what does it say about me that currently the work-related development I am most excited about is getting to mush up pieces of human brains

New York City comes with built-in friends

hellmouth, netherlands, 15th century

I have discussed this at length with my #ActuallyAutistic friends: Tons of us, and other #Nerudivergent folk, LOVE loud heavy metal music. (Same with hip hop).

Today is Sinai Postdoctoral Organizing Committee-UAW’s 7th day on the picket line, as the first postdoc researchers in the private sector to walk out on strike. As Shawn Fain said, “You produce scientific breakthroughs, so you deserve record gains. Groundbreaking research should mean groundbreaking contracts.”

Tell your calendars and mark your friends -- wait, that's not right (DM me btwn now and the 11th for the Zoom link, if interested)

In 1995, treatment options for HIV were completely transformed. I made this chart with data from the NCHS, showing the impact of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). It profoundly improved the survival of people with HIV & reduced the risks of passing it on to others.

Six+ kids have now died from football at school in just three weeks. We must understand this as the public health emergency it is and ask serious questions about the viability of this sport. Our latest, with comments from former players and @bachyns. theguardian.com/sport/article/…

The investigative team behind our podcast In the Dark has obtained photographs of the 2005 massacre in Haditha, Iraq—which the U.S. military tried to keep from the public for years. nyer.cm/rlvzkrJ

The Simpsons on PhD students - almost twenty years old & more cutting than ever

btw, belated shout-out to Akira Yamaoka, Darren Korb, and Ryan Ike for writing video game soundtracks that collectively got me through writing my dissertation, my Spotify Wrapped this year is going to be hilariously skewed towards 100 hours of "moody goth instrumentals"