A nice article, highlighting the important work our collaborators in South Africa are doing using wastewater to surveil a bunch of different vaccine preventable diseases (and finding a lot more of them than other reports would make you believe…). 💪🇿🇦 www.nature.com/articles/d44...

You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.” www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...

The difference between Boston and New York distilled into two world-class performances:

Doctors Without Borders is deeply disappointed to see #Canada’s cuts to aid reflected in its reduced pledge to the #GlobalFund. Such cuts will fuel the reversal of progress in the fight against HIV, TB and malaria.

“‘He’s an extremely powerful man w/an enormous network of people who have learned from him, been mentored by him. He’s powerful in DC, powerful at Harvard. That counts for a lot, & that explains a lot,’ said Susan Dynarski, a well-known Harvard economist affiliated w/its Grad School of Education.“

the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know

"By any consistent standard, if Summers is unfit to work for each of these institutions [from which he resigned], he is equally unfit to teach at our school. Harvard should not be the only institution in America where Summers remains above reproach." 🔥🔥🔥 www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

I have been feeling depressed and discouraged that this man has the power and influence he does at my school and in my profession And I am a tenured professor at Harvard! How much more protected can I be? Imagine how STUDENTS feel. Junior faculty. This quote nails it

Larry Summers is too icky to be on Open AI's board any longer. But not to keep counseling the undergraduate students at @harvard.edu Where are the donors?

Being friends with Epstein is not a fireable offense or else Dershowitz would have been gone a long time ago. Thinking women are inferior is not a fireable offense. Developing a romantic relationship with a junior colleague isn’t a fireable offense. But what Summers was *doing* is sexual harassment.

"Is Larry Summers really one of the elites by which our age will be judged? People are going to want to take a shower after reading the history of our times." @djrothkopf.bsky.social

I spoke with the Boston Globe about the Summers situation TLDR: other professors like myself can no longer trust Summers to perform a key duty of a university professor, which is to advise & mentor students www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...

I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.

Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09) The grad is from China Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril" Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package bit.ly/3LHpin8

Yes this us us!!

ngl, having awareness of everything that's getting wrecked in public health (as well as a good understanding of the implications) is an actual curse

At our volunteer appreciation party, I saw the faces of a movement that changed the world. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who knocked on a door, called a friend, put up a sign, or convinced their family this election was worth their time.

a lot of people regretting the 'this shoulda been an email' advice rn lol

Aanjalie Roane, MSF Director of Communications, writes in the @thestar.com on how Canada’s #Budget2025 frames a $2.7 billion cut to international assistance as “savings.” For people in crisis, those cuts mean fewer doctors, fewer medicines, less hope. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Access to vaccines is not a privilege — it is a human right. In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...

Breaking news: Meta’s chief artificial intelligence scientist Yann LeCun, a Turing Award winner who is considered one of the pioneers of modern AI, has told associates he will leave the Silicon Valley group in the coming months. on.ft.com/4ozjBGl

“Public health experts in Canada are concerned that measles is a harbinger for the return of other diseases, like polio… “Measles is the canary in the coal mine because of its phenomenal transmissibility,” said Dr. Brian Ward, a professor who studies infectious diseases at McGill University”

A solid read. www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...

Very sharp argument by the economist, Dani Rodrik: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down? Federal workers aren’t furloughed. Funding for social services doesn’t dry up. Failure to pass a budget triggers an election. It puts the politicians jobs on the line. They get the budget passed.

It can be very radicalizing to even get people to seriously think about the economic system they live in and question possible alternatives

It’s a good day to look up Rosalind Franklin.

Mamdani isn't Middle Eastern. You racists are too dumb to even racist correctly.

I am very proud of @cityandstateny.bsky.social's coverage of Zohran's remarkable campaign. I broke the news he was exploring a run (3 months before he announced). And when he was polling at just 2%, our publisher wrote a prescient column suggesting he could actually win.

This city belongs to you. youtu.be/Nf4aPjPu6pk

Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“I am Muslim. I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this."

This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n... 1/

I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant." SAY. THAT. SHIT!

“In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light.” Congratulations @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

What an excellent, inspiring speech from Mamdani. I haven’t felt chills like this… ever?

Africans! We won! #mamdani

“Tonight we have stepped from the old into the new.”

The name is Mamdani

MAYOR MAMDANI!!!!!

All you anti Muslim bigots who spread nothing but the most vile hate against Mamdani, I'm here for your meltdowns and tantrums. I'm all the way petty. Your tears are sugar for my chai.

The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

Happy Zohran Day to all who celebrate!!

Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name. The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.

Starting journey home after trip taking in Rwanda, South Africa, and Mozambique. A reminder, once again, of the sheer complexity of Africa, where health systems are powerfully shaped by unique national histories, something so much health research simply ignores.

The New York City marathon is the absolute best day of the year here. Everybody goes out on the streets to yell and cheer and ring cow bells for thousands of strangers doing something hard. The most immaculate vibes known to man, absolutely never fails.