Do car-free zones hurt disabled people? We asked experts. City planners and advocates are seeing "accessibility used as a political football."

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social

Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”

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2nd- or 3rd-year PhD student? Applications for @hhmi-
science.bsky.social's #GilliamFellows Program open 9/1!
Robust dissertation support, an incredible community of scientists, tailored professional development (for you *and* your faculty thesis advisor), & so much more.

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Scientists: if you have pursued/secured philanthropic funding in the wake of federal research funding cuts, I want to talk to you.

Reposts appreciated!

ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt “illegal immigrants” US immigration agents are using an app developed by Palantir that draws on the health records of millions of Americans to find and detain people they deem illegal immigrants. The revelation comes as ...

“US immigration agents are using an app developed by Palantir that draws on the health records of millions of Americans to find and detain people they deem illegal immigrants.”

www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Amazon’s surveillance camera maker Ring announced a partnership on Thursday with Flock, a maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras that share footage with law enforcement. Now agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with “evidence collection and investigative work.” Flock cameras work by scanning the license plates and other identifying information about cars they see. Flock’s government and police customers can also make natural language searches of their video footage to find people who match specific descriptions. However, AI-powered technology used by law enforcement has been proven to exacerbate racial biases. “On the same day that Ring announced this partnership, 404 Media reported that ICE, the Secret Service, and the Navy had access to Flock’s network of cameras. By partnering with Ring, Flock could potentially access footage from millions more cameras.” Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/

If you’ve ever thought about getting rid of your Ring products or disconnecting from Amazon in general, now would be a good time…

techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/a...

I thoroughly recommend reading all of Cory Doctorow's recent speech on AI skepticism, it's crammed with new arguments and interesting new ways of thinking about these problems pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

Duke for the Dukes! Let’s go!!!!! JMU to the playoffs

Glad they’re trying to investigate this

Mood 🦅🏈

Fetterman’s office doesn’t even have a voicemail for constituent feedback anymore…

Just got our first one last month. Love how they have reading guides to help your child engage with the books at different ages

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Another one from @jesseduquette.bsky.social

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

NIH races to spend its 2025 grant money — but fewer projects win funding Despite political obstacles, officials are on track to disburse all of the research funds allocated to US biomedical behemoth.

Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget.

“Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Read this and imagined Lowry hustling to finish his delivery route to get to the arena on time

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I'm a science journalist for @statnews.com looking to talk with folks who applied to biomedical Ph.D. programs and had offers rescinded earlier this year. What have you been up to since then? You can reach me at jonathan.wosen@statnews.com or via Signal (username jwosen.27). #journorequest

You’re right! Ectomy would be the removal and lysis is breaking it up with drugs or other means

📢 Pittsburgh #orthoresearchers! Join us for a special networking event on Aug 14, 7:30–9:00 PM. Meet fellow scientists, enjoy free drinks/appetizers, and learn about ORS. Open to all! Hosted by ORS Ambassador Ke Song, PhD. www.ors.org/ambassadorev...

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.

Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

We just welcomed our IVF miracle and were lucky enough to have family support to afford it (insurance coverage stinks). We would have done anything to have a family. It’s disgusting that he manipulated such a vulnerable population

Will you be at ISB or ASB in the coming weeks? Definitely come talk to me or someone from our group about a new Postdoc Position we are looking to fill asap in foot neuromechanics, aging, and gait. I'll post the official call for applications soon. Join us at UNC Chapel Hill! Reposts encouraged.

Thanks! Yeah, we have the e5 and I agree, it kinda sucks

Which one do you have? Ours is constant frustration

Peer review meltdown in one diagram.

Greater emphasis on glamour journals leads people to try their luck with mediocre papers. This drains the review pool (they often have to be re-reviewed elsewhere). That drops the accuracy of peer review, creating more incentive to submit mediocre papers…

The Continuing Trials of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Clinical Trials A little over 10 years ago, I worked with several other PTJ Editorial Board Members to address recurring problems we were seeing with clinical trial submis

The quality of #ClinicalTrials in PT and rehab has improved, but we still have work to do. Learn about the important pitfalls to avoid in rehabilitation clinical trials in our editor-in-chief's latest editorial:

academic.oup.com/ptj/article/...