I’m just mad because ruining the workplace would have made a banger Halloween costume but it’s not going to be relevant next year (I mean it’s already not relevant).

Hey that’s me! Incredible honor to be selected among a huge pool of extraordinary researchers here @pennmedcso.bsky.social

There’s some intense user testing going on out there! Great study to work on with my 2 amazing students, co-1st authors Grayson Graham and Colby Wilson. Look out for them!

"One would institute red flag laws... The others would ban devices that convert semi-automatic guns to automatic fire, require background checks for long gun purchases, and ban weapons that can avoid magnetometer detection, like 3D printed “ghost guns.”"

Help extend essential medical care in Gaza: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

I remain in awe of my colleagues in Gaza, not only surviving, not only providing care, but also collecting data. Here, a case that would have been a challenge anywhere, managed in a makeshift unit with minimal supplies but maximum skill: tsaco.bmj.com/content/10/2... @tsaco.bsky.social

HVIPs work.

Surprisingly effective things Zohran Mamdani ran on: -free buses -rent freeze -halal cart for $8 instead of $10 -taxing the 1% -no cost childcare -city-owned grocery stores -a Department Of Community Safety for mental health programs and crisis response -building affordable housing -why Cuomo sucks

Congratulations New York!

Kids find stuff.

ICYMI: ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...

🚨 ALERTA PHILLY 🚨 Hearing from a very credible local source that there may be ICE action tomorrow (Sunday 6/8) in the following areas: 5th and Washington Ave 7th and Snyder Ave 5th and McKean/Wolf Chinatown Let your neighbors know to stay safe and be vigilant. Be ready. Be water.

The exonerative tense!

The Cure Violence program run by New Kensington Community Development Corporation, is one of 350 groups learning their Justice Department grants would end early.

Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.

"I am getting very sick & tired of having to go onto news programs because journalists aren't allowed in to point out what is happening here... this is a televised slaughter. History will not judge us kindly." I spoke today to Dr Tom Potokar, UK surgeon in Gaza: Full intv: zeteo.com/p/televised-...

“We are only slowly beginning to understand the impact that social media is having on violence. In the 21st century we really need to invest in this space.” @upenn.edu professor and @nam.edu member Desmond Patton shares his perspective while attending #JAMASummit.

Hospitals acquired by PE show a 2.7 pp ↑ in 30D surgical mortality, driven by a 3.9 pp ↑ in failure to rescue. We need enforceable nurse‑staffing minimums, full ownership transparency, and federal review of PE transactions. @andrewmibrahim.bsky.social @um-ihpi.bsky.social bit.ly/432VyWP

HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan

"Pennsylvania has found a solution — invest in communities to fuel their own solutions. Let those closest to the violence rebuild the structures and resources they need to prevent the next case." Opinion:

In February, epidemiologists published a landmark study calculating pregnancy-associated violence by state, and the report suggests a strong connection to firearm legislation and reproductive protocols.

"Fortunately for our students, Cornell is not a business. We are a university. And universities, despite rapidly escalating political, legal and financial risks, cannot afford to cede the space of public discourse and the free exchange of ideas." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...

Thank you to the injury center.

You can read Sarah Roby’s beautiful letter here:

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

Do no sleepwalk into autocracy. Keeping your head down will not save you. Instead, your institution—school, nonprofit, church—needs to do what Rutgers is: flocking behaviour. Band together. Be solid. Face reality—together. It does work.And there's no other choice than to sleepwalk into the horror.

GO @booker.senate.gov

This is an expansion of methods/infrastructure that have been going on for +-10 years. Not in a "this isn't new!" way, but in a "they are maximizing existing systems" way. Ruha Benjamin and Dorothy Roberts have laid it out well. psmag.com/social-justi...

This is the right way.

Thanks @theguardian.com for helping us get this piece of the word out.

“Firearm violence has been considered a health care crisis since 1968."

A new study from the NJ Gun Violence Research Center revealed that less than 1% of more than 3,000 gun owners surveyed nationwide have used their firearm for self-defense within the last year. Roughly 92% have never used a firearm to protect themselves.

Defensive gun use is rare but gun violence exposure is far too common. Check out this interview re: our new study in @jama.com Open from @mikeanestis.bsky.social. Watch the full interview for important thoughts on very real threats to our work @ the GVRC. www.njspotlightnews.org/video/rutger...

1/x My NIH grant that would collect data to help *prevent suicidal thoughts and behaviors* among LGBTQ+ people was terminated today, along with many other LGBTQ+ focused grants. These terminations make no sense scientifically. Here's why:

Maine caved and enacted a trans sports ban at the University level but it's still not enough. Stop capitulating, they won't stop taking from you. They'll keep going until there's nothing left.

The federal government has unleashed a war on science and is not only causing death and disease by terminating grants, but are also doing so with cruel and baseless messaging, because cruelty is the point. My research has been fine so far, but we can’t just force those affected to voice outrage.

Daily OOO reply for 3/20/2025 My response to your request will be delayed because I am finishing up a stack of paperwork related to federal funding, all of which may be futile. Also I’m on call and have laryngitis.

Maybe this is the kind of progress that should never have needed to happen, but it is progress.

Exactly this. The universities must stand together and stand for what they have always said they stand for.

“Another Round of Senseless Mass Killing”: Report from Gaza Hospital as Israeli Strikes Kill 400+ www.democracynow.org/2025/3/18/ga...

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker’s budget proposal fully funds the city’s violence prevention programs, which officials say were instrumental in reducing homicides and shootings by more than 35 percent last year.

Jessica Beard and I are in the @inquirer.com today with the connections between ….all this… and gun violence. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

Emergency Medicaid enrollment post-injury can help patients avoid catastrophic costs. A new study finds these patients use more health care than uninsured patients, but the downstream effects are unclear. Read more about this program here: ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...

On March 8, DHS agents abducted Mahmoud Khalil, a US permanent resident & student activist for Palestinian rights, from his New York apartment. Mahmoud was targeted for his political speech & activism in support of Palestinian freedom and for an end to the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

1. Major news in transgender care. Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines. They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the Cass Review in England. Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Food. Water. Medicine. Electricity. Two days ago the Israeli government announced it was blocking all humanitarian aid into Gaza — a horrific collective punishment on Palestinian families across Gaza during the month of Ramadan. According to international law, collective punishment is a war crime.

The nod for “I see you, fellow queer” but now I need it updated for “I see you, fellow queer, employed by a hostile state, getting by as the tentative structures of safety are ripped apart”

For ease of sharing, I created a tinyurl for it: tinyurl.com/Dogesux

Since they want feedback—might as well give it to them! Do I believe DOGE is effective? No Do I support $125 million to “push critical race theory in public health”? Sure do Do I support $3M for a transgender health website? Yes indeedy!

The people who knew how to turn it off were fired last week and no one could figure out how to get in touch with them. 😂