Hint: don't cancel a bunch of NIH and NSF grants www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Reminds me of that time I submitted a sole first-authored manuscript to a journal and the managing editor thought it was improper for me to use first person singular and insisted I change to first person plural. I held the line. Joke’s on me! osf.io/preprints/so...

Banger by @margaritap.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social et al, in JAMA Psych: “the PHQ’s use rests on a fragile foundation that might not bear the weight of research and clinical decision-making.” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Revenue on parking tickets? 🤓

Drip drip drip www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Y'all mfkas are fighting over coauthorship on a paper that got rejected at MDPI and Heliyon? 😂

1. Need to get Jeffrey Epstein on record or the story can’t happen 2. Every time I see someone write “Principle Investigator” I silently judge them. 3. Every time I see someone write “my principals”, well…

Wassup free speech bros www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Ban anonymous accounts

Friends don’t let friends publish in Hindawi/Dove/MDPI mega journals. Starting to feel like I am pretty darn close to recommending against P1 and many of the BMC’s as well

“Put them in trauma”

“A research ethics committee at the National Institutes of Health told Buck he couldn’t experiment on himself by drinking the beer. Buck says the committee has the right to determine what he can and can’t do at work but can’t govern what he does in his private life. “ 🤡

Vought be reading JAMA like

Didn't even have to read past the title page 🥸

Always classy www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

All this shhhhttte gets reversed on Day One. Don't even give this shhhtte sandiwch to the Vice President. Appoint a De-Naming and De-Ballrooming Czar. Get this shhhhtte done pronto. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Counterpoint: we crossed the threshold a long time ago www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Ooooof. amp.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

dayummmmn homie if I could score a burn like that just once in my lifetime www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Our White House is permanently stuck in the 7th grade

I know times are hard, soft money is difficult, you have to feed your family, etc-- but what kind of scientist would do this?

Oof. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

“‘There's no shortage of cancer cases in this village.’ But there is also no shortage of workers, keen for the economic lifeline recycling provides.” www.barrons.com/news/waiting...

“The people who did this to America will never pay a price. And if we defeat them, our success will be used as an argument against us.” www.thebulwark.com/p/susie-wile... Bulwark

Yasss

"In employment law, as in criminal defense law, the answer to the question “should I consult a lawyer?” is always yes." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/b...

Title alone would have gotten this paper into the BMJ Christmas issue. So sad.

This shhhtte is pure gold www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Dang. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What could go wrong www.notus.org/health-scien...

Those losers actually said let me see “your papers”?! 😂🖕

I KNEW IT those fkers

I mean clearly the Dodgers should have hired that white dude who can hit and pitch better than Ohtani www.axios.com/2025/07/02/s...

So much winning

Sign me up 😂 www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...

For anyone interested: Devin Madden of Mount Sinai is conducting an online survey of people spanning the range of jobs in academic medicine. Go to this REDCap link to participate: redcap.mountsinai.org/redcap/surve...

“Tucker Qatarlson” 😂 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/s...

Woah-- Web of Science calculates the average word count of the manuscript reviews you have submitted at journals

🥀 www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/09/o...

“There was always this culture at Harvard that basically said it was okay to be depressed, but only to the extent that it’s funny. As soon as it becomes serious, you are a liability, and Harvard will kick you out.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Gddmmt they took my BMJ Christmas Issue idea www.science.org/content/arti...

So good

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Please check out: "Attainment of global diabetes targets in 2021: a pooled analysis of individual-level data from national surveys in 100 low-income, middle-income, and high-income countries" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I used to look down on people who send me letters in default Calibri font with 6-point paragraph spacing. But I guess now I have to like that shhhtte www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

Really should have opened schools up sooner. journals.lww.com/epidem/abstr...

“some people in the courtroom struggled to ‘keep a straight face’ during the trial and even laughed openly.” 😂 www.cbsnews.com/news/sandwic...