Big news! The ruling was 4-1. The court consists of 3 women and 2 men. Three were appointed by the current governor who supported and signed the law. The sole dissenter was Kari Gray who was appointed by the former Governor. www.wyocourts.gov/supreme-cour...

Full story: www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli...

This image is from Birzeit University in the West Bank which was raided by Israel today using live ammunition and tear gas. Over 40 people were injured, mostly students. More than 8,000 students are trapped inside. But it’s controversial to talk about scholasticide.

This ⬇️ 🎯 People who had loved ones on the front lines, who got Long Covid early, who were actively advising the Covid policy response, etc. were all *also* very unlikely to develop sourdough starters or complain abt school closures. It was and is real for a lot of us.

Remarkably, four years after that researcher-driven bias was revealed, Borjas published a book that ignored and repeated the mistake. Giovanni Peri and the Nobel laureate David Card then showed that essentially the same biased choice *flipped the sign* of Borjas's results. doi.org/10.1016/j.ju...

Third, it's true: some immigration researchers' choices do bias their results. A key example is Borjas (2006). Peri & Sparber (2011) show that Borjas chose a regression specification that generated spurious negative correlation between immigration & native employment. doi.org/10.1016/j.ju...

I get in arguments all the time with people who say "it was just a bad cold." My uncle was in a coma on a ventilator for 2 weeks and never fully recovered. He died about a year later.

OK logging back off, because I can't stop and think about the Zoom funerals I attended.

I attended my own father’s funeral by clicking on a YouTube link.

Not saying that it’s not important to do, but we still memorialize those lost on 9/11 almost 25 years later, but dying of #COVID19 seems to be a personal failure that people find embarrassing to even acknowledge.

Beginning 2022, I started having arguments with people who didn't experience the loss of a loved one to COVID & associate "lockdown" with sourdough starters & WFH rather than Zoom funerals. I just had to accept that we did not have a shared reality, nor were they willing to remember.

Wild. I feel like all through March/April 2020 I was watching the body count in NYC mounting from afar just living in absolute terror for my fam who lived there and everyone else just forgot?!

So as RFK ends annual flu vaccine recommendations for children, hospitalizations and deaths among children are rapidly accelerating--with prior data showing that nearly all the mortality is among those not vaccinated. www.vice.com/en/article/a...

$59 million to torture people and destroy families And that’s not even counting the economic loss associated with losing waged *and* unwaged workers who are incarcerated and/or deported

For the "data scientists" out there who are throwing things at machines (e.g., LLMs) and trying to extract "insights," I recommend (re)reading this piece: "Data is therefore only as useful as its quality and the skills of the person wielding it." qz.com/1664575/is-d...

States have 359 days left to implement Medicaid work requirements. The federal government has not yet put out detailed guidance or regulations.

I told y'all, in some Delaware towns the corporations can vote

For a @motherjones.com article, I am looking to speak to caregivers of disabled individuals who are 14 and older who are on Medicaid re Medicaid work requirement exemptions. My email to reach out is [email protected] and reposts are appreciated.

The Congressional Research Service estimates about one-third of people who will be subject to Medicaid work requirements could be auto-exempted because they're already subject to SNAP work requirements. A wrinkle? Only about half of states' Medicaid and SNAP eligibility systems are integrated.

Leadership is executing the demands of people above you . . .

It's been one year since the Los Angeles wildfires. The hardest hit communities will never be the same. Standing up for climate justice matters most when the news cycle has moved on.

“Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado will be cut off from around $7 billion in funding for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which provides cash assistance to households with children, according to two people familiar with the matter.” Monstrously cruel.

I don't know if you need much evidence that Ackman has no principles but he led the charge to remove Claudine Gay from President of Harvard on *much* weaker evidence of academic misconduct. Then he threatened to pursue plagiarism accusations of anyone who pointed to his wife's alleged plagiarism.

COVID killed >100,000 people per year over the course of 2023 and 2024 in the US alone. The level of indifference to this massive annual toll among both the public and the majority of my public health colleagues is stunning. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman has revealed that he’s helping Francesca Gino, the honesty researcher who was fired from Harvard for research misconduct. “We will provide whatever resources she needs to clear her name,” he wrote. New from me: www.chronicle.com/article/an-i...

