Daniel Dvorkin
@danielmedic.bsky.social
Bioinformaticist / biostatistician, veteran USAF medic and Army infantryman, armchair paleontologist, occasional science fiction author, long-ago kickboxer, oldbat goth, vaccinated liberal patriot.
Hi, internet. Whatever your message, scrolling it over a video of you mugging for the camera will not make it more effective. Just thought you might want to know.
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Hi, internet. Whatever your message, scrolling it over a video of you mugging for the camera will not make it more effective. Just thought you might want to know.
TIL that "If you want to know who rules over you, just look for who you are not allowed to criticize" is not from Voltaire, but from a neo-Nazi named Kevin Strom. I've always thought the line itself is facile. The origin puts it in a different light altogether.
November 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
TIL that "If you want to know who rules over you, just look for who you are not allowed to criticize" is not from Voltaire, but from a neo-Nazi named Kevin Strom. I've always thought the line itself is facile. The origin puts it in a different light altogether.
A somewhat more amusing exchange from my VA visit: "You are Lithuanian. I am Ukrainian. We love our coffee with cream." Stripped of context, that's totally a coded message from a Cold War thriller.
November 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
A somewhat more amusing exchange from my VA visit: "You are Lithuanian. I am Ukrainian. We love our coffee with cream." Stripped of context, that's totally a coded message from a Cold War thriller.
Peter Thiel's lack of self-awareness is impressive. He'd be executed on the first day of the theocracy he wants.
The Thiel-linked Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) hosted a panel featuring Stephen Wolfe (author of the Case for Christian Nationalism) who wrote that “Non-Christians living among us are…not entitled to political equality.” ISI supports over 70 student-run publications across the country. 1/
America's Exceptional Nationalism
YouTube video by Intercollegiate Studies Institute
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Peter Thiel's lack of self-awareness is impressive. He'd be executed on the first day of the theocracy he wants.
This idea a lot of guys have, that the only reason a man would ever speak up on women's behalf is because he hopes it will get him laid, says a lot more about them than it does about anyone else.
November 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This idea a lot of guys have, that the only reason a man would ever speak up on women's behalf is because he hopes it will get him laid, says a lot more about them than it does about anyone else.
"Thanks, Coach Collins!"
Sen. Cassidy says he's "very concerned" about possible hepatitis B vaccine schedule change
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a physician whose medical practice focused on hepatitis B, said he's "very concerned" about a potential change to the hepatitis B vaccine schedule for infant...
www.cbsnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
"Thanks, Coach Collins!"
"What do you *want*?"
"I want antivaxers to live just long enough to learn what actual research is. And when they realize what idiots they've been, I will wave at them ... like this. Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"
🧪 ⚕️ 🚀 💉
"I want antivaxers to live just long enough to learn what actual research is. And when they realize what idiots they've been, I will wave at them ... like this. Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"
🧪 ⚕️ 🚀 💉
November 17, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"What do you *want*?"
"I want antivaxers to live just long enough to learn what actual research is. And when they realize what idiots they've been, I will wave at them ... like this. Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"
🧪 ⚕️ 🚀 💉
"I want antivaxers to live just long enough to learn what actual research is. And when they realize what idiots they've been, I will wave at them ... like this. Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"
🧪 ⚕️ 🚀 💉
The rescue of the astronauts stranded on the Tiangong space station was a smooth, well-conducted, low-drama operation. Predictably, it's bringing out a bunch of nationalist garbage from Russian and American fanboys. "Chinese-made garbage" etc. 🧪 🚀
November 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The rescue of the astronauts stranded on the Tiangong space station was a smooth, well-conducted, low-drama operation. Predictably, it's bringing out a bunch of nationalist garbage from Russian and American fanboys. "Chinese-made garbage" etc. 🧪 🚀
Like, whatEVER.
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Like, whatEVER.
Seen in the wild: "And then the doctor said, 'Donald Trump is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.'"
November 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Seen in the wild: "And then the doctor said, 'Donald Trump is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.'"
Reposted by Daniel Dvorkin
Republicans: Fuck the ACA
Democrats: You won't let babies starve just to take away health care
Republicans: The hell we won't
Republicans: Sue to force people to go hungry
Democrats: Well, fuck. We can at least get hungry babies fed
Democrats: Vote to feed babies
Bluesky: FUCK THE DEMOCRATS
Democrats: You won't let babies starve just to take away health care
Republicans: The hell we won't
Republicans: Sue to force people to go hungry
Democrats: Well, fuck. We can at least get hungry babies fed
Democrats: Vote to feed babies
Bluesky: FUCK THE DEMOCRATS
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Republicans: Fuck the ACA
Democrats: You won't let babies starve just to take away health care
Republicans: The hell we won't
Republicans: Sue to force people to go hungry
Democrats: Well, fuck. We can at least get hungry babies fed
Democrats: Vote to feed babies
Bluesky: FUCK THE DEMOCRATS
Democrats: You won't let babies starve just to take away health care
Republicans: The hell we won't
Republicans: Sue to force people to go hungry
Democrats: Well, fuck. We can at least get hungry babies fed
Democrats: Vote to feed babies
Bluesky: FUCK THE DEMOCRATS
"Surrender, then negotiate" is not how negotiations work.
November 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"Surrender, then negotiate" is not how negotiations work.
I think he also coined "Where are they now?"
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I think he also coined "Where are they now?"
