Daniel Baslock

The Department of Defense becoming the Department of War was a tell.

The Social Work AI Network (SWAN) and Constance and Martin Silver Center on Data Science and Social Equity are sponsoring an AI ethics panel moderated by Joyce Lee. Registration is free! See you on Wednesday, March 11 at 12-1pm😊

Image of first page from the journal article mentioned and linked in post, Travel Time to Opioid Treatment Programs in Connecticut—Still Waiting for Methadone.

Check out the latest from CDUHR investigators Noa Krawczyk and David Frank - Travel Time to Opioid Treatment Programs in Connecticut—Still Waiting for Methadone
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Young Men Aren’t the Only Ones Struggling Women might be having an even harder time.

While the “crisis of masculinity” dominates headlines, many overlook data suggesting young women are struggling more. In @faith-hill.bsky.social’s @theatlantic.com story on this disparity, Assoc Prof Sarah Narendorf argues well-being isn’t a zero-sum game. www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/....

Incarceration and Psychiatric Emergency Department Visits Among Black Americans | Milbank Quarterly The justice system incarcerates nearly 2.3 million individuals in the United States. Black Americans comprise 40% of those incarcerated despite representing less than 15% of the population. Theoretica...

Don’t miss the open-access Milbank Quarterly article, “Incarceration and Psychiatric Emergency Department Visits Among Black Americans” by Abhery Das, Michael Esposito, Tim Bruckner, and Hedwig Lee

Human General Intelligence At the beginning of the semester, I asked my students, all of whom are freshmen, how many of them had been told in high school not to use AI. Some hands went up. I asked how many of them had been t…

Finally, a new blog post: theodoragoss.com/2026/02/01/h...

"The problem, as I see it, is that the emphasis on AI and AGI seems to be replacing our focus on HI and HGI — on human intelligence."

The cover of the book *This is How You Lose the Time War* by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Thys was my Heated Rivalrye

Stop pretending it’s business as usual.

Social work faculty, talk to your students about community organizing, community care, mutual aid. Have them do break outs to talk about the role(s) they want to play right now. Do safety planning work. Share various theories of change.

Do not be complicit.

Longitudinal Associations From US State/Local Police and Social Service Expenditures to Suicides and Police-Perpetrated Killings Between Black and White Residents | Milbank Quarterly Reducing police expenditures and increasing housing expenditures may decrease Black–White inequities in years of potential life lost to suicide and police-perpetrated killing.

In a recent open-access Milbank Quarterly article, Devin English of the Rutgers School of Public Health and coauthors examine associations from police and social services expenditures to later suicides and police-perpetrated killings for Black and White residents.

People do not want to reckon with the actual purpose of policing. That's all I'll say about that.

How many women have died with “fucking bitch” ringing in their ears? Don’t let the misogyny get erased here

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there

Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

Multidimensional Approaches to Ranking State-Level Rurality to Enhance Comparisons Across States | Milbank Quarterly Context: Inadequate descriptions of rurality limit comparisons across rural areas and can lead to overgeneralizations in health policy research. Single

In a new open-access Milbank Quarterly article, @danielthebaslock.bsky.social and @nariyoo.bsky.social introduce a multidimensional rurality index to create a more comprehensive ranking of the rurality of US states that can inform policy comparisons and resource allocation.

told my landlord he no longer has to apologize for being white and he lowered my rent by 25%. told the grocer it's now the trump kennedy center and he sold me potatoes for $1. told PG&E it's a christian nation now and electricity is free. try it sometime

It's impossible for insurers to lower premiums without slashing provider reimbursement rates.

He's going to try to kill off more hospitals.

What about if the game is Magic: The Gathering? Then what?

Sobbing

This piece was better as a reddit thread

I do not want tomorrow at all.

I just want a plate of deviled eggs and to be left in a dark room until Friday.

It feels uniquely American to see organizations representing one's field defending it's status a profession to push back against the government imposing student loan limits, with no mention of the out of control costs of higher education & institutionalized practice of required unpaid internships.

You know what, I'm just gonna re-up this post

If every author in the class action filed a claim it would financially ruin the entire industry! 😊

sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure

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Would it be helpful if we did a talk on what an insurance death spiral is? And why ACA premiums entering a death spiral will mean that people who rely on employer-sponsored insurance will also be fucked?

Or do folks already have a good grasp on that?

How do so many democrats still not understand that the ACA *was* the compromise.

Which will result in healthy people pulling out of the market, leading to even hire rates for all of us.

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

In the olden dayes we would know by now the relative force impact of a fully laden subway sandwich fired at point blank range by an inebriated individual who hasn’t thrown anything in 15 years. Academic tweetersky is a pale shadow. 🙁