Jillian Tullis
@profjillian.bsky.social
Professor. Dying. Death. Health. Communication.
Anyone attending End Well virtually next week?
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Anyone attending End Well virtually next week?
Reposted by Jillian Tullis
From the archives: How to Talk about Death and Dying
@profjillian.bsky.social discusses why it's crucial to discuss end of life plans with loved ones and which wishes are most important to consider.
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@profjillian.bsky.social discusses why it's crucial to discuss end of life plans with loved ones and which wishes are most important to consider.
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Public Health On Call: 536 - Death and Public Health Part I: How to Talk About Death and Dying
Conversations about death and dying between physicians and patients or patients and loved ones are difficult but important. Dr. Jillian Tullis, a professor in Communication at the University of San Di...
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October 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
From the archives: How to Talk about Death and Dying
@profjillian.bsky.social discusses why it's crucial to discuss end of life plans with loved ones and which wishes are most important to consider.
🎧 johnshopkinssph.libsyn.com/536-death-an...
@profjillian.bsky.social discusses why it's crucial to discuss end of life plans with loved ones and which wishes are most important to consider.
🎧 johnshopkinssph.libsyn.com/536-death-an...
We’re hiring in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of San Diego
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Faculty Hiring - College of Arts and Sciences - University of San Diego
Learn about our equitable hiring practices, how we align equity and justice to our work and how to join our faculty at USD’s College of Arts and Sciences.
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August 23, 2025 at 3:45 AM
We’re hiring in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of San Diego
www.sandiego.edu/cas/about/di...
www.sandiego.edu/cas/about/di...
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In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned.
Here's a list of those exempted drugs.
Here's a list of those exempted drugs.
The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S.
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longe...
www.propublica.org
August 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned.
Here's a list of those exempted drugs.
Here's a list of those exempted drugs.
We’re hiring in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of San Diego.
www.sandiego.edu/cas/about/di...
www.sandiego.edu/cas/about/di...
Faculty Hiring - College of Arts and Sciences - University of San Diego
Learn about our equitable hiring practices, how we align equity and justice to our work and how to join our faculty at USD’s College of Arts and Sciences.
www.sandiego.edu
August 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
We’re hiring in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of San Diego.
www.sandiego.edu/cas/about/di...
www.sandiego.edu/cas/about/di...
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JOB: Assistant Professor in South/Southeast Asian Religions (w/ focus on Hindu Traditions, defined BROADLY) in my department at the University of San Diego (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY).
Apply here: jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Apply here: jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...
August 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
JOB: Assistant Professor in South/Southeast Asian Religions (w/ focus on Hindu Traditions, defined BROADLY) in my department at the University of San Diego (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY).
Apply here: jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Apply here: jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Something to add to my end of life class reading list.
New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg
The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die
Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?
wapo.st
August 4, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Something to add to my end of life class reading list.
“Informality heightens the sense that this is not a remote matter of merely academic. And, as always, orality grabs your attention.”
Listen Up. Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Speaking to You. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Listen Up. Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Speaking to You. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Opinion | Listen Up. Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Speaking to You.
www.nytimes.com
July 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
“Informality heightens the sense that this is not a remote matter of merely academic. And, as always, orality grabs your attention.”
Listen Up. Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Speaking to You. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Listen Up. Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Speaking to You. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Been listening to *How to Stand Up to a Dictator* by @mariaressa.bsky.social and this tracks.
President Trump’s proposal to eliminate federal funding for public broadcasters threatens scores of radio and TV stations across the U.S. Here is where the cuts threaten access to PBS and NPR.
Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR
The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.
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July 18, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Been listening to *How to Stand Up to a Dictator* by @mariaressa.bsky.social and this tracks.
Y’all! Im introducing @blacktopkid.bsky.social tonight at the University of San Diego in partnership with Warwick’s books and I’m starting to get nervous! Send me good vibes.
June 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Y’all! Im introducing @blacktopkid.bsky.social tonight at the University of San Diego in partnership with Warwick’s books and I’m starting to get nervous! Send me good vibes.
“And we are a great nation because we have invested in the arts and sciences while protecting the freedom that enables them to flourish.”
“We oppose reckless funding cuts and restrictions that imperil the research enterprise …. We condemn efforts to censor our scholarly and cultural institutions, to curtail freedom of the press, and to purge inquiry or ideas that challenge prevailing policies.” bit.ly/42uh7PX
A Statement from the Board of Directors - April 2025
A statement from the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, approved April 2025.
