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Associate Professor of Management at Saint Francis University, PA. Gamer and Sci-Fi fan.

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I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice, Rashida and I don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,

I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice, Rashida and I don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,

uhhh oh my god

01.03.2026 08:39 👍 26022 🔁 4726 💬 573 📌 482
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Scientists: "Food gives you energy"

Me after eating:

01.03.2026 13:25 👍 4927 🔁 940 💬 39 📌 51
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School board supports naming merged school in honor of Salem abolitionist SALEM — The School Committee has shown unanimous support for naming the merged Carlton and Saltonstall schools as the Sarah Parker Remond Elementary School, in honor of the Salem-born activist

At our next meeting the #SalemMA School Committee will vote to name our newly configured elementary school the Sarah Parker Remond Elementary School.

It will be the first school in Salem named for a woman and the first for a person of color.

www.salemnews.com/news/local_n...

28.02.2026 17:57 👍 860 🔁 214 💬 0 📌 11

I remind my students regularly to remember the immortal words of Monty Python any time we're talking about models, and it applies equally well to animal models: "It's only a model".

27.02.2026 17:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Excellent observation!

27.02.2026 14:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Full data published for orforglipron vs oral semaglutide in diabetics. Liver data looks good(which is the big concern with it's weird molecular shape) better A1c reduction is pretty clear. Tolerability slightly "worse" for orforglipron but otherwise another oral pill that just works!

26.02.2026 14:07 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Inspired by Lars I found this very recent publication, treat to target approach for obesity management. I feel like while some subjective measures remain, such as height & waist size, blood pressure this could honestly be a better way to measure GLP1 efficacy in both trials and clinics

25.02.2026 16:21 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

it's fascinating to watch Costco lap every one of these clowns because they have the only CEO in America who still thinks his job is to run a company that does business and not be the main character of life forging his personal legacy with one eye on the group chat to see if they're impressed yet

25.02.2026 14:24 👍 5161 🔁 762 💬 55 📌 13
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oops. White nationalism is a helluva drug.

25.02.2026 12:51 👍 23306 🔁 6358 💬 1395 📌 475
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It's not often in Pharma that you run a head to head trial against your major competition and legit just flat out lose.

Cagrisema 23.6% weight loss vs Tirzepatide 25.5% weight loss over 84 weeks.

This result is horrid for Novo Nordisk.

23.02.2026 11:57 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 5 📌 1

Whoa, indeed!

20.02.2026 14:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good. Also, fuck the Department of Education for attempting to pull this bullshit in the first place, and fuck this whole racist, shitty administration. And fuck ICE, while I'm at it, because that's just an evergreen at this point.

18.02.2026 21:16 👍 1999 🔁 307 💬 30 📌 3
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NEW: ICE Confiscates Children's Letters at Dilley Concentration Camp. I've filed a FOIA Request to Get Them ProPublica recently published heart-wrenching letters from children at Dilley. ICE then raided the dormitories to confiscate and destroy those letters. I've filed a Freedom of Information Act Request.

NEW: ICE has raided dormitories at the Dilley concentration camp to confiscate letters from children per @pabloreports.bsky.social. I have filed a FOIA request for them. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social: the second we get anything, we will send it to you. 1/ www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ice-co...

18.02.2026 19:08 👍 13262 🔁 6988 💬 657 📌 447

Old: Kids’ Letters To Santa
New: Kids’ Letters Confiscated By Satan

18.02.2026 00:44 👍 1035 🔁 260 💬 18 📌 5
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And that's autoimmune disease #2 (plaque psoriasis) that improves with tirzepatide. The improvement is modest but apparently statistically significant and the trial was short, only 36 weeks so this is rapid improvement! A much longer trial is currently ongoing as well.

18.02.2026 13:03 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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The conundrum of amylin/calcitonin agonists When mechanisms of action collide in unexpected ways

This was an interesting one to write, dual Amylin-Calcitonin receptor agonists (see: CagriSema) are a hot topic in obesity these days, but they're actually a bit of a mixed bag for diabetes thanks to calcitonin. Read on to find out why!

18.02.2026 17:36 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2

Adam’s right. It’s more important than ever that our institutions defend First Amendment rights, and that means not firing teachers illegally whether their offense was “Go ICE” or saying something less than hagiographical about Charlie Kirk. Fewer people want to hear that in ugly times.
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17.02.2026 00:27 👍 1447 🔁 236 💬 55 📌 16

OK Tracer Bullet was good but I assume we're all in agreement that this is the all-time BEST Calvin & Hobbes strip, correct

16.02.2026 00:16 👍 2361 🔁 436 💬 10 📌 0

This is now a Dana fan account. Yeah, "Baby Jane Doe" was cute, but "Jag-off" and grabbing that guy's arm like he was trying to move her parking chair converted me fully.

13.02.2026 23:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The great actor Bud Cort has died. He was 77.
Did you see Harold and Maude? Harold was Bud Cort. Maude was Ruth Gordon and they played lovers.
He was in the movie Mash where he played Radar.
Cort suffere terrible burns on his face but I never stopped loving him and his work.
RIP Bud Cort.

13.02.2026 03:04 👍 721 🔁 91 💬 61 📌 3

For our first real date, I took her to a little hole in the wall Italian place near campus (Pitt) and put "That's Amore" on the juke box. She's a gnocchi fiend, and we've been married for nearly 35 years, so I think I done good.

13.02.2026 20:14 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So glad you caught it in time!

13.02.2026 17:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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GCGR agonism requires GABAergic signaling in the Medial Basal Hypothalamus to Promote Weight Loss in Obese Mice - PubMed Glucagon receptor (GCGR)-mediated thermogenesis is a key component for the next-generation of obesity therapeutics. Herein, we investigated the central and peripheral mechanism by which activation of the GCGR augments metabolic rate to promote weight loss. Chronic treatment of obese mice with a long …

Fascinating preclinical work on my favorite topic, glucagon.

This study suggests glucagon is doing a lot more than just futile cycling glucose substrates and inducing ketogenesis & lipolysis for weight loss.

12.02.2026 13:05 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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holy shit -- Bondi's new tactic is refusing to answer Democratic questions, then using time during the next Republican questioner to smear the previous Democratic member and accuse them of being complicit in violence crimes

11.02.2026 18:39 👍 4119 🔁 1204 💬 446 📌 177

There is literally no better example of textbook fascistic thinking than "Who cares about human rights when the rich are doing so very well"

11.02.2026 17:26 👍 3530 🔁 854 💬 93 📌 10

Half an hour ago, Fox News hosted an "aviation expert" who argued such a closure wouldn't happen "unless we are at war" facing a "major security threat," and that it signaled the government "might have discovered the next potential Pearl Harbor."

11.02.2026 14:12 👍 681 🔁 140 💬 75 📌 29

Every once in a while the internet becomes that truly silly delightful thing it once was. Like this.

09.02.2026 23:20 👍 288 🔁 73 💬 13 📌 2
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In continuing the theme of GLP-1s are overpowered Mary Sue drugs, we have our first glimmer they may actually rebuild cartilage in knee osteoarthritis. This tracks with some real life anecdotes I've seen here and in clinic @eecklund.bsky.social @stresshoop.bsky.social

www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

09.02.2026 20:32 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

I suspect the pre-existing term "trumped" will acquire a new primary meaning over the next half-decade or so.

06.02.2026 14:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0