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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 16d

🎶Turn the AI off TURN THE AI OFF🎶

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛ @santiagokique.bsky.social · 15d

Even though it's crisis #192308 in our current time, I don't think it's sufficiently sunk in with ppl in the academic community that getting federal funding for your research will primarily depend on whether Trump political appointees find you and your work useful
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News

The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...

kffhealthnews.org

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Caleb LoSchiavo, MPH @calebloschiavo.bsky.social · 15d

Congrats and welcome to the club!! Wishing you many nights of restful sleep.

bald man in clear glasses and a green shirt smiles at the camera. he is wearing a CPAP mask that covers his nose and mouth, with a connector for the hose (not pictured) at the top of his head.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 15d

*takes massive bong rip*

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@hailey.at • 6h
an unfortunate irony about this post - and even if you are the staunchest anti-ai critic out there, i think you'd agree - is that some of the most bigoted things are being said to respond to this. copy/pasting phrasing and terminology used by bigots but replacing "dna" with "bits" doesn't make it ok
4J @dystopiabreaker.xyz • 3d
i'm completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron
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@hailey.at • 6h
if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that

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Beyond X&Y @beyondxandy.bsky.social · 27d

It's the scientific community's duty to fight misinformation, bioessentialism, and eugenics

That's why we're launching Beyond X&Y, an educational campaign combating the rise of unscientific political propaganda used to attack trans and intersex people

Subscribe to our newsletter at beyondxandy.org

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Caleb LoSchiavo, MPH @calebloschiavo.bsky.social · Aug 14

Hey now, that’s insulting to cocksuckers!

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Seth Boo!-ger Trueger @mdaware.org · Aug 12

CDC does good work including MMWR

Emergency Department Survey of Vaccination Knowledge...

This report describes an emergency department (ED) survey of vaccine knowledge, self-reported vaccination status, and willingness to receive vaccines if offered in an ED.

www.cdc.gov

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Jesse F Ballenger @jfballenger.bsky.social · Aug 12

"Heat is the number one weather-related cause of death of Americans, according to the EPA and the National Weather Service.
Exposure to extreme heat over time can increase health risks and is associated with a disproportionate increased risk of cognitive decline among Black and low-income people."

Extreme heat puts Philadelphia’s aging population at risk

An extreme June heat wave that prompted a heat health emergency declaration killed five people in the city and had been made four times more likely by climate change, according to Climate Central.

whyy.org

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Jul 31

Gotta love it when an agency head says, "that's just not happening", and entire agency staff says, "uhhh... wtf dude?"

🧪 NIH PIs: here's a call to action from a Bethesda Declaration signer of how you can help!

Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · Jul 31

#NIH PIs, start emailing Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya and tell them what you are experiencing. CC Dr. Jon Lorsch and your ICO Director of Extramural Activities. Get them to talk with each other. #defendresearch

NIH director Bhattacharya denies banned word list in meeting with staffers

Bethesda Declaration signers insist that a list exists and further criticize new policies

cen.acs.org

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · Aug 1

every dumpling in its soul is antifascist

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Jul 31

Pierogi makers united against fascism

A post from Jaju Pierogi that says "In solidarity we will also not be serving pierogi to Dershowitz."

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Jul 31

Everyone should know what an overdose looks like. Feel free to share:

Symptoms of opioid toxicity:
• Depressed mental status
• Decreased respiratory rate
• Decreased tidal volume (shallow breathing)
• Miotic (constricted) pupils
(Nonspecific symptoms like lightheadedness, dizziness palpitations, numbness and tingling, fear, anxiety, abnormal taste, etc are not indicative of opioid toxicity.)

Indications for Narcan (naloxone):
• Apnea*
• Hypoxemia
• Bradypnea (respiratory rate <12/minute)
• Hypopnea (& hypercapnea)
*apneic or bradypneic patients should receive bag-valve mask ventilation prior to & during naloxone administration because of a risk of ARDS

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Caleb LoSchiavo, MPH @calebloschiavo.bsky.social · Aug 1

Congratulations, Dr. Carr!!!!

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Caleb LoSchiavo, MPH @calebloschiavo.bsky.social · Jul 29

I’ve been having REALLY vivid dreams on my latest insomnia medication.

