Delighted to share news that our special issue on the history of health insurance, medicine, and society in Asia that I've been working on has just been published by EASTS! 1/

'Study identifies distinct long COVID symptoms in young children' 'A new study conducted by researchers at Mass General Brigham and their colleagues as part of the federally funded RECOVER initiative examined...' news-medical.net/news/20250527/…

Moronic own goal. Some of these policies are legitimately indistinguishable from the answer to the thought exercise: “If I was president and wanted to destroy America’s competitive advantage, this is what I would do”

Running and Stumbling to Recovery: A Carnal Sociological Study of Change in Substance Use doi.org/10.1111/1467-9…

Brad Lander is a hero. A true, selfless, courageous, talented hero.

Tomorrow the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology will host “The Things We’ll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants”. Scientists will be sharing their story and discuss their now-canceled research grants. This event is open to the public and to the press.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Thrilled to finally say my book is officially out!! I use 100 hysterectomy stories to explore the ways our culture and medical system devalues the uterus and the people who have them.

NYC is ~subtropical~ now 🌧️ Yesterday's downpour was the second wettest hour in NYC history. With cmjuliewon.bsky.social's universal daylighting bill, NYC could use our intersections to reduce flash floods. A single bioswale can manage 1,100-2,200 gallons of water during a storm:

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Being part of this The New York Times piece brought back so many memories of the 18 yrs spent on The Chinese Typewriter + The Chinese Computer, & all the countless people who helped me along the way. There was no space in the article to say thank you, so: Thank you. nytimes.com/2025/07/22/nyr…

🧬 Silicon Valley startups are promoting polygenic embryo screening and selection (for the “best” baby), but scientists are skeptical. 🔍 Predictions are shaky, ethics are thorny, and risks of commercial eugenics are real. Read here: washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Economics job market candidates p-hack. But, why? Well, doing so helps them get academic jobs. "We find evidence that marginally significant results in [job market papers] are associated with higher academic placement likelihoods."

Hugely significant issue. Drivers often don't see people entering an intersection until the last second. NYC Council Progressive Caucus to make push for universal daylighting in 2025 cityandstateny.com/policy/2025/07… via City & State NY

In July, NYC saw some of the worst rain ever recorded. With more than 70% of the city being impermeable, flooding was severe — but this can change! Sara Lind 🖤 and I wrote about how universal daylighting can help us build infrastructure to reduce flooding. citylimits.org/opinion-how-da…

"...a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic's AI training now threatens to 'financially ruin' the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement." AI has been stealing from us. They owe us $

TT job announcement: The Anthropology Program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, invites applications for a tenure track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the anthropology of China. Link below.

“due to recent NIH actions, more than 4 in 5 early career researchers are considering leaving academia or relocating outside the US. When I directly pressed Bhattacharya about this exodus during our meeting, he said that if researchers did not like the way things are in the US /1

In 2015, Lü Dewen, a professor at Wuhan University’s School of Sociology, conducted field research on the catch-me-if-you-can relationship between “chengguan” — China’s urban management officers — and street vendors, focusing on Lumo Road, a 2.3-kilometer artery connecting urban