Agh. Jealous.
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Agh. Jealous.
political reporters: "who's to say which side is right? I'm just reporting what they say!" science & health reporters: "me! I can say who's right! can anyone hear me?"
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ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59
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the essence of conservatism is to object to knowledge because it leads to policy
This is what is happening with NIH not releasing paylines, too—less transparency allows for picking and choosing separate from the evaluation of the science.
I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...
The impact this will have on residency training programs and communities that benefit from these doctors will be astounding. This is so very, very stupid.
wait until you hear where we get a lot of doctors every year
Members of random juries on either coast are braver than the most powerful politicians, university administrators, entrepreneurs, and billionaires in the country.
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None of the young male mass shooters and now political assassins I've written about in recent years had stayed in higher education and pursued a bachelor's degree. Crazy enough, it's almost like college is a positive socializing force, not a radicalizing one
but are they?! Have you tried? Very curious.
Check out the NDWS Special Collection just published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. It includes five open access articles on survey questionnaire development, sample frame development, data collection, and more.
I am here for all your marching band content
"sinful rabbit" lol
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The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.
Gonna be an interesting call home
Thank goodness "poasters" are in control
Y'all were so concerned about a few tents impeding the teaching mission of the university. What do you think it might do to the teaching mission if one little video from your classroom results in a campaign from [clears throat]: the President, the feds, right wing trustees ... I'm not finished (2/3)
If you click through to the video, you’ll hear a young woman repeatedly telling a college professor that President Trump has declared that what the Professor had been teaching is illegal and she’ll be meeting with the head of the university about it. It’s chilling and scary.
A professor at Texas A&M taught… something related to gender that offended a student, who secretly filmed herself objecting. That video is picked up by TX legislators, who demand her firing, and now the dean and dept head have been fired. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
I was also struck/disappointed by their silence
I think I stopped watching before that part b/c it was too frustrating to watch 🫠
It is pretty scary. The way that video is set up and the way the student is speaking, this young adult clearly had a plan and a script and . . . I think they accomplished their goal.
KLEYAAAAAAAAA
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Surprise!
Normally I don’t understand legalese when I read screenshots from court decisions but this was pretty easy to get.
For med students--Did you ever wonder what pediatrics was like back when there were fewer well-child visits? Well now you can find out! #medsky
I refuse to give em dashes to the AI
This is insane:
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
Moderna vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 2/2
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
My quote of the day Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get. William Foege
An aside: Sparkle Sooknanan is an incredible name.
This is how America should be now and feel. Like this Bald Eagle.
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tfw some public school systems push back harder than your big university employer
Daughter just left for college and has 2fa for email for the first time and hates it sooooo much
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He does not have daughters
It is a frustrating time to want to care about evidence-based policy that promotes health.
Siri: show me bad survey design
Except this isn't even accurate, right? "The Trump administration has slashed funding for the National Institutes of Health . . ." Those funds were appropriated by Congress. The Executive has unlawfully stopped the funds.
These are exactly the kinds of students we should be hoovering up and then convincing to stay and work/found their companies here. Even Trump has said so. But this is what happens when you outsource your immigration policy to Stephen Miller, who hates immigrants more than he loves America.
I am confused . . . I thought shootings were due to untreated mental health. But now perhaps we are saying there is too much mental health treatment? Hmm. But definitely not guns. Shootings are definitely not a function of access to guns.
ditto, except Havanese here. Wife likes to say: "we've never been murdered"
One of critical benefits of traditional Medicare is it *not* requiring this type of garbage.
Paging @mirandayaver.bsky.social. This will be deadly. Older adults --and especially the one's sickest enough to need these procedures--will struggle to fight back. Less than 1% of people appeal.
Heroes in our public service are making sharp sacrifices to stand against extremist attacks on our institutions. What a contrast to what others are doing.
If you had told college freshman me that this would be the sort of environment in which my children were going to college? Insanity.
an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening
"However, the current study suggests that the MISSION Act’s gains in health care accessibility and convenience were accompanied by worsening health care quality and outcomes." Adding more evidence that Veterans getting care through non-VA settings may experience worse outcomes.
Impact of the MISSION Act on Quality and Outcomes of Major Cardiovascular Procedures in Veterans url:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2837067?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=082625
Interesting headline paired with the bulk data training I had to do yesterday as a PI to comply with federal regulations
me returning to work after 4 days away
But it’s “Data with a soul”!
@meganranney.bsky.social is being polite they are not "inexplicably in charge of studies at HHS" RFKjr is a committed antivax grifter who appointed shoddy antivax scientishs to contribute to his dangerous and profoundly antiscience and antichild war on incredibly safe and effective vaccines
The practical upshot is that justice delayed is justice denied; or to be more precise, a lab which had to fire all of its researchers and halt work on groundbreaking research isn't going to be able to ever restore itself to the same position it would have been without a multi-year pause in funding.
Gonna start signing all my hottest takes like this federal judge: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Don’t insult CrossFit like that. Yikes.
Sadly, in 2025, I wouldn’t count on it
I ❤️ em dashes
“Bystander”…just where I would have been were I in DC by coincidence on Jan 6
A pathologist leading AHRQ makes a ton of sense. Yup. Definitely.
And also I am justified getting mad at all slow-walkers in front of me
This is so great and I think would have lots of benefits in all directions.
Indeed!
my wife says: "But we've never been murdered" so 🤷♂️
The only good economist is a deranged bum economist, as I have frequently said
Truly.
ONLY GOOD THINGS
Going to be wild when MAGA realizes how few young white men would be admitted to highly selective universities if admissions decisions were made on basis of test scores and grades alone.
The public does not know this. They don't realize how the budget at their beloved 🏈/🏀 State U works, or that their kids won't be able to take courses/labs they need there anymore, bc they won't exist without federal $ & foreign graduate students. Maybe someone should speak up about this stuff? 🤷♂️🧐
The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources: 1. Federal grants 2. Private gifts/endowments 3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students) 4. State $ For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
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.
the libels against NIH funded research and researchers are infuriating grant review and award are rigorous, fair, and extremely competitive can’t say the same about the vast sums this Administration is spending with little transparency 99% of FDA approved drugs & 100+ Nobel Prizes don’t lie
Although immigrants account for 5% of rural adults, they play an outsized role in certain occupations in rural areas, incl. physicians & surgeons (14%). They also account for 6% of nursing assistants, 3% of nurses, and 4% of other clinical workers there. on.kff.org/4mrG6eX
I would like someone smart to calculate the insane cost of the cumulative effort that has been wasted in 2025 to get good science past the language police.
Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
the hyperlink hypervigilance is wild generally am in constant anxiety re: a proposal getting flagged for that
Right. If the response is just everyone in GAO getting fired…🤬
Coding interviews from people who left government earlier this year, and this is a fantastic quote in response to a question about what DOGE tech folk don't understand.
indeed there was 🙃
say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
For the other universities watching, the lesson is PLAY OFFENSE. Do not accept the terms of conflict you've been presented. Relentlessly communicate your intention and vision. Engage and challenge those who misrepresent your intentions.
And wait til the Medicaid cuts…that’s not gonna help healthcare hiring
but also, even if you remove a hyperlink so it is a non-clickable url (I think your example #2), when the pdf is created and you then open it in adobe or preview, the reader makes it back into a clickable hyperlink
"they often are roach-infested, soaked in urine, lacking in adequate medicine and staffed by untrained employees"
Can we please *please* go back to boring politics? PLEASE.
This x 1,000
interesting the issues where these Senators do and do not find their spines