Food insecurity affects more families now than during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. n.pr/4nWXXfN

University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university

Revised a manuscript in Japan, submitted the manuscript in Korea, and got an acceptance alert when I landed back in the US.

CDC "has quietly removed a federal public health webpage offering explicit safer-sex and harm reduction guidance for mpox. The deletion confirms fears among LGBTQ+ health experts that the Trump administration is once again illegally scrubbing medically vetted information tied to queer..."

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

hazard pay for our beaver comrades or we're striking

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

I met a tea sommelier today and if this academia thing doesn’t work out, that may be my next career.

UNC’s School of Civic Life and Leadership (SCiLL) has scholarships for students who elect its minor AND an affiliated "residential learning program"???

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

My prediction is that AI is actually so organically unpopular that we’re going to see a backlash against any new product that uses “AI” even if it doesn’t and that was a marketing ploy. All these newly “AI” companies are going to come crawling back, AI-less

At this point, they are openly calling their customers marks and dupes

Being in a country with solid public transportation always feels amazing.

"Alleging a “pattern of deception” in virus studies done more than a decade ago, the U.S. government has proposed a ban on federal funding to a prominent coronavirus researcher whose more recent work has incited unproven accusations that he helped start the COVID-19 pandemic."

They do eventually get to the thing I don’t understand: If you don’t learn how to do anything except plug prompts into chatbots, what do you envision anybody hiring you for? I would love it if people just *wanted* to be able to think critically, but it’s also practical?

OpenAI’s new image-generation model can create highly realistic fake IDs, receipts, and prescriptions, @lilashroff.bsky.social reports. She examines how the model risks perpetuating fraud:

Seeing a lot of good questions about #hantavirus quarantine procedures European CDC on departing cruise ship passengers: ➡️ Considered high-risk of hantavirus ➡️ Recommends quarantine & monitoring at home for 6 weeks www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publicati...

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

The fam didn't believe me when I told them this story was right under the latest updates on the cruise affected by hantavirus

ICE Arrests Violated Order Requiring Warrants in D.C., Judge Rules www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/u...

To slightly adapt Orwell: The Supreme Court told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was its final, most essential command.

As of TODAY, the group that has experienced the LARGEST percentage point increase in unemployment since last year is Black women. #jobsday #econsky

Since Covid, we've had outbreaks of measles, pertussis, and more. I contracted pertussis, early January 2024. My immune system was already weakened from a severe cold I'd wrestled with in Nov-Dec 2023 (asthmatics understand). Yes, I was up-to-date with TDaP. Every 10 years. 2004, 2014...2024. But!

“The move disqualifies loans for those studying for careers as advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language therapists, social workers, counseling and mental health practitioners,..” www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

Oh man www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Teaching kids AI literacy - what it is, how it actually works, what the tradeoffs are in using it - would be a good thing. But that's not what's being proposed, they're trying to get it into grade schools to create AI dependency

South Africa's public sector scientists have been unsung heroes throughout the COVID pandemic, and now this hantavirus outbreak. #GlobalHealth

Trabajadores del Hospital Costa del Sol de Marbella duermen en coches por la falta de vivienda y el colapso de los servicios de transporte diario.publico.es/2d9…

With gas prices and other necessities at record highs, families are struggling with costs. NPR wants to know how you're coping. n.pr/4teogPo

"I never imagined at my age I would be choosing between paying rent, buying food and getting my medication. I cut back everything I can, but these rent hikes are more than I can bear." A heartbreaking and enraging story:

Mifepristone is: ✅ safe ✅ effective ✅ backed by decades of science ✅ critical for abortion and miscarriage care ✅ essential to protecting our reproductive freedom

Congratulations. I promise that you're not missing anything. I will be ordering your book.

I’m a President now. @acog.org @acogd2.bsky.social

www.seriouseats.com/sweet-potato... This looks interesting. (I'm having to pay attention to diet thanks to genetics...)

Instead of that bullshit, if you’re looking for craft books about writing memoir, I’d recommend BODY WORK by Melissa Febos and THE ART OF MEMOIR by Mary Karr. (I often assign Febos’s book in my classes; Karr’s book was very helpful while I wrote HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES.)

students on campuses protesting genocide have been doxxed, targeted by social media harassment campaigns, lost jobs, scholarships, visas; threatened and attacked physically by cops/random strangers allowed onto campuses; and now, been RUN OVER BY A UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT I am in disbelief.

Facial recognition systems turn your identity into a permanent digital key. If that data is breached, it’s not just another hack — it’s a lifelong vulnerability that can track you, expose you and be nearly impossible to undo. theconversation.com/facial-recog...

I will never forgive the dismantling of federal grant funding for girls & women! The program I co-run for middle school girls is on life support after #NIH funding cuts to #science, #math, & #health! Today’s closing survey responses differ SO MUCH from where they started. 😭 I’m devastated. 💔

“I’ve been 33 years in law enforcement” and “I would run this state like a business” Should be instantly disqualifying

I think academic public health really needs to reckon with the black box bias inherent to GenAI

Michigan State Police are investigating after an MSU zoology student from Maryland that was getting ready to graduate was shot, by his mother's count, 17 times by police. 17 times.

Everytime I hear from federal funders and the research office to just submit grants, I can feel my blood pressure increase. Everyone is submitting but opportunities are getting cancelled last minute, proposals aren’t being reviewed, and funds are not being distributed.

We can talk about Reconstruction, but it’s important for white folks to understand this isn’t an intellectual exercise. Sounds like some of you want to wait for the bad thing to happen, but why the hell would we do that when we can make life very hard for some very stupid people.

Absolutely not. I want us to stop allowing people who only speak among themselves to decide how the world works.

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

WaPo reports Louisiana’s governor will announce on Friday that he is suspending the House primaries where people have already started voting and redraw the map; I’d expect them to go for an all-Republican map and eliminate both majority-Black districts, not just one.

Wonderful to see African countries pushing back and rejecting these so-called bilateral agreements for global health that are truly extractive. eastleighvoice.co.ke/africa/34061...

“Faculty & Staff” can be a misleading way to characterize the academic labor force. The endowed chair of the business school is “faculty” alongside the adjunct teaching comp and an administrative assistant is “staff” alongside the Provost, but the conditions of their labor are radically different.

84% of Iowa students taking public funding to attend private school have never been in public school