Health care employment growth decreased amid the #COVID19 pandemic but fully recovered by 2024. ja.ma/45JU9qU

#Waterbirds in the news! @axios.com just featured Cimino et al.'s new study, "The First GPS Observation of a Western Gull Riding in a Long-Haul Garbage Transfer Truck" bioone.org/journals/wat... ttps://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2025/06/04/hitchhiking-seagulls-san-francisco-climate-change

For those wondering, I’m fully onboard @nickseaver.website’s STEAMED HAMS educational train.

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

Yeah, so the Tuskegee experiment was also a case of doctors pretending to administer treatment for a condition they knew they actually weren’t treating.

Portland is lovely!

I am looking forward to sharing the work 🧪 of my TruMerit (CGFNS) colleagues and I on Saturday at #SfAA2025: "A Global Care Chain Analysis of Recent Trends in Transnational Nurse Migration" Contact me to learn more about the project!

Students across @cmu.edu are invited to register to attend, whether you already build your own #AI, or are simply interested in exploring AI opportunities in the future. AI Literacy Workshop (2-day) Mon. 3/31 + Tues. 4/1 5-8pm ET Join us: bit.ly/ai-lit-reg

Congrats to our #STEM Librarian Lauren Herckis @laurenherckis.bsky.social, who was recently elected Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology @appliedanthro.bsky.social! 👏

We're hiring a fully funded PhD student in #sociology here in wonderful Copenhagen! Please share! Learn more 👇 employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

“There will be students on campus whose classes have no instructors when school resumes Tuesday, sources on campus said Friday. The university’s accreditation could also be at risk, as it cannot support all its students with the reduced staff.” lawrencekstimes.com/2025/02/14/h...

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

*️⃣ *️⃣ AE FORUM (52.1): I Was Wrong *️⃣ *️⃣ Featuring articles by Veena Das, Hugh Gusterson, Gil Hizi, Carole McGranahan, Erin Routon, Meredith G. Marten, & Laura A. Meek, w/eds' note by @llwynn.bsky.social, Susanna Trnka, & @kopyor.bsky.social! Find it here!: ⬇️ americanethnologist.org/journal/issu...

White House budget proposal may slash NSF funding from 9 billion to 3 billion a year.

The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

This @washingtonpost.com story is so important that I'm gifting it. These people appear to be operating totally illegally and outside the Constitution -- and they know it. wapo.st/40LVERn

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is [email protected]. Reposts appreciated.

@USAID is enduring an unlawful shutdown, purge, and dismantling. It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks. Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

CDC staff have been told to RETRACT all studies submitted to journals (but not yet accepted) if they include the words “gender” or “pregnant people”. #holdtheline #publichealth

Targeting AI Literacy? I really appreciate this great 4-part framework for AI Literacy, developed by a team from @Barnard-College.bsky.social: Understand AI, Use & Apply AI, Analyze & Evaluate AI, Create AI er.educause.edu/articles/202... #EduSky #AILiteracy #LLM #AI #Science 🧪

I have a 99.8% snapshot of all zipped files from CDC Vital Statistics Online as of today. Documentation pdfs too. The one missing file was cut off part way 🤷‍♂️ will try again from time to time. Anyone needs anything reach out

I'm honored to be elected Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology, a recognition of significant, enduring contributions to the field! I look forward to #SfAA2025 where I'll discuss equity in th age of AI & share an analysis of trends in transnational nurse migration @appliedanthro.bsky.social

Thrilled to see @thelancet.bsky.social publish our viewpoint “Global health partnerships for a post-2030 agenda”, co-written with @profsophieharman.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social and @kstoreng.bsky.social A thread 🧵

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

Realize this doesn't impact most academics, but i think the NSF just axed one of the mechanisms/solicitations for small schools -- the RUI (research for undergraduates). A long-standing program whose page now says "archived opportunity". Wasn't like that earlier this week

My NIH study section that was to meet tomorrow was one of those canceled. This represents many months of work by the applicants and by the NIH staff and reviewers. Devastating is the correct word.

These NIH freezes are devastating... www.science.org/content/arti...

My op-ed in @insidehighered.com today: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care... 🧵 /1

Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz showing highly fascinating work that preverbal infants at 4-5 months can already pair objects with arbitrary labels within a few trials, and appear to form symbolic representations that they can logically manipulate (e.g. negation). #ABIM2025 #neuroskyence

NEW! Trump isn’t eager to regulate Big Tech. Worried you’ll get a 404 error next time you look for a Biden-era AI doc? We were too. We saved them, so you don’t have to. data.aclum.org/2025/01/13/b...

Have you always wanted to be a marine biologist? We are now offering fundraiser charter shark research expeditions! Join me for a day of shark research while supporting the lab's effort's to bring school groups out on future trips. Join as an individual, or charter the whole day for your group!

ICYMI a great #scicomm piece from @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social this week. It resonates - perhaps partly because I try to publicly communicate as if I'm talking to my grandma or high school friends. What do you all think?🛟🧪🩺 theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/the-cost-o...

1/12. Lots of engagement with this Walmart research post. I wanted to follow up on one of the themes I noticed in reactions. This will be a longer thread than I usually write, but I want to weave together a few related points on science (and communication about it), public engagement, and policy.

LitCovid is the most comprehensive resource for tracking up-to-date scientific information about, providing a central access to 442,936+ relevant articles. Articles are updated daily and categorized by topics (eg transmission) and geographic locations. 🧪 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/cor...

#ICYMI deadline to apply for this UVA DH faculty ad is Wednesday, January 15th. Email addresses for questions & applications are on second-to-last page:

"Adult learning doesn't appear to become difficult because of a change in neural plasticity. Rather, we see things through the lens of our native language and that 'warps' how see foreign languages. Through training, we can change our 'perceptual warping' to make language learning easier." #LangSky

Need some good news at the end of 2024? Dr. Katelyn Jetelina @kkjetelina.bsky.social has a good post about some big public health accomplishments from this year. 🧪 yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/22-public-...

Ask anyone from a Global South country, and they will immediately point out the most visa-hostile countries: USA, UK, Canada, EU (Schengen), and Australia would top the list communities.springernature.com/posts/visa-f...

“Women leave or consider leaving [faculty positions] because of workplace climate more often than work-life balance.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water. Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?

This is an excellent, comprehensive, frightening snapshot of the current state of bird flu cases in the U.S. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...