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Sharing the updated University of Michigan Severe UC Protocol - it can now be found here in version 3.01. New versions will stay at this web address. Updated regularly and publicly available. Highlights in this version include targeted use of ketorolac for pain hgshiny.med.umich.edu/UM_Severe_UC...

You want to see Norway men’s national football team’s official photo for World Cup 2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

The peony garden at the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor campus is home to one of the world’s largest collections of historic herbaceous peonies. The garden features hundreds of heirloom varieties and more than 10,000 flowers at peak season.

Showing that ASUC today != ASUC in 1955. AND TW criteria are not very helpful doi.org/10.1093/ibd/...

@bealoquebea.bsky.social showed us something the oldsters knew - you lose ground with each course of corticosteroids in IBD. academic.oup.com/ibdjournal/a...

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

So... I got more information about this plan. The most important points follow on the next posts. 1/3

I heard from several sources yesterday that NIH is planning to release a Request for Information (RFI) that apparently will include this: Scores and percentiles for NIH grant applications will not be shared with applicants although they will be provided to NIH program officers and staff. 1/3

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Since only God could attain perfection there was a medieval monastic scribal practice of deliberately introducing a spelling or grammatical error as an act of humility. I myself always try for four or five errors per syllabus lest there be any doubt as to my humility.

The Illinois & Michigan Canal, opened in 1848, is why Chicago is. Why did it work when most failed? It actually solved a problem! It connected the Great Lakes with the Mississippi River, creating a shipping route from the Atlantic Ocean down through the U.S. It’s been replaced by bigger canals.

“Dr. Antaki, a biomedical engineer, had been building an artificial heart for babies and young children, a pump the size of a AA battery, and he was getting close. But with his research grants stopped, Dr. Antaki slowly drained his lab’s rainy day funds, and he was forced to lay off all his staff.”

Such a boss. Hoping Timo is taking notes for his mayoral campaign in 2041.

SCREAMING-KEBAB-CASE

If you're a #QuartoPub or #RStats user, you might find it hard to find information about how those work with #GitLab. So here's a blog post showing you a few different ways to deploy Quarto documents with GitLab Pages! (Featuring penguins 🐧obviously ) Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/deploy-...

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

They desperately need more grant managers and program officers. Hard to even get the Just-In-Time emails out.

And the FDA chaos continues. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Will MLS always be the little brother to Liga MX? 🤔 If the league doesn’t change its salary cap and DP rules, it’s becoming harder to see MLS clubs keeping up in the CCC 🙄

Sharing this for the good of #Bluesky:

You can find the resources from yesterday's "No more copy and paste! Parameterized plots and reports with #RStats and #Quarto" R/Medicine workshop online! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/r-medicine-2... @rconsortium.bsky.social

IBM computer manual from 1979:

If it is typed into a phone or computer, you should expect it to appear later online, in court, on every SoMe site. There is no security once information is digital. Do *not* believe companies who claim to follow HIPAA law.

Hard to prove, but many NIH grants reviewed this month felt like AI chaff. And applicants submitting more than one R01 to the same study section in the same grant cycle is WAAAY up. Possibly a coincidence, but it is (normally) a lot of work to put together two simultaneous R01s.

Hard to prove, but many NIH grants reviewed this month felt like AI chaff. And applicants submitting more than one R01 to the same study section in the same grant cycle is WAAAY up. Possibly a coincidence, but it is (normally) a lot of work to put together two simultaneous R01s.

📊 Five #ggplot2 functions I wish I'd known about earlier 📊 I've written a short blog (with examples) of some of the lesser-known {ggplot2} functions and arguments that make it easier to create better charts! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/five-gg... #RStats #DataViz

Ever come back to an #rstats project and…it just doesn’t work anymore? Or struggle to keep up with all the latest R packages & tools, much less integrate them into your code? Keeping R workflows up-to-date can feel daunting - but luckily, @rladiessb.bsky.social has some thoughts ⤵️

Annnnnd this goes well beyond what was written down in Project 2025!

✅Previously unpublished paper. Leaked here! ✅Quotes from the source (identity withheld). ✅On-record quotes from one of the authors of the study. ✅On-record quote from a former editor-in-chief of CDC’s MMWR. ✅Insights & analysis. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Calling #JordanPeele with the horror-movie batsignal

My abstract has been accepted for presentation at R/Medicine 2026. I’ll be my R package, medicalcoder. www.peteredewitt.com/medicalcoder/ Thank you @rconsortium.bsky.social for putting on the conference! #rstats #RMedicine #HealthInformatics #EHR #ClinicalResearch

I'm running a workshop at R/Medicine conference next week! 📅 Wednesday, May 6, 2026 ⌚ 14:30 - 17:30 EDT (19:30 - 22:30 BST) ❓ No more copy and paste! Parameterized plots and reports with #RStats and Quarto Join us to learn about writing #ggplot2 functions & creating parameterised reports!

New blog post! After years of annoying shenanigans, I discovered that nowadays it's *really* straightforward to get tikz diagrams in #QuartoPub to automatically turn into SVGs in HTML, docx, and Typst! Install Inkscape, install a Quarto extension, and you're done. www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2026/02...

In the minority resisting the AI scribe wave. Expecting employer to demand it as some point (so we can serve more patients faster)

“Congress did fund NIH. That is true. The President signed the appropriation. The money exists. But the grants are not necessarily moving.” Great piece from Liz Ginexi detailing why. Add to this all of this new screening is happening with 20% less staff. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

Wonderful opportunity to engage with the community and pick up some new skills with colleagues!

For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it's everywhere, and a new book argues it's key to understanding today's inequality. n.pr/4e0RHRi

Fun projects with hackster.io (there are 4 parts) and lots of related examples. Cool low-cost tech.

I’m in love with the little examples on top of this intro to hacking with epaper displays www.hackster.io/etolocka/mas...

Sharing the free e-book Reproducible Medical Research with R peter-higgins-rmrwr.share.connect.posit.cloud

I'm back with another quarto extension, now presenting quarto-timelines! Customizable timelines in html and revealjs slides, different layout and fragment support included emilhvitfeldt.com/post/quarto-... #quarto

"Preprinting Does Not Meet Science’s Duty of Care Responsibility to Society" raises questions such as "why do they talk of science as a monolithic thing but only discuss a narrow corner of it?" and "what the hell?" journal.trialanderror.org/pub/preprint...

McKinsey to contribute $125 million to Purdue bankruptcy over opioid sales advice reut.rs/4vmXxm9

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here: