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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s fucking me up that the word elevate predates the invention of the elevator but the invention of the escalator predates the word escalate. It’s complete madness

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Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My best cat friend, Maxwell, died yesterday. His fungal infection spread to his lungs and he wasn't able to tolerate the treatment. I had really hoped to be celebrating him being fungus free next month. Give your pets some extra love for me. ❤️

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am suing the NIH. As part of a class action with the ACLU and 16 other plaintiffs, we are challenging the thousands of unlawful grant terminations in an effort to get them all reinstated. Whatever happens, at the very least, no one can say I sat back and watched while they destroyed science.

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Researchers Challenge NIH Screening of Grants for Disfavored Viewpoints | American Civil Liberties Union

Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Democrats are again insisting that Trump release the text of his deals with drug companies. @wyden.senate.gov: “Here we are, months later, with six written requests, legislation to compel release, and a Cabinet secretary’s commitment. And I have not seen a single page.”

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Democrats again demand Trump’s drug-price contracts following Post report

Lawmakers say they cannot judge the effectiveness of the administration’s initiative to lower drug prices until the contracts are released.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i used to like apocalyptic books and movies, but i don't now, and i think it's cause i realized five years ago that if the apocalypse happens i'll still have to work

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Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Finally some good news

Photo of a marmot in the rocks. The headline reads: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
Marmots Are Terrorizing California Hikers and Stealing Their Shoes

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 22/09/2026

How A.I. might destroy humanity, courtesy of New Yorker Humor. www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

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Some Ways A.I. Might Do It

How A.I. might destroy humanity, courtesy of New Yorker Humor.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For months, Trump has touted his drug-price deals — saying his work should be enough for the GOP to win the midterms. But Trump and his deputies have declined to release the deals' actual text. @publiccitizen.bsky.social sued to get two deals thru FOIA and shared them with The Post.

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Secret contracts reveal undisclosed terms in Trump’s drug-pricing deals

Agreements with Pfizer and Eli Lilly include tariff protections, overseas pricing inducements and broad confidentiality clauses.

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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh, well.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

On 9/11, the people of Gander stepped up. They showed the very best of Canada.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

An OB-GYN sued (often low-income, uninsured) patients for owing as little as $114. He charged them 18% interest. And oh, he had many of them *arrested* if they didn't follow through. That OB-GYN? Republican Senator Roger Marshall www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u... Insane story by Sarah Kliff

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Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator.

Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hi! For @motherjones.com, I'm looking for a New Mexico family that buys health insurance through the ACA marketplace. Please reach out at jmetraux@motherjones.com.

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Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This breaks my heart every time I read it.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“The administration wrote to several grantees working on maternal health that while ‘maternal and infant health are important issues,’ their work ‘does not advance minority health with regards to OMH’s current priority areas.’” we don’t loathe these people enough.

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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Oncology gross spend went from $43b in 2024 to $56 billion in 2025. Oncology meds are a protected class in Part D which means there is little rebating. @dusetzinas.bsky.social worries that Republican changes to negotiation program will also mean many won't qualify for negotiations.

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dindin6.bsky.social @dindin6.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

👀😂😉

My child will not eat fish, what can I replace it with?

A: A cat. Cats love fish.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Trump wonders why some of his drug pricing "achievements" aren't getting coverage. ...Maybe because his claims aren't true. www.citizen.org/article/four...

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Four Reasons Trump’s Drug Pricing Claims Are Bogus - Public Citizen

The consumer pricing index’s measure of prescription drug pricing (CPI-Rx) fell by 3.1 percent over the 12 months ending in…

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A 30% cut to international enrollment is lights out at many public R1’s. And: once again, this is not bungling on the part of the administration, or unintended consequences. It is *precisely* the intention.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This makes me feel pretty good about my 100% human-written papers

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)

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Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Was wondering about this study. Helpful review below.

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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Over the last three days, I’ve read a lot of Dolly Parton stories and appreciations to fully understand her power and allure. If you can only read one, read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...

