This is bad

Oh. Come. On.

Ah, yes, I understand the exquisite torture for the allergen sufferer. Where all the beauty is literally there in order to launch what becomes an assault on your very ability to breathe

That seems less fun

Even with the variance, I love the spring here

A bright sliver of the moon in a dark blue sky that ombres down to a light blue just after sunset with tree shadows and a white window

#Baltimore

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

[is there any one who does not know and admire @ranaawdish.bsky.social?]

A diagram showing that 24 annually funded grants becomes only 15 funded grants if 50% of the funds for competitive grants are used for multi-year funding.

I was preparing for a talk I gave last evening to a lay audience and came up with this graphic to explain multi-year funding and why it leads to fewer competitive awards and funding investigators and projects.

6/8

Me: [talking about an approach to a writing my project I was anxious if I could pull off]

Son: [correctly] but no one would want to read that even if you did make it work

A quilt with three blue panels, each decorated with seven golden stars, hangs in a museum exhibit

Interior view of Old St. Paul’s Church in Baltimore, showing the ceiling painted with a cosmic motif of golden stars against a deep blue background

Last fall, @thepeale.bsky.social issued a call for artists to interpret the evolving meaning of “place” in Baltimore. Immediately, I wanted to participate and create a piece. I am delighted to share that this quilt, submitted under the title “Cosmic Triptych,” is now on exhibit.

Ahh, this book has also become a pandemic book and I am still avoiding pandemic books but I am toooooooo far in to stop

“A friend posted on social media around that time: how many moms are crying in bathrooms? I think mom‘s crying in bathrooms during the pandemic could be a coffee table book. A very thick coffee table book.”

~ @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social

Which should not be construed in anyway, I want to be clear, to absolve her husband from being (in her telling, but it reads darn credible, I know the type) a jerk, as of at least page 150

Our jobs, in particular, demand (without asking) so much from those we love

…What would I have done to save my marriage? I would have abandoned myself, and I did, for a time. I would have done it for longer if he'd let me.”

She continues:

“We were both busy, probably spread too thin, needing things from our lives-and from one another-that we weren't getting. agreed that something needed to give. I disagreed that the something needed to be my work. In turn, me…

…myself up origami tight. I canceled or declined upcoming events: See, I'll do anything to make this marriage work. I gave up income and professional opportunities, but those sacrifices didn't save my marriage.”

From @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social, the “we” being her then husband and her:

“We became friends in a creative writing workshop. When I got good news related to my writing a publication, a grant, an invitation-I sensed him wince inwardly. So I stopped sharing good news. I made myself small, folded…

…”perhaps I would crush an illusion that is necessary for us to continue doing this work, an illusion that sustains us by promising, even untruthfully, that someday such fearless mastery will be ours. Perhaps our patients also, at least sometimes, need to believe in this illusion.

I don’t know.”

What I Do Not Tell the Medical Student | NEJM What do we tell medical students who are wowed by senior physicians’ power and control over patients’ conditions and outcomes when we know this power and control are largely illusory?

“I do not tell the medical student that I now recognize it as pathology to be unafraid to lose a child.”
~ Erica Andrist

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Two book pages: SOME PEOPLE ASK So. how would you describe your mariage? What happent Every time someone asks me a question like this, every time someone asks about my marriage, or about my divorce experience, pause for a moment. Inside that imperceptible pause, I'm thinking about the cost of answering fully. I'm weighing it against the cost of silence. —I could tell the story about the pinecone, the postcard, the notebook, the face attached to the name I googled, the name I googled written in the handwriting I'd seen my name in, and the names of our children, for years and years. I could tell them how much I've spent on lawyers, or how much Tue spent on therapy, or how much I've spent on dental work from grinding my teeth in my sleep, and how many hours I sleep, which is not many, but at least if 'm only sleeping a few hours a night, then I'm only grinding my teeth a few hours a night. I could talk about how a lie is worse than whatever the lie is draped over to conceal. I could talk about what a complete mindfuck it is to lose the shelter of your marriage, but also how expansive the view is without that shelter, how big the sky is— Next question. "Sometimes people just grow apart," I say. I smile, take a sip of water. A FRIEND SAYS EVERY BOOK BEGINS WITH AN UNANSWERABLE QUESTION Then what is mine? how to carry this

Cover of Maggie Smith’s you could make this place beautiful

Apparently I read memoirs now

Good luck! You will be awesome. And this so important that faculty do this

The Catechism of the Catholic Church on Just War Doctrine.

Some evenings downtown Baltimore is just impossibly beautiful and peaceful.

Can someone please remind me what Medtronic/Nellcor’s most recent “medical grade sold to consumer” pulse oximeter is branded as?

Elite higher ed has many problems, but the key factor driving down trust is political. Look at the graph - backlash against costs, admissions, etc. can't explain the changes we see. We should still reform our institutions and refocus on our core mission, but blindly blaming ourselves is abuser logic

Thinking more about the Yale report. Parts of it are thoughtful. But Yale wants to make what is essentially a structural problem a question of behavioral one.

they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now

I have been to one baseball game in 4 years here and yet the vibes alone are contagious

Should Slavery’s Past Be Erased? Can it Be? Lessons from Philadelphia’s President’s House

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