The biggest impediment to my job and the greatest source of my frustration has always been white women nurses who are tied to the myth of nurses as angels and the general historical discourse that surrounds them. That’s why Beyond Florence for @nursingclio.bsky.social was the best thing I ever did.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Shelby County, where Musk’s xAI facility sits, has Tennessee’s highest rate of ER visits for asthma. For the majority-Black residents of the area, emissions from the company’s methane gas turbines exacerbate longstanding public health concerns. By @wendicthomas.bsky.social

I hope you understand that this violence and exploitation touches your life. Isabella's FLC had contracts with farms that sold produce Trader Joe's, Kroger, Costco, and Aldi, among other major grocery store chains. You have a direct link to this modern slavery and gender-based violence.

It’s about time. When I visited the site years ago, there wasn’t even a fence protecting it. www.ksdk.com/article/news...

After weeks and weeks of no rain, it appears at least the Northshore area will get a power washing to start flushing the 'Smitty's Experience'🛢 down into Lake Maurepas and points South into the greater estuaries. I hope to hear/am bracing for some local ecological reporting 😬

I want to do a little breakdown of this investigation I published today for @prismreports.org about gender-based violence in the H-2A agricultural visa program.

I was part of a working group on AI and Fraternity assembled by the Vatican. We met in Rome and worked on this over two days. I am happy to share the result of that intense effort: a Declaration we presented to the Pope and other government authorities coexistence.global

I deal with this a lot, more than anti-vax. It’s the same playbook as human wellness/SCAM. It tends to rope in very well meaning and usually pretty smart pet owners just trying to do their best. And with the skyrocketing costs of vet care (thanks private equity), trust in us is at an all time low.

😻😻😻CLEANSING THERMONUCLEAR FIRE IS CANCELED FOR THE EVENING! SMOL TABBY KITTEN NAPPING HOORAY TABBY KITTIES!😻😻😻 HT @bowlerhatscience.org

People be so off base whenever they assume that all of blue states are bastions of liberalism and open mindedness. Like Stephen miller, Nixon, and Reagan are/were all from California. Go 50 miles outside of most major cities you might as well be in Mississippi.

“Dept of Transportation and Development declined to pursue any of the recommendations” “In lieu of infrastructure changes, state transportation officials want residents to leave as early as possible” Budgets are statements of priorities, and Louisiana does not want to help its residents to live.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

Every single interview I do with an American researcher right now… Me: How’re things going in academia? Them: Oh, you know… **waves arms** Them: How’re things in journalism? Me: Oh, you know… **waves arms**

Today I was finally able to get my vaccines for flu, covid, and HPV. I'm very excited to live in an era when such preventative technologies exist! IMAGINE! A vaccine! that prevents CANCER! two more for infectious diseases which can be deadly or cause long-term debility!

Sending up the archaeology bat signal

It’s wild in the “fuck your feelings” era that there’s *still* an endless supply of articles claiming billionaires became fascists because their feelings got hurt.

"Why do queen bumblebees emerge from hibernation during weekends?" I love this framing about bias in hobbyist-collected data.

Abortion bans making pregnancy more dangerous, shaming women for using tylenol, making the world more dangerous for babies: this is all pronatalist because pronatalism is about recreating mandatory childbearing, not making childbearing easier.

I wish i could mute all football content on here that wasn't a critique of football. I really DNGAF about season updates and whatnot for the myriad of HS, college, and pro teams that fill up my feed. Muting "football" doesn't work well, b/c of league & team names being used instead of sport type.

"the scientific system was never designed for equity. For people whose privilege stems from geography, institutional reputation and inherited networks, the system works perfectly the way it is." Perfectly= expansion for privileged researchers, extraction from historically excluded ones. Yup.

Wow! Who could have seen this coming?

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

I dunno who needs to hear it, but we dropped Hulu and Disney streaming. Not in defense of Kimmel, but in disappointment with corporate capitulation.

