Alexander Tsai, MD
@drdrtsai.bsky.social
Husband, father, psychiatrist & pop. health scientist at @GlobalHealthMGH, @MonganInstitute, & @HarvardChanSPH. Editor @SocSciMed-Mental Health. TweetDelete on. Fk cowards.
Website: https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/90553
Website: https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/90553
I’m sure VP has a randomized trial showing that COVID vax caused those deaths
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/h...
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I’m sure VP has a randomized trial showing that COVID vax caused those deaths
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/h...
“Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight ‘would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime’…”
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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
“Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight ‘would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime’…”
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Findings from a short study (advertised on BlueSky, LinkedIn, etc) of journal editors and hopeful authors conducted by @elvingeng.bsky.social (EIC, Implement Sci Commun). Interesting to see I am not really represented in either of the two identified latent classes...
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November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Findings from a short study (advertised on BlueSky, LinkedIn, etc) of journal editors and hopeful authors conducted by @elvingeng.bsky.social (EIC, Implement Sci Commun). Interesting to see I am not really represented in either of the two identified latent classes...
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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Love it when someone wins the Internet this early in the day
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(see OP for context)
You know what they call The Hunger Games in France?
Battle Royale with cheese
Battle Royale with cheese
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Love it when someone wins the Internet this early in the day
(see OP for context)
(see OP for context)
Pixies
Breeders
Innocence Mission
Tift Merritt
Over the Rhine
Breeders
Innocence Mission
Tift Merritt
Over the Rhine
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times
R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots
R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Pixies
Breeders
Innocence Mission
Tift Merritt
Over the Rhine
Breeders
Innocence Mission
Tift Merritt
Over the Rhine
Surprised they haven't tried to tamper with the random assignment process
Rep. Eric Swalwell's lawsuit against Bil PULTE has been assigned to ... Judge Boasberg.
November 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Surprised they haven't tried to tamper with the random assignment process
Great going Fani
NEW: Skandalakis is now moving to dismiss Trump’s Georgia case
BREAKING: Pete Skandalakis, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia, has appointed himself to prosecute the case against Trump and others in Fulton County.
The move follows a court ruling that disqualified Fani Willis from pursuing the case.
The move follows a court ruling that disqualified Fani Willis from pursuing the case.
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Great going Fani
"GLP-1RAs are increasingly used for postpartum weight loss... Most users were overweight prior to pregnancy and only 23% had a documented diabetes diagnosis, suggesting that the primary indication for use was weight reduction."
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jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"GLP-1RAs are increasingly used for postpartum weight loss... Most users were overweight prior to pregnancy and only 23% had a documented diabetes diagnosis, suggesting that the primary indication for use was weight reduction."
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jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Surprise!
“Electing and voting for Donald Trump made things worse.”
Children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman who was detained by ICE agents this past summer discussed how Muslims were wrong to vote for Trump thinking he was the lesser evil.
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Children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman who was detained by ICE agents this past summer discussed how Muslims were wrong to vote for Trump thinking he was the lesser evil.
zeteo.com/p/trump-ice-...
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Surprise!
Don’t tease me with promises of untold ecstasy, mfkas, just DO IT
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Don’t tease me with promises of untold ecstasy, mfkas, just DO IT
"the emails depict a group whose highest commitment is to their own permanence in the class that decides things. When principles conflict with staying in the network, the network wins." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:59 AM
"the emails depict a group whose highest commitment is to their own permanence in the class that decides things. When principles conflict with staying in the network, the network wins." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Cmon don’t fk this up Eagles
November 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Cmon don’t fk this up Eagles
November 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
"The day after our conversation, Mr. Olbermann called to clarify something that had not come up; he wanted it known that they did not begin a physical relationship until Ms. Nuzzi was 19."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/s...
In This Scandal, the Journalists Are the Story
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
"The day after our conversation, Mr. Olbermann called to clarify something that had not come up; he wanted it known that they did not begin a physical relationship until Ms. Nuzzi was 19."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/s...
Reprehensible
America 2025.
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Reprehensible
Reposted by Alexander Tsai, MD
The reporting on Summers has been terrible. He was using is power as a mentor to prey on a mentee. Journalists need to stop acting like this was a workplace romance.
www.wsj.com/us-news/larr...
www.wsj.com/us-news/larr...
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The reporting on Summers has been terrible. He was using is power as a mentor to prey on a mentee. Journalists need to stop acting like this was a workplace romance.
www.wsj.com/us-news/larr...
www.wsj.com/us-news/larr...
Everything is fine
November 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Everything is fine
😭
I just learned that AHRQ doesn't have enough staff to review dissertation grant proposals (R36). What a waste - of the time students put into writing the proposals, the administrative staff who process them, and most importantly of the potential research talent that would have been developed.
November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
😭
Just guessing, but I don't think "continuing to communicate with Epstein" is the main thing here
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Just guessing, but I don't think "continuing to communicate with Epstein" is the main thing here
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...