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Science & medicine is ALL about identifying root causes.
It’s literally the foundation of biomedical research.
It’s how we’ve discovered what causes disease: acute & chronic, infectious & non-communicable.
Read about REAL root cause medicine Immunologic: news.immunologic.org/p/real-root-...
"What makes this a feminist anti-natalism, specifically, is that it is centered wholly on the bodies and minds and interests of those who can get pregnant and who are likely to be overburdened with the care work that ought to be shared, socially, and within relationships." ~Kate Manne
@drandrealove.bsky.social's Substack ImmunoLogic is one of the very few newsletters I read top to bottom these days. Could not recommend more if (like me) you sometimes (understandably!) lack the lexical precision to combat science disinformation and quackery.
news.immunologic.org
Autism is not a disease.
Autism is not an epidemic.
Autism is a multifactorial genetic-based neurological condition.
And it’s not caused by vaccines or nebulous “environmental toxins.”
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New issue of the Developer Science Review is out, folks!
In this issue, I examine the question:
"For whom does intellectual humility become disadvantageous?"
Thanks for reading and (I hope!) sharing your thoughts, reactions & experiences.
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#DeveloperExperience
Lifting up a few resources for people looking to get more involved in pro-democracy activism.
All Of Us Directory
Newly created, searchable list of progressive organizations that are actively seeking new volunteers or members.
allofusdirectory.org/organizations
So basically they're trying to suss out folks who don't support the Palestinian genocide?
I mean, I do feel seen...
Please add "Posting Less" by @annehelen.bsky.social to your weekend read list.
open.substack.com/pub/annehele...
Drafting my annotation for Issue 3 of the Dev Science Review, and I’m reminded that one of life’s great joys is seeing the questions people are asking and attempting to answer through empirical research, and then leaning into a resultantly broadened worldview to generate questions of one’s own.
Not my most eloquent letter, but utterly sincere....
@hazelweakly.me I'm delighted that you enjoyed this, AND that you took 2.5 hours to deeply read it. Our collective waning propensity for deeply engaging with long(er) texts is one of the many things that worries me about the future.
I understand the irony of my post here, given the opening quote, but I want to highlight quality work by a quality thinker and writer.
Anything Leif Singer creates is worth your attention, imo. His Paper Jams are A+.
"Information overload is still a problem that we all experience in our lives. If anything, it has gotten significantly worse. The paper highlights notification fatigue as a possible effect of too much transparency." ~ @leif.is
leif.me/paper-jam-1-...
New preprint from yours truly, Carol Lee & Kristen Foster-Marks! As a team representing clinical science, research psych of software teams, AND a software developer, so excited to share this follow-up to our Code Review Anxiety study!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Latest from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social - this is a must-subscribe newsletter at this moment in history.
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The NIH funding cap on indirect costs will eviscerate scientific research from the inside.
Universities won’t be able to support researchers, biomedical progress will slow, & YOUR health will be harmed.
Plus, widespread economic collapse.
Read more ⬇️
news.immunologic.org/p/the-nih-in...
"One response to permacrisis is constant vigilance, carefulness, strategic investment, five-year-plans. Another is surrender – to submit to it the way one submits to the inertia of a punishingly hot day."
Fantastic essay piece by @christyedwall.bsky.social.
granta.com/listlessness/
“The point is not a policy fight, it’s an execution. They are killing one agency to terrify a thousand others.” Susan B. Glasser writes about Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s takeover of the White House, and the dismantling of the U.S.A.I.D.
It's raining right now here in the Bay Area--winter rain's mostly a blessing here, the end of fire season, the beginning of the greening hills, the recharging of water systems--and I see a lot of people across the country persevering. For the week after the January 27th attack on federal funding, I felt like a geyser of adrenaline and I put that energy to use writing, watching, interpreting what was going on to the best of my ability and posting about it, organizing various kinds of activity, pulling together a rapid-response team with some brilliant organizers, launching this newsletter. In the last few days, fatigue caught up with me, and yesterday I slowed down enough to feel something between sadness and horror. I suspect a lot of you feel something similar. But I'm not stopping. And I see millions of people who are not stopping either. Ordinary citizens, state attorneys general (here's a statement from 15 of them defending gender-affirming care), the fiercest of our congresspeople, organizers, activists, experts. That line about the single garment of destiny recycled a famous phrase of Martin Luther King's: "In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." I wanted to extend his beautiful metaphor --that garment of destiny, imagined as an actual textile--who wove it, who washed it, who mended it when it was damaged? I wrote it because I knew who they are--men who do not understand that everything is connected, which is a moral truth and also an ecological one and a reality of the systems of finance, international relations, and the rest that are woven together to make a world of interrelated systems and relationships and processes that cannot be severed without harm.
Newsletter, day six.
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NPR Exclusive: Some companies have announced diversity rollbacks — but many more are deleting or softening language from their investor disclosures, an NPR analysis finds.
Elon Musk is committing a lot of felonies. He belongs in jail, and so do his criminal associates. He may not comprehend that. And if and when he does it may make him more reckless. No assumptions about where we go from here.
Yes yes yes! Subscribed.
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social The light purple background isn't great for accessibility - would you consider changing the color scheme for readability?
Intentionally not citing that source, but this general claim runs rampant and in my experience is primarily propagated by software developers and engineers and those who prescribe to mythologies around "the inherent brilliance of the programmer."
One really does tire of the claim that software developers and engineers are "the most skeptical audience in the world."