Last night I dreamt that I won a scavenger hunt and the prizes were all crayon boxes so I chose a Barbie-branded box that had a built-in stapler(????) in addition to the crayon sharpener.

Sleeping but at what cost!!

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · Jul 24

“No-Cuomo voters made up 70% of fully completed ballots.” ✊✊✊ gothamist.com/news/how-did...

How did New Yorkers rank their mayoral candidates? The data is in.

Gothamist analyzes New York City Board of Elections data on how voters ranked candidates on their ballots last month.

gothamist.com

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KFF @kff.org · Jul 25

NEW: About three-quarters of the public view insurers’ delays and denials of health care as a “major problem,” including similar shares across types of insurers.

Our poll examines the public’s views and experiences with prior authorization requirements: on.kff.org/3GT9dZA

Stacked bar chart showing how major of a problem people believe delays and denials are. Results shown by total adults and insurance coverage. The chart shows that large majorities across insurance types view delays and denials of health care by insurance companies as a major problem.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Jul 25

New workshop paper out today with 60 of our closest friends, providing guidance on how to design a study attributing health impacts to climate change. Hopefully this helps expand the field and start closing the representation gaps we discuss in our forthcoming work link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The attribution of human health outcomes to climate change: transdisciplinary practical guidance - Climatic Change

For over 30 years, detection and attribution (D&A) studies have informed key conclusions in international and national assessments of climate science, providing compelling evidence for the reality and...

link.springer.com

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Nora Becker @norabeckermd.bsky.social · Jul 25

If you have been affected by the removal of federal public health data, @academyhealth.bsky.social wants to hear from you! They are suing to restore access to these data and need concrete examples for their case.

Link to submit is at the bottom of this post:

academyhealth.org/blog/2025-05...

AcademyHealth Joins Lawsuit to Restore Public Health Data Removed from Federal Websites | AcademyHealth

academyhealth.org

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · Jul 20

The only thing to understand about the pronoun thing is that just because something is outside of your lived experience doesn’t mean it’s not real or the person telling you is mistaken or you are being inconvenienced

Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · Jul 19

im always taken aback by just how much cis people will humiliate themselves to be dicks to trans people. like sorry, youre confused about pronouns? how did you make it thru 6th grade english you slimy dipshit? why are you going on podcasts to advertise youre too stupid to understand simple concepts?

“The trans issue for me is so novel,” Newsom said. “I'm trying to understand as much as anyone else the whole ‘pronoun’ thing.”

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Caleb LoSchiavo, MPH @calebloschiavo.bsky.social · Jul 14

Oh belated update to this BTW! It’s just the PDF tab on the right of the query page (the third tab on the right in the image). You do have to go file-by-file, but you get to see both text-selected and area-selected content.

Caleb LoSchiavo, MPH @calebloschiavo.bsky.social · Jun 28

[redacted] going home on love island is the win I needed today

Screenshot of old lady gaga tweet saying “I can’t stop crying. We did it kids.”

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Caleb LoSchiavo, MPH @calebloschiavo.bsky.social · Jun 27

Absolutely baffling! I’m so curious what the peer reviews (if any) said about the manuscript.

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Caleb LoSchiavo, MPH @calebloschiavo.bsky.social · Jun 27

or are they just comparing straight up numbers of births for those who were or were not vaccinated during pregnancy, like this is a glorified t-test? trying to parse their methods section is giving me a headache and that feels intentional lol

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Caleb LoSchiavo, MPH @calebloschiavo.bsky.social · Jun 27

“Successful conceptions” is such a deceptive phrasing because that implies it’s in comparison to “unsuccessful conceptions”, but it seems like they’re just comparing live births to those who didn’t give birth (regardless of whether they were wanting/trying to get pregnant)?

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · Jun 27

Yes, this is bad for porn.

But porn famously has no clear legal definition. As such:

This is a direct path to censoring anything the GOP wants to censor and can argue is “adult” - info on birth control, queer identity, anything about trans people or gender diversity or safe sex or HIV or drag or

Cora Neas @corabora.bsky.social · Jun 27

BREAKING: SCOTUS upholds Texas' age verification law that requires ID to access adult websites

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Caleb LoSchiavo, MPH @calebloschiavo.bsky.social · Jun 21

This energy immediately reeked of “my child(ren) went no-contact”

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