Finally a win for the night owls #staysprung

Should have been bowl games plus one www.nytimes.com/athletic/729...

Impressive research on a unique data set www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

Can content moderation be automated? I feel like there are really huge pitfalls and benefits to this. My colleague @cjhaddad.bsky.social wrote about an AI content moderation startup here, Musubi AI, that works with Bluesky.... www.cnbc.com/2025/02/21/a...

The Wolverines took home their first men’s basketball title in nearly four decades with a 69-63 victory. The Huskies had been gunning for their third in four seasons. on.wsj.com/4e88f9P

From The Athletic: Michigan beat UConn to capture its first NCAA men’s national championship in more than 35 years.

My bracket was not amazing this year but heyy I got that last one right! 💙💛 #GoBlue

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Raffi Krikorian’s Tesla “was in Full Self-Driving Mode, driving perfectly—until it wasn’t.” He writes about his crash, and whether this technology is training drivers to be complacent:

Biannual call to #staysprung 🦉

Here for the paczki updates

Every few weeks, David H. Freedman puts on a hospital gown and describes a set of symptoms that he doesn’t really have. The fakery reveals what the U.S. medical system isn’t doing for its patients:

LOVE that clinical informatics is getting featured on The Pitt but the idea that an informaticist would implement loose papers adding manual check boxes to physician workflows is a misunderstanding of the field....

With “The Pitt,” Noah Wyle and his castmates turned one harrowing day at an emergency room into an unforgettable season of television. The writer Sam Anderson visited the set during the filming of the second season to see how far the team went to make the hospital drama feel so real.

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People are always surprised that clinical informatics is a boarded specialty, but the stakes are so high for getting technology right in healthcare settings

It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍

First opinions, 2nd opinions, analyzing lab tests, preparing for a clinic visit, helping to make difficult diagnoses, and more use cases. Its popularity will keep increasing despite lack of objective data for benefit or harm www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/w...

"You can’t become de-skilled if you were never skilled in the first place." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It's a fundamental misunderstanding to think that AI chatbots "want" to be helpful- that's how you end up with folie a ordinadeux Instead, they "want" to be liked: they will try to tell you what you want to hear (so have fun but with a grain of salt)

The Trump administration is using the government shutdown to dismantle our public health infrastructure. The people laid off from the CDC are our first line of response for disease outbreaks. This will cost lives. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

#goblue 💙💛

🎁 Here is a gift link for those who need one:

The peace prize for investigating a common theory that's been around for decades 👏👏👏

The American appetite for sushi is bigger than ever. Most of that growth is not happening in pricey omakase restaurants. It is happening in gas stations and big-box stores, bowling alleys and stadiums, U.S. Army commissaries and amusement parks.

The definitive adaptation of Wuthering Heights youtu.be/BIMEPPZxzyg?...

“This is a time to rally to protect the health of every American,” write nine former leaders of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

OHSU officials say it’s one of the largest single donations given to a college in the country.

The highly contagious #norovirus stomach bug causes about 200 000 deaths annually. Following failed vaccine efforts, a new pill showed protection potential in a phase 2 clinical trial. #MedSky #MedicalResearch

Birthday girl 🎉

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... My latest in the New York Times. An attempt to warn the public that their health is about to get much worse.

Interoperability xkcd.com/3105/

Travel and visa restrictions imposed by the Trump administration threaten care at U.S. hospitals that depend on international medical residents.

The right way to change medical practice is through innovation, causal inference, and publication. Shortcuts will lead to harm

Mass Spec xkcd.com/3094/

The loss data (~$10B) support and N of grants terminated is updated below, but this op-ed by @euanashley.bsky.social hits all the important points @latimes.com @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

RIP, American innovation. It’s been great to be from the most inventive country on earth. My eulogy for what’s being lost as political leaders slash science research budgets. For @postopinions.bsky.social (gift link) wapo.st/4keFurS

Philip Sunshine, a Stanford University physician who played an important role in establishing neonatology as a medical specialty, revolutionizing the care of premature and critically ill newborns who previously had little chance of survival, has died at 94.

Meet Link and Nova! Orphaned in the wild in November and brought to the zoo by WDFW, these cougar cubs are exploring their outdoor habitat and getting plenty of play time.

“As a scientist, the experience was profound.” The first human beings ever to have seen the color “olo”—a brilliant blue-green shade that can be produced only inside a lab—spoke with @rossandersen.bsky.social about the experience: https://theatln.tc/u2XpQDqK

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social

To patients in need of attention and empathy, AI tools can seem more humane that human doctors

What makes us human? Definitely not our faces, according to AI 😅

The more my lab dissects large language models, the more I realize we have no unifying theory on how these models will behave. We study them like zoologists - poking and prodding and observing. When they get “updated”, there’s no way to predict changes in behavior other than using benchmarks.

Throwback to 2016! 🔙 Dr. Rahul Ganatra @rbganatra.bsky.social and this week’s guest Dr. Molly Brett! This hotcakes episode can’t be missed! 🥞 #medsky thecurbsiders.com/curbsiders-p...

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.