Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️

Ugh, I'm here too early. Commenting so someone reminds me to look at this again. Also, I hope this doesn't go where I think it's going

Well this is freaking cool!

That's why we are rallying NATIONWIDE TODAY to Save Science, Protect Health, and Defend Democracy! Visit standupforscience.net/march7 to find your local rally!!!
If you're in D.C., come join us on the National Mall today! More info here: fight2win.standupforscience.net/DC-March/

#March7
#science

Happy birthday! I loved my 40s, I hope they are an excellent decade for you as well!

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For the next 24h, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related questions in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Answers are for information only, NOT medical advice.
#AskAnIDDoc March 2026 edition.

Criminal A Podcast About Crime

Adding TW for death by police: I'd never heard of EXCITED DELIRIUM before this episode and now I'm so fricking mad that it ever existed. If your loved one died from this, you need to get that death reassessed.
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Year 2, Week 10 Feb 28-Mar6, 2026 - time (for) change

Each Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪

Mar 6 (Year 2, Week 10)
- NIH revoking certification of early career workers union
- FDA 'chaos' & Prasad out (again)
- even more delay & interference in NIH funding
& so much more

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A bright winding ribbon of green light shoots diagonally up from the bottom, left to the top right of the night sky. The bottom of the image is framed with the silhouettes of spruce trees.

Of the three seasons during which I guide tours in Churchill, #aurora season is by far of the most stressful, because we have no control over what people are coming up to see. Tonight’s show was a big relief and a huge excitement for my guests. Now I can sleep. 😊

I can't stop reading these, the qt/ replies are like putting culture in a blender and hitting "puree", it's so refreshing

“The Blade”, by Kingfishr 🎶🎸

Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper Last year, we wrote about a Walsh Medical Media journal that refused to withdraw an author’s paper unless he paid a fee — even though he didn’t write or submit the article. For one reader, some det…

Lol. This is academic publishing taken to its logical end.

How your email finds me

A yellow dog with a white stripe on it's head lies with his head on a dark blue blanket on a white covered couch, toy tucked under it's chin. A hand rests on it's head, mid skritch

How your email finds me.

conflict diamonds on the soles of her shoes

We have IFA images in a new version of our paper & I stared at the figure for 10 minutes straight to make sure nothing was accidentally duplicated.

I did panic for a minute & then realized the "duplicated" panel I saw was a merge 🤦🏼‍♀️

Just hoping it doesn't end up in a @elisabethbik.bsky.social post!

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Current NIH leadership want you to think they are using rigorous, consistent & scientific processes to screen studies to align them with agency priorities.

But the process that they have put down on paper is a sham.

It’s important to know NIH is not following its own guidance. Here’s why:

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Holiday wealth, but beaded? Looking forward to watching the progress!

Pittsburgh 'Stand Up for Science' rally to bring attention to impacts of immigration crackdowns The National “Stand Up for Science” day of action returns to Pittsburgh tomorrow for the second year in a row to protest government actions and policies affecting scientific institutions, research and...

Rallies tomorrow around the country!

@standupforscience.bsky.social

Find one near you.

www.standupforscience.net

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Appreciated this time with Cara Furman and co-authors @redped.bsky.social, @mishuana.bsky.social, Jessica Fremland, and Kali Simmons about our paper on Gardening with Indigenous Feminisms. I feel so lucky to be a part of this project.

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Yeah, doesn't apply. I don't read from notes and speak pretty clearly/authoritatively when teaching

Timeline cleanse:
Baby tapir getting scritches for their itches.

If you want to scritch your very own tapir & you live outside of Central or South America or SE Asia, you'll need to visit a zoo.

But these little guys are (evolutionarily) from around here, in North America. Let's talk about it.

I have so many examples of students questioning whether I know enough about a topic to teach it. I asked in faculty meeting "who has been questioned whether they are qualified to teach a class?" The women raised their hands, the men didn't. It's definitely rooted in sexism and racism.

I asked in faculty meeting "who has had a student ask whether they are qualified to teach the subject of the class?" The women raised their hands, none of the white men did. It's definitely a sexism and racism thing. A male student laughed in class bc he thought I was using a word wrong! I wasn't.

‘You Are Never Alone’ | How One Tribe Is Fighting Youth Suicide With Culture and Crisis Response BELLINGHAM, Wash. — On a summer night in 2019 near where the Salish Sea hugs the lands of the Lummi Nation reservation, 17-year-old Merandalee Jones was given a choice by the police: go home with her...

The Lummi Nation’s youth suicide prevention combines crisis intervention with cultural reconnection — monthly Coastal Jams, canoe pulling, and youth council programs that give young people a voice and a sense of belonging. A model adopted by 5 tribes in Wash. nativenewsonline.net/health/you-a...

I had a hamburger pizza with French fries on it once. Only once, bc there were so many things I didn't like about it....but I think it could be done well!

I love these fat stinky parrots and their total lack of survival instinct

A Fateful Flourish, photo by me of a Sandhill Crane triumphantly throwing its wings and head back

My despair-fighting deed of the day: donated an exhibition piece to an awesome Ypsi therapist office / health community hub, because everyone deserves some wild wonder when they're going through it!

A Fateful Flourish 🪶

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I didn't even know about the "China Initiative". This is horrifying. The lives and careers that the Trump administrations have, and are, destroying... Sue Northwestern. Sue the US government for the "China Initiative". That is pure racism.

Warning: sensitive topic- suicide.

Sepsis from a tooth infection should be a never happen event in a government run prison system.

That these prisons are private almost ensures that the prisons are cutting back on services and resources. But even then, a situation such as this was entirely preventable.

This is absolutely criminal.