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Public Health On Call: 536 - Death and Public Health Part I: How to Talk About Death and Dying Conversations about death and dying between physicians and patients or patients and loved ones are difficult but important. Dr. Jillian Tullis, a professor in Communication at the University of San Di...

From the archives: How to Talk about Death and Dying

@profjillian.bsky.social discusses why it's crucial to discuss end of life plans with loved ones and which wishes are most important to consider.

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Maybe some day I too will know this feeling… 👻

Faculty Hiring - College of Arts and Sciences - University of San Diego Learn about our equitable hiring practices, how we align equity and justice to our work and how to join our faculty at USD’s College of Arts and Sciences.

We’re hiring in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of San Diego

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The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S. ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longe...

In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned.

Here's a list of those exempted drugs.

Faculty Hiring - College of Arts and Sciences - University of San Diego Learn about our equitable hiring practices, how we align equity and justice to our work and how to join our faculty at USD’s College of Arts and Sciences.

We’re hiring in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of San Diego.

www.sandiego.edu/cas/about/di...

JOB: Assistant Professor in South/Southeast Asian Religions (w/ focus on Hindu Traditions, defined BROADLY) in my department at the University of San Diego (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY).

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Something to add to my end of life class reading list.

Opinion | Listen Up. Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Speaking to You.

“Informality heightens the sense that this is not a remote matter of merely academic. And, as always, orality grabs your attention.”

Listen Up. Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Speaking to You. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

Been listening to *How to Stand Up to a Dictator* by @mariaressa.bsky.social and this tracks.

@roxanegay.bsky.social gets all the credit for introducing me to his work.

Y’all! Im introducing @blacktopkid.bsky.social tonight at the University of San Diego in partnership with Warwick’s books and I’m starting to get nervous! Send me good vibes.

Congratulations!

“And we are a great nation because we have invested in the arts and sciences while protecting the freedom that enables them to flourish.”

Photo from my friend Mary (who is not on Bluesky) in Florida. An Allendale United Methodist Church sign reads:

“If empathy is a sin. Sin boldly.”

many thanks to @booker.senate.gov for advocating for higher education; our commitment to research, free inquiry, and free speech.

More of it

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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MISTER ROGERS GOES TO WASHINGTON MISTER ROGERS GOES TO WASHINGTON

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Just kidding. It’s more of a vibe in 20 Jan…

Me at 9 am

Doubled my sustaining gift to my local NPR station @kpbssandiego.bsky.social

What Is at Stake | AAC&U Universities must take action for democracy in our politically charged times

“Campus leaders at all types of institutions across the US must reaffirm their core values & help people, both inside & outside of the academy, understand what is at stake for our democracy if officials escalate unwarranted governmental intrusion into higher education”

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I read *On Tyranny* by @timothysnyder.bsky.social on a flight last night. Sobering and insightful. If you’re feeling helpless right now buy one or check it out from your local library. Because doing nothing right now is not an option.

Are you going to try to catch the eclipse

My aunt died at 37 from cervical cancer. I’m glad science has shifted the likelihood of this happening to others.

Yikes. Sorry that happened. Never a good feeling.

Alternate Realities: A Strange Bet Podcast Episode · Embedded · S23 E1 · 27m

I listened to this three part podcast about a man who has fallen deep down the rabbit hole of conspiracies. And his desire to be understood by his family kept coming up over and over.

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I’m gonna need a follow up on #AlternativeRealities from #Embedded on @npr.org