How does a weekend pass so quickly 😳
As a dean I have to say this is ICKY, at least as described, and it gives a bad name to the rest of us who are actually trying to make our university education available more widely
Well this is all kinds of YIKES. Caltech slapping its name on online learning modules run by an external for profit company. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/u...
Hundreds of universities have lent their names to online programs, plugging budgets but alienating students who feel misled.
This Tuesday at 1pm ET! Register for this @rwjfoundation.bsky.social@neillewisjr.bsky.social present research from our team and its implications for communicating about health equity.
Awful: “Officials from the City of Asheville and Buncombe County have not released a plan for distributing food or water to its residents yet. At a press conference this morning, Buncombe County Manager Avril Pinder said that trucks of food and water are on their way, but have been stuck in transit”
at this point i think “harris needs more details” is just the way, refracted through consumption of punditry, that these voters are saying that a) they don’t pay much attention and b) they don’t want to vote for a woman www.nytimes.com/2024/09/28/u...
A win for the FDA and for honest healthcare providers everywhere: www.latimes.com/business/sto...
The FDA claimed these clinics were plying patients with an illegal drug derived from their stem cells. A federal court agrees.
This week, the touchstone paper purporting to show that there are replicability benefits of preregistration was retracted. For me this highlights a long-running disagreement I've had with core CoS strategy. I like the idea of making things possible, easy, and rewarding.
The Democrats showed us this summer that parties can exist as a force apart from individual candidates. But how do we take that demonstration effect and turn it into a movement? We got a bunch of top political scientists together to discuss! hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/partisans-...
A forum on our partisan paradox - and how to escape it.
New special issue of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Science is now finalized. "Re-Writing Pandemic Histories," edited by @steerewilliams.bsky.socialacademic.oup.com/jhmas/issue#histmed#OpenAccess. 🧪
Publishes original research on the written beginnings of medicine in all its aspects. It focuses on what practitioners of the healing arts did or taught, and how their peers, as well as patients, rece...