these fuckers are using kids as hostages to get parents to comply. awful stuff www.nbcboston.com/news/local/i...

This thread is a goldmine (sorry) for folks interested in the social construction of value. Sweet jeebus, what were they thinking?? @katemcnamara.bsky.social

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Indeed it is. L’shanah tovah, everyone!

Interesting how cracking down on protests and labeling Jews who oppose genocide as antisemites did not, in fact, make us safer.

#IgNoble prize winner: Painting cows with zebra-like striping reduces biting fly attacks. 💡Painting black-and-white stripes can increase cattle welfare without the use of pesticides, proposing a solution for the problem of pesticide resistance in the environment. 🧪🌍🪰🦓🐮 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

had a ton of fun working on this poll with @today.yougov.com about the songs that everybody knows the lyrics to, the generational anthems are super neat www.numlock.com/p/numlock-su...

“Federal regulators can fine hospitals hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars if too many of their patients get hospital-acquired infections. Some hospital leaders, realizing that if they don’t look for infections, they won’t find them, are discouraging testing, clinicians told STAT”

A useful read if you want to explain to your students what LLMs get wrong vs right when summarizing readings

I put my money where my mouth is and donated. While I usually don't give my money to Ivy League institutions, or to my employer, in this case I'm doing both because mentoring SUMR students is honestly one of the highlights of being a Penn faculty member.

If you've got money to spend, this is a really worthy cause. These students, most of them from groups that are underrepresented in health services research, get an amazing education and go on to be leaders in the field.

A billionaire could seed 50-70 local papers around the country, paying 8-10 journalists at each to cover mostly high school sports and the school board and then write op-eds with a firm liberal slant. Put it all online, don’t charge readers anything, there’s a huge audience for this everywhere

Up is down. Dogs are cats. Also, concealing public data for political reasons is *boldly fighting politicization*. www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

This is an excellent point. And it is why we absolutely need new leadership who DO want and understand how to fight the fight we are in.

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities - on.ft.com/3IuZ5qz via @FT

Not sure whether to laugh or cry at the latest from @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDiX...

I just…

Pope Leo XIV said a proposal to create an AI-version of him so people could have a virtual audience with the pope pretty much horrified him.

Pennsylvania is in. Thank you, Governor Shapiro! “Like the Western initiative, this one, known as the Northeast Public Health Collaborative, is particularly focused on encouraging widespread vaccination as the federal health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wages a broad campaign against vaccines.“

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The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

I’m making sure to linger over the excellent work being done orally, in class, in front of me this semester. My students are a wonder and I’m so grateful to them for keeping my faith alive.

Today's ACIP meeting may use VAERS data to make false claims about vaccine injury. To help sort out what's true from what's false, @stecula.bsky.social and I updated an explainer we wrote several years ago for @us.theconversation.com. theconversation.com/vaccine-deat...

Important read

Just sayin

Great work! You can still buy a duck to have delivered to your rep.

Color me surprised, but heartened.

The good news is that southern Italy (the best part for food, IMHO) is in — count ‘em — THREE zones.

More on ICE in Chicagoland. It’s worrying to be sure.

I’m not asking for pity. I’m asking for a chance to stay alive. If you can donate — thank you. If you can’t — please share. Sharing takes just one second. And in that second, you might help save an entire family. By sharing, you’re saying: I saw. I heard. I didn’t stay silent.

9/16/25 is a date that my mathematician grandfather would have absolutely flipped for.

Cool! Fabric made from the keratin in chicken feathers from poultry raised for food, which would otherwise go to landfill. 2 broilers = 1 sweater.

My department @uwmadison.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor with expertise in environmental politics. Send us your application. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Came here to post that I’m discouraged that ICE has adapted by heading out to the burbs to snatch people off the streets quietly — bc it means we have to adapt again, too. But @mskellymhayes.bsky.social is right, as always.

Remember when we all thought central bank independence was a great thing?

Just to be clear, these parties are not at all equivalent

Related, from Princeton: www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

“Harvard quietly ended its Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program in May — shuttering a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply … The UMRP was not involved in making admissions decisions.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

These are the Trump Administration’s demands on UCLA, in addition to a 1.2 billion dollar fine, as reported by the LA Times today. I must note again that the Trump Administration’s attempt to use title vi to enforce conservative agenda items is flagrantly illegal.

Canada and the Three Public Policy Taboos: Promoting Health Equity in Difficult Times ojs.scholarsportal.info/ontariotechu... @jlynch13.bsky.social

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

The Pitt and other medical shows finally acknowledge 'backbone' of health care: Filipino nurses #Canada #Healthcare Filipino Canadian nurses weigh in on what TV portrayals get right and where they can go next /1 thread www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

Happy to write this piece with @natashaloder.bsky.social. Canada is in a unique position as the only G7 country which will soon have no patent protections for GLP-1 drugs. The opportunities are humungous. Read more about what we think should happen www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/2be7b2e...

Joy Reid. Karen Attiah. Gene Robinson. Jonathan Capehart. There are lots of others. Circumstances differ. But really sad to see new organizations not keeping super-talented Black staffers. The news industry spent decades talking about diversity, improved some from 2014-2020 and is now going back.

this is an object lesson in why praising Dems when they do the right thing - and not just castigating them for doing the wrong thing - is good politics for those of us who want them to fight Van Hollen raised his profile by doing the right thing and the lesson he learned was keep fighting

To mark the 20th anniversary of @politicsgenderj.bsky.social, past and current journal editors were asked to identify some of their favorite articles - https://cup.org/4gbsfr7 Where not #OpenAccess these articles are free to read until the end of 2025. #APSA2025