The ABS system is coming to MLB in 2026

Trump’s attack on vaccines yesterday — delivered from the White House — “was the most dangerously irresponsible press conference in the realm of public health in American history” @pauloffit.bsky.social told us. More on Trump’s false claims with @lenasun.bsky.social

Autumnal equinox storm! #iawx

Yep @effinbirds.com

The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

The FDA statement ends with a paragraph undermining its own warning. They signal parents to avoid acetaminophen. Except sometimes. And then: No “causal relationship… established” with ADHD or autism AND Alternatives to acetaminophen have “well-documented adverse impacts.”

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

As the brother of an autistic American, as a person who worked on US scientific integrity policy at the White House, and as human being, I'm boiling at the RFK idiocy. And though I have little to offer beyond surpassing rage and national shame, I did smile at this statement from NYU's Arthur Caplan:

This whole "announcement" is one of the most anti-science screeds I've ever witnessed. All of it is absolute dogshit with zero scientific evidence to back it up. Tylenol is safe. Vaccines are safe. This man has no idea what he's talking about. He is a danger to public health.

Take a look in the mirror and you'll find one of them, you bozo.

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

Tonight's sunset walk

#STLCards tipping their caps to the St. Louis fans one last time in 2025. 📸 Jim Hayes

That's a winner! The #STLCards win their final home game of the season over the Brewers and win the series. Thanks, Busch Stadium! See you in '26 for your 20th birthday.

Here’s your regular reminder to wash your water bottle. Those things get gross fast so go give it a good scrub & stay hydrated!

Me at the staff meeting

LLMs are bullshit machines that simply cannot aim at truth because of their very design. Even OpenAI is saying it!

🎶There's colors on the street,🎶 🎶Red, white, & blue...🎶

[James Earl Jones voice]: Baseball, holy fuck, that is all, send skeet

Baseball is the freakin' best

One last time #STLCards

"My thoughts turned to David Rose, who volunteered to try to prevent another such attack on our country, and then, when back home, ran toward danger once again to help his fellow Americans." www.thebulwark.com/p/a-hero-dav...

I love autumn but as long as baseball is still being played, summer lives on. #STLCards

Instead of scientific peer review, here comes political peer review

It was probably a game-worn Taylor Motter jersey #STLCards

I don't really understand why Klein seems to have so many fans when he keeps making bizarre arguments like this.

People keep telling me summer's over. Far from it. #STLCards

Keith Law with a good piece on prospect of the year Konnor Griffin of PIT but said that the #STLCards prospects Rainiel Rodriguez & J.J. Wetherholt were also in the running. www.nytimes.com/athletic/663...

Photo of the year right here 📸 @staceywescott.bsky.social @chicagotribune.com

My good pal Griff II came to visit my office in the library recently and swung by our Bright College classroom too. Always good to see you buddy!

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Fat Bear Junior is almost done this season, but Fat Bear Week is about to gear up!

Every revolution needs fuel...

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Inside you are two wolves

In a meeting that devolved into confusion and near chaos, federal advisers on Thursday voted 8 to 3 against vaccinating children under four years old with a combination shot that protects against measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/h...

NO TRUST IN ACIP! Well, the absolutely incomprehensible vote at the end of the ACIP meeting has left everyone confused. MMRV resolution passed, so it’s off the schedule for younger children and CMS won’t cover it.

You are literally, constitutionally and biblically allowed to do this.

We have so much work to do and there are many dangers ahead but I can't help but laugh really hard at the fact that the GOP, the party that has branded itself masculine and strong and powerful for decades, worships a man with an ego made of tissue paper & cotton candy.

Also just saw an Alice in Chains shirt in another class this afternoon.

Happy to see two Nirvana shirts & a TLC shirt in class today. The kids are alright.

#apod 2025-09-18 Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) Image Credit: Team Ciel Austral Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250918.html#apod

My friend & colleague Prof. Jerrid Kruse wrote this. Great work, Jerrid!

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Told my lecture class today that the New Deal's National Recovery Administration's "Blue Eagle" logo inspired the owner of the Philadelphia football team to rename the franchise as the Eagles. Voice from the back of the lecture hall: "Go Birds!"

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Just another day at the old library 📚