Nick DeVito
@ndevito1.bsky.social
Baseball Fan. Postdoc in Policy, Research Integrity, and Open Science. An American in Europe.
Doesn’t sound like all that much thinking was happening.
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Doesn’t sound like all that much thinking was happening.
Evil BS
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Evil BS
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I'm delighted to say we have won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education with our work on OpenSAFELY, inventing new methods that let researchers analyse NHS GP data while protecting everyone's privacy, and with complete transparency, in a hugely productive platform!
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...
OpenSAFELY team awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Higher and Further
Oxford’s OpenSAFELY team wins the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for revolutionising secure NHS data research, protecting patient privacy while unlocking life-saving health insights.
www.ox.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I'm delighted to say we have won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education with our work on OpenSAFELY, inventing new methods that let researchers analyse NHS GP data while protecting everyone's privacy, and with complete transparency, in a hugely productive platform!
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...
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We already have socialism. They have just condemned the VA, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment insurance….
BREAKING: The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
November 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
We already have socialism. They have just condemned the VA, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment insurance….
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hey does anybody want to mind some rich moron's five neglected kids while getting malnutrition in a shack full of dangerous snakes lmk. no pay
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
hey does anybody want to mind some rich moron's five neglected kids while getting malnutrition in a shack full of dangerous snakes lmk. no pay
When a huge amount of congressional seats in the US are just safe fiefdoms it's really hard to hold anyone's feet to the fire via peaceful, nebulous protest.
Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.
The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.
No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.
No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
Ask yourself this: How would the New York Times have covered the protests if it had been seven million MAGA supporters flooding the streets? We don’t even have to guess: We know how they and other mainstream outlets covered the Tea Party protests during Obama’s first term.
October 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
When a huge amount of congressional seats in the US are just safe fiefdoms it's really hard to hold anyone's feet to the fire via peaceful, nebulous protest.
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President Trump today announced a debt jubilee for sports gamblers, whose losses are to be transferred to graduate students
October 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
President Trump today announced a debt jubilee for sports gamblers, whose losses are to be transferred to graduate students
This is my constant response to this type of talk and inevitably the subject gets changes real quick.
October 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
This is my constant response to this type of talk and inevitably the subject gets changes real quick.
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Submission: I did a thing.
Reviewer: Too bad it’s not the thing I imagined while half-reading your abstract.
Revision: What a coincidence, it is now.
Reviewer: Too bad it’s not the thing I imagined while half-reading your abstract.
Revision: What a coincidence, it is now.
October 27, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Submission: I did a thing.
Reviewer: Too bad it’s not the thing I imagined while half-reading your abstract.
Revision: What a coincidence, it is now.
Reviewer: Too bad it’s not the thing I imagined while half-reading your abstract.
Revision: What a coincidence, it is now.
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Great moments in redaction history.
October 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Great moments in redaction history.
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Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.
www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
October 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.
www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
Wild that “accidentally fired a large portion of the CDC” is going to be a minor footnote in the history of this administration
The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Wild that “accidentally fired a large portion of the CDC” is going to be a minor footnote in the history of this administration
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COME TO OUR CONFERENCE!
Lots of people work on medicines data: researchers; but also "medicines optimisation" teams, using data to directly improve NHS care; and teams who build data tools. These clans rarely meet... Until now! Join us, Dec 10th, in Oxford.
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/events/2025-...
Lots of people work on medicines data: researchers; but also "medicines optimisation" teams, using data to directly improve NHS care; and teams who build data tools. These clans rarely meet... Until now! Join us, Dec 10th, in Oxford.
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/events/2025-...
2025 Bennett Institute Medicines Symposium | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
The two-day 2025 Bennett Institute Medicines Symposium will take place at Jesus College in Oxford on 10–11 December 2025.
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk
September 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
COME TO OUR CONFERENCE!
Lots of people work on medicines data: researchers; but also "medicines optimisation" teams, using data to directly improve NHS care; and teams who build data tools. These clans rarely meet... Until now! Join us, Dec 10th, in Oxford.
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/events/2025-...
Lots of people work on medicines data: researchers; but also "medicines optimisation" teams, using data to directly improve NHS care; and teams who build data tools. These clans rarely meet... Until now! Join us, Dec 10th, in Oxford.
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/events/2025-...
This has been fundamental to Republican ideology literally my entire life as a politically aware entity.
this is not only the crux of RFKs world view but basically everyone in the entire admin. you dont need welfare, youre a failure of your own accord. youre homeless? thats a yp, buddy. you got sick and disabled? sucks to suck, loser.
September 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This has been fundamental to Republican ideology literally my entire life as a politically aware entity.
Oh yes the MAGA folks certainly don’t want that.
i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation.
i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.
i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.
Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad.
One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.
One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.
September 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Oh yes the MAGA folks certainly don’t want that.
This is why we don’t truncate Y-axes.
Disney has lost nearly $4 Billion in three days from combined stock price collapse and cancelled subscriptions.
September 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is why we don’t truncate Y-axes.
Unironically this is how I feel most of the time and I don’t even live there anymore.
September 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Unironically this is how I feel most of the time and I don’t even live there anymore.
Never has an article been more written by AI.
This is funniest possible headline for a song literally called "Song for Bob Dylan"
The David Bowie Song You Didn’t Know Was Dedicated to Bob Dylan
In Song For Bob Dylan, Bowie fearlessly critiqued one of the biggest names in music. But what was the real story behind this enigmatic track?
collider.com
September 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Never has an article been more written by AI.
I’d argue that’s exactly what free speech is.
Trump: "When 97% of the stories are bad about a person, that's no longer free speech."
September 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I’d argue that’s exactly what free speech is.
In addition to being truly a giant in the field, Drummond also is the source for one of my favorite 2 slide transitions I've ever put in a talk. It shows the rapid change in sentiment on clinical trial registration in the early 2000s (in the wake of the Paroxetine scandal).
September 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
In addition to being truly a giant in the field, Drummond also is the source for one of my favorite 2 slide transitions I've ever put in a talk. It shows the rapid change in sentiment on clinical trial registration in the early 2000s (in the wake of the Paroxetine scandal).
Insane this garbage still gets published.
"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds"
Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds
Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle age
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Insane this garbage still gets published.
Can’t make up their mind as to if social media censorship is good or not.
September 12, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Can’t make up their mind as to if social media censorship is good or not.