Whitney Robinson
Epidemiologist *
Bringing light to gynecologic health and health care * I also love TV
Views expressed are personal
- I’m dreading this outbreak coming over to North Carolina
- Reposted by Whitney RobinsonThis is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
- My favorite part of BlueSky are following people who give smart takes on the US economy.
- I added dozens of active poasters to this Starter Pack of individual accounts bcz Bluesky raised the pack limit from 50 to 150, including @arindube.bsky.social @benzipperer.org @belindaarch.bsky.social @leightjessica.bsky.social. If you haven't checked it lately, refresh. go.bsky.app/DxFZBfcat://did:plc:mzmtoehujifw6wpzlz3hdpni/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3kztrobvqmd2c
- Well… I started the day w @5calls.org, leaving voicemails with my Congressional Reps (NC) Surreal messages to leave: this Venezuela thing is crazy and not what anyone voted for. At the least, Congress needs to take back their war power. Also talked about NIH bill *********** 5calls.org
- Is the #CelebrityTraitorsUK Season 1 a social psychology experiment to reveal how bad people are at judging others’ behavior? These UK actors *really* overestimate their ability to read people and underestimate how much social status biases them
- Biblical scholars! I want to read your funniest takes on this breathless reporting about AI blowing biblical authorship wide open! (Big discovery: there were multiple writing styles/authors! 😱😲😊)
- Newsflash: It wasn't their god.. it was just some dude. Bible breakthrough as AI unveils ancient book's 'likely authors' www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...
- I bet the research itself is interesting but the mismatch between the news headline (“we found that authors of the Bible”) and the actual research findings (3 distinct writing styles in the first books of the Bible) is quite funny
- As my small school district stares down declining enrollment for the first time, I’m reading more stories about how this is playing out across the country
- Happy @kjzz.org kept in my mentions of @eveewing.bsky.social's "Ghosts in the Schoolyard" in the segment on closures today. I don't remember if I did not clearly enough mention the racial dynamics of closures in the original studio interview or if that was edited out. I'm guessing it's mea culpa.
- This @nytimes.com video totally hits how an endlessly sycophantic voice can seduce you in a way that scrambles your sense of reality
- Reading how Ryan Lizza’s ex-gf became obsessively, self-destructively devoted to RFK, Jr., I had an Aha! RFK Jr’s magic is the same as a powerful chatbot… his family say he’s a stunningly fluid liar—just like an LLM sensing exactly what you want to hear (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
- And here’s the link: How OpenAI’s Changes Sent Some Users Spiraling www.nytimes.com/video/techno...
- Reading how Ryan Lizza’s ex-gf became obsessively, self-destructively devoted to RFK, Jr., I had an Aha! RFK Jr’s magic is the same as a powerful chatbot… his family say he’s a stunningly fluid liar—just like an LLM sensing exactly what you want to hear (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
- I never got why the US populist Right grouped so many different types of people into the “elite” bucket This @anandwrites.bsky.social essay (plus all the other recent Epstein revelations) clicked some things into place for me www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
- This is a gift link. 🎁
- Reposted by Whitney RobinsonHearing news that Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at #NIH (NIAID), has been removed from his position because he was "not aligned with HHS/OMB." Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH. 🧪 1/
- I followed the #MurdaughDeathInTheFamily case closely in real-time. So far, in 3 episodes, #Hulu’s mini-series is hitting all the 🤯 notes Super-special unexpected pleasure: every scene between Patricia Arquette and @jsmithcameron.bsky.social! 🤩 #MasterClass
- 'Murdaugh: Death in the Family' is now streaming on Hulu and with Hulu on Disney+. Starring Jason Clarke, Patricia Arquette, Johnny Berchtold, Will Harrison, Brittany Snow, and J. Smith-Cameron. #MurdaughDeathInTheFamily #MurdaughonHulu
- And if @tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s theory about the centrality of The South in Trumpism resonates, then #MurdaughDeathInTheFamily is for you. Its exploration of corruption and petty power in the South is *so* of the moment
- Watching the US make many of the same bad decisions from Brexit has been so maddening
- ‘GDP reduced by 8%’ – Nine-year study reveals how Brexit decimated UK economy www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...
- Where is good literature on use of menstrual products among US adults? Like how Gen Z and Millennials make choices about using pads, tampons, menstrual cups, period panties, etc… @kateclancy.bsky.social @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social
