Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu… YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Colbert posted the interview online. I do wonder if CBS and the FCC are aware of the Streisand effect? The interview has been up for 8 hours and has just over half a million views.

Fascism is here. 🇺🇸
CBS is dead. ☠️

More people will now see this interview Trump tried to bury than ever would have otherwise. 👀

I've always tried to be in the 90th percentile or better in my life. In this case, I really hope I'm not.

Dang I should have placed some polymarket bets for the outage. That way the longer it takes, the more I win!

Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆

What’s the secret code to get you’re ORCID and ScienCV to link?

I picked the right time to start watching Andor.

Forget affordability. I miss accountability. Also equity and justice.

What a year this week has been.

AI starts autonomously writing prescription refills in Utah The program allows patients in the state to get prescription refills for 190 common meds.

What could possibly go wrong? arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

2026 somehow going to make 2025 look like a f**king cake walk at this rate.

Scroll on by if you don't have the stomach for this. Horrible.

My favorite thing is responding to people asking me if I saw something on facebook that I deleted Facebook. (Of course I also then hope I don’t have to answer whether I still have instagram)

A graph shows the cumulative incidence of AUD (%) over time (y) for IBT and Non-IBT groups. The Non-IBT group (orange line) shows a higher incidence compared to the IBT group (blue line). Log-rank test: P=.006.

After bariatric surgery, patients on incretin-based therapies had a 55% lower risk of new-onset alcohol use disorder (AUD) and 41% lower risk of AUD medication initiation, suggesting potential neurobehavioral benefits beyond weight loss. ja.ma/4pSbzcs

It's a great idea on paper, but corporations subsidize employee health insurance as part of the benefits package (to varying degrees) for recruitment/retention purposes. What would be a corporation's incentive do this for non-employee citizens?

Voting in my lifetime is like being a cowboys fan, I was too young to enjoy the good days.

The New England Journal of Medicine Orforglipron, an Oral Small-Molecule GLP-1 Receptor Agonist for Obesity A Research Summary based on Wharton S et al. | 10.1056/NEJMoa2511774 | Published on September 16, 2025 Visual representations of the patients in the trial and the treatments they were assigned. Read the full Research Summary at NEJM.org.

In the ATTAIN-1 phase 3, randomized trial, the use of orforglipron, an oral glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, led to significant mean body-weight reductions in patients with #obesity, as compared with placebo. Full trial results and Research Summary: nej.md/4n1nSl2

#MedSky #EndoSky

This week I have had a journal auto-reject my paper for "detection of AI use" when no AI was used and another submission site refusing to acceptt my uploaded files because every file had a "virus detected". Did I get black listed from scientific writing or something?

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The other physician in the room seemed disinclined to provide aid.

The term #estimand is now part of the technical language of trials - but it remains a concept that many find hard to understand. Recent work has aimed to make the term more accessible to researchers, patients & public 1/8
#MethodologyMonday #127

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.

Every Alabama fan nods - yes, I will pay for the ppv to see that.

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Can you please explain to me what the "mid-south" is then, i.e. Kentucky, Tennesee, +/- Oklahoma.

Shoutout to the good folk at the NIH who worked overtime over the last 2-3 months to catch up on FY2025 appropriations. Heros. I'm sorry many/most of you are now furlowed.

So exhausting..

A cat wearing pit viper goggles with rainbow lenses relaxes on a bare glacier. A mountain is visible behind him.

Since we’re posting more regularly here and it’s a new platform I figured we should introduce ourselves.

This is Gary. He’s an 11-year old domestic longhair cat and together we adventure around western Canada, mostly in the Rocky Mountains.