Kathleen Bachynski
@bachynski.bsky.social
Associate Professor of public health at Muhlenberg College. History, ethics, epidemiology, sports, injury prevention.
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I love this photo that @melissabender.bsky.social captured of me at the #standupforscience rally yesterday in NYC. I wonder if I could make this my official faculty photo lol @jackiantonovich.bsky.social @kimberlywheiman.bsky.social @archaeoscape.bsky.social @sarahruncie.bsky.social
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The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
November 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
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Subject matter expertise matters more than ever
“The students best prepared to evaluate AI output could very well be the ones not with specialized AI training but with deep domain knowledge in the disciplines. This, of course, is exactly the kind of knowledge and skills that colleges have been trying to nurture for centuries."
November 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Subject matter expertise matters more than ever
“Self-styled experts are racing to generate checklists, frameworks, and guidance for the knowledge and skills to productively use AI. When educators rush to publish the skills of technology literacy before they actually have evidence about what those skills are, things can go very poorly”
Opinion | Stop Pretending You Know How to Teach AI
Colleges are racing to make students ‘fluent.’ One problem: No one knows what that means.
www.chronicle.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“Self-styled experts are racing to generate checklists, frameworks, and guidance for the knowledge and skills to productively use AI. When educators rush to publish the skills of technology literacy before they actually have evidence about what those skills are, things can go very poorly”
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one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)
Trump's corrupt scheme to rig 2026 is suddenly falling apart:
*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats
On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats
On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
Trump’s Plot to Rig 2026 Is Falling Apart, and Boy Is He Mad About It
As the Trump-GOP scheme to gerrymander the midterms suddenly faces big new setbacks, a Democratic operative who’s leading in these fights explains why the battle isn’t over—and what must happen now.
newrepublic.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)
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The History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for an Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East. Areas of specialization are open. Please share! - careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... #History #Historians
Details - Asst Professor U of M | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
careers.umass.edu
November 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for an Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East. Areas of specialization are open. Please share! - careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... #History #Historians
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When I was an undergrad in Ames, the bus wasn’t fully free (though they later experimented with that!), but it was free for anyone with a university ID. Being able to hop on a bus and get somewhere in town was great as a student. More free buses for everyone!!
“Iowa City eliminated bus fares in August 2023 with a goal of lowering emissions… The two-year pilot program proved so popular that the City Council voted this summer to extend it another year, paying for it with a 1% increase in utility taxes and by doubling most public parking rates to $2 from $1”
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
When I was an undergrad in Ames, the bus wasn’t fully free (though they later experimented with that!), but it was free for anyone with a university ID. Being able to hop on a bus and get somewhere in town was great as a student. More free buses for everyone!!
“Iowa City eliminated bus fares in August 2023 with a goal of lowering emissions… The two-year pilot program proved so popular that the City Council voted this summer to extend it another year, paying for it with a 1% increase in utility taxes and by doubling most public parking rates to $2 from $1”
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
“Iowa City eliminated bus fares in August 2023 with a goal of lowering emissions… The two-year pilot program proved so popular that the City Council voted this summer to extend it another year, paying for it with a 1% increase in utility taxes and by doubling most public parking rates to $2 from $1”
“On Wednesday, a spokeswoman for Mr. Summers confirmed he would be stepping down from the board of OpenAI. Mr. Summers is also a contributing writer for The New York Times’s Opinion section on a one-year contract… A Times spokesman said on Tuesday that Mr. Summers’s contract would not be renewed.”
Harvard Is Said to Open New Inquiry Into Faculty Ties to Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
“On Wednesday, a spokeswoman for Mr. Summers confirmed he would be stepping down from the board of OpenAI. Mr. Summers is also a contributing writer for The New York Times’s Opinion section on a one-year contract… A Times spokesman said on Tuesday that Mr. Summers’s contract would not be renewed.”
“Nearly $700,000 was raised to benefit food pantries in Lehigh, Northampton, Carbon and Monroe counties in just two weeks.
“We launched the fund on Oct. 30 and went public with it the next day,” said Laura McHugh...
“We set a goal of $500,000. But in just two weeks, we surpassed that.”
“We launched the fund on Oct. 30 and went public with it the next day,” said Laura McHugh...
“We set a goal of $500,000. But in just two weeks, we surpassed that.”
