In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night: Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at? **pause** Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

I work in a rural state in healthcare and we have thousands of people waiting to be seen. This and the bill that will cut thousands of people from Medicaid will not help. Trump does not care about the health of Americans. #medsky

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025.... #medsky So Anesthesia is a little different in the US in my experience.

When VL was used as the first-choice device: ⬇️ patients experiencing at least 1 complication (5.5% vs. 9.7%) ⬇️ 3+ intubation attempts (1.2% v 2%) ⬇️ need to change operator (1.8% vs. 4.9%) ⬇️ oesophageal intubation (0.5% vs. 1.4%) #AnSky #MedSky doi.org/10.1111/anae...

Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.

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The appearance of large language models caused a drastic shift in the vocabulary of academic writing, according to an analysis in #ScienceAdvances of more than 15 million biomedical abstracts published from 2010 to 2024. Learn more:

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

More RFK rejection of good science and damage to US preparation for viral epidemics. 🧪 www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram.

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

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Hating on “Big Pharma”? Cool, it’s a $1.6 trillion regulated industry. But hang on…the $6.3 trillion wellness industry sells you mushroom tea, dewormers, crash diets, and alkaline water—no regulations, no oversight. But hey, it’s ‘natural,’ right?

buymeacoffee.com/hristobogoev. New detective puzzles out now. fun way to practice SQL

Gift link from me: share.inquirer.com/4Hxahp

"I don't like any of these extremists on the right or the left! I just think we need the basic common sense middle ground stuff, healthcare for all, taxing billionaires out of existence, trans rights, abolish ICE, all the normal stuff"

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@rubinallergy.bsky.social. Thanks for sending this out to your substack today. The locations of possible DC measles exposure is alarming. dchealth.dc.gov/release/heal...

So even a broken clock is right twice a day. I have been advocating for banning pharma ads to the public since the first ones came out in the newspapers next to Dear Abby. (early 80s)

My Estonian friend who lived under Russian occupation also reassures me - "people keep living their lives". Unfortunately I do know that won't be true or easy at all for so many Americans.

The United States of America is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care as a human right. The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy. We must end that international embarrassment. Yes. We need Medicare for All.

“Yet, far from acting in courageous defiance, many scientists and administrators now seem to think that the best response to the war on DEI is to keep their heads low and wait out four hard years.” Hell yes, Art Caplan. More courageous defiance, less quiet cowardice. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

TSA Says Its Credit Cards for Bomb-Sniffing Dogs Are Cut Off The statement follows an alleged internal email which said requests for dog food and vet visits had been put on hold.

Full text available online here (at least for now) onlinecjc.ca/article/S082...

A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website, called RestoredCDC.org, as it appeared the day President Trump was inaugurated. "I felt that we could restore any data sets that people might not have access to anymore because these were publicly funded data."

SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

@aaronparnas.bsky.social This was Front Page in the Philadelphia Inquirer, and I don't see it too many other places. What are the best ways to send support to Ukraine? Starting to think any tax I owe should go there instead. share.inquirer.com/IAWBzX

The Blue Report is amazing. The most clicked on articles are right here theblue.report

We don’t admit people to the hospital for quarantining. They can do that at home. The many kids admitted to the hospital in Lubbock have severe respiratory complications from measles. Stunning ignorance from highest health official, embarrassing really.

Recommended read: A research librarian and policy scholar in North America outlined in @us.theconversation.com how to “find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see”. 📝 @ericnost.bsky.social Alejandro Paz

A new government tracker claims DOGE has saved billions from ending federal contracts. But an NPR analysis of the data finds the claimed savings don't add up.

Mr. Arithmetic proves that Elon Musk and Donald Trump lied about millions of dead people getting Social Security substack.com/home/post/p-...

SCOOP: The director of data science and engineering for the United States Digital Service—which Elon Musk rebranded as the US DOGE Service—has resigned from her position. “I do not believe that DOGE can continue to deliver the work of USDS, based on their actions so far,” she said.

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

www.tiktok.com/@usa.mom.in.... Facts.

Hey, here’s some of what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social did today 👋🏽

Did you all see this?! I don't know much about this, but it looks like we're marching in March! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE! #StandUpForScience2025

So as tax season approaches how do we feel about that with this post-coup government?

Three new cases filed last night added to Litigation Tracker. 1. Perez Parra v. Castro: On migrant transfers to Guantanamo (followed quickly by Temporary Restraining Order) 2. National Treasury Union v. Vought: To preserve CFPB 3. National Treasury Union v. Vought: Employee records and privacy

Took a big step today. I started to write a comment and then I decided it was ok to let someone be wrong on the internet.

So delighted to learn Wayfair donates pretty much exclusively to Democrats. I am checking OpenSecrets.org pretty often these days.

@polymerclaycation.bsky.social This is the future! Thanks @create3d.bsky.social and @lclarke522.bsky.social #polymerclayart