Siri, help me learn about confounding:

Physicians should actually learn a little something about health insurance works while in medical school.

Which is so crazy-making since it was really very explicitly clear what would be in store with Trump 2.0. There were literally hundreds of pages describing it.

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

I am not a religion prof but I might need this maybe?

Meritocracy!

This is huge progress. In the past the King would just kill his brother.

The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.

Yup. My reaction every time I open a Microsoft product (or every other piece of software or webpage) and see the "copilot" button. I WILL NEVER PRESS THE COPILOT BUTTON.

So many own goals. Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

I am curious about this but think the results might actually make my head explode.

Apart from whether it is a small or big price to pay, it is an EXTRAORDINARY waste of time and effort for everyone involved

So . . . we are basically creating state psychiatric hospitals again? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

I realize this is old news, but the fact that my child went to MyPlate.gov and found this banner is pretty infuriating:

There are ten times as many home health aides in the US as there are miners

So they have hundreds of millions just lying around that they’ll never miss to give to the government programs immediately, is what they’re announcing

SE Michigan is absolutely packed with the pickups of never/nevers. It is so silly (and also fills me with rage when trying to navigate a parking garage filled with them)

This is repulsive.

Me to my teenagers:

Keep the name of my people out of your mouth, Ross.

I will come and help with my bare hands.

Great opportunity: UW-Madison has an incredible array of faculty & resources dedicated to aging & associated conditions, including the Wisconsin Institute on Aging, Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute, and the Center for Aging Research and Education.

While the federal government is otherwise shutdown

AWS outage seemingly takes down Medicare website during open enrollment... www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The affirmation we all need on a Monday morning:

Take it from us -- an organization that closely studies all the horrific ways people can die from common household items -- have the jelly donut.

Collaborative. Creative. Impactful. Come join us in Ann Arbor! For more information and application link see jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675674/f...

Who hates America now bitches?

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

I need an Opus Dei explainer

you should read the Bible because if nothing else it will give you a very full set of language to talk about religious hypocrites and the iniquity of the rich and powerful

Medicare has stopped paying physicians due to the shut down. Standing right on the third rail www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/c...

MAHA by not collecting the data to show otherwise 🤷🏻‍♂️

I presume that orchestra people have vicious stereotypes about clarinetists that could be deployed here. I once heard three performers riff on violists for ten minutes and it was frightening.

So . . . in addition to wrecking the funding environment for new scientists, the administration is wrecking an incredible (free) data source. #medsky #healthpolicy CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c... via @statnews.com

This is interesting (null) study . . . but the wrong music intervention would drive me bonkers, so maybe they are lucky it didn't make the delirium worse. Slow-Tempo Music and Delirium/Coma-Free Days Among Older Adults Undergoing Mechanical Ventilation url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Siri: make grant writing feel even more futile

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

“Only puree existing views is” 👌

I know the MAHA people don't like fluoride in the water . . . but how about just a touch of haldol? That might really be what we need in 2025.

Trust in institutions is delicate, and complex institutions constantly engage in compromises. This leaves them vulnerable to takeover by bad-faith actors who are not really interested in the core values of the institution, which leads to even more distrust by the institution's strongest supporters.

Is this actually The Onion?

This was not a sample of academics.

Me, but for basically everything in 2025.

One of my kids is quite fearful for the big insurance premium increase they'll have to absorb - they work for a small nonprofit and health insurance costs have been a killer as it is.

Exactly. We're watching the Gilded Age right now and I'm like--"Why can't rich people now build museums or libraries or something like in the olden days?"

I'm a one-issue voter. My issue: vengeance.

I am really sick of the word “deal”