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Wife was a probationary employee let go over the weekend. She was a researcher with CMMI. If anyone has leads on jobs for a PhD social science researcher with an expertise in Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance, please let me know!

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Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

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Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

submitted 30 days ago • 42 comments

Use the Human Microbiome Compendium data! We made the data and code available, & created a website and R package to navigate the compendium. Links: - Website: microbiomap.org - Data: zenodo.org/records/1373... - R package: blekhmanlab.github.io/MicroBioMap/ - Code: github.com/blekhmanlab/...

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

It dawned on me that all the designers of my new core team are Latinos/Spanish. One Colombian and one Mexican living in Dublin. One Spaniard in Boston, and myself (Costa Rican) living in Virginia. Our boss is Irish born, but honorary Latino at this point. They’re all superb designers. How lovely 🥰

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I fear there is deep truth here.

submitted 48 days ago • 1486 comments

People think of WhatsApp as a messaging app, but entire economies run on it. In the global south many business don’t have websites, they have WhatsApp contacts and many transactions are possible thanks to it

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

So are we also leaving IG? I don’t use FB, and I can’t stop using WhatsApp because that’s how I communicate with my entire family and friends, but as a Latino, queer, immigrant using meta services feels just plain wrong.

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Network of the day. From: Pitts, "Graph theoretical approach to historical geography" (1965)

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

submitted 49 days ago • 332 comments

It’s crazy how good the quality of phone cameras is today. I took this on an iPhone 16 Pro in RAW 12 format using the default Photo app and only tweaked it a bit. I didn’t even use a tripod, I just laid flat and held the phone on my face 😂 My Micro 4/3rds Olympus cannot do this.

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

Dear #accessibility folk. A family member has hearing loss that cannot be aided with ear devices. I’m looking for a handheld device that can live transcribe a conversation in SPANISH so that they can read what others are saying. So far the closest I’ve found is a recorder from iFLYTECH. Ideas?

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1/ Influenza wastewater activity levels are currently low across the US, aside from conspicuous areas in CA where #H5N1 is spreading in dairy cows. A deeper dive into the Wastewater Scan data paints a very concerning picture and should add to our sense of urgency.

submitted 94 days ago • 27 comments

It takes courage and integrity not to be co-opted into systems of injustice. As public health and science come under attack, I have profound respect—even reverence—for those who choose to RESIST and keep fighting for truth and what is right. #ProtectPublicHealth #Resist

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

This is a lovely thread. I invite you to read it. There is actual discourse happening. Holy shit I haven’t seen this in a social media app in years. Also design as a practice is political too - maybe I need to write a thread about that bc so many of you don’t want to admit that either

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

I've just deactivated my X account. I also have a number of new followers so time for a re-intro: Hello, I'm Antonio. I'm a product and information designer. Come here for cat pics, hot takes on soup, design ethics, design for data-intensive apps, and the occasional music rec.

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Isn't this fun: Notion limits free accounts to 1000 blocks for accounts with shared content. A "block" is some sort of made up unit of content. Deleting content doesn't reduce the # of blocks. It's a cumulative number and so you either kick your guests or can't create more content. Very dirty move

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

Seeing a lot of "UX design for AI" roles opening - as though tech realized that no one wants their shitty chatbots for their own sake and is scrambling to find people who make stuff users like (that they laid off in droves in 2023)

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments

Been routinely grabbing a bite weekly at Tatte before my piano lessons and the soups are surprisingly tasty. Today’s chicken soup stands out for the addition of fennel (a personal favorite) and Cannellini beans. Follow me for more soup reviews

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

The new information architecture and especially the organization system (whatever it is) of the iOS Photos app is so disorienting. How are “Recent Days”, “Albums”, and “Pinned Collections” siblings? 💀

submitted 108 days ago • 2 comments

Looking for great books or resources on Information Architecture (other than the polar bear book). Send your recs! #design #ia #information

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Finally ready to move away from [the other platform]. Rarely do we get a social media reset. Let's make new, bolder mistakes this time!

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

I just got a new phone (iPhone 16 Pro upgraded from iPhone 13) and as soon as I opened Instagram I got so many ads for iPhone cases. 10 ads in about 60s of scrolling. Unhinged.

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Remarkable chart. www.ft.com/content/e8ac...

submitted 113 days ago • 12 comments

Honestly I miss the work I was doing when I was in infectious disease. I was so close to the science, the work kept me on my toes, my peers were incredibly dedicated, lots of room for design experimentation. Wish there were environments like that outside of academia

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Me at work: I have concepts of a plan

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ICYMI: There are pressing questions that need to be answered about the Missouri #H5 #birdflu case in a person with no reported exposures to animals. Here are 5 and why they're important. www.statnews.com/2024/09/08/m...

submitted 172 days ago • 1 comment

Kinda sucks I can’t save/bookmark posts. Obsidian it is

submitted 174 days ago • 0 comments

#dataviz #gis #maps folk. If you had to pick ONE map (OK max two) to show 16-17 y.o. students taking AP Human Geography what would you pick? My friend is a teacher and asked me for surprising, interesting, eye-opening maps (or other related viz).

submitted 174 days ago • 4 comments