Ellen Ripley in fluffy socks, scientific editor, rescuer of asses. she/her Insta: @bairdletters
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Dear motorist
(a poem)
Dear motorist
who just passed by our house
I realize that the night was dark
and the road was long and winding
and our driveway, also dark
emerges
-quite suddenly-
from the woods
this I know
I did not realize
-to my regret-
that I
myself
my tiny person
tbt to me wheeling a literal IV pole (that I was attached to) into the department head’s office because my prof wouldn’t allow me to make up an exam
Georgetown Law has told a pregnant student whose baby is due during exams that she must take the test a few days postpartum, with baby in tow.
No early or remote exam since “it would be inequitable to all the other non-birthing students in her class.”
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Dr. Caitlin Baird retweeted
women died because they received no life saving care as they were having miscarriages in Georgia and the state responded by simply eradicating the committee that investigated deaths of pregnant women.
Dr. Caitlin Baird retweeted
I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this:
Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women
propublica.org/article/georg…
Dr. Caitlin Baird retweeted
Congress is working to pass a bill that would have a devastating, chilling effect on free speech and give the Trump administration power to strip tax-exempt status from nonprofits without due process or even a clear explanation (1/3).
As someone who studied health and healthcare in Guatemala, this sounds awful familiar
T minus two years until these “clinics” are provided by “missionaries” and pre-med volunteers with zero medical training
Dr. Caitlin Baird retweeted
What radicalized me? Working in two Ivy League data-driven policy labs. They want to help, but have no idea how. These people genuinely believed being poor is a behavioral issue.
Dr. Caitlin Baird retweeted
Just a reminder to the people still here:
Kamala had a plan to lower food costs, cut student debt, 25k help with buying a first home, 6K for a new baby, 3K a year to help with children, a plan to make housing more available by blocking private equity from buying homes, and
4yo: I like pizza
beau: you are what you eat, so your middle name is “pizza”!
4yo’s teacher: when questioned during the exam, your daughter informed us her last name is “Pizza”, so we marked it down as an area of concern
Dr. Caitlin Baird retweeted
Read the thread. An anti-Muslim far right Christian ‘crusader’ as Sec of Defense
because, as he told me “if it lands on black three times OF COURSE it’ll land on white the next time, that’s just math, I don’t know why everyone hasn’t figured this out”
of the 3 people I know personally who definitely would have voted for Trump
one asked me whether a penguin was a mammal
one asked me why I “didn’t stop the volcano” while I was in Guatemala, since I’m “a scientist”
and one gambles actual money and thinks he’s an actual genius
Dr. Caitlin Baird retweeted
I see we're gonna do that thing were people cheering on Elon/DOGE (1) find an NIH study that costs a relatively insignificant sum of money (2) frame it as an insane expenditure to research some absurd concept, (3) while masking the actual real scientific purpose behind it.
