Dan Buckland
@danbuckland.me
Professional: Emergency Medicine and Engineering
Personality: Unable to scroll past a pun thread
Been here a while, but delete posts >~45 days
Personality: Unable to scroll past a pun thread
Been here a while, but delete posts >~45 days
Kids these days will never understand that a song about finding out about being cheated on via public humiliation was used to sell raisins to children for a decade, and it included merch!
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Kids these days will never understand that a song about finding out about being cheated on via public humiliation was used to sell raisins to children for a decade, and it included merch!
As a middle aged dad I'm transitioning from a Swifter into a K-pop Steve and my music suggestion algorithm is very confused about which songs to include between the Blink, Outkast and Cowboy Mouth
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
As a middle aged dad I'm transitioning from a Swifter into a K-pop Steve and my music suggestion algorithm is very confused about which songs to include between the Blink, Outkast and Cowboy Mouth
On a Cartesian coordinate system based on notable discovery and personal unpleasantness he has to take up an extreme corner. I've met several people who knew him and none of them had even a small bit of positive things to say about him as a person.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:58 AM
On a Cartesian coordinate system based on notable discovery and personal unpleasantness he has to take up an extreme corner. I've met several people who knew him and none of them had even a small bit of positive things to say about him as a person.
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This is an interesting way to look at this.
This is an interesting way to look at this.
Fitbit's latest experiment lets Pixel Watch users check for early signs of bad health
Fitbit Labs now allows users try out upcoming Pixel Watch features such as Unusual Health Detection and hypertension alerts.
share.google
November 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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This is an interesting way to look at this.
This is an interesting way to look at this.
I assume everyone is getting their sandwich case split jury puns ready.
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I assume everyone is getting their sandwich case split jury puns ready.
Is the sandwich a-salt jury still trying to mustard consensus or did they lettuce know their verdict?
November 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Is the sandwich a-salt jury still trying to mustard consensus or did they lettuce know their verdict?
I am at the age where I can finally consistently make a damn good cup of coffee, but if I do so for myself after 3p then I don't sleep that night.
November 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I am at the age where I can finally consistently make a damn good cup of coffee, but if I do so for myself after 3p then I don't sleep that night.
On the 25th anniversary of the ISS I continue to think that the most profound impact of the project is that there hasn't been a shooting war between any of the international partners in all that time. And I say that as a space researcher.
November 3, 2025 at 4:10 AM
On the 25th anniversary of the ISS I continue to think that the most profound impact of the project is that there hasn't been a shooting war between any of the international partners in all that time. And I say that as a space researcher.
Similar vibes to this incident which happened back in 2009:
November 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Similar vibes to this incident which happened back in 2009:
Anyone have an idea where in HMS that explosion was? Can't tell from the news coverage if it was from an administrative, educational, or lab area?
November 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Anyone have an idea where in HMS that explosion was? Can't tell from the news coverage if it was from an administrative, educational, or lab area?
Having walked around with my kids the last couple of years I've noticed that candy diversity has really gone down. Everyone just buys the same mix pack from the big box stores.
October 31, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Having walked around with my kids the last couple of years I've noticed that candy diversity has really gone down. Everyone just buys the same mix pack from the big box stores.
As a 1990s Braves fan the Blue Jay nostalgia for their previous World Series wins cuts like paper.
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
As a 1990s Braves fan the Blue Jay nostalgia for their previous World Series wins cuts like paper.
They've been pretty good comparatively. I assume Wolters Kluwer has been offered a bunch of money for the UTD database to be used as training data and I still haven't seen anyone announce an "agreement" with them.
October 30, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I don't get the AI generated cover image of trailers and movie clips on YouTube. The images are already in the video? Why make them worse?
October 26, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I don't get the AI generated cover image of trailers and movie clips on YouTube. The images are already in the video? Why make them worse?
You are all still essential friends
Id like to say to all my Fed friends, even if it's not reflected in your designation you're all essential to me.
October 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
You are all still essential friends
He's one up on me
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Jeremy Allen White, 34, Just Received His High School Diploma After Never Graduating: ‘I Wasn’t a Good Student'
Jeremy Allen White revealed that he never formally finished high school and recently received his diploma when his teacher Mark Parente presented it to the actor at the Sept. 28 New York Film Festival...
people.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
He's one up on me
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My university wrote up a nice conversation with me about what I'm hoping to accomplish at UW-Madison:
Spaceflight lessons inform medical technology research - School of Medicine and Public Health
med.wisc.edu
October 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
My university wrote up a nice conversation with me about what I'm hoping to accomplish at UW-Madison:
as a physician-scientist this trend really disincentivizes me to pursue the science part of my job, which is reliant on trainees in my strategic planning.
US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold. [In some cases, to zero.] Story by @alexwitze.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold
Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding.
www.nature.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
as a physician-scientist this trend really disincentivizes me to pursue the science part of my job, which is reliant on trainees in my strategic planning.
This is a good blog
For @talkingpointsmemo.com I wrote about the one journalistic skill that bloggers did better than any other writers, which was to get to the fucking point.
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This Post Should Have Been Shorter
My favorite political blog post of all time was published by Jim...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This is a good blog
Reposted by Dan Buckland
We had the privilege of working with EMS partners to deploy a field hospital as the Luke Bryan Farm Tour returned to Dane Co. last month.
An EMS-based field hospital helps manage patient surges at mass-gathering events or disasters that could otherwise overwhelm local EMS & hospital infrastructure.
An EMS-based field hospital helps manage patient surges at mass-gathering events or disasters that could otherwise overwhelm local EMS & hospital infrastructure.
October 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
We had the privilege of working with EMS partners to deploy a field hospital as the Luke Bryan Farm Tour returned to Dane Co. last month.
An EMS-based field hospital helps manage patient surges at mass-gathering events or disasters that could otherwise overwhelm local EMS & hospital infrastructure.
An EMS-based field hospital helps manage patient surges at mass-gathering events or disasters that could otherwise overwhelm local EMS & hospital infrastructure.
Reposted by Dan Buckland
ISABELLA STEWAHT GAHDNAH MUSEUM HEIST OF 1990 WAS THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME. LOUVRUH AIN'T SHIT COMPARED TO THAT.
October 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
ISABELLA STEWAHT GAHDNAH MUSEUM HEIST OF 1990 WAS THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME. LOUVRUH AIN'T SHIT COMPARED TO THAT.
Do you remember the first time you encountered siracha? I'm assuming most of the responses will be food truck related.
October 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Do you remember the first time you encountered siracha? I'm assuming most of the responses will be food truck related.
I'm not going to claim any special ability, but I moved to Boston, DC, and then Durham right before their baseball teams won championships. I just moved to Madison, WI, so make your bets accordingly.
October 12, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I'm not going to claim any special ability, but I moved to Boston, DC, and then Durham right before their baseball teams won championships. I just moved to Madison, WI, so make your bets accordingly.
Wondering if any space reporter on this app can get a comment from NASA about whether the newly hired ASCANs are going to be RIFed?
October 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Wondering if any space reporter on this app can get a comment from NASA about whether the newly hired ASCANs are going to be RIFed?
