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Lisa Beutler @lbeutler.bsky.social · 1h

What an… interesting ethos. 😂

Lisa Beutler @lbeutler.bsky.social · 3h

I texted @brianbeutler.bsky.social after reading this that it is great (it is!) but that induced a feeling of great foreboding and a wee bit of a panic attack. Brian told me that was the point. Rude.

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 6h

Watching so many people in high places go through the motions of polling and median-voter whispering can make you feel like you're in Bodysnatchers. It's worth a reminder that the typical experience of tyranny is...basically normal life. Which means we have to will ourselves to fight harder.

The Median Experience Of Tyranny

If the politics of tyranny were self-discrediting, we wouldn't need mantras like "never again."

www.offmessage.net

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 6h

Watching so many people in high places go through the motions of polling and median-voter whispering can make you feel like you're in Bodysnatchers. It's worth a reminder that the typical experience of tyranny is...basically normal life. Which means we have to will ourselves to fight harder.

The Median Experience Of Tyranny

If the politics of tyranny were self-discrediting, we wouldn't need mantras like "never again."

www.offmessage.net

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 1d

I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Letter Regarding Compact

MIT Chapter of the American Association of University Professors October 6, 2025 Statement on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” MIT has been invited by the federal governmen...

docs.google.com

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Lisa Beutler @lbeutler.bsky.social · 2d

Ask at your hotel! Sometimes people cancel last minute and leave tix there! At least as of when we went a few years back it was paper tickets and we lucked out! Also Gran Cafe Bib-Rambla for churros is 100% worth the hype.

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Rocio Servin @rocioservin.bsky.social · 7d

We’re hiring!
My new Gut–Brain Axis Lab at Northwestern is looking for a Research Technologist 2 to help build the lab and explore how the nervous system shapes gut health and disease.
🔬 Apply here: myhr.northwestern.edu/psp/hrnu/EMP...

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9d

Truly Kafka-esque and imagine this situation multiplied by hundreds of thousands or millions placed in this uncertainty?

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 9d

I am a well educated, pretty media literate person whose job it is to be professionally annoying. I cannot figure out if my cancer medication, which costs $17k a month (I do not pay anything thanks to a combo of insurance/access programs), is going to be tariffed 100%.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 9d

This is a fundamental point that 99% of higher-ed coverage, and 100% of immig coverage, have missed.

Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 9d

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 9d

30% drop year over year!

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Lisa Beutler @lbeutler.bsky.social · 11d

That framing is quite a choice.

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Lisa Beutler @lbeutler.bsky.social · 13d

Yes to what Kyle said (though I have not been to River Roast yet). Pizzamici, Publican (or Publican Quality Meats) also excellent. So much good food here.

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 19d

If you care about children’s public health, download this image and pin it to your profile.

This is a snapshot of our best knowledge of vaccine safety. It may be years before it’s accurate again.

Alyson Smith @pedsaly.bsky.social · Aug 28

American Academy of Pediatrics vaccine schedule for newborns - 18 yrs is the one to use. Just published August 19, 2025 ❤️ downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-...

American Academy of Pediatrics Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule
Table 1 for Ages 18 Years or Younger, United States, 2025
Published August 19, 2025. View full document and notes here: https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-Immunization-Schedule.pdf

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24d

Powerful new article in NYT Magazine on cancer research

[Gift Link]

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

www.nytimes.com

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 28d

This point has gotten lost despite my efforts, so lets home in on it directly. A shutdown fight where Dems ignore Trump's abuses of power to take a stand on safe but extraneous issues is like every other shutdown fight we've seen. Taking a stand to rein in Trump makes it something entirely new.

Don't Take Hostages

We're not shutting down the government, they are.

www.offmessage.net

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Lisa Beutler @lbeutler.bsky.social · Sep 1

Continues to be a dangerous hellscape, I see 🙄

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · Aug 31

Pritzker out here giving a master class in countering the right wing propaganda machine’s efforts to justify further federal invasions and occupations of American cities: he’s effectively reframing the discussion (beyond debates re: crime rates) to one of rising authoritarianism & federal overreach.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 31

Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."

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Lisa Beutler @lbeutler.bsky.social · Aug 30

Big thanks to everyone else on the team for seeing revisions through after Hayley graduated, to constructive reviewers, and to the helpful staff at JCI.

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Lisa Beutler @lbeutler.bsky.social · Aug 30

Excited to share work led by my PhD student Hayley McMorrow now published in @jclinical-invest.bsky.social. Hayley showed that GIP and GLP-1 receptor agonists rapidly inhibit AgRP neurons and that endogenous GIP is important for nutrient-mediated AgRP neuron inhibition. doi.org/10.1172/JCI1...

JCI - Incretin receptor agonism rapidly inhibits AgRP neurons to suppress food intake in mice

doi.org

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Aug 29

NEW — I wrote about the resignation of SSA's chief data officer just says after he blew the whistle on a major data vulnerability, including the full text of his blistering email and how his allegations confirm those made by a previous whistleblower and a former employee back in March:

'Intolerable': SSA chief data officer and whistleblower resigns in blistering email

Charles Borges involuntary resignation comes just days after publicly calling out a critical agency data vulnerability.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Lisa Beutler @lbeutler.bsky.social · Aug 28

Mostly not. Though I’ve gotten better/more realistic at knowing how long each thing takes so I know further in advance how stressed I’ll be and how screwed I am.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · Aug 28

Agree with this. Make them fight for every inch. Worth reading this thread.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Aug 28

Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years:
1. Make them fire you
2. Don’t go along to get along
3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role
4. Always escalate the conflict

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Lisa Beutler @lbeutler.bsky.social · Aug 27

Distinguished gentleman!

Lisa Beutler @lbeutler.bsky.social · Aug 26

SO precious 😊

Lisa Beutler @lbeutler.bsky.social · Aug 26

I hope not, for their sake! Beautiful pups!

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Lisa Beutler @lbeutler.bsky.social · Aug 26

Sweet dreams, Ruthie! Love, Shiloh