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07/25/2025

Now why would Trump have ordered that one? Take all the time you need, MAGA. I’ll wait.

01/04/2025

MAGA are incapable of living in the real world. They need affirmative action for white supremacists.

They need to he the main character in every narrative.

01/04/2025

Dairy workers: If you work with or around infected dairy cows or other animals, or raw milk or surfaces that could be contaminated with H5N1 bird flu, CDC recommends you wear personal protective equipment (PPE) to protect yourself, especially when handling the animal or their litter, f***s, or milk. More here: https://bit.ly/4fSYGt7

12/20/2024

The gel is designed to form a barrier in the vas deferens that can be dissolved on demand.

12/08/2024

Peace on Earth and Goodwill to All!

06/09/2024

A professor from a midwestern university has derived an approach in teaching reproductive biology without making the s*x of individuals bianary male/female. I strongly recommend a similar approach for other teaching reproductive biology.

“The last few years I’ve been working on ways to talk about “male” and “female” when teaching biology. I mean, of course I also give the lecture about s*x and gender and how neither is binary and how both are biological and the dimensions in which they can be biological—from external to internal anatomy, neurology, endocrinology, chromosomes, gene expression, genetic sequences. Each of these contributes in different ways to both s*x and gender, and both are a spectrum, and any individual’s place in the spectrum can’t be predicted from any one or more of these variables.

Students have universally appreciated it.

But when teaching genetics and also physiology, I often need to just use the terms “male” and “female” and have them mean concrete and binary things. Years ago I would just explain to the class that for this topic, I would be using the words in this way to not distract from the lesson’s purpose

But over the past few years I have done a lot of reflecting on it as I write worksheets (which helps!) and gotten more disciplined in just prefacing the terms with an adjective about the dimension I’m using, like “chromosomally male,” or “anatomically female.” That really doesn’t add any extra time.

And I’ve managed to mostly cut out the social terms like “father” and “daughter.” When I’m doing s*x-linked genes, I don’t say, “What percentage of sons have hemophilia?” I say, “What percentage of XY offspring have hemophilia?”

Unexpectedly, and gender biology aside, this seems to be making the concept of s*x-linked genes a little easier for the students.

It’s still a work in progress, and when there is a human context to a problem I may still use gendered language to talk about specific hypothetical individuals. But to my fellow biologists—I encourage you to try it instead of just putting a disclaimer at the front.”

02/27/2024

The American Journal of Public Health recently published a special supplement, sponsored and edited by NIOSH, with 15 articles focusing on health worker mental health. Read more on the NIOSH Science Blog: https://bit.ly/48hWo2z

02/16/2024

Parents: Applications for summer programs at the CDC Museum Public Health Academy are now available online.

Current high-school sophomores and juniors are eligible to apply to the CDC Museum Disease Detective Camp and/or the Public Health Academy Online Summer Course, where they will learn about public health topics like outbreaks, infectious diseases, emergency preparedness, epidemiology, data analysis and more. Applications must be mailed in by March 22, 2024.

For application information on this STEM-based educational program, visit: https://bit.ly/3rdru6x.

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