Meredith Jones, Ph.D.

Opinion | What Happened in Chicago When Science Became the Enemy

Important insight into the chaos and irrevocable damage this administration has caused for some of our country’s leading HIV researchers (gift link):
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

Someone is going to write a dissertation about this half time show and I will read it.

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Fuck ICE

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons…

To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.

Pediatric phalloplasty is something that takes place when there is severe genital injury or a congenital condition. I have not been able to find a single report of phalloplasty performed on a transgender minor.

This is grotesque fear-mongering.

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

Live updates: Two deceased in active shooter incident at Brown University Serving the Brown University community since 1891

Kudos to the Brown University students who are posting continuous live updates, spaced just minutes apart, on the campus shooting. A lot of grace and professionalism under immense pressure.

www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

Really exciting new research differentiating cognitive disengagement syndrome from ADHD!

Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social it’s time for my second-most anticipated annual thread: Cats in Christmas Trees (and Battling Menorahs). Starting off strong with Donut.

A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself.

Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.

We're excited to announce Phish’s return to @spherevegasus.bsky.social for nine shows across three weekends in 2026: April 16–18, April 23–25, and April 30–May 2. Request tickets now at tickets.phish.com. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, December 12, at 11AM PT/2PM ET.

The era we are living in offers too many illustrations of greed, narcissism, and hatefulness. But I still believe we can recommit ourselves to serving the common good of all Americans. [Artwork by Jennifer Bloomer]

Parental pushback threatens HPV protection - CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy A new wave of HPV vaccine hesitancy is spreading across the United States, worrying public health experts as coverage stalls and disparities grow. In a new study by researchers including Associate Professor Spring Cooper and...

💉A new #CUNYSPH study including Assoc. Prof. spring cooper and doctoral students Ingrid Williams & Aisha King finds that over half of parents surveyed in the Northeast & Southeast are hesitant to vaccinate their kids against HPV—an increase since the COVID-19 pandemic.
🔗cunysph.me/4oKQTSv

So gross.

My love language is making you watch a movie I’ve made part of my personality and then quietly seething at you as you gradually lose interest and begin to play on your phone more and more

New pub alert ‼️Led by our doctoral students, we looked at different profiles of drinking motives among graduate student heavy drinkers: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Gameday ‼️

#FlyEaglesFly

This is what fascism looks like.

Honestly I don’t really want to be there for that last half-hour anyway

I do not care that you are not “surprised.” Please. You have no idea how tiresome it is when you post that something horrible, fascist, authoritarian is “not surprising.” Nothing is “surprising” anymore. But a lot of it is horrible and frightening. Let’s deal with it together.

i’m finding it requires more and more cognitive dissonance to enjoy indulgences as the fascism becomes increasingly omnipresent and suffocating

Damnit, Dave. Now we have to learn how to cite a skeet.