Devon Greyson

Again, if you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

Important paper. Schools are high-risk environments for respiratory disease transmission MAINLY because classrooms are underventilated. This problem has a workable solution - it just needs political will. Air quality is as important as water quality for public health. MT @martinmckee.bsky.social

My GenX roots show when I won't call anyone who isn't a radical feminist a TERF.

Would we say this is more type 2 (false connection) or type 3 (misleading content) from among the 7 types in First Draft's Information Disorder framework? I guess it might depend on the details of how the article is written (just clickbait headline, or context omitted from article too).

YouTube video by Rob McCausland Rachel Maddow on Hanover County ICE Detention Center

Please watch and share this. Boycotts, resistance, protests work. In the United States, and Canada too.

Whew, NIH paylines were already lower than ideal, meaning less than 1 in 5 applications got funded. Wonder what they are now?

What are institutions doing for ECRs whose tenure/contract renewal so often rested on finally getting an R?

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When I see AI art used for...like anything...I immediately click away. I'm not reading your article, your whatever, if you're using that shit.

Recalling the infectious disease outbreaks in the concentration camps of the first Trump era, and considering the current measles outbreaks, this was only a matter of time, but I really have been dreading it. I don’t even know what’s reasonable to hope for here. Rapid public health response?

Have you been to Canada? The mainstream treats are so…milky. Not just chocolate, but including chocolate. (Also, light roast coffee. Oy.)

Milk chocolate.

Seeing stories of uptick in telehealth appointments in Minneapolis as clients/patients too afraid to go out in person. Our studies of the 2020-21 shift to remote care recognized virtual services could have benefits beyond COVID but I never imagined Anne Frank zooming a therapist.

When anti-mask-wearing laws were being proposed/passed, clinically vulnerable lives were devalued for what seemed like ridiculous argument that the COVID cautious were hiding faces for criming reasons. Now ICE et al are hiding their faces for criming reasons. Every accusation seems a confession.

I guess Ex-FIFA is making alternate plans, even if FIFA isn't. I didn't know that 4 countries whose teams qualified are not going to be allowed into the US. www.npr.org/2026/01/27/g...

Bird flu antibodies found in cow in the Netherlands, a first outside of U.S. Dead cat led to discovery, but officials stress no further spread of H5N1 has been detected

Bird flu antibodies found in cow in the Netherlands, a first outside of U.S. - Jon Cohen www.science.org/content/arti...

#Vaccine & #PublicHealth / #HealthPoli experts: are there other countries who don’t have a functional public NITAG so vaccine guidance is issued by professional medical associations or similar?

And research funding/scientifuc agencies, before postsecondary education is gobbled up by the private sector in an effort to survive.

Public health giant William Foege, who helped eradicate smallpox, has died at 89 ‘I wish we could have spared him from seeing that’: Friends of Bill Foege on his legacy, and his anger over anti-vaccination.

Public health giant William Foege, who helped eradicate smallpox, has died at 89 www.statnews.com/2026/01/25/w... via @statnews.com

Yeah. My brain keeps trying to connect dots & sensemake but truly these are horrors.

Ok. Yeah, I think it’s been known for a while. That autism diagnosis rates are surprisingly high, and vaccination rates fell after antivax targeting, leading to an outbreak or two. What is new to me is investigation into fraud (potentially connecting these & ppl in/near current US federal actors).

The Star Tribune has description & a still photo. They do also have the video but it does not autoplay so optional for readers. They are updating frequently but descriptions are brief so I am assuming not a lot of verified info yet.

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Older than that. For characters in 20s (so 90s good) through 70s (1940-50s) during early Covid. I know there's US SSA data on first names by year going back but not sure of any way to cut by ethnicity-coded surnames.

I think it's more of a politics follow-the-money question than an epi question. In her scope? I was hoping ProPublica or similar was digging into it.

I have had the same experience; it's unscientific and weakens the article IMO. I don't know why more reviewers and editors (even of journals based outside of the USA) don't make US authors specify location.

Kennedy Plan to Test a Vaccine in West African Babies Is Blocked

I truly hope this is an end to whatever that was. Exploiting research participants especially babies for an unethical study on vaccines should not be allowed anywhere. We know better and have a duty of care to do better.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/h...

An important read for those interested in facial recognition & sentiment analysis. (Note: small n so neurotype x culture was not explored.)

Moments like this are where my fiction/kidlit and qualitative research worlds collide.