Cervical cancer gets the headlines because it’s the first one they proved was linked to HPV, but now we know it also causes really deadly head and neck cancers, anal cancer, and penile cancer. Every person, please get the vaccine

About to go camping for a long weekend and looking forward to the detox.

Did the New York Times just BOTH SIDES Ken Paxton's sweetheart deal for a child sex predator. Yes, yes it did.

If you are under 45 in the US, you should get this. Your gender is irrelevant here. Shout out to my one ex who listened to me after we broke up and was like, "I got the shots" It's a series. I got the series, like, eons ago. If you already have HPV, get the shots. It covers many strains.

New open access peer-reviewed publication led by a student! This grew out of her final paper in our sports and public health seminar. She’s now headed off to dental school, and I’m very proud of both her and the paper: “Improving accessibility of swimming lessons to reduce childhood drowning rates”

I started seeing a really nice table format in presentations. Looked for the Canva template, the Word template. Finally figured out its just chatgpt 🫠😭

This is great news! Thank you to everyone who helped to sound the alarm or contacted their reps to fight this. I’m no sure what will happen to the sensors already pulled from off the coast of Washington, but the rest of the network is saved for now. Keep fighting! It matters!

RFK Jr. says that HPV vaccine is “dangerous and defective”. A new study from England shows that HPV vaccines have reduced deaths from cervical cancer to ZERO for women aged 20-24. Significant reductions in older age groups were observed as well, though the latter have lower vaccination coverage.

FYSA, DC artist @artologica.net is uniquely positioned to paint the raddest "reflecting pool green, look at these cyanobacteria" watercolors. Someone should request a commission.

ATTENTION ALL DMV WATER SCIENTISTS: @standupforscience.net will get press attention on your reflecting pool water sample analyses. Yell in my direction!

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

Live footage of Trump contractors fighting the algae bloom at the reflecting pool

IF YOU ARE A SCIENTIST IN THE AREA WHO HAS COLLECTED AND ANALYZED THIS WATER, @standupforscience.net would love to work to publicize your results. Info @ standupforscience (dot) net

happy birthday Isabella Rossellini

Yet another wonderful study about the HPV vaccine preventing cervical cancer: “In women aged 20–24 years between 2020 and 2024, in whom vaccination coverage was around 88–90% at age 12–13 years, NO DEATHS OCCURRED, compared with 23.1 expected deaths based on historical rates” (all caps mine)

My advice: fund science, quit fossil fuels, abolish ICE, tax the rich, fire RFK Jr, and invest in public education.

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

Pregnant mothers often wrote goodbye letters to their families in case they died in childbirth.

“The first thing to know is that the baby is all right now & coming up on her second birthday… But her home holds a few clues to her past. An oddly huggable orange stuffed animal shaped like Clostridium botulinum…enshrined in plexiglass, a bottle of BabyBIG, the antitoxin treatment that saved her”

By popular demand, here’s how one would use DNA to figure out what the heck is going on in the reflecting pool: 1. Take a ~1 liter water sample from the pool. Ideally take several, from different locations around the pool, with 2-3 replicates and a negative control at each location. 1/

hey, this is a fairly nerdy news item, but you should absolutely know about it. (looks like there are links in other posts in the thread.) the Post Office is really contemplating not delivering ballots unless states expose their voters' data to DOJ. I hate saying read that again but, read it again

A 20 year study on 2 NIH diversity programs in Science Advances shows they doubled undergrads' odds of getting a Ph.D. That is, before the funding for those programs and for the study itself was terminated last year: www.statnews.com/2026/06/17/n...

My mayor told me new yorkers keep stealing his knicks trash cans so I asked how many knicks trask cans he has & he said he just goes to DSNY & gets a new trash can afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding knicks trash cans to new yorkers & then his police commissioner started crying.

How to write a LinkedIn post. 1) Tell me how you want to lead with authenticity. 2) Paste in AI content 3) emoji bullet point list 4) generic call to arms. 5) AI generated head shot. Did I do it right? 🤣

I would like a sabbatical.

I HAVE A QUESTION FOR A PHYSICIST! If that’s you, can you please yell in my direction??

Meet Crumb, Button, and Clover. A friend in the Bay Area found them behind a gas station. Unfortunately, she isn't able to keep them, so if she can't find someone to adopt them, they will be going to a shelter. Can you help me find them a home? They are in good health and very tame.

Job! Biodiversity science communications. Austin, Texas.

#NIH has published the new Parent #F99/K00 #predoctoral to #postdoctoral award. The first due date is August 8, 2026. Please see the website to determine eligibility and submission dates. #sciencesky #medsky #funding

If anyone is looking specifically to work on developing novel transgenesis and genetic control methods for screwworm, that is a plus. Apply!

There is a huge election going on in DC today. The mayor and council races will determine how DC responds to Trump in the future. It will affect the public schools, policing, city agencies... If you're in #DC and haven't voted—still time to get in line! And outcome may not be known tonight:

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

Saw a clip from an old Larry King segment Kermit and Miss Piggy did with Larry King, I need to lie down. LK: What kind of child would you have? MP: A loved one, Lawrence. LK: What would it look like? LK: Would it have, say, frog eyes and a pig nose? MP: What would it matter, as long as it's loved?

I know the focus in Maine has been on Other Things but let us all remind ourselves that Susan Collins is awful and needs to go

RFK Jr., who CANCELLED THE SIDS PREVENTION PROGRAM, is using his govt account to intimidate a journal about retracting a methodologically flawed paper saying vaccines cause SIDS. THIS👏🏼MAN 👏🏼DOES 👏🏼NOT 👏🏼CARE 👏🏼ABOUT 👏🏼YOU www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I'm starving biochemically but I think it's for the Flamin Hot Cheetos from this morning.

Just got a notice of award for an R01. I will be hiring. I'll be looking for either a staff scientist or postdoctoral researcher. The project explores the conserved HEATR5 family of proteins. Their roles in AP1 mediated traffic, and links to motors.🎉

Maybe all Indigenous communities should have running water before data centers get a drop.

i will say it again: “grieving” a child (in this case a 30-year-old fully grown adult) for being gay/trans because you expected and wanted something different for them is a sign of a bad parent and should be widely regarded as unacceptable

I know there are complaints about "gifted for all" but the biggest question is how can do more of this?

“Gifted programs can substantially improve college-going outcomes for disadvantaged students, especially boys whose academic potential might otherwise be overlooked” www.educationnext.org/how-a-gifted...

This is why I minimize the number of camps my kids go to. Namely, they go to the one on my block that I enroll them in in February. www.fastcompany.com/91557859/you...

Where you'll see a rare bird. Thanks to @ryanfm.bsky.social's newsletter for teaching me about the Cabanis's ground-sparrow that lives behind the walmart

Oh darn, actions have consequences...

NBC should be embarrassed to let Vance use them for image rehab like this: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jd-...

Maybe if it's all you're eating its a problem but bruh have some joy in your life.

Bob Odenkirk is a national treasure. Take 44 seconds and watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...

Bubble tea.

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