Daniel Dvorkin
@danielmedic.bsky.social
Bioinformaticist / biostatistician, veteran USAF medic and Army infantryman, armchair paleontologist, occasional science fiction author, long-ago kickboxer, oldbat goth, vaccinated liberal patriot.
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Republicans: Fuck the ACA
Democrats: You won't let babies starve just to take away health care
Republicans: The hell we won't
Republicans: Sue to force people to go hungry
Democrats: Well, fuck. We can at least get hungry babies fed
Democrats: Vote to feed babies
Bluesky: FUCK THE DEMOCRATS
Democrats: You won't let babies starve just to take away health care
Republicans: The hell we won't
Republicans: Sue to force people to go hungry
Democrats: Well, fuck. We can at least get hungry babies fed
Democrats: Vote to feed babies
Bluesky: FUCK THE DEMOCRATS
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Republicans: Fuck the ACA
Democrats: You won't let babies starve just to take away health care
Republicans: The hell we won't
Republicans: Sue to force people to go hungry
Democrats: Well, fuck. We can at least get hungry babies fed
Democrats: Vote to feed babies
Bluesky: FUCK THE DEMOCRATS
Democrats: You won't let babies starve just to take away health care
Republicans: The hell we won't
Republicans: Sue to force people to go hungry
Democrats: Well, fuck. We can at least get hungry babies fed
Democrats: Vote to feed babies
Bluesky: FUCK THE DEMOCRATS
"Surrender, then negotiate" is not how negotiations work.
November 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"Surrender, then negotiate" is not how negotiations work.
I think he also coined "Where are they now?"
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I think he also coined "Where are they now?"
This is really neat. 🧪
Roman road network was twice as large as previously thought, new mapping project finds
The new digital map increases the Roman road network by nearly 100%.
www.livescience.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This is really neat. 🧪
We are all Sandwichicus.
November 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM
We are all Sandwichicus.
I have no strong opinions on Zohran #Mamdani. He may be a great mayor for NYC, or a terrible one. Like most elected officials in any office, he’ll probably be somewhere in between.
But the panic he’s inspiring in certain quarters does incline me to give him the benefit of the doubt, I have to say.
But the panic he’s inspiring in certain quarters does incline me to give him the benefit of the doubt, I have to say.
November 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I have no strong opinions on Zohran #Mamdani. He may be a great mayor for NYC, or a terrible one. Like most elected officials in any office, he’ll probably be somewhere in between.
But the panic he’s inspiring in certain quarters does incline me to give him the benefit of the doubt, I have to say.
But the panic he’s inspiring in certain quarters does incline me to give him the benefit of the doubt, I have to say.
#Covid causes what we in the biz call "#cardiovascular events," among its other nasty effects. #Heart attack, #stroke, pulmonary #embolism, deep vein #thrombosis. All things you should try to avoid.
🧪 ⚕️ 🧵 #medsky
🧪 ⚕️ 🧵 #medsky
Cohort study of cardiovascular safety of different COVID-19 vaccination doses among 46 million adults in England - Nature Communications
COVID-19 vaccines have been associated with rare cardiovascular and thrombotic complications. Here, the authors use population-based longitudinal electronic health record data from ~46 million adults ...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This is brilliant, and disturbingly spot on.
If Techbros, "founders", and LinkedIn Lunatics ran DnD games. I was torn between laughing and table-flipping.
There’s an XP Bubble | DND Short
YouTube video by ZachTheBold
www.youtube.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is brilliant, and disturbingly spot on.
Middle-aged white people on Bad Bunny and the Super Bowl halftime show. One calls him "so famous no one has ever heard of him." I reply, "Don't equate 'no one' with 'no one I know'."
Yes, I am also middle-aged white people. Bast save me from ever being *that kind* of middle-aged white people, okay?
Yes, I am also middle-aged white people. Bast save me from ever being *that kind* of middle-aged white people, okay?
October 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Middle-aged white people on Bad Bunny and the Super Bowl halftime show. One calls him "so famous no one has ever heard of him." I reply, "Don't equate 'no one' with 'no one I know'."
Yes, I am also middle-aged white people. Bast save me from ever being *that kind* of middle-aged white people, okay?
Yes, I am also middle-aged white people. Bast save me from ever being *that kind* of middle-aged white people, okay?
The KPg is probably the only mass extinction in Earth's history that fits the stereotype, and it's our mental model for such events just because dinosaurs are charismatic. But yeah. We're in the middle of a sixth great extinction, and the pace makes it too easy for people to pretend otherwise. 🧪 🦖
Lorraine Daston · Kaboom! Slow-Motion Extinction
Historians who address such topics as extinction, which straddle the history of humans and of the Earth, face the...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The KPg is probably the only mass extinction in Earth's history that fits the stereotype, and it's our mental model for such events just because dinosaurs are charismatic. But yeah. We're in the middle of a sixth great extinction, and the pace makes it too easy for people to pretend otherwise. 🧪 🦖
I laughed. But more and more people believe this dangerous nonsense. Our ability to prevent and treat disease is under full-scale attack, and millions—tens or hundreds of millions—will die because of it. 🧪 ⚕️
October 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I laughed. But more and more people believe this dangerous nonsense. Our ability to prevent and treat disease is under full-scale attack, and millions—tens or hundreds of millions—will die because of it. 🧪 ⚕️
Checklist time!
