I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I’ve been getting some PhD inquiry emails that struck me as v odd so I asked ChatGPT to list my books. It came up w/four—all COMPLETELY made up, including on topics I’ve never written on. And these are the only ones listed! Lesson = please don’t use AI/LLMs when writing grad apps and inquiries &c

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

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Don’t want to get called the Gestapo? Stop acting like the Gestapo.

Important story! Gift link! The EPA's Office of Water has been told to stop publishing its research. They're studying PFAS and microplastics, how to best test drinking water for lead, and to test for naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater. By Amudalat Ajasa and @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

This is my shocked face. I still say all of the freaking out is about the realization that it won't just be one side facing death

Oh my God, I missed this: "CDC staff weren’t in the room; instead, they watched from a separate livestream due to safety concerns directed at them by some ACIP members." yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/covid-19-v...

Crowd reax are phenomenal

As Valkyries part ways for offseason, which of them will return? ‘We have no idea’ | @sfchronicle.com www.sfchronicle.com/sports/artic...

At 26 Federal Plaza today, ICE agents detained a man after his immigration hearing, leaving behind his wife and children. His wife broke down outside the courthouse with her young child. Their 7-year-old will return from school to find her father gone.

ACIP meets tomorrow. Looks like they're going to spotlight a study (Garly 2004) from Guinea-Bissau to question hepatitis B birth dose. This study is irrelevant to US policy. Classic cherry-picking to doubt a vaccine that reduced childhood HBV from ~18,000/year to near-zero. 🧵

It’s worth noting that per Lo’eau Labonta, KC Current players were cut out from player arrival pictures on team social media for wearing the WNBPA “pay them what you owe them” shirts. Some might call that censorship.

A decade without heat and apartments with mold, bugs, and rodents—tenants and their tenant union (TANC) are locked in an ongoing battle with the landlord, Byong Yu, who also owns KP Market in Uptown Oakland. bayareacurrent.com/a-decade-wit...

• The hepatitis B vaccine protects babies from later exposure to caregivers and others and sexual transmission later in life. • Thanks to vaccination, US infant infections dropped from thousands a year to just 13 in 2022.

MMR vaccines do not cause autism (see my 🧵 of studies) At the same time, one potential cause of autism is rubella, which is *prevented* by MMR vaccines. Which means...vaccines may actually help prevent autism. 🧵 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21592401/

Yes, ACIP will end hepatitis B vaccines for infants at birth today, and despite his speech about the importance of these vaccines yesterday, Bill Cassidy won’t do damned thing about it. This is from the ACIP page for their anticipated votes today. This will, as ever harm the most vulnerable.

The Hepatitis B vaccine, given at birth, is done so for a very clear medical reason: to protect babies from exposure to a virus that can cause devastating chronic liver disease. Screening first was tried years ago and didn’t work - it’s why we vaccinate, so we don’t miss anyone.

NEW: If Republicans won’t conduct oversight of Trump’s unconstitutional and cruel immigration policies that kidnap and disappear immigrants of all statuses, I will. Today’s Shadow Hearing will focus on how his actions are destroying U.S. families and communities.

ICE badly injure 80-year-old U.S. citizen who owns the car wash—leave him with broken ribs & dislocated elbow. "They told me: ‘You don’t F with ICE! We are here!’ and then threw me on the floor." "I told them I'm an old man and need my heart medication, but they said ‘No!’" Van Nuys, California

So stoked to have this piece by Maya Goldberg-Safir about how Valkyries fans balance queer pride with the realities of sports capitalism www.coyotemedia.org/watch-partie...

After the pandemic, low-income Americans saw their incomes rise faster than high-income folks. That has now reversed, and high-income people are on a spending spree while others cut back. Think about how this affects our students, faculty, and staff as economic mobility takes a hit.

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

Fun @runforsomething.net fact: As of today, there are 4 RFS alum running for governor, 4 running for U.S. Senate, 13 running for U.S. House, & 5 running for other statewide offices. Been saying it for years: Our community is the present & future leaders of our party.

I hate how true this is

Anyways, @adamjentleson.bsky.social, go fuck yourself.

Melissa Hortman. Say her name. This article is from this past summer. She was killed by a right-wing ideologue who had a hit list of Democratic politicians. He also killed her husband, Mark, and attempted to assassinate MN Rep. John Hoffman and wife Yvette. www.startribune.com/melissa-hort...

Most people don’t have a coherent political view & actions, and it’s always the accessibility of and proximity to guns that is the biggest factor.

This is not right. The Downballot makes tons of data available for free. But when big-name pundits rip off our work without proper attribution or a link—to build up their followings and make money off us? That's bullshit. This case is especially egregious, but this happens *all* the time.

second verse same as the first. white people are not okay

They don’t have the power to do what they’re threatening on a grand scale. But they want us to think they do.

At the beginning of the pandemic, a guy tried to crash a hijacked train into a boat because he thought all of the Pizzagate babies were in there. One of dozens of things from that year that went basically uncovered outside of my beat.

“‘I want people to know that my mom’s medications were taken away and not returned,’ Nory told MSNBC in an in-person interview in Quetzaltenango on Aug. 27. Through tears after her mother’s death, she repeated: ‘They took away my mother’s medicine. I had no way to help her.’”

T. tells me "we built this town", born at Highland, raised and educated here. After a lifetime of paying taxes, forgotten by City and now being hounded to move from every safe haven.

Yes, a well-deserved recognition for Veronica Burton. And talk about Pay Us What You Owe Us: she will receive a paltry $5,150 for it! It should be at least 10x higher!

Witless, @facethenation.bsky.social. Even if you leave aside Posobiec's views on race, Jews, women... there's the fact that he has celebrated and effectively advocated violence. With Kirk: he was part of the podcast ep that called in earnest for televised executions as mandatory viewing for kids.

We do not talk enough about how much vaccines have transformed Ebola outbreaks. The country stock pile of 2000 vaccines was immediately deployed to respond to the outbreak in the DRC and 45,000 additional doses have been approved for shipment to the DRC. www.afro.who.int/countries/de...

Unfortunately, over-extending performance and rehab staff isn't uncommon in sport, even beyond women's basketball. These individuals often take on multiple roles and are not paid commensurate. Additionally, teams often require elite credentials but the pay is lacking compared to non-sports roles.

Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. helped Sofi secure an H-2A visa, promising a job on a Georgia blueberry farm. When she arrived, she was not sent out to work in the fields like the others. She was forced to live at his house and sign a marriage license.

Ugh, I missed what happened here, but IIRC DeMelo had an episode during the Racing match vs Bay FC where play was stopped. I hope she’s ok.

ICE claimed the father tried to hit them with his car or that he "dragged" one of the agents. Then bystander video was released showing this was completely false. ICE executed a man on the street in broad daylight.

Cruel AND stupid

Erika Kirk is already positioning herself and being positioned as a political heir. Don’t be fooled by “submission” language; fascism is always, always, about power first and ideology second.

If anything the right has become MORE aggressive about harassing anyone who comments in even the most mild terms about a certain recently-diseased individual after finding out the alleged killer was one of their own.

I think we need to look towards other philosophies, other ways of thinking and being. But this seems like a baseline starting point - Authoritarians are uncivil by definition.