Oh, I would mourn! 😭
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Oh, I would mourn! 😭
Hi! This is Sasha for ACES. Please welcome Nick Norlen to today’s #ACESChat. I’ll start by posting his bio. Add yours if you want. Feel free to jump in with your questions. Please use the #ACESChat tag when you post. @paperairplane.pub
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Gift article. Great idea! I hope California, Oregon and Washington move forward with a Health Alliance to publish recommendations on vaccines. #VaccinesSaveLives www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
If you care about children, boycott going to #Florida. #VaccinesSaveLives
“The CDC has become a political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science, ideology that will lead to severe health consequences,” the governors said in a joint statement.
It's very telling that Trump's judicial nominees are perfectly willing to agree that Brown v. Board and Loving v. Virginia were correctly decided, but suddenly when Obergefell v. Hodges is on the table, they can't comment. We can only conclude they do not agree it was correctly decided.
After the break, we will continue with the next session: "Authorship and Integrity Issues", introduced and moderated by Lex Bouter @lexbouter.bsky.social The first speaker (program change) is Tim Kersjes with 'Paper Mill Use of Fake Personas to Manipulate the Peer Review Process' #PRC10
I was a victim of childhood sexual abuse. Seeing these women getting the coverage and support they are this morning...brings a smile to my face. I don't see broken women. I see strong and empowered women. They. Will. Prevail.
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Honestly, RFK Jr.'s job is to shut down all the useful parts of our healthcare system, while lying through his teeth. Everyone who is paying attention knows it. These good folks do not want to continue taking a paycheck for destroying the health of the country. Congress, make this end.
If approved by voters in 2026, the ballot measure would cut the effective income tax rate for individuals making less than $250,000 a year, while those making $600,000 per year or more would see an increase.
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Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.
#Editoral #freelancers, Lori De Milto has been a #SelfEmployed writer for years. She posts her “Freelancer #Marketing Tips” on LinkedIn each month. Her latest column is titled “Why You Should Ditch Freelance Job Sites and Find Your Own Clients.” themightymarketer.com/ditch-freela...
A legal resistance led by a patchwork coalition of lawyers, public-interest groups, Democratic state attorneys general, and unions has frustrated Trump’s ambitions. @michaelscherer.bsky.social reports on the one anti-Trump resistance movement that’s actually working:
"Valued users! We understand that over the past 250-odd years, you have come to rely on the services provided by the U.S. of A. ... Well, 250 years of free is enough." @petridishes.bsky.social on the end of America's free-trial period:
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#Research by Jennifer L. Matjasko, Zhuo Chen, et al shows that #inadequate #physical #activity is costing Americans more and more $$. They found that lack of movement accounted for $192 billion in annual healthcare costs, $80 billion more than in 2015. publichealth.uga.edu/physical-ina...
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Right on point!
Join us tomorrow on #ACESChat for "How I Spent My Layoff Sabbatical," Nick Norlen's story about how he started @paperairplane.pub after he got laid off as senior editor of dictionary.com. Talk about reinvention! Sept. 3, 4 pm ET, on Bluesky.
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The EPA fired five agency employees who signed a June declaration decrying moves that contradict science and undermine public health, alongside four more served removal notices
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This is a post I wrote for both Facebook and LinkedIn that new #editorial #freelancers—and people thinking about editorial freelancing—might find encouraging in seeing all the ways #SelfEmployment can help a person’s #life and #career. www.linkedin.com/posts/kokedi...
Coming over here, taking up the low wage jobs as grasping employers take advantage of the cheap labour, ruining the health service, getting in everywhere when they're just not wanted, mangling the Engish language ... When is the government going to do something about the invasion of generative AI?
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This grandma and her fifth-grade granddaughter are starting off the first day of the new school year by watching episodes of the lovely cartoon Bluey, about a sweet family of dogs, from Australia. Morning bus stop time coming up later. youtube.com/@blueyoffici... www.bluey.tv/characters/b...
President Trump has ended collective bargaining rights for more than one million federal workers. Unions have sued to block the move, but agencies are terminating contracts as litigation continues.
More than 250 news outlets around the world have signed onto an appeal that calls for the protection of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, and for press to have independent access to the territory.
I’m so glad some important items like that are still around for you. 🫂
Listen to #editor @laurapoole.bsky.social talk with #podcaster @nadiageageapupa.bsky.social about how she helps take #authors’ #nonfiction #manuscripts from good to great. You may have seen her posts that illustrate her #technique, using a “snip, snip” metaphor. redcircle.com/shows/0f3e97...
I worked for a couple of years at a very wealthy foundation that classified me as an independent contractor to avoid paying Social Security and other benefits. I knew it was illegal even though they seemed not to know. I believe it was simply considered a good business practice. Happy Labor Day!
This is an important thread for everyone to read about the #health #effects of the mess that RFK Jr is causing at the #CDC.
