Leslie C.
@misswhippydip.bsky.social
The introduction to this interview in @variety.com with Jimmy Kimmel reads very strangely. If this was submitted by a student, I’d suspect they used ChatGPT or another generative AI tool. 🧐 At the very minimum, it would have benefited from some editing.
variety.com/2025/tv/awar...
variety.com/2025/tv/awar...
Jimmy Kimmel Blasts Reports of Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ Losing $40 Million for CBS: ‘Not a Snowball’s Chance in Hell That’s Accurate’
Emmy-nominated Jimmy Kimmel calls $40M Colbert loss reports "nonsensical" and explains why he's voting for the late night host.
variety.com
August 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The introduction to this interview in @variety.com with Jimmy Kimmel reads very strangely. If this was submitted by a student, I’d suspect they used ChatGPT or another generative AI tool. 🧐 At the very minimum, it would have benefited from some editing.
variety.com/2025/tv/awar...
variety.com/2025/tv/awar...
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Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights
democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...
democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...
May 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights
democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...
democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...
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The acting U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., has sent letters to several leading medical journals asking for information about their editorial practices.
Medical journals hit with threatening letters from Justice Department
The acting U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., has sent letters to several leading medical journals asking for information about their editorial practices.
www.npr.org
May 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The acting U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., has sent letters to several leading medical journals asking for information about their editorial practices.
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A body blow. The best hope of learning the mechanics of why ultraprocessed foods are associated with so many bad health outcomes. An original mind and brilliant communicator. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...
Leading Nutrition Scientist Departs N.I.H., Citing Censorship
Kevin Hall said his work on ultraprocessed foods has been “hobbled” under the Trump administration. Scientists have been raising such concerns for months.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A body blow. The best hope of learning the mechanics of why ultraprocessed foods are associated with so many bad health outcomes. An original mind and brilliant communicator. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...
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Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...
PRAMS Shuttered for Good
In the first weeks of the administration I wrote a number of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...
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The popular DNA test kit company 23andMe announced it has filed for bankruptcy and is looking for a buyer. And while the company has promised to continue protecting customer data amidst a possible sale, Wirecutter’s tech experts think you should delete your data now. nyti.ms/4cbxsgQ
March 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The popular DNA test kit company 23andMe announced it has filed for bankruptcy and is looking for a buyer. And while the company has promised to continue protecting customer data amidst a possible sale, Wirecutter’s tech experts think you should delete your data now. nyti.ms/4cbxsgQ
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Join #medlibs @amandarosswhite.bsky.social & Terena Solomons for this practical JBI LIVE webinar to learn how to develop an effective search strategy for your review!
Register: events.humanitix.com/jbi-live-web...
#JBImethodology
Register: events.humanitix.com/jbi-live-web...
#JBImethodology
JBI LIVE WEBINAR - Searching for Studies: Basics of a Systematic Search
Join the free JBI LIVE webinar, 'Searching for Studies: Basics of a Systematic Search,' on 2 April 2025 at 10:30am ACDT
ow.ly
March 19, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Join #medlibs @amandarosswhite.bsky.social & Terena Solomons for this practical JBI LIVE webinar to learn how to develop an effective search strategy for your review!
Register: events.humanitix.com/jbi-live-web...
#JBImethodology
Register: events.humanitix.com/jbi-live-web...
#JBImethodology
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What *not* to do when conducting a scoping review.
Examples of poor quality scoping reviews are presented by
Prof Hanan Khalil in this excerpt from the 'Challenges & Solutions in Scoping Reviews' webinar: youtube.com/watch?v=Tz_P...
#JBImethodology #EvidenceSynthesis
Examples of poor quality scoping reviews are presented by
Prof Hanan Khalil in this excerpt from the 'Challenges & Solutions in Scoping Reviews' webinar: youtube.com/watch?v=Tz_P...
#JBImethodology #EvidenceSynthesis
Challenges & Solutions in Scoping Reviews
YouTube video by JBI
youtube.com
March 8, 2025 at 3:32 AM
What *not* to do when conducting a scoping review.
Examples of poor quality scoping reviews are presented by
Prof Hanan Khalil in this excerpt from the 'Challenges & Solutions in Scoping Reviews' webinar: youtube.com/watch?v=Tz_P...
#JBImethodology #EvidenceSynthesis
Examples of poor quality scoping reviews are presented by
Prof Hanan Khalil in this excerpt from the 'Challenges & Solutions in Scoping Reviews' webinar: youtube.com/watch?v=Tz_P...