Hard to sell them in countries where they actually have laws protecting consumers and privacy that are enforced, huh?

"GenAI is the futu--

Rotavirus vaccine is one of those that HHS has dropped from the recommended schedule. This will harm children and will add to burden on the health system through preventable hospitalization. For better work than mine on rotavirus see the excellent body of work from Dr. Ginny Pitzer, e.g.

Folks getting in the weeds about licensing agreements but this research study engaged me in research, by creating a bespoke dataset about me, before I agreed to participate. They already made the dataset before I was invited to participated. That's not how informed consent works

I do a fair amount of self-citation because I've been building a body of work over the past 5 years to address "gaps" in the field.

There's a gender disparity in self-citations documented across multiple disciplines and studies leading to all sorts of negative downstream effects. Women scholars: cite yourself because the men certainly are.

The *same* CDC reporting that seasonal flu infections are at their highest levels in a QUARTER CENTURY just ended universal flu vaccine recommendations. This is a reckless and misguided move that will endanger public health. www.cnn.com/2026/01/05/h...

Anne Frank’s stepsister Eva Schloss died. In the 1940s, Mrs Schloss and her family were chased from their home in Austria. They lived as refugees in the Netherlands before they were captured and sent to the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp. www.bbc.com/news/article...

And we're live, Lecture A1 is online. Introduction to Bayesian workflow, generative models, estimands, estimators, estimates, error checking, beginnings of probability theory and Bayesian updating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztbY...

your mileage may vary but my experience on here improved pretty noticeably when I stopped offering explanations to people whose questions sought conflict rather than answers

“Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking”

I made this same point to my husband yesterday. As 90s kids who lived through a different moral panic every 5 years, it is WILD that the reaction to AI causing measurable, real world harm is: "Meh, whaddaya gonna do?"

My personal guiding question remains this: What have I done to alleviate suffering today? Convinced that being able to answer that affirmatively each night is what has powered me through the past few years, and lets me sleep at night.

Routine vaccination prevents the targeted infection, but in many cases prevents other conditions. Some of these are the dreaded chronic illnesses that RFK Jr. likes to focus on. For example, the rotavirus vaccine prevents many cases of type 1 diabetes. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

*stares in medical copy editor*

RFK says this puts the U.S. more in line with other nations, like Denmark. It doesn’t! Denmark has… 1️⃣universal healthcare, so if someone gets sick, they get care (the U.S. doesn’t have this). 2️⃣paid leave, so if someone gets sick, they can stay home and still get paid (the U.S. doesn’t have this).

"... cuts began on New Year’s Eve with the elimination of about 65 positions that were part of FEMA’s largest workforce, known as the Cadre of On-Call Response and Recovery (CORE)...among the first on the ground after a disaster and often stick around for years to help communities recover."

Hey folks, you can preorder my new book Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves at a 25% discount right now from @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stuar... (and it's also discounted at bookshop.org, if you prefer that!). Published in April!

An estimated 440 deaths are attributable to the Los Angeles wildfires that set the area ablaze in January 2025—a much higher toll than the 31 deaths reported in Los Angeles County records, according to the first-ever study estimating excess mortality during that period. (from Aug)

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The refrain “you should have listened when we said they were lying about abortion” is getting a run for its money from “you should have listened when we said they were lying about Covid.”

Viewpoint: The myth of an over-vaccinated America: The US DOES follow global consensus www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...

AHIP, which represents health insurers, has said it will cover the vaccine schedule as it existed in September. So people who want to vaccinate their kids according to that schedule, which is still endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, will be covered.

As if having cancer or an immune deficiency as a kid isn’t bad enough, those patients also can’t receive vaccines. They rely on herd immunity, others doing the right thing. It’s the same with infants who are too young to be vaccinated but are also at increased risk of morbidity and mortality.

“U.S. District Judge Stephen J. Murphy III wrote that the facility is “infested with mold” that eats through brick and metal, drips from ceilings, and falls from air vents.”