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A US senate subcommittee was told this unpublished vaccine study was 'the most important ever.'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!

From @internetarchive.eu: "Internet Archive Europe proudly announces the launch of Our Future Memory, a global campaign dedicated to safeguarding the digital rights of libraries, archives, and museums worldwide." www.internetarchive.eu/protecting-t...

Nuf said.

This is really excellent advice, and not just for academics. Please read and distribute widely! zenodo.org/records/1569...

We need to be savvy about how we document and message the adverse consequences of HR1. For example, most people do not realize that most states call their Medicaid programs by different names. So when people say their state program is not Medicaid, we need to make clear that it is.

Today is just an awful, awful day but one small chuckle, in that almost all of the NIH grants being restored are in the blue counties and states that were covered in the lawsuit protecting them. www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/n...

With all the advances in clinical informatics, including artificial intelligence, it is imperative for physician leaders to be board-certified in clinical informatics. The @amiainformatics.bsky.social Clinical Informatics Board Review Course (CIBRC) is an important resource for exam preparation.

It's no surprise to those of us who live in Portland and fly a lot that our airport is ranked the best in the country by the Washington Post. www.washingtonpost.com/travel/inter...

The next time a Magat blathers on about undocumented people being criminals, remind them it’s not a crime to be undocumented, it’s a civil violation. It’s like getting a traffic ticket. Getting caught speeding doesn’t make you a criminal. us-ilc.com/undocumented...

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

Another view of the crowd at the No Kings Day March in Manzanita, OR, where a crowd of about 400 came out from the town of population 642 (and a few other smaller ones nearby). Hard to capture everyone in a single photo because we were lined up along US 101, and ...

Beavs!

At least 400 people out for #NoKings Day in this small Oregon coast city of Manzanita (pop 642), with nearly Nehalem (pop 273), on no Kings Day. Most cars driving by on US 101 honked in support. A pleasant, peaceful, and patriotic crowd!

This would ordinarily be an exciting funding opportunity for the informatics community, but clearly the timeline, politics, and opacity damped one's enthusiasm. www.statnews.com/2025/06/12/n...

🧪 Researchers, librarians, and data experts are working to preserve critical government data. This initiative, started during the Trump administration, ensures vital research data is transferred to independent, publicly accessible platforms, safeguarding its availability. #AcademicSky