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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think folks understand how incessantly biomedical research institutions are propagandizing the use of LLMs. The propaganda language is a heady mix of pseudo-technical buzz-terms and alluring productivity promises. The structural (non-remediable) limitations and dangers are never articulated.

Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 1d

The screenshot dunking is so unnecessary in this instance. People told her why it's wrong and she understood. She's not a computer scientist, she's not a petulant young whipper snapper trying to be unethical on purpose. Sending the hounds on her like that is ghoulish.

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Jess Horror-ssette @decafjedi.com · 1d

I've just been introduced to my university's new "Faculty Misconduct Sanction Ladder Matrix," and let me tell you, things are going GREAT in higher education right now.

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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 1d

Same for touch typing lol

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 2d

I DEEPLY resent that I have to take seriously the stunted, juvenile political and theological opinions of Peter Thiel

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 2d

Heidegger, Pound, Webern, Jung all supported the Nazis.

fascism is a moral error, not an intellectual one. being educated isn't a prophylactic.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 3d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 3d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 3d

The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.

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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 3d

This ⬇️

TreeMarie MO @treebeemo.bsky.social · 4d

The tech feudalists believe in eugenics. They believe we need mass depopulation events to save the planet. They forget to mention they monetized the depopulation for personal profit, which means they aren’t protecting humanity, they are profiting from its demise

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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 4d

FRIDAY NIGHT MASSACRE: Late Friday, the Trump admin laid off dozens of CDC staff — from outbreak “disease detectives” to chronic disease scientists — even shuttering the team behind the famed MMWR. Public health just took a major hit. #BlueSky #MedSky #EMSky #NurseSky #PedsSky #SciSky #IDSky

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 4d

Attacks on Black women leaders are happening at all levels of government - story from the Eastern shore of Maryland

Maryland’s messiest school district gets its dirty laundry aired - Baltimore Banner

Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 4d

Deeply disturbing - pay attention 🙏🏽

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

www.nytimes.com

Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 5d

I find this so interesting given the demographics of male circumcision in this country. There are basically 2 unconnected groups of men who are most likely to be uncircumcised in 2025. RFK is in one of them 😏

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 5d

Give a listen #medsky #episky
#publichealth
www.facebook.com/share/v/1ac7...

Redirecting...

www.facebook.com

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 5d

First Trump deployed the National Guard in DC. Then he turned his sights to Portland and Memphis. Now it's Chicago.

Using the military against its own people is not normal.

We're not teetering into authoritarianism.

We're living in it right now.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 7d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 7d

subtweets only

Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 7d

dear god please let me live long enough to see that smug blonde bitch behind bars 🙏🏽

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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 7d

Why am I always stuck on amazing? 😭

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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 10d

Most fragility fractures occur in patients without osteoporosis. Should we rethink who gets treated? On the latest episode of Beyond Journal Club from @coreimpodcast.bsky.social and NEJM Group, the hosts address this question and more. Listen now: nej.md/4q7hOK3

#MedSky #OrthoSky

An illustration explaining pathways to bisphosphonates

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10d

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

bit.ly

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 11d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 13d

If you go back to the 1950s, there were earnest debates around the world re: whether growing public funding of universities was a Good Thing because government might one day try to dictate what univesities could teach.

By the 90s this was considered laughable.

No one is laughing now.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12d

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 13d

"if silence is the only logical choice, then authoritarianism has arrived"

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