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Kevin J. Black
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Husband, dad, Christian, neuroscientist, neuropsychiatrist. Speaking only for myself. Bibliography: www.bit.ly/myncbiKJB or https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6921-9567
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#NeuroJobs
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
kjbinstl.bsky.social
Important result for the etiology and differential diagnosis of "acute brain failure"
November 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
kjbinstl.bsky.social
Sharing a faculty job posting from my department. #psychiatry #neuroscience
facultyopportunities.wustl.edu/Posting/Deta...
Opportunity Details - Faculty Opportunities
facultyopportunities.wustl.edu
November 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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atrupar.com
Crow: "It's so telling that when members of Congress simply remind service members of the Constitution and their duty to obey the law that he cannot handle that and resorts to threats of violence and execution. That tells you everything you need to know about Trump's respect for the Constitution"
November 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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anthonymkreis.bsky.social
For over 300 years now, it is a bedrock principle in Anglo-American constitutionalism that obedience is owed according only to law. Refusal to follow an illegal command is not only a moral choice but an absolute duty.
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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steadystatevets.bsky.social
A federal judge didn’t “steal” the Commander-in-Chief’s powers—she ruled that DoD exceeded the limits Congress set. That is the rule of law working as designed. What threatens the Republic isn’t judicial review, but officials who insist they’re above it.
November 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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washuneurology.bsky.social
Discover Forest Park — a gem of St. Louis! Miles of trails wind around attractions like an art museum, zoo and science center. Perfect for relaxing after a day on the medical campus!
youtube.com/watch?v=XYfen_-TGsU&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fmedicine.washu.edu%2F&source_ve_path=OTY3MTQ
Why St. Louis? Exploring the #1 city park in the U.S.
Forest Park was recently voted as the #1 city park in the U.S. Just steps away from the #WashUMed campus, the 1,300-acre park offers a zoo, a history museum, a science center and so much more. Whether you're looking to unwind on one of its many bike tra...
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November 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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dadjokes.skybot.club
My friend keeps telling me "Cheer up. You aren't stuck in a deep hole in the ground, filled with water."
I know he means well.
November 22, 2025 at 7:11 AM
kjbinstl.bsky.social
Yes! This was the message of the failure to convict Trump on either indictment: the Constitution can handle a despot … if most legislators do the right thing. John Adams: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
radiofreetom.bsky.social Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 4d
The most important thing to remember about all this fantasy-engineering of the Constitution is Madison's warning: If we suck as a people, no clever constitutional schemes will save us.
November 22, 2025 at 5:46 AM
kjbinstl.bsky.social
#MRI #brain #anatomy cool
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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avindman.bsky.social
Trump’s reported demand that Ukraine capitulate to Russia is a corrupt scheme that undermines both U.S. and European security. I want Americans—Democrats and Republicans alike—to make their voices heard. Contact your senators and representatives and tell them that you reject this approach.
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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atrupar.com
this morning's Fox & Friends featured commercials for Trump Watches *and* Trump-branded handguns. a level of presidential grifting that was unfathomable a decade ago.
November 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
kjbinstl.bsky.social
This is a very thoughtful essay.
earlymodjustice.bsky.social Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 5d
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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rhutabhayga.bsky.social
The DoE has reclassified numerous health professional and other degrees, limiting access to federal student loan programs eligible for the higher OBBBA loan caps from thousands to a few hundred.

As ALWAYS, this is about $$.

We're about to become REALLY "great"...

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November 21, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
II. Credibility The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6] Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage. [FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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ruthdeyermond.bsky.social
Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
kjbinstl.bsky.social
No. This Russian plan is clearly letting the bully keep your lunch money and preventing you from returning his punches.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Ukraine banned from Nato, Russia readmitted to the G8 and territory ceded: what’s in Trump’s draft plan
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he expects to discuss the plan – which was reportedly drafted by Russian and US officials – with Trump
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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The extreme and psychotic overreaction by Trump and Stephen Miller to Democratic military vets in the Senate and House urging service members to remember that their oath is to the Constitution and not a man tells us a lot about the Trump admin’s plans for the military.
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
In related news, the claim ‘the Tooth Fairy does not actually take lost baby teeth from under pillows’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that magical beings are secretly thieving teeth in the dead of night…”

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
CDC backpedals on vaccines and autism, despite earlier assurances from RFK Jr.
The CDC, under the direction of an unqualified health secretary, is now promoting claims that flunk Logic 101.
www.ms.now
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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ddiamond.bsky.social
RFK Jr had committed to Bill Cassidy, as a condition to win his vote, that he would keep website language.

Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.”

Note the language in second photo.
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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atrupar.com
Q: Is it appropriate for your family to be doing business in Saudi Arabia while you're president. Is that a conflict of interest? And your royal highness, the US intel community concluded you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journali---

TRUMP: Who are you with?

Q: ABC News

TRUMP: Fake news
November 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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retractionwatch.com
In an ironic and possibly predictable turn of events, the conference has received “an unusually large proportion” of off-topic abstracts that show signs of being written by generative AI.
Research integrity conference hit with AI-generated abstracts
The first of three themes for next year’s World Conference on Research Integrity will be the risks and benefits of artificial intelligence for research integrity. In an ironic and possibly predicta…
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November 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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douglascheape.bsky.social
Just got back from the doctor's. The bad news is that tests have revealed I have Onomatopoeia.
Naturally concerned, I asked, 'What's that?'
'I'm afraid,' he replied, looking up from his notes with a serious expression. 'It's exactly what it sounds like.'
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM