One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

"More than 60 professors and others up and down the state say they are suppressing their work and feel anxious about causing political problems for their campus, or that their own teaching will lead to hostility against themselves. Some say it’s already happened." www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

Tediously humiliating to be a trans HIV researcher who has to look at this shit constantly (interspersed with broken links) while I’m just trying to do my job.

Exhausted after a show in Queens last night so we’re respecting The Classics on this Halloween.

Exhausted after a show in Queens last night so we’re respecting The Classics on this Halloween.

i will be hearing cope about how deepseek is not as impressive as deepseek is for the rest of my life at this rate

I first awkwardly brought up what I now know was dysphoria at 17. Hooked up with guys in high school but never id’ed as bi back then. Came out as “MTF” (lol) to a few friends at 27, ran away from it, came out to my parents during a breakdown at 29, HRT at 30, I’m 43 now. Not all lines are linear.

“An Oct. 20 email sent by a [CVS Caremark] chief medical officer to PrEP4All was explicit in stating that the company believes Yeztugo is overpriced and this is a hurdle to coverage.” Sure, we need implementation science, but, just as much, we need a commercial determinants lens on PrEP uptake.

HMS postponed an online course on transgender healthcare after the National Review contacted the school about the legality of offering fee waivers to transgender participants. Abigail S. Gerstein and Ella F. Niederhelman report.

“An Oct. 20 email sent by a [CVS Caremark] chief medical officer to PrEP4All was explicit in stating that the company believes Yeztugo is overpriced and this is a hurdle to coverage.” Sure, we need implementation science, but, just as much, we need a commercial determinants lens on PrEP uptake.

I can’t speak for the startup, but AI / ML outside of commercial hype can refer to e.g. highly refined and mature self-optimizing mathematical models that spring from a separate lineage than gAI / LLMs. You just get more attention when you call it “AI.”

The conflation of formal (for profit) publication with prestige, particularly in hiring and promotion, has to be smashed before any meaningful progress can be made. I don’t even have any “elite” pubs, but I would not be in my current position, in my field, if all my papers were on arXiv.

For the three other people on here who think AI / health tech implementation and clinical workflow integration is really interesting, this is a wonderful case series by @brittanytrang.com Implementing AI is hard: Three safety-net clinics on the challenges via @statnews.com

First apt we viewed in Providence, the management _realllly_ didn’t like it when I called out their use of RealPage for price fixing. What a racket: real-time optimization to extract max capital from wealthy Brown and RISD parents. Love this for NYC, my erstwhile home.

Brilliant.

I swear to god, why do I always feel so _guilty_ when I’m having a half-catatonic insomnia day. Why do we still individualize and pathologize this hellshit.

I will never understand why people (faculty) get wistful over postdoc, because these are the stakes, and presently it feels like living through Uncut Gems in excruciating slow motion (and I’m not even particularly deadset on an academic career).

I will never understand why people (faculty) get wistful over postdoc, because these are the stakes, and presently it feels like living through Uncut Gems in excruciating slow motion (and I’m not even particularly deadset on an academic career).

Just here to remind everyone that while the federal government is shutdown, all study sections at the NIH are currently on hold. Another blow to science and to early career scientists like myself with young labs and research groups. Very hard to remain positive about this career path.

Have the forensic metascientists ever considered that their default “preening self-righteous prick” persona is doing their cause more harm than not or nah.

Another example of why we need to replace the police with real emergency responders. People trained to provide medical care rather than pass racist judgement.

No, _you_ have bees in your brain.

I have been in a cycle of working through weekends and overplanning weekends when friends visit and I swear this is the first time since like April I’ve just dicked around the couch on a Saturday morning and it’s revelatory.

I am, despite it all, on an elite academic career track as a digital therapeutics and HIV prevention scientist. But I will gladly drop it all if an opportunity to serve this administration as a city research scientist or strategist comes my way.

My new blockbuster spatial epi paper demonstrates that residential proximity to a Chanel boutique is health-promotive, with huge post-estimation margins. No, I will not be unpacking the effect any further.* *I have not read this study the BBC is crowing about, which might (or might not) be fine.

As a “guy” I was a torrent of anger, dissociation, shame, and a “ferocious” chain smoker. I was prickly, pompous, and judgmental of others’ simple pleasures. I had virtually no real friends, and a “difficult” reputation at work. l’ve learned some guarded compassion for him, but I doubt he’s missed.

Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

global infectious disease epidemiologist / computational epidemiologist / social epidemiologist

The "you don't understand how (AI/LLMs/Diffusion Models/NNs) work" posture in any debate is often just "we don't agree on how to interpret what (AI/LLMs/Diffusion Models/NNs) are doing"

The 72-hour circle jerk surrounding the “bigotry neuron” post, which was, to GLHM’s point, inartfully worded but sound on the merits, has made this whole platform feel backwards and small in a way that’s making me seriously reconsider my investment here.

You can see Millennials turn into Boomers right before your eyes when you ask them how they feel about AI.

Pick a selfie from your gallery and turn it black & white First outing post-lockdown, Coney Island over my shoulder

Bored, buzzed, surprisingly happy! Selfie-posting will ensue.

#TheLensNola🔍 Tulane University terminated an academic director this summer after the syllabus she’d helped create for an infectious disease class was rejected... ✍Delaney Nolan Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/rRFbrpE #tulaneuniversity #academicdirector #gaza

My friends used to call my Juul my pacifier and they were right to do so.

But accuracy matters, especially for a vulnerable population like transgender people, who are already afraid as is. Spreading misinformation for such a vulnerable community is not just grifting: it's shouting "fire" in a crowded theater.

new AI/ML feed drop!

I hope whoever at my uni’s monitoring my social media for political statements is enjoying my brain making audible Rice Krispies noises instead.

I should add: it is nontrivial, but far from impossible, to map the diverging use cases in which the tolerance for conditional token generation is acceptable (“go get’em tiger” emotional support) vs the stakes of factuality hallucinations are too high (medical advice). OpenAI et al. just don’t.

🥉 Dr Skeen becomes the THIRD member of our Public Health Junglists Starter Pack lol

I hope whoever at my uni’s monitoring my social media for political statements is enjoying my brain making audible Rice Krispies noises instead.

“‘Normal’ is not normal, if you’re not normal” goes surprisingly hard (wife has old House MD episodes on).

This goes for universities and scholarly societies too. Dropping your X handle in a talk should widely be seen as a disgrace.