As my small school district stares down declining enrollment for the first time, I’m reading more stories about how this is playing out across the country

This @nytimes.com video totally hits how an endlessly sycophantic voice can seduce you in a way that scrambles your sense of reality

Reading how Ryan Lizza’s ex-gf became obsessively, self-destructively devoted to RFK, Jr., I had an Aha! RFK Jr’s magic is the same as a powerful chatbot… his family say he’s a stunningly fluid liar—just like an LLM sensing exactly what you want to hear (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...

Hearing news that Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at #NIH (NIAID), has been removed from his position because he was "not aligned with HHS/OMB." Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH. 🧪 1/

I never got why the US populist Right grouped so many different types of people into the “elite” bucket This @anandwrites.bsky.social essay (plus all the other recent Epstein revelations) clicked some things into place for me www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

I followed the #MurdaughDeathInTheFamily case closely in real-time. So far, in 3 episodes, #Hulu’s mini-series is hitting all the 🤯 notes Super-special unexpected pleasure: every scene between Patricia Arquette and @jsmithcameron.bsky.social! 🤩 #MasterClass

Watching the US make many of the same bad decisions from Brexit has been so maddening

Where is good literature on use of menstrual products among US adults? Like how Gen Z and Millennials make choices about using pads, tampons, menstrual cups, period panties, etc… @kateclancy.bsky.social @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social

Old dogs, New tricks? Communicating in the new media environment feels kind of overwhelming for this Elder Millennial academic. But better to face how times have changed @kmpanthagani.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/youcankn...

Get the key facts about the ACA’s enhanced premium tax credits at the center of the ongoing government shutdown.

Informative first-person account about endometrial cancer, a cancer of the uterus people.com/alex-kingsto...

The Black Feminists Who Saw the Alt-Right Threat Coming Before Gamergate, before the 2016 election, they launched a campaign against Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color. If only more people had paid attention. (Context for #EndFathersDay)

Not sure what to do about this, but it’s an important reality to face about the US in 2025 #polarization #SocialMedia www.facebook.com/share/p/17R7...

For obvious reasons, I’m very interested in this admin’s attacks on Black women

I feel awful for the Utah Valley University students who had to experience a shooting on their campus. My university is still feeling the effects of its own shooting, and I know personally what it’s like to have your sense of security shattered in a place you always felt at home. The US needs reform

We don’t have to live like this

With RFK, Jr so in the news rn, I have 2 recommendations for anyone wanting to do a deep-dive into the #MAHA political movement: 1. This podcast episode from @whyshoulditrustyou.bsky.social 2. This video collaboration of @nytimes.com & @derekberes.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...

🧵 I’m a public health researcher who wants to build bridges This podcast ep with #MAHA folks from May has been taking up brain space all summer the convo was illuminating & discouraging @meganranney.bsky.social @kkjetelina.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Good interactive feature about what we lost when DOGE gutted govt watchdogs, Inspector Generals (free article) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Such cool science! Connections btw deep biology & social stuff (when we intro foods to 👶, downside of BigFood adding novel ingredients, sunburn culture) Anti-science folks mock #NIH for work like this (Put mice under UV lights?! 🐭☢️🔦), but science is cool!!! #ScienceImmunology #DermSky #MedSky

I’m really into histories where societies get cause & effect, villains & victims really wrong, even backwards If this sounds good to you, read this essay on the arson epidemic in the South Bronx in the 70s @newyorker.com #BornInFlames @benchansfield.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

A Labor Day podcast recommend The biggest changes I’ve made in 2025 all flow back to Robert Putnam’s ideas here: thick, layered social groups —> functional local governments & better personal well-being & healthy national politics podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

“Black women are the canaries in the coal mine, the exclusion happens to them first. And if any other cohort thinks it’s not coming for them, they’re wrong. This is a warning, and it’s a stark one.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

Please help me welcome to Bluesky @drdebhoury.bsky.social - brave, brilliant, and principled. abcnews.go.com/Politics/vid...

North Carolina legislative shenanigans are limitless!

