Jack Iwashyna
@iwashyna.bsky.social
I work at Johns Hopkins to help patients + their loved ones heal from critical illness. I mentor clinicians and other scholars to become exceptional scientists.
Democracy is a Social Determinant of Health (#SDoH). Preserve it
Also #ICU #Baltimore
Democracy is a Social Determinant of Health (#SDoH). Preserve it
Also #ICU #Baltimore
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Jack Iwashyna
@iwashyna.bsky.social
· Jun 26
On Not Betraying Our Trainees, Especially Now | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | Articles in Press
www.atsjournals.org
“On Not Betraying Our Trainees, Especially Now”
I won an Extraordinary Achievement Award from the Critical Care Assembly last month
The @atscommunity.bsky.social premier journal @atsblueeditor.bsky.social TODAY published the remarks I made on that occasion
www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/...
I won an Extraordinary Achievement Award from the Critical Care Assembly last month
The @atscommunity.bsky.social premier journal @atsblueeditor.bsky.social TODAY published the remarks I made on that occasion
www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/...
Political stagnation as pathway to despotism
(more Yanov)
(more Yanov)
November 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Political stagnation as pathway to despotism
(more Yanov)
(more Yanov)
“In despotic systems, only unpredictability is predictable”
~ Alexander Yanov
~ Alexander Yanov
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“In despotic systems, only unpredictability is predictable”
~ Alexander Yanov
~ Alexander Yanov
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People on BlueSky: AI is useless! A stochastic parrot!
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
arxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
People on BlueSky: AI is useless! A stochastic parrot!
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
OOO is up…
Friends,
Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving. As you know, Lincoln declared Thanksgiving in 1863 ( www.battlefields.org/learn/primar... ) amidst the deep horror of a Civil War initiated by slaveholders in defense of a white supremacy that they were willing to commit treason to defend…
Friends,
Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving. As you know, Lincoln declared Thanksgiving in 1863 ( www.battlefields.org/learn/primar... ) amidst the deep horror of a Civil War initiated by slaveholders in defense of a white supremacy that they were willing to commit treason to defend…
Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation of Thanksgiving
On October 3, 1863, President Lincoln issued a proclamation designating “the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving.” Lincoln’s...
www.battlefields.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
OOO is up…
Friends,
Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving. As you know, Lincoln declared Thanksgiving in 1863 ( www.battlefields.org/learn/primar... ) amidst the deep horror of a Civil War initiated by slaveholders in defense of a white supremacy that they were willing to commit treason to defend…
Friends,
Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving. As you know, Lincoln declared Thanksgiving in 1863 ( www.battlefields.org/learn/primar... ) amidst the deep horror of a Civil War initiated by slaveholders in defense of a white supremacy that they were willing to commit treason to defend…
“What interests me in history is its bearing on the present-and, above all, on the future. And for this reason I see my task not so much as one of describing the past, which has been done innumerable times, as of reconstructing it in its possible alternative combinations.”
~ Alexander Yanov
~ Alexander Yanov
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 AM
“What interests me in history is its bearing on the present-and, above all, on the future. And for this reason I see my task not so much as one of describing the past, which has been done innumerable times, as of reconstructing it in its possible alternative combinations.”
~ Alexander Yanov
~ Alexander Yanov
Reposted by Jack Iwashyna
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
Good god, am I going to have to spout my 💩 about how stupid “all male panels”, or “manels” are? Again?
Don’t start this crap at academic conferences again, boys
Don’t start this crap at academic conferences again, boys
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Good god, am I going to have to spout my 💩 about how stupid “all male panels”, or “manels” are? Again?
Don’t start this crap at academic conferences again, boys
Don’t start this crap at academic conferences again, boys
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
Is this a bigger threat to basic rights to privacy or a bigger corrupt corporate handout?
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Is this a bigger threat to basic rights to privacy or a bigger corrupt corporate handout?
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
I started watching “The Thick of It” … and I take it the UK does not share the FCC’s approach to language on television, @charlottesummers.bsky.social?
a man in a green sweater is holding a microphone in his hand and making a funny face .
Alt: a man in a green sweater is holding a microphone in his hand and making a funny face. It’s George Carlin
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I started watching “The Thick of It” … and I take it the UK does not share the FCC’s approach to language on television, @charlottesummers.bsky.social?
