People who sit at the boundaries of social and biomedical sciences and work in positivist frameworks (aka, public health): How do you negotiate it when people talk about your work as categorically different from "real science"? Specifically, colleagues who you work with and generally like?

Imagining a scenario in which the AI bakes banana bread every week for a month to get the international irb to review it's (culturally appropriate???) protocol

Here in our small science shop, we'll continue to use time-honored human efforts to produce our low quality but artisanal science at a snails pace.... 🧪

Hey, fellas, before you write that white hot take about how rape is such a tricky thing and, I mean, who can really say what happened and, you know, maybe we should not be too judgmental, I'd like to remind you that instead you can simply shut the fuck up.

Once again : What women on the left already knew before the Epstein files + Platner is that men can imagine a world of class consciousness (Chomsky), a universe more expansive than ever before known (Hawking), a world where you can live forever (Attia) but not a world where women are fully human.

Some of the most resistance I get from students is when I tell them that the secret to good writing is to be an attentive reader and to just - write. A lot. I too would prefer a paragraph-by-paragraph magic formula, but that's just not how it works.

Morbidly fascinated by the script reversal happening right now. Typically you would see accusations of violence against women getting brushed off, until the ::surprised-pikachu:: when Nazi tendencies surfaces....

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Ok will follow the piece's advice and give full nuance on my biases: I am biased towards fact based reality so LISTEN UP DIPSHITS: If we don't kick out the cavalcade of ghouls running government, children and elderly will die and suffer from PREVENTABLE DISEASE. WE ALL WILL SUFFER. #ScienceSky 🧪

qt'ing to disclose my political bias: I think it's bad that a person's color, gender, bank account and zip code are the biggest determinants of how long they'll live. Sorry not sorry 🤷‍♀️

Trust in science is falling It could be because some scientists act and advocate for science-informed policies Or it could be because neoliberal fundamentalists, oil companies & other destructive industries spent untold billions & many years working to undermine trust in science Who knows 🤷

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The National Endowment for the Arts stage has a solo performer up there right now. He is playing an audience of one. He just urged her to follow him on Instagram. I have seen larger audiences at 8am academic panels. I feel bad for the guy.

As the mom of a cisgender girl athlete, I'm worried not only about the potential invasion of privacy (and bodily autonomy) but about the pressure that the threat of gender inspection could put on girl athletes (cis and trans) to present themselves in stereotypically gendered ways.

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sinister

Marshalling a mob to harass a Jewish politician you don't like for his housing policy by tying him to the actions of Israel is clearly antisemitism. And the prejudices that allowed people at the Trans Pride March in SF to be stirred up by such a bad faith actor? Obviously antisemtic prejudices!

A lot of this administration's decision making comes down to the fact that some of the worst dudes you know are still mad about that one time their mom wouldn't let them have mountain dew for breakfast. (the rest of it is eugenics, christofacism, and white supremacy)

Imperial boomerang: for centuries, Europeans have framed tech to protect against cold (fire, furnaces) as noble and good, while they’ve framed the warm climates they colonized as full of lazy people (Asians, Africans) and, thus, the need to use AC or fans as frivaloues, wasteful & unnecessary

Boss: use this thing or you’re fired! Employee: it doesn’t apply to my job? B: don’t care! Use it! E: …sure, fine, whatever B: WAIT NOT LIKE THAT

well this is neat! just signed up to donate a consult for all bird-related inquiries

A brazen raiding of public funds, ignoring Congressional directives and cutting basic science programs to send money to the insatiable maw of the AI industry. #NSF 🧪

someone should tell hegseth that disease has taken out more soldiers than any armament

Graham Platner is an inexperienced dilettante with a Nazi tattoo who abused his ex-girlfriends. Abdul El-Sayed is an Arab Muslim doctor who directed the Health Department of the most populous county in Michigan. If you think the latter is worse than the former, you might be racist and Islamophobic.

Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.

“Erin Maus secured something of a miracle from her employer: a religious exemption. Maus, a Unitarian Universalist, said she proposed the special treatment in April, citing environmental & ethical objections to AI that don't align with her religious beliefs.” www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

Almost a decade ago, I was very Special Interested in mushrooms and developed an organizing training framework based on mycelium. The core teaching was, people think the above-ground part (the mushroom) is the body of the organism, but that isn't the case. So too with movement. (cont)

New "manuscript impact" goal unlocked.

The CEO of the American Diabetes Association is Charles D. "Chuck" Henderson. The Chief Medical and Scientific Officer is Rita Rastogi Kalyani. They should be ashamed of themselves.

Team public health!

Like Fetterman, Platner is emblematic of that "progressive" Dem tendency to treat red flags around sexual misconduct and white supremacy as tolerable. And it isn't just Bernie. Warren endorsed Platner, too.

What if we stopped electing people who seem to like nazis and hate women? Like, just for a year or two? As a little treat?

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

I keep saying this but the U.S. has historically been the Indispensable Funder. It can’t be replaced easily.

Catch me yelling this from the rooftops each and EVERY time someone prattles on about “brain drain.”

I have written more grant applications in the past 18 months than I want to think about. And not nearly as many manuscripts as I would have liked. Hundreds of pages. Not a single word with AI.

Okay, bear with me for a second. Because I've held this theory for a long time. And I kinda feels like this confirms it. The death of Harambe was the tipping point of no return for the unserious right-wing turn of America. 🧵

Also: parenting in another country brings home to a shocking degree just how much Americans hate kids.

Best parenting advice I ever got was: There is no universal good parenting. There's just building a good relationship with your unique kid(s).

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