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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 6h

CDC IRB. Gone.

"Staff with the CDC’s institutional review board, which reviews the design of studies, and the ethics office, which oversees all conflicts and interests for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go."

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 2d

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half

Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’

www.theguardian.com

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 7h

For your methods class! The difference between anonymity and confidentiality!

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 9h

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
*********** * * * * * *
Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social · 11h

Popping in to say I’m writing a book! And St. Martin’s and @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social are publishing it! I’m very excited! Extra big thanks to Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn!

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 12h

I am beyond excited (and nervous!) to announce that my first book, "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is available for sale!

This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart

weherespace.myshopify.com/products/the...

light skinned Black woman with natural hair parted down the middle (me!) wearing gold earrings and an orange-red dress, holding a small paperback book with a mint green-blue cover and a variety of vintage + antique photos

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Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 11h

Reading for my next book 🧶🪡🧵 while awaiting the copy edits for my current book. 🍻✍️

A row of library books about textiles, Luddites, etc.

Sewing Matters
The Point of the Needle
. L. Carr. A Month n the Count
ISAAC LAND The Craft of Historical Resear
Barbara Burman
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B37
1994
TT
705
B87
ORTON
2023
PROF
907.2
L36
HD
6073
.T42
U54
Eliza veth
David
ENGLISH BREAD
ANDYEAS COCKERY
769
.D28
1977
Wallace
Rockdale
NORTON
Marks
Hands to the Spindle
Texas A&M
Jensen
Loosening the Bonds
HQ
1438
12
J46
1986
Hitz
A TECHNICAL AND BUSINESS REVOLUTION
* AMERICAN WOOLENS TO 1832
Took
Garland
Before the Luddites Randall
THE
CAMBRIDGE
HISTORY OF WESTERN TEXTILES
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Cambridge
CAMBRIDGE

A row of houses well-worn books with many bookmarks, on textiles and US and English history.

A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects
SALLY
COULTHARD
Stilgoe
bOROTHY & RICHARD
PRATT
BUTAN REVEALED
THE BARN
Sally Coulthard
All That She Carried
TIYA MILES
LAUREL
THATCHERI
ULRICH
THE AGE OF HOMESPUN
OBJECTS AND STORIES IN THE CREATION OF AN AMERICAN MYTH
A MIDWIFE'S
TALE
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
VINTAGE
The Pocket
A Hidden History of Women's Lives
BARBARA BURMAN & ARIANE FENNETAUX
Home Life in
Lowell National Historical Park
COLONIAL
DAYS Alice Morse Farle
On Revision
Handbook 140
Berkshire Traveller Press
William Germano
CHICAGO
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The Widow Clicquot
THE STORE WOMAN WHO RUEED PIRE
TILAR J. MAZZEO
Common Tandscape
Amerusotous5
THRIFTBOOKS
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08 27397 295
A GUIDE TO EARLY AMERICAN HOMES
COMBINED EDITION
ORTH & SOUTH
BONANZA
Yale

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Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 12h

I felt every one of those aftershocks but did not realize it was quite so many!! I remember the first aftershock happening as my UCSC anthro class milled around outside our classroom building, after the main quake ended, and suddenly the redwoods around us started to shake. 🌲

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Michael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social · 1d

#RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth
Could yall help me repost this over 50x:
WASHINGTON DC 10/16/15 @ Politics and Prose at Union Market
Thank you!

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Lisa Stampnitzky @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 13h

DO NOT WANT

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 17h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Mary Fissell @maryfissell.bsky.social · 14h

Honored to present my work on abortion in 1940s and 50s Baltimore to GYN/OB Grand Rounds at Hopkins this morning! Thanks for inviting me. And yeah, that ergot was made in Baltimore. More Baltimore stories: bit.ly/4iwTsoL

Old glass bottle for ergot made in Baltimore

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 14h

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Michigan Sea Grant @miseagrant.bsky.social · 18h

Could pond-based aquaculture play a key role in saving the embattled lake whitefish?

Time running out for Great Lakes whitefish. Can ponds become their Noah’s Ark? - Bridge Michigan

On the brink of collapse in Lakes Michigan and Huron, whitefish need a miracle. Now, some want to relocate fish en masse to inland waters to preserve dying bloodlines.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
U.S. Code
Notes
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

“In some cases, the tool includes duplicative addresses, with the same provider appearing to be simultaneously in-network and out-of-network. In other cases, the tool initially informs users that a provider is covered by a plan but lists that provider as out-of-network on other pages.”

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 1d

New: Trump officials unveiled a tool intended to help millions of Medicare patients pick their plans, as open enrollment begins today.

But the tool — a directory that was intended to match providers with their plans — was rife with errors, The Post found.