I’m queer all the time and my queerness affects everything about my life - its inseparable, for example, from my healthcare and my right to freedom of expression and my bodily autonomy - but I also have a kitchen table just like yours where issues are discussed like tariffs and egg prices
LGBTQ rights is not a “fuck you, we got ours so everyone else can choke” dynamic, but it’s awfully telling which kinds of affluent, abled, privileged white cishet leftist men presume that it would be
I’ve seen a lot of cishet allies who are also confused by all the prominent Dem voices suddenly acting like having trans rights means we can’t also have vaccines and schools and national parks, and that’s because some of the “why” is happening at a pitch only queer and trans people can hear
i think some of what’s happening here is many cishet white leftists inadvertently revealing their belief that LGBTQ people only care about ourselves and that progressive policy is a zero-sum game. marginalized people who are accustomed to banding together for survival often don’t see it that way
Here is a gift link. I know people have feelings about the times but this is free and reading this should make you very very mad and then you should do something:
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Neither has Trump!
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump is such a narcissist!
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Pure #evil.
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Rock on, @maketheroadny.bsky.social!
In this week's Atlantic Intelligence, a conversation between Ian Bogost and Lila Shroff about how school has turned into an AI free-for-all:
President Donald Trump is attempting to single-handedly block nearly $5 billion in foreign aid that Congress has already approved. He is doing it by invoking a little-known power play called a pocket rescission, effectively cutting lawmakers out of the process.
#Political #cartoonist Ann Telnaes is right on target here, as always. open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...
Gov. JB Pritzker said that Donald Trump is planning to invade Chicago with troops and made it clear that the troops don't want to be there, and he doesn't want them in Illinois.
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.
Thank you so much for speaking the truth, Dr. Kathleen Bachynski!
I’m so grateful that I have tenure and the academic freedom to call it like I see it. “Dr. Kathleen Bachynski, a professor of public health at Muhlenberg College, described Kennedy’s comments as “absolute gibberish” and slammed the HHS secretary as a “dangerous buffoon” who is “threatening us all.”
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The CDC is in chaos and some groups are starting to step in and take over work the agency was doing.
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Yeah, not a kind being.
1. The US Dept. of HHS, headed by RFK Jr., has announced that it will hold $81 million in sex-ed funding hostage unless schools drop all mention of trans people. It could lead to a decimation of sex-ed funding in needed areas. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Here’s a good 2-part post by #writer @imaginedworlds.bsky.social on the differences between text from #generative #ArtificialIntelligence and #writing from #humans. www.righttouchediting.com/2025/08/14/d... www.righttouchediting.com/2025/08/28/d... #GenAI
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Now that the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has seemingly gone rogue, Dr Kenny Lin asks readers - Where will you be seeking trustworthy, evidence-based vaccination guidance? ms.spr.ly/63329sZfP7
This being announced so soon after a grip of Naval commanders getting fired is... uh... concerning.
“It feels like the CDC is over.” Current and former CDC officials say that the departure of several top leaders will further undermine the agency’s ability to provide reliable guidance to Americans, Tom Bartlett reports.
#Medical #researchers and #authors, I have what it takes to help you get your #book and #journal #manuscripts into their best shape!
As a longtime #editorial #freelancer, @ebrenner.bsky.social knows what it takes to attract #editing #clients.
@loripax.bsky.social knows her stuff about #planning as a #freelance #editor.
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#Scholarly #authors & #researchers, you need to know about this issue if you’re thinking of using #generative #ArtificialIntelligence to write your #research #papers & #books. @cdesantiseditor.bsky.social explains: www.linkedin.com/posts/carlad... #GenAI
I have some exciting news: I have a forthcoming scholarly volume at press with @brepols.net, 20 years after my first book! This time it is co-authored with C. Pagliari and @heurtebiseange.bsky.social, to whom I am grateful for taking on the role of general editor. www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
1 in 4 Medicare beneficiaries — 16.5 million people — lived on incomes below $24,600 per person in 2024. Half lived on incomes below $43,200 per person, confirming that many beneficiaries have modest resources to draw upon if they need costly medical care. https://on.kff.org/47l5COR
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Angie Rasmussen is one of the foremost virologists in North America. She says not only is the exit of leadership from CDC a huge crisis; MMR vaccine is next to be targeted. That means protection against measles and chicken pox could be disallowed for young kids. Follow: @angierasmussen.bsky.social
Here are some words that turned 100 in 2025: -recycle -group therapy -desktop -slumber party -uh-oh -woke -freebie
DO NOT PUT CHILDREN ON TV TALKING ABOUT A SHOOTING THEY JUST LIVED THROUGH The media who do this are heartless bastards
@npr.org on Morning Edition you spend, what, 20 minutes on Taylor Swift getting engaged? Honestly, 5 minutes would have been plenty! Instead we get a paltry 5 seconds on the Iowa state senate seat flip! Please bring us actual news.
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Real slow so you understand.
Routine use of artificial intelligence (AI) may lead to a loss of skills among clinicians who perform colonoscopies, thereby affecting patient outcomes, a large observational study suggested. ms.spr.ly/63328skgV2
Tim Walz: "I always get in trouble for it and I'll continue to say it, I don't think we do any favors when we don't name it -- these are fascist policies."
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