So *what is* a public health approach to substance use? Our latest 🧪 paper provides a systematic review of academic and grey literature and outlines a conceptual framework to guide practitioners. link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-025-25402-4

The “biological roots” of what made Da Vinci “the smartest guy in history.” Tell me WTF that means & I’ll tell you what his genome will tell us about it. The answer will be “Fuck all.” Not b/c genes have no influence on personality, but b/c +/- ALL genes shape it, in tiny, context-dependent ways.

Yep this is the answer

No contest. It's The Americans, hands down. Absolutely perfect, no notes.

who's published the best public-facing stuff on global political realism and the recent actions of the Trump regime? looking for accessible week 1 content for a course on global justice #polisky #poltheory #InternationalRelations

COVID killed >100,000 people per year over the course of 2023 and 2024 in the US alone. The level of indifference to this massive annual toll among both the public and the majority of my public health colleagues is stunning. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

New commentary published in @natmed.nature.com with @dsilvaphd.bsky.social, Anna Levy, and Katherine Littler: Navigating Difficult Ethical Decisions in Global Health www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I mean, at least they are opt-out tools (for the moment), but "nutritional facts" is absolutely bizarre comms-speak for higher ed and I definitely don't want to learn more about any of this, Canvas

I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)" Department of Global Health and Social Medicine King's College 3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29 Deadline: 01/02/26 shorturl.at/KZ6Vh

In Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Sam Halabi and @gostin.bsky.social write on one of the unresolved core aspects of the WHO #PandemicAgreement: the Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) System. Read the article: https://ow.ly/AT6v50XMvWM

It's fine I only have *squints* six urgent items on my to-do list as I head into a two-week teaching immersion next week

I am so not ready for the term to start tomorrow

24 hrs later, it's much better. I'm basically up and running on Android with all of the critical apps loaded and running smoothly (enough).

(I wrote on Victorian anaesthetics in relation to animal experimentation some time back, and the resulting article initially had a long historic section that covered their discovery but it was cut for length reasons) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“No school has removed vaccine instruction because vaccination became politicized; it remains because evidence supports it. The same logic must govern instruction on systemic racism, gender-affirming care, and health inequities” #TeachFacts jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

There is a deep and passionate intracommunal disagreement among Jews about the boundaries of antisemitism. This is primarily a conversation for Jews in which to lead. Out-group members can of course join in but beware of tokenizing minority-minority views or lecturing Jews on our oppression.

The worst thing about the IHRA discourse is that once again I am compelled to listen to non-Jews explaining to me what is and what isn't antisemitism. I understand perfectly well why non-Jews have a stake in this conversation but still feels bad. (Jews should also lead the conversation)

Ugh. Combination of anxiety + coughing from bronchitis = no sleep.

anxiety has been ridiculous today

So far, the great iPhone to Android transition is going .... not smoothly at all

Still recovering from a URI, hyper-anxious about the start of the term and *gestures wildly,* so definitely let me relax with *squints* S4 of #StrangerThings ...

A mini replica of Bag End, done perfectly

Folks really do need to understand that after the Shoah there was no returning to the world conceived by Bundists. Those communities & traditions were literally gone, and in cases where Jews tried to rebuild them they often faced violence & continued popular hatred.

There was no more a conspiracy to hide Bundism - especially not "Bundism" as it is often framed, some lost and morally pure path for proud and resilient Judaism - than there is a conspiracy to hide the miasma theory of disease. It was simply a failed theory of reality with nothing to offer Jews.

