📢Department of Surgery Upcoming Grand Rounds "Tobacco Screening and Treatment: What Surgeons Need to Know" Guest Speaker: Elisa Tong, MD, MA Tuesday, September 22, 2026 7:30am-8:30am PST Medical Education Building Room 2222

🔬 Congratulations to Dr. Aijun Wang who has been appointed Director of the new Center for Bioengineering in Medicine at UC Davis Health! 🔗 Read more: health.ucdavis.edu/insideout/ne... #UCDavisHealth #Bioengineering #TranslationalResearch #MedicalInnovation

Congratulations to our team members on an outstanding Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Match! We are proud to celebrate Dr. Sneha Swaminathan joining SAUSHEC, Dr. Sarah Mahdavi matching at USC, and Dr. Diego Anaya heading to OHSU. Wishing them all continued excellence! 🎉

📢Department of Surgery Upcoming Grand Rounds "My Attending Told Me So: Questioning & Dismissing Dogma We Inherited" Jason P. Heard, MD | Assistant Professor | Burn Surgery Tuesday, September 8, 2026 7:30am-8:30am PST Medical Education Building Room 2222

We are thrilled to announce that Theophilus (Theo) Pham, MD, and Cody McHargue, MD, have joined the UC Davis Health Department of Surgery as our newest Division of Burn Surgery faculty members! Please join us in giving a warm welcome to Dr. Pham and Dr. McHargue! 🩺🔥👏

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

For parents of recently diagnosed kids, please know: "Your child is amazing. Receiving a diagnosis of autism does not change who your child is. This diagnosis adds information about how your child communicates, interacts and learns." www.healthychildren.org/English/heal... #autism #parenting

Excellent thread

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2mo ago

The VCR was a great idea 55 years ago. 55 years later, it's an idea whose time has come - again. eof/

My book This Is the Plan was inspired by the grassroots organizing of thousands of Wisconsinites. Which made it even more fun to crisscross my home state on my book tour. Learn more at ThisIsThePlan.com 🧯🔥

I really don't know how to feel about Jason Arday except incredibly sad. Yes, it looks like there was some academic impropriety claims. But #ActuallyAutistic face a higher risk of suicide than neurotypical people. I can't imagine being hounded the way he was.

If you're in Davis on August 27, come hear about my book!

UC Davis School of Law@ucdavislaw.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Join @ucdavis.bsky.social Law Professor @carltonfwlarson.bsky.social for a discussion of his new book, One Nation Under Law: The Meaning of the Declaration of Independence. 📍 King Hall, Room 1301 📅 Thursday, Aug. 27 🕛 12:10 - 1 p.m. Lunch and MCLE credit provided. RSVP: bit.ly/4g83Enu

Hardly a day goes by without my getting email from someone looking for ways to do good with tech. From computer science students thinking about post-grad careers to seasoned coders with decades of experience, there's an army of hackers looking for a way to turn their expertise into public goods. 1/

This is the most important thing Mamdani is doing in NYC right now Getting it right could have dramatic results for the entire country Imagine a goverment with a functional online presence built to serve citizens, not industry. IRS DirectFile was a great start, but small peanuts

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2mo ago

Mamdani has just unveiled his Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crews: five "game changing" teams of public interest hackers who will remake NYC's digital services: www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic... 36/

🎉 Huge congratulations to Dr. Minna M. Wieck on being selected for Associate Membership in the prestigious American College of Surgeons Academy of Master Surgeon Educators®! This honor highlights Dr. Wieck’s commitment to advancing surgical education and training the next generation of surgeons.

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging. 1/

California just became the first major grid system on the planet to generate more than 50% of its electricity from solar across an entire month.

Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them

Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.

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My thoughts about Tony Fauci. He was very demanding to work for because he was involved in so many things, but his staff deeply respected him and relished working with him, even with some challenges. They appreciated his demands for high standards in everything that they did. 1/2

Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Not every NIH institute director is uniformly loved by their staff. But I’ve never heard criticism of Tony Fauci. (side note: @jeremymberg.bsky.social is another former IC director who seems universally loved by his staff.) Some comments I’ve heard from colleagues today: “He’s an American hero.”

You should follow @ucdavissurgery.bsky.social here! We have taken ourselves off of X, and have lots of good posts incoming.

Great seeing @benwikler.bsky.social on his SF book tour stop. Proud to have shared the great state of Wisconsin with him and call him friend. Read his recipe for national redemption! thisistheplan.com

This Is the Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy

A practical field guide for ending America's meltdown and saving democracy.

thisistheplan.com

Why aren't we having more fun with this? www.cnbc.com/2026/07/27/s...

SpaceX has now lost the equivalent of a full Tesla in market capitalization

Elon Musk's space company has wiped off more than $1.2 trillion in market cap since hitting a high of $225.64 per share in June.

cnbc.com

Disability policy often scrambles political coalitions. It’s why AOC is largely silent on disabilities but Zohran Mamdani invests in special ed as mayor. Moderates like Senator Maggie Hassan are some of the biggest supporters. Brian Kemp, Greg Abbott and Henry McMaster ended subminimum wage labor

Jake Lahut@jakelahut.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The interesting thing here is that Moore and Pritzker might not be the ones you’d expect, compared to an AOC or whoever else (Zohran put out something on it earlier that I QTed). But they do have experience in governing at the executive level and an appreciation for hard fought wins like the ADA.

I have to admit that I didn’t know, and I even thought the Spanish player Cucurella’s look was quite original, when it comes to his hair, but I was unaware of this: If he let his hair grow , it’s so that his autistic son can easily recognize him when he watches him on TV. Truly, this Spanish team ❤️

Around the world, life expectancy is increasing but the gap vs healthspan is widening. That is, more sickspan. The US has the largest morbidity gap. Let that sink in: The US has the largest morbidity gap. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I’ve taken care of these kids and it’s BAD.

Dorit Reiss@doritreiss.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Higher risk of brain bleeding in babies who don't get vitamin K shot, a large (2 million) study shows: anti-vaccine misinformation about the vitamin K injection is killing and hurting babies. www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap... via @skepticalraptor.bsky.social

Yesterday the US Administration supercharged its explicit effort to bar international students from staying in the US after graduation. All Americans should know: 1/3 of *all* STEM PhDs working in the US are immigrants who graduated from US universities, then stayed. www.piie.com/index%2Ephp/...

nobody is giving fox news more headlines about how democrats can't win general elections than moderate candidates and their supporters in the media

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 3mo ago

What 'moderation' really means is adopting the views of a very small group of loud, centrist writers and their big business backers, and is increasingly out of step with (a) the big problems in the US and (b) the polling on what Americans say are the biggest problems they want government to fix.

“Why has the climate changed since when I was a kid? And don’t tell me it’s climate change.” -actual internet posts