Aaron JR Ferguson
@ajrferguson.bsky.social
i like to think about health, history & culture • MS Epidemiologist @ the intersection of #anthropology #socialepidemiology • researcher, writer, #Bahai #farsi #arabic
https://tabulahealth.substack.com
www.lampofsearch.com (philosophy, Baha'i studies)
https://tabulahealth.substack.com
www.lampofsearch.com (philosophy, Baha'i studies)
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Hot take: I don’t think university presidents are going to be the morally righteous leaders academics want them to be
March 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Hot take: I don’t think university presidents are going to be the morally righteous leaders academics want them to be
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Today, we honor Frederick Douglass on his chosen birthday. 🎂 His 1855 autobiography MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM is a powerful account of his journey from enslavement to freedom.
Read it here ➡️ https://archive.org/details/mybondagemyfreed6062doug/
#Blackhistorymonth #LetReadersRead #InternetArchive
Read it here ➡️ https://archive.org/details/mybondagemyfreed6062doug/
#Blackhistorymonth #LetReadersRead #InternetArchive
February 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Today, we honor Frederick Douglass on his chosen birthday. 🎂 His 1855 autobiography MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM is a powerful account of his journey from enslavement to freedom.
Read it here ➡️ https://archive.org/details/mybondagemyfreed6062doug/
#Blackhistorymonth #LetReadersRead #InternetArchive
Read it here ➡️ https://archive.org/details/mybondagemyfreed6062doug/
#Blackhistorymonth #LetReadersRead #InternetArchive
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“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
February 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Once you've succeeded on the platform of government being broken the wholesale destruction of government infrastructure is a diabolical self-fulfilling prophecy. Anyone who follows you is doomed to an asymmetrical effort to demonstrate that governance can deliver for society.
February 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Once you've succeeded on the platform of government being broken the wholesale destruction of government infrastructure is a diabolical self-fulfilling prophecy. Anyone who follows you is doomed to an asymmetrical effort to demonstrate that governance can deliver for society.
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Is this the most carnage caused by a Doge since Enrico Dandolo sacked Constantinople in 1204?
February 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Is this the most carnage caused by a Doge since Enrico Dandolo sacked Constantinople in 1204?
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God bless those who know I’m trying to learn their language and speak to me slowly in it 🙏🏻
God bless those who let me speak their language poorly to them while I try and learn 🙏🏻
God bless those who let me speak their language poorly to them while I try and learn 🙏🏻
February 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
God bless those who know I’m trying to learn their language and speak to me slowly in it 🙏🏻
God bless those who let me speak their language poorly to them while I try and learn 🙏🏻
God bless those who let me speak their language poorly to them while I try and learn 🙏🏻
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WORK IS WORSHIP☀️🤸🏻♀️
"All effort and exertion put forth by man from the fullness of his heart is worship, if it is prompted by the highest motives and the will to do service to humanity." -Abdu'l-Bahá
#earthcareconnect #earthcareteam #serviceisworship #workisworship #BlueskyBahais
"All effort and exertion put forth by man from the fullness of his heart is worship, if it is prompted by the highest motives and the will to do service to humanity." -Abdu'l-Bahá
#earthcareconnect #earthcareteam #serviceisworship #workisworship #BlueskyBahais
February 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
WORK IS WORSHIP☀️🤸🏻♀️
"All effort and exertion put forth by man from the fullness of his heart is worship, if it is prompted by the highest motives and the will to do service to humanity." -Abdu'l-Bahá
#earthcareconnect #earthcareteam #serviceisworship #workisworship #BlueskyBahais
"All effort and exertion put forth by man from the fullness of his heart is worship, if it is prompted by the highest motives and the will to do service to humanity." -Abdu'l-Bahá
#earthcareconnect #earthcareteam #serviceisworship #workisworship #BlueskyBahais
Which is to say, every day.
January 31, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Which is to say, every day.
January 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Congratulations to Sharon Schwartz and Seth Prins on their new book, Causal Inference and the People’s Health! 🥳
January 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Congratulations to Sharon Schwartz and Seth Prins on their new book, Causal Inference and the People’s Health! 🥳
For no particular reason, a #bookshelf tour! This is one of two, mostly featuring #anthropology #epidemiology #philosophy #histpry #classics and related, alongside miscellaneous and fiction. Reply if I should do a video flyby of each shelf, or a breakdown of any book (I've read ~90% of these)
January 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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I saw this book prominently displayed at our local library. I will read it with my family. Educate yourself and others.
#booksky #bannedbooks
#booksky #bannedbooks
January 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I saw this book prominently displayed at our local library. I will read it with my family. Educate yourself and others.
#booksky #bannedbooks
#booksky #bannedbooks
The Bab, Siyyid 'Ali Muhammad Shirazi, makes an avowal in his magnum opus, the Persian Bayan (2:3), that there will come a day that people would willingly pay 1,000 mithqals of gold (>$150,000 today) for a fine copy of that work. While seemingly boastful, this should be seen as an extension
January 28, 2025 at 7:47 AM
The Bab, Siyyid 'Ali Muhammad Shirazi, makes an avowal in his magnum opus, the Persian Bayan (2:3), that there will come a day that people would willingly pay 1,000 mithqals of gold (>$150,000 today) for a fine copy of that work. While seemingly boastful, this should be seen as an extension
What a pleasure to come back to a passage or piece of literature in another language that previously challenged you last time you read it, and finding that you now have a much stronger grasp! #arabic
January 28, 2025 at 7:11 AM
What a pleasure to come back to a passage or piece of literature in another language that previously challenged you last time you read it, and finding that you now have a much stronger grasp! #arabic
Leaning into to holistic social media. Even if at first it's slower, smaller, less exciting, there's less access to certain connections, or if it feels like talking into the void. Enough is enough with toxic platforms.
January 28, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Leaning into to holistic social media. Even if at first it's slower, smaller, less exciting, there's less access to certain connections, or if it feels like talking into the void. Enough is enough with toxic platforms.
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These people are literal fucking lunatics.
“Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday (Jan. 23) that accelerated advances in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in biology, can lead to a doubling of human lifespans in as little as five to 10 years ‘if we really get this AI stuff right.’” 💀
Anthropic CEO Sees AI-Powered Advances Doubling Human Lifespans | PYMNTS.com
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday (Jan. 23) that accelerated advances in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in biology, can lead to a
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January 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
These people are literal fucking lunatics.
Wisdom from Ibn ‘Arabi in the Hilyat al-Abdal. In this work Ibn 'Arabi presents a discourse on the four paths to spiritual mastery:
1. periods of seclusion and withdrawal;
2. silencing of the inner voice to leave space for remembrance of God;
3. fasting;
4. vigilance (contemplation at night)
1. periods of seclusion and withdrawal;
2. silencing of the inner voice to leave space for remembrance of God;
3. fasting;
4. vigilance (contemplation at night)
January 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Wisdom from Ibn ‘Arabi in the Hilyat al-Abdal. In this work Ibn 'Arabi presents a discourse on the four paths to spiritual mastery:
1. periods of seclusion and withdrawal;
2. silencing of the inner voice to leave space for remembrance of God;
3. fasting;
4. vigilance (contemplation at night)
1. periods of seclusion and withdrawal;
2. silencing of the inner voice to leave space for remembrance of God;
3. fasting;
4. vigilance (contemplation at night)
the irony of conservative complaints about being side-lined in academia is that there is almost no doubt that the aim of assaulting american academic institutions is not to somehow enforce 'equal parity'. it would be to completely obliterate anything that doesn't conform to the reactionary ideology.
make no mistake, the strategy used by anti-intellectual and fascistic elements against #DEI will be used as a playbook against any such strain of academic thought that they discover next. any thing even tangentially part of the might suddenly blow up into the popular consciousness.
January 25, 2025 at 3:59 AM
the irony of conservative complaints about being side-lined in academia is that there is almost no doubt that the aim of assaulting american academic institutions is not to somehow enforce 'equal parity'. it would be to completely obliterate anything that doesn't conform to the reactionary ideology.
make no mistake, the strategy used by anti-intellectual and fascistic elements against #DEI will be used as a playbook against any such strain of academic thought that they discover next. any thing even tangentially part of the might suddenly blow up into the popular consciousness.
January 25, 2025 at 3:56 AM
make no mistake, the strategy used by anti-intellectual and fascistic elements against #DEI will be used as a playbook against any such strain of academic thought that they discover next. any thing even tangentially part of the might suddenly blow up into the popular consciousness.
"The world is an illusion; it has no real existence... you yourself are an 'imagination' ... everything you perceive and say to yourself, 'this is not me', is also an imagination... the whole world is imagination (khayāl) within imagination." -Ibn 'Arabi, Fuṣus al Hikam
January 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
"The world is an illusion; it has no real existence... you yourself are an 'imagination' ... everything you perceive and say to yourself, 'this is not me', is also an imagination... the whole world is imagination (khayāl) within imagination." -Ibn 'Arabi, Fuṣus al Hikam
Books without an index 👎
January 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Books without an index 👎
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These passages from Shoghi Effendi’s The Advent of Divine Justice, a letter he wrote to the American Bahá’í community in 1938, Justice seem all the more relevant nearly a century after they were written.
January 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
These passages from Shoghi Effendi’s The Advent of Divine Justice, a letter he wrote to the American Bahá’í community in 1938, Justice seem all the more relevant nearly a century after they were written.
Daily affirmations:
I do not need another book
I do not need another book
I do not need another book
I do not need another book
I do not need another book
I need to buy that book holy shit
I do not need another book
I do not need another book
Where's my wallet
I do not need another book
I do not need another book
I do not need another book
I do not need another book
I do not need another book
I need to buy that book holy shit
I do not need another book
I do not need another book
Where's my wallet
January 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Daily affirmations:
I do not need another book
I do not need another book
I do not need another book
I do not need another book
I do not need another book
I need to buy that book holy shit
I do not need another book
I do not need another book
Where's my wallet
I do not need another book
I do not need another book
I do not need another book
I do not need another book
I do not need another book
I need to buy that book holy shit
I do not need another book
I do not need another book
Where's my wallet
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First off - comical that Plato is on the bottom carrying the whole show on his back haha (as usual). Second, what is the book on “Illness and Culture”?
January 4, 2025 at 1:47 AM
First off - comical that Plato is on the bottom carrying the whole show on his back haha (as usual). Second, what is the book on “Illness and Culture”?
For no particular reason, a #bookshelf tour! This is one of two, mostly featuring #anthropology #epidemiology #philosophy #histpry #classics and related, alongside miscellaneous and fiction. Reply if I should do a video flyby of each shelf, or a breakdown of any book (I've read ~90% of these)
January 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
For no particular reason, a #bookshelf tour! This is one of two, mostly featuring #anthropology #epidemiology #philosophy #histpry #classics and related, alongside miscellaneous and fiction. Reply if I should do a video flyby of each shelf, or a breakdown of any book (I've read ~90% of these)