Carly Lockard

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Imaging scientist (mostly joints/muscles), runner, cat assistant & plant waterer. she/her

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"Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, has died" #histsci #philsci #hpbio #bioethics #medicalethics

Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86

Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86www.seattletimes.com The whistleblower who exposed the Tuskegee syphilis study that left hundreds of Black men untreated has died at age 86.

Oh fun 😬🌩💨

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It’s finally here! For years, @roseveleth.com has been working on an epic series about elite runners who’ve been told they can no longer race as women, because of their biology. TESTED is their story, & the story of sport’s history of dubious sex testing. Ep 1 is now online! link.chtbl.com/Rose_

Testedlink.chtbl.com <p>Who gets to compete?&nbsp;Since the beginning of women’s sports, there has been a struggle over who qualifies for the women’s category. Tested follows the unfolding story of elite female ...

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Finally We Will Be Able To Enjoy An Olympics Unaffected By Oh, No, Hang On A Second…

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Here’s one disabled person who was arrested this year for wearing a mask to cover facial scars, these laws are being enforced and most often harming Asian, Black and African American people Fight anti-mask bans, even ones with “medical exemptions” — they all harm www.wdbj7.com/2024/04/04/1...

18-year-old charged with violating mask law: ‘I didn’t even know it was a law. Nobody knew it was a law’www.wdbj7.com The law prohibits anyone over the age of 16 from wearing a mask that conceals their identity in public.

I have a new favorite yard spider 😍

Bee snack time between the recent rainstorms 😍

Trying to work, got chomped on the arm for attempting to type

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YOU GUYS WE HAVE TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING SO THE ECHIDNAS CAN DREAM

I’d worry that I’m pulling her little teeth out playing tug-o-war with her favorite toy except that she purrs Very Loudly the whole time

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Nasal vaccine: Researchers are enrolling volunteers for a Phase I clinical trial of a #Covid nasal vax. Adult volunteers are being sought for study sites nationwide. The candidate vax is expected to have enhanced protection against a range of emerging #SARSCoV2 variants www.nih.gov/news-events/...

NIH-sponsored trial of nasal COVID-19 vaccine openswww.nih.gov Candidate vaccine could provide enhanced breadth of protection against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants.

Ate a bunch of potato wedges as a desperate post-work snack since I didn’t have time for a full lunch and am now going for a run…wish me luck 😬🥔🥔🥔

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Just the phase 1 trial, but hopefully an important step toward an vaccine that prevents #COVID *infection,* and not just severe (acute) disease. If so, not only would it drastically reduce transmission, but it could provide MUCH stronger protection against #LongCOVID.

NIH-sponsored trial of nasal COVID-19 vaccine openswww.nih.gov Candidate vaccine could provide enhanced breadth of protection against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants.

Boss wants us all to get together to do “something fun” and I’m pretty sure that means “get dinner together at a restaurant after work”, which…is not something I find fun currently. Tempted to propose “visit my yard & watch my ducks eat” as an alternative activity 😆🤷

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Read the whole thread. But not while you’re drinking coffee.

When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.

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It is Disability Pride Month - the perfect time to learn about ALT text and start using it! www.perkins.org/resource/how...

Really enjoyed reading this, so informative/thought provoking!📚

It’s really hard to feel motivated to do computer work when there’s so much cuteness to observe 😍🤷

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COVID levels on the west coast are 3x as high now as they were this time last year. cool cool cool cool

Absolutely infuriating that we have no infrastructure to notify the population of these trends. City public health departments should be monitoring local wastewater and sending alerts to the entire population when it crosses a specific threshold.

Some days I do miss mountain life and the gorgeous alpine views, but the summer prairie blooms compete pretty well 😍

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Just FYI we’re entering a summer Covid wave right now (especially western regions in the US); you can see it in the CDC wastewater plot here (and anecdotally a bunch of my friends are suddenly testing positive). www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVI...

Wastewater COVID-19 National and Regional Trendswww.cdc.gov CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System, U.S. National trends

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SCIENCE CAT (my latest cartoon for New Scientist)

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The number of people in my timeline in different networks saying they just got COVID for the first time is absolutely overwhelming. For the love of God, wear a mask in indoor spaces; it's the least we can do for one another.

Native plant rain garden tubs completed! Hoping this idea actually works…

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RIP Lynn Conway, chip design pioneer and transgender-rights advocate news.engin.umich.edu/2024/06/the-... From wiki: IBM fired Conway in 1968 after she revealed her intention to transition. IBM apologized in 2020 (!). en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Co...

The legacy of Lynn Conway, chip design pioneer and transgender-rights advocatenews.engin.umich.edu Conway, professor emerita of electrical engineering and computer science, has died.

Friday sleepyhead void 😸

Long-awaited purple prairie clover blooms 😍 1 year since scattering the seeds.

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You really would think, in this year of (whatever calendar you use), doctors seeing a race or sex based assertion justifying lesser care for a particular group would have long ago thought 'hmmm, better check the science on that', but no. And these dangerous biases come up time and time again!

It turns out when you stop scaling analyses based on the racist and incorrect assumption that Black people naturally have lower lung capacity, more Black people are diagnosed with moderate to severe COPD, move up the lung transplant priority list, qualify for additional screenings... 🧪🩺

Removing Race from Lung Function Tests Could Benefit Millions of Black Americanswww.scientificamerican.com A new study shows that hundreds of thousands more Black people in the U.S. would qualify for a lung disease diagnosis and disability payments if lung-function measurements weren’t adjusted for race

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If you adjust the pre-vaccine death tolls of diphtheria, measles, mumps, pertussis, and polio for population, 43,079 American deaths are prevented each year by their elimination. Last year, the death toll of COVID was 75,603. We're told to accept it. t.co/NnFCppkF5C

COVID lulls aren't being earned by policy; they're being bought with infections and deathst.co Celebrating a COVID lull years into the Biden Administration's utter abandonment is woefully out of touch with the science

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'An exhibition honors the hundreds of Black nurses who cared for tuberculosis patients in the mid-20th century after white nurses fled a Staten Island hospital.'

How Nurses Known as ‘Black Angels’ Helped Save TB Patientswww.nytimes.com An exhibition honors the hundreds of Black nurses who cared for tuberculosis patients in the mid-20th century after white nurses fled a Staten Island hospital.