Emily Deans MD
@evolutionarypsy.bsky.social
Psychiatrist and social media grump. Longhorn, Massachusetts via Texas.
Daily Vanilla watching the Oscars
March 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Daily Vanilla watching the Oscars
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Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off
www.sfchronicle.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Considering how awful this flu season is…well the first Trump administration didn’t want to test for COVID because the numbers would go up if we did.
On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down.
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now
Meanwhile...
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now
Meanwhile...
February 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Considering how awful this flu season is…well the first Trump administration didn’t want to test for COVID because the numbers would go up if we did.
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If there’s a Disease X outbreak in the next four (or more?) years we literally will be flying blind, we just fired the people who would have tracked it
CDC source:
“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.
They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.
They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
February 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If there’s a Disease X outbreak in the next four (or more?) years we literally will be flying blind, we just fired the people who would have tracked it
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Bureaucracy, famously not important in war
February 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Bureaucracy, famously not important in war
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Wow, we’re having a great night of aurora so far here in Fairbanks! Awesome formations in the sky… these photos were captured just a few minutes ago!
February 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Wow, we’re having a great night of aurora so far here in Fairbanks! Awesome formations in the sky… these photos were captured just a few minutes ago!
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Impact of NIH cut starting to sink in
Here's Sen. Katie Britt urging "a smart, targeted approach" in order to protect important research at UA-Birmingham, a top NIH recipient
Also, as article notes, the state's largest employer
www.al.com/news/2025/02...
Here's Sen. Katie Britt urging "a smart, targeted approach" in order to protect important research at UA-Birmingham, a top NIH recipient
Also, as article notes, the state's largest employer
www.al.com/news/2025/02...
Katie Britt vows to work with RFK Jr. after NIH funding cuts cause concern in Alabama
UAB and UAH are among Alabama institutions that could be affected by cuts.
www.al.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Impact of NIH cut starting to sink in
Here's Sen. Katie Britt urging "a smart, targeted approach" in order to protect important research at UA-Birmingham, a top NIH recipient
Also, as article notes, the state's largest employer
www.al.com/news/2025/02...
Here's Sen. Katie Britt urging "a smart, targeted approach" in order to protect important research at UA-Birmingham, a top NIH recipient
Also, as article notes, the state's largest employer
www.al.com/news/2025/02...
Quintessential Vanilla morning
February 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Quintessential Vanilla morning
free course on navigating the power and shortcomings of LLMs
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
INTRODUCTION
thebullshitmachines.com
February 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
free course on navigating the power and shortcomings of LLMs
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Texas confirms measles outbreak as Georgia reports more cases
Also, the CDC today said it has received reports of 14 cases so far this year from 5 jurisdictions.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...
Also, the CDC today said it has received reports of 14 cases so far this year from 5 jurisdictions.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...
February 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Texas confirms measles outbreak as Georgia reports more cases
Also, the CDC today said it has received reports of 14 cases so far this year from 5 jurisdictions.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...
Also, the CDC today said it has received reports of 14 cases so far this year from 5 jurisdictions.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...
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Timeline cleanse/your moment of Zen: This is from a few years ago when we had more snow than we do right now. It was the first time Lucy had ever seen more than a dusting, and she was *overjoyed*. (Video features a large fluffy black/tan husky mix rolling around happily in about 4in. of snow.)
February 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Timeline cleanse/your moment of Zen: This is from a few years ago when we had more snow than we do right now. It was the first time Lucy had ever seen more than a dusting, and she was *overjoyed*. (Video features a large fluffy black/tan husky mix rolling around happily in about 4in. of snow.)
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Landmark studies track source of Indo-European languages spoken by 40% of world 🧬 news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Landmark studies track source of Indo-European languages— Harvard Gazette
Researchers place Caucasus Lower Volga people, speakers of ancestor tongue, in today’s Russia about 6,500 years ago
news.harvard.edu
February 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Landmark studies track source of Indo-European languages spoken by 40% of world 🧬 news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
He’s mad that the dog is allowed to go out all the time but not him
February 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
He’s mad that the dog is allowed to go out all the time but not him
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BREAKING | The universe could undergo a 'catastrophic change' that could alter absolutely everything, quantum machine shows
Universe could undergo a 'catastrophic change' that could alter absolutely everything
The universe could undergo a catastrophe that would change absolutely everything, scientists have shown using a quantum machine.
www.independent.co.uk
February 4, 2025 at 10:04 AM
BREAKING | The universe could undergo a 'catastrophic change' that could alter absolutely everything, quantum machine shows
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Interested in how ants navigate? Have a look at our new review in Current Biology! This piece has resulted from a collaboration with Tom Collett, Paul Graham. Open access:
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
@ercresearch.bsky.social @lundvision.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
@ercresearch.bsky.social @lundvision.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me
February 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Interested in how ants navigate? Have a look at our new review in Current Biology! This piece has resulted from a collaboration with Tom Collett, Paul Graham. Open access:
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
@ercresearch.bsky.social @lundvision.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
@ercresearch.bsky.social @lundvision.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social
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Good morning Albuquerque, New Mexico!
February 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Good morning Albuquerque, New Mexico!
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Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing
February 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing
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It's kind of fun that the three main varieties of kale represent the three types of surface geometry (negatively curved, positively curved, and flat).
February 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
It's kind of fun that the three main varieties of kale represent the three types of surface geometry (negatively curved, positively curved, and flat).
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This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information.
This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information.
This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
Waiting for my computer to update before doing some work so I posted a “Find Vanilla” picture from earlier today.
February 1, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Waiting for my computer to update before doing some work so I posted a “Find Vanilla” picture from earlier today.
Reposted by Emily Deans MD
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...