Congratulations to Bijan Teja @utoronto.ca #idccm #anesthesiology on his #phd!!

Today is World Polio Day. #polio eradication worldwide is the goal. On Roosevelt island is a crumbling smallpox hospital -a disease we don’t worry about due to #vaccination. Keep #vaccinating!

Congratulations to Dr Rachel Clarke @doctoroxford.com for winning the UK women’s prize for non-fiction for her book about heart transplants! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false. Credible estimates count 190K deaths so far. In Kenya, I am seeing devastating impact, incl this child's starvation & many deaths directly caused by Rubio’s actions. More in my @msnbc.com clip. www.instagram.com/atul.gawande...

Thanks to the New York Society Library for their support!

Join me at the NYSL in discussion with Pulitzer Prize winner David Oshinsky for a discussion of my book, The Autumn Ghost. Now out in paperback!

#teslatakedown #nyc Explain it to younger generations and take them along! #genalpha

‘Polio, bad’: Bill Nye the Science Guy rebukes RFK Jr. over vaccine views www.statnews.com/2025/03/21/b... via @statnews.com

The idiots accidentally texted war plans to a journalist and others in a text chain. When do the firings start? #Resist www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

We've been tracking unlawful NIH grant terminations for 3 weeks. Spread the word👇! Fellow PIs: what can you do upon termination? ✅ Email PO + document questions ✅ Submit FOIA ✅ Advocate to your OCG/OSP for appeal + litigation ✅ Consider outside litigation ✅ Donate to state AGs + legal orgs 1/🧵

Colossally wasteful is right. This is devastating for medical research and will destroy generations of researchers. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/n...

Think about this and please make sure to "repost" it so that everybody understands what's really going on. Don't just "like" it -- "repost" it -- this is important!

#standupforscience2025 #boston

Oh hey, lookie here RFK Jr—the “CDC estimates that influenza #vaccination prevented 📌9.8 million influenza-related illnesses, 📌4.8 million medical visits, 📌120,000 influenza-related hospitalizations, & 📌7,900 influenza-related deaths” in 2023-2024. ➡️Maybe don’t block flu vaccine production? 🙏

This is catastrophic for US public health…so many people are protected by timely planning and rollout of the flu vaccine each year.

☀️☀️☀️ NEW WEBSITE IS UP! ☀️☀️☀️ www.standupforscience2025.org Read about us, our policy goals, and ways to get involved. This website will also continue to grow as we do, so keep an eye on it!

A very very dark day for public health in the US, and because our world is so interconnected, for public health worldwide. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

“This is a blatant attempt to gut the universities and health research that have saved so many lives and given economic opportunity to so many people.” @iwashyna.bsky.social on impact of new NIh order to cut research indirect costs. www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/n...

NIH funded researchers and all who care: This is an excellent call script that you can adapt to your own situation and send to your family and friends to call their reps.

Spotlight on the Shortlist: The Autumn Ghost by @hwunsch.bsky.social. Published by Greystone Books. Join us as we celebrate the best science writing in Canada today! Free to attend, reserve your spot today! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-lane-a...

We must continue to tell the stories of polio survivors. Reducing uptake of the polio vaccine will have devastating consequences for the entire world. @rotaryclubs.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social @endpolionow.bsky.social time.com/7205614/we-n...

Excited to be a finalist at the Lane Anderson Award Ceremony for the best science writing in Canada on the evening of Wed, Jan 29. The event (at the North York Central Library in Toronto) is open to the public. Please come join me if you are in Toronto and free! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-lane-a...

I recommend a viewing of Casablanca at the start of every year. So good every time. Happy 2025!

No wonder we're in shock . . .

Great thread on polio! And gives me the opportunity to plug @hwunsch.bsky.social’s excellent book, The Autumn Ghost, on how the Copenhagen #polio epidemic of 1952 shaped modern #ICU!

I spent Thanksgiving week reading The Autumn Ghost by @hwunsch.bsky.social and, oh man, what a great book. I knew the outlines of how the Danish polio epidemic led to mass hand-ventilation and on to ventilators but so much more. Thanks @chriscarrollmd.bsky.social (I think) for the rec too.

They all need to read this book by ICU physician @hwunsch.bsky.social greystonebooks.com/products/the...

Naum Shaparin and I did residency together. He has experienced the unthinkable - the death of his son from SUDEP (sudden unexpected death in epilepsy). He has set up a foundation to help educate people about this conditon that (unlike SIDS) people don’t know about. If at the #pga78 stop by…booth 416

A great reminder to stick to your vision… Ken Burns pitched his civil war #documentary and was told “no one will watch this”. 40 million tuned in when it aired on #pbs.

International Disabilities Day. Rehumanise a group of people who have consistently been dehumanised. 🙏

Really appreciate the enthusiastic comments about The Autumn Ghost! Makes a great holiday present for any history/book lovers in your life.

Simple question: based on the available data, which med would you choose for your mother? I call it “the mother test” as a check on so many things we do.

Full migration to Bluesky! Looking forward to finding people here.

"This is what disability advocates have said all along, not that it usually sinks in: The able and the disabled aren’t two different kinds of people but the same people at different times." nymag.com/intelligence...