Nothing good ever comes from private equity.

Friday gamechanger news: An injection to prevent HIV is to be offered to patients on the NHS in England & Wales for the first time. The long-acting shot, given every other month, is an alternative to taking daily pills to protect against the virus. 🧪💉 #medsky www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

"Academic freedom is not negotiable." WAHOOWA! And [deepest sigh ever because wow I disliked my PhD] Anchor Down. (Sharing screenshots with alt)

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

A bubbling measles outbreak in the upstate of South Carolina has forced 153 unvaccinated children out of the classroom and into quarantine for a minimum of 21 days.

"“We have to be able to measure the current status of food insecurity, and how it changes over time. If we can’t measure it, how are we going to create effective policies to address the issue?”

If it’s copyrighted material, it seems to me either you can’t use it without running afoul of copyright or you cannot. “This would be infringing except for that we give you an opt-out” is not a thing, that I know of. Your copyright *is* your reservation of rights, you don’t have to say “Even you.”

Best news!!! Take a look, it’s in a book, the reading rainbowwww…

God isn’t coming to save us, but collective action and sound unselfish decisions just might.

Arrested because a white woman demanded he change the way he was sitting and when he didn’t, she complained to the conductor about his posture. His posture.

Write to the NIH Director here: [email protected].

People are on that other site calling for the lynching of Black faculty who are speaking up about the impact the professor watchlist has had on them (us) and how it bred violence on campus.

What is SSPE? Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is one of the most feared complications of measles. It is rare, but always devastating: a progressive, fatal brain disorder that emerges years after a seemingly normal recovery from measles. 🧵 www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

All the times they said the left does this, they were just setting up the table for the right to do it. Just like we said they were.

Breaking: Missouri House passes new gerrymandered US House map giving GOP 90% of seats in state Trump won with 58% of vote. Destroys district held by Black Rep Emanuel Cleaver, one of 2 Dems in state Texas was just start of Trump’s sweeping plan to rig midterms www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Just learned about this op-ed via Maddow. Grandparents for Vaccine officially launched yesterday. "Many of today's parents, having never witnessed the devastating effects of polio or whooping cough, are being lulled into a dangerous complacency. But we grandparents remember." Thank you.

What's really funny about Sam Altman: Back in 2016, HIS New Yorker profile was what made me realise the super-rich—esp the Thiel circle—all had island bunkers plans (NZ, Hawaii), fuelled jets and the plan to run away when their huge Ponzi shaped scams fall apart www.wheresyoured.at/why-everybod...

I'm always astounded when I hear people say "during COVID." We just finished our second week of class and I've already have 5 students of 50 out for COVID. We are still during COVID.

I would laugh (more) at this UNC game if it wasn’t a colosal waste of money and a distraction from the funding concerns at the university.

🚨 Job! 🚨 Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived). Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655 Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!

I am chairing the search for two (2) Tenure Track positions at the Department of Health Services, Policy and Management at @uscarnoldschool.bsky.social We are looking to move relatively fast so please get your applications in quickly #HealthPolicy #AcademicSky uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...

He is not a medical or health professional. What he is is dangerous.

Live coverage of CDC staff walkout - www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...

There is a massive walk out at the CDC by staff unfolding right now. It is NECESSARY. I stand in solidarity with my CDC colleagues. standing up for science and public health. It is a moral imperative.

Me: this is great, glad to see authors ripped off by AI getting their due. Me after using the search tool: I am one of these ripped off authors. Academics, it only takes a minute. Seven of my papers are in this and I had no idea.

1/ I don’t know how to say this without sounding harsh, but I need you to hear it. COVID — or SARS-2 — is not “just another cold.” It doesn’t leave you the same. Every reinfection stacks damage: brain, heart, immune system.

This is a dictatorship.

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German postal services group DHL said Friday that it would suspend the shipment of standard parcels for businesses to the United States, in line with similar moves by European peers deterred by looming US customs duties for low-value packages.

A kitchen table issue I care about is the Smithsonian not twisting the facts of history to the president’s will.

The Sanctuary Movement of the 1980s began as a response to US policies in Central America. Churches and cities offered protection to refugees fleeing violence, sparking today's sanctuary city policies.

We’re fighting against a data center using hundreds of acres of farmland here in my small town in NC. Microsoft already came in & bulldozed all the trees & life from one huge site nearby. Then decided they fucked up & walked away. Left us a raw dirt & water pit to grow mosquitoes. For shitty AI

Google's data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa used 1 BILLION gallons of water in 2024 - enough to supply all of Iowa's residential water for five days. Researchers in water law and policy explain how companies rarely tell the public exactly how much water data centers consume: buff.ly/uRvYWPN

There's no way to tell American history without a robust discussion of slavery. Much like manipulating job numbers doesn't magically bring economic prosperity. Trump wants to live in his own little reality, but that in noway prevents the country from hitting the iceberg.

Folx catching covid 19 but please decide to #maskup too, on all forms of transportation, at conferences, everywhere, inside and outside #covidisstillhere #covidawareness #covidisairborne

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

These settlements are a sham AND there needs to be transparency for where these settlement funds are going (we know but still)…

A very unsurprising finding. Although I’m glad that awareness of “junk (read racist) data in == junk (racist) results out” continues highlight the folly of assuming AI generated results are somehow unbiased.

When countries start restricting US travel to their countries or make these “expats” (really immigrants but ya’ll like to racialize that word) pay fees and taxes like immigrants do in the US, then don’t complain.

Hey fellow alumni, it only takes a minute: [email protected] (607) 255-5201

The sense that women have excessive moral obligations to men—to care for their feelings, to defer to their interests—but can legitimately make only minor claims in such care from others is central to how misogyny actually perpetrates itself as an ideology.

Due to disruptions in funding, there will be no applications admitted for U Michigan's epidemiology PhD this fall. 🧪 www.michigandaily.com/news/news-br...

Free plums and propaganda.

A senior leader at one NIH institute said: “At my level we are legitimately trying to figure out how to keep funding high-impact science given what we expect will happen.” The senior leader added: “Our grants people are barely holding it together because they are at the center of this chaos.”

I really want us to sit and consider that the Department of Justice is using their time and resources to read faculty senate statements that support having a diverse faculty. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Tumulty wrote this 9 days ago We now know it’s not “might”—Kennedy IS moving to undercut lifesaving preventive care by firing the US Preventive Services Task Force (he says they’re too “woke” 🤯) All that vile, dangerous man does is cause suffering; he is dismantling US healthcare & public health

Inside sources told me the CDC's massive HIV surveys have been halted. This essentially wastes $72 million already spent, years of effort, and 30K people's time. Stopping the next round of surveys means trying to curb HIV in the dark. Inefficient to say the least. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

📢BREAKING: Just left the courthouse for our NIH grant termination case Judge ruled terminations are “VOID & ILLEGAL” As a plaintiff, I felt a wave of relief & hope; he acknowledged the discrimination & harm Closed by asking, ‘Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?’