@jbyoung.bsky.social
Just a simple country doctor. I write escapist fiction and the occasional cathartic satire. Appalachian Granny Woman.
What Sotomayor said.
October 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
What Sotomayor said.
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Ha, even female otters' behavior gets reduced to pregnancy hormones/ biological determinism! "After she gave birth, she stopped trying to steal surfboards, leading many to believe her behavior was the result of pregnancy-related hormones." #otters #wildlife #surfing #biology #pregnancy
Sea Otters Are Stealing Surfboards in California. Again.
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Ha, even female otters' behavior gets reduced to pregnancy hormones/ biological determinism! "After she gave birth, she stopped trying to steal surfboards, leading many to believe her behavior was the result of pregnancy-related hormones." #otters #wildlife #surfing #biology #pregnancy
“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.”
October 22, 2025 at 10:58 AM
“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.”
Hey - what better way to eliminate chronic diseases than to just, stop tracking them? Poof, prevalence now goes to zero.
October 15, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Hey - what better way to eliminate chronic diseases than to just, stop tracking them? Poof, prevalence now goes to zero.
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As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people.
Our statement: https://bit.ly/45LeJHi
Our statement: https://bit.ly/45LeJHi
September 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people.
Our statement: https://bit.ly/45LeJHi
Our statement: https://bit.ly/45LeJHi
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Even more so in academia. You write a line with 1-5 citations where you drew it from, and you would be appalled if you didn’t correctly cite it. But if robot steals it, totally fine …. No citation needed.
August 19, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Even more so in academia. You write a line with 1-5 citations where you drew it from, and you would be appalled if you didn’t correctly cite it. But if robot steals it, totally fine …. No citation needed.
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Well this is terrible. www.wesa.fm/health-scien...
DOJ subpoenas UPMC for records on gender-affirming care for trans youth
The Pittsburgh-based health system is one of more than 20 doctors and clinics that were issued subpoenas earlier this month seeking information about providers “involved in performing transgender medi...
www.wesa.fm
July 31, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Well this is terrible. www.wesa.fm/health-scien...
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It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.
July 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.
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New article out on how doctors become fascists.
50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. American doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lUTb-CmV5...
50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. American doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lUTb-CmV5...
July 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
New article out on how doctors become fascists.
50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. American doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lUTb-CmV5...
50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. American doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lUTb-CmV5...
It’s an eerie feeling to realize that I would not have been able to go to med school if the big beautiful bill had passed 10 years ago.
I had no co-signer for private loans, I wouldn’t have been able to go into the military, and barely made rent off my student loans as is before a cap.
I had no co-signer for private loans, I wouldn’t have been able to go into the military, and barely made rent off my student loans as is before a cap.
July 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
It’s an eerie feeling to realize that I would not have been able to go to med school if the big beautiful bill had passed 10 years ago.
I had no co-signer for private loans, I wouldn’t have been able to go into the military, and barely made rent off my student loans as is before a cap.
I had no co-signer for private loans, I wouldn’t have been able to go into the military, and barely made rent off my student loans as is before a cap.
Ya know. The pediatricians and the park rangers are leading the resistance and I’m here for it.
June 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Ya know. The pediatricians and the park rangers are leading the resistance and I’m here for it.
“I cannot join so gross an abuse of the Court’s equitable discretion.”
June 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
“I cannot join so gross an abuse of the Court’s equitable discretion.”
“We leave questions regarding its policy to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process.”
But we can’t leave decisions about medical care to physicians and parents.
I hope history remembers this court accurately.
But we can’t leave decisions about medical care to physicians and parents.
I hope history remembers this court accurately.
June 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“We leave questions regarding its policy to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process.”
But we can’t leave decisions about medical care to physicians and parents.
I hope history remembers this court accurately.
But we can’t leave decisions about medical care to physicians and parents.
I hope history remembers this court accurately.
😂 😂
i'm surprised by how low energy and farcical that whole military parade situation was. I was expecting Moscow 1945 and we got Spirit Halloween instead.
June 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
😂 😂
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I’m obsessed with whoever gave this incredible quote to private eye
June 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I’m obsessed with whoever gave this incredible quote to private eye
Meanwhile.
June 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Meanwhile.
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I hate this timeline, why does starting a new word doc look like this now
May 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I hate this timeline, why does starting a new word doc look like this now
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i am once again going through my manuscript to check for words i like that you're only allowed to use once per book, legally (feral, palimpsest, limned, fervid, fey, slantwise, all variations of ardent)
May 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
i am once again going through my manuscript to check for words i like that you're only allowed to use once per book, legally (feral, palimpsest, limned, fervid, fey, slantwise, all variations of ardent)
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westvirginiawatch.com/2025/04/29/s...
But, the return is temporary. Puts our scientists in an impossible position, because, if you’re a PhD in Morgantown, you have to move if you lose your job.
Meanwhile twenty year olds get evaluated for lung transplants.
But, the return is temporary. Puts our scientists in an impossible position, because, if you’re a PhD in Morgantown, you have to move if you lose your job.
Meanwhile twenty year olds get evaluated for lung transplants.
Some NIOSH workers return temporarily amid cuts impacting coal miner health screenings in WV • West Virginia Watch
At least some workers at NIOSH are getting back to work this week after federal cuts in early April took them off the job.
westvirginiawatch.com
April 30, 2025 at 10:26 AM
westvirginiawatch.com/2025/04/29/s...
But, the return is temporary. Puts our scientists in an impossible position, because, if you’re a PhD in Morgantown, you have to move if you lose your job.
Meanwhile twenty year olds get evaluated for lung transplants.
But, the return is temporary. Puts our scientists in an impossible position, because, if you’re a PhD in Morgantown, you have to move if you lose your job.
Meanwhile twenty year olds get evaluated for lung transplants.
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The reality of academia is that 90% of the work is teaching, 90% of what the uni wants you to do is service, and 90% of what they look at for promotion is research.
April 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The reality of academia is that 90% of the work is teaching, 90% of what the uni wants you to do is service, and 90% of what they look at for promotion is research.
