#medlibs U-M Taubman Health Sciences Library's Systematic Reviews Workshop will be in Ann Arbor on 4/14-4/15/27. Complete the registration lottery form by 9/20/26 at 11:59pm (eastern). We will randomly select participants via lottery. umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I missed this editorial when it was published in 2025 and let me tell you: the title is seriously misleading. The first part praises libraries, though waxes a little poetic. The second half says libraries aren't are "no longer a positive value proposition" #medlibs 📚

Don't Close Medical Libraries: That's Where You Find Librarian Partners to Advance Medicine and Science - PubMed

Don't Close Medical Libraries: That's Where You Find Librarian Partners to Advance Medicine and Science

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Pediatric endocrinology, the specialty involved in gender affirming care, makes less than general pediatrics despite 3 additional years of training. Nobody goes into ANY pediatric subspecialty to get rich.

5/ "Wolves in White Coats," per this source: www.streetinsider.com/dr/news.php?... Absolutely everything this regime does is tinged with overtones of fear, victimhood &/or sexual predation. It's remarkable, but you gotta admit, Trump & RFK have Americans figured out. I'm not a lawyer, so I...

One thing I noticed is that Romulus and Remus had white coats as puppies. White wolf puppies in nature are brown. Colossal didn't resurrect dire wolves. They just created a brand new type of wolf that never existed naturally.

3 News Outlets Say They Will Sue to Regain White House Access @nytimes.com In a joint statement, CNN, MS NOW and Politico argued that President Trump’s decision to bar them from the White House grounds violates their First Amendment rights. It does. Sue.

The law is that “Although the WH is not required to open its doors to the news media, once it establishes press facilities for credentialed journalists, it cannot deny access based on the content of a journalist’s coverage.” That's exactly what Trump is doing. joycevance.substack.com/p/its-a-nice...

It’s a Nice First Amendment You’ve Got There…

Mea culpa for the long post on a Saturday night, but read on and see if you don’t agree that it’s essential.

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Private prisons are bad, but they’re a small part of the system. Mass incarceration is driven by public policy & spending — choices made by your elected officials.

coworker just told me how the new siri ai has "gotten so much better" and proceeded to tell me how he asked siri for suggestions for gifts for his girlfriend and when her birthday is based on their texting history. YOU ARE GIVING AWAY THE ACT OF LOVE TO THE COMPUTER!!!!! I HATE THIS WORLD!!!!!

@pfanderson.bsky.social @drspacejunk.bsky.social Captain Picard called. He still says he sees 4. spacedaily.com/t-isee3-citi...

Citizen scientists revived NASA’s long-retired ISEE-3 probe in 2014 and fired its thrusters for the first time in 27 years, restoring its spin—but the larger burn meant to return it to an Earth–Sun ob...

A crowdfunded team rebuilt the ability to command ISEE-3, restored its spin with 11 thruster pulses and learned why a probe can still carry fuel yet be unable to use it.

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“That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I went closer, and I did not die. Surely God had his hand in this, as well as friends.” wordsfortheyear.com/2014/01/25/h... #MaryOliver

Heavy by Mary Oliver

That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I went closer, and I did not die. Surely God had his hand in this, as well as friends. Still, I was bent, and my laughter, as th…

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This essay on Jonah the zealot www.thetorah.com/article/sile... notes that Christian thinkers including Aquinas, Leibniz, & Kant argued for the righteous value of punishment, even of the repentant. IMHO this comes from punitive child-rearing, v common in previous eras #ParshaChat

Silencing Jonah the Zealot on Yom Kippur - TheTorah.com

The sailors, Ninevites, and even a fish and a plant do what God asks in the book of Jonah; the prophet alone resists. A zealot who wants Nineveh punished, Jonah flees his mission because he fears God ...

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I want to thank everyone who's making me consider for the first time whether Jonah was struggle with a mental health condition. I'm feeing more compassion for him, and a little perplexed at the "tough love" God uses to teach him different. #ParshaChat

Right? And that gets so complicated because, since kids lack perspective, *anything* that upsets them is likely to feel unfair in the moment. But also, real unfairness exists and is common and sometimes they are right. #ParshaChat

I'm hearing Jonah in a child!s voice: "Why do THEY always get away with everything? It's not fair!" #ParshaChat

Speaking of Nineveh being a traditional enemy, I think it’s interesting that we read a story about, in part, Ninevites fasting and repenting on a day when Jews are fasting and repenting. #ParshaChat

A3 On the one hand, Jonah thanks God for rescuing him before it even happens (in this story: some scholars say the poem was written elsewhere and stuck in here). On the other, it's very transactional, very "this for that." #ParshaChat

I'm thinking about what it's like to be at a conference at which there's a person who persistently causes problems. And then being told to Just Talk To Them, even when it's clear that this confrontation isn't going to go anywhere constructive. #ParshaChat

On social media platforms, there are a lot of accounts that should get banned but don't. They get short term suspensions or get particular posts deleted from time to time, but the account stays and they keep doing the same kinds of bad things. #ParshaChat

I don't really have a frame of reference for decision making in a war or for having it out for an entire city, so, I'm thinking about this in terms of a couple things I *do* have a frame of reference for: #ParshaChat

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For the same reason that certain politicians in the U.S. and Israel want Iran destroyed rather than de-nuclearized. They think anything less than that rewards evil and/or makes their own countries unsafe. #ParshaChat

Huh. Now I'm thinking about how Lot moved to Sodom and Sodom was a terrible influence on him. I wonder if there was anyone who Jonah worried about, in that way. Did he have a wayward son who wanted to move to Nineveh and act like that? #ParshaChat

That makes it kind of hard to sympathize with Jonah's reluctance to give that kind of speech and have it actually work. I wish I could do that! That's the hero dream! But Jonah would not have seen those movies... #ParshaChat

And it doesn't really work that way in real life, but I've seen way too many of those politics shows and movies, and there's a part of me that kind of *feels* like I should be fixing things by making that kind of speech. And... #ParshaChat

This is making me think about how American political movies tend to have a hero character who makes the corrupt people Be Better by making a moral clarity speech at them. And... #ParshaChat

A2 I've read a midrash that imagines the Pharaoh of the Exodus story didn't drown in the Reed Sea but survived, went to Nineveh, and became ruler there. Given a second chance to change his ways, this time, he actually repents! A good story for Yom Kippur! #ParshaChat

Because he WANTS the city to be destroyed. #ParshaChat

That's a really interesting possibility — and it's something I really *could* see getting nipped in the bud with a very serious warning. Some kinds of bad behavior really do go way down when it's clear that they won't be tolerated. #ParshaChat

A2: If it's more that Nineveh did something that mildly offended his sensibilities and Jonah was offended by them being given the chance to knock if off, that's obviously a lot less sympathetic. And I think you could defensibly read Jonah either way. #ParshaChat