Signpost Poetry
@signpostpoetry.bsky.social
Thinking & talking about history, politics, public health, books, and warm socks. Also flowers. she/her/elle
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"the researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers"
A new report from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have devastating health and economic consequences for the nation.
New report sounds alarm on health fallout from mRNA vaccine funding cuts
A new report from the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have
ysph.yale.edu
December 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
"the researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers"
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the good that you do persists in this world
December 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
the good that you do persists in this world
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Really clear messaging from the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene. At this point, it's not going to convince a ton of people to start masking, but it may encourage folks who already mask to keep it up - & it may remind others that masking is an expert-recommended NPI, not a weird obsession.
November 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Really clear messaging from the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene. At this point, it's not going to convince a ton of people to start masking, but it may encourage folks who already mask to keep it up - & it may remind others that masking is an expert-recommended NPI, not a weird obsession.
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GOP states are restricting youth voting by
-requiring strict in-person ID for registering + voting, explicitly excluding college-issued IDs
-locating poll sites far from campuses + targeting on-campus locations
-limiting + sanctioning third-party voter reg orgs
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/inside-...
-requiring strict in-person ID for registering + voting, explicitly excluding college-issued IDs
-locating poll sites far from campuses + targeting on-campus locations
-limiting + sanctioning third-party voter reg orgs
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/inside-...
Inside the GOP’s Assault on Youth Voting Rights
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
GOP states are restricting youth voting by
-requiring strict in-person ID for registering + voting, explicitly excluding college-issued IDs
-locating poll sites far from campuses + targeting on-campus locations
-limiting + sanctioning third-party voter reg orgs
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/inside-...
-requiring strict in-person ID for registering + voting, explicitly excluding college-issued IDs
-locating poll sites far from campuses + targeting on-campus locations
-limiting + sanctioning third-party voter reg orgs
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/inside-...
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Good on Australia for doing this! It’s such a deceptive practice to tell customers their price is increasing because of AI, when the old price is still available without genAI but only if you try to cancel.
Australia sues Microsoft for misleading Microsoft 365 users
Asia In Brief: PLUS: China demotes tech self-sufficiency goal; Alibaba Cloud quietly quits VMware; India demands deepfake labels; and more!
www.theregister.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Good on Australia for doing this! It’s such a deceptive practice to tell customers their price is increasing because of AI, when the old price is still available without genAI but only if you try to cancel.
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Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
October 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
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I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
September 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
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To those wondering, this is what now appears if you use Bluesky in Mississippi without a VPN. So yes, a VPN does grant access to the site. For now.
August 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
To those wondering, this is what now appears if you use Bluesky in Mississippi without a VPN. So yes, a VPN does grant access to the site. For now.
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Quick takes: California plague case, US measles rise, UK ups avian flu risk
The patient likely contracted plague from a flea bite while camping near South Lake Tahoe.
The patient likely contracted plague from a flea bite while camping near South Lake Tahoe.
Quick takes: California plague case, US measles rise, UK ups avian flu risk
The patient likely contracted plague from a flea bite while camping near South Lake Tahoe.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
August 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Quick takes: California plague case, US measles rise, UK ups avian flu risk
The patient likely contracted plague from a flea bite while camping near South Lake Tahoe.
The patient likely contracted plague from a flea bite while camping near South Lake Tahoe.
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MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:52 AM
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
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Turn social media into an oasis: follow botanists, orchardists, and heritage gardeners. Follow bird watchers, paleontologists, and people who dedicate their careers to fungariums. There are scientists who spend their whole lives thinking about turtles. 🐢
August 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Turn social media into an oasis: follow botanists, orchardists, and heritage gardeners. Follow bird watchers, paleontologists, and people who dedicate their careers to fungariums. There are scientists who spend their whole lives thinking about turtles. 🐢
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oh wow!
Beronda Montgomery has a new book!
bookshop.org/p/books/when...
"a cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery, told through the stories of long-lived trees."
how "seven trees—as well as the cotton shrub—are intertwined with Black history and culture."
Beronda Montgomery has a new book!
bookshop.org/p/books/when...
"a cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery, told through the stories of long-lived trees."
how "seven trees—as well as the cotton shrub—are intertwined with Black history and culture."
When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy
Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy
bookshop.org
August 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
oh wow!
Beronda Montgomery has a new book!
bookshop.org/p/books/when...
"a cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery, told through the stories of long-lived trees."
how "seven trees—as well as the cotton shrub—are intertwined with Black history and culture."
Beronda Montgomery has a new book!
bookshop.org/p/books/when...
"a cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery, told through the stories of long-lived trees."
how "seven trees—as well as the cotton shrub—are intertwined with Black history and culture."
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The suggestion that AI can “replace” a historian fundamentally misunderstands the nature of academic historical inquiry. Even if being a chronicler or antiquarian were things an AI could successfully emulate, this is really not the same thing as critically interrogating historical arguments.
Just a reminder this list is drawn from a piece written by four researchers for MICROSOFT (data scientists, CS people, economists) who have never stepped foot in an archive/never taken an oral history/studied material culture, by their CVs.
Unlike them, I do my research, and don't talk out my ass.
Unlike them, I do my research, and don't talk out my ass.
August 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The suggestion that AI can “replace” a historian fundamentally misunderstands the nature of academic historical inquiry. Even if being a chronicler or antiquarian were things an AI could successfully emulate, this is really not the same thing as critically interrogating historical arguments.
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Just a reminder this list is drawn from a piece written by four researchers for MICROSOFT (data scientists, CS people, economists) who have never stepped foot in an archive/never taken an oral history/studied material culture, by their CVs.
Unlike them, I do my research, and don't talk out my ass.
Unlike them, I do my research, and don't talk out my ass.
August 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Just a reminder this list is drawn from a piece written by four researchers for MICROSOFT (data scientists, CS people, economists) who have never stepped foot in an archive/never taken an oral history/studied material culture, by their CVs.
Unlike them, I do my research, and don't talk out my ass.
Unlike them, I do my research, and don't talk out my ass.
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For every $1 spent on childhood immunizations in the United States, our healthcare system saves $10.90 in direct costs and societal benefits. Routine childhood vaccinations from 1994 to 2023 will save $540 billion in direct costs.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Health and Economic Benefits of Routine Childhood...
This report describes health and economic benefits from routine childhood vaccines among children born during 1994–2023.
www.cdc.gov
August 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
For every $1 spent on childhood immunizations in the United States, our healthcare system saves $10.90 in direct costs and societal benefits. Routine childhood vaccinations from 1994 to 2023 will save $540 billion in direct costs.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
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I really appreciated this episode of @npr.org's Consider This, about the Texas floods, how to talk to people on the worst day of their lives, and the care good storytelling requires.
I'll be sharing it with my qualitative methods students this year.
one.npr.org/i/1269546823...
I'll be sharing it with my qualitative methods students this year.
one.npr.org/i/1269546823...
🔊 Listen Now: Texas floods: how to talk to people on the worst day of their lives
Consider This From NPR on NPR One | 10:22
one.npr.org
July 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I really appreciated this episode of @npr.org's Consider This, about the Texas floods, how to talk to people on the worst day of their lives, and the care good storytelling requires.
I'll be sharing it with my qualitative methods students this year.
one.npr.org/i/1269546823...
I'll be sharing it with my qualitative methods students this year.
one.npr.org/i/1269546823...
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Is that a piano bench situation? EB, we have questions.
July 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Is that a piano bench situation? EB, we have questions.
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if the father of the xbox told me my video game understanding was lacking i would probably just walk into the sea tbh and live with ecco the dolphin
The person who wrote this simultaneously demonstrates a deep lack of understanding and also an extraordinary deficit of seriousness in a very remarkably small number of words.
This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...
July 29, 2025 at 5:11 AM
if the father of the xbox told me my video game understanding was lacking i would probably just walk into the sea tbh and live with ecco the dolphin
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It’s Friday! So, time for some seriously chonky otters.
July 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
It’s Friday! So, time for some seriously chonky otters.
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There's less than a week until the Library’s scholarship programme submission deadline!
If you are interested in applying to any of our scholarships, you still have until11:45pm BST on Thursday 31st July 2025!
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If you are interested in applying to any of our scholarships, you still have until11:45pm BST on Thursday 31st July 2025!
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July 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
There's less than a week until the Library’s scholarship programme submission deadline!
If you are interested in applying to any of our scholarships, you still have until11:45pm BST on Thursday 31st July 2025!
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If you are interested in applying to any of our scholarships, you still have until11:45pm BST on Thursday 31st July 2025!
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Hey e-bikers. I'm in the market for an ebike. Preference is as much 🇨🇦 content as possible, esp parts & support, so I'm leaning towards Biktrix. I have some friends who are very happy with them. Any others I should look at?
I'm ~6' and looking mostly for a city bike. I'm not sure about ❄️ rides yet.
I'm ~6' and looking mostly for a city bike. I'm not sure about ❄️ rides yet.
July 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Hey e-bikers. I'm in the market for an ebike. Preference is as much 🇨🇦 content as possible, esp parts & support, so I'm leaning towards Biktrix. I have some friends who are very happy with them. Any others I should look at?
I'm ~6' and looking mostly for a city bike. I'm not sure about ❄️ rides yet.
I'm ~6' and looking mostly for a city bike. I'm not sure about ❄️ rides yet.