Greater Lehigh Valley raises $677,000 for rapid relief food fund in 2 weeks
In just two weeks time, 75 businesses, organizations and individuals contributed $677,000 to address food insecurity throughout the Greater Lehigh Valley.
www.lehighvalleynews.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
“Nearly $700,000 was raised to benefit food pantries in Lehigh, Northampton, Carbon and Monroe counties in just two weeks.
“We launched the fund on Oct. 30 and went public with it the next day,” said Laura McHugh...
“We set a goal of $500,000. But in just two weeks, we surpassed that.”
“We launched the fund on Oct. 30 and went public with it the next day,” said Laura McHugh...
“We set a goal of $500,000. But in just two weeks, we surpassed that.”
“Between 2022 and 2024, resistance to ceftriaxone and cefixime, the primary antibiotics used to treat gonorrhoea, rose sharply from 0.8% to 5% and from 1.7% to 11% respectively, with resistant strains detected in more countries… resistance to ciprofloxacin reached 95%.”
More countries report rising levels of drug-resistant gonorrhoea, warns WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted infection, is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, according to new data from its Enhanced Gonococcal Antim...
www.who.int
November 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
“Between 2022 and 2024, resistance to ceftriaxone and cefixime, the primary antibiotics used to treat gonorrhoea, rose sharply from 0.8% to 5% and from 1.7% to 11% respectively, with resistant strains detected in more countries… resistance to ciprofloxacin reached 95%.”
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The sexually transmitted disease #gonorrhea is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics.
Countries need to
🛡️ Strengthen surveillance
🔬 Improve diagnostic capacity
💊 Ensure equitable access to new treatments for sexually transmitted infections
https://bit.ly/3XAo8we
Countries need to
🛡️ Strengthen surveillance
🔬 Improve diagnostic capacity
💊 Ensure equitable access to new treatments for sexually transmitted infections
https://bit.ly/3XAo8we
November 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The sexually transmitted disease #gonorrhea is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics.
Countries need to
🛡️ Strengthen surveillance
🔬 Improve diagnostic capacity
💊 Ensure equitable access to new treatments for sexually transmitted infections
https://bit.ly/3XAo8we
Countries need to
🛡️ Strengthen surveillance
🔬 Improve diagnostic capacity
💊 Ensure equitable access to new treatments for sexually transmitted infections
https://bit.ly/3XAo8we
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Read this interview with @peterthorne.bsky.social to understand how dire the situation is with respect to US science funding. The US has played an outsized role in Earth observations and global coordination, and even if other nations decide to step in, it would take at least a decade to recover.
Without US satellites, 'we go dark', climate monitor tells AFP
US budget cuts risk creating blind spots in Earth monitoring systems that would imperil weather forecasting and climate research for years to come, the deputy chair of a key UN-backed climate monitori...
www.france24.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Read this interview with @peterthorne.bsky.social to understand how dire the situation is with respect to US science funding. The US has played an outsized role in Earth observations and global coordination, and even if other nations decide to step in, it would take at least a decade to recover.
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In 48 other states, new moms have access to Medicaid for up to one year after they give birth. Not in Wisconsin.
There, the limit remains two months. And it’s only because of one man: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
By @megomatz.bsky.social
There, the limit remains two months. And it’s only because of one man: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
By @megomatz.bsky.social
He Vowed to “Protect the Unborn.” Now He’s Blocking a Bill to Expand Medicaid for Wisconsin’s New Moms.
Splitting with anti-abortion members of his own party, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has refused to join 48 other states in ensuring that vulnerable women have access to potentially lifesaving ...
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM
In 48 other states, new moms have access to Medicaid for up to one year after they give birth. Not in Wisconsin.
