It's hard to overstate how central homophobic insults are to men's sports and spaces. If someone would say this while being broadcasted live across the nation, imagine what they say in more private settings

It's almost cliché at this point, but every election season I think of Zoe Leonard's poem, "I want a president," written during the height of the AIDS crisis in 1992

PhD students be like this is where I keep my funding

please reach out to your admxnistrator friends right now, they are not ok. if you’re not part of that community you may not know that students can easily trigger the ancient ancestral urge to call the police. Please respect this form of situated knowledge

Just found out about economics. This is a real field!? I thought you guys were joking! Why do we need this when we already have sociology???

As an academic, if I ever decide to have children, the name “grant” will be off the table

this is incredibly bleak yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/10/1…

when someone disagrees with me it’s like wow.. anti-intellectualism really is on the rise

If you ever want to make a physician angry, just say that they don’t actually need to make ~$500k+ a year

The Trump administration snuck fetal personhood into their anti-trans executive order

I need people to understand how difficult it is to get an NIH grant. You spend months writing a proposal, following strict guidelines that include a detailed multiyear budget, bios of everyone on your team, plans for participant safety & ethical conduct. Then you send it off -1/n

The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers. This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.

One of my favorite facts: PrEP alone is more effective than condoms alone at preventing HIV transmission Doesn’t mean you can’t use both, or have to use either. Just demonstrates how evangelists like this speak from a place of their own moralized comfortability, not evidence

My book is coming out so soon!! I truly can’t wait for you all to read it. GET IT OUT is available for pre-order and I’m available for book talks!

Y’all need to read the philosophy of biology / life sciences….

One of the central ways PE has bought up so much of healthcare is directly from physicians selling to them

no babe i love your MA, the PhDs scare me