Alexander Tsai, MD
@drdrtsai.bsky.social
Husband, father, psychiatrist & pop. health scientist at @GlobalHealthMGH, @MonganInstitute, & @HarvardChanSPH. Editor @SocSciMed-Mental Health. TweetDelete on. Fk cowards. Website: https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/90553
"“It’s as if,” she said of Burlington and its culture, “we are frozen with fear that someone might see us as uncompassionate.”"
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2d agoGiving addicts clean needles and safe places to inject was supposed to save lives, Michael Powell writes. Instead, it created a “zombie apocalypse”:
"I thought of Levi sometimes as a stranger sleeping at a bus stop. The idea of walking away from him felt cruel—but also liberating. I once wasn’t able to care for myself, and walked away from me too."
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 3d ago“Plenty of people my age are beginning to take care of sick or aging parents. It’s the natural way; you take care of the people who once took care of you,” Jenisha Watts writes. “But for me, it wasn’t like that”:
"Without tracking, teaching middle school math becomes a logistical nightmare. In elementary school, the gap between students is narrow because the amount of math they are expected to know is limited. By the time students are in middle school, that changes." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/03/o...
It’s OK to track middle school math, Cambridge - The Boston Globe
Separating kids into different math classes based on their abilities is the the least-bad way for schools to meet the needs of student who learn at different speeds.
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.@atheendar.bsky.social: "[Stuckness] is a feeling and a reality that reinforce each other, robbing us of hope, generating chronic stress, and making it harder to move forward." www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
Americans feel stuck — and it’s making us sick | Opinion
We’ve reached our 250th anniversary as a stuck country. It’s more than just poverty, loneliness, or a lack of opportunity — and it is one of the biggest threats to our public health.
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"This near collapse of civic friendship is a catastrophic threat to public life. Restoring it depends on our capacity to practice civil discourse, which in turn requires us to acknowledge our fallibility—deeply, existentially, and not merely formally." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Two Great Threats to Truth
Moral relativism and fanaticism may seem to have nothing in common, but they lead to the same result.
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“well within the accepted range of compliance with the academic standards of the time" www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
Jason Arday: I am not a liar, says star academic accused of plagiarism
The youngest ever black professor at Cambridge University claims allegations he is a fraud are cruel, racially motivated and do not account for his autism
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Nicholas A. Christakis@nachristakis.bsky.social · last wk.Jason Arday appears to be a plagiarist, a liar, and a charlatan. The real question is why Cambridge University doesn’t investigate and take commensurate action. Maybe they know and gave him tenure anyway?
"...the supreme court effectively directed migrants to choose life-threatening routes. People saw their shot, and took it."
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 5d ago“The strongest case for mass immigration has always been that some people have no home to go back to,” @gcaw.bsky.social argues. “But the events in Ceuta seem very far from this category.”
"Our yard would look so much better if everyone else’s grass was also dead" www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
Colorado residents are ratting out neighbors over water use during drought
It's Green Lawns vs. Brown Lawns as Denver residents flout strict water restrictions.
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Find someone to look at you the way Rubio is looking at Trump sleep during the Graham funeral.
"You are among the most privileged people in America, which means the cost of courage is lower for you than for almost anyone else being asked to show it."
Ryan Enos@ryanenos.bsky.social · last wk."As the United States has struggled to deal with its own authoritarian breakthrough, the opposition has often focused on institutions. Accountability, however, can attach only to individuals." @arneduncan.bsky.social is right: our personal legacies are at stake in this moment. wapo.st/3RW4HPo
