Donovan Maust
@dtmaust.bsky.social
Geriatric psychiatrist & health services researcher interested in #aging #dementia. Lead National Dementia Workforce Study (NDWS.org) with Joanne Spetz, PhD. #GoBlue (but opinions my own)
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If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
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Live look at NIH SROs today….
kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a messy room .
ALT: kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a messy room .
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Live look at NIH SROs today….
🙋♂️ patiently waiting in line
(I cannot even imagine the lifting involved in catching up…)
(I cannot even imagine the lifting involved in catching up…)
While the government was shut down, 379 NIH study section meetings (containing 24,380 grant applications) were postponed. NIH is committed to getting these reviewed, but please be patient and understanding with staff, as this is a complex and heavy lift.
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🙋♂️ patiently waiting in line
(I cannot even imagine the lifting involved in catching up…)
(I cannot even imagine the lifting involved in catching up…)
Siri, help me learn about confounding:
First they came for reproductive rights.
Then they came for vaccines.
Now they’re coming for mental health.
There is zero evidence SSRIs cause mass violence.
You know what does? Guns — and the fact that anyone can access weapons that kill hundreds in seconds.
#GunReformNow
Then they came for vaccines.
Now they’re coming for mental health.
There is zero evidence SSRIs cause mass violence.
You know what does? Guns — and the fact that anyone can access weapons that kill hundreds in seconds.
#GunReformNow
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Siri, help me learn about confounding:
Physicians should actually learn a little something about health insurance works while in medical school.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Physicians should actually learn a little something about health insurance works while in medical school.
Which is so crazy-making since it was really very explicitly clear what would be in store with Trump 2.0. There were literally hundreds of pages describing it.
"... the best explanation for 2025 is that voters didn’t know what they were getting with Trump 2.0 last November, but now they do — and they don’t like it."
@gelliottmorris.com
@gelliottmorris.com
This is a very informative read: Seven data-driven lessons from the 2025 elections
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
November 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Which is so crazy-making since it was really very explicitly clear what would be in store with Trump 2.0. There were literally hundreds of pages describing it.
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It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
I am not a religion prof but I might need this maybe?
My kid and I finished the Lego Notre Dame de Paris tonight. We worked on it bit by bit over months. Cat provided lots of inspiring help. It’ll sit in my office at work. I mean I am a religion prof.
November 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I am not a religion prof but I might need this maybe?
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Meritocracy!
just catching up on Bill Belichick’s disastrous year as UNC coach and discovering the exact mechanics of how he secured the job. www.theringer.com/2025/10/31/c...
November 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Meritocracy!
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This is huge progress. In the past the King would just kill his brother.
King Charles's decision to strip his brother Andrew of his title is a watershed in the history of the royal family, an act so legally complicated, politically sensitive and emotionally fraught that it left historians searching for a precedent, writes Mark Landler www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/w...
Will the Unmaking of a Prince Be the Making of a King?
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This is huge progress. In the past the King would just kill his brother.
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The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.
This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”"
www.prb.org/resources/se...
www.prb.org/resources/se...
November 1, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.
Yup. My reaction every time I open a Microsoft product (or every other piece of software or webpage) and see the "copilot" button.
I WILL NEVER PRESS THE COPILOT BUTTON.
I WILL NEVER PRESS THE COPILOT BUTTON.
October 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Yup. My reaction every time I open a Microsoft product (or every other piece of software or webpage) and see the "copilot" button.
I WILL NEVER PRESS THE COPILOT BUTTON.
I WILL NEVER PRESS THE COPILOT BUTTON.
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So many own goals.
Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product
Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product
October 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM
So many own goals.
Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product
Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
I am curious about this but think the results might actually make my head explode.
I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?
October 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I am curious about this but think the results might actually make my head explode.
Apart from whether it is a small or big price to pay, it is an EXTRAORDINARY waste of time and effort for everyone involved
The NIH has insisted there are no banned words
But, an analysis by @jeremymberg.bsky.social found over 700 hundred grants changed their titles from '24 to '25
Some see it as a small price to pay to keep their grant, but others are worried about what comes next
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
But, an analysis by @jeremymberg.bsky.social found over 700 hundred grants changed their titles from '24 to '25
Some see it as a small price to pay to keep their grant, but others are worried about what comes next
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next
The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a former agency official
www.statnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Apart from whether it is a small or big price to pay, it is an EXTRAORDINARY waste of time and effort for everyone involved
So . . . we are basically creating state psychiatric hospitals again?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
So . . . we are basically creating state psychiatric hospitals again?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
I realize this is old news, but the fact that my child went to MyPlate.gov and found this banner is pretty infuriating:
October 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I realize this is old news, but the fact that my child went to MyPlate.gov and found this banner is pretty infuriating:
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There are ten times as many home health aides in the US as there are miners
right. given the numbers, “how to win back the working class” should be as much about care and service workers as hard hats. and yet.
October 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
There are ten times as many home health aides in the US as there are miners
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So they have hundreds of millions just lying around that they’ll never miss to give to the government programs immediately, is what they’re announcing
"Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune
Timothy Mellon is a billionaire and a major financial backer of Trump." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...
Timothy Mellon is a billionaire and a major financial backer of Trump." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...
Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
So they have hundreds of millions just lying around that they’ll never miss to give to the government programs immediately, is what they’re announcing
SE Michigan is absolutely packed with the pickups of never/nevers. It is so silly (and also fills me with rage when trying to navigate a parking garage filled with them)
Yup. "Gonna get a huge pickup to drive to my office job" guys are the fastest growing demographic. Car companies call them "never/nevers", owners who answer on surveys that they never tow and never take the trucks off-road bsky.app/profile/dias...
And the beds of most of those pickups have never carried anything more than groceries.
October 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
SE Michigan is absolutely packed with the pickups of never/nevers. It is so silly (and also fills me with rage when trying to navigate a parking garage filled with them)
This is repulsive.
The White House website now has a timeline of the history of the building which confirms -- as if we didn't know -- just how disgusting the Trump administration is.
Part of me says "don't give this trolling the attention they want," but these are awful people. www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
Part of me says "don't give this trolling the attention they want," but these are awful people. www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
October 23, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This is repulsive.
Me to my teenagers:
October 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Me to my teenagers:
Keep the name of my people out of your mouth, Ross.
“A good Bronze Age Pervert tweet..”-Ross Douthat, NYT’s resident intellectual conservative
October 21, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Keep the name of my people out of your mouth, Ross.