Chris Leece
@cleece.bsky.social
Dad, Husband, Educator, Lover of Science, Fan of Arsenal and the NY Mets
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Incredible. Get it! And tell tour parents.
Multiple large natural experiments have documented Shingles vaccine is linked with ~20-25% reduced risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A new report today adds to that and extends the to slowing the progression of dementia @cellcellpress.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Incredible. Get it! And tell tour parents.
I was talking with a colleague about AI in k-12 schools and this is what I kept coming back to. Access to AI options for students and teachers does little without considering how the technology will be used and what the drawbacks might be.
This is such an interesting thought… and I’ve been trying to formulate a coherent response concisely… but I think 1:1 computing epitomizes something about the way ed tech groupthink works:
Access often becomes an end unto itself without considering either drawbacks or concrete evidence of benefits.
Access often becomes an end unto itself without considering either drawbacks or concrete evidence of benefits.
If I could go back in time and do it all over again, I would not be an early adopter of 1:1 Chromebooks. I wish I hadn't pushed so hard to get technology in my classroom. It's become a monster that I'm dealing with every day. #TeacherSky #EduSky
December 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I was talking with a colleague about AI in k-12 schools and this is what I kept coming back to. Access to AI options for students and teachers does little without considering how the technology will be used and what the drawbacks might be.
Too good to pass up...I am allowed to get myself a gift, right?
Hey, what are you gonna get for the office secret Santa?
For your mother in law who loves her bird feeder?
For your niece who loves whales?
For your dad who literally has no hobbies and you’re like “shit wtf do I get this guy”?
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For your mother in law who loves her bird feeder?
For your niece who loves whales?
For your dad who literally has no hobbies and you’re like “shit wtf do I get this guy”?
Get a love notes from nature calendar!
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December 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Too good to pass up...I am allowed to get myself a gift, right?
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Hey, what are you gonna get for the office secret Santa?
For your mother in law who loves her bird feeder?
For your niece who loves whales?
For your dad who literally has no hobbies and you’re like “shit wtf do I get this guy”?
Get a love notes from nature calendar!
squidfacts.net
For your mother in law who loves her bird feeder?
For your niece who loves whales?
For your dad who literally has no hobbies and you’re like “shit wtf do I get this guy”?
Get a love notes from nature calendar!
squidfacts.net
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Hey, what are you gonna get for the office secret Santa?
For your mother in law who loves her bird feeder?
For your niece who loves whales?
For your dad who literally has no hobbies and you’re like “shit wtf do I get this guy”?
Get a love notes from nature calendar!
squidfacts.net
For your mother in law who loves her bird feeder?
For your niece who loves whales?
For your dad who literally has no hobbies and you’re like “shit wtf do I get this guy”?
Get a love notes from nature calendar!
squidfacts.net
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We need to make a bigger issue of what Elon and Trump did when they destroyed USAID.
The latest for my newsletter:
The latest for my newsletter:
Crimes against humanity
We need to make a bigger issue of what happened to the world when Elon Musk decimated USAID.
madness.ghost.io
December 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
We need to make a bigger issue of what Elon and Trump did when they destroyed USAID.
The latest for my newsletter:
The latest for my newsletter:
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World AIDS Day
Science is real and life-saving.
Humans living with HIV who are on an effective antiretroviral treatment and have an undetectable viral load cannot transmit HIV sexually.
PrEP is a medicine that prevents HIV. It's taken in pill form or by injection. It reduces HIV risk by over 99%.
Science is real and life-saving.
Humans living with HIV who are on an effective antiretroviral treatment and have an undetectable viral load cannot transmit HIV sexually.
PrEP is a medicine that prevents HIV. It's taken in pill form or by injection. It reduces HIV risk by over 99%.
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
World AIDS Day
Science is real and life-saving.
Humans living with HIV who are on an effective antiretroviral treatment and have an undetectable viral load cannot transmit HIV sexually.
PrEP is a medicine that prevents HIV. It's taken in pill form or by injection. It reduces HIV risk by over 99%.
Science is real and life-saving.
Humans living with HIV who are on an effective antiretroviral treatment and have an undetectable viral load cannot transmit HIV sexually.
PrEP is a medicine that prevents HIV. It's taken in pill form or by injection. It reduces HIV risk by over 99%.
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This is essentially Vinay Prasad, who has an MD, declaring his intent to use the government to torture children to dead via preventable disease by knowingly withholding the cure.
To call this despicable is an understatement.
To call this despicable is an understatement.
Vinay Prasad of the FDA claims that he has proof that 10 children died from COVID19 vaccines, so the FDA will now target flu shots, look at whether people should receive multiple vaccines at the same time, and make the vaccine approval process significantly more difficult.
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is essentially Vinay Prasad, who has an MD, declaring his intent to use the government to torture children to dead via preventable disease by knowingly withholding the cure.
To call this despicable is an understatement.
To call this despicable is an understatement.
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Same. I’m so angry about it. The US made him, granted him asylum, then threatened Afghan asylum status, and this outcome is the result.
None of this happened in a vacuum.
None of this happened in a vacuum.
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Same. I’m so angry about it. The US made him, granted him asylum, then threatened Afghan asylum status, and this outcome is the result.
None of this happened in a vacuum.
None of this happened in a vacuum.
The racism is off the charts.
All of them are in danger. Every immigrant of any status is in danger.
November 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The racism is off the charts.
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is just gutter racism
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Everyone in politics, everyone in media knows what’s happening here: the White House is controlled by a repellant white supremacist who waits with bated breath for any opportunity to run nonwhite people out of America. They know who it is, what he’s doing. But they won’t SAY it.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Everyone in politics, everyone in media knows what’s happening here: the White House is controlled by a repellant white supremacist who waits with bated breath for any opportunity to run nonwhite people out of America. They know who it is, what he’s doing. But they won’t SAY it.
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The Trump regime granted the suspected shooter asylum earlier this year.
Now they are taking his alleged crime out on all Afghan nationals seeking entrance to the US.
Another ban. Another excuse for violence and deportation.
Now they are taking his alleged crime out on all Afghan nationals seeking entrance to the US.
Another ban. Another excuse for violence and deportation.
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
The Trump regime granted the suspected shooter asylum earlier this year.
Now they are taking his alleged crime out on all Afghan nationals seeking entrance to the US.
Another ban. Another excuse for violence and deportation.
Now they are taking his alleged crime out on all Afghan nationals seeking entrance to the US.
Another ban. Another excuse for violence and deportation.
This is a good thread.
One thing thats annoyed me about ai adoption is how self identified data and science people are approaching it so unscientifically.
Before making a decision about whether to accept something as true or adopt a new drug, etc, scientists set a parameter of acceptable error.
But we dont for ai?
Before making a decision about whether to accept something as true or adopt a new drug, etc, scientists set a parameter of acceptable error.
But we dont for ai?
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This is a good thread.
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"Everyone knows data centers use a lot of water. What’s less known is how they can poison the drinking water that remains."
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"Everyone knows data centers use a lot of water. What’s less known is how they can poison the drinking water that remains."
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If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut Education and Science Research the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
November 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut Education and Science Research the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
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New limits on school loans could narrow physician and nurse pipeline, educators warn www.npr.org/sections/sho...
New limits on school loans could narrow physician and nurse pipeline, educators warn
Under new Trump administration rules, students won't be able to borrow as much for medical or nursing school or some other health professions.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
New limits on school loans could narrow physician and nurse pipeline, educators warn www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Humans are about 10 million times larger than viruses, yet they kill us regularly.
We can’t see them. We can’t outrun them. We can’t destroy them with our guns.
And yet we continue to disrespect them.
Vaccinate.
We can’t see them. We can’t outrun them. We can’t destroy them with our guns.
And yet we continue to disrespect them.
Vaccinate.
November 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Humans are about 10 million times larger than viruses, yet they kill us regularly.
We can’t see them. We can’t outrun them. We can’t destroy them with our guns.
And yet we continue to disrespect them.
Vaccinate.
We can’t see them. We can’t outrun them. We can’t destroy them with our guns.
And yet we continue to disrespect them.
Vaccinate.
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Reminder: They wouldn't fund SNAP.
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Reminder: They wouldn't fund SNAP.
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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We’re about to invade Venezuela because trump wants their oil. No other reason. The airspace has been cleared. Embassies are being evacuated. Flights are being canceled.
He’s going to kill people for oil.
He’s going to kill people for oil.
November 24, 2025 at 2:58 AM
We’re about to invade Venezuela because trump wants their oil. No other reason. The airspace has been cleared. Embassies are being evacuated. Flights are being canceled.
He’s going to kill people for oil.
He’s going to kill people for oil.
Research is incremental because it has to be, that is what it takes to isolate variables and gather strong data. I agree with @partialobserver.bsky.social, it makes me sad more than it makes me angry because good medical and scientific research ultimately makes lives better.
This is so irresponsible and absurd, it should make me angry but mainly I’m sad. All the billions of dollars we spend to make medicine incrementally better, and all the scientists and technicians who devote their lives to the work… 1/
The NIH director told attendees the NIH doesn't do enough innovative research.
“What puts lives at risk is doing research that’s incremental,” Bhattacharya said. “All it does is advance the careers of the researchers that do it. It results in publications that don’t get used and aren’t replicable.”
“What puts lives at risk is doing research that’s incremental,” Bhattacharya said. “All it does is advance the careers of the researchers that do it. It results in publications that don’t get used and aren’t replicable.”
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Research is incremental because it has to be, that is what it takes to isolate variables and gather strong data. I agree with @partialobserver.bsky.social, it makes me sad more than it makes me angry because good medical and scientific research ultimately makes lives better.
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Major measles outbreaks have repeatedly cropped up in the Southwest this year. Yet at IHS hospitals in the region, agency officials deemed “measles” and “immunizations” a "medium risk" in internal agency emails.
Staffers, including doctors, now need to get approval to use them in public messaging
Staffers, including doctors, now need to get approval to use them in public messaging
NEW: Officials at the Indian Health Service have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations for patients.
The Indian Health Service Is Flagging Vaccine-Related Speech. Doctors Say They’re Being Censored.
Officials have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations.
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Major measles outbreaks have repeatedly cropped up in the Southwest this year. Yet at IHS hospitals in the region, agency officials deemed “measles” and “immunizations” a "medium risk" in internal agency emails.
Staffers, including doctors, now need to get approval to use them in public messaging
Staffers, including doctors, now need to get approval to use them in public messaging
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The latest History of Education Quarterly has an incredible forum addressing the dismantling of the US Department of Education.
I'll post non-paywalled versions of all nine contributions here. Huge thanks to the amazing scholars who participated.
I'll post non-paywalled versions of all nine contributions here. Huge thanks to the amazing scholars who participated.
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The latest History of Education Quarterly has an incredible forum addressing the dismantling of the US Department of Education.
I'll post non-paywalled versions of all nine contributions here. Huge thanks to the amazing scholars who participated.
I'll post non-paywalled versions of all nine contributions here. Huge thanks to the amazing scholars who participated.
This is the only way forward at this point.
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This is the only way forward at this point.
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.