Something that more people need to embrace about the importance of public library organizing is that it's a good foundation to organize for other public goods. We need to explicitly connect library organizing with parks organizing as just one example and so on and so forth...

Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality is finally out in the world! Combining nationwide survey evidence, state administrative data, and 111 interviews with patients, physicians & others, it tells the long-overdue story of coverage barriers and their deepening of burden an inequity.

Look at all of those counties that contain mid-sized college towns whose universities (mostly flagships / other publics) dominate regional economies

This is either the biggest dork shit ever or beautiful or both. Amazing: the viral pacers bickering couple were actually yakking about uh the Ben Sasse podcast and hashing out ways to rejigger liberal arts education www.si.com/nba/pacers/v...

#Artemis II lunar flyby images are showing up! 😍 A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon.

What are you talking about? There's nothing wrong with AI fact-checking!

Nice bright moon tonight at the beach (photo courtesy of 200mm lens on my good camera) There are people zooming toward it! Wild!

The Town of Chapel Hill announced it will no longer post or monitor its accounts on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Read more here:

Oh boy. 😬

The NIH budget was basically the same in 2025 vs. 2024. This massive decline in health research funding was driven by *administrative* choices.

Hell yeah. Hot Gaskell Summer!!

Another great essay from my colleague Elizabeth Ginexi on how NIH is being restructured by the White House (Russell Vought) despite Congress rejecting such moves. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

Is this bad

I'm looking for a postdoc to work on our NIH-funded R01 which is a longitudinal cohort of adolescents (13-20) doing EMA and passive text sensing! Please apply, especially if you have experience in the analysis OR collection of these data. PLEASE SHARE!! indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132

I have had approximately 32 customer service jobs in my life (true story). I remember this transitionary period very well — the dawn of enterprise software when we will had high touch human interface for data and it hadn’t yet been monetized. I have been thinking about that era lately.

One of my most cherished classes is my 18th century novels course where the primary learning objective is "learn how read long novels." We did a "couch to 5k" approach to attention span and note-taking.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you had in college Discrete math for computer science majors Human geography History of women's movements Jane Austen seminar Advanced poetry writing

Population science/demography folks: Looking for a list of journals that either a) don't have OA fees, b) have reasonable OA fees (a few hundred), or c) allow authors to deposit the author's accepted manuscript in PubMed. Does this exist somewhere? Do we need to start such a list?

Read through Letter from a Birmingham Jail again this morning and was struck by how very relevant King's words remain today.

FYI passengers. ✈️ #realID

NEW: The Trump administration under RFK Jr very quickly reversed course and is restoring grants for substance use and mental health programs in the U.S. From me: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump administration letter wipes out addiction, mental health grants www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

Trump administration cannot slash NIH research funding, court rules reut.rs/4sqWsIv

No. No. No. Punitive processes make narrowly targeted programs *less* efficient and *more* costly. Because more scrutiny requires more bureaucracy. Punitive processes also make it *less* likely that people will get aid for which they qualify. Because of the roadblocks and stigma scrutiny creates.

This is an outstanding essay describing some of the important roles and influences of NIH program officers (from an insider perspective). Read! elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

I have come up with a Side Quest for 2026: Visiting 12 independent bookstores in 2026! What are your favorite independent bookstores in the Triangle?

NEW: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism An investigation by ProPublica and @chronicle.com reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.

🧠 We're hiring! 🧠 Are you passionate about neuroscience and education? Join our faculty at UNC Chapel Hill to inspire and teach the next generation of neuroscientists. Apply now: 🔗​​https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308455 #Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd

This year may go down as one of the most tumultuous in American science, @statnews.com is capping it off w/ 10 stories examining what's been lost. We bring you American Science, Shattered. Featuring stories of those who are being effected the most immediately www.statnews.com/american-sci...

"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried

NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research. Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪

"We followed everything we were supposed to do" Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Help a family today eat this #thanksgiving by donating to your local food bank.✨ feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Campus is looking lovely and autumnal outside my window

This. And literally any college will allow you to do this. We are still giving students that opportunity, despite everything. Yes, there are many pressures to do things other than engage deeply, and no, not all students are equally able to ignore those pressures. But the opportunity is still there.

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

Just got an email from my SRO for the study section that was missed in October. Good news is that they are trying to reschedule ASAP (Dec/Jan). The bad news is that CSR is mandating that only the the top third (not half) of applications will get discussed for the next 2 rounds.

PSA for people with NIH grant periods starting January 1st (including most NIGMS MIRAs): your RPPR is due Saturday, but they haven’t sent out the usual automated reminders, presumably due to the shutdown

#MedSky: In August, we reported that the VA lost more than 600 doctors and nearly 2,000 nurses this year. We know that for many of you, the decision to leave the VA could not have been easy. Here’s how you can share your story with us ⤵️

DARTMOUTH OUT! We are at 6 rejections. Vanderbilt is the only private left standing "considering" the compact along with UT Austin and the University of Arizona.

It's that time again. For the next 24 hours, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related questions below in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Responses are for information only and are NOT medical advice. #AskAnIDDoc October 2025 edition.

In Connecticut, the health care advocate office — whose services are free — has been able to resolve or overturn insurance denials in the patient’s favor about 80% of the time. Check to see if your state has a similar consumer assistance program:

BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.

Inspired by this post to join that group.... Quite a ride!

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more. Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

I don't think people realize what an immediate impact this is going to have on outbreak response and containment.