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BREAKING WSJ: The Trump admin plans to end a subsidy program that helped hold down premiums for Medicare drug plans — a move that could leave many seniors facing higher rates for their prescription coverage next year.

I wrote a short analysis of infection control strategies at World Cup 2026 amid weakened public health infrastructure in the U.S. While private organizations can certainly play a role in protecting public health, I argue that ultimately, public health data must be safeguarded as a public good.

And responses I send back to @jackiantonovich.bsky.social “You and I will definitely be able to do our part to try to correct for that oversight” I’m so grateful to have a colleague to geek out with over vaccines, public health and history

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Texts I send to @bachynski.bsky.social

the sharpness of my intake of breath

Time for #Skystorians to get hyped, because we're bringing sexy back! We're joined by the fantastic @rachelcleves.bsky.social for a brilliant #AMA on the #History of sexuality! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

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I am going to join the Women's Christian Temperance Union bsky.app/profile/catg...

the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.

Academics: Making you dislike their hot takes on pop culture is their bread and butter.

If you're upset about Wilson's analysis of Nolan's interpretation of the Odyssey, you're going to hate my academic unpacking of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526163271/

*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again.

Big, if true.

"PPL has not been specific about which customers would benefit from the proposed transmission line. But one-third of the nine data center projects listed for 'fast track' permitting status by the Shapiro administration are in Luzerne."

I enjoyed Nolan's ODYSSEY quite a bit, and found it more moving than expected. I also read Wilson's critique and found that both enjoyable and insightful. It's not even really a bad review -- it's an incisive dissection from the POV of someone whose knives have long been sharpened on the material.

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

“Research is essential to the task of humanistic formation, even at a teaching-focused college… a prime opportunity to promote the virtues academics are best positioned to model for students: curiosity, persistence, devotion to the truth, and humility in the face of everything we do not know”

“A database of more than 38,000 scholarships maintained by the National Scholarship Providers Association shows the number of grants with women-specific eligibility criteria has declined 19% since 2023,” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

look i haven’t seen the odyssey yet, but i will see it and honestly expect to enjoy it, because i am cringe enough to enjoy CN films. and i also enjoyed reading wilson’s review and just don’t get what the big deal is. criticism is allowed to be critical and as she notes it’s hardly punching down