Instead of throwing out the money changers and telling people to give all their money away, Jesus would’ve been better off preaching a gospel of abundance.

I have very rarely cited papers or books that I have not fully read - usually in the methods where it's just the standard citation that everyone uses. And I have felt great fear that I would get caught Have these people no shame? The lit review isn't just a review of the literature -

Why are the Roman Soldiers posting a tribute to a refugee executed by the state?

Mississippi’s infant mortality rate increased to 9.7 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024—the highest since 2013—the most recent data from MSDH shows. Since 2014, 3,527 babies have died before celebrating their first birthday, MSDH reported in 2025.

"The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency." bit.ly/41M4pvK

About a year ago I said that I probably wouldn't be able to get federal grants for my work for the foreseeable future and basically the NSF just said, "you're goddamed right you won't."

Are we surprised though?

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

My students are trying to recruit on campus for a survey about menstrual health knowledge and attitudes. So far they have definitively determined that yelling "Do you know Aunt Flo?" is not an effective strategy.

"A large Swedish study following women for up to 18 years found no evidence that the protection offered by the HPV vaccine fades. Those vaccinated before age 17 had around a 79% lower risk of invasive cervical cancer." www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

I lectured on maternal mortality in the US this morning, and it was an unpleasant reminder that we could absolutely solve this problem and have chosen not to.

it's a real mindfuck to see the leadership of a publication creating some of the most important journalism of a generation trying to screw the people doing the work

It was something from @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social 's excellent book Legacy, which we read as part of our unit on health disparities and structural oppression in medicine. Thanks, Dr. Blackstock, for writing such an engaging and memorable text!

This morning during our discussion one of my students said "this reminds me of something we read in your class last semester," which may have been the peak professional moment of my life so far.

I taught with a migraine this afternoon, but the student who has steadfastly refused to participate in group activities actually contributed to his group today! So I feel like it was worth it even though I thought I was going to lose my lunch a couple of times.

I ran into this a lot in my research with formerly incarcerated folks. They frequently had trouble identifying where they got their insurance or why they were eligible for the program, which sometimes meant they unexpectedly lost coverage and didn’t know how to re-enroll.

the largest state university in ohio quite literally banned sidewalk chalk while one of epstein's biggest supporters still has his name all over half the buildings on campus

On Medicaid Work Requirements, as required by HR-1 (2025): "Meeting those requirements will be particularly challenging for the state’s roughly 180,000 homeless people. They often have no phones or internet to complete a job application. They have limited access to meals, showers or clean clothes."

The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.

I don’t think people who aren’t regularly covering the reproductive rights beat realize how common it is for women to be incarcerated for miscarriages.

33 years ago today, Dr. David Gunn was shot and killed outside of his Pensacola abortion clinic. He had been stalked and harassed for weeks, yet law enforcement did nothing. His murder, the first of an abortion provider in U.S. history, is commemorated now with #AbortionProviderAppreciationDay.

A colleague recently told me - excitedly - that they trained an AI chatbot on their syllabus and were using it to answer student questions about the course. In the humanities and social sciences, we teach students to read and assess sources of info, but we can't expect them to read the syllabus? 1/3

Attended Eastern Sociological Society this weekend and was shocked to see a @soc-forum.bsky.social panel dedicated to using AI in publishing and pedagogy. One panelist: "if you refuse to use AI, drop my course now". The panelists failed to engage critically with how the tools work in any way

It's SPRING BREAK. Why am I still getting emails???

My hot take is that everyone says schools don't teach you how to do your taxes, but the way you do your taxes is to hang on to important paperwork and then follow the directions on a form while performing arithmetic, which actually is what they spend a fair amount of time teaching.

Kelly Wilkinson was being abused by her husband. She tried to go to the police. They told her to “cool off”. They suggested she give her husband a “break”. They accused her of cop shopping. Her husband stabbed her over 20 times and set her on fire. The cops were complicit in her murder:

How to say "The dog is brown" in Bourdieuspeak

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

Nurse practitioners are a lifeline for millions who live in healthcare deserts. A new proposed federal rule would strip NPs of access to education funds, putting the workforce at risk. @coryellen.bsky.social writes about the dangers of this rule in @nursingclio.bsky.social

I want to take you back, for a moment, to 2020. We are at the beginning of the pandemic and many of us are working remotely. I don't remember this time particularly fondly--this was pre COVID-19 vaccines, and there was a lot of rhetoric around how the virus had come from China. 🧵

An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison? With @nytimes.com

The child care block grant gets less than $9 billion a year for the entire country

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

Indiana's support for CPCs doubled in two years, while more rural hospitals and clinics that provide comprehensive reproductive health care close their doors because of a lack of funds.

🚨What if some intrepid students and I decided to see if private foundations' public stances on justice were thin enough to fold under anti-DEI pressure? We tracked their website language using Wayback Machine. The retreat is real and it seems political vibes alone supercharged it. osf.io/29gda_v1

And that’s on community care 👏🏻

States have started proposing steep reductions in disability services to cope with Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Idaho is the first to suggest scrapping home care altogether — An action with a high human cost. My latest @19thnews.org.

Truly shocking how much running out of my office gum affects my productivity.

Now hiring: #Postdoc in Rural Maternal & Perinatal Health (#NIH U01) at USC @uscarnoldschool.bsky.social Seeking a scholar committed to #RuralHealth #MaternalHealth equity and high-impact #research dissemination. Apply: uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/201... @academyhealth.bsky.social @apha.org

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented with righteous fury

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially. transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

Our country is being run by lying warmonger criminals and somehow I still have to go teach today,

Of course they do... genius. On this basis, I'm assuming, there's a retired primary school teacher out there whose antibodies could do the childhood disease equivalent of walking into the Copland Road end at Ibrox in a Celtic shirt and offering to take on all comers.

Incarcerated workers are paid so little, it can take thousands of hours to afford filing fees "I can only hope that the next time indigent prisoners facing this issue raise nearly $1,000 each just for the opportunity to knock on this Court’s door, my colleagues will choose to open it" heartbreaking

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

One of my students uses a service dog, but not all of the time. This morning, in the middle of class discussion, the dog (who, and I cannot stress this enough, I HAD NOT PREVIOUSLY NOTICED) sat up, made direct eye contact, yawned, and laid back down. I barely managed not to burst into laughter.

If you want to confuse your colleagues in other disciplines, just try to explain ASA's five page "extended abstract" submission format. No one understands it. I just got laughed at by someone in psychology.

Why do I leave writing the methods until last? I do this every gosh darn time, and then I'm out of energy, and allegedly, I'm not allowed to say "we did some interviews - trust me, bro."

Jeff Chang points out that “cultural change precedes political change." I think about this all of the time.