There, the limit remains two months. And it’s only because of one man: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
By @megomatz.bsky.social
There, the limit remains two months. And it’s only because of one man: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
By @megomatz.bsky.social
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Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
Personalized Cancer Vaccines Are Almost Here—But Federal Funding Cuts Could Derail Them
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
www.scientificamerican.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
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"WHO to lose nearly a quarter of its workforce – 2,000 jobs – due to US withdrawing funding" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
WHO to lose nearly a quarter of its workforce – 2,000 jobs – due to US withdrawing funding
Donald Trump’s administration withdrew from the World Health Organization in January, prompting the agency to scale back its work
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:13 AM
"WHO to lose nearly a quarter of its workforce – 2,000 jobs – due to US withdrawing funding" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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can’t stop thinking about “quiet piggy” and what an uproar that would’ve caused in any other news environment
November 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
can’t stop thinking about “quiet piggy” and what an uproar that would’ve caused in any other news environment
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“More than a decade after the first HPV vaccination programmes rolled out, data from multiple countries reveals a dramatic fall in cervical cancers and precancers, confirming that HPV vaccines are highly effective and extremely safe”
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
The HPV vaccine is erasing cancer – here's the proof
More than a decade after the first HPV vaccination programmes rolled out, data from multiple countries reveals a dramatic fall in cervical cancers and precancers, confirming that HPV vaccines are high...
www.gavi.org
November 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
“More than a decade after the first HPV vaccination programmes rolled out, data from multiple countries reveals a dramatic fall in cervical cancers and precancers, confirming that HPV vaccines are highly effective and extremely safe”
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
“The Senate has adjourned for the evening, meaning that despite having agreed to quickly send the bill to compel the release of the Epstein files to the president’s desk, that will not happen until the Senate is back in session on Wednesday.”
Update from Robert Jimison
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
“The Senate has adjourned for the evening, meaning that despite having agreed to quickly send the bill to compel the release of the Epstein files to the president’s desk, that will not happen until the Senate is back in session on Wednesday.”
A new podcast hosted by Michael Sparer from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health: “From Constitutional debates to garbage collection in 1866 New York to today's vaccine controversies, this podcast reveals the invisible infrastructure your health depends on it” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Welcome to Who the Health Cares?
Podcast Episode · Who the Health Cares? with Prof Michael Sparer · S1 Trailer · 2m
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November 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
A new podcast hosted by Michael Sparer from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health: “From Constitutional debates to garbage collection in 1866 New York to today's vaccine controversies, this podcast reveals the invisible infrastructure your health depends on it” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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Q: Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
November 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Q: Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
“The Trump administration is expected to announce on Tuesday an aggressive plan to continue dismantling the Education Department, ending the agency’s role in supporting academics at elementary and high schools and in expanding access to college.” The authors of Project 2025 must be thrilled.
Trump Administration to Announce Steps to Dismantle Education Department
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“The Trump administration is expected to announce on Tuesday an aggressive plan to continue dismantling the Education Department, ending the agency’s role in supporting academics at elementary and high schools and in expanding access to college.” The authors of Project 2025 must be thrilled.
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This is terrible. Ursinus College (where my partner works) spent last year planning a reorganization (they’re creating multidisciplinary “hubs”) only for its administration to announce layoffs this semester. I hope this isn’t in the cards for those working at Montclair State
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities
Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.
www.wsj.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This is terrible. Ursinus College (where my partner works) spent last year planning a reorganization (they’re creating multidisciplinary “hubs”) only for its administration to announce layoffs this semester. I hope this isn’t in the cards for those working at Montclair State
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The antivaxx movement may play a role. Maddening since HPV vaccination saves lives. I was vaccinated later in life after surgical treatment for cervical cancer, which research suggests prevented relapse from high risk HPV type. Share our success stories. Get vaccinated.
"While all provinces and territories offer school-based HPV vaccination programs, experts say more needs to be done to boost uptake. Data from 2023 suggests coverage for two doses among 14-year-olds was around 65 per cent, well below the 90 per cent target" @bachynski.bsky.social
Canada was on track to eliminate cervical cancer. Now doctors are alarmed by what they are seeing - Toronto Star
November 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The antivaxx movement may play a role. Maddening since HPV vaccination saves lives. I was vaccinated later in life after surgical treatment for cervical cancer, which research suggests prevented relapse from high risk HPV type. Share our success stories. Get vaccinated.
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Jim Jordan begged someone to not rat out the sexual assault that was happening at Ohio State. He was crying on the phone. Groveling. This man threw out all his dignity to try and cover for horrifying crimes of sexual abuse. Think about that for a moment.
November 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Jim Jordan begged someone to not rat out the sexual assault that was happening at Ohio State. He was crying on the phone. Groveling. This man threw out all his dignity to try and cover for horrifying crimes of sexual abuse. Think about that for a moment.