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April 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
“And we are a great nation because we have invested in the arts and sciences while protecting the freedom that enables them to flourish.”
Photo from my friend Mary (who is not on Bluesky) in Florida. An Allendale United Methodist Church sign reads:
“If empathy is a sin. Sin boldly.”
“If empathy is a sin. Sin boldly.”
April 4, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Photo from my friend Mary (who is not on Bluesky) in Florida. An Allendale United Methodist Church sign reads:
“If empathy is a sin. Sin boldly.”
“If empathy is a sin. Sin boldly.”
many thanks to @booker.senate.gov for advocating for higher education; our commitment to research, free inquiry, and free speech.
April 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
many thanks to @booker.senate.gov for advocating for higher education; our commitment to research, free inquiry, and free speech.
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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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March 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Doubled my sustaining gift to my local NPR station @kpbssandiego.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Doubled my sustaining gift to my local NPR station @kpbssandiego.bsky.social
“Campus leaders at all types of institutions across the US must reaffirm their core values & help people, both inside & outside of the academy, understand what is at stake for our democracy if officials escalate unwarranted governmental intrusion into higher education”
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www.aacu.org/liberaleduca...
What Is at Stake | AAC&U
Universities must take action for democracy in our politically charged times
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March 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“Campus leaders at all types of institutions across the US must reaffirm their core values & help people, both inside & outside of the academy, understand what is at stake for our democracy if officials escalate unwarranted governmental intrusion into higher education”
www.aacu.org/liberaleduca...
www.aacu.org/liberaleduca...
I read *On Tyranny* by @timothysnyder.bsky.social on a flight last night. Sobering and insightful. If you’re feeling helpless right now buy one or check it out from your local library. Because doing nothing right now is not an option.
March 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I read *On Tyranny* by @timothysnyder.bsky.social on a flight last night. Sobering and insightful. If you’re feeling helpless right now buy one or check it out from your local library. Because doing nothing right now is not an option.
My aunt died at 37 from cervical cancer. I’m glad science has shifted the likelihood of this happening to others.
A recent study found that cervical cancer deaths in young women have plummeted since the introduction of the human papillomavirus vaccine.
As Cervical Cancer Deaths Plummet, Experts Credit HPV Vaccine
HPV can cause a variety of cancers, including cervical. New mortality data for women under 25 point to the success of the HPV vaccine.
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March 12, 2025 at 3:54 AM
My aunt died at 37 from cervical cancer. I’m glad science has shifted the likelihood of this happening to others.
March 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
It’s official! THE LIBRARIANS documentary will world premiere at 2025 #Sundance Film Festival — January 23 to February 2!
January 31, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Seeing these two stories from @nytimes.com one after the other in my feed is jarring. I’m finding it difficult to care about fashion right now with 100 wacky/scary executive orders coming.
January 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Seeing these two stories from @nytimes.com one after the other in my feed is jarring. I’m finding it difficult to care about fashion right now with 100 wacky/scary executive orders coming.
This is a truly frightening prospect for low income people.
In a second Trump term, Texas could get another chance to whittle down Medicaid — with fewer constraints.
“We expect the Republicans to move very quickly to cut Medicaid dramatically and indeed end its guarantee of coverage,” said one advocate.
By @lomikriel.bsky.social & @jessicapriest.bsky.social
“We expect the Republicans to move very quickly to cut Medicaid dramatically and indeed end its guarantee of coverage,” said one advocate.
By @lomikriel.bsky.social & @jessicapriest.bsky.social
If Trump Makes Cuts to Medicaid, Texas Officials Could Seize the Opportunity to Further Slash the Program
State leaders have shown a decadeslong antipathy toward the health insurance program. If Trump makes severe reductions, it’s unlikely leaders would have the political will to make up any lost federal ...
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December 5, 2024 at 6:43 AM
This is a truly frightening prospect for low income people.
Almost a 3 year difference in life expectancy. The gap widens for men under age 25.
publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/new-rep...
publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/new-rep...
New Report: Life Expectancy Years Shorter in the United States Compared to the United Kingdom | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Heart disease and overdose deaths are among the leading contributors to the gap, which can be narrowed by policy changes.
publichealth.jhu.edu
December 3, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Almost a 3 year difference in life expectancy. The gap widens for men under age 25.
publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/new-rep...
publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/new-rep...