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Zach Binney

@binneyz.bsky.social

Sports injury epidemiologist, esp. NFL; long-suffering Dolphins fan, but I repeat myself

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Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 4d ago

The president took on a vanity project, gave no-bid contracts to contractors who screwed it up, made up a story about vandals to cover it up, and then fomented a felony prosecution against an innocent scapegoat. You could impeach for anything he's done but "This asshole is out of control" is a layup

Roy Edroso@edroso.bsky.social · 4d ago

When you slow down and think about it you realize it's ten times worse than it seems. Sure it's farcical, but it's also a brutal legal attack on a man they knew to be innocent, done to distract from their own thievery and incompetence and as a flex to terrify anyone who might make them look bad.

Zach Binney@binneyz.bsky.social · 4d ago

Geriatric millennial parenting achievement: while eating a banana split... Me, in falsetto: "I AM A BANANAAAAAAA" 4 y/o, without missing a beat: "I live in a giant bucket!"

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 7d ago

Aside from its many other problems, the idea Fauci was America's power-abusing covid dictator is somewhat complicated by the fact that he never had the power to do the things they're mad about. His recommendations bound nobody and were not particularly rigorously followed by the actual policymakers.

treb@treblaw.bsky.social · last wk.

Fauci did the best he could in a truly difficult situation with complete hogs and bozos around him touting lies, grifts, selfishness and stupidity while thousands died, and to get treated like this by these gremlins is such an insult. It's more than an insult, man I can't even put words to it

Sam Hoppen@samhoppen.bsky.social · last wk.

Is yards before contact an offensive line stat? Less than we treat it like one. I took a deep dive on a stat that we may have been reading wrong, using a couple of different modeling techniques to explain why. You can read it FREE on my Substack 🔗⤵️

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William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2w ago

In theory there’s a whole complicated debate to be had about the prerogative of states to spend resources on their citizens vs duty to the world’s poorest, etc, in practice none of that shit matters because they saved no money overall & killed people even relative to an orderly & legal drawdown

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 2w ago

Musk did not just decide not to provide people with life saving aid. He *broke the law* in order to *deny promised aid*. 1

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2w ago

A counterfactual where all US AID ceased through legal channels with ample warning has *at least* thousands alive compared to what happened. They killed people for no fucking reason at all, and pretending there’s even principled debate to be had here is giving them far more credit than they deserve

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hear hear: “Perhaps if we called these peptides “experimental hormones", or better yet, “experimental hormones whose functions are not well understood", maybe more people would understand why scientists and physicians want more research done before they are approved as medicine.”

“Sarah lowa • 9 hours ago I am a biologist who teaches cell biology at a medical school. The term "peptide" just means a short chain of amino acids connected to each other with peptide bonds. Some peptides are antimicrobial (kill bacteria). Some peptides are structural building blocks. Some peptides break down clots. Some enhance pain sensation. Many peptides are signaling molecules; meaning, cells use them to communicate with each other and to initiate chemical reactions and physiological changes. The peptides these people want to sell and inject are hormones (signaling molecules that affect cells far away in the body). Most peptide hormones have more than one function and affect more than one type of cell. Some peptide hormones can stimulate normal cells and cancer cells in the same way, and some have different effects on healthy cells and pathological cells.”“We do not know all the cells and tissues that are affected by these 7 peptides, or all of their functions (what reactions or chain reactions they trigger). As the article notes, the data are muddled by a lack of consistency in formulations. Meaning, vendors use the same name for different chemical variations, doses, and delivery methods. Perhaps if we called these peptides "experimental hormones", or better yet, "experimental hormones whose functions are not well understood", maybe more people would understand why scientists and physicians want more research done before they are approved as medicine.”
Zach Binney@binneyz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Maybe we should create a new category of FDA approval called "Sure, Go Ahead, You Won't be Hurting Anybody but Yourself, but You Will Pay Every Penny of Your Healthcare Costs if You Hurt Yourself Taking This"

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2w ago

“The committee ended the day by voting in favor of injectable TB-500, a peptide that, according to the F.D.A., was initially developed as a veterinary drug to boost performance in horse or greyhound racing.” IT HAS NOT PREVIOUSLY BEEN STUDIED IN HUMANS. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2w ago

it's fucking insane that so many people get away with hiding their license plates so that they can get away with running red light cameras and cops mostly don't care (I'm sure some of them do on their personal vehicles too). like this is something where broken windows policing actually makes sense.

Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm really looking forward to all the hard work so many Very Serious People, including many academics, are going to put into restoring his reputation. Hell, it's already started.

Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remember when NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said there were no banned words and NIH Program Officers were making them up? Here’s the proof he lied: apnews.com/article/cali... I know, Jay Bhattacharya lying is not news. But it’s still really validating to have the admission.

Zach Binney@binneyz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Whether it's here at home or around the world, Christian Nationalists are admirably consistent about their passion for starving children.

Katie Bergh@katiebergh.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Graphic showing the change in SNAP participation from July 2024 to April 2026. Between the reconciliation law's enactment in July 2025 and April 2026, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million.
Brian Beutler@brianbeutler.bsky.social · 3w ago

I hate that this kind of ankle-biting is necessary, but it would go a long way for even a single Democrat who was instrumental in letting them off the hook five years ago (Biden? Harris? Garland? Coons? Pelosi?) to admit that they fucked up, their critics were correct, it can’t happen again.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 3w ago

The solution is consequences, by the way. And that doesn’t mean “losing elections” or “public ridicule.” Consequences that are real, that wrongdoers and liars know could happen to them, that bad men genuinely fear facing

Reuters@reuters.com · 3w ago

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

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Brian Mills@bmmillsy.bsky.social · 4w ago

All the admins blindly signing up for integrating these tools into the university software stack available to students should be fired yesterday and never hired again. It is a complete dereliction of duty on their part. (Yes they can be accessed elsewhere, but the stamp of approval is the issue).

Andrew Heiss@andrew.heiss.phd · 4w ago

woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.