“That’s where billionaires like yourself come in. For a mere $10 million gift, you can help us remake the intellectual landscape by endowing a prestigious chair in an underrepresented subfield, such as geocentric astronomy, high-energy phlogiston physics, or patriotic history.“ 😂

Interestingpiece. I research health policy for the Center for American Progress. Auto-enrollment is privatization by inertia. fortune.com/2026/05/07/m...

This year, ICER celebrates its 20th anniversary. To commemorate this milestone, we will use our social media channels and #ICER20 to share photos, memories, important milestones, highlights from our work, and more.

Remember that whatever happens around you, the most important thing is what *you* choose to do with the time you have left.

Some people in my circle have expressed reticence in speaking out. One important point from @timothysnyder.bsky.social is that complying in advance & incidental resistance both invite risk. The difference: Recapitulation puts your reputation & more at risk. 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

💬 Viewpoint: Judicial decisions narrowing the “skinny label” pathway for generics threaten affordable medicines and reduce timely competition for multi-indication drugs. ja.ma/4nouyuQ

Treatment going well so far and hopefully Max will be fungus free before the end of the year. He is about 90% back to his silly self. Love this cat. 😊

Update: The Tennessee Democratic Party filed its own lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Middle Tennessee on Friday afternoon.

People return to work for many reasons, but the biggest is financial need. As costs remain high, more retirees could be looking to re-enter the job market.

Social Security field offices are not OK after the loss of thousands of frontline employees last year. Terrific new reporting on the human costs of the Trump Administration's deep cuts on older, disabled, and bereaved families. www.newyorker.com/news/deep-st...

did you know i am doing a dissertation on workplace leave use among full-time workers in the US who have experienced miscarriage? well now you do! and if you think you may be eligible, you can take a screener survey at go.uic.edu/leavestudy or scan the QR code. #reprosky #healthpolicy #miscarriage

Looking for a faculty job in an awesome department? Might I suggest Vanderbilt Health Policy? We are searching for a tenure track faculty member, all ranks considered! Please apply - it is an outstanding department and Nashville is a great place to work and live! apply.interfolio.com/185527

god forbid a French rat live out his dream of becoming a chef on a cruiseship

Even @wsj.com is debunking Trump’s economic arguments for his mass deportation campaign: -Employment among US-born men FELL in areas with more ICE arrests. -Deporting law-abiding immigrant workers REDUCES job opportunities for American workers and is BAD for the economy.

watching the willful and steady destruction of respect and faith in all three branches of government is kind of depressing not going to lie

Looking for a faculty job in an awesome department? Might I suggest Vanderbilt Health Policy? We are searching for a tenure track faculty member, all ranks considered! Please apply - it is an outstanding department and Nashville is a great place to work and live! apply.interfolio.com/185527

great talking with @wailinwong.bsky.social about early dementia-linked financial problems. Hoping that our work can help prevent situations like Sanda's in the future

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

I too am giving off dying mall vibes, so who am I to judge

Bring back the ancient knowledge

This week, I had my official book launch and began talking with folks on the Hill about my research. Each of those things alone would have made my week and then some. But having my students nominate me for Pitt Public Health’s undergraduate teaching award had me very choked up.

"It's (TrumpRx) setting, I guess, records from what I hear....." Narrator: It is not.

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

My favorite dissertation paper is out! TLDR: Discrimination in healthcare is associated with ASCVD risk. The novel part is prospectively looking at discrimination specifically reported in healthcare. Like all studies, there’s more nuance than the title. www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

TECH BRUNCHLORDS: we believe AI has successfully achieved human-level cognition NEUROLOGISTS: okay so your brain is like, imagine if there was a kind of pudding that sang two bars from Semi-Charmed Life whenever somebody nearby was baking cookies, right? we don’t know why it does that

Resharing for some good news on the timeline. We are two days into our 6 months of treatment. Max is doing great and we are all so happy to have him on the mend.

Coin flip is definitely apparent comparing 2025 to prior years (look at award rates for 10% scores) bsky.app/profile/josh...

Great news - Maxwell (Max) was diagnosed with histoplasmosis. A TREATABLE fungal infection! He tested negative last week but we tested again (tests have a high "false negative" rate) and it was confirmed today. Heading to the pharmacy with a GoodRx coupon now! Thanks to the well wishers. 🐈‍⬛❤️😀❤️🐈‍⬛

Huge congratulations to the team at @bloomberg.com and Robert Langreth on this great series winning a @nihcm.bsky.social award. Below is the first article in the series - one in which I was able to share my mom's story. Well deserved recognition! www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

notably his cure is from CAR-T therapy, which is so new I didn’t even learn about it in med school THIS is why we invest in science

This administration is making health scientists a non-sustainable career. #NIH #academicmedicine

Medigap Premiums Leap, and Consumers Have Few Alternatives kffhealthnews.org/medicare/med...

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The arrest of a U.S. soldier accused of making prediction market bets is raising new concerns about insider trading and the need for regulation. https://to.pbs.org/3Os68U9

"Sorry, did I hear someone say 'universal basic income'? Yes, exactly. As a universal rule, we’ll get basically all of the income."

The number of NIH competitive awards is down 50% from 2025, and down ~70% from prior years. Even if they catch up by the end of the year, only wealthy institutions can bridge these huge funding gaps.They're killing science-and violating the constitution-by weaponizing the bureaucracy

Pace of NIH Funding Slows Further in Trump’s Second Year. The agency has approved far fewer new grants than it did in years past. A renewed effort to screen for disfavored terms and a loss of personnel are contributing. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...

As someone living in a politically gerrymandered district, I also oppose gerrymandering. Would love to see a national ban.

Quick cat update. Still waiting for results but maybe *NOT* lymphoma (hard to be definite). Now testing for a fungal infection (histoplasmosis) which is treatable. Fingers crossed for treatable! He started playing again after a steroid shot. 💜

Khajiit has wares if you have coin

Quick cat update. Still waiting for results but maybe *NOT* lymphoma (hard to be definite). Now testing for a fungal infection (histoplasmosis) which is treatable. Fingers crossed for treatable! He started playing again after a steroid shot. 💜

Not knowing what the worst people in the world were thinking every fucking day

CMS has just announced that the BALANCE program for GLP-1 coverage will not launch in Medicare Part D in 2027 and the BRIDGE program will be extended through 2027 (it was set to run from July-Dec 2026). This could add billions to Medicare spending in 2027. www.kff.org/quick-take/w...

AI not liking my meeting style

And she was right

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

How many tote bag equivalents does a woman have to donate to NPR to be identified by her name?

Faster than any person in history. Um... it is a robot. If it finished in the top 50 in its age group it would have been melted down like in Terminator 2. Stakes were high and Lightning knew it.

Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines "As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust."

This is great, and a good reminder of the attack of this administration on mRNA technology and science. What is happening to science funding now is appalling.