🇺🇦 Khrys Duddleston

🇺🇦 Khrys Duddleston

@duddsie.bsky.social

Alaska is my home. studier of microbes (when not "administrating" from the dark side); gardener (if you can call it that); lover of dogs; rider of bikes; hiker of hills. GenX tryna survive to retirement without needing a root canal. F*cks jar is empty

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Shoshanah in Alaska
@shanahstone.bsky.social

It's never a choice between perfect candidates. Peltola and Sullivan are no exception @dermotcole.bsky.social

dermotcole.comReporting From Alaska- It's never a choice between perfect candidates.Peltola and Sullivan are no exceptionI don’t care that Mary Peltola yells at her employees and sometimes says stupid things in the heat of the moment. Politicians say dumbass things all the time in private, though prudish press coverage ...
🇺🇦 Khrys Duddleston
@duddsie.bsky.social

WTAF?

Alaska Public Media@alaskapublic.org

Late Friday night, Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom reversed course and said she will certify former Attorney General Treg Taylor as a candidate for governor — putting him back in Alaska’s final four. Read more on the decision from the Alaska Beacon:

akpub.ioAlaska Lt. Gov. Dahlstrom reverses herself, puts Treg Taylor back in governor’s raceThe lieutenant governor cited an as-yet-unpublished analysis by the Alaska Department of Law, Taylor’s former agency, to make her decision.
🇺🇦 Khrys Duddleston
@duddsie.bsky.social

Yipes

Augie Ray@augieray.bsky.social

If you're in Anchorage, I'd definitely start being cautious about viral risks. For some reason, #COVID19 in Anchorage wastewater has exploded to near-record levels in the past week. Unsure why this is happening, but it's concerning. It is 12x higher than any other US sewershed at present.

🇺🇦 Khrys Duddleston
@duddsie.bsky.social

Pullin' no punches

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Gov. Wes Moore on the U.S.S. Lincoln: "Not only are these conditions and the reports of the conditions heartbreaking, the response of the President of the United States pisses me off. And it should piss all of us off."

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Your Local Epidemiologist
@ylepidemiologist.bsky.social

1/ Over the weekend, RFK Jr. was interviewed on CNN, and as I'm sure many of you have seen, he made a number of inaccurate statements. The conversation covered Covid-19, RSV, measles, vaccines, and autism. Let's fact-check some of the biggest claims.

🇺🇦 Khrys Duddleston
@duddsie.bsky.social

The new rules would decimate scientific discovery in the US. Public comment ended July 13. This piece states nearly 500K comments came in. A huge response. Supposedly about 95%s were against the rule changes. We'll see what happens...

ProPublica@propublica.org

Two physicists won the Nobel Prize for the 2012 discovery of the so-called “God particle.” Under a new rule proposed by the Trump administration, American scientists might be forced to watch similar discoveries from the sidelines.

propublica.orgHow Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy DiscoveryA proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled th...

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦
@tryangregory.bsky.social

Public health messaging we need to hear: "We acknowledge that we were wrong about COVID not being airborne. We've learned from that. We no longer assume the same with new outbreaks and we employ the precautionary principle until we have clear evidence that airborne mitigations are not required."

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Pete Buttigieg
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social

I love a good road trip, but this is brutally out of touch: a Trump Cabinet member making a documentary about himself while regular families can’t afford road trips anymore, because Trump and his war put gas prices through the roof.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Sean Duffy reveals he spent 7 months making a reality TV show while serving as Transportation Secretary

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Joshua Weitz
@joshuasweitz.bsky.social

Essential reading from terminated members of ACIP in JAMA: "The termination of all members and its leadership in a single action undermines the committee’s capacity to operate effectively and efficiently, aside from raising questions about competence." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

jamanetwork.comAdvisory Committee on Immunization Practices at a CrossroadsIn this Viewpoint, former members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) caution that the sudden change in the ACIP may reverse the achievements of US immunization policy, includin...
🇺🇦 Khrys Duddleston
@duddsie.bsky.social

Nincompoop head of HHS is at it again

Your Local Epidemiologist@ylepidemiologist.bsky.social

1/ Yesterday, it was announced that RFK Jr. is requiring placebo-controlled studies for new vaccines—potentially delaying this fall’s COVID shots as well as the approval of other vaccines. RFK Jr.’s repeated claims is that vaccines were “never tested against placebos” is simply not true 👇

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

The possibility that RFK Jr. is going to undermine herd immunity in the United States grows increasingly likely. This would mean that US will be responsible for starting numerous pandemics and potentially destroying the effectiveness of the entire globe’s vaccine arsenal. This is bioterrorism.

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McSweeney's
@mcsweeneys.net

We have updated our list of Trump's cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes. It's up to 158 entries (and counting). #LestWeForgetTheHorrors buff.ly/9xPD7jQ

buff.lyLest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and CrimesEarly in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...

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Dr. Lucky Tran
@luckytran.com

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

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Angie Rasmussen
@angierasmussen.bsky.social

I have had it up to here with people who complain that NIH-funded research hasn’t made enough progress or contributed enough. The generations of amazing scientists trained in US programs—who have gone on to work in government, academia, & industry alike—are a priceless return on investment.

Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD@prasad.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security

nytimes.comOpinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article)Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.
🇺🇦 Khrys Duddleston
@duddsie.bsky.social

Make Americans Dead

Your Local Epidemiologist@ylepidemiologist.bsky.social

2 days ago, there was an abrupt $11B cut to local/state #publichealth (PH) infrastructure. I don't think people realize what this means: -Want an updated system to check your immunizations instead of digging through docs? PH no longer able to carry out upgrades to immunization information systems

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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social

What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.

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The Alaska Current
@thealaskacurrent.com

Alaska’s true hibernators: Bears, Arctic squirrels, marmots… and Congressmen when asked to address the real issues facing Alaskans. Illustration and commentary by Holly Todd.

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Senator Bernie Sanders
@sanders.senate.gov

The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats.   An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.

🇺🇦 Khrys Duddleston
@duddsie.bsky.social

🤣🤣🤣

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social

I think JD Vance read somewhere that having charm only requires smiling at the end of sentences. Unfortunately, no one has ever genuinely smiled at him, so he can only do his best approximation of a human smile. This is why he looks like he's grimacing through a painful poop every time he talks.

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The Dogfather
@451f-dogfather.bsky.social

Replying to @jojofromjerz.bsky.social

This is like being conscious on the operating table, fully aware as the surgeon commits one unforced fuckup after another while you die.