Reposted by adoDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 15hReminder: You absolutely do not gotta hand it to marjorie taylor greene. 740954
Reposted by adoOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026bigotry aside: imagine having to design an enforcement policy for this. what are we doing y'all? 551382226
Reposted by adoGabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026People also cant believe there is such a thing as “cell rent.” 41 states have it & even if you leave early states like FL make you pay the TOTALITY of your original stay. One Black woman was billed $127,000 ($50 a day for 2,555 days) for the full 7 years of her sentence despite only staying 10 mos 22506268
Reposted by adoElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.rollingstone.comCDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study 831467694
Reposted by adoAFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 05/10/2026🇰🇪 🇺🇸 HIV deaths on the rise in Kenya since US aid cuts At least 24 HIV-positive sex workers in Kenya have died since aid was slashed by the United States in early 2025, despite being in good health until then. The Trump administration has restructured support away from NGOs in Kenya 23931
Reposted by adoAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A young woman bravely reported that she was sexually assaulted in 2024 by seven men at their fraternity. But instead of protecting her, Cornell University protected her abusers, letting them off with a slap on the wrist. 23072881852
Reposted by adoMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here: 131865905
Reposted by adoRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Thoughts and prayers for research data managers everywhere. You are not alone. We will get through this together techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/excelbl...techcommunity.microsoft.comExcel now supports multiple values in a single cell | Microsoft Community HubLists, arrays in cells, and nested arrays introduce new ways to store and organize related information, helping you keep data together without sacrificing... 2842186
Reposted by adoLiz Essley Whyte @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026NEW exclusive from me: Health officials moved money out of the Office of Minority Health to help pay for the ballooning costs of RFK Jr.'s security gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...wsj.comExclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health OfficeThe cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026. 1012972
Reposted by adoJeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/09/2026Okay this jogged loose something I've had half-written for a while now: Despite decades of effort, scientists have still not found a substitute for reading the paper denimandtweed.jbyoder.org/2026/09/desp...denimandtweed.jbyoder.orgDespite decades of effort, scientists have still not found a substitute for reading the paperScience is difficult, but not for the reason you think. It’s not that conceiving a research program is difficult. It’s not that planning and performing an experiment or observational st… 523795
Reposted by adoAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026First eyewitness accounts from this afternoon’s ICE shooting in Austin is here, from freelance reporter Emiliano Tahui Gómez. 371598674
Reposted by adoNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Good to see this national AI conversation get going. But it’s still too much on Silicon Valley’s terms. The rest of us don’t have to act like everything is computer. We can talk real world instead of sci fi. We don’t need to put tech companies’ power and profit first, and societal impacts second. 7712104
Reposted by adoKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 08/09/2026JUST IN: D.C. Circuit says IRS decision to share taxpayer info with DHS tens of thousands of violates the law — and that the administration's rebuttal to that claim is "weak sauce." www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... 14460531948
Reposted by adoJay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026 200308625020
Reposted by adoGabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026This is called civil asset forfeiture (remember immigration is NOT a criminal issue). Under criminal forfeiture the government can ONLY seize property if you have been convicted of a crime. But CIVIL forfeiture? They’ll take whatever you have b/c the PROPERTY itself is considered guilty of a crime 64024
Reposted by adoMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026🚨 The NIH is moving to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in infectious-disease research projects to the DOD under a secret 10-year pact. Here’s what’s happening inside “Operation Prevailing Edge” 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comRevealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIHAn agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense. 26444377
Reposted by adoMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Under pressure, the DOD just released the text of its secret 10-year agreement with the NIH. Here are the biggest revelations from the document 🧵 13590344
Reposted by adoCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/09/2026Life comes at you fast. One minute you're an unknown health economist rushing to publish a hasty study of COVID incidence in Santa Clara and the next thing you know you're signing away a good fraction of the NIH's budget to the Department of Defense. 21600141
Reposted by adoRobin Sevakis @jadedsketch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Wile E. Coyote is doing a reddit AMA right now for Coyote vs ACME and strictly answering through signs, and it's genius. 5386151932
Reposted by adoArrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026What could possibly go wrong? For one, bias propagation, reflecting clinicians' habit of copying forward notes in EHR, which may contain stereotypes based on race, ethnicity, gender, etc 410537
Reposted by adoElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The new CDC Director is indeed the one who ordered the count of measles deaths to be changed from 2 to 0. “The highly unusual decision departs from the agency’s practice of including such data from state health departments, which historically make the determinations”.washingtonpost.comNew CDC director delays adding Pennsylvania deaths to measles dataThe deaths have been at the heart of a bitter political dispute between RFK Jr. and Gov. Josh Shapiro (D). 1231684797
Reposted by adoMichael Ann, sociotechnical femme @michaelann.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Folks, we're going to lose all protections for women in all academic spaces if we lose Title IX. Congrats to every centrist and liberal who gave ground on the issue of trans women in sports. You've thoroughly paved the way for women to have no rights in education at all. Hope you're happy. 12414
Reposted by adoJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 31/08/2026I am once again begging everyone who supervises student theses to stop making students conduct mediation analyses because “a regression isn’t complicated enough for a thesis” 😭 1519723
