Christy Zink
@christyzink.bsky.social
Writer, teacher of university writing, writing center wrangler, reproductive rights/justice advocate, medical/health humanities devotee. Lover of books and good stories; grumpy at the state of the union.
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Indiana voters: Let your legislators know you don’t like having elections rigged in your state.
October 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Indiana voters: Let your legislators know you don’t like having elections rigged in your state.
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"I long to read more in the book of you."
Beloved Moomins creator Tove Jansson's almost unbearably beautiful love letters to the love of her life (who inspired her wisest Moomin character) www.themarginalian.org/2020/06/12/t...
Beloved Moomins creator Tove Jansson's almost unbearably beautiful love letters to the love of her life (who inspired her wisest Moomin character) www.themarginalian.org/2020/06/12/t...
I Long to Read More in the Book of You: Moomins Creator Tove Jansson’s Tender and Passionate Letters to the Love of Her Life
“I’m so unused to being happy that I haven’t really come to terms with what it involves… I feel like a garden that’s finally been watered, so my flowers can bloom.”
www.themarginalian.org
October 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM
"I long to read more in the book of you."
Beloved Moomins creator Tove Jansson's almost unbearably beautiful love letters to the love of her life (who inspired her wisest Moomin character) www.themarginalian.org/2020/06/12/t...
Beloved Moomins creator Tove Jansson's almost unbearably beautiful love letters to the love of her life (who inspired her wisest Moomin character) www.themarginalian.org/2020/06/12/t...
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The Ezra Klein shut the fuck up challenge continues
I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!
![Issue 1
November 7, 2023
Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety(1]
Results
Choice
Votes
%
& Yes
2,227,384
56.78%
No
1,695,480
43.22%
Total votes
3,922,864
100.00%](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gouysuoxatjdb5bjcqe4sfh7/bafkreielbywjkgthjrsgp5s7na3nxbcn3wrdpwegj7vtrqswh6goqydgra@jpeg)
September 20, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The Ezra Klein shut the fuck up challenge continues
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I am SO excited for this piece especially because it dramatically breaks with the “enrichment” model of #HealthHumanities.
The studia humanitatis have always been about rigorous research and scholarship - the humanists were early translational researchers!
Can’t wait to dig in.
The studia humanitatis have always been about rigorous research and scholarship - the humanists were early translational researchers!
Can’t wait to dig in.
Medicine has largely underutilized the power of humanities to advance scientific research.
In our piece, physician/historian @thelakshmik.bsky.social, @hls.harvard.edu student Kayla Z & I describe how this methodological bridging can strengthen scientific enquiry.
(1/4) #MedSky
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In our piece, physician/historian @thelakshmik.bsky.social, @hls.harvard.edu student Kayla Z & I describe how this methodological bridging can strengthen scientific enquiry.
(1/4) #MedSky
ja.ma/4puvyhl
September 19, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I am SO excited for this piece especially because it dramatically breaks with the “enrichment” model of #HealthHumanities.
The studia humanitatis have always been about rigorous research and scholarship - the humanists were early translational researchers!
Can’t wait to dig in.
The studia humanitatis have always been about rigorous research and scholarship - the humanists were early translational researchers!
Can’t wait to dig in.
The Disciplinary Dance has lots of different moves and we’re often, it turns out, dancing to entirely different music.
‘Collini never forgets the bathos intrinsic to academic life: every visionary curriculum is severely dented on collision with the practicalities of assessment and the concerns of the average student.’
Colin Kidd on how the university has shaped English studies: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colin Kidd on how the university has shaped English studies: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colin Kidd · Lumps of Cram: University English
What is the missing noun to which English refers: literature, language or both? If both, does English belong with the...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The Disciplinary Dance has lots of different moves and we’re often, it turns out, dancing to entirely different music.
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We are well past the time when the question of whether AI as currently trained encodes biases could be treated as open. We need very rapidly to enter the what are we going to do about it phase.
“Ghassemi and her MIT colleagues found that AI systems were more likely to leave female patients untreated.”
Can artificial intelligence cause medical errors? This MIT researcher shows it can. - The Boston Globe
As hospitals rush to embrace AI systems that help diagnose diseases, Marzyeh Ghassemi's research suggests the technology is still rife with flaws and biases.
www.bostonglobe.com
August 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
We are well past the time when the question of whether AI as currently trained encodes biases could be treated as open. We need very rapidly to enter the what are we going to do about it phase.
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hoping that when they say the LLM talks like a Ph.D.-level expert, they mean "holds indecipherable decades-long academic grudges expressed largely in the form of questions that are actually more of a comment"
August 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
hoping that when they say the LLM talks like a Ph.D.-level expert, they mean "holds indecipherable decades-long academic grudges expressed largely in the form of questions that are actually more of a comment"
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🚨The GOP provision to DEFUND Planned Parenthood is staying in the Big Ugly bill. Clinics will shutter. Women will lose access to cancer screenings, birth control, and basic care.
