Don’t miss the open-access Milbank Quarterly article, “Incarceration and Psychiatric Emergency Department Visits Among Black Americans” by Abhery Das, Michael Esposito, Tim Bruckner, and Hedwig Lee

Finally, a new blog post: theodoragoss.com/2026/02/01/h... "The problem, as I see it, is that the emphasis on AI and AGI seems to be replacing our focus on HI and HGI — on human intelligence."

Thys was my Heated Rivalrye

Stop pretending it’s business as usual. Social work faculty, talk to your students about community organizing, community care, mutual aid. Have them do break outs to talk about the role(s) they want to play right now. Do safety planning work. Share various theories of change. Do not be complicit.

In a recent open-access Milbank Quarterly article, Devin English of the Rutgers School of Public Health and coauthors examine associations from police and social services expenditures to later suicides and police-perpetrated killings for Black and White residents.

People do not want to reckon with the actual purpose of policing. That's all I'll say about that.

How many women have died with “fucking bitch” ringing in their ears? Don’t let the misogyny get erased here

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

In a new open-access Milbank Quarterly article, @danielthebaslock.bsky.social and @nariyoo.bsky.social introduce a multidimensional rurality index to create a more comprehensive ranking of the rurality of US states that can inform policy comparisons and resource allocation.

told my landlord he no longer has to apologize for being white and he lowered my rent by 25%. told the grocer it's now the trump kennedy center and he sold me potatoes for $1. told PG&E it's a christian nation now and electricity is free. try it sometime

It's impossible for insurers to lower premiums without slashing provider reimbursement rates. He's going to try to kill off more hospitals.

What about if the game is Magic: The Gathering? Then what?

Sobbing

I do not want tomorrow at all. I just want a plate of deviled eggs and to be left in a dark room until Friday.

It feels uniquely American to see organizations representing one's field defending it's status a profession to push back against the government imposing student loan limits, with no mention of the out of control costs of higher education & institutionalized practice of required unpaid internships.

You know what, I'm just gonna re-up this post

If every author in the class action filed a claim it would financially ruin the entire industry! 😊

sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure

Would it be helpful if we did a talk on what an insurance death spiral is? And why ACA premiums entering a death spiral will mean that people who rely on employer-sponsored insurance will also be fucked? Or do folks already have a good grasp on that?

How do so many democrats still not understand that the ACA *was* the compromise.

Which will result in healthy people pulling out of the market, leading to even hire rates for all of us.

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

In the olden dayes we would know by now the relative force impact of a fully laden subway sandwich fired at point blank range by an inebriated individual who hasn’t thrown anything in 15 years. Academic tweetersky is a pale shadow. 🙁

washing my acid reflux medication down with coffee ❤️

I think these guys might be lonely because they suck so much no one wants to be around them tbh (good article, btw) www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...

The "now that they're suffering too, right wing voters will learn and we must reach out to them" rhetoric is starting and I need people to be so fucking for real

On Nazi tattoos and the progressive search for a “great white hope” “Now, I know for a fact that the working class in this country looks more like a Latino woman who cleans houses than it looks like Platner, a former defense contractor turned oyster farmer with some leftist political beliefs.”

Linkage to substance use disorder treatment through syringe services programs and the criminal legal system: A Cross-Sectional Study "Findings suggest that recent SSP use was associated with recent SUD treatment uptake, while recent CLS involvement was not." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

For anyone in Boston, this is a quick reminder that there will be a book launch for Letters from an Imaginary Country at Trident Bookstore on November 11! The event is free, but there is a link where you can reserve a free ticket: theodora-goss-event-jjbhy.tripleseattickets.com/registration...

The VCU School of Social Work is HIRING! I'm happy to chat with anyone who is interested in the position. vcujobs.com/jobs/open-ra...

There are 100 US Senators to represent 340 million US citizens. 3.4M to 1. There has to be better than someone who was too stupid to know they had a very specific Nazi insignia tattooed on their chest for 20 years and couldn’t find any other work to make ends meet besides being a corporate mercenary

Academic job alert! umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...

I don't think there is anything in my professional life that is more motivating than "minor revisions".

My department is hiring! Looking for someone who focuses on aging in relationship to gender or sexuality. Check out the ad and please share with your networks! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Trump is now going after Jack Smith. You know who seems safe from his retribution: Merrick Garland. Because he did JACK SHIT. Trump not being pissed at him is, low key, an indictment of his entire tenure.

PhD opportunity with me at University of Edinburgh linked with Forest Research, funded by E5 DTP. On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network. Pic: one of our Scottish sites. e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...

Fantastic paper

Counterpoint: it's a perfectly fine written novel

It’s wild how words change depending on who’s affected. When drugs hit Black communities, it was a “crack epidemic.” When drugs hit white communities, it became a “health crisis.” That’s what we call a dog whistle. The language changes when the skin color does.

Job Alert! @uwmadisongws.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor or recently tenured associate professor who works on gender or sexuality and aging. If this sounds like you, please apply! If it’s not you, please share with your networks. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

“Conversion therapy” is a euphemism for child abuse, and every mainstream medical and mental health organization has rejected this practice for decades. There is no evidence that it does anything besides harm children. It is one of the few subjects where there is an overwhelming medical consensus.

Love this paper

Check out the latest from CDUHR's Sam Friedman, Suzan Walters, Ashly Jordan, David Perlman, and Pedro Mateu-Gelabert - Dialectical Processes of Health Framework as an Alternative to Social Determinants of Health Framework ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...

you're waiting on George RR Martin, I'm waiting on Alecto the Ninth, we are not the same

at least i've never made the mistake of bringing an Ezra Klein to a Ta-Nehisi Coates fight

Really cannot believe people are still arguing about the phrase “defund the police” when our money is being stolen from us to pay for Gestapo

In general I think it's hard to combat scientific misinformation when some of the best research is locked behind an academic paywall, while lots of nonsense gets published free for everyone to read in predatory journals.