Inupiaq, scientist of host-microbe interactions, mom, runner, news junkie, not necessarily in that order. I speak for myself. She/her. Only reskeets posts with alt text. Unapologetically typo prone, doesn't use AI.
Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️
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No data centers in Alaska
US military plans to lease Alaska land for AI data centers, community responds share.google/zg2YTcCtK2o4...
8:52 am, walking past three construction workers all yelling at each other “this is NEW YORK”
“Who would benefit from the proposed [OMB] rules? For one, politically connected industries — including those that may want to obscure scientific links between their products and harmful health effects.”
Good op-ed in @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...
Evidently HHS provided comment after this went to press. Here’s that comment in case you read the article earlier.
Bhattacharya believes “the most productive path forward is through direct dialogue”
Yet he avoids that dialogue at every turn. 🧵
What do you choose when there are no good choices? How do you honor the living will of someone who is barely “living” in the ways you know would have mattered to them? This is Alzheimer’s.
25 minutes of Photuris tremulans fireflies in Tennessee's smoky mountains.
Hey @royalsociety.org any chance of dumping this guy from your Fellowship yet?
This is a devastating analysis of the impact of the NIH's policies in fiscal year 2025 on the research project grant investigator pool.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Listening to a news reporter on CNN report the rise in measles cases in the US after its virtual eradication is one of the most maddening experiences as a medical historian.
