The Monica
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Nurse|scientist|geek|wino|Editor in Chief - Health Equity #tenured #Dr @mclemoremr everywhere
Y’all keep demanding kindness from me when circumstances I find myself in are cruel and you haven’t experienced shit. Fuck you. 🙄
Y’all forgot about that mess when he said exclude Black women from maternal morbidity and mortality statistics in Louisiana as a physician??? 🙄😬
BREAKING: Bill Cassidy says he’s a YES on Todd Blanche, solidifying his legacy as the man who enabled RFK Jr. to wreak havoc on Americans’ health, and now the man who will let Blanche weaponize the DOJ like never before seen in history and cover up for Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.
A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
Free link y’all cause at some point imma go on IG live and talk about why I know this is true. Maybe I’ll ask my buddy Dr. Joia Crear-Perry to join me. Cause I screenshot everything… Author of Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Author of Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter (Gift Article)
A dispute over the chapter between the author and the Democratic National Committee has added to the party’s turmoil as it tries to look forward, not backward.
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Omg 😭😭😭 www.nursingworld.org/news/news-re...
American Nurses Association Statement on the Passing of Barbara Nichols, Trailblazing Nurse Leader Who Broke Racial Barriers in the Profession
The American Nurses Association (ANA) joins the nursing community in mourning the loss of Barbara L. Nichols, DL(h), DSc(h), PedD(h), MSN, RN, FAAN, a nursing trailblazer and transformational leader w...
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Thank you @carlbergstrom.com for this work. There are some parts of science you can’t avoid. I HATED learning statistics via math equations AND once I moved to statistical packages I was grateful I could reason through what to do. If your brain works, use it or lose it 🤷🏿♀️
1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.
We live in a time of deep epistemic crisis, and everything we have depended on to make meaning and certify consensus reality is either suspect or in peril. It didn't have to be this way, and it doesn't have to stay this way.
Chyle 🙄
Scoop: 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 just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: An Open Letter In Support of Scientific American. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/an...
An Open Letter In Support of Scientific American
We are looking for your support by signing the letter below. It calls on Springer Nature to ensure that as part of the sale, LabX Media will rehire laid off union workers, restore staff salaries to pr...
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apnews.com/article/nurs... gains 'professional' label for student loans after judge's ruling, but theology now dropped
Nursing gains 'professional' label for student loans after judge's ruling, but theology now dropped
Students pursuing graduate degrees in nursing, physical therapy and several other fields will be eligible for higher student loan limits after a federal judge blocked part of a Trump administration ru...
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“Without finer discernment about whom we want to represent us, it is that much easier for incompetent, venal politicians to control our fates.” Now Is Not the Time to Play Political Make-Believe www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/o...
Opinion | Now Is Not the Time to Play Political Make-Believe
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Just landed back in the states and Omg 8 armed customs and border control folx just boarded our flight
Whew. I experienced this yesterday at the international confederation of midwives. Folx who know my work aren’t really aware that I’m a cuss you out in person kinda person. I treat you the same way in person as I do online.
Thanks to the miracle of technology, we’ve removed an enormous source of friction when understanding American history by allowing white people to speak to a black person without ever having to be in the room with one
Is anyone besides me ready to call the need for early career faculty to submit these unethical? Cause as someone who has applied MULTIPLE TIMES over my career one can advance without them. Exclusive: HHS is now weighing in on science in NIH grants | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Exclusive: HHS is now weighing in on science in NIH grants
Staffers say comments coming after NIH’s own approvals are overriding peer review
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FYI: I have no tolerance for folx talmbout “we going on offense” til I see a plan to re-employ the 300,000+ Black women disappeared from the workforce. Cause I don’t have resources to hire them all 🤷🏿♀️