Michael Sholinbeck

Here's what I ave been helping with for the past week

With Roles as Civic Hubs, Libraries Turn Over a New Page Cities looking to revive downtowns are increasingly leveraging the ability of public libraries to draw crowds and encourage economic development.

In case you wish to read a nice library article:

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

A Chapter Closes at Environmental Health Perspectives | Environmental Health Perspectives | Vol. 133, No. 6

Yes - see this: web.archive.org/web/20250918...

How much room do they need for a TV screen playing Fox News 24/7?

"Environ Health Perspect"[journal] - Search Results - PMC "Environ Health Perspect"[journal] - Search Results - PMC

June editorial: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I was just told this: "The EHP website is no longer being hosted by NIEHS. All content from the journal continues to be available on PMC, and we continue to work toward a new model as outlined in the Editorial published this past June. We hope to be able to share more information on that soon."

And now it appears to be gone, completely wiped from the web. I am trying to learn if this is a temporary thing, or a big awful thing.

have any #medlibs heard anything?

Do you know, @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info or @alt-hhs.altgov.info ??

Environmental Health Perspectives, published since the 1970s, appears to have been removed from the nih web. This is majorly bad, if it's not a temporary thing.

EHP appears to be gone. Had you heard anything about this? It's even removed from nih.gov search results. So sad.

ehp.niehs.nih.gov says server not found. This is majorly bad; I am keeping watch to see if temporary. Articles are still on MC, assuming Dumpf doesn't remove those as well.

The child in this photo should be using a spacer

Now that Buy Nothing Day is over, you may wish to go to the Transanta IG or website and buy gifts for trans youth. The need is huge. The process is easy. Thanks for considering.
buy.transanta.com
www.instagram.com/transanta/

I am willing to send them my used TP

still on the Group W bench.

Gender disparities among authors of retracted publications in medical journals: A cross-sectional study Background Gender disparities in scientific authorship are well documented, yet little is known about gender representation among authors of retracted publications. Methods We analyzed 878 retracted...

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Interesting ... "Women are markedly underrepresented among authors of retracted publications, particularly in cases involving multiple retractions."

Changes to EPA's COBRA Tool Have Major Implications for Climate Policy – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative This post is part of the EDGI Website Governance Team’s “Highlights from the Change Log” blog series. The purpose of this series is to highlight interesting changes we have observed in the content of,...

Recent changes to EPA’s CO-Benefits Risk Assessment (COBRA) tool have major implications for climate policy.

Learn more in this week’s “Highlights from the Change Log” series blog post, where we track important changes to federal environmental websites. envirodatagov.org/changes-to-e...

Attorney General Bonta Secures Decisive Victory in Lawsuit to Protect Over $200 Million for California Schools OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced that the U.S. Department of Education has backed down from its effort to rescind states’ access to hundreds of millions of dollars in fu...

Let's celebrate good some news!

oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

UC eliminates EDI department, creates Office of Culture and Inclusive Excellence - Daily Bruin This post was updated Nov. 6 at 11:08 p.m. The UC eliminated its Department of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion on Oct. 27, replacing it with the Office of Culture and Inclusive Excellence.

of course they did...

dailybruin.com/2025/11/05/u...

Collection and Use of Biometrics by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to amend its regulations governing biometrics use and collection. DHS proposes to require submission of biometrics by any individual, regardless...

Please submit comment on the proposed DHS rule, requiring genetic and biometric samples from immigrants, asylees, etc. It appears the main motivation is to make sure folks are using their "biological sex" when entering this country. Fascism at work! (imho).
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Meet the High Schoolers Who Overturned a State Reading Bowl Book Ban: Book Censorship News, November 7, 2025 A Georgia statewide reading bowl banned eight books. These students led the charge to get the bans overturned and succeeded.

"We are not as fragile as you think."
Love it! Hope for the future.
bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Federal Agencies Post Incendiary Banners About the Government Shutdown – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative This post is part of the EDGI Website Governance Team’s “Highlights from the Change Log” blog series. The purpose of this series is to highlight interesting changes we have observed in the content of,...

Federal agencies are posting banners on their websites accusing Democrats and the “Radical Left” for the government shutdown, using language that is partisan, disparaging, and contemptuous.

Learn more in our most recent Highlights from the Change Log: envirodatagov.org/federal-agen...

5 Principles and Practices to Sustain Gender-Affirming Care in Uncertain Times - HealthBegins With the onslaught of federal threats to transgender and nonbinary people, health care has a critical role to play to uphold standards of care, ensure access to essential services, advocate for eviden...

5 Principles and Practices to Sustain Gender-Affirming Care in Uncertain Times healthbegins.org/5-principles...

Surprise! (not)

lordy, i retired in the nick of time!

California to Offer $11 Insulin Starting Jan. 1, 2026, California will sell its own insulin pens at dramatically reduced prices — just $11 each — under Gov. Newsom’s CalRx plan to make healthcare affordable.

americancommunitymedia.org/health-care/...

NYT Sends Push Review For Anti-Trans Cass Article; Buries AAP Response The response to Dr. Cass was in the form of a letter to the editor to the New York Times, which was placed last among the letters presented.

Good read but, unfortunately, NYT is mixed when the studies have to do with trans health www.erininthemorning.com/p/nyt-sends-....