Deborah Paul

Enabling taxonomists, data standards, biocollections digitization, and community development. Love dancing, baking pies, pizza from scratch. Tweets my own.

[Deborah Paul @idbdeb]

Museum specimens and the people who collect them, "They highlight the affective, emotional and sensual relationship between people and things.”
https://t.co/VyMgNe3CA2 for @dpsSpiders for your Pop and others when they ask why @BloodhoundTrack

[Deborah Paul @idbdeb]

@tangming2005 Hm. Got me thinking about other types of data that this would be useful for. Maybe, instead of word clouds, this could be used to show how "clusters" of data items overlap?

[Ming "Tommy" Tang @tangming2005]

How I Would Learn Bioinformatics From Scratch 12 Years Later: A Roadmap. If I were starting over, these FREE resources would be my go-to. 🧵👇
https://t.co/2tO6jPW0YJ

[TETTRIs @TETTRIsEU]

Susanne knows it: being a taxonomist opens up many career opportunities! 💪🔬

Check them all at 👁️👉 https://t.co/7DaQyLgoTb

#tettriseu #taxonomy #jobsearch #Job #biodiversity

[Deborah Paul @idbdeb]

"Human lives and economies are at great risk, and the need for rapid and accurate taxonomic identification of vectors and hosts is immense" #pandemicpreparedness #naturalsciencecollections #graphicillustration #SciArt

[NSCAlliance @NSCAlliance]

Harnessing natural history collections for collaborative pandemic preparedness https://t.co/tmJCHbJ6yY
#CollectionsAreEssential

[Deborah Paul @idbdeb]

@PREAUX_FISH @mtanichthys @systbiol @jembrown Count me in! More details please!

[Prosanta Chakrabarty @PREAUX_FISH]

More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ...

Breakout meeting for @systbiol The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11, 2026 in Baton Rouge!

Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections'

@jembrown is primary organizer

https://t.co/0ZjHhXA9wu

[Deborah Paul @idbdeb]

@Sixfeettwoshoes @DirkBruere @jk_rowling Not true — women’s are faster

[Deborah Paul @idbdeb]

@basedblackbrit @DirkBruere @jk_rowling Nope —women are better sharp shooters

[Deborah Paul @idbdeb]

@DirkBruere @jk_rowling 🎯

[Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich]

hi kids! it's me, your favorite sexagenarian here to tell you that when I was a kid we taxed the shit out of the wealthy and not only did we have money to build bridges and schools and moon rockets, rich people still had plenty of money left over to spend on rich people bullshit

[Deborah Paul @idbdeb]

@KassiesDad YES

[Toan Truong @ToanTruong_]

Could psychiatrists tell if someone was actually insane?

Stanford psychologist David Rosenhan wanted to find the answer...

In 1973, he sent 8 perfectly normal people to mental hospitals across the US.

What he found next exposed the secret side of psychology…🧵

[Deborah Paul @idbdeb]

@Rick_Pescatore 🥺🫣

[JennsInquisitive @JennInquisitive]

Jmo
Payers use call log systems.
1. Operator ID and time stamp is immediately available to start the call so ask first. If refused, ask for policy or escalate.
2. Ensure operator lists the electronically sent prior auth in the call log record if linked.
3. Calls have to be closed with resolution codes, can't hang open - Hipaa compliance, quality tracking, and risk mitigation.
4. Request your payor call log records in writing/email/portal.
5. Read your payor contact for comms standard.
6. Check your state regs. Call state DOI and ask for details.
7. If you can't get through to clinical staff, call provider relations, get op id/call id, and ask for process and ask to be transferred.

[Elisabeth Potter MD @EPotterMD]

Our team has two incredible, full-time professionals—Mary and Ebonie—dedicated to dealing with insurance. They advocate for our patients, so our patients can focus on healing.

This week? They’ve been on repeat calls with the same insurer, trying to add procedure codes so patients can receive coverage for sensation preserving mastectomies.

Twice now, after 30+ minutes on the line, the call just ends. No reference number. No resolution. Just—terminated. And without a reference number, there’s no way to track it, no accountability, and no clear path forward. All we have are the first names of the representatives who hung up.

This happens often. And it’s exhausting. But we won’t stop showing up for patients.

We’ll keep sharing these stories—because this shouldn’t be normal. Patients deserve better. Providers deserve better.

[Deborah Paul @idbdeb]

@williamreames7 @Matthewtravis08 🎯🎯🎯

[william reames @williamreames7]

@Matthewtravis08 The modern conservative is
engaged in one of man's oldest
exercises in moral philosophy; that
is, the search for a superior moral
justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith

[Deborah Paul @idbdeb]

@OneView01 @Matthewtravis08 How rude and assuming and judgmental of you. Already doing all of that — it’s not going to be enough. It’s nothing — not enough to overcome the mess and $ loss in the time frame — of our current expected life span

[Jeremy Keeshin @jkeesh]

In 1945, six women pulled off a computing miracle.

They programmed the world’s first computer—with no manuals, no training.

Then, a SINGLE assumption erased them from tech history for decades.

The story of how ONE photo nearly deleted computing’s female founders: 🧵

[D.L @thedotstr]

@timjacobwise I just retired in July. I've lost 100k already. Not sure you heard, Trump and his family liquidated most of their stock the day before he announced the tariffs.