“We must use our time and our space on this little planet that we call Earth to make a lasting contribution, to leave it a little better than we found it, and now that need is greater than ever before.”
TY John Lewis.
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"A kind of genealogical amnesia was eating holes in these family histories as permanently as moths eat holes in the sweaters lovingly knitted by our ancestors."
tinyurl.com/3hmmej6h

Even in the darkest times I appreciate wit

Peace. Not pieces.

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"Life offers few greater pleasures than that of passing on your enthusiasms and secret discoveries. But the greatest pleasure of all may be to uncover something that no one else has mentioned."
I have loved Pico Iyer since I read Video Nights in Kathmandu after 6 wks in Thailand
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I have heard many monikers associated with #data - e.g. junkie, hippy, etc... but this was a new one: #data thug.
From the #MedicalEvidenceProject
Factoid: "one in every 50 papers published by scientific journals should probably be retracted."
tinyurl.com/3v7t248j
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The recommendations focus on protecting users from technology misuse that could infringe on their human rights, including their autonomy and freedom of thought. Delegates [...] included scientists, ethicists and legal specialists.
tinyurl.com/3re4azy5
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It just keeps getting worse.
Yay for #Standupforscience!
tinyurl.com/42xfpmby

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Profound.
tinyurl.com/5ybs7p4k

"Racism, too, carries an economic toll. A 2020 analysis from Citi found that systemic racism has cost the U.S. economy $16 trillion since 2000."
tinyurl.com/ydwvzrnx

"Our country has always run on the quiet competence of people committed to their work, whether they’re keeping credit card companies from ripping us off or making sure our airplanes land safely."
tinyurl.com/4r278sr6

I spent all of Monday and Tuesday watching capstone presentations from students in our program. Media, Medicine and Health at Harvard Medical School.

These people (doctors and future doctors) want to save the world. So many of them are international students. They deserve the wind at their backs.

I love Arthur C. Brooks's Thursday column in @theatlantic.com.
This week's really resonated:
"...choose what’s morally beautiful, and you will be rewarded."
Every single day is a choice to find moral beauty, especially in a country so focused on power, wealth, and hate.
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Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

So proud of my sister launching this new partnership!
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Excellent news. Let's hope the cuts are permanently stopped.
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WELL DONE @AcademyHealth! We must challenge the disappearance of public data!!
academyhealth.org/blog/2025-05...

An excellent post from @aaronecarroll.bsky.social, CEO @academyhealth.bsky.social
"When we produce and communicate research, we embrace moral responsibility, not neutrality."
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Medicaid: CBO releases preliminary estimates of House Budget reductions

Proposal would lead to $912 billion in cuts over 10 yrs, $715 billion from health provisions. Proposal would raise uninsured by 13.7 million, including 8.6 million from new proposal
timothymcbride.substack.com/p/medicaid-c...

"Cost reductions from laying off federal employees have been too small to show up in the data. This is not surprising, because even laying off one quarter of the 2.3 million federal civilian employees would shave off just 1 percent of federal spending"
tinyurl.com/34vd9bp7

So important that NSF uses "broader impacts" as a criterion for funding! Wish NIH did more of this.
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tinyurl.com/67efftcp

At a 24-hour vigil to protect Medicaid on the National Mall in Washington, DC, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) was to the point: to protect democracy, Medicaid has to be protected, too.