This Wall Street Journal headline might be the thing that breaks me

Every single day that I take a shift as a substitute teacher I have to look at where the emergency backpack is, where the looped chain and anchor for the door is, if the opaque internal window covers by doors are in good shape, and the safest corner of the room to huddle the children.

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

If this was, in fact, an active shooter situation, treating it like a minor inconvenience so you can go back to your fancy dinner is the most end-stage American capitalism display I could possibly imagine

This is why it's important authors read a lot, Murakami has no idea this has been done already

Because @nationalacademies.org decided to bend the knee and host a session with Jay Bhattacharya and some of his fellow travelers, they tarnished a meeting on the important topic of scientific integrity even before it began. 1/

Recently, the accrediting body for U.S. medical schools quietly published updated standards that no longer explicitly require med schools to teach about health equity. In my piece, I argue that this rollback harms us all & that medical schools have an obligation to keep teaching this content.

I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.

if i buy this will i be as happy as the guy staring at a garbage bag half filled with his shit

On Tuesday, Alberta's Minister of Mental Health and Addiction Rick Wilson told the Alberta legislature that he personally watched someone die in a supervised consumption site (SCS). This statement is demonstrably false and constitutes disinformation. #ableg

Heist to steal the secret wu tang album from Martin Shkreli, put it on youtube

The number of NIH competitive awards is down 50% from 2025, and down ~70% from prior years. Even if they catch up by the end of the year, only wealthy institutions can bridge these huge funding gaps.They're killing science-and violating the constitution-by weaponizing the bureaucracy

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Thanks to the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine for singling out our team's (trainee-led!) paper on caring for patients with opioid use disorder in during COVID as a strong example of theory-guided qualitative research. 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Using facial recognition tech, the Knicks surveilled a trans woman, tracking her every move out of fear she'd show up on MSG's tv broadcast And they can do it to any "enemy" of Jim Dolan, who's built his own deep state. From @noahshachtman.bsky.social & me @wired.com www.wired.com/story/madiso...

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

They're calling it the best democracy ever. www.ft.com/content/7529...

Between the "male loneliness" beat and the "passport bro" beat, there sure is a lot of ink being spent on pieces of shit who can't find friends or dates because they're sentient piles of hot wet trash

1) Influential right-wing figures say "they're the enemy, hate them" using lies, cherry-picks, and exaggerations 2) Followers believe them, get increasingly riled up 3) "The people don't trust the institutions, it's the institutions' fault" 4) Repeat 1 Worked on elections, higher ed, and more.

calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

Two events this week in Victoria marked the 10 year anniversary of the public health emergency of the #toxicdrugcrisis in BC — one inside the Legislature building and one outside. I went to both, and found experts on either side of the wall saying the same things: pressprogress.ca/bc-health-ex...

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Vancouver pals! I'm going to be presenting at this event in support of @briarpatchmag.bsky.social next weekend! April 18 from 4:30-8:30 at Vines Arts Society. It's drop-in by donation and a bunch of other rad local folks will be reading and speaking throughout. 🌾✨ www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

Find something in your life that makes you as happy as Gavin throwing out homeless peoples stuff

I was actually quite wrong about this. Trump managed to choose humiliation *AND* escalation.

Glo has even compiled an Indigenous Harm Reduction Library Database on Notion, so if you do harm reduction work, it is crucial to know the roots of these efforts! 👀

Those of us in public health don't just have to become better storytellers, we need go out into our communities and co-create a better future for all of us. The story of public health in the 21st century should be one embedded in communities that need us most. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Here is a take for you Bluesky. Having the perspective that science isn’t political is a privilege. The louder you say it, the more obvious it is you can’t put yourself in the shoes of folks who know science and politics are indelibly intertwined.

I’ve said this before but I truly think that reading shit you’re not ready for is how you learn to sit with discomfort. By forbidding the next generation from pushing their boundaries, you’re doing them an immense disservice

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

🤓There's an open 2 yr postdoc position in my group 🏘️ On interactions between area-level socioeconomic position and environmental factors in weight trajectories in children 📈 Using multilevel models; applying the target trial framework 📆 Apply before April 7th! international.au.dk/about/profil...

Bless whoever is parked outside our house loudly playing Warren G's Regulate.

An underrated addendum to the Bowling Alone story is that North America's largest bowling operator (Bowlero) is a publicly traded company whose business model involves buying mom and pop alleys, shutting down the leagues, and trying to attract casual, higher paying, one-off players.

"The leading medical school accreditation body in the U.S. has removed language from its standards that had required schools it validates to teach about health inequities." Shame. We don't live in a vacuum. All physicians should understand the structural forces that impact their patients' health.

There's one trait where economists clearly outperform the other social sciences: Hubris.

if you use public funds to pillage academics for athletics, you too can have two teams in the Final Four

this is turning out to be one of the onion's all-time classics

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

I know there's a lot going on But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable

At this point I don't wonder how much insider trading is going on. I wonder how much policy is being made with the purpose of insider trading on it.

I fucking miss useful Google search.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone