Jeremiah Genest

Transcendence experience Thursday night.

The artist and musician Lonnie Holley performed at The Wallis with Moor Mother after losing his oldest sister, Betty, the day before.

Why Is DC’s Phillips Collection Selling Off Its Masterpieces? The museum’s decision to deaccession works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, and more has come under public scrutiny.

I try to be as measured as possible on social media, but everyone in the art world—including art historians!—who in recent years has focused incessantly on "the contemporary" is at fault for developments like this. This is what happens when you fail to value history hyperallergic.com/1058320/why-...

I specialize in sterility assurance. Nothing goes in my vein or a loved one that I haven’t checked the label, looked it up and understood some of its manufacturing lineage (which is next to impossible for anything generic). The idea of people putting unregulated stuff in their veins petrifies me.

A side view of a terracotta pot with a lid, glazed a mustardy yellow with rusty undertones. In this picture, the lid is on. (This one’s mine)

A side view of a terracotta pot with a lid, glazed a mustardy yellow with rusty undertones. In this picture, the lid is off. (This one’s mine)

A side view of a terracotta pot with a lid, glazed a mustardy yellow with rusty undertones, embellished with green glass in the knob. In this picture, the lid is on. (This one’s Jere’s)

A side view of a terracotta pot with a lid, glazed a mustardy yellow with rusty undertones, embellished with green glass in the knob. In this picture, the lid is off. (This one’s Jere’s)

Pottery finish! Two small cocottes/crocks/tapas serving dishes (oven-safe terracotta pots with lids)! I made the taller, narrower one, and @jeremiahgenest.bsky.social made the wider, shallower one.

Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S. The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

USP Revised: Aligning Compendial Validation with ICH Q2(R2) and Q14’s Lifecycle Vision

The United States Pharmacopeia's proposed revision of General Chapter  Validation of Compendial Procedures, published in Pharmacopeial Forum 51(6), represents the continuation of a fundamental shift in how…

Quality: Think Differently – A World Quality Week 2025 Reflection

As we celebrate World Quality Week 2025 (November 10-14), I find myself reflecting on this year's powerful theme: "Quality: think differently." The Chartered Quality Institute's call to challenge traditional approaches and embrace…

I have this topic as something I want to hear more about next time I’m in Seattle. I’m curious about the dekker overlap.

Dekker is also tremendously influential on the site reliability engineering discipline.
And Jere’s blog is always worth reading if you’re a tech geek; surprising how much overlap there is between pharma quality and keeping servers running.

Sidney Dekker: The Safety Scientist Who Influences How I Think About Quality

Over the past decades, as I've grown and now led quality organizations in biotechnology, I've encountered many thinkers who've shaped my approach to investigation and risk management. But few have fundamentally altered my…

Truth of vast network of Roman roads revealed Using spy-satellite images and ancient travel itineraries, researchers have identified a huge number of forgotten roads, some of them less than straight

New map compiled by archaeologists charts twice as many Roman roads as the standard reference work. Their sources include ancient travel itineraries, 19thC camel routes, Soviet military charts, Ottoman surveys and declassified American spy-satellite images.
www.thetimes.com/article/335a...

Priorities of the US Food and Drug Administration To the Editor As the chair of the Doctors for America Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Task Force, I am responding to the recent Viewpoint “Priorities for a New FDA” by FDA Commissioner Martin A. Ma...

"None of the proposals outlined by Makary and Prasad justify firing hundreds of scientific experts dedicated to protecting public health. Staffing and budget cuts will only further diminish the FDA’s capacity to approve drugs in a timely manner."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
True words

FDA’s top drug regulator placed on leave amid investigation George Tidmarsh, the FDA's top drug regulator, has been placed on leave after being accused of abusing his regulatory authority, STAT has learned.

More disruption at #FDA. Exclusive from @lizzylawrence.bsky.social and @adamfeuerstein.bsky.social.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/f...

I’ve stopped business travel for the time being.

And now it’s time for our annual viewing of The Haunting (1963): my favorite horror movie, and probably the best haunted house movie of all time

Me, dressed as a witch with a black pointy hat, and the starchild, dressed as a goat witch (?) with a white dress, horns, and a wooden staff, sitting at a table in front of our house. There are candles, flowers, a bowl of candy, and several anti-ice/know your rights pamphlets on the table

My husband, not wearing a costume, sitting at a table in front of our house. There are candles, flowers, a bowl of candy, and several anti-ice/know your rights pamphlets on the table

We live in a condo, and rarely get trick-or-treaters, so today we set up a table outside, actually handed out some candy, and got to say hi to some of our neighbors. We also had some anti-ice/know your rights pamphlets to hand out.

Food banks have already been well past capacity since the start of 2025. The infrastructure we have absolutely cannot support the enormous number of people who are about to lose access. Please if you can, find your local food bank and give today.

Last Week Tonight on X: "Congratulations to all the winners of Marble League 2020! Through our sponsorship, they raised $100K for worthy causes. Here’s a thread of the winners and where their funds went:" / X Congratulations to all the winners of Marble League 2020! Through our sponsorship, they raised $100K for worthy causes. Here’s a thread of the winners and where their funds went:

If you're looking for some food banks to donate to, we vetted a ton all over the country back in 2020, in conjunction with our marble league sponsorship, a sentence that I swear made sense in context. Anyway -- there are links to 17 of them in this thread. (And apologies for linking to... y'know.)

Or, and radical thought here, we can trust when someone tells us who they are. I know a deeply personal choice for most people. So I always trust what someone’s tattoos tell me. And nazi symbols tells me everything I need to know to want to be far away

If he was a “convert” the tattoo would have been removed. And seriously why do I need to forgive former Nazi’s? Let him spend his life in humble service if he’s contrite and not run for one of the highest offices.

Chris Murphy admits he’s fine with Nazi sympathizers. I clearly understand his current behavior towards the current regime.

Beth for Democracy | Bethany Andres-Beck for Congress Bethany Andres-Beck is a candidate for Congress running to represent Massachusetts' 6th District.

We have a great opportunity to vote against Seth Moulton AND to support a primary challenge against him. bethfordemocracy.com

Just watched Strange Harvest (2025) which I found disappointing. Great adherence to the format of a true crime documentary but it was unable to thread the Lovecraftian needle.

Don’t get me wrong there's been a lot of misogyny in SF. But despite that women have always been a driving force in the genre I love so much

I love folks who are so blind to the history of SF and trek in specific. After the series was cancellednitnsurvived because of a fandom mostly made up and organized by women. The novels that allowed Next Gen to be as edgy as it was were all written by women.

Hey all, food insecurity is expected to rise dramatically this fall & winter. I’ve just set up monthly donations with my local food banks (that’s GBFB and Project Bread here in Boston), and you can, too! Or make a one-time donation if that works better for you (money is better than goods)!

I agonized for 4 years over 1 tattoo making sure it was right for me. I think I can at minimum expect a senate candidate to fully understand the symbolism of ink on his body

Material Tracking Models in Continuous Manufacturing: Development, Validation, and Lifecycle Management

Continuous manufacturing represents one of the most significant paradigm shifts in pharmaceutical production since the adoption of Good Manufacturing Practices. Unlike traditional batch…

Bernie Sanders stands by Maine oysterman challenging Collins despite controversy The anti-establishment ex-Marine earned plaudits from some Democrats. Now his comments risk their chances of defeating incumbent Republican senator

One of many reasons why Bernie is a problem and should retire. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...