Dr. Eric Ecklund
@eecklund.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Management at Saint Francis University, PA. Gamer and Sci-Fi fan.
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I know a fellow American working for a European civil service (American ally) who got detained and questioned for over six hours flying back to the states for the holiday because “why don’t you live and work in the USA”
idk I don’t have a conclusion, this shit is just wild
idk I don’t have a conclusion, this shit is just wild
“France condemns the visa restriction measures taken by the United States against Thierry Breton and four other European figures. These measures amount to intimidation and coercion aimed at undermining European digital sovereignty”
Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Macron
December 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I know a fellow American working for a European civil service (American ally) who got detained and questioned for over six hours flying back to the states for the holiday because “why don’t you live and work in the USA”
idk I don’t have a conclusion, this shit is just wild
idk I don’t have a conclusion, this shit is just wild
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Interesting and important 9th Circuit decision about the free speech rights of professors at public schools, just won by FIRE, likely to be subject of culture war disputes.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Interesting and important 9th Circuit decision about the free speech rights of professors at public schools, just won by FIRE, likely to be subject of culture war disputes.
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I don't think she knows JFK is deceased.
December 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I don't think she knows JFK is deceased.
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Can you use a oral small molecule for weight maintenance after losing weight on Zepbound or Wegovy? Phase 3 trial results from Eli Lilly today suggest yes*
Minimal weight change change going from Wegovy to orforglipron, +2lbs
~10lb weight gain going from Zepbound to orforglipron
Not bad!
Minimal weight change change going from Wegovy to orforglipron, +2lbs
~10lb weight gain going from Zepbound to orforglipron
Not bad!
The #weightloss maintenance data for the small molecule oral GLP-1 medicine orforglipron in the ATTAIN‑MAINTAIN trial has arrived #obesity investor.lilly.com/news-release...
December 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Can you use a oral small molecule for weight maintenance after losing weight on Zepbound or Wegovy? Phase 3 trial results from Eli Lilly today suggest yes*
Minimal weight change change going from Wegovy to orforglipron, +2lbs
~10lb weight gain going from Zepbound to orforglipron
Not bad!
Minimal weight change change going from Wegovy to orforglipron, +2lbs
~10lb weight gain going from Zepbound to orforglipron
Not bad!
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Don't go to bed yet! SURPASS CVOT data is officially published! I already wrote about it in my blog however there are a couple interesting nuggets in the appendix worth commenting on especially because they may have been confounders! CC: @hswapnil.medsky.social @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social
The long-awaited SURPASS-CVOT is here, just in time for the holidays #T2D #CVD #Tirzepatide www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Cardiovascular Outcomes with Tirzepatide versus Dulaglutide in Type 2 Diabetes | NEJM
Tirzepatide, a dual incretin agonist of the glucagon-like peptide-1 and glucose-dependent
insulinotropic polypeptide receptors, has favorable effects on glycemic control and
body weight. The effect...
www.nejm.org
December 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Don't go to bed yet! SURPASS CVOT data is officially published! I already wrote about it in my blog however there are a couple interesting nuggets in the appendix worth commenting on especially because they may have been confounders! CC: @hswapnil.medsky.social @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social
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It's live, it's 6,000 words and it still feels incomplete but it's done! GLP1 and the kidneys! Glucagon, vasopressin, urea, sodium, macula densa, and so much more. If you like it please share it. The goal of this was to bring together decades of research. The earliest paper I used is from 1958!
GLP-1 and the kidneys
Incretins are changing the narrative of chronic kidney disease
the-incretins.beehiiv.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
It's live, it's 6,000 words and it still feels incomplete but it's done! GLP1 and the kidneys! Glucagon, vasopressin, urea, sodium, macula densa, and so much more. If you like it please share it. The goal of this was to bring together decades of research. The earliest paper I used is from 1958!
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I left a few things on the proverbial cutting room floor because the article was already enormous, but here's a couple things I left out This is prediabetic patients on tirzepatide WITHOUT renal disease and separated by GFR <90 or >90. Tirzepatide still improves GFR slope over 176 weeks!
December 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I left a few things on the proverbial cutting room floor because the article was already enormous, but here's a couple things I left out This is prediabetic patients on tirzepatide WITHOUT renal disease and separated by GFR <90 or >90. Tirzepatide still improves GFR slope over 176 weeks!
Truth
From my own niche: institutions of higher education should stop chasing trends, work internally to assert a set of values, and then build curriculum around those values.
just a collection of "inevitable" multi-billion dollar tech that was going to be the future of everything until everyone in the audience who was supposed to just get on board said "lol no"
December 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Truth
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THEY'RE HERE!
Recordable Book Buddies are 9" tall and can be attached to the back cover of any book.
What do they do?
You can record your voice reading or responding to a passage, then sticker the page with the matching number.
Read aloud to someone you love!
(Not just for kids!)
Recordable Book Buddies are 9" tall and can be attached to the back cover of any book.
What do they do?
You can record your voice reading or responding to a passage, then sticker the page with the matching number.
Read aloud to someone you love!
