Dragon tale cowl by Hunt Hand knits. It turned out gorgeous, great pattern and fun to knit 🧶! First Christmas present done! #knitting #iknittosurvive

“long COVID's considerable phenotypic heterogeneity makes it difficult to identify PROMs that can sensitively assess dimensions of disease severity across manifestations while maintaining statistical power” So: Trials are underpowered and there are threats to validity in the chosen outcome measures

It’s such a great season for roses in Central Victoria. This is a heritage rose from my front garden. Two years ago, I picked some flowers for a friend who had just finished chemotherapy. Little did I know that two years later it would mark the end of mine. #cancer #natureheals

From a policy perspective, why do we always have to see see the harms first? It's like we have to burn ourselves, then we understand that fire is hot. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

My friend is having brain surgery at Mayo next week — she's hoping she'll make it there. “It’s just blowing my mind how the common man, it’s like we’re just inconsequential to the whole thing,” said Ms. Holmes, a New Orleans social worker. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/t...

I can't even. Just a few months ago I saw my first unvaccinated baby with pertussis, and it was horrible.

The bookstore Kelly manages has been going regionally viral on tiktok, so if you’re an author friend of mine (especially a Black woman) and you’re wondering why you’re suddenly selling so many books in central Indiana, I can make a guess!

MN state parks (and some county parks) have these track chairs for public use. The woods are for everyone www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

The fungi scene at the Oregon coast is amazing this weekend. Check out the size of this lobster mushroom 😍

Still thinking about her (Ruth Asawa's persimmons)

Quelques Feuilles / Some Leaves New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.

A deep commitment to anti-wokeness

“these are … friendless men fuelled by a mix of resentment and a sense of weakness, drawn to the promise of infamy, publicity, and a noteworthy death enjoyed by previous mass killers…refusing to name killers is the ‘quickest, cheapest and easiest way we can cut down this escalating rate of killings’

❗️🇫🇷French fishermen from the coast of Brittany and volunteers from the organization Kernic Solidarités have shipped approximately 280 kilometers of used fishing nets (weighing several tons) to 🇺🇦Ukraine. These horsehair nets will be used to create anti-drone tunnels, which are stretched over roads.

Did you know gov shutdowns aren’t in the Constitution, any law, or Court ruling? They exist because of a 1980 OLC memo—a lawyer’s opinion that everyone just went along with. Before 1980, funding gaps didn’t cause shutdowns. What one memo created, another can undo. How the next D admin can undo it:

As someone who also works at UIC, this resonates powerfully. Big thanks to Peter Coviello for writing it.

www.the-sun.com/money/154587... This will warm your heart In the DC area Giant Foods knows the true meaning of Thanksgiving They will give over a thousand Thanksgiving meal kits to furloughed government families and SNAP recipients Bravo to them and thank you More of this PLEASE

This is why there should be a 100 mile no hunting buffer zone around all of our national parks within Grizzly territory. When bears hear a gunshot, it's like ringing the dinner bell. And hunters aren't generally very bear aware. news.yahoo.com/articles/mon...

Peter Coviello with another dynamite piece. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

This (gift) article articulates an important concept: people shrug off data privacy concerns (“I don’t have anything to hide”) but it’s about what you lose when you enable sophisticated manipulation based on detailed modelling of your behaviour. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0aaebab...

"The system wasn’t cheap, costing about $30,000. But it has virtually eliminated electricity bills that used to top $1,000 a month, because her guests “would run that A.C. morning and noon and night. Honestly, we could pay it off in two, three years,” she said." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/c...

FREE LINK. Bezos has turned the opinion section into a skidmark and their star reporters have split for other jobs, but the WaPo's kids in the newsroom are by god fighting back. They're the first corporate newsroom I can think of that's hammering Don Snoreleone. wapo.st/4oTia5k

I read The Double Helix as an undergraduate. I was a science major at a women’s college taking molecular biology. Our professor taught us that Watson & Crick screwed Rosalind Franklin over. So I read the book to learn more. I’ll never forget how reading this passage made me feel.

What a great story of how this #writer persisted and fulfilled her dream of becoming an #author. #booksky #amwriting www.wsj.com/business/med...

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

The head of the ACIP, Martin Kulldorff, claimed he was Superman who could have bent COVID to his will and ended the pandemic in 3-6 months. When given the chance to lead and demonstrate his abilities to the American public 👇

An actually essential piece of journalism from the times: "We interviewed 40 of the men who were imprisoned: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide." 1/2

I just adore the power of the light in this image. It’s such a simple one. And yet I feel you truly get a sense of the light and energy and invigorating serene beauty that I felt in the moment. Kyoto, Japan | December 2025.

My interview with Dr. Susan Monarez, former CDC Director, who was fired for doing her job, standing up for public health and science. Learn about her resilience and optimism. erictopol.substack.com/p/dr-susan-m...

Working on a I.C.E. kidnap case right now—2 sons, whose mother called on me. It’s very clear both Uber and Waymo have provided the government my clients’ location via these ride sharing company’s ✨massive✨ tech surveillance op. No warrant—just pure cooperation. Stay woke, y’all. Waymo is I.C.E.

This was me before #LongCovid. I appreciate what I've lived, but I've lost so much. bsky.app/profile/kinl...

this is a perfect 30 rock joke

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Pros And Cons Of A 3rd Trump Term

So this interview lasted 2 hours so this “you’re scaring me” part might seem like an overreaction or fearmongering to someone without that context. There’s a lot of evidence to support my hypothesis that a potential H5N1 pandemic would be worse than COVID.

4. Tsukudajima and Eitai Bridge https://www.wikiart.org/en/hiroshige/4-tsukudajima-and-eitai-bridge-1857

Some much needed good news. “Jamaicans Have Been Turning to Solar Power. It Paid Off After the Storm.” Guft link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/c...

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shout out to a Queen

I will be reviewing applications for @unm.edu's Clinical Psychology as well as Diversity and Health Data Science Across the Lifespan PhD programs. Both deadlines are December 1! psych.unm.edu/graduate/ind...

Conservatives rule every aspect of what is supposed to be the most powerful democracy in the world. Don't they? They have it all. So why s Amy Coney Barrett still playing the victim card?

Congratulations!

I WON!! 😭❤️ Thanks so much to @womeninneurouk.bsky.social and the judges! And thanks to @thetransmitter.bsky.social for sponsoring the award and providing some goodies and mentorship, both greatly appreciated 🥰

Such an important topic, thank you Chloé, @lisamccorkell.bsky.social @julialmv.bsky.social @leticiasaurus.bsky.social and coauthors for drawing attention to it! #LongCovid #MECFS

Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

Just channeling Stephen J Gould: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops"

Her role as one of the first structural virologists is underappreciated.

Not too many Americans can take a two month paid vacation, Johnson like Trump has lost sight of reality and the political optics of the situation.

“now it’s the fastest medical treatment in the [US]: same-day exams, X-rays, blood work, and referrals to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. For roughly $650 a year, which is less than I pay a month for medical coverage as a single woman, members [of congress] receive unlimited access.“

It's important to remember that while the degree to which James Watson deliberately stole from Rosalind Franklin is still in dispute, he also shit on her in his memoir for no apparent reason other than to save face and then spent the last two decades of his life pushing bullshit race science.