Students at the University of Virginia have voted 67.87% – 32.13% in favor of the school divesting its $13.6 billion endowment from any “companies engaging in or profiting from the State of Israel’s apartheid regime and acute violence against Palestinians.”

Perhaps my most middle-aged, grow-up-and-accept-responsibilty opinion: If you personally make >$200k, you are high class. You should accept the personal, professional, institutional, and social leadership obligations that come with being high class.

My first postdoctoral preprint from Janes Lab Virginia BME is now live! 🎉 We introduce patient-derived zero-passage organoids of luminal breast cancer. Ever yearned for a more accurate model to study your disease of interest? Dive into our findings: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

you can tell a lot about a person based on whether they think of vectors as arrows or list of numbers

LITTLE OLE CLEMSON MARCHES ON! 🤫👏 Elite 8 bound for the first time since 1980 🐾

going into this mode so I can calculate c1v1 = c2v2

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but… Yes, medical residents are once again exempted from being paid overtime. See p. 378 of the final rule PDF:

In a heartbreaking vote, the Senate just passed H4624, a bill to ban healthcare for transgender youth and to limit its access for transgender adults.

In a devastating vote, the SC Senate sends H4624 to the governor: • bans all gender affirming care for minors, including mental healthcare… • bans gender affirming care for anyone 26 & under on public insurance • requires teachers to out transgender students to parents

Excited that my resolution advocating for increased access to public restrooms was accepted by the AMA House of Delegates today. Special thanks to @rickweinmeyer whose brilliant law review article served as the inspiration (and much of the research) for this policy.

huge day for people who are the “friend from kentucky”

Former KY Gov. Matt Bevin sent his son to a disciplinary school in Jamaica that was raided for abusing the teenagers. Then he seemingly failed to pick up his son, allowing him to become a ward of Jamaica. “Noah, [Bevin’s] son, is unsurprised.” thetimes.com/world/us-world…

normal convos about KFF signed, two grateful grad students

“After a plasma center opens nearby, demand for payday loans falls by over 13% among young borrowers.”

better than Jack Leafs Bieber, ngl

I’ve got a new piece in JAMA w/ Zirui Song and Jane Zhu. We argue that the shift to value-based payment (VBP) is an under-appreciated driver of corporate consolidation & the decline of small independent physician practices. 🧵

Looking (training) camp right in the eye. #stlblues

In their new Forefront article, Alexander Philips, Viknesh Kasthuri, Russell Hawes, Hunter Kramer, Barbara Chiu, Pragi Patel, and Hannah Harrelson from Brown University, UVA, Kansas City University, and Ohio State Medical discuss private equity’s influence on health care, highlighting its