Reposted by Jack Iwashyna
The "lighting" event is this Saturday at 6pm. Thank u Councilwoman Ramos for the email blast PSA
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The "lighting" event is this Saturday at 6pm. Thank u Councilwoman Ramos for the email blast PSA
Reposted by Jack Iwashyna
PSA for Baltimore people: The 34th Street holiday light display (in Hampden) starts THIS WEEKEND!!
Plan accordingly
Plan accordingly
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
PSA for Baltimore people: The 34th Street holiday light display (in Hampden) starts THIS WEEKEND!!
Plan accordingly
Plan accordingly
"if we don't understand that all children are really our children, then we are completely uncomprehending"
~ China Martens, The Avenue (www.chinamartens.com) maybe @chinamartens.bsky.social
~ China Martens, The Avenue (www.chinamartens.com) maybe @chinamartens.bsky.social
China Martens
www.chinamartens.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
"if we don't understand that all children are really our children, then we are completely uncomprehending"
~ China Martens, The Avenue (www.chinamartens.com) maybe @chinamartens.bsky.social
~ China Martens, The Avenue (www.chinamartens.com) maybe @chinamartens.bsky.social
"Actually fund research"
The NIH is 1% of the federal budget. It's responsible for saving Americans today and far into the future. Yet, the Trump admin is hell bent on hobbling the NIH. Millions of dollars in lost research on cancer, Alzheimers and diabetes can't be fixed by thoughts, prayers, and beef tallow. #impeachrfk
November 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"Actually fund research"
Can confirm
I promise you, the gaping maw of loneliness & a lack of purpose borne of the mismatch between the self you truly are & the one-size-fits-all mold of patriarchal masculinity will NOT be filled by subjecting a woman to pregnancy, childbirth, and unequal divisions of labor just so you can be a father.
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Can confirm
So drill bits *can* be labeled clearly… and goodness bless whoever made this
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
So drill bits *can* be labeled clearly… and goodness bless whoever made this
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I’ll take “Things Mike Johnson Didn’t See” for $500 Alex
President insists his word is the one and only law in this land.
November 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I’ll take “Things Mike Johnson Didn’t See” for $500 Alex
Hey #Baltimore, I would love to buy a decorative holiday #quilt.
Any recommendations for shops / quilters who are local or regional?
Any recommendations for shops / quilters who are local or regional?
November 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Hey #Baltimore, I would love to buy a decorative holiday #quilt.
Any recommendations for shops / quilters who are local or regional?
Any recommendations for shops / quilters who are local or regional?
Reposted by Jack Iwashyna
Read this and all I could think about was Andre 3000 in green light saying something like, "Sometimes you gotta step from behind that regression"
Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.
November 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Read this and all I could think about was Andre 3000 in green light saying something like, "Sometimes you gotta step from behind that regression"
Reposted by Jack Iwashyna
Devastating.
We are telling women:
You can have bodily autonomy only when you are sick enough you know you will die.
Maybe not even then.
(It’s not just OBs. Docs of all stripes treat pregnant patients or those for whom pregnancy is risky. Our research shows many are afraid to discuss abortion.)
We are telling women:
You can have bodily autonomy only when you are sick enough you know you will die.
Maybe not even then.
(It’s not just OBs. Docs of all stripes treat pregnant patients or those for whom pregnancy is risky. Our research shows many are afraid to discuss abortion.)
While pregnant, Tierra Walker had a cascade of health complications that threatened her life.
Of more than 90 doctors who were involved in her care, not one offered her an abortion, according to medical records.
Of more than 90 doctors who were involved in her care, not one offered her an abortion, according to medical records.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Devastating.
We are telling women:
You can have bodily autonomy only when you are sick enough you know you will die.
Maybe not even then.
(It’s not just OBs. Docs of all stripes treat pregnant patients or those for whom pregnancy is risky. Our research shows many are afraid to discuss abortion.)
We are telling women:
You can have bodily autonomy only when you are sick enough you know you will die.
Maybe not even then.
(It’s not just OBs. Docs of all stripes treat pregnant patients or those for whom pregnancy is risky. Our research shows many are afraid to discuss abortion.)
Reposted by Jack Iwashyna
So I’m very committed to critiquing elected officials, and cringe at cults of personality and all that leftist jazz— but is Zohran, like, a sorcerer?
November 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
So I’m very committed to critiquing elected officials, and cringe at cults of personality and all that leftist jazz— but is Zohran, like, a sorcerer?