dinosaur chicken nuggets 🦖 (there's even a vegetarian version!! 🦕)

Cancel culture was far too underzealous

There's a weird sense of relief to seeing these emails. It's harder to gaslight yourself about a gender-blind academic meritocracy when you know people in the upper echelons are talking like this.

Maybe, Roger, men are able to achieve "real focus" because they've dumped all the work of care downstream onto women to manage, and leveraged their own privilege to keep those women from demanding more support from men.

Here's the full question and response.

I would give so much to know what secret bonus spreadsheet my terminated grant was on. I give >50% probability it was something real misogynistic.

Of fucking course it was

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

Got my tiny person into chocolate cooking camp, which filled up in <9 minutes, and I am now taking a moment to bask in my momming skills.

Summer camp sign-up day is BRUTAL. Happy 4d tetris-chess, lightning reflexes on the 'register' link season to all of us who celebrate.

Writing is thinking. Don't outsource the foremost important activity that your brain does. www.nature.com/articles/s44... #Free2DownloadAndRead

The headline doesn't even begin to describe how wildly unethical the background of this story is, which is that the survivor only shared the story with one person- her psychiatrist- who is Kamel Doud's wife

Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).

Tell me how you account for ChatGPT in assessment? My course is project based with personal reflections, but that too can be bullshitted. I vacillate between "if you want to turn in bullshit that will get a B- and not learn anything that's your choice" and "everything in bluebooks while I watch you"

Hey, quick thought: what if we took sexual harassment and misogyny seriously as a tell that someone sucks in *many* ways, and not just as an unfortunate, unrelated peccadillo?

I had an email exchange with a guy yesterday who insisted I was making a mistake not outsourcing my writing to an LLM. He said, "It knows more than you do." He couldn't understand that this was impossible because the work of writing is figuring out what "I" think.

According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.

Fortunately! There is already a protest there every Thursday. Come along and tell ICE to get out and stay out. (you don't have to RSVP to the protest, and generally you shouldn't unless you know the org well enough that you're already on their mailing list anyway). www.mobilize.us/sdiclaborcou...

The article is behind a paywall, but if you're in San Diego the answer is the Edward J Schwartz Federal building.

Stay for the stories about Baby Zohran

Jfc, just give us childcare and paid leave for both parents.

No....no... that doesn't sound quite right

Top line NIH funding levels DOES NOT MATTER when the people who control the purse strings are bad actors. Thanks for coming to my "seething commentary" TEDtalk. www.statnews.com/2026/02/10/i...

Sorry, I don't mean resources for how to go and protest. I mean readings about how public health and activism have interacted. Think the history of act up, in a way that is digestible for 20-year-olds who are thinking about it for the first time.

Looking for resources! I teach qual methods for undergrads. They design and execute their own project over 10 weeks. This year I wanted to loosely center the question on "what do undergraduates think is the role of activism in public health?" Favorite readings/videos/podcasts for background info?

Bad Bunny won the Super Bowl

Relax it's a blood test is unironically really good public health messaging.

Lololol www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

I don't know what people want, what if we asked them?

Someone who is good at embroidery, please help me figure out what stitches are happening in this sampler in the background of the new Muppet show? I want to make it immediately

I love that the reporter took the kid seriously. "Wait, let me make sure I have all this..." Kids are people! Often very cool people! The best way to help them grow into cool big people is to treat them respectfully while they're cool small people.

Here's a basic fact: most conspiracy theories tend towards antisemitism. Yes, that one. Mmm hmm, even that seemingly harmless one. Flat Earthers? Moon Landing Truthers? Antisemitism. Q-Anon? 9/11 Inside Job? Antisemitism.

fund research on menopause you cowards

This is so sad. As a teenager my room was knee-deep in paperbacks (literally - ask my mom). Those big soft cover trades were wildly unaffordable, but $5 at Barnes and Noble could buy an afternoon in Discworld or a weekend in Newford.

Incredibly charming. I love how deliberately this leans away from the trope of women competing with one another for a dude.

Lol, of course they are. Tech bros only ever (re)invent two things: busses and colonialism

THE TINY PODIUM????? Get you a mayor who thinks kids are people 😍

free them all

The billionaire class wants to decimate the white collar workforce. Because white collar workers are expensive. And because white collar workers—who historically sided with billionaires—are questioning that alliance. Which makes their knowledge and resources a huge threat to billionaire power.

The desire to decimate the white collar workforce is also driving billionaire attacks on DEI. Because marginalized students/workers have led the questioning of white collar alignment with billionaires, and bigotry makes it easy to get privileged workers not to care if the marginalized are pushed out

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

Vance is the archetype of *that guy* in study section.

In a parallel universe, a study section reviewer once complained that my hiv research grant became *less* significant when I included the fact that sexual violence is a risk factor in HIV treatment and prevention.

That said, hashtag not all philanthropists. If you've got some money to spare, you think sexual assault is bad, and you want to fund ethical community engaged research and violence prevention, I know a scientist with two thumbs and open DMs who'd love to chat

I don't think people understand the sheer *scale* of reputation laundering that happens through university donations. This is not isolated. Write a check, put your name on a building, take the tax write-off, and no door on campus will ever be closed to you.

Sanders: Do vaccines cause autism to the American people? Bhattacharya: I do not believe the measles vaccine causes autism. Sanders: I didn't ask about measles. Do vaccines cause autism? Bhattacharya: I have not seen a study to suggest any **single** vaccine causes autism. (emphasis mine)

Going to try and watch this until I’m blinded by rage

Bernie: do vaccines cause autism? Yes or no Batt: not the measles one Bernie: no no, not measles, vaccines Batt, very demure: I have not seen any evidence that they do

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university: *Beer and brewing *Geology of dinosaurs *Ethnomusicology of the Swahili coast *Evolutionary biology *Critical theory in literature