Donovan Maust
@dtmaust.bsky.social
Geriatric psychiatrist & health services researcher interested in #aging #dementia. Lead National Dementia Workforce Study (NDWS.org) with Joanne Spetz, PhD. #GoBlue (but opinions my own)
The deadline for the 1st Michigan Science and Technology Policy fellowship is Monday August 9th. Please circulate widely!
Shobita Parthasarathy@shobitap.org · 3w agoI am thrilled to announce the 1st Michigan Science & Tech Policy fellowship! We're looking for someone w/AI expertise & policy interests, to work in the MI Dept of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. App deadline Aug 9. Learn about the MiST fellowships: stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/fellowships/...
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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During med school outpatient peds rotation well-child visits, I had to actively remind myself that I was not related to the babies that I was holding so I would not snuggle other people's babies in a creepy way
Jeff Lazarus@jlazarus.bsky.social · 2w agoFor my entire career I've wanted to be the professor who gave a lecture while holding my student's babies and I'm continually disappointed that none of my students bring babies to class. (Really I just love babies and my own kids are big now.)
It has been an exciting summer for @ndws.bsky.social, as the first papers using NDWS data (from last year's Wave 1 data release) are now getting published! cc @joannespetz.bsky.social #medsky #healthpolicy
I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”
Would like to send this message to R2 (of course) of the most recent revision I worked on with a mentee. The tone was just so unnecessarily rude. (And also: not my fault that you have poor reading comprehension)
Ann Leckie@annleckie.com · 3w agothat the way you say it matters. And, frankly, the way you say it says something about your attitudes and assumptions about writing or about who gets to write. And there's a thing where people assume that "honest" critique is necessarily harsh and mean.
This article was *horrifying* and it should be career-ending for anyone who has publicly said anything positive about the Tates
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 3w agoIf you haven’t read this in full it’s a gutwrenching account of both the sickening serial rape allegations against them and how many friends they have in the Trump administration: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
No, the greatest achievements un human history were ENABLED by the substrate of government bureaus. Education. Environment. Health. Social Security. Medical care. Roads. Science funding. Food and drug safety. Etc. Without those in place, it's explosive diarrhea and other awfulness all the way down.
Cato Institute@cato.org · 3w ago"The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus." — Milton Friedman. They were driven by individual liberty and free markets. And they always will be.
Some people must not have paid attention during their mandatory online federal ethics training courses
Andy Kroll@andykroll.bsky.social · 3w agoFCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals www.propublica.org/article/para...
I hear they are considering nominating Tom Loftis for the Maine senate seat.
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Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social · 4w agoScoop: NIH is on a mission to enlist one million Americans to share their genetic data to help with health research through a precision medicine program called “All of Us.” What participants don’t know is that at one research site, Palantir stores the data. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I'll tell you right now: Student 22 is gonna be somebody one day. S22 may not have the grades, but that kind of self-conscious I-am-who-I-am-ness is the stuff of legend.
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4w agoabsolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers
YES. You should have to pass a timed test of how long it takes you to get your overhead bag down.
Independent Republic of JS Thrill@jsthrill.modphi.com · last mo.They should have separate airplanes for people who know how to board and disembark efficiently
A single black woman surrounded by hooded white supremacists is certainly a chilling image.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last mo.“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com
Your first billion should come with a starter pack of haldol.
Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · last mo.It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.
It’s not pollution, it’s 🇺🇸🌟PATRIOT PARTICULATE🌟🇺🇸
Donovan Maust@dtmaust.bsky.social · last mo.Between the flyovers and the fireworks tomorrow, I legit feel bad for everyone in DC who has to, ya know, breathe
The new pope said y’all want tradition? Let’s get into the tradition of excommunication.
Ma$on@masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · last mo.Tldr: ultraconservative Catholic group wants to go back to it's old timey terrible racist roots and the new pope said:
Wonderful use of tuition dollars to pay colleges for being stupid
Robert Komaniecki@komaniecki.bsky.social · last mo.lol geez
