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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 2h

TFW it sinks in that no one actually reads anything. Not when you cognitively recognize this, but when you viscerally understand it and know it to be true.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 5h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents shot a U.S. citizen Saturday on Chicago’s South Side
They are creating chaos
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Federal agents shoot woman in Chicago neighborhood after allegedly being rammed, boxed in by cars, DHS says

The woman, as well as a man whom authorities say was involved in the chaos, were facing charges Sunday morning.

www.cbsnews.com

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 4d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Drmaypole @drmaypole.bsky.social · 6d

At the Epic’s house.
IYKYK
#graphicmedicine
#dotphrase

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 6d

Rather remarkable that the Trump administration response to a government shutdown is "let's inflict as much pain as possible on as many Americans as possible"

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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 6d

"What is happening in this country is happening because science is bad for tyrants, and always has been"

Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 7d

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 6d

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 6d

Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no.

Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.

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Gregory Riely @rielymd.bsky.social · 6d

"Don’t dedicate your life to scams, slop, and the exploitation of compulsion."

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 6d

Don’t dedicate your life to frying people’s brains with hacking human weakness for compulsive behaviors.

www.slowboring.com/p/capitalism...

Capitalism needs honor and ethics

Don’t dedicate your life to scams, slop, and the exploitation of compulsion.

www.slowboring.com

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 27d

Live @onclive.bsky.social from today. Me and Culver - such a life of firsts - AIDS in San Francisco in the 80s, the first gene therapy at the NCI, industry, advocacy and missions ti Central America. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

How a Career of Hearing and Amplifying Patient Voices Has Reached the Pinnacle of Patient Advocacy: With D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD; and Ken Culver, MD

Podcast Episode · How This Is Building Me · 09/10/2025 · 1h 8m

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Fred Hutch @fredhutch.org · 7d

The Cancer AI Alliance (CAIA) today unveiled its first collaborative #AI platform for #cancerresearch. The secure, scalable, multi-cloud platform uses federated learning, maintaining data security and privacy while learning from millions of clinical data points. https://bit.ly/4nvm3NF

Cancer AI Alliance unveils first collaborative AI platform for cancer research - Cancer AI Alliance

Secure, scalable, multi-cloud platform using federated learning aims to accelerate cancer discoveries and treatments

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Sanjay Mukhopadhyay @smlungpathguy.bsky.social · 7d

#pathsky sign up now!!

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Gregory Riely @rielymd.bsky.social · 7d

a useful new paper on initial therapy of BRAF mut lung cancer. Retrospective data, but important question.
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resulting from collaboration among 17 institutions including @mskcancercenter.bsky.social @danafarber.bsky.social @mdanderson.bsky.social

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Drmaypole @drmaypole.bsky.social · 7d

Suddenly Sunday eve/ #Mondaymorning. Did you get that stuff done you said you would “Over The Weekend?” Retreat to the Emergency Office!
#worklifebalance

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 7d

The Damage Done: @marianneguenot.bsky.social tells the story of clinical trials derailed by the administration's reckless science policy, across kidney disease, HIV, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer. Years of work and money thrown away, at times just short of a cure.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The damage done - Nature Medicine

When clinical trials are suddenly halted by US funding cuts, there are repercussions for investigators and patients, and they do not stop at borders.

www.nature.com

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 7d

First we created a culture where you don't have to understand basic statistical ideas and methods to analyze quantitative data from samples. This was a wonderful innovation, as it removed barriers to publishing whatever the fuck you wanted. Using "AI" to just invent the data is the next logical step

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 7d

A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸

How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds

Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

www.science.org

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 9d

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.

2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.

3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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Wafik S. El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP @weldeiry.bsky.social · 9d

An insurance company is introducing a new threat to American medicine

www.statnews.com/2025/09/29/c...

An insurance company is introducing a new threat to American medicine

Prior authorizations were once a narrow tool to contain costs. Downcoding could be next.

www.statnews.com

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Miguel Perales MD @drmiguelperales.bsky.social · 11d

Medical Groups Warn Against Visa Fees for Foreign Doctors www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/h...

Medical Groups Warn Against Visa Fees for Foreign Doctors

www.nytimes.com

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 12d

It's a book about survivorship bias

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 13d

Autism is rising. Or at least that’s how it looks. But is it really increasing? And if so, why? As President Donald Trump blames Tylenol, Nature examines the decades of research on the causes of autism.

Read more: go.nature.com/4ns6Rku 🧪

Why is autism really on the rise? What the science says

YouTube video by nature video

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Gregory Riely @rielymd.bsky.social · 13d

Important paper rebutting prior findings. "Thymectomy in adults with small or localized thymomas was not associated with increased 5-year mortality or cancer death." from @yalecancer.bsky.social in @iaslc.bsky.social JTO www.jto.org/article/S155...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 14d

Read the Dekleptocracy substack: "When a phantom foundation with no address, no registration and a founder who might not exist, wires $100 million to the president's crypto company, America has a problem"
dekleptocracy.substack.com/p/trumps-she...

Trump's Shell Game Threatens American Security

We're pushing to make anti-corruption a top priority on the political agenda to fight authoritarianism, strengthen the rule of law and protect democracy.

dekleptocracy.substack.com

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Gregory Riely @rielymd.bsky.social · 15d

Appropriately critical commentary on cochrane reviews as the apply to matched targeted therapy by @viveksubbiah.bsky.social Journal of Clinical Oncology ascopubs.org/doi/full/10....

Precision Oncology and Modernizing Evidence Standards: A Critical Commentary on the Cochrane Review

ascopubs.org

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 15d

Just a reminder that the head of the NIH was up on stage today as Trump spewed item after item that science has already convincingly demonstrated are false. And he has done nothing to get the American public more accurate information.

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