The crochet subreddit is a good place

This old post from @andreagrimes.com helps me!

9 months later, we are at the top of the to-fund pile but still no NOA and we're told NICHD has not awarded a single new R01. Sure would like to work on this project!

I’m proud, and also sad, to be quoted in Science News about how the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (aka AHRQ) has been effectively disbanded, with no research funding being disbursed, while Congress continues to fund its (my!) work It hurts me, but more, it hurts patients

‘“It just disappeared,” Dr @noraverlaine.bsky.social says, with the $153,000 installment due in September 2025 never arriving with no notice from AHRQ.’ www.science.org/content/arti...

I’m proud, and also sad, to be quoted in Science News about how the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (aka AHRQ) has been effectively disbanded, with no research funding being disbursed, while Congress continues to fund its (my!) work It hurts me, but more, it hurts patients

I screamed so loud my voice hurts now

I screamed so loud my voice hurts now

HOLY SHIT UCONN

Claudia Goldin is the bomb

Seems like a good day to re-post this gem www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-a...

You know, after this many years, Resident Evil should really be Attending Evil by now.

look it may be slow, and it may generate weak responses, and it may not increase sales, but at least it costs a lot of money

The difference between cucumbers and pickles is jarring.

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

okay 2. is just that i love lester freemon. my favorite character on the show and honestly something of a model of black masculinity for me (perhaps because the character reminds me very much of my dad). reserved, diligent, hard working, unbent and unbroken. also he has hobbies.

I often think about the fact that someone with a HbgA1c of 6.4% has terrible prediabetes, but someone with a HgbA1c of 6.5% has superbly controlled diabetes.

Can’t wait to review my clinic’s new “measles symptoms” workflow diagram

Our data on the top health concerns of middle-aged and older adults, which found that health-related costs were paramount, are featured in this new @kffhealthnews.org story that @usatoday.com picked up over the weekend. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

I often think about the fact that someone with a HbgA1c of 6.4% has terrible prediabetes, but someone with a HgbA1c of 6.5% has superbly controlled diabetes.

GO BLUE 💙💛💙💛

Parenting is WILD “I’m committing to two decades living with and meeting every physical and emotional need of a total stranger I’ve never met” Luckily my kids are the two best human beings on the planet But like what were the chances 🤯

Among #Medicare Part D beneficiaries not receiving the low-income subsidy, the mean out-of-pocket cost for a 30-day supply of #insulin declined from approximately $51 in 2019 to $22 in 2023. #Diabetes ja.ma/4lHsRYc

Look at me, buying tickets to a second round game of the women’s basketball tournament with a ~~TO BE ANNOUNCED start time~~ I’m a rebel for whom our family calendar means nothing Basically an anarchist now, probably

Parenting is WILD “I’m committing to two decades living with and meeting every physical and emotional need of a total stranger I’ve never met” Luckily my kids are the two best human beings on the planet But like what were the chances 🤯

Absolutely astonishing. I don't think many people realize the extent to which the scientific enterprise in America has collapsed over the past 14 months. As someone who covered science funding for the first half of his career, it's almost unfathomable this could happen.

Reviewer number 2: "the author fails to consider the works of CBRN expert Dan Kaszeta and has not referenced Kaszeta's work." Me: FFS. I am Dan Kaszeta.

Holy shit y’all I just got an email I’d like to nominate for the "Wildest All-Faculty Email" Hall of Fame

This is why, btw petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/12/18/t...

This is why, btw petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/12/18/t...

Why am I seeing ads for branded versions of albuterol, a medication that was first patented when the baby boomers were in elementary school

we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/... One-third of Americans skip meals or other needs to afford health care

“And doubts about vaccines are increasingly spilling into refusal of other mainstays of pediatric medicine… At a hospital in Boise, Idaho, for example, three infants died last year after their parents declined a shot of vitamin K, administered to newborns to prevent bleeding, said Dr. Amanda Lee”

Very proud to have collaborated on this work showing that having medical debt is associated with much higher rates of delayed medical care publichealth.jhu.edu/2026/medical...

Thank you for coming to my Parenting Lament, “Why can’t my children keep track of their shit,” in which I will recount in detail every lost item I have been forced to search for over the past six months

I bought a cute new pair of glasses. I narrowly resisted also buying a cute second pair. Now I’ve used up all my willpower for the day

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

#standupforscience in SF

Important work by members of two of the best #healthpolicy research institutes in the U.S…

Things LLMs are good at: cataloging your home library. Things LLMs are not good at: Psychotherapy. Replacing human relationships. Replacing human laborers. Creating art.

Spring is really here because the campus geese have returned to menace us for for another season, as is their right as the terrifying dinosaurs that they are

i am of course going to keep posting my 3 AM thoughts because I believe that is exactly what social media is for, but folks, if you want a truly comprehensive and multifaceted peer-reviewed exploration of something, may I suggest books and academic papers and not Bluesky threads

In 2026 we call this public health.

I needed this rn

Great speakers and signs at the Stand up for Science rally today. #standupforscience

Save science, save our future @standupforscience.bsky.social great rally in Buffalo today!

Live long and prosper, for realz #llap #StandUpForScience

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%