Published on Sep 17, 2025 [Permalink]
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Mid-week links, including some to evil social media

J Mark Sloan, a hematologist/oncologist at Boston Medical Center, on X: As Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Program Director, I’ve reviewed 647 applications this cycle. Every personal statement cites a passion caring for cancer patients, research and teaching. 85% explicitly prefer academic medicine. No one mentions wanting a career in pharma…. And yet many newly-made oncologists go to work for the industry within 5 years of graduation, as the brief thread continues. Why is that? I blame social media, Instagram most of all, and I am not joking.
Merlin Mann on Mastodon: Every aspect of this video breaks my brain. It’s a good video and what’s even better is the trailer to They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? to which he linked below, and now I want to see the movie. Late 1960s to early 1970s was the golden age of Hollywood movies.
Bogdan Ionescu: Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape. What it says on the tin. Quite an achievement and it’s not ugly to look at either. (ᔥThought Shrapnel)
Taylor Troesh: 100,000,000 CROWPOWER and no horses on the moon. The winner of Adam Mastroianni’s blog post competition. Intriguing.
Aidan Walker: is MrBeast the antichrist?. This being a substack post and not a newspaper article, Betteridge’s law of headlines does not apply.