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Alexander Tsai, MD
@drdrtsai.bsky.social
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Husband, father, psychiatrist & pop. health scientist at @GlobalHealthMGH, @MonganInstitute, & @HarvardChanSPH. Editor @SocSciMed-Mental Health. TweetDelete on. Fk cowards.

Website: https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/90553
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He has no strategy other than to double down

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Trump Calls for $1 Billion Settlement From Harvard | News | The Harvard Crimson
U.S. President Donald Trump demanded Harvard pay $1 billion in a settlement in a Truth Social post Monday night, pushing back against reports that the White House would no longer demand a cash payment...
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February 3, 2026 at 3:05 PM
drdrtsai.bsky.social
Hey Siri can you give me a good example of survey selection bias
February 3, 2026 at 5:27 AM
drdrtsai.bsky.social
"It’s the same with Trump. A lot of accusations have been made against him, but neither you nor I were in the room. So who’s to say, really?"
"Yeah, exactly."
February 1, 2026 at 11:24 PM
drdrtsai.bsky.social
“Wow haven’t you had enough house arrest?”
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Harvard Professor Lisa Randall Maintained Years of Contact with Epstein, Flew on Jet | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard professor Lisa J. Randall ’84 maintained years of contact with convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein — exchanging emails and phone calls and flying on his private jet in 2014 — according t...
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February 1, 2026 at 10:04 PM
drdrtsai.bsky.social
"the room fell silent repeatedly"
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump tries humor, gets some silence at black-tie dinner with ‘people I hate’
In a frenetic presidency marked by jarring contrasts, he added another Saturday night: suiting up in black-tie regalia amid mass immigration protests and telling jokes about invading Greenland.
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February 1, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump on his multiple suits against the federal government: "I'm supposed to work out a settlement with myself ... We could make it a substantial amount, nobody would care, because it's gonna go to numerous, very good charities."
February 1, 2026 at 11:44 AM
drdrtsai.bsky.social
Oof.
January 31, 2026 at 9:34 PM
drdrtsai.bsky.social
Reversed. All of this shhhttte. Day one.
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Trump wants to build a 250-foot-tall arch, dwarfing the Lincoln Memorial
The president is eyeing a plot of land near Memorial Bridge. The art critic who proposed the idea called for a smaller arch or for Trump to pick a new site.
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January 31, 2026 at 8:04 PM
drdrtsai.bsky.social
Friends don't let friends publish in Frontiers
elisabethbik.bsky.social Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 3d
I know that @frontiersin.bsky.social are trying hard to be taken seriously.

But addressing the problems in the original figure (left) by a completely new set of panels (that also have problems; right) puts them straight back into predatory journal range.

#ImageForensics
#ScientificPublishing
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Left: Original Figure 10, containing panels from 2 groups (A and B, in 2 columns) and 6 different organs (in 6 rows, heart, liver, spleen, stomach, lung, kidney). I have added colored boxes to highlight that several panels in the original appear to contain duplicated (photoshopped?) areas. Right: Figure in the same orientation as on the left, but all panels now look different. Still, two sets overlap
January 30, 2026 at 11:07 PM
drdrtsai.bsky.social
"The subsequent 6pm showing performed twice as successfully, attracting two ticket buyers."
January 30, 2026 at 11:50 AM
drdrtsai.bsky.social
Idiots. Why not sue for $500 billion and then agree to settle for $100 billion? Or better yet, settle for $1 trillion?
fintwitter.bsky.social FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 4d
*TRUMP SUES IRS, TREASURY FOR $10 BILLION OVER TAX-RETURN LEAKS
January 30, 2026 at 12:37 AM
drdrtsai.bsky.social
Space savers are so obnoxious
universalhub.com Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 5d
311 complaint of the day: South Enders ignoring the neighborhood ban on space savers, some obnoxiously
www.universalhub.com/2026/311-com...

#Boston #SouthEnd #snow #parking
Space saving chair with note: Don't move the chair or I will break your window
January 29, 2026 at 5:14 AM
drdrtsai.bsky.social
First Ingrid (to @yalegh.bsky.social) and now Magda to @yalesph.bsky.social! Yale is the place to be!
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Epidemiologist Dr. Magdalena Cerdá joins YSPH as Chair of the Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology
Dr. Cerdá is widely recognized for her national leadership in social epidemiology, particularly for her groundbreaking work on intersecting epidemics involving
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January 27, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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Wide open at AMC Boston Common
January 27, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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"Five year old" "client"
stmdc.bsky.social Steve Middlebrook @stmdc.bsky.social · 7d
Here is the child’s drawing.
Drawing by 5 year old held in concentration camp in Texas by Trump Administration. It’s a pencil drawing of 4 stick figures with frowns behind a chain link fence depicted by a dozens of vertical and horizontal lines. Written in child-like letters, it says “Let us go” and “I am 5 years old.”
January 27, 2026 at 12:57 PM
drdrtsai.bsky.social
"This sets up a mayoral institution that is potentially in conflict with the sitting mayor, and that strikes me as very unwise and petty"
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
The booby trap Eric Adams set for Zohran Mamdani
Attorneys and lawmakers are working to undo a particularly problematic tripwire laid by the former mayor.
www.politico.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:51 PM
drdrtsai.bsky.social
"I'm old enough to remember a time when we thought Sarah Palin was crazy"
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Jimmy Kimmel on the Vile and Heartless Murder of Nurse Alex Pretti by ICE in Minneapolis
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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January 27, 2026 at 12:26 PM
drdrtsai.bsky.social
I mean, I'm happy to root for the Patriots and all, but... how dafq do they keep winning?!!
January 25, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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devincow.bsky.social DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · Apr 19
I forgot how much I love this place.
January 24, 2026 at 6:40 PM
drdrtsai.bsky.social
"In the five years since you submitted the first version of your article, our journal has changed its focus to printing work that reinforces the conclusions of the gambling industry. Therefore, your paper no longer fits our publication."
mcsweeneys.net McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 16d
"Although your paper does not exceed our length requirements, please cut exactly 796 words. At the same time, add significant discussion of Morales’s (2017) argument that Princess Zelda is the superior feminist character when compared to Princess Peach."
Two Reviewers Provide Contradictory Feedback on Your Nietzschean Study of Early Mario Bros. Games
First Submission Reviewer #1 I enjoyed reading your article “Man, Superman, Super Mario,” a Nietzschean study of the early Mario Brothers games. I ...
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January 24, 2026 at 1:53 AM
drdrtsai.bsky.social
Who needs IC councils anyway
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026
Thirteen of the agency’s advisory councils, which must review grant applications before funding is awarded, are on track to have no voting members.
www.nature.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:57 AM
drdrtsai.bsky.social
getting a Nature pub is not worth undergoing this degree of self-inflicted humiliation
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.
www.nature.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:46 AM
drdrtsai.bsky.social
How the heck does she know what Immortan Joe and his War Boys look like? TO VALHALLA
January 22, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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"This is basic, basic stuff."
January 22, 2026 at 4:56 AM
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😂
jeremymberg.bsky.social Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12d
He had a troubled look on his face and I realized the conversation was not going well.

I went back to my office and found out he was in the BIRN (BioInformatic Research Network), run by NCRR.

He thought NIH had hired an idiot.

This motivated me to stay on top of as much as I could.

7/7
January 21, 2026 at 9:14 PM