I write often about how private equity is destroying US healthcare. Lina Khan is a rare person who has used her position in power to fight back against private equity’s hold on the US economy. Very excited to see what she does in New York.

Starting a new chapter at the University of Regina, in the land of the living skies 🇨🇦 Feeling lucky to have gotten a job that can hold all parts of my research and practice. I love both art and computer science, and I especially love that I don't have to choose between them 🧪

“The Trump administration is, for the first time in history, substantially intervening inside NIH to bring it under political control,” according to a senior NIH official who spoke on condition of anonymity. My latest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

When a company files for bankruptcy, all lawsuits against it are automatically frozen. What does this mean when 1000s of people have filed personal injury claims against that company? My first special investigation for The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

“B10-PR1NT” is a collection of 3D-printed biodegradable forms made from local bio-waste. The artists create vessels, birdhouses, and plant pots inspired by natural forms. The project highlights regenerative design and circular processes in art and science. tinyurl.com/mr9me346

This electronic instrument creates a duet from two heartbeats! My collaborator Emily Graber and I will demo it at ISEA2025 next month.

The new issue of The HTML Review is here! Twelve pieces of poetry, fiction, essays, and experiments, all of which use and explore the world wide web as medium. The table of contents as always designed by my brilliant co-editor Shelby thehtml.review/04/

When asked about trans rights and gender affirming care, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that healthcare is fundamental without exceptions 🏳️‍⚧️

Three of my besties! So glad @greennoise.bsky.social is here to capture them 😻

"Nobody will ever know how many women have been harmed or died because of abortion bans preventing appropriate medical care.” Lifesaving treatment is being denied, delayed, or never discussed as an option in states with abortion bans by @skirchy.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The circumstances that led me to write this piece are awful. That said, there is something extra satisfying about being a neurodivergent writer interviewing other neurodivergent people about the issues that affect them. 🩵

“[Private equity investors] don’t announce that they’ve acquired something. They often keep the old name of the firm. They’re like a brain virus or a cancer inside the body of this new firm. It doesn’t announce itself until it gets very late,” —Martin Kenney www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

RFK Jr. wants you to think that pharmaceuticals and psychedelic medicine are somehow at odds with one another. It's a false choice. The most popular psychedelic medication available is manufactured by big pharma. Read more here: little-big-world.ghost.io/what-am-i-do...

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

🧪 If I were Canadian PM I would immediately: 1. Create a new $15B science fund 2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada 3. Immediate permanent residency 4. Citizenship after 2 years Overnight a science superpower

One big problem with AI LLMs is that they don't know what they don't know. If the only publicly available information about a shady company comes from that shady company's own website, the LLM will simply spit out the website's favorite PR talking points no matter what you ask it.

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

hot take: it's not "no code" if you have to write a yml file 🧪

Noise cancelling earplugs but for smells.

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

working on some illustrations of quantum mechanics

Thank you to everyone who replied to my survey about ADHD and food! I now have enough responses to share the results and I'm going to start putting together recipes based on them! View the thread below for some of what I've found.

VC backed coffee chains Blue Bottle and La Colombe eventually were purchased by huge corporations (Nestle and Chobani, respectively.) Do you think their coffee is still as good? 🧪

Meta is now completely censoring searches for the terms "trans" and "transgender" etc. on Threads. So much for free speech and free expression.

Software engineers of the world, I beg you. Stop disabling copy and paste in password fields. Sincerely, Someone with non-human memorable 20+ character passwords generated by a password manager.

It am so thrilled to be a part of the Critical Coding Cookbook! This is an excellent resource for intersectional feminist approaches to teaching and learning code. 🧪

*whispers* I thought there was already a free tier of Copilot

Computer Science/HCI/Data Science professors! I have a question for you: I am an artist who works with code. All my education is in art, but I got a tt job in CIS dept at a teaching-focused college because they are interested in alternative + visual teaching methods. See thread for my question 🧪

"In Kenya, it traumatised 100% of hundreds of former moderators tested for PTSD … In any other industry, if we discovered 100% of safety workers were being diagnosed with an illness caused by their work, the people responsible would be forced to resign..." www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

Doing transgender stuff (updating my passport in December of 2024)

I know I'm neurodivergent, I know I have ADHD, but I still don't know how to explain some of my very specific sensory issues. Wonder if anyone can relate to these? 🧵

Please welcome these #EduSky community members! Give them a follow and a hello @maphido.bsky.social @andrewmoffat.bsky.social @youkiterada.bsky.social @brandynichols.bsky.social @mrshuber-dlc.bsky.social @tigg-stem.bsky.social @howshekilledit.bsky.social

Educators, what do you do about ChatGPT homework? If you have proof / if you don't? I suspect this post describes some of my students, would prefer not to know how many... #EduSky 🍎

A couple months ago, I didn’t know cardiologists existed for dogs. Yesterday, we brought Holly home after she had a device implanted that closed a hole in her heart that should have closed at birth. Without treatment, she might have died very soon. She’s a year and a half old.

Majority of people state that ChatGPT has consciousness... I suspect that's the same rate of endorsement they would claim about their human peers.

About 2/3 of people in this study believe that ChatGPT has some level of consciousness (n = 300, random sample of US residents) 🧪 academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

New stem-mousebird Ypresicolius sandcoleiformis: sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiqu... 🪶🧪 (📷Mayr & Kitchener)

illustration of recursion from early in the semester. the size of the branch corresponds to recursion depth; the color to its place in the recursive sequence 🧪

conceptual progress image. trying to say something about how our faces become numbers in computer vision

Does anyone have examples of hope when it comes to counteracting machine learning bias? Is it arguably hopeless? 🧪

I came out as trans at my institution and, over a course of two years, my pay went from $80k to $8k a year, and I was silently removed from all leadership roles, without notice, comment, or review. Not one coworker asked how I was doing after the election. DEI and HR didn't reach out. Silence.

Recent polling data shows that 75% of Americans now see addiction as a health issue, not a criminal justice issue. But our laws haven't evolved to reflect that, even as our leadership claim to agree. My latest for @theguardian.com. 🧵 🧪 #medsky #drugsky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

in 25 not especially elegant lines of code, my computer draws like i do

the thing inside the thing inside the thing

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Nothing like a cold can of after a hard day

I am a regular listener of The Daily. When I heard this, I was so annoyed, because my own lived experience was internally shouting that this was all alarmist, propaganda speak. Hearing all the shady shit they did to make the problem seem so much worse.... SMH. Do better, NYT.