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Matthew Growdon

@mgrowdon.bsky.social
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Geriatrician and clinician-researcher @ UCSF passionate about fashioning a better health system for aging populations, w/interests in dementia & safe prescribing #medsky, #gerisky

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 23/07/2025
Madam, I have a secret to reveal.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 11/07/2025
A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language. Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.
At no point in this study did I use AI. This includes the literature review, logical organization, writing, analysis, and proofreading. I do not cite any studies that use AI, to the extent that it is possible to know.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/06/2025
Brilliant. 10/10. No notes.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/06/2025
A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes. This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .
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AI, peer review and the human activity of science
When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.
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Sho Hoshino @shophotography.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The season of Renge Tsutsuji has arrived in Japan. Delicate crimson blossoms grace the forest, enchanting all who pass by. Summer is here — and on clear mornings, a gentle mist rises through the trees, softly lit by the warm sunlight. It seems this month will be a busy one.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Incredible fail by a smart reporter. Truly. This data has gotten a lot of coverage this week. cc @gregsargent.bsky.social
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Conservative protests are always treated as an organic cry of anger that manifests the distress of the unjustly ignored American heartland; protests from the center-left are always written off as noise from inside the bubble.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
10 years of obsession about what Trump supporters think & care about has warped our understanding of their size & popularity: Trump is historically unpopular, pro-democracy supporters far outnumber the object of Corporate Media’s love. Time to hear more from majority of US.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 15/06/2025
Sign of the day…
I fought fascism in 1945!  At 102, I am doing it again!
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Best image of the day:
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The miasma theory is not "outdated," it's fucking nonsense. It thought people got chlamydia from rotten air. The "germ theory" isn't "widely accepted," it's proven scientific fact, and it's the only thing that allowed humanity to advance and cure diseases. Otherwise, great headline.
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Conrad Benner @streetsdept.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The cost of Trump’s birthday parade put into perspective at Philly’s #NoKings, created with @indivisiblephl.bsky.social.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 14/06/2025
[Exit King.]
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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) @agsjournal.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Commentary: Older Adults Without Family Caregivers Need Better Access to Medicaid Support Services. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Put this on a billboard.
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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com: Cuts to NIH funding will impact the economy and employment nationwide. We visualize these losses and advocate for a theory-driven approach to communicating local, self-relevant impact. w/ @joshuasweitz.bsky.social + SCIMaP team: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment - Nature Human Behaviour
Nature Human Behaviour - NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/06/2025
Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet. h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
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Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 23/05/2025
open chart, keep scrolling down www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 23/05/2025
Cartoon of Trump saying “I told you we can make big spending cuts!” to a pregnant woman, labeled “waste,” a child labeled “fraud,” and an elder woman with a walker labeled “abuse”
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Krista Harrison, PhD @kristalynharrison.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Delighted to see @lwaltermd.bsky.social receive the Hal Luft Mentoring Award at @ucsf-ihps.bsky.social #HSR Symposia today. She’s describing building a culture of mentoring in @ucsfgeriatrics.bsky.social, which has certainly made my career possible
Louise Walter, Division Chief of UCSF Geriatrics, receiving the Hal Luft Mentoring Award. Hal Luft, Joanne Spetz and Abigail, stand in the wings
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 07/04/2025
They lie in view
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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I join >1900 members of US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine signing this letter, as individuals, decrying the present thoughtless assault on science, which is against our national interests. docs.google.com/document/d/1... Our health, wealth, and security depend on science.
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Public Statement on Supporting Science for the Benefit of All Citizens
TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE We all rely on science. Science gave us the smartphones in our pockets, the navigation systems in our cars, and life-saving medical care. We count on engineers when we drive acr...
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
ABC News: "An unthinkable breach of national security." CBS News: "An unthinkable breach of national security." MSNBC: "An unthinkable breach of national security." CNN: "An unthinkable breach of national security." Fox News: "We've all texted the wrong person before."
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
There are numerous folktales about magicians who seek advice from mechanical heads who possess all the world’s knowledge, but often give the magicians bad advice that leads them to ruin, and if more people read the old stories we wouldn’t keep making the same dumb mistakes.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/2025
Trump, Musk, Vance, Vought, etc are systematically destroying: 1. Scientific research in the United States. 2. The talent pipeline for this research. 3. The university system itself. 4. The careers of thousands of people like Dr. Minor For what? Politics? Resentment? Thiel? Putin? Thread:
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Krista Harrison, PhD @kristalynharrison.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Great to be part of this project, led by Dr. Meredith Bock (of @remohealth.bsky.social) and Dr. Lauren Hunt! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 1/
Graph from Figure 1 of manuscript, showing Proportion of All Hospice Enrollees With Alzheimer Disease (AD), Parkinson Disease (PD), or Dementia With Lewy Bodies (DLB) as a Primary Diagnosis, 2010-2020. Shows a huge increase in AD in hospice between 2013-2016 and slow gradual increase in PD and DLB
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Donovan Maust @dtmaust.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Only in-person or online? Umm…has anyone with DOGE ever met an older adult?
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 15/03/2025
My friend is an anesthesiologist at a VA hospital.  They are 4 anesthesiologists short of being full-staffed.  And thanks to Elon Chainsawhands, they are under a hiring freeze.  So when your favorite veteran’s quadruple bypass surgery gets canceled, remember who is responsible.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu at the House hearing on sanctuary cities: "If you wanted to make us safe, pass gun reforms. Stop cutting Medicaid. Stop cutting cancer research. Stop cutting funds for veterans. That is what will make our cities safe." Mic drop! 🎤
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 05/03/2025
I say he lies, And lies, and lies.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/03/2025
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org
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We're not done yet | 18F
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
They have no answer for what the oligarchs are doing to America.
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Donovan Maust @dtmaust.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
"VA researchers whose contracts are about to expire . . . will not be renewed, even when funding [through extramural grants is] in place to pay them. Should the VA continue this policy . . . over the months to come, the entire VA research workforce could be decimated."
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Colorado's Rep Brittany Pettersen (D) flew cross-country with her one-month-old to vote against the GOP budget tonight. Dems ended up one vote short. Pettersen was part of an unsuccessful bipartisan push to allow new mothers to vote remotely. #copolitics
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
NEW LAWSUIT: An employee of the VA since 2006, who took law classes at night to get a promotion to the general counsel's office in 2024, was fired as a "probationary" employee because of her recent job change. She is asking a court for her job back. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 25/02/2025
That’s Tammy Baldwin — not me. You can keep track of all the hundreds of white men but it’s the 28 women in the Senate that trips you up, Fox News?
Fox News Headline: Sen Smith (D-MN), Musk Trade Blows Over DOGE

