Wrote a little about the work the U.S. put into helping academics escape fascism during WWII and why we can't rely on that for our future www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

My fantastic department, the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at Upstate Medical University, is growing and hiring for two TT positions! careers.upstate.edu/jobs/associa... careers.upstate.edu/jobs/associa... #bioethics #MedicalHumanities #ClinicalEthics

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

Without question, the best two minutes on the internet. Take a break from the awful news cycle and enjoy this haircut and....feedback from the internet.

Best moments in different kinds of research activities: Reading other scholars: "Woah woah, I'm understanding this in a whole new way!" Archival/historical work: "Hold on, wait a minute, WTF?!" DH + creative making stuff: "It worked!!!"

I forgive you for cross posting, and that forgiveness is legally binding and perpetual. You no longer need to apologize. You are free.

What the duck?

“When a parent declines a universally recommended vaccination for their child, there is not even a pretense that this is the choice the child “would make” …the ethical conflict is not between the principles of “beneficence” and “autonomy,” but rather between “beneficence” and “parental rights.”

We need more coverage that isn't breathless hype for "AI in medicine"

the manuscript i submitted

This! The academic tendency to read one's own scholarly practice as normative for everyone's is maddening. Any conversation about citation that doesn't take into account different collaborative, investigative, and even reading practices isn't ready for prime time.

Tired: this meeting could have been an email. Wired: this app could have been a website

Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"

Fellow NEH Terminees, don't get excited by the new email from Reach. It's just the required notification of the court's judgement with no new information.

Things that should not be run like businesses: universities, hospitals, and government. Things that should be run like businesses: businesses. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

All faculty rn re: Canvas

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There are no insects on this sign, but I promise not to eat any of the animals. #PedantInNature

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

🗣️ New paper from the CAMH Everyday Ethics Lab! 🧠 Do disease-based explanations of chronic pain reduce stigma? This is the question we set out to answer in our new paper in the @thejournalofpain.bsky.social #bioethics #neuroethics #stigma 1/9

Nailed it???

Everything is possible and nothing is real. Baudrillard wins again.

Just saw a new fucking Google Gemini ad where they have a basketball player look up how to improve and it literally says PRACTICE YOUR SHOT and then the new slogan is QUIET YOUR BRAIN I apologize to every single cyberpunk writer I ever said was being too on the nose

There are a lot of great Onion headlines, but as an environmental rhetorician, this has to be my #1.

Journal goes dark after impersonating @erictopol.bsky.social and others

I was invited to take part when it was launched but declined. My two issues were security of the database (& how easy it was to de-anonymise as my house had its own postcode!) plus they couldn't confirm that they wouldn't have partnerships outside NHS, perhaps even monetising research in the future

That's tens of thousands of authors whose submissions can be desk-rejected from here on out, leaving some more room for the rest of us. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Megha Manjari Mohanty reviews Art and the Critical Medical Humanities, exploring how the volume positions art as a methodological tool for rethinking medical knowledge and care alongside cultures of illness and health. thepolyphony.org/2026/04/21/c...

Perfect name for something you use for your science and not give any credit

The double meaning of “agent” — a) initiator of action vs b) proxy who represents another actor — is becoming a very load-bearing equivocation.

May the House of Toyota reign a thousand years with magnanimity and honor

Tenure folks should be doing a ton of reviews. I actually have turned down multiple AE/Editor roles because I think the field needs me doing reviews more than editing.

Texas "bbq"

We went by year and added up the fellowship wins by first affiliation. We grabbed the top 10 universities in 2025 and then we tracked them all the way back to 1925 (gray bars are when a fellowship begins). We found a reaaaaal steady hierarchy.

I’m reading the Expanse again. Miller and Holden were being treated for lethal radiation exposure and the crew had to constantly override the automated medical systems which considered their survival probability so low that it initiated palliative care. This is madness.

@lastpositivist.bsky.social offers a thoughtful reply in a later post. I offer a hasty image critique of the original post. The rules invoked just don't match the game being played.

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

I do like how obvious it is that academics say "the ____ Turn" to avoid saying "the ____ trend"

Call for conttributions to special issue of @bioethicalinquiry.bsky.social on 'Bioethics for the Planet', mixing medical ethics & environmental (climate) ethics - edited by Paul Komesaroff, Cara Platts, Natasha Rooney and me. EoI by May 31 to [email protected] #bioethics #medhum #envhum #STS

Appropriate since snakes do not have arms.

“Health economists warned that this AI coding arms race — fueled by AI scribes and autonomous coding tools maximizing codes on one side, and by insurer algorithms trying to minimize payments on the other — is a zero-sum game that could really hurt some of the most vulnerable providers”

Post-doc in medical humanities at Rice University jobs.chronicle.com/job/37971486...

I don’t think BlueSky is dying but I do think it‘s stagnant because there are only so many unpleasant terminally online politically hyper-engaged left of center aging millennials with personality disorders and a history of underachievement to draw from. We’re pretty much all here already.

This is wild

New bioethics job at University of Colorado jobs.chronicle.com/job/37968079...

The Humanities Institute is co-sponsoring: Before World Literature: The Trickster Tales of al‑Ḥarīrī in an Age of Commentary. RSVP liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/events/