Academic medicine peeps--go for it!

Tune it at 1 pm EDT to EARS early career panel! pennmedicine.zoom.us/j/96672201477

Counterpoint: Every year, "means-testing" across Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP, etc entails a multi-billion dollar transfer of state and federal tax dollars to third party consultants who build and maintain these systems of administrative burden

ok using your last words before you go around the far side of the moon to remind humanity to love your neighbors is goated

So the moon only has a dark side? Don't tell Pink Floyd.

To be autistic for a minute: there actually are Earth rocks on the Moon already. Sufficiently big impacts launch ejecta right into space, and some of that will have landed on the Moon. Some fraction of the material mixed up in lunar soil started out on Earth.

Some discussion on Artemis II broadcast about how dark the Moon is compared to Earth. Here's a really nice look at the two together from the same camera -- the Moon isn't white, it's dark brown www.planetary.org/space-images...

New shot of the Moon taken only a few hours ago by the Artemis II crew! More of the lunar far side coming into view :-D flic.kr/p/2s676GN

Bluesky on the fritz... are they trying to get me to do work??

Easter: Your annual reminder that nobody fucks with the Jesus

This is an image that rewards deeper inspection. Every detail is fantastic. City lights! Space dust! Auroras! Venus!

I was recently labeled by a user here as an "AI Hater." Which, fair. My problem with AI is less the tool itself, but how humans use it. Its use should be disclosed and it should be ethically applied. These modest concerns are too much for the AI evangelists, it seems.

I asked an AI researcher recently how they planned to prevent abuse. Their answer was (1) Compliance with the law & (2) Trusting people to be good. I really wish people--particularly the academics promoting this work--would grapple with what the worst and the laziest do with these ubiquitous tools.

Sometimes -- usually when I'm about to give up on an article -- I think The Atlantic is specifically trolling @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

"Reviewing a few articles before bed is a good idea," said no one. ever.

In 1982, the administration defunded EPA's Office of Noise Abatement and Control, despite appropriated funds. Managing noise hearing hazards were de facto limited to the workplace, and efforts to address noise have been hurt ever since. The blueprint for this has been around for some time.

Tinder: Let me scan your camera roll to determine what you're into. Surgeon: no

Sound is just that important

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Highway Tune - Greta van Fleet

It was good, but Justin's right.

Sinners was the better movie

Rhinologists are something else

Hi. Ear doctor here. Ears only want rusty screw drivers when they're in distress (aural pica). Try baby oil on an eye dropper instead.

I think I need to incorporate vaccine-preventable disease in my next hearing loss lecture

The model of unpaid academic labor required good jobs with ample unstructured time.

Happy World Hearing Day on March 3rd to all who celebrate! I'm looking forward to giving a talk on Healthy Hearing/ Healthy Aging in honor of the day. 😊

Hearing loss can impact your speech, learning, confidence, and future. The good news? Over 60% of hearing issues are solvable. Dive into today's Daily Dose for more insights.

I know there's a lot going on, but I want to give a shout out to the @who.int for their focus on hearing health. Tomorrow is World Hearing Day, with an emphasis on pediatric hearing loss.

The HPV vaccine is amazing!

Baby gets measles at 7 months of age. Survives but measles isn't done with him. When he is 7 years old, he gets Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis, which is fatal Stage I – Behavioral/cognitive change Stage II – Motor dysfunction Stage III – Severe deterioration Stage IV – Vegetative state ➡️ death

Pre-9/11, a kid in my squad at West Point said he was the reincarnation of Gen. George S. Patton, and he was destined to be a general leading Armageddon. I was relieved he didn't graduate, but sometimes I wonder if he was more prescient than anyone realized.

Pierrot le Fou

Our latest paper is out! Lots of genetic models to explore! 🧬Abnormal Hearing Phenotypes in “Ignorome” Knockout Mice as Predictors of Cognitive Dysfunction - Vicencio‐Jimenez - 2026 - Genes, Brain and Behavior - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Casey Means did not finish residency and is not board certified.

Tapping the sign

#IDSky. The impact of the measles epidemic is enormous -misery, costs, and disruption. One tragic consequence, while rare, will be an increase in SSPE in a few years. I've seen one case and it was one of the saddest things I have ever seen-and that is saying a lot. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

The emails are a reminder the profession still operates under the gaze of men. And in a field where funding is scarce — and climbing the career ladder is often only possible through a combination of luck, mentorship and networking — the files reveal the ways sexism & misogyny still hold women back.

I had my mentor from LSU come last week to our temporal bone course. We shipped a couple king cakes in for our resident dinner, and, of course, he brought one, too. All three were eaten.

This brings up a really important point and reinforces @jackiantonovich.bsky.social's concern about the power dynamic. ~10 years ago, hospitals made it a big issue that patients shouldn't record encounters (when patients were trying to protect themselves), but it's now acceptable in this context.

We've just rolled out ambient AI listening in our hospital, and my colleagues are really, really excited about it (more time doing things other than note writing). They're so excited that things like patient concerns/autonomy are lost. We're just making up ethics as we go along with AI right now.

Happy Mardi Gras! Bon temps!

Strategies for improving communication with patients. Written with colleague Gauri Mankekar.

While we're talking about measles, there's a theory that it may cause otosclerosis, a formerly common cause of mechanical hearing loss.

Fiction moves people more than facts; if it gets parents to vaccinate their kids against measles then it works. THIS is fact, and it is just as devastating fs.blog/roald-dahl-l...

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Hyperbolic Oort Cloud Comet: This conjunction was a million years in the making. On Feb. 9th, Daniele Gasparri of Atacama, Chile, photographed Comet Wierzchoś (C/2024 E1) gliding past the "string of pearls galaxy" NGC 55. spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload... spaceweather.com/archive.php?...

Normal people: Maybe medical chatbots aren't a good idea Academics: THIS IS WHAT GETS YOU INTO *NATURE*?

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Work dinner: 10 - Sadly, it's ENT Wife - What's ENT? 10 - Ear nerd time