Tessera
Folgen

Matthew Growdon

@mgrowdon.bsky.social

Geriatrician and clinician-researcher @ UCSF passionate about fashioning a better health system for aging populations, w/interests in dementia & safe prescribing #medsky, #gerisky

5 Posts187 Follower226 Folgt
PBS News@pbsnews.org · last yr.

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

Bild
Sho Hoshino@shophotography.bsky.social · last yr.

The season of Renge Tsutsuji has arrived in Japan. Delicate crimson blossoms grace the forest, enchanting all who pass by. Summer is here — and on clear mornings, a gentle mist rises through the trees, softly lit by the warm sunlight. It seems this month will be a busy one.

BildBildBildBild
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · last yr.

Conservative protests are always treated as an organic cry of anger that manifests the distress of the unjustly ignored American heartland; protests from the center-left are always written off as noise from inside the bubble.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last yr.

The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

David Rothschild@davmicrot.bsky.social · last yr.

10 years of obsession about what Trump supporters think & care about has warped our understanding of their size & popularity: Trump is historically unpopular, pro-democracy supporters far outnumber the object of Corporate Media’s love. Time to hear more from majority of US.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last yr.

The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

Ken Tremendous@kentremendous.bsky.social · last yr.

The miasma theory is not "outdated," it's fucking nonsense. It thought people got chlamydia from rotten air. The "germ theory" isn't "widely accepted," it's proven scientific fact, and it's the only thing that allowed humanity to advance and cure diseases. Otherwise, great headline.

NPR@npr.org · last yr.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.

Allie Sinclair@asinclair.bsky.social · last yr.

Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com: Cuts to NIH funding will impact the economy and employment nationwide. We visualize these losses and advocate for a theory-driven approach to communicating local, self-relevant impact. w/ @joshuasweitz.bsky.social + SCIMaP team: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment - Nature Human Behaviour

Nature Human Behaviour - NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment

nature.com

eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · last yr.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD
Nicholas A. Christakis@nachristakis.bsky.social · 2y ago

I join >1900 members of US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine signing this letter, as individuals, decrying the present thoughtless assault on science, which is against our national interests. docs.google.com/document/d/1... Our health, wealth, and security depend on science.

Public Statement on Supporting Science for the Benefit of All Citizens

TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE We all rely on science. Science gave us the smartphones in our pockets, the navigation systems in our cars, and life-saving medical care. We count on engineers when we drive acr...

docs.google.com

Middle Age Riot@middleageriot.bsky.social · 2y ago

ABC News: "An unthinkable breach of national security." CBS News: "An unthinkable breach of national security." MSNBC: "An unthinkable breach of national security." CNN: "An unthinkable breach of national security." Fox News: "We've all texted the wrong person before."

Boze Herrington, Library Owl@sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 2y ago

There are numerous folktales about magicians who seek advice from mechanical heads who possess all the world’s knowledge, but often give the magicians bad advice that leads them to ruin, and if more people read the old stories we wouldn’t keep making the same dumb mistakes.

Bild
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2y ago

Trump, Musk, Vance, Vought, etc are systematically destroying: 1. Scientific research in the United States. 2. The talent pipeline for this research. 3. The university system itself. 4. The careers of thousands of people like Dr. Minor For what? Politics? Resentment? Thiel? Putin? Thread:

Kelton Minor@keltonminor.bsky.social · 2y ago

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