Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.
"Every day since the Dobbs decision, pregnant people have undergone financially, physically, and psychologically strenuous journeys for basic health care." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Official map from NOAA depicting the relative rank of winter 2025-2026 temperatures at a county level across the contiguous U.S. Many counties in the western and central U.S. are depicted in dark red color, signifying record-warmest winter. All other counties in the west and central U.S. are depicted in dark orange colors, signifying a "near record warm" rank.
The official NOAA stats out this week confirm that winter 2025-26 was the warmest on record across a huge portion of the western and central U.S., which has contributed to extremely low mountain snowpack & worsened the CO River crisis. Meanwhile, record March heat is in forecast.
i’m tired of every paper (even critical ones) on societal impact of AI starting by both-siding the “benefits” and risks/harms of AI
in academia, i would like us to arrive at a collective reckoning that we don’t need to play both sides. it's totally legit to clearly state just the harms. period
The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.
What does it mean to protect a girl’s future? In northern Benin, conversations about protection are changing.
Survivor and community advocate Sanny Taïbatou works with families to challenge female genital mutilation while also building confidence in childhood vaccination: bit.ly/4aXWfG6
They warn that the detention of these children is causing severe and lasting harm to their mental and physical health, and say that emerging reports of kids allegedly facing delayed and inadequate medical care demands urgency and transparency.
Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.
lots of details here—about how different state entities are (and aren’t) willing to talk about enforcement, how trans & nonbinary state employees could themselves be criminalized under the bans while also being expected to enforce the bans, and examples of “malicious noncompliance”
ACOG has filed an amicus brief in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al. v. President United States of America, et al. in support of women’s access to contraception, arguing that conscience objections should not prevent access to essential health care. Read the brief: https://bit.ly/4u7wIlc
The Indiana House and Senate have both passed a bill to completely eliminate requirements for businesses to document the employment of child workers.
If this bill becomes law it would enable employers to hide child labor violations, according to @epi.org.
Medical Residency Application Rates Fell in States That Restricted Abortion
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The judge will rule on the preliminary injunction in the case filed by the AAP and APHA against RFK Jr. before the next ACIP meeting, which is scheduled for March 18-19.
It would be an enormous victory for public health and the people of the United States and if the judge stops RFK Jr.’s ACIP.
A disturbing and hypocritical ruling on so many levels. Especially the due process holding.
The court JUST said there’s no deeply rooted right for women to control their own bodies. But there is a deeply rooted right for parents to know if their kids question their gender at school? Come on.
But since we are there, having some uses for accessibility does not make it accessibility tech because accessibility includes thoughtful, transparent affordances for safety, wellbeing, privacy, and autonomy.
Because to repeat my point, “adhd influencers are sliding into promotion Claude to ‘fix disordered brains by uploading all of your data archives” into the platform.”
Now that is the point. It is a true statement. Anything else you infer is probably about you and not me or what I said.
7/ Vaccines have worked so well that many parents have never seen measles firsthand. That success makes it easy to forget how devastating this virus can be. Fortunately, two doses of the MMR vaccine are ~97% effective at preventing hospitalization & many of the negative consequences of the infection
6/ And even after recovery, measles can erase immune memory. It can weaken the immune system for months or even years, making survivors more vulnerable to other infections because their body has forgotten how to fight them.
4/ Measles can also infect the brain directly. About 1 in 1,000 children develop acute brain swelling called primary measles encephalitis, and another 1 in 1,000 develop a different form of brain swelling caused by the immune system known as acute disseminated encephalomyelitis or ADEM.
3/ About 1 in 20 children who get measles (most of whom are unvaccinated) develop pneumonia, which is the most common cause of death. When the lungs can’t get enough oxygen into the bloodstream, the brain suffers. That oxygen deprivation can cause lasting cognitive damage.
Oksana saw her children suffer at Dilley for roughly 4.5 months. She said they found worms in their food. Her 4-year-old asked if they were in jail because they were bad people.
But Oksana said the release process was one of the worst experiences yet.
Writing is thinking.
I worry about reducing complex, thought-driven processes like "research" or "evaluating sources" or "coding data" to a series of discrete tasks to be outsourced, when there's so much that goes on cognitively both between and after the steps of those processes.
A new study reports a broad, rising trend of inadequate sleep among high school students, to 77% in 2023. With puberty, teens' sleep-wake cycles shift and they fall asleep and wake later. Other research suggests that later bell times mean students sleep more and report fewer depressive symptoms.
In this panel, the PJM market monitor states plainly that data centers are almost exclusively to blame for high and rising wholesale electricity costs in the Midatlantic. It's not EVs, heat pumps, or industrial electrification. Data centers. Panel discusses how to make Big Tech pay their fair share.
One of the main reasons I don't use AI is that you have to fact-check every single thing it gives you and by the time I do that, I could have just done the research myself.
This feels like a helpful primer for understanding AI in general. It makes programmers more efficient on the front end because they can generate more code. But it makes them less efficient afterwards because it vastly increases the amount of time they spend tweaking and fixing bugs.
And for those outside the wage system altogether, it's even worse. If you're disabled and rely on SSI, payments are currently capped at $994 a month nationwide.
*Nowhere* in the country is that enough to afford even a modest one-bedroom apartment.