We don’t have to live like this

It makes less than 0 sense <<<<<<0️⃣ It makes negative sense 📉

“death rates [for Millennials are] high across so many kinds of deaths, from car collisions to fatalities from circulatory diseases & diabetes…. The oldest…were Reagan babies who launched their careers in the shadow of the Great Recession…the youngest entered adulthood during a worldwide pandemic”

Unhoused people are just the most accessible target. It won’t stop there.

I like this article (from an American Heart Association journal) on #HRT 1. It gives a good brief history… www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

““If I were the food industry, I would be happy with this report…” @lindseytaillie.bsky.social said.” #MAHA Draft Report Brings Relief to Some, Chagrin to Others www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/h...

A great propulsive piece of writing! This quote is the slowest part, but I included it bc I crave anchors: “The goal of education is to create people as lifetime learners, seekers, & questioners. And the fact that higher education takes place in a community…is absolutely fundamental to what we do”

The intentional and systematic erasure and rewriting of the terror and atrocities of slavery in the US (though not confined to the US) is why it's so easy for modern regimes, including the latest, to reintroduce tactics meant to exploit and control people. Text below should say "A Black woman…"

#LoveLife season 2 was amazing So I just watched season 1. It was…fine? Except for the last episode of season 1, which was crazy-making! Early motherhood was depicted *so* badly. When the mom gently wafts off to sleep despite her breasts supposedly being engorged, I was screaming at my TV!

This thread shows how misleading quant modelling can be without accurate info on human behavior Understanding how people are actually behaving is key to prediction and to making change

One reason I find it powerful to do research about Black folks in the US: You become a kind of soothsayer What happens to Black people here ends up happening to everyone else too. Sometimes it’s quick, sometimes it’s slow. But it’s coming

As an GYN health services researcher, I’m excited about this research - esp since this US admin is defunding research about trans people I liked that the article centered patients’ perspectives on their own lives The Truth About Detransitioning, by Kinnon MacKinnon www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o...

A little summary of this week in science policy in the US

Just to give the TL;DR on this one: *The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.

Science is effectively dead in the US if this stands. I don’t see how it survive political interference at this level

Honestly…if they weren’t killing U.S. science, I’d be impressed by their ingenuity, persistence, and vision This multi-headed monster attack on science, financial stewardship, and rule of law is endlessly creative and dogged. I do feel a little awe

A good explainer on the EO. @kgandersen.bsky.social takes apart the key points. His main point is exactly right. And we’ll add: politicizing science grants like this will — flatly — kill American science. Science, like business, is choked off by corruption.

“Maxwell’s new camp primarily houses nonviolent offenders, & the inmates there are reportedly livid, and probably not a little bit frightened, to be imprisoned with one of the world’s most notorious sex traffickers & alleged rapists” @moiradonegan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump administration cancels millions in school mental health grants, four NC programs affected. Full story at www.nchealthnews.org #MentalHealth #Schools #Students #Kids #Trump

Well… at least one company has an ethical line… www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... Ghislaine Maxwell barred from service dog training at cushy prison camp

Has anyone reported on women in prison with Ghislaine Maxwell? So many women in federal prison are 1) non-violent & 2) victims of sexual abuse growing up... To see this unrepentant, mass sexual predator gifted special favors from the highest levels, get dropped into a low security setting…

I love interactive tools like this!

Cortez Masto & other centrist Dems in Congress still don’t get it… Like how she talks about @roycoopernc.bsky.social… She says Roy is popular in NC bc of his moderate policies… No! He’s popular bc we believe he actually gives a damn! …about each of us in NC www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

Anti-education policies in the US are crazy-making. Destabilizing community colleges is…🤯 But what hit me most: students demoralized by all the “anti-DEI” stuff… dismantling their clubs, support programs… they are trying so hard… and treated like dirt by own govt www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/m...

“Zandi noted that data often gets big revisions when the economy is at an inflection point, like a recession” In normal times, extrapolating from past data works pretty well for prediction But, with rapid change, past trends are kinda worthless - you need strong theory to see the future clearly 👁️