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Opinion | The Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote Was Herself (Gift Article)

She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops. But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents. I’m heading to Danbury.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton did all the good she could, for all the people she could, for as long as ever she could. From her legendary songwriting to the Imagination Library—which sent 1 million books a month to children across the country—she was the best of America. Dolly, we'll miss your great heart.

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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 25/08/2026

At a conference 2 yrs ago I presented some of my work on reporting of race and ethnicity for clinical trials. A prof told me that he doesn’t think my research is worth pursuing b/c reporting doesn’t matter. Here’s a JAMA IM editorial explaining why it does. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

At JAMA Internal Medicine, we have become increasingly aware that some US researchers are unable to report on race or ethnicity as demographic variables to describe their sample or to conduct stratified analyses by these variables. In some cases, we have been informed that based on 3 recent US federal executive orders, -3 the stewards of federal databases, such as those responsible for distributing data from the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), are unable to release any race or ethnicity data for research purposes. The restrictions may be particularly prohibitive when study investigators are US federal employees. We have been informed of similar concerns occurring at other biomedical journals. The potential for restricted access to race and ethnicity data across many federal databases has been high-lighted, 4 with disruptions reported during 2025 at the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and other Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) databases, the US Census database, Health and Human Services (HHS), and National Institutes of Health (NIH) public use databases.

It follows that the nonreporting of race or ethnicity in biomedical publishing can limit the in-terpretation, reproducibility, and applicability of research findings. Without information on participants' racial or ethnic backgrounds, it is difficult to assess whether study results are generalizable across diverse populations or whether important differences in disease risk, treatment response, and health outcomes exist among subgroups." For example, disaggregating mortality data on Asian American and Pacific Islander individuals showed higher all-cause and cause-specific mortality rates among Pacific Islander adults that would not have been apparent if the data were not reported.'2 Another example is a recent review highlighting the disproportionate impact of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease on the Hispanic or Latino population. '3 The authors emphasize the need for disaggregating this larger group to capture the cultural nuances of specific groups to best apply effective treatment strategies.
This lack of reporting may also obscure health disparities, hinder efforts to address inequities, and reduce the ability of clinicians and investigators to develop or evaluate evidence-based interventions that will be effective across all populations. Moreover, nonreporting of race or ethnicity will preclude the ability to conduct meta-analyses or data syntheses that combine results by racial or ethnic subgroups across multiple studies or trials. Such analyses have been critical to generate adequate power to uncover therapeutic differences across racial and ethnic subgroups and to understand specific mechanisms to improve treatments that may be more effective across all populations. One example is the discovery of variation in the effectiveness of clopidogrel and proton pump inhibitors among some Southeast Asian populations, which was based on meta-analyses of genetic variants. 4 Generalizability to all subgroups is crucial because these meta-analyses o…

Thus, transparent and consistent reporting of race and ethnicity is essential for continued scientific progress that benefits all of us. Understanding effects and outcomes across racial and ethnic subgroups is important for improving scientific rigor, promoting health equity, and ensuring that biomedical research benefits all. Calling out the serious adverse consequences and implications of these executive orders on medical progress is our responsibility as medical editors and health care professionals.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/08/2026

NEW: Dr. Craig Towers was hailed as a hero for his research on detoxing pregnant opioid users. After he published a study that found naltrexone could help patients stay off drugs, addiction specialists started asking if his work was too good to be true.

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His Research on Pregnant Opioid Users Was Widely Celebrated. Auditors and Experts Found Major Flaws.

Dr. Craig Towers was hailed as a hero for his research on detoxing pregnant opioid users. After he published a study that found naltrexone could help patients stay off drugs, addiction specialists sta...

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The advice is “Think for yourself and do your own research”? And their plan to do this is “ask the chatbot to give you the probabilistically most average answer w a little random error thrown in”? Do I have that right?

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