ashlee, mph

Yes that is Victorian prude Anthony Comstock with "All Comstocks Are Bastards" over his face

CDC woes bring Director Redfield’s troubled past as an AIDS researcher to light | CNN Politics As the coronavirus death toll  in the US  tops 107,000, questions have intensified over what could have been done to avoid such a catastrophic loss of life.  Beyond criticism of President Donald Trump...

anyways my kingdom for a professional organization of record that doesn’t platform bad actors

i think it is A Choice to highlight robert redfield on a panel after all the bullshit during covid (and well before that with cherry-picking data and other problems) because you feel like you gotta have “both sides” represented or whatever

4-panel cartoon of 2 people and a dog: Panel 1: Person in green shirt looks apprehensively at the dog and asks the person in blue shirt "Does your dog bite?" Panel 2: Person in blue shirt replies "No, but it can hurt you in other ways." Panel 3: in an apparent demonstration of how the dog can hurt you without biting, the dog says to the green shirted person: "Just because you can draw a DAG does not mean that the relationships depicted are causal." Panel 4: the green shirted person is crying while the blue shirted person and dog look on.

hey @pwgtennant.bsky.social - thanks for your delightful talk at BU today on "Have DAGs Fulfilled their Promise in Epidemiology and Health Research?"

One of my fav bits:

Relevant to this soft-glam fascist's comments today, there's a bill in Florida to ban prescribing birth control to minors—or even giving teens information about it—without parental consent. It's called HB 173
The attacks on contraception are, and have been, in motion

Dorothy Roberts on the intersecting politics of abortion, pregnancy, and family policing - Harvard Law School In the Biddle Lecture, civil rights scholar Dorothy Roberts draws a throughline from the horrors of slavery to the Supreme Court’s recent abortion ruling.

More critics of how the right to birth control and abortion are under attack could have better race analysis.

Two helpful sources, if unfamiliar: On Dorothy Roberts's work and Young Lords's expansive vision of reproductive rights.

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More People Are Having Abortions At Home. Here's Who They Call When They Have Nowhere Else To Turn. Since Roe v. Wade fell, many callers are filled with concern: “If I go to the emergency room, will they call the police?”

I spoke with Dr. April Lockley, medical director of the Miscarriage and Abortion hotline, who has fielded questions from hundreds of people managing their abortions at home.

Since Roe v. Wade fell, many callers are filled with concern: “If I go to the emergency room, will they call the police?”

17 times deadlier than the Pinto 😮

you don’t need to spend money on new kitchen tools if you take care of the ones you’ve got with a little TLC and elbow grease (or in this case, mineral oil and conditioner)

A bottle of mineral oil sits on top of a cutting board in dire need of maintenance (i.e., oiling and conditioning)

put this on IG but might be useful here too: if you haven’t done it in a minute, today is a good day to oil and condition your cutting boards and sharpen your knives

(dull knives are way more dangerous than sharp knives! and a conditioned cutting board is important for good hygiene and maintenance)

Milano Cortina 2026 > Israel Olympic team overview Medals: 0 across the board for all sports

turns out banning them for doing genocide would’ve been an act of kindness

There’s no Black Chicago media presence in Springfield — time to change that • The TRiiBE The TRiiBE took its talents down to Springfield, IL this week. Let me tell you why.

A morning read — TRIIBE EIC Tiffany Walden unpacks why they covered Springfield this week.

“Pritzker going against the corporate head tax was not progressive. Yet, his stance wasn’t really publicly critiqued. So, we thought, where else is he not being progressive?”

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Survey length is both a validity issue, because long surveys lead to bad results, and an ethical issue, because long surveys are an unnecessary and unacceptable burden on the participants who volunteer to help our research.

Did you know that Texas Tech recently canceled an abortion provider’s speech because of a TPUSA campaign? Medical students in the state say this censorship harms not only their education, but their patients’ health:

Unions don't just benefit their members, they are a source of countervailing power against elites who want to control our political economy more generally.

a hard truth i am realizing is that even though i am Not Great at it, i think i enjoy quant research more than qual (though i like mixed-methods best of all)

We've got a small pot of money for a project turning a few science-driven stories about future pandemic into very short (1 paragraph) narratives. If you could hear from any fiction person - in any medium: novels, comics, TTRPGs - who would you want to read a story about the next pandemic from?

robin vos is one of the most odious electeds in the country and spent a lot of time blocking progress on things like postpartum medicaid and improved breast cancer screening coverage.

very happy to see this man fucking off and out of the WI house.

bless stata for having do files because it turns out i have been out of the quant analysis game for so long i forgot about destring and all that. going back to old data cleaning do files has saved me from an absolutely legendary crash-out

Despite relentless attacks, union representation hit a 16-year high in 2025. Nearly half a million more workers are covered by a union contract. Even as the Trump administration tried to weaken our rights, we kept organizing and building power.

i am a stata girlie and i will not pretend to be what i am not (R/SAS/SPSS user) anymore

UIC told me i didn’t do one of them and if i didn’t do it ASAP, i would be un-enrolled and when i gave them the certificate they were like oh oopsies lol guess you’re okay you can disregard this happens! 🥰

girl what

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

Prenatal exposure to wildfire PM2.5 and pregnancy loss in Colorado, USA, 2007–2018 AbstractBackground. The association between wildfire smoke (WFS) exposure and pregnancy loss has been understudied. Here, we examined the association betwe

#EpiSky #PaperSky #Colorado #EnvironmentalHealth

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Bright announcement for ICPSR Summer Program scholarships with a March 1 application deadline and over $400K available.

Scholarship applications the 2026 ICPSR Summer Program close Sunday! Over $400k in scholarships available! Apply by March 1. For more details: myumi.ch/ICPSRscholarships

#SumProg26 #ICPSR #QuantitativeMethods #ScholarshipOpportunities #GraduateStudies #DataScienceEducation #ResearchTraining

2025-2026 PH Postings

Refreshing my thread of public health (and adjacent) job postings:

First, a spreadsheet by Public Health Hiring Help that is still very much actively updated: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I am somebody! This is one of Jesse Jackson's greatest gifts to me.

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

So many social media posts, even about politics, boil down to saying I’m a good person and be like me.