Propublica reporting (and reporters) are great, which is why you shouldn’t cross the picket line!

lost in the other insane news of the day but Wisconsin just voted in a liberal supreme court judge, which not only means the court's split is 5/2 in favor of the liberals, but also that voters have guaranteed a liberal majority until at least 2030

Glad to see the World Medical & Health Policy journal’s publication of my analysis with @hjarman.bsky.social on the tariffs’ harmful effects on health, examining tariffs’ intersection with SNAP, WIC, and beyond. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

www.chronicle.com/article/unma... bleak

I never have any proof that a student used an LLM and it generally doesn't feel worth it to pursue, but it's pretty soul crushing to be grading and giving feedback to papers that reads like chat gpt

about to submit a nomination for a mentorship award, the 4th (?) I have submitted for one of my advisors. my advisors are all supportive and kind, and they make me a better scholar. I'm immensely grateful

dissertations could be written about this breastfeeding t-shirt

every once in a while I find something so immediately relevant to my dissertation (around the politics of government data and data quality) that I metaphorically sprint to bookmark it that discovery has been via bluesky a non-zero number of times

... wow I haven't read Project Hail Mary and I think it just dropped off my TBR

i lived in Chicago when Rahm was mayor and his good press baffles me

today in try-hard acronyms (tell me, are academics, health systems, or legislators better at this?) I-PASS: Illness severity, Patient information, Action list, Situational awareness and contingency plans, and Synthesis by receiver

More gas. A young woman with a camera got shot in the eye and carried away Too chaotic to post

it's good to see enormous protests in big cities, and large ones in liberal places like the Ann Arbor No Kings I went to, but I continue to be more struck by small(er) ones in unlikely places I did rounds of protest in 2016/17 and 2020/21 & this seems like a big difference in this movement

I counted nearly 1700 protesters in Franklin, TN. Which is, uh, not exactly a hotbed of left-wing progressivism. #NoKings

FLORIDA… the Villages shows up again… #NoKings

St. Paul, MN @reuters.com #NoKings

#NoKings in DC.

always a discworld quote

life of a poli sci student at brunch: "I don't mean Ronald Reagan, I mean Charles Ragin, r-a-g-i-n"

Really excited to read this (though it will probably raise my blood pressure). I preordered and you should too!

as an aspiring math major in the same department a handful of years later: oof-yeah in my case, it wasn't inappropriate romantic interest from a faculty member that drove me from the math department, but the (fucked) gender dynamics was a contributing reason.

IL politics: would prefer Kelly in the Senate but at least Krishnamoorthi isn't leading Margaret Croke is ahead in the comptroller race (boo) Biss, the Evanston mayor who admitted to an "ill-advised" romance with an undergrad when he was faculty at UChicago, ahead by 5K votes in district 9

what is satire anymore

“…YOU HAVE TO START OUT BELIEVING THE LITTLE LIES” “So we can believe the big ones?” “YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING…” Oof, sometimes Discworld hits you in the gut, and the build up to this conversation is… chef’s kiss

Six people legally living in the US and legally traveling for work were disappeared by the US government and the only reason we knew about it was because one woman was family friends with a county commissioner and her cell phone pinged to two detention centers.

Is my pun-a-day calendar trying to tell me something?

memes as coping mechanism to prevent screaming into a pillow instead

Discworld and a drink is my kind of Friday evening, and Death bewilderedly trying to be Santa Clause is 10/10 absurdist comedy. (A third of the way through my 9th Discworld book, Hogfather)

I know it’s the new normal but watching this administration make a mockery of public health still hurts. Casey Means is a deeply unserious nominee for surgeon general who will contribute to all of the endless harm done to population health

If you’d like a more comprehensive and reality-based take on what Trump has done for health, we can help, free to read @xrkulik.bsky.social @hjarman.bsky.social @mirandayaver.bsky.social

How is our president who’s done such enormous harm this incoherent

Robin Vos not running for reelection might be my favorite political news this week

I am about to re-sign a lease to stay in my apartment for a fifth year... the last time I lived in a single *state* for 5 years straight (much less a single home) was between the ages of 3 and 8. (geographic stability, how I'll miss you)

Happy (lunar) new year! 春节快乐！

In all the academic debate about genAI in the classroom, I rarely see discussion about how it seems to trigger psychosis, mania, and now stalking behavior/harassment/abuse in some. This entire article is excellent (and horrific)

Re: political speech and teachers. Not my class so I’m fuzzy on the details, but a government teacher in my high school in GA circa ~2010 said IN CLASS that undocumented immigrants should be shot before they cross the border and I don’t think anything happened to him

It seems like this all the time now. I keep having to recalibrate my baseline disposition to cover up so much anger, like emotional weight taring for daily functioning.

I slept a bit better at night when I didn’t know how much empirical evidence there was for voters being, uh, not very good at voting (vibes, not policies or politics or y’know ideology) Truly one of my least favorite findings, normatively

Reading Hogfather and the last “Susan” I found this compelling was Pensieve and I haven’t read Narnia in more than a decade. Discworld, as usual, a joy in terrible times

senseless & horrific cruelty towards children.

like, hundreds of children are suffering and are being exposed to infectious disease outbreaks in concentration camps *right now*. that has to matter more than presidential sounding words

Today’s reading, pretty fun

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

today's low-stakes rant about demographic data I want every single mainstream journalist writing about fertility rates to understand 1. what TFR (total fertility rate) is 2. the difference between TFR, GFR, and completed fertility and...

this is so fucked up idk how to process all of this violence against kids

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

We the people Michigan event is really good so far

tw: violence to children this is horrific, idk even what to quote school professionals bringing kids to a detention center to be reunited with their mom because there's no one else to care for them the detention center had kid's books and cartoons on TV because we already locked up so many kids

a lot of small businesses in Ann Arbor/Ypsi are staying open tomorrow and donating part of their proceeds to immigrant rights organizations... I'm genuinely not sure if that's an effective organizing strategy or not

Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants https://theonion.com/democrats-condemn-ice-for-murdering-without-proper-warrants/