#JBImethodology #EvidenceSynthesis
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![Sign texts is a pubmed search that reads
NOT ("Censorship, Research"[Mesh] OR "Propaganda"[Mesh] OR "Fascism"[Mesh] OR (censor*[tiab] OR propaganda[tiab] OR fascis*[tiab] OR (oppressive[tiab] AND (state[tiab] OR states[tiab] OR government*[tiab] OR power[tiab] OR powers[tiab])))](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:m74f4wirudhnwpjrttc2j7h5/bafkreibmaumqzydeq5xettcykyeg2nligvxmmhdhkvd6m2rilg5jprrtou@jpeg)
March 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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This is hilarious. Sadly hilarious. 🍭🍫🍬
"The picture on the front makes it look like they have contracted measles. The Junior Mints themselves also look like they’ve contracted measles. By the way, have you seen that measles are back?"
I wrote a review of Christmas candy. I'm aware it's March.
www.everywhereist.com/2025/03/its-...
I wrote a review of Christmas candy. I'm aware it's March.
www.everywhereist.com/2025/03/its-...
It's March. Here's My Review of Some Christmas Candy I Found At the Goodwill.
It is March. I am standing in my kitchen in my PJs, eating Christmas candy that I purchased from the Goodwill. To be clear, it was not my intention to be eating yuletide-themed confections on the prec...
www.everywhereist.com
March 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This is hilarious. Sadly hilarious. 🍭🍫🍬
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Hate that it has come to this, but it's time to consider PubMed vulnerable to enshittification. My latest post @plos.org discusses the lines we need to fight to hold – and alternatives we can rely on internationally:
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...
#medlibs
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...
#medlibs
What if We Can't Rely on PubMed? - Absolutely Maybe
PubMed is incredibly reliable. And a lot depends on it. It’s an ecosystem built around MEDLINE, the steady feed of new publications…
absolutelymaybe.plos.org
February 14, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Hate that it has come to this, but it's time to consider PubMed vulnerable to enshittification. My latest post @plos.org discusses the lines we need to fight to hold – and alternatives we can rely on internationally:
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...
#medlibs
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...
#medlibs
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The freeze on NIH indirect cost cuts is now nationwide:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/h...
Court Halt on Trump Cuts for Medical Research Is Extended Nationwide
The federal order temporarily halts the Trump administration’s plans to slash $4 billion in overhead costs for research at universities and medical centers into diseases like cancer.
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The freeze on NIH indirect cost cuts is now nationwide:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/h...
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“Maybe the Democrats think they’re giving him enough rope to hang himself. Bullshit. They’re giving him enough rope to tie the nation to train tracks so he can run us right the fuck over.” michaelianblack.substack.com/p/when-do-we...
When Do We Strike?
One of the truisms about France is that government services work fairly well when government employees aren’t on strike.
michaelianblack.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
“Maybe the Democrats think they’re giving him enough rope to hang himself. Bullshit. They’re giving him enough rope to tie the nation to train tracks so he can run us right the fuck over.” michaelianblack.substack.com/p/when-do-we...
I’ve been going through recipes that my grandma collected over the years. She wrote many on scraps of paper, blank checks, etc. Here is one written on the back of a December 1941 calendar page.
January 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I’ve been going through recipes that my grandma collected over the years. She wrote many on scraps of paper, blank checks, etc. Here is one written on the back of a December 1941 calendar page.
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Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org
December 23, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org
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Hello! Blue Skies! I do this zoom one-on-one standup rehearsal and I’m hoping to do it at 8 am pst tomorrow! If you can do it, TMB, “yes, I can watch you practice standup jokes one-on-one in exchange for a t-shirt! At 8 am PST Wednesday!” First response wins :) thanks!
December 4, 2024 at 5:14 AM
Hello! Blue Skies! I do this zoom one-on-one standup rehearsal and I’m hoping to do it at 8 am pst tomorrow! If you can do it, TMB, “yes, I can watch you practice standup jokes one-on-one in exchange for a t-shirt! At 8 am PST Wednesday!” First response wins :) thanks!
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Still thinking about her
This is the most alluring turkey photo shoot I've ever seen (via the White House)
November 27, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Still thinking about her
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A John Massey banger. www.artic.edu/artworks/234...
November 19, 2024 at 2:03 PM
A John Massey banger. www.artic.edu/artworks/234...
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It’s me, @mariabamford.bsky.social I’ve just left Twitter. I’m a comedian and had used Twitter to connect with fans and other comedians. I’m not sure how to let people know I’m here. Ha-ha.
November 18, 2024 at 8:30 PM
It’s me, @mariabamford.bsky.social I’ve just left Twitter. I’m a comedian and had used Twitter to connect with fans and other comedians. I’m not sure how to let people know I’m here. Ha-ha.