As the South becomes the new epicenter of data center growth, it is becoming increasingly clear that Big Tech is following Big Oil’s footsteps.

Fantastic essay by my colleague here @histoftech.bsky.social: Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate ash.harvard.edu/resources/wa... (pdf: arxiv.org/pdf/2408.08778) 🧪

Sometimes I forget that when some people say they want to "build relationships with communities" as part of their research, the unspoken part is "so they will do what we tell them" rather than "so we can hear from them." Something to keep in mind.

Honestly I should have had the Katmai bears as an acknowledgement in my dissertation, because there was an approximately three week period where I just had the livestream of the bears fishing in the rivers open on the side of one screen as I wrote and edited and tried to squash the panic.

We deserve some joy. We deserve some FAT BEARS. NEXT WEEK NEXT WEEK!!!! Go Grazer Go you absolute unit! www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n...

Tl;dr = No. www.science.org/content/blog...

So, it’s hard to find workers, AND the pay is going down? Hmmm 🧐 Also a reminder, since Grist doesn’t mention it, the REASON agricultural jobs (& household domestic labor) are exempt from most common labor protections is because racist senators wanted to ensure Black workers could be treated like 💩

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Has anyone *ever* gotten a response from an "editorial team" by using the email address listed on the journal information site as the contact email if you have questions? Asking for a friend.

Has anyone *ever* gotten a response from an "editorial team" by using the email address listed on the journal information site as the contact email if you have questions? Asking for a friend.

This is causing so much unnecessary stress in folks beginning grad school, too. It’s already so hard to put together a proposal that lays out your dream research project and a persuasive statement arguing why you are qualified. Usually while also navigating in a new place with new mentors.

We live in a technological hell of our own making 😭

For @thelensnola.bsky.social, @delaneynolan.bsky.social and I dove deep into a CO2 pipeline Exxon wants to build right near communities in St James Parish, La, for carbon capture. A CO2 rupture can be lethal, and federal safety regs have been pulled by Trump thelensnola.org/2025/09/18/i...

In my opinion, this process buried the most important finding of the paper (nearly every journalist I've spoken to has been confused that this finding isn't more clearly stated) and - because of the two month delay, then sudden publication - ultimately meant that there is no press or press release.

This project took three years (two of which were unfunded). The initial Wellcome Trust-commissioned report was published in May 2024. Peer review forced us to collapse that 80+ page report down to an Article, then a Brief Communication. In the process, the article went through three major changes.

Writing separately, but, I'd like to share a brief honest reflection on the experience of writing our paper on climate change health impact attribution, which is to date probably the hardest and most frustrating project of 100+ I've published in 15 years as a scientist.

I made the mistake of devoting myself to AI4SG early in my career because I wanted to believe I could use my skills to make the world a better place. Instead, I found exactly what Dr. Birhane describes - particularly with respect to accountability laundering. I'll share one example🧵

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I just found out about this from @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social and I cannot properly convey my excitement because one of the map sets I need for my book are georeferenced and ready to go and that makes it so much easier as a postdoc who doesn’t have protected research time to make figures.

And they likely benefit from higher vaccination rates (& subsequently, herd immunity) among their neighbors. This is a classic "freerider" problem, with rather severe public health costs.

I'm trying to arrange a trip that involves renting a car and ...there are no electric rental options anymore? Anyone have any news stories about this trend? Because I greatly enjoyed being able to rent an electric car rather than a gas-powered one.

Muted the work “Kirk” here for the next 7 days because I’m tired of that filling up my feed. Perhaps you might consider the same.

CLARKSVILLE — @austinpeay has just fired a professor over an “insensitive” post. @clarksvillenow suggests it may have been this one highlighted by @marshablackburn , where he shared an article about Kirk’s comments about gun deaths and the 2nd Amendment👇🏽 clarksvillenow.com/local/apsu-f...