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NIH & FDA's Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary, & Vinay Prasad have all denied Long COVID, said those suffering are "lying fake disease grifters," & that LC researchers are scamming frauds. Now, Americans disabled by their favorite virus are being abandoned en masse. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...

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BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

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One of my favorite "social science reframes something you thought you knew (from other social science)" articles: Do you think rural areas are in population decline? WELL IT TURNS OUT that there are 2 types of rural areas, shrinking ones & growing ones, but we start calling the growing ones "urban"

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literature reviewing is fun because you end up reading papers more closely than probably anyone has, so you find cute little discrepancies like this

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Tons of data shows that even if you experience no symptoms whatsoever, just being exposed to heat for prolonged periods - like job shifts - leads to things like kidney disease, heart disease, permanent disabilities, and early death. Temperatures are up & so are heat injuries, & NIOSH has been gutted

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Pedestrian & cycling fatalities have risen quickly in the US. But impacts vary. Our new research on Boston shows that: —Traffic injury rates are 4x higher in communities of color than largely white areas. —People of color experience much higher traffic injury rates outside of their home areas.

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

New York, come on www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politic...

submitted 26 days ago • 17 comments

engaging in risky health behavior (eating a salad with citrus-based dressing despite my debilitating acid reflux)

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it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

submitted 84 days ago • 45 comments

Pelagic cormorant 🪶

submitted 83 days ago • 31 comments

So the guy leading RFK Jr.'s vaccine-autism study? A total quack who was previously charged for practicing medicine without a license for using chemical castration drugs on autistic children.

submitted 84 days ago • 148 comments

"Angry, disappointed, frustrated"--Scientists were making progress on vaccines and antivirals for the next pandemic--until this week, when the Trump administration abruptly told them to stop. Here's my story with @apoorvanyt.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/43Xz77q

submitted 83 days ago • 61 comments

If Rumeysa Ozturk is brave enough to write that op-ed calling for divestment when she’s here on a visa and ICE is being politically weaponized, you as a citizen can be brave enough to write one too. Check out The Op-Ed Project for help crafting and pitching your piece. www.theopedproject.org

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Liberals and progressives are the only ones with any agency, according to most political discourse. You never hear about a conservative need to understand liberals. It’s always on the left to fix things.

submitted 83 days ago • 36 comments

RFK Jr’s anti-vax organization has created a fake CDC website that posts dangerous misinformation about vaccines. Misinformation kills. And puts children in the hospital. And wipes out their immune systems. infoepi.substack.com/p/cdc-clone-...

submitted 88 days ago • 5 comments

The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.

submitted 89 days ago • 10 comments

This made me cheer. It gets directly at a problem I’ve often noticed: people don’t fundamentally understand what a historian does.

submitted 88 days ago • 22 comments

New working paper out today with @epiellie.bsky.social called "Do LLMs Act as Repositories of Causal Knowledge?" Can LLMs (ie ChatGPT) build for us the causal models we need to identify an effect? There are reasons to expect they could. But can they? Well, not really, no. arxiv.org/html/2412.10...

submitted 182 days ago • 4 comments

Chatbots don't want anything and don't recognize anything.

submitted 103 days ago • 15 comments

Fixed it!

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

ABC News layoffs got me! that means I’m back on the market for full-time role/freelance work doing journalism on all my fave topics: court cases, internet ephemera, national news, pop culture, crime, truly whatever gets the group chat popping. hit an unemployed gal up! DM/email in bio xoxo💋

submitted 104 days ago • 22 comments

I'm using #nvivo for the first time and coded a lot of selected areas in addition to regular text. I'm having a hard time figuring out how to view both types of content for a particular code—it just gives me weird numbers. Any guidance from #qualitative #research folks on here? #academicsky #phdlife

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

my “favorite” response to the weirdos saying that people don’t need psych meds and should be trying to get off of them is the ones like “well you wouldn’t say that about asthma or hypertension would you??” as if that’s a gotcha. like yes people have been saying that, did you forget about fatphobia

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I’ve been in a particularly awful flare-up of symptoms over the past several weeks (for those who don’t know, I’ve been dealing with Long COVID & Friends for over a year now) and a silver lining is that I’ve been too sick to doomscroll, which I will absolutely celebrate!

submitted 126 days ago • 1 comment

I published a new oped in @statnews.com today, with other professors of law, medicine & public health. On settlement of the landmark US v. Gilead patent infringement case. We call for transparency & robust enforcement of public patent rights in the future. 🧵 1/ www.statnews.com/2025/02/12/h...

submitted 126 days ago • 1 comment

The announcement on exemptions to USAID/PEPFAR suspensions allowing continuation of HIV treatment and care interventions are very much a mirage. On the ground across Africa people living with HIV cannot access their medications. Deaths and new infections grow as we speak. apnews.com/article/hiv-...

submitted 127 days ago • 7 comments

i mean, the president's executive order isn't a goddamn law! as far as this doctor is concerned, who cares what the president says!

submitted 126 days ago • 166 comments

So, so excited that this paper is finally out! As someone who detransitioned, gatekeeping didn’t help me. Instead it caused me many problems in the short & long-run but experiences like mine are often used to argue for more gatekeeping. I’m happy to help with a paper that challenges that narrative.

submitted 126 days ago • 2 comments

Braidwood v. Becerra is on its way to SCOTUS! Read my take on the case in the Cornell Law Review: www.cornelllawreview.org/2024/02/23/p...

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My therapist recently stopped taking insurance and I decided to keep seeing them since I have good OON benefits. My first reimbursement was sent on 12/3 to my old address from ~2 years ago. When I called to follow-up, I was told I would have to wait 30 BUSINESS DAYS for them to reissue the check.

submitted 159 days ago • 1 comment

As I saw everyone’s year-end reading recaps, I realized I only read one semi-recreational (audio)book in 2024. That’s fine—I was busy becoming chronically ill—but it’s something I want to be more intentional about. I set a realistic goal of six books and joined @thestorygraph.com (follow me➡️CalebL).

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Study finds claims of declines in maternal deaths after Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health appear to be driven by elevated levels of maternal death during the 2021 spike in COVID-19–related deaths--not because of changes after Dobbs. health policy policysky episky 🛟sociology demography medsky

submitted 195 days ago • 1 comment

I say this to anyone who will listen!! Insurance will deny claims that they absolutely should cover based on their own policies, in the hopes that people won’t bother appealing (if they even understand that they can) and will pay out-of-pocket instead. It’s cartoonishly evil behavior.

submitted 194 days ago • 0 comments

For no reason at all, I’m remembering this experience: in 2020, I was scheduled to have my hysterectomy—days after the election & at the onset of a massive covid surge. The day before, I got a call from the hospital that insurance denied the claim and they couldn’t possibly appeal overnight. 1/

submitted 194 days ago • 1 comment

When you're trying to Live Laugh Love but can't afford the premiums.

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