🥹💜Woman who worked as a janitor returns to same hospital as a doctor. This could not be more inspiring! abcnews.com/GMA/Living/w... #medsky #meded

States are rolling out plans for their share of a $50 billion fund established by Congress to improve rural health care. In some states, the money may provoke rural hospitals to cut services. n.pr/4bOT4zC

A 3-year study published in Pediatrics examined newborns in Norway. It found a clear benefit for the baby when mom gets a COVID vaccination during pregnancy. n.pr/4uXOx6X

"The UN was established to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war”. Today, as we look at the human suffering in Palestine, Israel and beyond, achieving the goals of the UN charter requires moral clarity and principled leadership" Feels like a fairytale

Semi-regular reminder: Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats. 📸 Songda Cai bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪🪼🐙🦑🌿

OK #medsly I remember someone on medtwitter talking about how their system was starting a program to have their ED and ICU nurses cross train to care for ICU patients in the ED. I feel like it was in Michigan maybe? Does this ring any bells (or does anyone know of a program like this?)

Deploring Israel's actions as a state isn't antisemitic. Attacking Jews and symbols of Jewish culture in supposed retaliation for Israel's actions is however *textbook* antisemitism and these are not complicated thoughts to simultaneously hold in one's head.

Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.

A scientist from Zambia who loves — LOVES! — chemistry runs a lab in South Africa that is being hailed for "extraordinary" work. n.pr/4spvLU2

"We vowed to make this a quick war, and we’ve followed through on that promise. The first hour, it was over. First week, over again. Next week, we’ll be wrapping up. In a couple months, we’ll have finished this war more times than any war has ever been finished before."

This whole concept in LOTR is one of my favourite parts of the whole book. “Evil fucks up because evil people fundamentally cannot imagine that others are not motivated by the same things as them” is another theme that feels relevant right now

Great.

Had a dream last night where, a woman I went to high school with and have not thought of in YEARS, was a nurse with me and we had to do a training together that prominently featured Pokémon… the human brain is so weird.

Came out of the post office, saw that a guy had cut my saddle bag off my bike and was about to take off with it. I yelled "Please wait my cat's medicine is in there!" He started to run, and this grandma-age lady goes "SHE SAID HER CAT'S MEDICINE IS IN THERE" and WALLOPED him with her grocery bag.

“They’re often considered pests,” notes UC Riverside microbiologist Michael Allen, “but we thought they would take old soil, move it to the surface, and that would be where recovery would occur.” omg

This is outstanding by @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk on the weaponisation of irony and the need for radical sincerity open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...

The Pentagon is defending Hegseth's call to prayer this morning by pointing to a story they often invoke: George Washington praying at Valley Forge. But there's a BIG problem. It didn't happen. The story was made up: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/the-trump-...

En Australie, un opossum se confond parmi des peluches dans un aéroport

The Myanmar nurses dodging drones to graduate from a secret jungle school

As always, the alt text king delivers

My uncle has been sent to talk to Macron as a proxy for Rubio and this is hilarious to me for a wide variety of reasons but also, I feel like if I actually knew how to use technology I’d be making hella money on Polymarket right now.

It’s an interesting article but all I could think of was this gem:

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

this is the speech the DNC censored.

Cat rescue in the Curia!!!

March 15th is the Ides of March: the day in 44 BCE that Julius Caesar failed to invent the stab-proof toga. He was stabbed not in the Senate House (which was being built), but in the "Curia of Pompey." Today, that building has a new purpose: Torre Argentina Cat Rescue. Seems somehow appropriate.

Pivot. I’m ready to get really invested in a team that won’t make the elite 8 but has a strong merch game.

Pocket friend meet up! @rototudor.bsky.social and Sassy were in Seattle! We had coffee and donuts and chatted about random dreams of practicing low resource emergency medicine in some extreme locales. All around great Seattle Sunday!

If you need a few laughs amidst this hellscape:

Y’all sled hockey final!!!

The Morrill Fire in Nebraska has killed 1 and consumed 549,000 acres with 0% containment. This is more than 10% of the entire area burned by U.S. wildfires in 2025, and makes it one of the 20 largest fires in U.S. history. Sunday forecast is grim: High Wind Warning, 25-35 mph winds, gusting to 50.

It’s March. Nothing should be burning. The soil is just waking up. Also we have not had a true prairie fire in… ever? Guys we are not ready.

Remember how annoying I was during the Milan Cortina Olympics? Well I AM BACK AND EVEN MORE ANNOYING because I have discovered the Paralympics and they’re EVEN MORE BADASS!!

Watching wheelchair curling is so interesting because it’s such a different game than the curling I’m used to. Really cool to watch and learn!

There once was a pleural effusion The contents of which caused confusion The protein was high Bacteria nigh Because of an infection protrusion

I know a lot is going on in the world but some of the worlds best athletes are still competing for gold in the Italian alps. Jake Adicoff is just one American who is having a hell of a games

Drew Magary will not let Jessie Buckley be Norbit-ed.

My Seattle dating experience

I need this clinical pharmacist for my day to day life.

Further down in the story is the tidbit that someone donated 21kg of gold (worth $3.6 million) to upgrade Osaka’s sewer and water systems. Kind of love the idea of some weird wealthy infrastructure benefactor. @neorsd.org you need to find yourself someone like that.

Search your camera roll for hell

A mysterious trio of orcas, unknown to scientists, showed up in Canada’s busy Vancouver Harbour, later heading south to Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia.

The bill protects agrochemicals producers from lawsuits, and overturns food and pesticide safety laws and statutes. buff.ly/rjzsIZo

Who is willing to to the dirty of an authoritarian regime? A study of the Argentinian secret police found that those who joined "were not the most extreme officers in Argentina’s army. They were the most stuck." Mediocre men whose careers had stalled out. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-secret...

"The US is now pursuing biological data and pathogen intelligence through policies that risk reproducing the power imbalances of colonial extraction in new scientific form...African bodies are not cheap, expendable commodities." www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions...

NEW: They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “Tight noodle!” “Kids are pretty bouncy.” “Just a little arm hug!” “Midazema”