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jbyoung.bsky.social @jbyoung.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Mamdani is the definition of a nat 20 charisma check.

jbyoung.bsky.social @jbyoung.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

people.com/doctor-suspe... Alternative headline: “Doctor suspended after faking patient appointments because bosses wouldn’t let her cancel one clinic slot to pick up kids.” Closely related to “No one wants to do primary care anymore.”

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Doctor Suspended After Scheduling Fake End of Day Appointments to Avoid Being Late to Pick Up Her Kids

A doctor in England was suspended after admitting to having booked fake appointments so she could leave work in time to pick up her kids.

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jbyoung.bsky.social @jbyoung.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Mamdani is the definition of a nat 20 charisma check.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Ha, even female otters' behavior gets reduced to pregnancy hormones/ biological determinism! "After she gave birth, she stopped trying to steal surfboards, leading many to believe her behavior was the result of pregnancy-related hormones." #otters #wildlife #surfing #biology #pregnancy

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Sea Otters Are Stealing Surfboards in California. Again.

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jbyoung.bsky.social @jbyoung.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.”

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jbyoung.bsky.social @jbyoung.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Hey - what better way to eliminate chronic diseases than to just, stop tracking them? Poof, prevalence now goes to zero.

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IDSA @idsainfo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Our statement: bit.ly/45LeJHi

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jbyoung.bsky.social @jbyoung.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Even more so in academia. You write a line with 1-5 citations where you drew it from, and you would be appalled if you didn’t correctly cite it. But if robot steals it, totally fine …. No citation needed.

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

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jbyoung.bsky.social @jbyoung.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

It’s an eerie feeling to realize that I would not have been able to go to med school if the big beautiful bill had passed 10 years ago. I had no co-signer for private loans, I wouldn’t have been able to go into the military, and barely made rent off my student loans as is before a cap.

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jbyoung.bsky.social @jbyoung.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Ya know. The pediatricians and the park rangers are leading the resistance and I’m here for it.

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jbyoung.bsky.social @jbyoung.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

“I cannot join so gross an abuse of the Court’s equitable discretion.”

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jbyoung.bsky.social @jbyoung.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

“We leave questions regarding its policy to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process.” But we can’t leave decisions about medical care to physicians and parents. I hope history remembers this court accurately.

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Laura Purkess @laurapurkess.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I’m obsessed with whoever gave this incredible quote to private eye

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I hate this timeline, why does starting a new word doc look like this now

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

i am once again going through my manuscript to check for words i like that you're only allowed to use once per book, legally (feral, palimpsest, limned, fervid, fey, slantwise, all variations of ardent)

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jbyoung.bsky.social @jbyoung.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

westvirginiawatch.com/2025/04/29/s... But, the return is temporary. Puts our scientists in an impossible position, because, if you’re a PhD in Morgantown, you have to move if you lose your job. Meanwhile twenty year olds get evaluated for lung transplants.

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Some NIOSH workers return temporarily amid cuts impacting coal miner health screenings in WV • West Virginia Watch

At least some workers at NIOSH are getting back to work this week after federal cuts in early April took them off the job.

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Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The reality of academia is that 90% of the work is teaching, 90% of what the uni wants you to do is service, and 90% of what they look at for promotion is research.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 12/04/2025

I hope writing this doesn’t get me deported. Published in The Lancet yesterday: “As physicians and researchers who have a responsibility to speak up about inequitable policies that detrimentally affect patients, colleagues, and students, we cannot remain silent in this crucial moment.” Highlights…

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Why and how academic medicine must champion diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility

US President Donald Trump has launched a series of Executive Actions1 to dismantle diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility efforts; defund scientific research; and freeze federal funds and pro...

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I think the Supreme Court got the law badly wrong tonight. But beyond that, it’s just incredibly ominous that Roberts would throw Boasberg under the bus and hand Trump this big win when his administration has conducted this case in EXTREME bad faith from the start. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The majority seems to be affording the president a strong presumption of regulatory-assuming good faith and respect for constitutional boundaries. But everything this administration has done since Jan. 20 rebuts that presumption (a reality that may be dawning on Barrett, but apparently not Roberts or Brett Kavanaugh). As Boasberg has shown, and Sotomayor noted, the president invoked the Alien Enemies Act in secret so it could hustle
migrants overseas before courts could intervene. Why should he now receive this extraordinary, undeserved assistance to continue operating what is so obviously an unlawful program, with a pinky promise that he'll afford due process this time to those ensnared on the thinnest of pretenses? Roberts' decision to bail Trump out is a deeply ominous sign that the chief justice wants to rein in lower courts standing in the way of the MAGA agenda. If he does, it won't just be Venezuelan migrants who pay the price. J

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jbyoung.bsky.social @jbyoung.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

WV turning up for the Hands Off Rally - these small town protests in “the heart of Trump country” mean something.

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jbyoung.bsky.social @jbyoung.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

westvirginiawatch.com/2025/04/01/m... “Hundreds of lab animals will be euthanized.” NIOSH’s purpose is to keep your job from killing you. (See also, WV history.) And if you get rif’ed as a scientist in WV, you leave the state. No other options.

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More than 200 jobs eliminated during DOGE cuts at Morgantown’s NIOSH facility • West Virginia Watch

Approximately 200 federal jobs are being eliminated at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health facility in Morgantown.

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jbyoung.bsky.social @jbyoung.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

ok, if I was writing the plot to get us out of this mess, I’d have the tariffs trigger a margin call, banks take back Twitter, it gets gobbled up by one of the last progressive billionaires, Twitter returns to the people. Anonymous would swoop in, Somewhere. Blue Sky would still be cool.

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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 04/04/2025

flippers up

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Proud Appalachian @rwheeler.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Another excellent podcast by Jessica Miles, a conversation about Mother Jones, an icon of the labor movement in the late 19th & early 20th centuries. Anyone interested in learning about the rich history of Appalachian women activists should listen to Mountain Laurels @mountainlaurels.bsky.social

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Mother Jones Mayhem

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jbyoung.bsky.social @jbyoung.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Cory Booker. 👊🏼 🇺🇸 🔥

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jbyoung.bsky.social @jbyoung.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Also, in the midst of this ridiculousness, I find it very upsetting that Stephen Miller, chief speech writer, incorrectly used “EG.”

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jbyoung.bsky.social @jbyoung.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I’d like to point out that my super-top-secret-security clearance-required group Mommy chat is also on Signal, where we covertly complain about toddlers and partners, while also planning for world domination.

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jbyoung.bsky.social @jbyoung.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Today’s vibe: Ready to engage in “picayune disputes” and reap utter carnage.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 18/03/2025

I have been saying this for weeks: “The only possible way for American institutions to survive this administration is for them to collectively bargain, like unions, and to come to one another’s defense.” Imagine if all the universities united and took a stand rather than complying with Yahtzees.

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jbyoung.bsky.social @jbyoung.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

meridian.allenpress.com/jgme/article... The timeline in this piece. Day 1: “residents conduct broad internet search using email address number 1” But also, why…. Do this ? (The candidate). And …. Why…. Publish? And have they ever heard of Reddit? (Both parties.)

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To Catch a Catfish: A Cautionary Tale of Internet Unprofessionalism

As educators, we spend countless hours role modeling, teaching, and mentoring learners regarding professionalism as a core competency of medicine. Despite these efforts, medical students, the majority...

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jbyoung.bsky.social @jbyoung.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

We need MAT in Appalachia. We need evidence-based medicine everywhere, but especially here.

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jbyoung.bsky.social @jbyoung.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

“One death from a preventable disease is one too many.”

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