focus on the root causes of disease. We used to do that, we called it the social determinants of health. That was banned as DEI.
September 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Those in the poorest ZIP codes have the least amount of time and resources to advocate for themselves, and often are in the worst health.
Dr. Monaraez lasted about 2 Scaramuccis. I believe her soul is intact, at least.
“I was fired for holding that line. But the line doesn’t disappear with me. It runs through every parent deciding whether to vaccinate a child, every physician counseling patients, and every American who demands accountability.”
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gift link to dr. susan monarez’s piece in the wall street journal this morning.
September 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Dr. Monaraez lasted about 2 Scaramuccis. I believe her soul is intact, at least.
Nausicaa! Be brave. ❤️
September 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Nausicaa! Be brave. ❤️