marie bourgeois

toxicologist, junior faculty, mommy to unruly geniuses

[marie bourgeois @mmbtox]

thanks for the link @MdAreaGuy. i'm sure every parent can recognize this posture!

[marie bourgeois @mmbtox]

Like measles?

[USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service @USDA_APHIS]

If just one pig is infected with African swine fever, it would spread quickly and wipe out the entire herd. Biosecurity is everyone’s responsibility because prevention is the only cure.

[marie bourgeois @mmbtox]

@simonmaechling Hi

[Leigh Phillips @Leigh_Phillips]

If you’re interested in a more in-depth but progressive critique of eco-austerity, you might be interested in checking out my first book:
https://t.co/lqSicgux7o

[Leigh Phillips @Leigh_Phillips]

You know how DuPont dumped perfluorooctanoic acid in West Virginia landfills, knowing in-house it was highly carcinogenic and caused congenital deformities, and Todd Haynes & Mark Ruffalo made a movie about it?

How is what Greenpeace has done with Golden Rice any different?

[Michael E Mullins @MikeMullinsMD]

Every time I treat a Pb-poisoned kid who eats paint chips but refuses succimer regardless of the food used to conceal it, I wonder why we cannot just put the succimer on the paint. Either they stop eating paint, or they self-chelate. Seems like a win-win.

[fremdschämen and schadenfreude @EpaterX]

not significant

[marie bourgeois @mmbtox]

Why aren't we moving #AA968?

[Tyler Olson, EA @olsonplanner]

Because they spent over a decade to learn.

Because they made $12/hour for years (as physicians).

Because they put their training ahead of many valuable life goals.

Because they’re on call throughout their working years.

Because they advocate for us.

Because they save lives.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Absolutely disgusting and insane. The @nypost obtained video from a recent RFK Jr. event where he suggested COVID is a Chinese bioweapon “ethnically targeted” to “attack Caucasians and Black people” and to spare “Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese” people. He then falsely claimed the U.S. has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on labs in Ukraine to develop similar bioweapons that target people by their race.

[Michigan State Parks, Trails and Waterways @MiStateParks]

#LeaveNoTrace

[marie bourgeois @mmbtox]

@seamonsterCT @persistentprof agreed. i added this to my email sig for that very reason:
'I often work outside of normal business hours because it suits me. There is no expectation that you respond outside your working hours.'

[Mark Lewis, MD, FASCO @marklewismd]

A patient who never smoked, never drank, and was fastidious about his diet died of cancer at 49

That patient was my father

He went to his grave not knowing he actually carried a genetic mutation that caused his fatal tumor

Virtue doesn't necessarily guarantee health

RIP Dad

[marie bourgeois @mmbtox]

@BalaChaudhary congratulations! we just hit 35 years :)

[marie bourgeois @mmbtox]

@AmericanAir I understand that. It's the somewhat fickle intransigence of a particular gate agent that stung.

[marie bourgeois @mmbtox]

Flight delay out of cedar rapids forced is to run to our connecting @AmericanAir flight in Chicago. Plane still at the gate and seats still open but they wouldn't let us board. They could have, but the gate agent elected not to. First class seats are gone.

[Liz @bunnnies24]

@ktb38 I think sometimes they’re wary of unpackaged/home made snacks (because people are terrible). I’d check first. If homemade is an issue, absolutely send doughnuts or something from a local bakery/cookie place.

[marie bourgeois @mmbtox]

@emily_m_arndt :(

[Netflix @netflix]

Love is sharing a password.

[marie bourgeois @mmbtox]

@PhDVoice @PostdocVoice do what works for you. mine were all at the same place because my husband had an established career and we had kids in school. i wanted something that maximized my education but afforded the most kid stability. i switched advisers/pi's for each of the individual degree paths.