Reposted by adoSapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Woke up to this news and I’m beyond disgusted. It’s a US *constitutional right* now to create and own ‘CSAM,’ as long as it was made with AI?? AI gen images are built from real images, of real children. This directly re-exploits every single CSAM survivor. (More in 🧵) #abolition #trafficking 1421979906
Reposted by adoAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras. 36099373825
Reposted by adoLindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026youtu.be/uJuKN0chAZk?...youtu.beYes, Dolly was Actually That GreatYouTube video by Lindsay Ellis 3437401210
Reposted by adoDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026An icon, a pillar, a legend, a bodhisattva, a living saint, a kind and decent person who tried to do right by what she was given. Good night, Dolly Parton. May your memory inspire many emulators. www.cbsnews.com/news/dolly-p...cbsnews.comDolly Parton, country music legend, dies at age 80Dolly Parton became an icon over her six-decade career as a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, movie and TV star and theme park owner who donated millions to help others. 128645
Reposted by adoAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/08/2026For the last seven months straight, the U.S. government has refused to process immigrant visas for nationals of 75 countries around the world; including visas for spouses of U.S. citizens. Today, a federal judge ruled the policy flagrantly illegal. 8347891698
Reposted by adoAndrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 20/08/2026www.rawstory.com/white-nation... White nationalist leaders gathered in Rome, Italy, this year to map out how they could exploit America's collapsing local news industry, openly celebrating the death of community journalism as a golden opportunity to organize unchecked in rural areas….rawstory.comWhite nationalist takeover plot for rural America exposed after secret Rome meetingWhite nationalist leaders gathered in Rome, Italy, this year to map out how they could exploit America's collapsing local news industry, openly celebrating the death of community journalism as a golde... 18020071426
Reposted by adoLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Hello: actual co-organizer of No Kings here: these texts are not from anyone who actually organizes No Kings. Please trust that we hate them just as much as you do 212153735
Reposted by adoArrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Between this and gutting AHRQ, this admin is essentially starving the field of health services research 15021
Reposted by adoJack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comOne Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE DetentionMy husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare. 11835242209
Reposted by adoMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 11/08/2026NEW: The NIH is quietly restricting funding for research that evaluates how public policy impacts human health. According to internal documents I obtained, the agency no longer considers policymakers "mission relevant" — a massive shift for the biomedical funder. My latest for @nature.com:nature.comNIH limits funding for research on the health effects of public policyUS biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers as ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo. 19527385
Reposted by adoHillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026When it comes to your children’s health, listen to doctors. Not a president who once told Americans to inject bleach. The American Academy of Pediatrics’ immunization recommendations have not changed. 564228407774
Reposted by ado👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 10/08/2026i encourage all of you, regardless of your age, to not take this shit advice 6865421459
Reposted by adoDaniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This site lets you scan barcodes to see if they’re part of Taylor Farms: www.taylordetector.comtaylordetector.comTaylor Detector — Scan for Taylor Farms brandsWondering if a product is made by Taylor Farms? Scan any barcode to instantly check brand ownership and affiliations. Free, no signup required. 3424801687
Reposted by adoMichael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 06/08/2026More grant terminations from NIH targeting health disparities researchers @science.org Again, why have any faith in the words of leaders who have no interest in stabilizing grant making? Terminations are wasteful and add disincentives for all science. www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgNIH Director Bhattacharya kills more health disparities grantsLetter says agency is “adjusting its extramural research portfolio, which includes terminating grant awards” 13313
Reposted by adoAmy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The govt has fired *all* the immigration attorneys representing detained children and given a $150 million contract to a 26-employee law firm in Texas with ONE immigration attorney. @theyoungcenter.bsky.social's Child Advocates are now the last line of defense for kids in deportation hearings. 5259232
Reposted by adoCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/07/20261. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.arxiv.orgThe unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in scienceAs a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ... 10837338
Reposted by adoEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held. 201202906
Reposted by adoArienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 29/07/2026"And to be clear, this is all about people, because trans youth are not 'issues,' they are people. Trans adults are not 'issues,' we are people. " 7642192
Reposted by adoSophisticated Oyster @ciceronincheese.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Hey! So, this has gotten worse! I previously shared here that Acton and her campaign were set to meet with the ODP Progressive Caucus leadership on the 28th. That's today, and it was a worst case scenario. (1/?) 191194574
Reposted by adoDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/07/2026Absolutely not, Firefox/Mozilla, what is WRONG with you, STOP it. 811021
Reposted by adoAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support. 15657502501
Reposted by adoTad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 28/07/2026“Getting rid of teachers because we all have chatbots is like getting rid of doctors because we all have the plague.” 08420
Reposted by adoDarren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Conditional average treatment effects don't actually tell you *the* treatment effect for *the* person or else we wouldn't still CALL IT A FUCKING AVERAGE RAAAHAHAHAAAHAAGGH!static.klipy.comPanda Rage Angry in OfficeALT: Panda Rage Angry in Office 1233
Reposted by adoDoctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 27/07/2026More about this horrible, horrible decision of ending TPS, from a Haitian perspective, here: globalvoices.org/2026/07/04/w...globalvoices.orgWhat the ending of the U.S.’ Temporary Protection Status could mean for Haiti“Haiti remains gripped by armed violence [...] and a profound humanitarian crisis [and] the Supreme Court has given a green light to treat hundreds of thousands of Haitian families as disposable.” 3171112