It was gratifying to be awarded the @amia.org AMIA Academic Forum Health Informatics Educator of The Year Award at the Annual Symposium, but equally gratifying to be called out twice in Jim Cimino’s Year in Review session at the meeting.

This year marks my 40th consecutive #AMIA2025 fall meeting, dating back to SCAMC, and including the virtual meeting during the pandemic in 2020. Extra special this year is my daughter Alyssa attending, along with my grandson, and we will all be decked out in AMIA t-shirts!

There are many worse things the Trump Administration has done but this one hits close to home for me. One of the things that the US government does very well is create high-quality data sets and tools to use them. It is sad to lose these tremendous resources. apnews.com/article/cens...

What a great night! I feel better this morning than I have in a long time. Even though I do not agree with all of his policy positions, I am thrilled for Zohran Mandani. Great news in Virginia, New Jersey, and California! I hope this is the beginning of the end of Trump 2, but much work still to do.

I am a Cubs fan through and through, but enjoyed this World Series immensely. I was rooting for the Canadian team just to be able revel at a non-US team winning in the era of Donald Trump, but I can't complain about the victorious team from a blue state with many immigrants on its roster.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

I am thrilled and honored to announce that I have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). NAM is one of three academies that make up the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the US. news.ohsu.edu/2025/10/20/o...

Science is rarely perfect. But there is better inquiry, and worse. And political theater is a different thing from science, altogether. Glad to see @henryfordhealth.bsky.social clearing the air: www.henryford.com/News/2025/09...

People as far as the eyes can see at the Portland #NoKings rally! @indivisible.org

I am honored to receive the Inaugural @amia.org Academic Forum Health Informatics Educator of the Year Award. Thanks to students and colleagues who make teaching such an enjoyable pursuit! amia.org/news-publica...

Not to make light of this tragedy, but maybe we should redeploy the National Guard soldiers in Portland to Mississippi? www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/u...

Kudos to MIT! And I hope all the other universities offered this will likewise reject it. I especially like this quote: "Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Sad.

Even the lousiest seats in the stadium at the Super Bowl go for thousands of dollars a pop. I'm sure that DHS will find all sorts of undocumented immigrants in the stands watching the game. Such a wise use of taxpayer dollars. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/a...

I had a doctor’s appointment down at #Portland’s south waterfront, and took some very boring video of the “war zone” by the 🧊facility. About 1:15pm on 9/30/2025 One of the guys across the street is likely an LEO. Another is maybe media. #FootageFromTheWarzone #PortlandOregon #PortlandWarZone

Every single thing they do is about funneling money to Trump and his sycophants

Yesterday I spoke with @velshi.com about why Portland isn't 'war ravaged' - it's a city on the rise.

Things are getting tough this hellhole!

9 more days … #Africa #Bioinformatics #Health #Informatics #Education

As we await today’s “best news ever in medicine” report, please read this analysis from a couple weeks ago from one of my favorite medical substacks. Yes, there is some evidence to support a connect between Tylenol and autism.

Portland Strong! www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2025...

So sorry, ANTIFA. I’m afraid we have to let you go. 😌

I am off to Philadelphia for the AMIA Clinical Informatics Board Review Course (CIBRC), which I have directed and taught in for over a decade. This is the last year for physicians to become board-eligible via the Practice Pathway (grandfathering) and ... amia.org/education-ev...

I hope everyone is buying their @amia.org t-shirts in time for the Annual Symposium! I already bought mine! www.bonfire.com/trained-on-h...

A US senate subcommittee was told this unpublished vaccine study was 'the most important ever.' Henry Ford Health now confirms why it was never published: it failed scientific standards. Here's what's actually wrong with the study: jakescottmd.substack.com/p/why-the-senates-most-important-vaccine

A delightful evening at the Friends of the National Library of Medicine gala supporting the NLM and its impact on my career.

This is a great op-ed that everyone should read, and I am sharing a gift link. I think the time of petty ideological bickering is past us. We need to set those differences aside and form a broad coalition... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

I am off to Washington, DC to attend the Gala Dinner of the Friends of the National Library of Medicine (FNLM). I am grateful to serve on the Board of Directors of this organization that supports the NLM, ...

Today is my annual lecture to OHSU medical students in their first month of medical school, Information is Different Now That You’re a Doctor. It introduces many of the applications and challenges for information in the practice of medicine. PDF of slides at: assets.zyrosite.com/Aq2WRaVw59SJ...

RFK Jr. is going to release a report on what he thinks are the causes of Autism Spectrum Disorder. There is reason to believe it won’t be trustworthy, so @defendpublichealth.bsky.social has released our own evidence-based report of ASD risk factors to the public. Vaccines aren’t one of them.

I have received this email every Friday since the last century, and subscribing to it is one of the first bits of advice I give to young researchers. But never has the email looked like this. I feel most sad for mid- and early-career researchers whose work will be most impacted.

I am off to Accra, Ghana for the annual consortium meeting of the NIH Data Science Initiative for Africa project. I look forward to catching up with colleagues who are helping to build people and data capacity in Africa. @dsi-africa.org #DSIAfrica2025 #DataForHealthInAfrica

I am pleased to announce the final publication of my review, Generative Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Biomedical and Health Professions Education, in the Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

I did this, and encourage other authors to do the same. I have two books in LibGen. >200 journal articles sucked up too, but this is just for books....

As one whose career has involved working with data, I have never heard the term "friendly" to describe the data I want. I want the highest-quality and most objective data possible. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/b...

The whole notion of science is that truth is not determined by how people feel. How sad that the Director of the NIH says something like this, especially with that lack of trust caused by misinformation pushed by his allies:

Star Trek doctors are well versed in informatics, AI 😅 #medinfo2025

Competencies on medical informatics and AI for physicians ~ #medinfo2025

Is the medical education at your institution undergoing homework apocalypse? #meded #medinfo2025

Does anyone miss the days when you could show up to give a talk at a conference and either use your own computer or copy your presentation via USB drive to the presentation computer? 1/3

So now it goes beyond the Ivy League schools. They are coming for all of us, in the name of antisemitism, which is ironic, since academia is filled with left-leaning Jewish faculty and students who will be most impacted by this. www.latimes.com/california/s...

This flawed preprint claims that COVID-19 mRNA vaccination causes transcriptomic dysregulation and cancer. But all it does is showing that sick people differ in gene expression from healthy ones. Duh. My critical review at Science Integrity Digest here: scienceintegritydigest.com/2025/07/25/p...

Sorry, but replacing one form of sugar with another in a product completely devoid of nutritional value is not a win for anyone's health.

After the 60 Minutes settlement and now Stephen Colbert, I have cancelled my Paramount streaming. I can get my news and comedy elsewhere. This also means, as a lifetime fan of Star Trek literally back to TOS of my childhood, I am parting with that as well.

NEW ANGLE Watch and decide, but I was never fully convinced he was shot in the first place. Never mind that his ear should’ve been blown off—now completely healed. Or that the Secret Service took their time getting him offstage. But from this angle: you see the photographers guided into place…

Welcome back, Dame!

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