If someone eviscerates you like this, you need to do some deep soul searching.

oh wow look it's the exact thing every single person who works in public health ethics said was a risk with wastewater surveillance especially when we took it to the point where we had researchers trying to identify individual chronic infections using social media and crowdsourcing

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.

It methodically goes through each problem in the review.

The latest from S. Baum.

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😂every time I walk around somewhere with those I point and say, “look, permeable pavement. We could have that if anyone in New Orleans cared.” Usually along with “look how wide and flat the sidewalks are!” And “if rural Poland and rebuilt Berlin can do this, why not urban U.S.?”

I’m fairly certain they are putting in a parking lot. If it’s a safety issue and they replant something that absorbs water and heat, fine. But I’m tired of everyone paving everything and making flooding and heat island effect worse.

Trapping women in motherhood is a highly effective way to force them to settle for less-than-ideal partners and/or less-than-ideal jobs.

I appreciate this post, as well as the delicate way it tries not to "yuck someone else's yum", which I've found very difficult to do in past times like this.

Or like, at the release of a major new album. for example.

👏👏👏"We could instead move toward systems of recognition where broader collectives are rewarded for their contributions to a piece of work, ...Until we move beyond the lionisation of individual humans, we will remain trapped in a world that values the success of the individual over the collective."

TENNESSEAN: “It’s unclear what state law authorizes the deployment of TN National Guard troops in Memphis… Neither Gov. Lee nor TN AG Skrmetti have explained the legal basis of the operation.”

They ignore their oath to the TN Constitution to score points w/ Trump. www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

NEW-ish: Louisiana is suing FDA over its 2023 REMS change for mifepristone, which removed the in-person dispensing requirement. That change allowed mail or pharmacy dispensing of mife after significant data showed it was safe and effective. A few things to note about this new lawsuit.

Ah, the dulcet sounds of another large tree in my neighborhood being fed into a chipper to be replaced, most likely, with more pavement.

I’m sure later they will follow up with the gas powered leaf blower to spread the tree entrails around the neighborhood through as air particulates.

i've always Been This Way

For Louisiana’s communities, the expected toll of the Trump megabill is profoundly personal. They live in some of the hardest-hit areas of the country experiencing a double-whammy of fossil fuel and petrochemical pollution and climate devastation.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Reminder that we have a TT job opening here at Tulane for "a biological anthropologist specializing in the analysis of human skeletal remains, especially those recovered from archaeological contexts. Regional focus is open."

Due by Oct 15.

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Ep. 170: The Pseudoscience of Trans Exclusion

In a LONG awaited and vital ep, the whole crew is joined by Sheree Bekker and @annaposbergh.bsky.social to delve into and refute the 'science' deployed to justify the anti-trans movement in sport.

open.spotify.com/episode/0IO2...

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

“A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29%, their risk of hospitalizations by 39% & their risk of death by 64%”

Benefits were seen even if 0 risk factors

NEW: It’s… another abortion pill lawsuit against the FDA, this time filed by Louisiana and an individual plaintiff, who argue the FDA should reinstate an in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone.

And if you guess Alliance Defending Freedom might be involved here, you guessed correctly.

That Texas sheriff facing charges for sexual harassment and retaliation (plus new charges for lying to a grand jury)… his office is now accused doing abortion monitoring.

It is all about power and control for sheriffs.

Oil companies in Texas requested permission to burn off or release more than 195 billion cubic feet of natural gas per year — enough to power more than 3 million homes and generate millions in tax revenue had the gas been captured.

W/ @insideclimatenews.org & @texastribune.org

Sheriffs being terrible. Again. @mirya.bsky.social

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A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...