Sean D. Johnson

Experts urge FDA to revisit labeling for testosterone replacement therapy in men | Urology Times In a panel meeting convened by the FDA, experts urged the agency to revise the current classification and indication for testosterone replacement therapy in men.

The only good news I have seen coming from FDA. I'm not sure that this is a good move for the population-level health of cis men... but there are other populations the administration certainly doesn't have in mind that will benefit immensely.

www.urologytimes.com/view/experts...

Boxing up the NSF at Eisenhower Av for the forced relocation. Boxes have “Details Matter” signage.

NSF

- Forced reorg

- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)

- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)

I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃

Oh, it absolutely is! And as someone born there, I’m completely unbiased and trustworthy on this.

Asking genuinely because you are there or looking for a fight? Either way, Blood Bros BBQ.

Humans are great at cognitive dissonance, but AIs are next level.

Aftering Googling “HUD secretary”, their AI helpfully informed me it is Marcia Fudge.

And while that is a fantasy land I would love to be in…

A slightly different Google AI search helpfully informed me that she isn’t anymore.

this week, congress has agreed to ban trans participation in sports at military academies and the opening bid to fix aca subsidies bans trans care coverage on obamacare exchanges

why does it feel like we’re not seeing a five alarm fire from the lgbtq+ advocacy groups yet

Dear Ea-nāṣir,

The shoes you delivered to my servant Nanni were substandard as you can see in this picture of me trying to wear them.

Among their many triumphs, the neo-Assyrian empire was the GOAT at calf accentuation.

Anyone else read this and want to come to the defense of ancient Mesopotamia?

Multiple judges call out DOJ's methods of defending its invasive trans care subpoenas A trio of public rulings, including one on Friday, all side with providers. Two rulings also raised sharp questions about DOJ's moves in recent months.

Nov 25 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- At least four federal judges have now blocked portions of or the entirety of invasive DOJ subpoenas served on 20 health providers of gender-affirming medical care for trans minors.

Republicans Privately Pushing Anti-Trans Funding Ban For ACA Subsidy Deal After Shutdown Compromise The proposal, which was first detailed in the Wall Street Journal, could harm transgender people even in blue states if it becomes part of the negotiated deal.

Nov 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Reps privately push ban on trans care in ACA/Obamacare as part of moving any subsidy deal forward. It was stripped from the last ACA deal. This one would hurt perhaps 500k trans ppl among the 20m who need Obamacare subsidies. Even blue states would be impacted.

And you may look the other way
But we can try to understand
The New York Times' effect on man

With UM daily parking permits (saves $ if you walk/bike/bus on most days), the new parking system doesn't select your license plate by default when buying refills. So despite having 10 valid passes on the permit that let me enter the lot, they claim I owe a $75 ticket. Incompetent UI design.

There are negative aspects of the LANL+UMich facility proposed in Ypsi, but it isn’t an AI data center. It is for high performance computing, mostly nuke simulations.

Nukes are very bad, but nukes+active testing is worse. Accurate sims mean DOE/DOD don’t need to explode actual bombs in tests.

There has been a lot of hay made over the Kim Davis challenge against Obergefell at SCOTUS, whether or not they'll decide to take up the case. IMO, I'd pay a lot more attention to efforts like this to erode gay marriage:

The ones that are actually full-blown departments only got that way after decades of fighting, and even those often are not resourced at the level you’d expect of depts with their level of service instruction and scholarship. Yeesh

Would be great if the NYT went on record about exactly what level of influence and resources they think Area studies departments have, cause I’d love to compare their vibes-based assertions with reality.

The receipts @astromonnier.bsky.social!

Shared with a British friend who informed me that “louvre” is the correct British English spelling. So I guess my observing logs are just a bit posh?

And I’m certain I will forget this before the next observing run heh

Observing while the Louvre is in the news, and it slowly dawned on me that I’ve been misspelling “louver” for years. Literally a decade of fits files and logs with me saying things like “louvre flats at 50% open”.

In nuanced opinion, state Supreme Court rules transgender weightlifter’s human rights were violated The opinion leaves open the question of whether USA Powerlifting had a legitimate business reason to not allow JayCee Cooper to compete as a female at two weightlifting events in Minnesota.

The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the human rights of a transgender weightlifter were violated when USA Powerlifting refused to let her compete as a woman at two of their events held in Minnesota, but elements of the lawsuit remain unsettled.

‘I’m on Fire’: Testosterone Is Giving Women Back Their Sex Drive — and Then Some

"Enthusiasm for testosterone [for cis people] cuts across political lines. [Cis] women [in] religious communities that [...] oppose gender-affirming care [... take] testosterone in amounts comparable to [...] trans men."

Corrections above.

Bodily autonomy for all.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/m...

And again!

a man and a woman are jumping in the air in a living room . Alt: a man and a woman are jumping in the air in a living room .

0.35” seeing!!!

a close up of a woman with makeup on her face and the words `` well , how ' bout that ? '' Alt: a close up of a woman with makeup on her face and the words `` well , how ' bout that ? ''

It seems a number of us had the idea of going to Detroit Shipping before Rocky Horror at the Masonic Temple

It should be noted that the entire justification underpinning this policy is Texas House Bill 229, a law that only says that state documents may only have "male" or "female" on them and enshrines definition of "male" and "female" into law. The bill says absolutely nothing about class curriculum.

Am I missing something, or does the Astro Data Lab at NOIRLab really not have a finder chart generator?

Purple balloon animal that split into two after going in a liquid nitrogen dewar. The balloon is sitting on a wooden table with a blue insulated glove next to it.

Accidentally taught a lesson in balloon animal biology in ASTRO 102 today. Turns out, balloon animals can undergo mitosis after hibernating in liquid nitrogen!