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Nora Verlaine

@noraverlaine

MD, PhD, Assistant Prof at UMich | Alum of Penn Med, Wharton, Brigham & Women’s Hospital | Primary care physician and health policy researcher | Mom | Thoughts are my own. #BLM

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Medical Debt Associated with Deferring Dental, Medical, and Mental Health Care | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Deferred care due to medical debt consistently high across all types of insurance, with dental care the most sensitive to medical debt.

Very proud to have collaborated on this work showing that having medical debt is associated with much higher rates of delayed medical care

publichealth.jhu.edu/2026/medical...

11.03.2026 14:17 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for coming to my Parenting Lament, “Why can’t my children keep track of their shit,” in which I will recount in detail every lost item I have been forced to search for over the past six months

11.03.2026 13:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I bought a cute new pair of glasses. I narrowly resisted also buying a cute second pair. Now I’ve used up all my willpower for the day

10.03.2026 14:37 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

10.03.2026 03:09 👍 16400 🔁 4015 💬 281 📌 239
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#standupforscience in SF

07.03.2026 21:38 👍 61 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0

Important work by members of two of the best #healthpolicy research institutes in the U.S…

09.03.2026 22:51 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Things LLMs are good at: cataloging your home library.

Things LLMs are not good at: Psychotherapy. Replacing human relationships. Replacing human laborers. Creating art.

09.03.2026 17:15 👍 88 🔁 16 💬 8 📌 0

Utterly terrifying malevolent creatures

09.03.2026 17:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Spring is really here because the campus geese have returned to menace us for for another season, as is their right as the terrifying dinosaurs that they are

09.03.2026 17:42 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
09.03.2026 11:45 👍 3033 🔁 706 💬 26 📌 6

i am of course going to keep posting my 3 AM thoughts because I believe that is exactly what social media is for, but folks, if you want a truly comprehensive and multifaceted peer-reviewed exploration of something, may I suggest books and academic papers and not Bluesky threads

09.03.2026 16:14 👍 173 🔁 19 💬 3 📌 4

In 2026 we call this public health.

07.03.2026 13:51 👍 104 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 2
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I needed this rn

08.03.2026 19:17 👍 1003 🔁 167 💬 3 📌 33
Photo with capitol building in background, speaker and signs reading stand up for science and the assault on science will haunt this country for generations

Photo with capitol building in background, speaker and signs reading stand up for science and the assault on science will haunt this country for generations

Great speakers and signs at the Stand up for Science rally today.
#standupforscience

07.03.2026 23:46 👍 427 🔁 96 💬 3 📌 0
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Save science, save our future @standupforscience.bsky.social great rally in Buffalo today!

07.03.2026 20:11 👍 90 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
Person holding a sign that says "SCIENCE ME UP SCOTTY"

Person holding a sign that says "SCIENCE ME UP SCOTTY"

Live long and prosper, for realz
#llap #StandUpForScience

07.03.2026 19:35 👍 106 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 1

Now rewatching Bridgerton Season 2, aka The Season With The Highest Sexual Tension/Actual Sex Ratio

07.03.2026 16:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 5

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

06.03.2026 19:09 👍 13680 🔁 2976 💬 325 📌 185
A man in a blue "Deranged Activist" standing next to a tree outside.

A man in a blue "Deranged Activist" standing next to a tree outside.

Heading off to set up for the
@standupforscience.bsky.social
rally in Pittsburgh.

1:00 Allegheny Landing

Come on out Yinzers.

07.03.2026 16:15 👍 196 🔁 19 💬 3 📌 1
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Your 2026 Winter Paralympics Primer The Paralympics are the most mind-blowing sporting event on earth. Let's tune in and saying WOW and WHAT and HOW for the next two weeks!

IT IS TIME FOR THE WINTER PARALYMPICS!!!!

The Paralympics are the most consistently mind-blowing sporting event on the calendar. I promise you simply reading about how various Paralympic events work will make you say WHAT?!? or HOW?!?!? out loud at least once

06.03.2026 18:09 👍 371 🔁 121 💬 5 📌 8

WASHINGTON D.C.!!!
TOMORROW we are rallying on the National Mall to complete three goals: Save Science.
Protect Health.
Defend Democracy.

Learn more by visiting this link! : zurl.co/9Rp7c

#standupforscience
#science
#March7
#savescience
#rally

06.03.2026 18:30 👍 66 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 0
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Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida

passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

06.03.2026 03:51 👍 2369 🔁 539 💬 39 📌 25
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The people — and research — lost in the NIH exodus | CNN Sylvia Chou, 51

“Research can’t survive if it’s subject to political whims.”

www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...

05.03.2026 14:51 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

Call me crazy, but when I describe a regression model, I try to clearly explain exactly variables were it and how they were defined

05.03.2026 17:49 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The people — and research — lost in the NIH exodus | CNN Sylvia Chou, 51

“Research can’t survive if it’s subject to political whims.”

www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...

05.03.2026 14:51 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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tfw you have an overeager research assistant

03.03.2026 21:21 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Always seems wrong

03.03.2026 21:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Now rewatching Bridgerton Season 1, aka The Season Where Comprehensive Sex Education Could Have Resolved A Lot of Confusion

03.03.2026 19:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Medical debt & bankruptcy after traumatic injury in Michigan: Study shows who’s most vulnerable Combining statewide trauma registry data and credit bureau data shows privately insured and uninsured patients face highest risk of severe, persistent financial burden after trauma

As medical debt grows in importance on the #healthpolicy front, our IHPI team leveraged Michigan's statewide trauma registry—based at our institute—and deidentified credit report data to examine the lasting financial effects of traumatic injury. What we found: ihpi.umich.edu/news-events/...

02.03.2026 15:54 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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That's right. Worse than Pointless
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

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