Erica

Erica

@ericadahlphd.bsky.social

Rolled a 9 for charisma

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Jen Taub
@jentaub.bsky.social

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

ysph.yale.eduUniversal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study ProjectsA single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
Erica
@ericadahlphd.bsky.social

I got my library card! First book I checked out from the Brooklyn Public Library is Careless People, by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Finally a solution to the problem of wanting to read a book but being out of bookshelf space.

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Jonathan Howard
@joho.bsky.social

Yes

sciencebasedmedicine.orgThe Covid Amnesia Project and the Plot to Erase 2020It’s up to those of us who experienced the pandemic in the real-world to make sure that what actually happened in 2020 isn’t deliberately erased by sheltered disinformation agents who experienced
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

nytimes.com‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
Erica
@ericadahlphd.bsky.social

Deep into Ghost of Yotei. I love this game. It is so fucking awesome having a stone cold killer protagonist who is also a lady with so many cute outfits!

Erica
@ericadahlphd.bsky.social

I don't drive, so when we went to LA we planned around the LA metro. It was wonderful! They've worked so hard in it, but it's not that crowded because nobody seems to use it. I hope people use it more! This is a pic from the Hollywood and Vine station #LAmetro

Erica
@ericadahlphd.bsky.social

Oh, I should have clarified...I was there for nearly a week in June and we rode it every day. We stayed in Hollywood and got everywhere on it. So much less stressful than driving...so...relative to the Freeway? Not that crowded.

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Tessa Montague
@tessamontague.bsky.social

Do you know an outstanding aquarist? We're hiring a Senior Aquarist to help run our cephalopod facility at Columbia University. Our team maintains a colony of 250+ cuttlefish, develops new husbandry techniques (inc transgenics) & studies cuttlefish camouflage and social behavior. 1/3 [Pls repost!]

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The Barbed Wire
@thebarbedwire.com

“We asked the state a simple question: How dead did we have to be to receive healthcare that could save our viable babies and our own lives? Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called us ‘woke.’” thebarbedwire.com/2026/05/29/k...

thebarbedwire.comKen Paxton, ‘Champion for the Unborn,’ Would Have Let Our Babies Die. We Know Firsthand.Texas’ attorney general said we weren’t dead enough for an abortion — that our doctors were right to deny us care.

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Nature
@nature.com

This researcher created a fictional illness, and fake studies funded by the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and University of the Fellowship of the Ring and the Galactic Triad. LLMs warned people the illness was real. go.nature.com/3Q60KXd

go.nature.comScientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was realNature - Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
Erica
@ericadahlphd.bsky.social

Brooklyn garden experiment round 2! Last year was proof of concept. I did manage to grow a few hot chilies, some parsley and rosemary, and for a short while some oregano, mint, thyme, and basil. I think I had soil too wet for the herbs.

Erica
@ericadahlphd.bsky.social

So this year I mixed in some sand and am trying a sunnier location for rosemary, thyme, oregano. Parsley actually survived the winter in the window box! Planted cilantro seeds in the same box because apparently they are cool weather and do not like being moved. Also added a new mint plant.

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John Abernathy
@john-abernathy.bsky.social

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Erica
@ericadahlphd.bsky.social

Parrots! There's a small population in Southern Brooklyn near my dentist. They like this group of trees and are very loud, even in the dead of winter.🦉

Erica
@ericadahlphd.bsky.social

"Richard Wright wrote that the gale of autumn swept the trees clean of leaves and drew the hills near, but on New York City streets, the only thing drawn near by a leafless tree is a clogged storm drain,” said DSNY spokesperson Joshua Goodman. “Move your car during alternate side parking"

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

Erica
@ericadahlphd.bsky.social

8 million people in New York and I had to share the subway with this racist troll blasting stupid douchebag music on his crappy little speaker. He got into a shouting match with a kid who told him to turn that shit off. I thanked the kid because I appreciate kids who tell racists to fuck off.

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Sen. Adam Schiff
@schiff.senate.gov

Donald Trump just blew up another boat in the middle of the ocean with no legal justification. I'm drafting a resolution and forcing a vote to reclaim Congress’s power to declare war. Before Trump’s actions provoke one.