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Abortion stays legal in Wyoming as its top court strikes down laws, including first US pill ban Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down laws including the nation’s first explicit ban on abortion pills.

BREAKING: Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down laws, including the first U.S. ban on pill abortions.

As far as I can tell, RFK Jr.'s latest antivax stunt runs counter to the WMA Declaration of Helsinki. Withholding HepB vaccination clearly does not meet any definition of clinical equipoise. Doing it anyway, overseas, is straight up colonialist medicine.

Details in Dr. Jacobs's thread below.

NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists Memo cites overburdened staff, but some say move also aims to elevate White House priorities

“The changes permit as few as one outside review rather than the current minimum of three, end the routine use of expert panels to discuss those individual reviews, and give program managers greater authority to recommend which proposals should or should not be funded.”

#ASMR

Cruel, unpopular, health and life endangering (as in *checks notes* my own life)

(Also, I'm generally curmudgeonly about the push for academics to be All The Things (entrepreneurs, scicomm experts, journalists, Thought Leaders, etc) without institutional support or protection. E.g., "scicomm" is a specialty in itself, not something just any researcher can do)

Getting the COVID Vaccine Can Slash Risk of Premature Birth by About a Third in Pregnant People, Study Finds Pregnant people who receive a COVID vaccine are 60 percent less likely to experience severe disease and around 30 percent less likely to give birth prematurely, according to new research

Getting a COVID Vaccine while Pregnant Slashes Risk of Premature Birth, Major New Study Finds www.scientificamerican.com/article/gett...

Truly, hormonal depression and anxiety are prevalent and devastating. I speak from experience. Taking away tools to manage them at critical vulnerable periods - without evidence - is shortsighted and cruel. ('shortsighted and cruel' could be a tagline for RFK's policy proposals writ large.)

the proximate reason i post here — beyond the fact that i like a lot of you and enjoy reading your thoughts and jokes and observations — is that this is a non-algorithmic platform where people share lots of stuff and people read what is shared. that's still valuable even if it doesn't "influence!"

the secret goat, the geese vs the CEO, and other stories of animals at work Last week we talked about animals at work and here are 10 of my favorite stories you shared. 1. The unauthorized dog I’ve worked my entire career at tech start-ups, which are invariably filled with mu...

Intersection of the month: I'm a huge @askamanager.org fan and our dept is currently working to hire a new Chair (and I have a small child). So, naturally, I'm re-reading and re-cracking up about story 10 The Dean: www.askamanager.org/2024/08/the-...

Do yourself a favor and read it. Delightful.

I had some serious issues with decisions made while Claudine Gay was president, but I appreciate the very clear example of the normalization of pushing Black women out of their jobs and moving right along

Public education was never meant to be the sole source of education for our children. This is why there's a long history of supplementing public education with cultural programming to pass down languages, histories and political education (think: freedom schools).

We pay taxes and public education is a collective good. May as well benefit AND be part of making it better (e.g., fighting for better work conditions and pay for public teachers, because their work conditions are our children's learning conditions)

As a (to me very enjoyable) part of this paper, we worked out what mutation-selection balance looks like in finite populations with varying degrees of inbreeding.

Also folks arguing that they don’t need Gen Ed/any Ed outside of topics directly related to a chosen career are doing the work of fascists for them.

There’s a reason they don’t want us educated and only want “skilled workers”

Cool, so where's the maternity leave? Where's support for working mothers? What about one's who can't nurse for whatever reason? Or is the goal just to keep us at home and out of sight?

Many of us need to keep writing federal grants (both for political reasons and as a Hail Mary to keep people employed) despite the feeling it's a waste of time, so... if you got an NSF or NIH grant funded this year, would you mind bragging about it in the replies, so it feels like the odds are >0%?

In which Julian tries to separate out the “bad” kinds of eugenics so we can keep the good stuff. This will work for a while if you are determined not to think it all the way through

High-resolution mapping of a rapidly evolving complex trait reveals genotype-phenotype stability and an unpredictable genetic architecture of adaptation The extent to which adaptation can be predicted, particularly for traits with complex genetic bases, is unknown. Here, we leveraged a model complex trait, model species, and high-powered longitudinal ...

Thrilled to finally share the magnum opus of my PhD that focuses on the genetic basis of evolutionary change! Specifically, we know we can map the genetic basis of a trait, but can we tell which genes will underlie the trait shift when it evolves? doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Remember when they fired the president of Harvard for… two inadequate citations in her 30yo dissertation?

Our School District Can Now Keep Track of Your Child with Just Three Terrible Apps Other than lawsuits, losing track of a child is every school district’s worst nightmare. We haven’t lost anyone yet, but an EdTech company has pain...

"We’re pleased to introduce some cutting-edge yet profoundly user-unfriendly technology."

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bro are you fucking kidding me

Women 'ruining the world' I just read about the article "Women against Wimp." It's time that America wakes up and realize that women are beginning to run society. They are ruining the world. They are getting award with what they want to get away with. Why not blast the woman who was allegedly involved with this? --The Mobile Register, 20 Mar 1994

The world

Women Ruining Men, Says Editor By DOROTHY ROE AP Women's Editor American women are making milksops of their men, charges black-bearded, hairy-fisted Doug Kennedy, and he, for one, is pretty upset about it. --The Sun, 18 Jun 1957

Men

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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Including being informal support to me as last fall, almost immediately after it happened, I shared the story of my harrowing miscarriage and wait for a lifesaving abortion (D&E) well into my second trimester
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Abortion in America Names Lauren Peterson as Chief Executive Officer and Adds New Litigation Practice Led by Molly Duane and Sandy Keenan

I’m so glad to hear that Molly and Sandy heading up Amplify Legal, powerful storytelling org Abortion in America’s legal arm! Both are great leaders in the fight for reproductive rights, including supporting people in telling their stories (1/2)

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I wish I could make everyone involved in OK’ing these emails listen to several episodes of Maintenance Phase on repeat until they sincerely repent.
Signed, It’s Not my Workplace’s Job (or anyone’s) to Convince Me to Waste my One Wild and Precious Life Trying to Make Myself Smaller
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Screen grab of email that says 'weight watchers take the first step toward prioritizing your well-being. Join WeightWatchers today at no cost to you as a USG active enrolled Anthem employee or spouse"

If our university system emails me about joining weight watchers one more time I’m going to blow my lid. Multiple times this week (open enrollment). It’s a) none of their business b) not a good program c) doesn’t even work d) could be wildly triggering to someone with disordered eating. (1/2)