if I'm honest, I yearn for the silence of a winter night, but this is fine too I guess.

Also in my late 30s, this morning walking the dog: Man, spring has sprung. Everyone is so chatty.

2023 me: I'm going to focus new grants on understanding health disparities in how womens reproductive and cardiometabolic health influence each other! Yay intersectionality!

2026 me:

But whatcha gonna do, we did what we had to do and stayed home, masked up, and got vaccinated (and still get all our boosters). But it fucking sucked!

A stack of “the edge of space time” by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Signed copies of @chanda.blacksky.app’s new book hitting our new books table this morning

Sure, there are entire fields for this (public health, education), but they're women-dominated and women can't be trusted. It's so much more manly to attempt some eugenicist fever dream w/shiny new toys.

All evidence-based this and evidence-based that until the evidence is that they are (redacted).

We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!

Picture of book, The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, held up by a six year old who spent twenty minutes deciding which dog man book to buy while I tried not to think too hard about the characters horror of an origin story.

Brought the familia to our local bookshop and picked up @chanda.blacksky.app’s new book. So psyched to dig in.

I started reading at the store while the kids debated which dog man to buy (save me). Was instantly hooked.

Sara J Cromer, MD, MS

David Conti, PhD

The authors take the mic.
In this upcoming May 13 Journal Club Webinar, @ajhgnews.bsky.social’s paper authors Sara J Cromer, MD, MS, and David Conti, PhD, unpack what it takes to integrate PRS and SDoH across genetically and socially varied populations—LIVE: https://bit.ly/4chGKtr #ASHG

this race-bending the new musketeers thing is taking it way too far, next they'll be claiming Dumas was black or something

Using “defend” in “defend science” muddles the message in our current literary crisis w/only one letter diff from defund. On a deeper level, the choice of “defend” instead of “protect” in science advocacy reveals how gendered expectations influence our fields/society-at-large.

In this essay I will…

The Science of How to Talk to Kids About Race: A Typewritten Look at the Evidence

More adventures in analog tools to share behavioral science.

This time, looking at work by @sylviapperry.bsky.social ...which happens to be the feature of my podcast this month!

So, after you read this, fire up Opinion Science for more on the context of this work and where it's headed.

complete with his own karen

When my daughter was 6, she came home distraught bc some boys told her that girls don’t like dinosaurs. I said oh hell no and promptly booked our spring break trip to the AMNH in NYC.

She got a photo with her fave, which has always been a parasaurolophus. Because taste. And their skulls are metal.

Honestly? No clue besides the reasons you just said. It’s weird.

I imagine part of it is because the internet means you hear the horror stories more often and compounded with people having kids later the decision process is slightly different with more control.

But also, that shit can be awful and can really mess your body up for the rest of your life.

And make pregnancy and childbirth safer.

It is increasingly dangerous to be pregnant and it was never a picnic to begin with.

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of severe pregnancy nausea and vomiting Nature Genetics - Multi-ancestry GWAS meta-analysis identifies risk loci for severe nausea and vomiting of pregnancy. Downstream analyses explore maternal and fetal contributions of these loci and...

Thrilled to see this out. What started out as a chat several years back with @drfejzo.bsky.social about leveraging publicly available data on hyperemesis gravidarum GWAS turned into a wonderful collaboration with April Shu, @mvaudel.bsky.social, @xwww.bsky.social and many others!

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I'm convinced that not a single person that worked on Rooster has ever spent time at or even spoken to a human being from an institution of higher learning.

The last time I tried to engage with Jay Bhattacharya in dialogue I ended up on administrative leave. 🤷‍♀️

Heck, I have this *in my own family*.

And what a privilege it is to grow up knowing in your bones that love is not contingent on assimilation.

It was a gift I received and one I’m overjoyed to give my children.

They’re not debating you, you dumbasses, they’re rubbing it in

Are you telling me it was a popularity contest this whole time? 🫠

The speaker demographics are...telling.

I mean yes fresh air would definitely help my mood but unfortunately the trees are trying to murder me so I'll stay inside right here hunched over my varying sizes of screens thank you very much.

"This implies that the reasons why people burn out-even if their jobs fall into the Arendtian category of 'work'—do not solely relate to the content of their tasks, but also involve the context in which they must fulfill these tasks."

In this case, the context is the unchecked rise of fascism, including the destruction of our scientific institutions and the fracturing of our networks, all the while the powers that be sending out empty platitudes that make it clear that we're all on our own.

Burnout as breakdown of one's existence in the world - PubMed Burnout is generally conceived as a condition resulting from external stressors in one's work environment, but its precise definition is contested. In line with recent empirical studies, we suggest an existential-phenomenological approach to avoid the dualisms that characterize the present understan …

Thinking a lot about how this applies to the current moment as a US academic and the unavoidable long shadow of burnout.

"The bodily symptoms of burnout, [...] gain a broader perspective by considering burnout in terms of an existential breakdown in the relation between individual and world."

There's a local restaurant that makes pierogis with butter and chili crunch oil on top and they are mind blowing.

Very nice. Into the teaching folder it goes!

Ah! This may explain some of it as all the older folks I had exposure to were Polish or Polish-ish.