One of my favorite things I did in Paris was a long run on this parkway!

Where are the media headlines on whether JD Vance and Catholic Supreme Court Justices are betraying their faith like the endless stories over the years on pro-choice Catholic Dems?

Scenes from a campus in 2025. Two sides of our campus quad featured different "Christian" groups. 1/

The AI aesthetics of necropolitics.

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

This announcement claims, essentially, that they have infused a book with mayonnaise. I just want people to understand that if you purchase paper books, you can infuse them with mayonnaise yourself. You will need a turkey baster and a squeegee. And mayonnaise.

DING DING DING

This is a pretty specific subtweet of Vance, the Catholic convert most highly placed in US gov’t.

Broke the seal a day early on my annual October re-subscription to Shudder, since I’m salty about the temperature hitting the 80s (FFS!) today.

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

For this pro-capitalist nostalgia slop, we destroy our environment. So cool.

Dallas. At least downtown. I found the Katy trail, which made the whole thing bearable. The art museum was nice too. It probably didn’t help that I went the day after the 2024 election.

I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry. Or sociology. It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.

Got nowhere with this - so if you know of a (bio)med or health journal that has OA now but subscription-only archives - or that is somehow still entirely paywalled - please drop a reply. I’ll make me own list! ✍️

Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.

What level of Online Boomer Brain Damage is posting an obvious AI slop video in which YOU YOURSELF APPEAR?

Ugh, does this mean I’m going to have to teach the normies in my life about why medbeds are nonsense now?

I mean, also, my guy, we can’t get the university to pay for *paper towels* for our faculty lounge. In what universe would we have money to bring in *one* expensive conservative speaker, let alone one for every faculty member in our department of 50?

I‘m not on the hiring committee (but I can chat about our department and the university), but I’m pleased to share that our English department is running a literature search this year!

manuscripts reading room: do not bring anything in, including yourself. place your internal organs in a clear plastic bag and keep it on the table at all times office at rare books seller: hold manuscript at least 20cm away from your face if eating a hotdog. ashtrays must be kept on the windowsill

“Review” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.    It has been thoroughly reviewed. Mifepristone is safe… but that doesn’t fit in with their agenda so they’re going to find a way to restrict it anyways.

"Dracula" is a very up-to-date novel featuring the latest technology of its time, women with careers and other things that seem surprisingly anachronistic. So, Quincey Morris would have had to have brought a case along... but nonetheless, they could have had a Coke too.

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

Beyond the false claims linking Tylenol to autism, it is especially gross to see extremely wealthy men shaming women for not ‘toughing it out’ during pregnancy.

Interview with the Vampire but the interviewer is Isaac Chotiner

CHOTINER: But you’ve had romantic entanglements in the past. For instance, Lucy Westenra? DRACULA: Tragic case. The poor girl. CHOTINER: Died of acute blood loss, I believe? DRACULA: Attacked by a wolf, I think. CHOTINER: You can turn into a wolf, right? DRACULA: That’s right. CHOTINER: Thank you.

“In some respects this was the most unhinged discussion of autism that I have ever listened to. It was clear that none of the presenters knew much about autism — other than the mothers’ lived experience — and nothing about the existing science. This may be the most difficult day in my career.”

It's the black death Charlie Brown

This is exactly what a baby trying to convince his doctor not to give him a shot would say.

“Dr. K, why do have you constantly had a stress headache since January?”

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

Looking at RFK's recent moves, including an attack on the hepatitis B vaccine and on painkillers for pregnant women. The common theme: That all children's health problems are due to "bad" mothers. This isn't about making kids healthy. It's misogyny. www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...

‘I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.’ Happy Hobbit Day! 🎨 J.R.R. Tolkien

Gonna need someone to talk me out of a Gladys from Weapons Halloween costume.

Not a Donatos! 😱

She's so smart and principled (and makes fun music)!

Every time I train for a race, one song emerges as a sort of hype anthem for me, and I am pleased to inform you that this time it was Eurovision winner KAJ's Bara Bada Bastu, a song about Finnish sauna culture and a BOP. Please watch the performance. It is AMAZING: youtu.be/WK3HOMhAeQY?...

everything about this is iconic, from the hair to the shoulder pads to the reveal that she addresses herself as “bitch” to the absolute murder in her eyes in that first shot. that is a woman who homophobes would cross the street to avoid for fear of their life. absolute ally goals

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

I miss mailed Netflix DVDs (though I might miss video rental stores more).

I try not to be a gatekeeper around my hobbies, and running is no exception. IDK though, I've run seven marathons (with my first ultra in two weeks!), and my perspective is that the *training* is the hard part, not the event itself. www.womenshealthmag.com/uk/fitness/r...

Things out there in the world are bad, so I think it's time to make paprikash.

Maybe I'm old fashioned but my controversial opinion is you should try not killing your child with a disease that's 100 percent fatal based on vibes

Your brain works fine when you're under 25 (no matter how 'inconvenient' this fact may be) theneuroscienceofeve... The myth that 'if you're under 25, you're not mature enough to decide anything' refuses to die. But it absolutely should #Brains #Development #Maturity

162,000 doctors strong: The American College of Physicians demands RFK Jr. be removed as HHS Secretary, warning he is undermining vaccines, science, and public health. www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom... #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #SciSky

i think every girl should be issued an obedient murder of crows upon reaching the age of 12

Okay. ACIP meeting is over. Here are the four things they voted on with regard to Covid vaccines. Votes 1, 3 and 4 passed. Vote 2 (the call for a prescription requirement) did NOT pass. The language is so unclear that two legal experts I've consulted so far don't know what this means for access.