I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out.
Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.
I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out.
Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.
June 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
🚨The GOP provision to DEFUND Planned Parenthood is staying in the Big Ugly bill. Clinics will shutter. Women will lose access to cancer screenings, birth control, and basic care.
I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out.
Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.
I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out.
Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.
The only thing that helps with the overwhelm caused by social media is how Dadaist its juxtaposed messages can be.
June 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The only thing that helps with the overwhelm caused by social media is how Dadaist its juxtaposed messages can be.
Rights for protestors. Please be safe out there today.
June 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Rights for protestors. Please be safe out there today.
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Can't wait to read this--the interview and the memoir.
Good afternoon! For @npr.org, I reviewed Leslie Jamison's new memoir, SPLINTERS, out now!
www.npr.org/2024/02/20/1...
www.npr.org/2024/02/20/1...
'Splinters' is a tribute to the love of a mother for a daughter
In different variations of her signature, beautifully frank language, Leslie Jamison writes about her fantasy of stability and her uncertainty as to whether it's a dream she actually wants fulfilled.
www.npr.org
February 21, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Can't wait to read this--the interview and the memoir.
Critical reading gone amok. Welcome to the gobbledygook of justification from right-wing think tanks.
Wanted to understand more about the right's objections to IVF and found this Heritage Foundation writeup that compares IVF to the Tower of Babel and thus God would oppose it because of Marshall McLuhan
February 21, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Critical reading gone amok. Welcome to the gobbledygook of justification from right-wing think tanks.
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into the Speaker of the House
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Republican party no longer in possession of a its senses or values, must be in want of a speaker.
To lose one Speaker may regarded as a misfortune. To lose four looks like carelessness.
October 25, 2023 at 1:12 AM
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into the Speaker of the House
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Mrs Dalloway said she would pick the speaker herself
There was no possibility of choosing a Speaker that day.
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into the Speaker of the House
October 25, 2023 at 2:16 AM
Mrs Dalloway said she would pick the speaker herself
Ain’t language grand?
Today in "linguists are not kidding when they say that language enables you to understand sentences that have never been said before in the entirety of human history"
September 23, 2023 at 4:53 AM
Ain’t language grand?
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Nice blog post for journalists (& other health communicators) by Tara Haelle, "How to report on the COVID-19 uptick
when the public says ‘meh’" (US links but main points applicable elsewhere): https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2023/08/how-to-report-on-the-covid-19-uptick-when-the-public-says-meh/
when the public says ‘meh’" (US links but main points applicable elsewhere): https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2023/08/how-to-report-on-the-covid-19-uptick-when-the-public-says-meh/
August 17, 2023 at 8:11 PM
Nice blog post for journalists (& other health communicators) by Tara Haelle, "How to report on the COVID-19 uptick
when the public says ‘meh’" (US links but main points applicable elsewhere): https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2023/08/how-to-report-on-the-covid-19-uptick-when-the-public-says-meh/
when the public says ‘meh’" (US links but main points applicable elsewhere): https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2023/08/how-to-report-on-the-covid-19-uptick-when-the-public-says-meh/
Playing politics with medicine: Is it any wonder half of the public doesn’t trust doctors and half trust doctors no matter how ludicrous the claims?
A new paper from Sahana Sule and colleagues describes the types of COVID-19 misinformation propagated by American physicians after the vaccine became available, the characteristics of these physicians, and the platforms used to spread this information.
Examining COVID-19 misinformation propagated by US physicians
A new paper documents COVID-19 medical misinformation shared by US physicians on social media
sciencebasedmedicine.org
August 17, 2023 at 1:59 PM
Playing politics with medicine: Is it any wonder half of the public doesn’t trust doctors and half trust doctors no matter how ludicrous the claims?
New Lauren Groff book (wheee!) and a book visit in DC (whoohoo!).
Please come say hi on the new tour! Other October dates TK in NYC and the UK. 🧡🧡🧡
August 15, 2023 at 5:32 PM
New Lauren Groff book (wheee!) and a book visit in DC (whoohoo!).
I had the incredible luck to work with Dorothy Allison a few years ago. Everything you'd expect and more: Brilliant, funny, and cut-to-the-quick right on folks' drafts, in all the ways that keep you honest and driven. This intensive with @hubcitypress.bsky.social looks amazing.
We are thrilled to unveil a new program: the Winter Intensive. It will be held on the weekend of January 12-14, 2024 at the AC Marriott in downtown Spartanburg, SC. Our inaugural Intensive workshop leader will be award-winning writer Dorothy Allison. Apply now: www.hubcity.org/winterintensive
August 14, 2023 at 3:09 AM
I had the incredible luck to work with Dorothy Allison a few years ago. Everything you'd expect and more: Brilliant, funny, and cut-to-the-quick right on folks' drafts, in all the ways that keep you honest and driven. This intensive with @hubcitypress.bsky.social looks amazing.
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