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Amanda D. Smith
@amandadsmith.bsky.social
Energy nerd, former engineering academic, scientist, analyst, climate educator. 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🌱🐈🐕📖🌲🍄🥾🥟

Not nostalgic for Twitter. Even "old" Twitter.

"The name of our beautiful reward is not profit. Its name is freedom."
- Ursula K. Le Guin

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Full text and video of Le Guin's speech: www.ursulakleguin.com/nbf-medal
Ursula K. Le Guin — National Book Foundation Medal: Ursula's Acceptance Speech
www.ursulakleguin.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I spend a lot of time putting together numbers and analyzing other people's calculations. We should run numbers.

But calculations that don't honor our personhood, emotions, and capacity for love should only be used to support a decision-making process that is fully human and not fully 'rational.'
January 14, 2025 at 4:40 AM
It's not on you! I love that you actually looked for the source.
January 7, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Same same
January 7, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Even mentioning the title would have undermined the headline. As others have noted, it's an *association* study.

Key conclusion: "findings indicate that semi-skimmed milk consumption may be linked to a lower risk of depression and anxiety."

Freely available research paper w/ limitations section 👏
January 7, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Very few news articles link to the study they're referencing (or even name the lead author) - it's a huge pet peeve of mine!

This one mentioned participant # and journal (Frontiers in Nutrition) so it's this: www.frontiersin.org/journals/nut...

As usual, news article misrepresents what it says...
Frontiers | Association of different types of milk with depression and anxiety: a prospective cohort study and Mendelian randomization analysis
BackgroundThe relationship between different types of milk and depression and anxiety remains unclear, with limited evidence from prospective cohort studies....
www.frontiersin.org
January 7, 2025 at 2:33 AM