I'm really, really, really tired of public health officials going out of their way to tell us that the dead had "underlying conditions" — a phrase so vague as to be useless in actually informing risk assessment. It's just ableism...

Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 19h ago

Why? "Underlying conditions" offers relief to a reader the coverage presumes is healthy. It works especially well because it is so vague. Without knowing the conditions these two lost souls had, readers can supply whatever medical history would make their deaths feel safely remote. 🧵

I made this for my students last year and there are some links at the end to professional advice! docs.google.com/presentation... For more “real” advice, I tend to search for something like “annotations + libguide” in order to get librarians’ resources.

How Do Scholars Take Notes?

How do scholars take notes? I like seeing examples of different people’s notetaking, so I asked scholars to show me how they take notes for research.

docs.google.com

But hey, at least you didn't have to write the boring parts of your books, you fucks.

Liz is just so tired.@grief-enduring.bsky.social · 6h ago

I need more ppl to be scared. As I've been bitching, I just lost my job & being replaced w/Ai. That's not the scary part. My job incl handling sensitive, private, medical info plus all your personal info up to SSN. It's all being fed to Ai & Ai is not covered under HIPAA. It's really fucking scary.

Workflow. Buy-in. Billing codes. Staff turnover. EHR design. None of that shows up in a Phase 3 trial. Per implementation science literature, it takes an average of 17 years for evidence to reach routine care. Dissemination isn't bonus work. It's the work.

Most evidence-based interventions never reach patients. Not because the science is wrong. Because implementation is its own science, and we treat it like an afterthought. The gap between what works in trials and what happens in clinics is enormous. What fills that gap:

I wish to live in pease but unfortunately sometimes one must engage in combat with the telephone operators of the United States Postal Service

My daughter and I have been waiting for this day for many years. Thank you so much for not letting it slip past us unnoticed. I'll turn on my google surveillance smart home bullshit, fire up the roomba, and enjoy a whisky as I watch the apocalyptic wildfire smoke swirl across the yard.

Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:

a wooly man without a face@jojororo.bsky.social · yesterday

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Library pro tip: never go in without locking the emergency stop. If the lights are motion activated and you’re alone, they will definitely turn off if you’re in there, someone will come in and assume sensibly that there’s no one there. Ask my busted ribs how we know!

alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 24h ago

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

Attention all academic burnouts who kept saying yes to things because they weren't until fall semester. It is now fall sester.

The best part of my brothers owning a bookstore is that I can order things but the second best part is leaving them all caps messages in the “additional information” field 😂

School produces knowledge work for thirteen years, then throws nearly all of it away. An essay is written, graded, returned, lost. We don't do that to professionals — a researcher keeps a bibliography, a developer keeps a repository. stimpunks.org/space/knowle...

The Stimpunks Knowledge System as Curriculum

We built a knowledge base for ourselves and then wrote down how it works: The Stimpunks Knowledge System. It holds our research library, our notes, and our highlights. It indexes itself, audits…

stimpunks.org

“A p-value is the most widespread statistical concept that is not definable in a single sentence“ CHECKMATE

Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social · yesterday

Stop trying to explain what a p-value is in a single sentence (ICYMI) statsepi.substack.com/p/no-you-can...

Suffering is the new having an okay time.

I want to be clear that I'm not suggesting we should never listen seriously to 85-year-olds, but we should definitely think critically before, for example, hailing them as 'leading experts'.

I hate this timeline & that I had to write this essay. I hate AI companies & LLMs & the randos who are now using "AI detectors" (also AI!) to smear authors they dislike: on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-em-dashes... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-em-dash...

On em-dashes and “AI detectors”

and the many reasons why I don’t and won’t use LLMs

juliaserano.medium.com

Blindingly obvious that this is targeted at “degrees we think women get.”

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

It is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.

The real thing that will end the war on us 🏳️‍⚧️ is having a critical mass of normy cis peeps being loud online and in person. Another 2015 like outpouring of outrage and support. Make Bigots Afraid Again.

Emily AF 👩‍🎤✨@rockstarelise.com · yesterday

I got into it with someone today who called the people booing Sophie Cunningham, performative allies. Telling people you support them and not doing any meaningful shit is that. Loudly booing a bigot, plus getting angry on social IS actual support. We need more people doing that!

On Wednesday, I'll be speaking about my disability reporting at @motherjones.com at SF's Disability Cultural Center. Come in person for 4pm PT or watch online, but please RSVP either way! disabilityculturalcenter.org/event/disabi...

"My own mental health journey has given me a much deeper sense of empathy,” @francescahongwi.bsky.social told me. I wrote about the ridiculous attacks by right-wing media on Francesca Hong's mental health history for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Right-wing media is attacking Francesca Hong for her mental health history

"My own mental health journey has given me a much deeper sense of empathy," Hong told Mother Jones.

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I was just looking at the syllabus for my developmental psychology course which is over eight weeks this summer, almost over! “Due to Time Constraints, We Will Be Skipping Adulthood” No wonder I’ve felt so fucking old lol 

at my school we could get extra credit for buying extra reams of paper for some teachers. then a teacher started giving students extra credit for straight up cash. he got fired, as he should, but it puts into perspective how “extra credit for buying paper” is not that far from “extra credit for $$”

Sara Cress@saracress.bsky.social · 2d ago

School supplies should be free. They should come with the school. They should be purchased by the state.

“Without this, people become homeless. They lose their income. They lose their stability. Whatever tiny safety net they had is gone,” @shannonrosa.bsky.social said. “It’s just cruel.” My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty

Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states over alleged caregiving fraud

theguardian.com

New: In about 10 minutes the Senate should start an initial vote on a continuing resolution. The CR contains a provision that would temporarily (but completely) block OMB's proposal to overhaul federal grants. Our story on that Senate measure and some of the pushback which lead to it:

Controversial White House plan to overhaul US science funding faces Senate opposition

Proposal to put political appointees in charge of research grants could be temporarily halted if lawmakers’ efforts are successful.

nature.com

That is literally what taxes are for. Stuff you use and stuff other people use and them using it also makes your life better because you're in a community with people who aren't damn well starving.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Journal: here is a GLOWING review of your book Center for Teaching: will you come talk to this workshop about how you use Unessays? Jerkbrain: I am inches away from getting found out as the incompetent slacker I am Me, to Jerkbrain: WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS, LET ME HAVE NICE THINGS Jerkbrain: LOL🖕

Begging you, reporters everywhere: stop using this framing. Anyone anywhere at any time can have an underlying condition. That has only become more true as you decided to join the war on COVID on the side of COVID. People with fallible bodies—all of us—deserve to not shit themselves to death.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.