Photo: side by side of Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Elon Musk.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 23/02/2025
Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...
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Dutch pension fund ABP sells all Alphabet and Meta shares, CEO tells newspaper FD
ABP, the Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in tech companies Meta and Alphabet , its CEO told Dutch newspaper FD in an interview published on Monday.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Is it too much to ask to want the government to stop the president from doing the illegal stuff?
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Matthew Growdon @mgrowdon.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Have never been a huge podcast listener. But thank you @meidastouch.com for your invigorating and much needed coverage of these chilling, cruel, anti democratic, inhumane, and deeply upsetting political times. Feels so good to be part of a BIG opposition movement and not just downcast and fearful! 💪
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is how it’s done.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 22/02/2025
Thank you to Senate Democrats for unifying in opposition to Republicans’ scheme to punish working families. Democrats played procedural hardball and spent hours on the floor debating overnight, filing close to 100 amendments and forcing votes on 23 of them.
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Senate Republicans approve budget framework, pushing past Democratic objections after all-night vote
The hours-long “vote-a-rama” rambled along in a dreaded but crucial part of the budget process, as senators considered one amendment after another, largely from Democrats trying to halt it.
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deprescribing.org @deprescribing.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
So many #Deprescribing guidelines currently in development worldwide 🌎: ➡️ Diuretic Deprescribing ➡️ Statin Deprescribing ➡️ Antidepressant Deprescribing ➡️ Gabapentinoid Deprescribing Keep your eyes peeled for updates on our Deprescribing Guidelines Repository (DEPOT) page! 👀 buff.ly/3tkhsqH
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Deprescribing Guidelines Repository (DEPOT) - Deprescribing.org
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