This is really neat. 🧪
Roman road network was twice as large as previously thought, new mapping project finds
The new digital map increases the Roman road network by nearly 100%.
www.livescience.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This is really neat. 🧪
We are all Sandwichicus.
November 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM
We are all Sandwichicus.
I have no strong opinions on Zohran #Mamdani. He may be a great mayor for NYC, or a terrible one. Like most elected officials in any office, he’ll probably be somewhere in between.
But the panic he’s inspiring in certain quarters does incline me to give him the benefit of the doubt, I have to say.
But the panic he’s inspiring in certain quarters does incline me to give him the benefit of the doubt, I have to say.
November 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I have no strong opinions on Zohran #Mamdani. He may be a great mayor for NYC, or a terrible one. Like most elected officials in any office, he’ll probably be somewhere in between.
But the panic he’s inspiring in certain quarters does incline me to give him the benefit of the doubt, I have to say.
But the panic he’s inspiring in certain quarters does incline me to give him the benefit of the doubt, I have to say.
#Covid causes what we in the biz call "#cardiovascular events," among its other nasty effects. #Heart attack, #stroke, pulmonary #embolism, deep vein #thrombosis. All things you should try to avoid.
🧪 ⚕️ 🧵 #medsky
🧪 ⚕️ 🧵 #medsky
Cohort study of cardiovascular safety of different COVID-19 vaccination doses among 46 million adults in England - Nature Communications
COVID-19 vaccines have been associated with rare cardiovascular and thrombotic complications. Here, the authors use population-based longitudinal electronic health record data from ~46 million adults ...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This is brilliant, and disturbingly spot on.
If Techbros, "founders", and LinkedIn Lunatics ran DnD games. I was torn between laughing and table-flipping.
There’s an XP Bubble | DND Short
YouTube video by ZachTheBold
www.youtube.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is brilliant, and disturbingly spot on.
Middle-aged white people on Bad Bunny and the Super Bowl halftime show. One calls him "so famous no one has ever heard of him." I reply, "Don't equate 'no one' with 'no one I know'."
Yes, I am also middle-aged white people. Bast save me from ever being *that kind* of middle-aged white people, okay?
Yes, I am also middle-aged white people. Bast save me from ever being *that kind* of middle-aged white people, okay?
October 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Middle-aged white people on Bad Bunny and the Super Bowl halftime show. One calls him "so famous no one has ever heard of him." I reply, "Don't equate 'no one' with 'no one I know'."
Yes, I am also middle-aged white people. Bast save me from ever being *that kind* of middle-aged white people, okay?
Yes, I am also middle-aged white people. Bast save me from ever being *that kind* of middle-aged white people, okay?
The KPg is probably the only mass extinction in Earth's history that fits the stereotype, and it's our mental model for such events just because dinosaurs are charismatic. But yeah. We're in the middle of a sixth great extinction, and the pace makes it too easy for people to pretend otherwise. 🧪 🦖
Lorraine Daston · Kaboom! Slow-Motion Extinction
Historians who address such topics as extinction, which straddle the history of humans and of the Earth, face the...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The KPg is probably the only mass extinction in Earth's history that fits the stereotype, and it's our mental model for such events just because dinosaurs are charismatic. But yeah. We're in the middle of a sixth great extinction, and the pace makes it too easy for people to pretend otherwise. 🧪 🦖
I laughed. But more and more people believe this dangerous nonsense. Our ability to prevent and treat disease is under full-scale attack, and millions—tens or hundreds of millions—will die because of it. 🧪 ⚕️
October 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I laughed. But more and more people believe this dangerous nonsense. Our ability to prevent and treat disease is under full-scale attack, and millions—tens or hundreds of millions—will die because of it. 🧪 ⚕️
Checklist time!
Good food: France ✅ Olympus Mons ❌
Good beer: France ❌ Olympus Mons ❌
The Louvre: France ✅ (kind of) Olympus Mons ❌
High peaks: France ✅ Olympus Mons ✅
Highest peak in Solar System: France ❌ Olympus Mons ✅
Cool fossils: France ✅ Olympus Mons ❌ (probably)
Hard decision, really.
Good food: France ✅ Olympus Mons ❌
Good beer: France ❌ Olympus Mons ❌
The Louvre: France ✅ (kind of) Olympus Mons ❌
High peaks: France ✅ Olympus Mons ✅
Highest peak in Solar System: France ❌ Olympus Mons ✅
Cool fossils: France ✅ Olympus Mons ❌ (probably)
Hard decision, really.
October 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Checklist time!
Good food: France ✅ Olympus Mons ❌
Good beer: France ❌ Olympus Mons ❌
The Louvre: France ✅ (kind of) Olympus Mons ❌
High peaks: France ✅ Olympus Mons ✅
Highest peak in Solar System: France ❌ Olympus Mons ✅
Cool fossils: France ✅ Olympus Mons ❌ (probably)
Hard decision, really.
Good food: France ✅ Olympus Mons ❌
Good beer: France ❌ Olympus Mons ❌
The Louvre: France ✅ (kind of) Olympus Mons ❌
High peaks: France ✅ Olympus Mons ✅
Highest peak in Solar System: France ❌ Olympus Mons ✅
Cool fossils: France ✅ Olympus Mons ❌ (probably)
Hard decision, really.
I think my direct deposit paperwork got screwed up.
October 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I think my direct deposit paperwork got screwed up.