Good food: France ✅ Olympus Mons ❌
Good beer: France ❌ Olympus Mons ❌
The Louvre: France ✅ (kind of) Olympus Mons ❌
High peaks: France ✅ Olympus Mons ✅
Highest peak in Solar System: France ❌ Olympus Mons ✅
Cool fossils: France ✅ Olympus Mons ❌ (probably)
Hard decision, really.
Good food: France ✅ Olympus Mons ❌
Good beer: France ❌ Olympus Mons ❌
The Louvre: France ✅ (kind of) Olympus Mons ❌
High peaks: France ✅ Olympus Mons ✅
Highest peak in Solar System: France ❌ Olympus Mons ✅
Cool fossils: France ✅ Olympus Mons ❌ (probably)
Hard decision, really.
October 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Checklist time!
Good food: France ✅ Olympus Mons ❌
Good beer: France ❌ Olympus Mons ❌
The Louvre: France ✅ (kind of) Olympus Mons ❌
High peaks: France ✅ Olympus Mons ✅
Highest peak in Solar System: France ❌ Olympus Mons ✅
Cool fossils: France ✅ Olympus Mons ❌ (probably)
Hard decision, really.
Good food: France ✅ Olympus Mons ❌
Good beer: France ❌ Olympus Mons ❌
The Louvre: France ✅ (kind of) Olympus Mons ❌
High peaks: France ✅ Olympus Mons ✅
Highest peak in Solar System: France ❌ Olympus Mons ✅
Cool fossils: France ✅ Olympus Mons ❌ (probably)
Hard decision, really.
I think my direct deposit paperwork got screwed up.
October 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I think my direct deposit paperwork got screwed up.
Imagine thinking that sumd00d calling himself Bronze Age Pervert will ever have anything worthwhile to say, on any subject.
Imagine thinking that the triumph of the city, an ideal habitat for modern humans, is a bad thing.
“A good Bronze Age Pervert tweet..”-Ross Douthat, NYT’s resident intellectual conservative
October 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Imagine thinking that sumd00d calling himself Bronze Age Pervert will ever have anything worthwhile to say, on any subject.
That meme going around about how #rattlesnakes are evolving to lose their rattles because humans keep killing the ones that rattle? It's a just-so story. I get why those are often satisfying, but they're just as often nonsense. 🧪
Are rattlesnakes evolving to rattle less, or losing their rattles? - Rattlesnake Solutions
Nope. But the topic is interesting, regardless. This is a relatively new myth that’s something to watch, where those of us who regularly work to dispel rattlesnake mythology see spread and grow across...
rattlesnakesolutions.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:47 AM
That meme going around about how #rattlesnakes are evolving to lose their rattles because humans keep killing the ones that rattle? It's a just-so story. I get why those are often satisfying, but they're just as often nonsense. 🧪
[climbs out of acid bath] You mean I've been doing this wrong the whole time?
October 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
[climbs out of acid bath] You mean I've been doing this wrong the whole time?
"Making fun of #antivaxers isn't the best way to educate them."
"It is very difficult to educate mass murderers as to why mass murder is bad."
🧪 ⚕️
"It is very difficult to educate mass murderers as to why mass murder is bad."
🧪 ⚕️
October 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"Making fun of #antivaxers isn't the best way to educate them."
"It is very difficult to educate mass murderers as to why mass murder is bad."
🧪 ⚕️
"It is very difficult to educate mass murderers as to why mass murder is bad."
🧪 ⚕️
Because this keeps coming up, and it's good to have a reference: there was never, ever a time when climatologists were predicting global cooling on a human scale. 🧪
October 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Because this keeps coming up, and it's good to have a reference: there was never, ever a time when climatologists were predicting global cooling on a human scale. 🧪
There's a line I've used in many contexts, but particularly enjoy when responding to people who express contempt for academic credentials and those who have worked hard to get them:
"It's really impressive how wrong you manage to be about so many things. Like you have a PhD in wrongology." 🧪 🎓
"It's really impressive how wrong you manage to be about so many things. Like you have a PhD in wrongology." 🧪 🎓
October 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
There's a line I've used in many contexts, but particularly enjoy when responding to people who express contempt for academic credentials and those who have worked hard to get them:
"It's really impressive how wrong you manage to be about so many things. Like you have a PhD in wrongology." 🧪 🎓
"It's really impressive how wrong you manage to be about so many things. Like you have a PhD in wrongology." 🧪 🎓
Perhaps I was luckier than I thought when my academic career ended prematurely.
October 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Perhaps I was luckier than I thought when my academic career ended prematurely.
No matter where you go ... there you are.
October 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
No matter where you go ... there you are.
You know, I'm good with this.
October 7, 2025 at 12:36 AM
You know, I'm good with this.