More here w/Akilah Johnson

Medicare doctor directory, a Trump team priority, launches with errors

The directory, intended to help older Americans navigate Medicare Advantage open enrollment, produces conflicting responses about which providers are covered by health plans.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record:

This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Ernesto Semán @eseman.bsky.social · 1d

"A new life cycle amid the ecological breakdown.” Two years of work. Biologists, fishermen, anthropologists, translators, journalists to reconstruct the massive social and environmental changes a salmon lived in her journey across the Americas, from Oregon to Paraná.
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

When a Salmon Strays | Ernesto Semán

On November 15, 2022, Emiliano Almada woke up as usual at 4:30 AM in his home in Fighiera, a modest town twenty-five miles south of Rosario on the banks

www.nybooks.com

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 1d

Medicare has stopped paying physicians due to the shut down. Standing right on the third rail www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/c...

Medicare payments to doctors paused as government shutdown drags on

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is pausing Medicare payments to doctors, as negotiations tied to the government shutdown drag on.

www.statnews.com

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Deena Mousa @deenamousa.com · 1d

A new paper in the Lancet finds that doctors got *worse* at finding precancerous growths during colonoscopies on their own if they had just spent three months using an AI assistive tool

Worrisome sign that deskilling may happen a lot faster than we'd expect.

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 2d

Where am I, Milwaukee?

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Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 2d

Uhhhhh

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

“Like a smartwatch reminding you to stand up or drink water, Evergreen will notice if a student who normally visits the fitness center hasn’t done so or encourage a student to leave the library after studying for six hours…”

Dartmouth Builds Its Own AI Chatbot for Student Well-Being

The undergrad-assisted research project will draw on students’ data to provide chatbot support and personalized plans for health and wellness.

www.insidehighered.com

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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: A significant gap in weather balloon coverage in western Alaska, caused by Trump admin cuts to NOAA/NWS, may have hurt the forecast accuracy for the deadly storm there over the weekend. www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...

Predictions for deadly Alaska storm may have suffered due to DOGE cuts | CNN

The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’...

www.cnn.com

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 2d

This fellowship changed the trajectory of my career and my time on its committees is the most worthwhile professional service I have ever done. Please apply and help us spread the word

Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 15d

The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) at RBS invites applicants to its 2025 cohort of Junior Fellows.

Applications are due 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟭𝟵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿.

For details about this & other RBS scholarships & fellowships, visit tinyurl.com/Apply-SoFCB-2025

A vertically oriented rectangular graphic is split into an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper half shows a photo of a woman with pulled-back dark brown hair wearing a dark dress jacket and scarf. To her left, bold black text reads “I feel no hesitation saying that joining the SoFCB fully transformed my academic life and research.” Below the woman, smaller text in white reads, “Elizaveta Strakhov, Past President, Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB)”. The lower portion of the graphic has a mostly white background with a couple of horizontal bars in gray and black. Text in white, black, red, and yellow reads, “Apply now! The SoFCB Junior Fellows Program. Application Deadline: Wednesday, 19 November 2025. Learn more & apply at tinyurl.com/Apply-SoFCB-2025.”

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David Nilsen @davidnilsenbeer.bsky.social · 3d

This was such a well-written article on a topic we hadn't seen covered previously, balancing personal experience with solid reporting and actionable guidance. Really proud to have published it.

Matthew Curtis @totalcurtis.bsky.social · 3d

I was thrilled to pick up a first place at last nights @nagbw.bsky.social awards for an essay in Final Gravity about my diagnosis of hearing loss. Huge thanks to @davidnilsenbeer.bsky.social for commissioning and careful edits.

Best personal essay, First Place — Curtis, Matthew. “On Deaf Ears—Beer Spaces and the Hard of Hearing.” Final Gravity, April 1, 2025

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Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · 7d

New essay in the Atlantic today: How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution by Ned Blackhawk (with many lessons on how we ended up where we are as a nation, and a gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution

The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social · 4d

The North American Guild of Beer Writers handed out their awards today, and here are the winners. Congrats!

North American Guild of Beer Writers Announces 2025 Awards Winners, Honoring the Best in Beer Media

The North American Guild of Beer Writers (NAGBW) held its 11th annual awards ceremony October 12, celebrating the best in beer media. This year’s awards were generously sponsored by Athletic Brewin…

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

This is how a $45 shirt becomes $90 and then $180. This 2x multiplying through the chain is called keystone pricing.

So why can't the brand just sell it to a consumer for $90, cutting out the retail markup? Because if they become a retailer, they will need to raise prices to cover their new costs.

A clothing store with suits on the rack and bags on the shelf.

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