The Cat Gets the Medicine: Why American Addiction Treatment Is Medieval and Who It’s Killing

substack.com/@nbhrn2/note... this from @nbhrn.bsky.social is brilliant and a must-read

🧪 Drug delivery to the brain through the skull - yes, through the skull...! Explained by maestro @dereklowe.bsky.social

Right Through the Skull | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...

Had to create an SOP, and Claude did the job much slower but 10X better than ChatGPT

I’m a Nobel Prize-winning immigrant. I can no longer recognize this country. Attacks on science and immigrants are destroying America.

"without the research infrastructure, the scientists, and the continuous funding that undergirds all of this, there are no miracles, no breakthroughs, no cures."
newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-nobel...

We have an Iranian friend in Tehran who has devoted his career to translating Thoreau for an Iranian readership. Starting with 'Walden,' through Thoreau's anti-slavery works and essays on civil disobedience, the lot.

We have not heard anything from him since the bombardment began.

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

Thanks. I guess the AI database they use doesn’t have the location of synagogues? Let’s hope they have that info now as there are some ancient beauties in urban areas all over Iran. Here is a picture of the Yusef Abad neighborhood synagogue in Tehran that so far has not been hit
کنیسه یوسف آباد

Donald Trump says ‘a whole civilisation will die’ if Iran ignores demands Attacks on Iran increase and Israel tells Iranians to avoid train travel as deadline to reopen strait of Hormuz looms

"Israel’s military expressed regret...for damage caused to a synagogue in Tehran, claiming...“collateral damage” from a strike against a “senior military target”. Iranian media said the synagogue, serving the capital’s small Jewish population, had been destroyed." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Quaker Meeting House - Find A Local Quaker Church In Your City Looking to attend A Quaker Meeting? We've compiled a list of Friends Meeting being held all over the U.S. Take a look & find a Meeting House in your town

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Co-sign

It is likely that your local Quakers / American Friends Service Committee are having vigils this week.

Sometimes being together in silence in affirmation of nonviolence with others can be extraordinarily powerful yet restorative

Threatening genocide normalizes genocide.

Sharif University in Tehran was just bombed

Founded in 1965, it is one the most elite science and engineering institutions in the world. Alumni include the mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win the Fields Medal

Here is the list of other alumni

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

A quote card by Scott Galloway that says: "If you have an endowment over a billion dollars and you aren’t growing your freshman class size faster than the population, I think you should lose your tax-free status."

My thoughts on higher ed.

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕

...any proposal for the [NIH] to conduct or support research, the Secretary may not ... fund any proposal ...unless the proposal has ... been recommended for approval by a majority of [study section]

www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

How do we know if research is credible? In Abatayo et al., 86 of us combined evidence across the SCORE program including replicability, reproducibility, robustness, human and machine assessments to understand relationships among many potential credibility measures. 1/

Paper: osf.io/preprints/me...

A new preprint from the Nguyen lab explores the impact of dry-hits, as in when the e-cig cartridge runs out of liquid. It ain't good.

Neurobehavioral Effects of Dry Hit Nicotine E-Cigarette Vapor Inhalation in Adolescent Wistar Rats www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

library(tidyplots) spendings |> tidyplot(x = amount, y = category, color = category) |> add_sum_bar(alpha = 0.2) |> add_sum_dash() |> add_sum_value(accuracy = 1, color = "black") |> sort_y_axis_levels() |> remove_legend()

This is how you can do horizontal bars in #tidyplots 😉

#rstats #dataviz #phd

All-cause and cause-specific mortality in gambling disorder: Evidence from a nation-wide matched and sibling cohort study in Taiwan

Europe builds Microsoft-alternative ‘Euro-Office’ to reclaim digital sovereignty The open-source initiative promises seamless document compatibility, transparent governance, and reduced dependency on non-European platforms.

Europe builds Microsoft-alternative ‘Euro-Office’ to reclaim digital sovereignty

The open-source initiative promises seamless document compatibility, transparent governance, and reduced dependency on non-European platforms tech.eu/2026/03/27/e...

Tuesday

DADR Editor’s Pick: More comprehensive Medicaid coverage is linked to higher use of medications for alcohol use disorder, highlighting how insurance design shapes access to care.

Register for the webinar here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Supporters push to revive moribund agency studying patient care The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has grant money, but nobody to hand it out

‘“It just disappeared,” Dr @noraverlaine.bsky.social says, with the $153,000 installment due in September 2025 never arriving with no notice from AHRQ.’

www.science.org/content/arti...

Curious how your experience with Claude compared to this ChatGPT blogpost.

The front page of the https://reporter.nih.gov website with funding curves of showing the number of awards and dollar amount by month.

Well, this is a surprise...

This is the landing page for NIH Reporter.

Those curves are new and look vaguely familiar...

I guess imitation is the greatest form of flattery (or NIH_leadership™ doesn't want reporters getting their data from a deranged activist).

Friends, any recommended readings on bot detection? Having some issues, would love to collect as many sources as possible on how to deal with this! TYIA #AcademicSky

📚If you are at an academic library in the US, tell us how you are (or are not!) supporting Data Management Plans! We are creating a dataset of current practices before the big changes to DMPs at NIH and NSF (among others) take effect.

@ me if you have questions!

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Editorial: What we promised, and what we delivered As we write our final editorial for European Societies, we return to the spirit of our first editorial (Präg, Ersanilli and Gugushvili, 2022) and to the question that guided our tenure: did we deliver...

The flagship journal of the European Sociological Association, European Societies, makes published articles free for everyone & does not charge authors a publication fee.

Authors of quantitative work are required to openly share data & code.

No @asanews.bsky.social journal shares all these traits.

Virginia Governor to Decide on Raft of Marijuana Bills, Including Legal Sales - Filter Virginia lawmakers passed several marijuana-related bills in the legislative session that ended March 14, and now Governor Abigail Spanberger (D) ...

Gov. Spanberger will decide by April 13 on numerous marijuana bills passed by lawmakers- legalizing adult-use sales, resentencing, protecting rights of parents who use cannabis & more.

"Virginians will see many long-overdue reforms finally become law," one advocate anticipates.

Tom Angell reports: