"The belief that every field in the humanities is secretly controlled by social justice warriors has always been a false conspiracy theory, but to make these fantastical claims during the middle of a war against the humanities is a particularly dangerous delusion."

Listen, early HBO series slapped. and had something to say. Oz. Rome. Deadwood. The Wire. Treme. REMEMBER Treme?

I wanted to love it. I really, really did. #WutheringHeights

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject Vitamin K Shot. The lifesaving injection, given to newborns to prevent uncontrollable bleeding, has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement, by @deldeib.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/more... via @propublica.org

cc: @sharrona.bsky.social

a thought i had while talking to a friend is that a federal end to partisan gerrymandering has to be at the top of the democratic party's agenda, and may likely get there because of threat the status quo poises to black representation, and thus black political involvement altogether.

The scholarly follow up to my 2025 @statnews.com piece, now out in Diagnosis (with Chris Cassel). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41996201/

May memory restore again and again The smallest color of the smallest day: Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn. -Delmore Schwartz, closing lines of “Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day” #everynightapoem #farewellapril

Ninth Grader Demi Johnson receives National Geographic award for plan to save Mississippi's oyster reef population. The ninth grader has produced 1,100 oysters that will in turn spawn millions of larvae into the ecosystem, a huge ecological impact

This makes me angry on such a cellular level. I WISH we could build a system around taking care of each other. Thinking about my mom, managing my dad's Parkinson's & cancer meds, taking him to appts, fighting with insurance. Thinking about my patients and their loved ones. tinyurl.com/3t8ebx7v

*reviews sources on pandemic influenza in the military* (1918)

I love this. Artemis as goddess of the Untrammeled Wild. and laughing at gods having portfolios

2 great postdoc vacancies with Jules Skotnes-Brown's new Wellcome project in Liverpool - a brilliant opportunity for scholars interested in bringing together medical and environmental history!

I really do think it's existential at this point - for *our* neural networks.

NPR announces it has secured philanthropic gifts totaling more than $110 million -- including the largest by a living donor in NPR's history -- as a strategic investment in its future. This comes after Congress chose to eliminate federal funding for all public media. https://loom.ly/B71nWB8

Me logging onto the internet/Me finding out RFK Jr. is starting a taxpayer-funded podcast, re-enacted by my dog Zoey.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

The self and the cyberself in quiet introspection

One of the best soundtracks in recent memory

There is a particular dense green color to the landscape of Kerala that I miss very much at certain times when I get homesick (only for Kerala). It makes me feel like I can breathe deeper. Don’t know how else to describe it

the incredible @travisclau.bsky.social last night, sharing his gorgeous poetry to a completely full room at Georgetown 💙

Didn't think I could love Riz Ahmed more than I do 😆 This is gold. Can't wait to watch BAIT. www.instagram.com/reels/DWPK95...

SINNERS 🏆🎥 #Oscars

A truly beautiful, polyglot essay @bmj.com on the gap between technocratic / bioscientific language and poetic language in care, drawing upon (among others) Ngũgĩ, Spenser, Césaire

YES YES YES!

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

In the @bmj.com last month, @thelakshmik.bsky.social considers the film Hamnet and how Maggie O’Farrell’s book offers remembrance of another plague at another time in history. Published in 2020, does the story help us to process what happened during the Covid years? #MedSky #BookSky

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Measles outbreaks in SC and (not at RFK's door, I guess), in North London. Highly contagious, nasty, and with potential long-term complications. This is not where we want to be...

2026. I have just returned from a visit to my local movie theatre... I have no clue what I just watched. I feel like I ate a pile of cotton candy and got lost in a Wes Anderson version of Yorkshire. Was it genius, or to quote Margot Robbie's Cathy, "silly nonsense?" #WutheringHeights

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous this is.

I reviewed Hamnet (Maggie O'Farrell) for @bmj.com. Chloé Zhao's film is sweeping awards season. Not without criticism – many have found it too weepy & criticize its use of “cheat codes” like Max Richter’s score. But I see in Hamnet’s pathos something else – remembrance, our collective aftermath.

Why, you must needs be strangers: would you be pleased To find a nation of such barbarous temper, That, breaking out in hideous violence, Would not afford you an abode on earth, .... This is the strangers’ case; And this your mountainish inhumanity.

An extraordinary paragraph. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Kim Stanley Robinson’s "The Ministry for the Future" is a book about decisions that determine not just who lives and dies now, but who will live and die in the future. Lakshmi Krishnan sets the scene for our first issue of 2026 www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Honored to be part of @bmj.com New Year’s Resolutions for the #climateemergency issue, kicking off 2026 with an exploration of Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future See @kamranabbasi.bsky.social's editorial & my piece below: tinyurl.com/4b2efbjj www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Summary of what happened at Temu ACIP this morning: As expected, they overturned the 30+ year recommendation for the birth dose of HepB vaccine, which has reduced the incidence of pediatric HepB by 99%. They provided no credible evidence to support this decision.

Excited to share new work first authored by Georgetown medical student Sweta Ghatti, comparing how medical humanities vs. empirical research approaches health disparities in DC. Congrats to our entire author team: Christopher King @charlescott.bsky.social, Xue Geng www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"For this reason I shall probably be called a trimmer by some and a sentimental extremist by others. But poetry in my opinion must be honest before anything else and I refuse to be ‘objective ’ or clear-cut at the cost of honesty." Louis MacNeice, Note Autumn Journal, 1939.

RFK JR: "We're doing the studies to make the proof." Saying the quiet part out loud.

I sat down with @vinayakjain.bsky.social & Kayla Zamanian to talk about our new piece in @jama.com & why the humanities & social sciences are fundamental to health research and innovation. Check out the article: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... drlakshmikrishnan.substack.com/p/the-new-cl...

I can't believe acetaminophen is main character right now

"Let's boil this down: AI for back office and admin tasks? Yes. AI for diagnostics and training? Perhaps, but we need to understand the impact on patient care." @kamranabbasi.bsky.social on the future of medicine www.bmj.com/content/389/...

This is great! Looking forward to reading. Bridging this gap is what Indigenous scholars have been advocating for decades: calling for recognition of the value and legitimacy of bridging methodologies across disciplines AND worldviews to answer complex health questions.

Mira por donde, siempre he pensado que soy un bicho raro y resulta que ahora sale en el JAMA que no es tan malo ser de ciencias y letras a la vez, cuando te dedicas a la medicina

Sure, I’m biased, but it’s amazing how often my Linguistics background is relevant or adds context.