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New Mexico's 2025 measles outbreak cost $5.4 million Researchers based their analysis on direct medical costs, lost productivity, and expense to public health agencies. Read more: https://bit.ly/4hNSPte

Calling yourself a Heritage American makes you sound like a breed of farmed turkey that I'm sure is delicious when fattened on acorns and mealworms

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

First day of early voting in Wisconsin for the party primaries! Vote for the candidates whose visions reflect the Wisconsin you want, b/c they all have similarly good chances of winning, including in the election for governor. (I'm writing up the supporting evidence for this now.)

"Authoritarianism doesn’t have to involve men in suits dragging people into cars...Orban showed that critics — or pockets of independence — can be rendered pliable by making them believe that the smart move is to affirmatively sacrifice some of their independence" @yale.edu wapo.st/3RW4HPo

Opinion | Yale trustees, history is watching youA lesson from Hungary: Boards don't capitulate to authoritarians. The people on them do.wapo.st

Sept 22 research conference at UMN HHH on the Impacts of DHS Operations in Minnesota Works in progress welcome Quantitative or mixed-methods multidisciplinary #CallForProposals due 8/13 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚨Breaking🚨: NIH is terminating health disparities research grants again. This time, they may successfully avoid legal challenges by giving specific reasons for their decisions. One grant so far, more to come. Exclusive @science.org by me and @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH is again terminating grants that the Trump administration dislikesWith cancellation of health disparities project, agency may be testing new way to legally kill politically sensitive grantswww.science.org

Huge, important job. Comms and leadership at NIH. Please apply. This is public service. “…responsible for planning, directing, and executing nat’l health and research communication efforts…” Civil service SES position. Please share- this one is important for NIH. hr.nih.gov/careers/open...

When I could hide my disabilities, people accepted me. When I couldn’t hide them, they tolerated me. When I became vocal & demanded ableism be addressed, they abandoned me. This is why we need a Disability Pride month. This is why we need advocates. We shouldn’t have to hide.

Last week, about a third of the History department were able to gather together on graduation day. Rather than lend our intellectual authority to the official procession and ceremony we invited our students to come and celebrate their achievements with us in a shady courtyard. They came. 1/