And that’s not for lack of want. I go to school with people who have great ideas which will not be funded, because Mark Zuckerberg wants to rule the world, and that’s where the money goes. Meanwhile, Google—a tool I used every day on the reference desk—has degraded to the point of harmfulness.

Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.

Oh hi friends, I'm poor judgment while hitchhiking alone.

if i were to ever have the privilege of being sworn in to an office, i would choose a copy of Black Reconstruction

I've been thinking about this since yesterday! Maybe the US Constitution. And Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and/or Tony Kushner's Angels in America, because I love them and because they deal with themes I'd want to guide me in office: connection, responsibility, legacy, the worth of all humans.

Lucy Dacus sang "Bread and Roses."

I have been thinking about this since yesterday! Maybe the US Constitution. And Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and/or Tony Kushner's Angels in America, because I love them and because they deal with themes I'd want to guide me in office: connection, responsibility, legacy, the worth of all humans.

Could I get sworn in on a set of Bluey DVDs? The problem with a set of texts sacred to me is that I often interrogate old favs. Some of the books I love should not factor into my office. Otherwise, it would be Dune & The Blue Sword & The Two Towers & Red White & Royal Blue.

Since I'm not religious...

I did not know this. I am curious - what book would you be sworn in with? (I don't know what it would be for me! I like thinking about it though)

And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...

snakes leave behind whole skins. all manner of flying creatures, not just butterflies, do them one better, whole new selves from wriggling worms. rocks into gems. mystics die to the flesh to be reborn in the spirit. rebirth is the rule, not the stray exception, if we can grasp it

orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing

Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution: If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow. If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious. By making these choices, you will literally save lives.

*taps my book wild faith* as noted in literally the first chapter, the Satanic Panic never ended, it just took a nap for awhile this shit about daycares is literally just the 1980s warmed over. can we bring back cool hair instead of christian vigilantism www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia...

And actually--Comet Pizza was a page out of a playbook that started with daycare decades before. In 1983, a California mom accused her son's childcare provider of subjecting children to Satanic rituals--like flushing them down toilets into secret basements where they were then filmed for porn. 1/🧵

Dr. Jo’s long-term research was interrupted by the closure of Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles’ gender clinic. If you hear these people saying “we need more research,” know that they are the ones shutting down the research.

Coming home from a lovely vacation in which I masked: *On the plane *In a busy performance art space *At a movie theater *In a museum And it was easy and nbd and made my chapped lips happy. If someone finds this upsetting then that probably says more about them than me.

I’ve worked in disease prevention for quite a long time and I’ve landed on the following as having the greatest benefits to overall health: Exercise Vaccines Dietary variety/portion size Sufficient sleep No smoking Barrels of cash

shocking that we live in a world in which you can rick roll someone and THEY DON'T EVEN GET IT

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

I'm not clear on the threat here. The super rich don't pay their fair share of taxes, but they *do* throw their money at making our state politics worse. No. Please. Don't go.

make a Bond movie academic: Dr. No: Gendered & Racialized Patterns in the Use of Honorifics in Academic Seminars

This thread perfectly explains why AI has little value for qualitative research. Yes, large language models can find patterns in qualitative data. But, they're trained on what we already know. So, they won't find anything surprising. And, surprise is qualitative research's primary value-add.

I am strongly considering going back to a physical course reader and textbook for my undergrad class, and am trying to think through how to do it in a way that supports students with dyslexia or who would benefit from screen readers. Super curious what others are trying/thinking?

Now published… We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'm Danish-American and I think Denmark is a model country of a great welfare state. When it comes to healthcare, however -even if universal - it is very far from perfect. As for vaccines, there are many deficiencies in Denmark with the US having significantly better (current..) recommendations.

if you are new around here, Joy & Spite is my mantra for this administration. We do things out of joy to spite them, and we do spiteful things to them to give us joy. bsky.app/profile/most...

prescient www.theverge.com/business/793...

Yeah so when you read a summary of an overview of an area you don’t become a subject matter expert. You’re just a guy who read a Wikipedia article.

Your job as an expert - especially an academic expert - is to not only read the paper but to know enough about the field, the authors, and the current blood feuds to catch whatever shady subtext is happening in that paper

“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.” Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it. Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.

The week before hannukah you will think to yourself, "is 5lbs of potatoes even enough for the party? How long could it possibly take if I went with 10lbs instead?" It's very important that you tell yourself to shut that shit down *immediately*

The end goal is eugenicist. RFK and his ilk know that this will make vaccines more expensive and time-consuming — and therefore marginalized children are most likely to fall through the cracks. This is about killing kids who aren't born to privilege. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

I am rapidly becoming a single issue voter, and that issue is ensuring LIFETIME MEANINGFUL CONSEQUENCES for the monsters who have done so much damage to human life.

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Not just asking Chanda directly, because she's busy, but I'm curious to know where else this trend is documented in articles or news? I've only seen it anecdotally so far and would love citations

Cheers to my beloved fighters, data protectors, receipt keepers, and the lawyers who help us do it. Keep going. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.

"when we were finished, [Stephen Miller] comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.” www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

This is bad. Very bad. @sherylnyt.bsky.social @ddiamond.bsky.social @helenbranswell.bsky.social @maxkozlov.bsky.social

This is completely and utterly unethical, unacceptable and disgraceful. Thread on the topic incoming. H/t @beansproutsmom.bsky.social for the heads up

The trans-hating governor of California lionizing the president responsible for the AIDS crisis? Shocking.

We keep that guy's statue in the basement of the state capitol for a reason. No thanks.

I am constantly baffled/enraged (baffleraged?) that people who dedicate their lives to solving really, really hard problems will simply throw up their hands and say its too hard to leave the building and ask 20 normal human beings what they think about their (theoretically) clever new idea/message

Oh nooooooo

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

the good that you do persists in this world