I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”

If you're reading this and you're tired of writing stuff that only five academics will ever read, and likely with an eye toward kneecapping your arguments, please consider this a permission slip to write things that make you feel something other than exhaustion or dread or imposter-ish.

This asbestos metaphor is brilliant.

"Excluding MPH and DrPH from the 'professional degree' category could restrict students’ access to higher federal loan limits, making public health education less financially attainable and potentially weakening the future workforce pipeline." Get ready to submit comments! aspph.org/department-o...

This is designed to tank public health & primary care by excluding public health professions, advanced nursing practice, physical & occupational therapy from loans that can cover the cost of education. This is going to make an existing workforce crisis worse. aspph.org/department-o...

New paper with @statsepi.bsky.social and @deevybee.bsky.social in which we show there's really no evidence for a link between the gut microbiome and autism www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Keeping warming well below 2°C is still within reach, but with massive acceleration of emission mitigation. It’s time to step, not to give up.

emailing in a semi-literate manner isn’t a sign of stupidity, it’s another form of rich asshole arrogance because you don’t think you owe anyone coherent thoughts

I never knew that my emails, filled to the brim with complete sentences and a coherent narrative, were such a work of art. I'm bout to start printing these out and hanging them on the walls.

insane to me that the only way we seem to be able to frame the epstein case is as a big cartoon hammer with which to bonk our enemies, rather than the horrors that were Actually experienced by its Actual victims

When you are using the "AI" framing, does the way you talk about "AI" carry water for the Sam Altmans of the world? That is, are you helping to paint a picture of their tech as inevitable, all powerful, and/or anything other than commercial products? >>

The great @kieraevebutler.bsky.social and I took a look at the many problems with the FDA’s big menopause announcement today... including the claims that menopause causes divorce + death, & that the FDA is leading the charge against the "male-dominated medical profession" 🫠 For @motherjones.com:

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

'Tis the season of flooded inboxes & time to reamplify this brilliant tip from @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

When I share with educators there is no evidence for learning styles, inevitably they ask for other/better ways to differentiate or personalize their instruction. This meta-analysis shows personalization by learner interest positively affects retention and transfer. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake 1/

Just your regular reminder that not all universities have massive endowments.

Having been involved with this report for the past 5 years, overall takeaways IMO are: - Good news: we know (in great detail) the things the 🌎 needs to do to stay w/in 1.5°C! - Good news: we are doing many of the things! - Bad news: we’re not doing ANY of the things at the necessary speed or scale!

I added a unit on the youth sports industrial complex to my kids and society class, and I think I might have to add more day to the unit next time, because my students had *SUCH* great insights and *SO* much to say.

Let’s normalize bodymind breaks in schools. Take them when you need them. Take them in the bathroom. Take them in the library. Take them outside. Take them when you need to pee. Take them when you need to cry. Take them whenever you need to regulate. stimpunks.org/bodymind-bre...

I have studied this for... 3 years now? Maybe more. Every month I ask AI to summarize two research papers, then I deep read those papers myself. They do a bad job. Their summary always misses something... Pretty often something big. Some include false information, too. It's not a summary.

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

I think a lot of people don't know this Zoom feature exists: under "React" there's a "Be Right Back" button that mutes your audio, turns off your camera, and puts a label on your square. And then when you come back you just click the "Back" button. Repost to save us all from "BRB" chat messages!

91 years is a good long run for most but too short for someone like Jane Goodall. Damn.

"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

This is clearly in jest, but the former science teacher in me would be so on board with this!

A series of studies shows that the dehumanising language in academic and media descriptions of autism directly drive dehumanisation of autistic people, and subsequent social rejection of autistic people and willingness to use harmful and risky 'treatments'.

The word “autism” was first used to describe behavioral differences in children in 1911 but autism has been documented using available records going back to the 1700s (definitively) and further. Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.

Vaccines cause adults Tylenol causes pain relief Neurodiversity is good

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.

PSA: If you haven’t yet, it may be a good idea to get your COVID shot this week. Reports suggest that CDC may further restrict COVID vaccine access to people aged 75 and up, unless you have an condition. The committee that advises the CDC on vaccines meets this Thursday.

you are SUPPOSED to be able to trust the news! you are supposed to be able to trust public officials! none of us are supposed to make sifting through every piece of data we consume to test its veracity our full time job!

Biology is so badass.

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Something that comments in this thread are pointing out is that this person was in a non-tenure track position. This speaks to both the importance or tenure protections as well as of ensuring that non-tenure track faculty have due process protections if we care about academic freedom

Good grief...as a long-time science educator, I am not happy that a school like this exists. Don't force kids to specialize at age three. Yuck. Boo. I mean, let's be real: Most people aren't even ready to specialize when they go off to *college*.

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

'By integrating gen AI into the teaching and learning process, we are not only misleading ourselves into thinking we are tackling education’s challenges, but..outsourcing a social, civic and democratic process of cultivating the coming generation to...capitalist enterprises whose priority is profit'

It's incredibly weird that folks have convinced themselves that the Covid vaccines - which had an ~82^% take up rate - were unpopular.

This ⬇️ is also an important list of Qs for all of us to ask about the media we read/watch/listen to. Reporting on scientific studies is often incomplete, and these days, that's especially dangerous. We need to be extra selective about who and what we give our attention to.

I used to teach my AP Bio students about spurious correlations in my first lesson of the school year, so that they didn't make similar errors when analyzing data. Now, it seems, there are people in charge of **public health** who make these errors ON PURPOSE. Sigh.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

This isn't abstract. Ending vaccine mandates will kill children. Any one who is trying to do this should be removed from office immediately.

Deanna's thread ⬇️ is a treasure trove of K-12 teaching resources!

This statement may be one of the most dangerous statements ever made by a Presidential Cabinet member. You have to hear RFK Jr say it to believe he actually said it.