Liz Neeley

COYOTE First Aid Kit: How to Compassionately Respond to an Overdose Naloxone, rescue breathing, and 911: Learn the do's, don'ts, and best practices for reversing an overdose.

Really proud of my colleagues for launching this new series at @coyotemedia.org -- First Aid Kit, a set of pieces that help you be safer, healthier, and more helpful in your community.

How to respond to an overdose by @nuala.bsky.social

This is what I spent most of last week working on with other people who cannot leave this stuff alone. Gotta put the facts in order in a stable place and then see what meaning emerges.

BE A MINDFUL CONSUMER IN THE ATTENTION ECONOMY

What should we expect this flu season?

Here’s a forecast from a wastewater perspective (because sh*t don’t lie)
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That is why care has transformative power beyond health. To be truly listened to – to be recognized not as a case but as a person – can change not just how one experiences illness, but how one experiences oneself and the world. It can foster the capacity to care for others across differences, to resist hatred and violence, to build the fragile social ties upon which democracy depends. By contrast, when medicine is reduced to data and transactions, it not only fails patients and demoralizes doctors. It also degrades democracy itself. A system that alienates people in their moments of deepest vulnerability – bankrupting them, gaslighting them, leaving them unheard – breeds despair and rage. It creates the conditions in which authoritarians gain traction.

This connection isn’t articulated often enough.

Medical Research Funding: Timeline — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

We have a new timeline up today on our Medical Research Funding page, documenting the onslaught of political, legal, and bureaucratic attacks on medical research since January:

unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Oh this 🧵 is SO interesting!

Trump’s Politicized Prosecutions May Hit a Roadblock When the president puts his political enemies on trial on pretextual grounds, jurors have the option of refusing to convict.

A reminder that if you are called to be part of a jury in a political prosecution you have a right to refuse to convict on the grounds the prosecution is unjust. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This week's @unbreaking.org update on immigration is *also* an update on data security because the administration is using immigration enforcement as a way to trial and operationalize a full-on surveillance state.

@unciv.bsky.social you just liked and reposted this post of mine from Sept 2013 (it was ported over when I left twitter). The link in it is broken. Delete?

Interesting 🧵 on this 25-yr old (!) paper on “social translucence” dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

You did it @louierivers3.bsky.social !!!

Now comes the even harder work. But for tonight, let's celebrate.

HCI, Infosci, Comm folks, what are your favorite readings for gradstudents on how to choose a scholarly community, and how to choose where to publish?

Assembling some notes on this and would love to know about your favorite reads on this.

Perhaps relevant today, a framework for understanding how many election rumors mislead.

I don’t have a tidy answer for that (ugh, we don’t have precise answers for exactly how many *federal researchers* have lost their jobs)

This is part of the problem!

The CDC Data Project In the proposed FY26 budget, programs that help Americans live safer, healthier, longer lives are on the chopping block.

New-to-me but very helpful visualizations how all the actions of the past ten months are affecting the CDC www.cdcdataproject.org

Press Release: AAUP at UT Austin Expresses Concerns about UT’s “Statement on Academic Integrity” Austin, TX November 3, 2025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karma Chávez, 480-586-5848, karmachavez@gmail.com Polly Strong, strongpolly@gmail.com AAUP at UT Austin Expresses Concerns about UT’s “Sta…

The response by @utaustinaaup.bsky.social to UT Austin's new "Academic Integrity" statement is good.

"The statement contributes to a climate of fear that is not conducive to high quality education."

I was in a meeting when this news was shared so I quite literally watched my own jaw drop.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

My university sent out an email at 8 AM this morning asking that we pause all spending of federal grant funds except for payroll due to the government shutdown (with some exceptions). Is this happening elsewhere?

Week 41 October 25-31 - a seasonal shift

For 41 weeks now, I’ve been sitting down every Friday night to chronicle the damage this administration is doing to science & higher ed.

We must stay focused. We’re in this for the long haul. We are finding ways not just to block them, but build something better.

buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

US public health officials vigilant as newer mpox variant detected Risk to general public is low but cases in California suggest virus is spreading undetected in some communities

The newer mpox variant is spreading undetected in some communities, California announced a few weeks ago. This variant has spread equally among men and women in central and eastern Africa -- but it's too soon to tell if that will be the case in the US. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Week 41 October 25-31 - a seasonal shift

For 41 weeks now, I’ve been sitting down every Friday night to chronicle the damage this administration is doing to science & higher ed.

We must stay focused. We’re in this for the long haul. We are finding ways not just to block them, but build something better.

buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

Another article about Alaska Earthquake Center and tsunami funding cuts www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/11/01/s...

Privacy Loves Company Most of the internet’s blessings—the opportunities for communities to connect despite physical borders and oppressive controls, the avenues to hold the powerful accountable without immediate

Good privacy decisions begin with proper knowledge about your situation—and we’ve got you covered. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Food Safety: Timeline — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

We have a new timeline up today on our Food Safety page, documenting how individual events continue to chip away at the personnel, regulations, and oversight mechanisms that make up our food safety systems:
unbreaking.org/issues/food-...

Screenshot of GoogleDrive with top file, most recently opened today, titled “The ongoing saga of Liminal typefaces”

Oh no Ethan… I…
Will the typeface not fix me?

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:

www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

US judge extends block on Trump's mass layoffs during shutdown A federal judge on Tuesday further blocked President Donald Trump's administration from following through on plans to lay off thousands of federal employees amid a nearly month-long partial government shutdown.

US judge extends block on Trump's mass layoffs during shutdown reut.rs/47yx0Hr