Maybe of my last reads of 2025? therumpus.net/2025/12/09/o...

Maybe of my last reads of 2025? therumpus.net/2025/12/09/o...

🎙️ Episode 29 of An N of 1 with Matt Wallaert and Robin Kouyate is out now! ✨ Listen to the full episode at the link below👇🏻 www.buzzsprout.com/2369863/epis... Watch the full episode at the link below👇🏻 youtu.be/dPF7t2V-JM4 #behavioralscience #AnNof1 #podcast

I wrote for The Wharton School Healthcare Quarterly on considering behavioral science in organizational strategy. Shoutout to @mattwallaert.com for the course I mention in the article. www.whartonhealthcare.org/prescription...

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the chemical industry. This is why you always follow the money. www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/09/17/a...

"fuck your grandpa and his purple heart" -- the us coast guard

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

lol people who reduce ENTIRE disciplines to the people they don't like/agree with annoy me a lot. For example, lots of people will define economics by the problematic men in the field when the field is quite expansive. Takes like these are just super lazy and quite unproductive.

National Guard members are speaking out against the Trump administration’s attempt to deploy troops to Chicago. Thank you! 💚

The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯 Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚 And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋 youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared

@rewirenewsgroup.bsky.social is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit media organization and the only national publication exclusively dedicated to reporting on reproductive and sexual health, rights, and justice. Help them stay in business - we need them now more than ever! rewirenewsgroup.com/donate/

Very few factors have slowed epigenetic (methylation) aging, such as exercise. This study showed that effect for social engagement H/T @brandonluumd.bsky.social sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🔫 Not all gun laws work the same way A new study finds stronger state gun laws in the US are linked to lower firearm deaths, especially suicides But to reduce homicides, laws must be paired with policies tackling poverty, racism, and inequality 🔗 doi.org/10.1001/jama... #SciComm #GunPolicy 🧪

Hey Bluesky- here are some blue flowers from my garden. I hope you’re finding moments of connection with the earth and others. 💚

I was stuck in the familiar story of barely making a dent in my student loans under the federal program. I wasn’t likely to get student loan relief, so I decided to refinance. I went with Earnest and now I’m months away from freedom. Read my thread to learn why I love them…🧵

Great interview on change and #behavioralscience with @Amy youtu.be/rsfEVAUwzTU?...

Snapped this at a Starbucks this morning. #behavioralscience #behaviouralscience

Can we nip this "Alligator Alcatraz" shit in the bud? We don't need to adopt their cutesy marketing when talking about the concentration camp in the Florida Everglades

They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.

I could find more people in the well in my backyard I've said too much

No deaths have been linked to the salmonella outbreak so far, but 79 people in seven states have gotten sick. That number includes 21 who were hospitalized. www.upi.com/Health_News/...

Louisiana residents were warning their neighbors about polluted air—now the state could fine them $1M for doing it

Universal healthcare isn’t a handout, it’s common sense. Cancer patients shouldn’t go bankrupt because they get cancer. Not only that, 22 studies show Medicare for All SAVES the U.S. government money over a decade.

Why is ‘rout’ suddenly in every other headline?

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

lol we know

Is PCORI subject to NIH rules re subject matter and populations of interest etc? 👀

Library database corporations ( EBSCO, ProQuest etc.) are facilitating censorship especially related to health and race - secretly. Libraries and librarians are an essential bulwark against state censorship, but the privatization of these library services threatens everyone

You gotta whole generation of people who are embarrassed to exist and I find that such a miserable way of living. Why the hell are you embarrassed to exist? Just be you and be free!

My podcast episode on N of 1 with @mattwallaert.com is live! #behsci #behaviorscience #behaviouralscience #behaviorchange youtube.com/shorts/rNPy6...

We were already facing a childcare shortage/crisis in Michigan! 😭🤬

The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

The default to fear as a motivation is such a terrible thing because of habituation. When you try to get someone to do something by making them afraid, then the next time you have to make them a little more afraid: that’s the nature of pressures.

Catch my interview with @mattwallaert.com this Monday! Check out this teaser video about my journey in applied behavioral science: www.linkedin.com/posts/mattwa... #besci #behsci #behavioralscience #behaviouralscience

#teaching #highschool #college #university

It’s a lot of talk about the horrible plagues unleashed by RFK & not a lot of masking. Come on y’all, we have to be participants in our survival.

I’ll be curious to hear how many people tuned into watch @booker.senate.gov speech (especially as he moved to beat the previous record). I bounced around different channels on YouTube, saw posts on viewers on other platforms, and the numbers were over a million just from those few sources.

What happened in Louisiana deserves more attention. 4 MAGA-supported constitutional amendments. All failed. Great organizing work by folks like Gary Chambers. www.joyannreid.com/p/that-louis...

To Canadians travelling to the U.S. for longer trips: Anyone visiting U.S. for periods > 30 days must now register with the U.S. government. “Failure to comply with the registration requirement could result in penalties, fines, and misdemeanor prosecution.” travel.gc.ca/destinations...

When I tell you these people want to go back to the 19th century???

‘This case is about more than reproductive health care. It’s about whether people on Medicaid—folks who are low income, pregnant, elderly, and/or disabled, have any rights when it comes to their health care at all.’ - Great piece in @rewirenewsgroup.com mailchi.mp/rewirenewsgr...

Those Nerdy Girls with the latest on Bird flu: open.substack.com/pub/thosener...

I’ll let this one speak for itself…

In the last week, everyone in my family with a cell phone has gotten dozens of spam calls a day, as well as text scams (though fewer than the calls). Is this happening to everyone?

"Our mission is to provide an easy way to search for datasets across various sites." (h/t David Corliss)

I just witnessed a birthday party in a Costco food court. A bunch of senior folks. Costco employees and costumers joined in singing happy birthday. Glad I could be a part of that glimmer from the outside. ✨