(Not just for kids!)
December 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
THEY'RE HERE!
Recordable Book Buddies are 9" tall and can be attached to the back cover of any book.
What do they do?
You can record your voice reading or responding to a passage, then sticker the page with the matching number.
Read aloud to someone you love!
(Not just for kids!)
Recordable Book Buddies are 9" tall and can be attached to the back cover of any book.
What do they do?
You can record your voice reading or responding to a passage, then sticker the page with the matching number.
Read aloud to someone you love!
(Not just for kids!)
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Tomorrow afternoon this beast of an article on GLP-1 and the kidneys will finally be published and live. Thanks to @jonathanpollack.bsky.social for the editorial assist in advance! #NephSky
December 16, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Tomorrow afternoon this beast of an article on GLP-1 and the kidneys will finally be published and live. Thanks to @jonathanpollack.bsky.social for the editorial assist in advance! #NephSky
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This is not normal, and continued and ever-increasing rhetoric like this should not be treated as normal. #holdfast #steadystate
December 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This is not normal, and continued and ever-increasing rhetoric like this should not be treated as normal. #holdfast #steadystate
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Wait so it's the Tortoise Tortoise???
Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,
in fact,
a tortology
in fact,
a tortology
December 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Wait so it's the Tortoise Tortoise???
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The thing you need to understand about the Right is that they are absolutely fine just plain burning down higher education if taking it over ideologically doesn’t work. They’re perfectly happy reducing it to ashes.
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
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December 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The thing you need to understand about the Right is that they are absolutely fine just plain burning down higher education if taking it over ideologically doesn’t work. They’re perfectly happy reducing it to ashes.
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My full thoughts on today's incredible retatrutide news. On a deeper dive the side effects are NOT as bad as they first appear and same with the discontinue rate. But the results are unprecedented in medical history. We've matched bariatric surgery results for weight.
December 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
My full thoughts on today's incredible retatrutide news. On a deeper dive the side effects are NOT as bad as they first appear and same with the discontinue rate. But the results are unprecedented in medical history. We've matched bariatric surgery results for weight.
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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Eloralintide. You'll be hearing a lot more about it in the next year. Selective Amylin agonist with almost zero calcitonin activity. 16-20% weight loss with plateau at 48 weeks. 3/6/9mg comparable side effects to 5mg of tirzepatide (aka VERY tolerable/minimal side effects)
December 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Eloralintide. You'll be hearing a lot more about it in the next year. Selective Amylin agonist with almost zero calcitonin activity. 16-20% weight loss with plateau at 48 weeks. 3/6/9mg comparable side effects to 5mg of tirzepatide (aka VERY tolerable/minimal side effects)
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Dear Fellow Canadians,
If we have been listening, Trumpistan has been telling us since he came into office...
CUSMA will not be renewed.
If you own a business, you need to diversify right now.
Stop buying US products.
Stop buying cars manufactured in the US.
Stop visiting the US.
If we have been listening, Trumpistan has been telling us since he came into office...
CUSMA will not be renewed.
If you own a business, you need to diversify right now.
Stop buying US products.
Stop buying cars manufactured in the US.
Stop visiting the US.
December 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Dear Fellow Canadians,
If we have been listening, Trumpistan has been telling us since he came into office...
CUSMA will not be renewed.
If you own a business, you need to diversify right now.
Stop buying US products.
Stop buying cars manufactured in the US.
Stop visiting the US.
If we have been listening, Trumpistan has been telling us since he came into office...
CUSMA will not be renewed.
If you own a business, you need to diversify right now.
Stop buying US products.
Stop buying cars manufactured in the US.
Stop visiting the US.
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"About 25% of children who develop chronic hepatitis B will die of their infection."
--Dr. Andrew Pavia, pediatric infectious disease specialist, professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Utah, and spokesperson for the Infectious Diseases Society of America
--Dr. Andrew Pavia, pediatric infectious disease specialist, professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Utah, and spokesperson for the Infectious Diseases Society of America
December 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
"About 25% of children who develop chronic hepatitis B will die of their infection."
--Dr. Andrew Pavia, pediatric infectious disease specialist, professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Utah, and spokesperson for the Infectious Diseases Society of America
--Dr. Andrew Pavia, pediatric infectious disease specialist, professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Utah, and spokesperson for the Infectious Diseases Society of America
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Open to literally any page, and the writing is just so bad it is breathtaking.
December 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Open to literally any page, and the writing is just so bad it is breathtaking.
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Megyn Kelly is absolutely committed to making everyone regret they ever felt sympathy when Trump went after her.
December 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Megyn Kelly is absolutely committed to making everyone regret they ever felt sympathy when Trump went after her.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
If you happen to be looking for an alternative audiobook listening platform, there are many out there, including us at Libro.fm 👋
We aim to build community in many ways, including by supporting independent bookshops with every purchase you make—versus tearing communities apart.
We aim to build community in many ways, including by supporting independent bookshops with every purchase you make—versus tearing communities apart.
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25th Amendment now.
December 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
25th Amendment now.