Children.
Earning.
Their way out.
Of Inclusion.

This is the populist soul.

in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive

Immigration enforcement is the number one priority of this administration — beyond everything else. And when the DOJ makes that its number one priority, it means that they have to drop a bunch of other cases, including ones with far more serious consequences.

Pseudoscience and COVID-19 — we’ve had enough already The scientific community must take up cudgels in the battle against bunk.

Health misinformation does great harm.

Decades of tolerating – explicitly or implicitly – pseudoscience (eg, alt med BS) played a big role in the rise of bunk.

Medical schools, professional orgs, etc, must speak up!

Wrote this in April 2020. Alas, MORE relevant now www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Some think that because universities are slow to react to changes in the labour market, governments should intervene and make them go faster in specific directions...never pausing to consider that govts in fact know jack shit about labour market change.

I will die on this hill.

This is not fan fiction. Could have fooled me Now and again here at Wonkhe towers, we'll be sent a draft article with a heavy metaphorical hook.

Ngl, the odds that an 80,000-word book about university management using Warhammer as a metaphor is any good are pretty slim, but am I going to read this book? Yes. Yes, I am.

SSRIs? I didn't know these were on the radar.

Reality is now a political opinion.

I find these studies have a strong element of "If everyone smoked 20 cigarettes a day then lung cancer would appear to be a genetic disease." Social media and phones are like dust, you can't keep em out even if you try, so the variance we study is miniscule.

US court allows ICE to arrest and pepper-spray peaceful protestors in Minnesota

Appeals Court Stays Restrictions on Federal Tactics in Minnesota The Eighth Circuit granted the Trump administration’s request to block, at least for now, a lower court’s injunction limiting how federal agents interact with protesters in the state.

One court decision, two different headlines.

Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

Map of state higher ed restrictions

The scale and speed of state censorship of campus really is amazing.
More than half of America's college students attend institutions in states that have passed laws censoring higher education since 2021.
From @penamerica.bsky.social
pen.org/report/ameri...

On The Beat with Ari Melber tonight

Opinion: Is a nation falling from 5th to 22nd in life expectancy rankings a sign of something wrong? Growing income and wealth inequality, housing and food insecurity, lack of unionized jobs, and a health-care system in crisis contribute.

calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

I wonder if there are characteristics of institutions (universities) that mitigate this. Strong leadership, or leadership structure, similar.

A cross-national analysis finds that as governments become more populist, academic freedom declines
doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Fantastic title

If you could ride a horse (by looking at this still image of a horse that we made appear to be galloping around in a manner similar to but not quite exactly like a horse), would you?

Good analogy, normalizing unambiguously bad stuff.

Yes, action speaks louder than words, in the sense that our initiatives are not "real" enough to make a change, thus people do not see value. I thought it was an interesting idea.

I was recently listening to this author's talk on the cyclical nature of similar issues historically: Why progressives may not be as 'woke' as they think | Ideas | On Demand | CBC Listen share.google/EcxbExRuStZE...

Gives some insight into the pushback imo.

Not a lot of calling a thing what it is from NYT headline here.

CLSAFindings💡: Comprehensiveness vs efficiency: A cross-sectional analysis of the association between allostatic load and the frailty index using the CLSA

Cc: @danduttonysj.bsky.social, @dalhousieu.bsky.social

🔗: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40882950/

Very impressed by the NB Heart and Stroke conference today. Great mix of topics.

I think this is an American talking point, this guy is like 10 years behind on repeating populist American rhetoric.

You cannot have a functioning classroom under these conditions. As I've said before, classroom surveillance has been a much bigger and more damaging change to campus than wokeness.

GROWW Changing the way women’s and girls' health research is conducted in Canada.

This program is one of the most interesting programs I have ever attended, interdisciplinary presentations done right across the board.
GROWW share.google/kMu9eBTBNO9h...

Comprehensiveness vs Efficiency: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Association Between Allostatic Load and the Frailty Index Using the CLSA The goal of this study was to investigate the associations between the frailty index (FI) and allostatic load (AL) to determine if allostatic load con…

A former student now medical student, Luke Duignan, published his Research In Medicine project (rare) on the potential substitution between frailty index and allostatic load. AL is a nice variable for considering the burden of SDoH in popns.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fredericton's food rescue centre to be important piece of food insecurity puzzle | CBC News A perishable food rescue centre is under construction in Fredericton that could be a blueprint for others around the country to follow.

While this is a great initiative we know that downstream food provision does not address food insecurity in the population.

Fredericton's food rescue centre to be important piece of food insecurity puzzle | CBC News share.google/ygFULhMnU7W2...

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