My fantastic department, the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at Upstate Medical University, is growing and hiring for two TT positions! careers.upstate.edu/jobs/associa... careers.upstate.edu/jobs/associa... #bioethics #MedicalHumanities #ClinicalEthics

Expectation vs reality. Still tasty tots.

We have bebe groundhog quadruplets!!!

The number of times this week I've been told that the hantavirus outbreak is "not Covid" makes me MORE not less inclined to think it is more Covid-like I would otherwise think. Doesn't help that the entire US federal public health system is led by (*checks notes*) Covid deniers.

I am inspired by many of my colleagues fighting the good fight here in Texas, but wrote this for the rest of y'all: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Love this idea

I used to be a big fan of Mel Gibson and his movies. I cannot imagine writing something like this about him. I feel the loss of not being able to enjoy Road Warrior like I used to (and glad for post-gibson Road Warrior movies)

“There’s no neutrality on a runaway train.” Shoutout once again to @aaup.org (gift link to the NY Crimes, which pitifully attempts to bothsides this by linking to ‘many [i.e., two] ruminations about the group’s “fall” and “unraveling”’) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/u...

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

The problem with Daredevil: Born Again s2 is the same as the problem with #Daredevil. Too. Much. Fisk. A tediously boring villain, now more current eventsy bc corrupt just like the tedious, grotesque POTUS. I like my trenchant escapism more escape-y, please. #DaredevilBornAgain

"if the rate of 65 publications with at least one invalid reference out of some 4,000 publications analysed holds across the academic literature, it would suggest that more than 110,000 of the 7 million or so scholarly publications from 2025 contain invalid references."

I want to thank our Allies for telling Trump to go fuck himself over the Iran war. You have to punch a bully in the face.

the “combing through and finding weird little details that interest me” part of research is so crucial

Tapping the sign

Oh, Bob. No. No nonononooooo.

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People https://theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient-race-of-skeleton-pe-1819565415/

Democrats put 9 bills forward to fund TSA. Trump and Republicans blocked every bill because they want to tie TSA workers’ paychecks to billions in more unchecked funding for ICE. The answer is clear: fund TSA and not ICE.

@nytimes.com with the hardhitting news that exposes the true costs of war

Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’ ‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’ ‘Hello’ is not related to either. Goodbye.

I’m getting a new knee next week. Gimme your best tips, advice, life hacks, things you wish you knew when you were recovering from knee replacement surgery. Cute orangeboi in payment

Coincidences that are probably not coincidences #AbolishICE

BREAKING: A push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, won the city’s annual snowplow naming contest, officials announced. @wttw.bsky.social

Here is the article featuring this easy question: www.chronicle.com/article/is-e...

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

What if, for 106 years, we’ve been mispronouncing it, and it’s actually Frank’s Reo Hot

Can the judiciary name DOJ as a vexatious litigant, already? Real lawyers, I'd love to hear more about this

my fave part of the event: misha's coach whispering in his ear that he just made the olympic podium and his full 10 seconds of buffering #MilanoCortina2026

“DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law” is excellent framing

This is a vivid, horribly relevant read. “She does not sleep well. And as you lift up her pajama top to check her rash one morning, you see that her breathing is labored, shadows pooling between her ribs when she sucks in air. You suffer an icy moment of realization: This is a medical crisis.”

Donate to a GoFundMe to help Alex and Yan post bail, pay legal expenses and rebuild their lives after months of detainment: www.gofundme.com/f/welcome-ho...

The administration is relocating ICE agents to other parts of the country to see if they can achieve better results with the same tactics there. If you're outside the Twin Cities, learn and replicate their model for resistance. If you're in the Twin Cities, keep your networks intact and carry on.🖤

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Come join us as we discuss the future of nonhuman and more-than-human research next week, Feb 18! #animalethics

Run your business so the WeRateDogs guy doesn't come at you

Haiti’s TPS continues for now!!!!! And zowie: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214.124.0_1.pdf

Have they considered getting a real job that doesn’t involve being a sadistic brownshirt bootlicker? Maybe try not working for a grifter who never pays anyone?

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

ProPublica has identified Alex Pretti’s killers www.propublica.org/article/alex...

This judicial order re: Liam is just a thing to behold.

In a blistering opinion, Judge Fred Biery of Federal District Court for the Western District of Texas condemned “the perfidious lust for unbridled power” and “the imposition of cruelty.”

In a blistering opinion, Judge Fred Biery of Federal District Court for the Western District of Texas condemned “the perfidious lust for unbridled power” and “the imposition of cruelty.”

Laundry tips you never knew you needed. Also, if you ask your mom for laundry advice and she comes out with this, your mom is a badass

So far, this year really sucks.

Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

It's the least they can do, and it's a start. Keep up the pressure. Don't let them wimp out. #AbolishICE

The whole shot is a thing of beauty.