This is dreadful. #Medsky 🧠 www.propublica.org/article/psyc...

Street scenes and art. Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA.

The US right claimed free speech was sacred – until the Charlie Kirk killing | Charlie Kirk shooting | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Sunny and Dusty

Congressional Republicans are the most powerful cowards in the Universe.

Neo-Absurdism: Future theses will be written comparing the works of Samuel Beckett with those of RFKjr: "Waiting for sound science at the CDC," and comparing Lee Zeldin with Albert Camus: "We must imagine Greta Thunberg happy."

It's time to read up on diseases that were barely covering in med school because no one ever thought we'd see them. Well, it is becoming more likely now.

How timely. "These findings suggest that vaccines can be an effective tool for limiting COVID-19 burden, with a universal vaccine recommendation potentially saving thousands more lives through direct and indirect effects."#medsky 🛟😷 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/science/2025...

I must say that I am getting tired of seeing patient charts in which it is noted that "the patient is a poor historian," yet no apparent effort is made to figure out WHY the patient is a poor historian. #MedSky

None of the last 31 political attacks was by anyone from 'the Left'. Not one. We can count them. - AzExpress azexpress.net/en/posts/509...

Gift link. If Florida goes through with its plan, it would be a bad idea to go to college there. 🛟 www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

This is what I saw on a stroll through the Mesquite Street Historic District in Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. youtu.be/hta4CaDXZmg

Originalism is a junk legal theory. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Viva Art. Las Cruces NM USA.

Yellow Bells.

Resistance to data centers rises on the border between New Mexico, Mexico, and Texas. www.organmountainnews.com/resistance-t...

The administration is saying one thing and doing another. www.eenews.net/articles/rfk...

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What troubles me about this is that Mr. Trump, in his capacity as a role model, was showing the world that hasty conclusions are socially appropriate. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Actually, if the anti-environmentalist global elites have their way, ranching and agriculture will become impossible at scale. Then, we may have no choice but to eat insects. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

"The result is that health behaviours that should be guided by medical evidence become markers of political identity. In polarised societies, people don’t just disagree, they view the other side as fundamentally wrong, dangerous, or untrustworthy." 🛟 #MedSky www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Bertrand Russell Reveals the 4 Human Desires That Make Our World: Acquisitiveness, Rivalry, Vanity & Love of Power | Open Culture www.openculture.com/2017/08/bert...

Sugarloaf, on the east side of the Organ Mountains, as seen from the Pine Tree Trail in southern New Mexico.

Gift link: "America’s Perón Decades of personalist rule turned Argentina into a global economic laughingstock. Donald Trump seems to have misunderstood the lesson." By Scott Lincicome www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Monsoon season clouds as seen from the La Maria Trail, near Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA.

Too little, too late. "GOP senators signal to Donald Trump that RFK Jr. is on thin ice" thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Joint statement calling for Secretary Kennedy resignation www.idsociety.org/news--public...

Scenes from atop Picacho Peak. Hiking New Mexico.

Advocates worry that the founder of a private equity firm tied to one of the nation's largest hospital bankruptcies could affect the U.S. military health system... Critics point to Steward Health Care's $9 billion bankruptcy in 2024 as a warning sign. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

No more "Howdy Modi," I guess.

Menodora scabra, rough menodora. I read somewhere that early explorers had a legend, that feeding this to stallions would make them more stallion-ey. 📷🌸🥾

Ironic that some of the parents in Texas who believe it's dangerous to give their kids the measles vaccine because of what they heard from HHS Secretary Kennedy will probably be stocking up on iv**mectin #medsky

...And the science we were taught could not have produced the Universe we live in. The psychology we were taught could not have produced the minds we have.

"Evans and colleagues studied more than 16 million papers, revealing that flat, or egalitarian, teams consistently spark more disruptive breakthroughs than tall, hierarchical ones." 🧪 #philsci undark.org/2025/07/31/o...

An international team of scientists has now discovered that people gain more weight on an ultra-processed diet compared to a minimally processed diet, even when they eat the same number of calories. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

AI demand means data centres are worsening drought in Mexico www.bbc.com/news/article...

I am old enough to remember when Republicans made an effort to get young people to vote. It is impossible to imagine them doing it now. In fact, they are actively suppressing the youth vote. Image details in ALT text.

Dusty and the cat labyrinth

Hiking photography. La Cueva tuff, southern New Mexico.

Downtown Las Cruces NM USA

"Physician, heal thyself. You were too craven to vote against someone you knew would decimate our health system because you wanted to hang onto your seat. You swapped the Hippocratic oath for the Hypocritic oath."

Art is important for the resistance. And DeSantis is suppressing free speech.

"Berman sees hope in a concept called Attention Restoration Theory, developed by University of Michigan psychologists Rachel and Stephen Kaplan, that posits nature as an answer to directed attention depletion." 🧠 undark.org/2025/08/29/b...

AI decision-making software is trained on the decisions made by humans. If the humans are biased (and they are) then the AI will be biased. This was demonstrated years ago. #MedSky www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Vachellia constricta, Whitethorn Acacia in an arroyo in Doña Ana, New Mexico. There are few flowers, but they are highly fragrant.

Cholla blossom 📷🌸

City of Rock State Park, Luna County, New Mexico, USA

Gift link. This article is frankly annoying. Socialism and Democratic Socialism are NOT THE SAME THING. Nor is one a subset of the other. And the DSA, while I am sympathetic to their cause, does not define Democratic Socialism. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

"A leaked draft of the second MAHA report, a document outlining HHS’s policy strategy that has yet to be finalized, explicitly details plans to deregulate food and agriculture." Of course, if you just get rid of regulations, people will do the right thing. Not. 🛟 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...