Super excited to see people - including Molly herself - using the awful kicker to her Mamdani piece as its pull quote. Nothing bluesky needs more than "the Jews who don't like mamdani are drawing from their ritzy Upper East Side synagogues" as an explanation

DENVER, IT'S FUCKING JANUARY 2026 BUT DON'T TELL THE WEATHER GODS, THEY'RE STILL PARTYING LIKE IT'S OCTOBER 2025 WTAF IS HAPPENING FRI: 60°/37° SAT: 62°/44° SUN: 67°/37°

Only need two, really, and I’m a sandwich fanatic who will eat them for any meal, at any time: Deli tuna salad sandwich Banh mi H/t @alana-m-vincent.net

#PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky 🛟🫁💊 Today, California starts selling insulin at $11 per injection pen, the second drug sold under the CalRX label after naloxone. Albuterol inhalers and vaccines are next.

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The 1945 Gershwin biopic Rhapsody in Blue didn't mention that he was Jewish. His parents, who emigrated from Russia as adults, were portrayed with no accents. There were, at most, some subtle hints. I saw this and thought "well Hollywood was scared and it was a different time". Maybe it wasn't.

Yeah I read this yesterday and was mmmm-hmmmin the whole way. The erasure or sublimation of Jewish identity to placate non-Jewish taste is so old, so powerful and so damn enduring. As if their Jewishness were irrelevant to how these characters act in/on the world!!!

#Inequality in the accumulation of diseases and medications among older adults: a longitudinal cohort study 2016–2021 bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/3/2/... - #multimorbidity #health inequality - Individuals in deprived areas experience faster accumulation of conditions and medications.

Allegorical map from 1908 charting the dangerous lands of intoxication, including "Beer Lake" (banked by "Scandal Beach"), "Cocain Park", and "Ft. Bondage", and where to find the "Great Celestial Route": https://publicdomainreview.org/product/gospel-temperance-railroad-map/

Works for me

Elon Musk calling himself a "maker," in contrast to Bernie Sanders, is a classic example of producerism, which shows how the Jew can be labeled both ur-Communist and ur-Capitalist at the same time. "Good" wealth is people engaged in tangible productive labor, while "bad" wealth is extractive.

I teach health professional learners who ought to be charged w/ some basic awareness of why people mask, but if any1 does query I say, “I’m immunocompetent, not esp. vulnerable but (a) I like superheroes (b) I enjoy getting sick less & (c) I like showing solidarity w/ disabled folx.” No problems!

#philsky #philsci #philtech #HPS #plantsky

Soooo, S4 of #StrangerThings is just a straight-up horror movie, right? (A very good one!)

Catching a URI = poor sleep + can't exercise = wild anxiety spikes (I sometimes think of myself as a sheet of phyllo dough; it stretches pretty far and covers well but it rips easily and there's not much underneath there to repair the tears)

🧵 I’m exactly the same as Dr. Nirenberg. I mask everywhere.

I’ve started a Substack dedicated to PUBLIC HEALTH ERRORS. Subscribe, it’s free :) itaibavli.substack.com

“On a pedal bike, the chance of dying from an injury is about three-tenths of 1 percent,” Alfrey says. On an e-bike, the data indicated, it was 11 percent.” If those data hold up nationally, that’s shocking and will require intervention. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/m...

'The Ethics of Behaviour Change Technologies' Investigates the broader societal and philosophical implications of these types of behaviour change technologies. bit.ly/4s0b0i7

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Drove back to Kansas City this afternoon in that snow squall, which was a mistake. I saw 14 crashes, mostly small things, but at least three rollovers. So once again, I'm asking, why is there not a train from Denver to Kansas City that stops in Salina (a logical stop)? Why am I forced to drive?

The worst part of having NBA League Pass is having to watch all the in-arena nonsense which might be harmless fun if you're physically attending but is excruciating to sit through on TV

Italy's Constitutional Court rules that vaccines and testing mandates, and the green pass, were constitutional. www.unionesarda.it/en/italy/the...

And so it begins .gif #Spring2026 (think of "Spring 2026" appearing on your mental screen like the days of the week in "The Shining")

Since the 🧵 does not mention this, I think it’s important to add that Schneiderman, like more than a few of the early 20th c women labor leaders, was Jewish, and that her Jewishness informed how she saw her life and her work. jwa.org/encyclopedia...

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