Bethany Brookshire

Just (Dr.) Monica @pkpd-babe.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:40 UTC

“From a more practical standpoint, the modest benefits would likely not be questioned by patients, clinicians, or payers if amyloid antibodies were low risk, inexpensive, and simple to administer. However, they are none of these.”

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#MedSky #Neuroscience #Dementia 🧪 🛟

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:46 UTC

Right, that's why I was referencing the US in particular here. It's interesting the idea that cats and dogs have ascended to this! I feel like it's slightly different in that we infantilize them much more....it's FEELS different I'm trying to figure out why.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:41 UTC

I'm seeing in some sectors, chickens evolve into this as well! People into getting urban chickens for eggs are now making them into internet celebrities, snuggling on them, they are pets. And they are NEVER gonna eat that chicken.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:40 UTC

BTW she said this in (checks notes) 1951.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:37 UTC

If your society views an animal like a cow or horse or chicken as something here for a PURPOSE like laying and milk and transport, it is natural to use the animal for something ELSE once it's outlived the use, regardless of your emotional connection. But we no longer USE cats or dogs.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:36 UTC

Yes, and I also think in the US in particular, we've got a very very specific limited idea of the way we interact with companion animals, one that's evolved even over the last decades into the fur-children idea. Many people no longer think of dogs or cats as animals that have JOBS for example.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:33 UTC

Today's Hannah Arendt quote from "The Origins of Totalitarianism" Translation: Because the US is all about the the bootstraps theory of capitalism, the only thing we CAN easily discriminate on is race. Arendt notes that BOY is the US racist, and social anti-semitism is an easy step.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:55 UTC

I’m doing it on audiobook and keep re listening to bits

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:18 UTC

oooo now I'm all hungry.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:14 UTC

TBH most savory things get better with old bay.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:14 UTC

Oh also Arendt notes that it's the petty bourgeoisie! The middle class that are the heart of (in this case) the development of anti-semitism! They did not SEE the system that was keeping them from rising. What they SAW was the Jew in charge of their loans. Hatred was sparked easily.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:11 UTC

THEY ARE GOOD MAN. REALLY GOOD.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:55 UTC

Oh my goodness really?! I LOVE this! Thank you so much it's wonderful to hear.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:55 UTC

The origins of totalitarianism. It's not an easy read by any means and I'm not the brightest bulb in the box, but I'm doing my best.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:51 UTC

Yes and there are a lot of power grasping people excited to use that hatred to gain power

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:40 UTC

I am reading Hannah Arendt right now and she makes this point. Over and over. With a freakin hammer. There are a LOT OF PEOPLE in the world very eager to pick a group and blame it for their problems, esp when they don't have a strong grasp of where those problems really come from.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:38 UTC

My friends send me pics when they see my book in the wild and it’s my love language. Also sometimes I look at it and I realize…that’s my name on there! My name! On a whole book! That I wrote! 🥹🥹🥹

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:38 UTC

Today we have one of my favorite anatomy facts.

Ok I have a LOT of favorites but this one is awfully good.

youtube.com/shorts/XUmnW...

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:34 UTC

And by the way whether or not you can see them has way more to do with how much subcutaneous fat you store in the front, which is mostly genetic, not how many crunches you do. Still abs are super important for posture, backpain, lifting heavy objects. Every day is ab day.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:34 UTC

No. You have two abs. One rectus abdominus on the right and left, in long strips. They’re each one muscle, divided into four chunks each by bands of connective tissue. It’s all one ab! youtube.com/shorts/XUmnW...

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:33 UTC

How many ab muscles do you have in the front? Six? Eight? More? You’re wrong. This might be my favorite anatomy fact. We often think well you SEE six pack abs on people, so like, each of those must be an individual muscle, you must have like three abs on each side.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 13:21 UTC

Hah thanks!

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 22:03 UTC

Maybe you need something else to think about. Here you go. You have a fatty apron inside you.

It's got pockets!

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 22:02 UTC

The other reason the omentum is cool? Surgeons can harvest it sometimes to use its arteries and veins to restore circulation in the brain after a stroke.

Also just say it over and over

Omentum omentum omentum youtube.com/shorts/2Gdy-...

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 22:02 UTC

In non-human animals it’s called the caul. And you know apron kind of works because the omentum tucks in and protects your guts. It’s also got pockets! It’s where people store excess energy as fat.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 22:01 UTC

Did you know you have a big fatty apron up inside of you? You do. Today we meet one of my favorte organs: The greater omentum. I mean omentum, such a good name. My book loves to describe it as a fatty apron that hangs off the bottom of the stomach over your intestines.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:54 UTC

Oh cooooool

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:04 UTC

In this case probably not because they haven’t known each other long. Harris hawks tend to be social hunters reliably only if they’ve been raised together and Rhea was found as an adult

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 18:59 UTC

In case you need something kind of neat to think about: Every at Wimbledon they employ a Harris Hawk to scare away pigeons and other unwanted birds from the tennis courts.

His name is Rufus. He may this year (?) get a co-worker named Rhea? www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:40 UTC

And FTR: Cincinnatus = widely thought to be great, early Roman Republic, voluntarily gave up power and retired because he knew power corrupted. Commodus, Phocas = What's competence, precious? ooo, nepotism is fun! Domition = Absolute power ROCKS absolutely my dudez!

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:36 UTC

For all dudes apparently spend LOADS of time thinking about the Roman Empire, their brains are apparently totally glossing over Cincinnatus, Commodus, Domitian, and Phocas and it shows.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:22 UTC

Oh THAT, yeah no. Though, wow people just expect me to just somehow KNOW which to the five affiliations they have is primary, and exactly how their name is spelled, when they use their middle name on pubs but their friends call them Skip and they hyphenated in 2010 but then got divorced...

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:20 UTC

LOVE that you do this!

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 14:51 UTC

I feel like I email too many questions a lot. Because the first bunch are like "please confirm the spelling of your name, and your primary affiliation, and declare your COIs and give your pronouns pls." They're easy I promise!!!

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 14:22 UTC

You can guess what these people look like most of the time and you would be correct. 😂

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