my GOSH is it muggy out there today!!

A thread about ongoing erasing and ignoring science... 🧵

Bystander CPR can make a difference!

gofund.me/d3534a27 Venmo me: jbrisbon1181 Cashapp: seekansdestroy230 The perfect birthday gift would be a donation to make sure I finish medical school and have a smooth transition to residency as I pay for medical bills & face housing and food insecurities #medsky #mdsky #dosky #urosky #birthday

Following the death of Matt Arco, many expressed their sadness and admiration for the 39-year-old reporter

I’m going to try to explain why, while I understand anger toward the parents whose unvaccinated children died of measles, I don’t share it. IMO it is a tragedy. My reasons for this hinge on 2 main points: 1. Public health requires the public 2. We can’t ignore the social determinants of health

You want to see an octopus riding a shark. 🎥: University of Auckland www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...

If the world is too much, this movie is a balm. Stream Flow on Max play.max.com/movie/83df1c...

Looking to talk with federal employees with disabilities who were terminated this weekend, especially folks hired through Schedule A or disabled veterans. Please boost! #disability #journorequest

If you need an example, here is one from the BMJ. Policy is explicit, clear, and that's all there is to it. bsky.app/profile/crag...

VERY good news from @bookshop-org.bsky.social!!

Nice update on this. Smart people here with mad skills were generous with their time and tracked down the owner of the docs — a third generation descendent. Turned out my friend, whose yard it below into, knows them - they are more than a mile away. Owners reunited with heirloom docs. Thanks all.

It's good that there's a 25% tarriff on imported coffee now. This will incentivize people to purchase American coffee, grown in the New Jersey coffee forests

we're hiring an associate editor to help with our advice columns! an incredibly fun position! jobs.lever.co/slate/4e9386...

If your work has been impacted by the Trump administration's freeze on scientific meetings/comms or its executive actions targeting DEI programs, STAT wants to know more: www.statnews.com/2025/01/22/t...

I haven’t been to DC in ages and am super excited for this! It’s on January 23rd, come hang :)

Match for Urology is early February. I am hopeful for him. However, Rutgers is doing very little to help him; I even asked the foundation and got crickets.

The LA Times photo desk, which is doing incredible work covering these brutal fires, has set up a Bluesky account that is among the newest ones we have verified. They are well worth following right now. @latimesphotos.bsky.social

Surgeon Dorothy Lavinia Brown was born 111 years ago today. After a youth in the New York orphanage system, she rose to become head surgeon at Riverside Hospital from 1957 to 1983, and a Tennessee legislator who worked to expand women's access to abortion in the 1960s. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #HistSci

Naughty dog tries to plead his case with Santa.

Vaccines are under attack like never before and pathogens just don’t stop emerging, so in related news... I’m honored to lead Vaccine & face these challenges w/ my co-Editors-in-Chief Florian & Ivan. I’m ready to elevate vaccine research, defend evidence-based policy, & stand up for public health!

An important story about intersection of law, medicine, and incarceration. apple.news/ApbSqMTNuRpG...

A worrying trend apple.news/ATIKJL_S_TcG...

This is the most important chart published in America this week. (By @dylanlscott.bsky.social)

I spoke to Alexandre Silberman in September about our @cellpressnews.bsky.social paper on genetic evidence of the zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2 & now it’s out. Interview airing on The National tonight in 🇨🇦. I am told it contains bonus @isaacbogoch.bsky.social content www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Our recent report on #AntimicrobialResistance & the need for improved surveillance, testing, infection control, #antibiotic stewardship, funding & global commitments for #AMR solutions in humanitarian settings. #WAAW2024 #MedSky msfaccess.org/broken-lens-...

Convinced people learned to drive through the parking deck on this bad boy

I spoke to @mscribe.bsky.social @theguardian.com about the H5N1 case in BC. More and more human cases are occurring, along with mutations that indicate further human adaptation. We need to treat these cases like a warning, because that is what they are. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Is sharing our writing a thing here? 😊 Proud of this piece because it represents the work of so many trying to make medicine and communication better for our patients. #MedSky www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/action/showP...

It’s the Westie’s year: www.axios.com/local/philad...

this column is what comes out when you smash your head repeatedly into the keyboard in a fit of rage wapo.st/3Z6fMhu

I never read Moby-Dick but now I kinda want to read the novel. apple.news/AVsGlxVY_SvG...

Sunday morning read: apple.news/A0tD7AhSXSpC...

Sunday morning read over coffee: on writing, friendship, and honoring the dead www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

If that awful WaPo op-ed had you seething, here’s the smartest take from Lyz Lenz (given yourself a gift and subscribe to her newsletter): open.substack.com/pub/lyz/p/no...

For the love of Christmas (and my sanity): Don't do this! 🙏https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-d4331476-9bb9-4b31-baf0-55a442c73886.html?chunk=7&utm_term=twsocialshare#story7

May this be the place.