Layoffs, hiring freezes/resignations have shrunk the number of qualified CDC scientists. The rabies/pox virus teams have lost many members. There aren’t enough qualified people to council state and local officials in the event of an outbreak. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/h...

International & multidisciplinary collaboration is a great way to join forces w/ others that have the technology/resources you need to take your work to the next level. Clinical trials have been impacted. The excuse of national security/transparency is BS. America First? NO! 🧪 archive.today/4Hxd6

I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”

Today's the day. America has no king. Come out and stand together in solidarity for freedom. #NoKings Find your event: www.nokings.org

In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

More than 3,100 "No Kings" demonstrations are planned across the United States today. Follow live updates:https://cnn.it/4bQIzMp

No ICE. No wars. No Kings. Find your local protest and join us on Saturday. 👇

📣NO KINGS IS THIS SATURDAY 3/28 SO many reasons to go! -Iran war -ICE terror+prison camps -voter suppression -airport chaos -zero! net job creation in 6 mos -skyrocketing healthcare/food/gas costs -zomg corruption -Epstein files -on & on & on 🧵tips, tricks, trainings, etc First: Find your event ⬇️

This is insane. Just insane.

New York's governor is trying to undermine the 2019 climate law that the NY legislature passed with overwhelming support. Where the rubber meets the road: Accounting for methane, the main component of natural gas and a fast/potent climate pollutant. 🧵 with some background on methane.

Jesus. Paying a French company a billion dollars *not* to build a wind farm.

Zambia needs medicine from the US to control AIDS-or thousands of its citizens could die And Marco Rubio won’t give it to them unless they exchange access to mineral rights The Trump administration is holding people’s lives hostage to cut a deal Depravity beyond anything you could ever imagine

If people think American scientists are somehow going to land in Europe, I've got news for you about the difference between millions and billions. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New from @latimes.com: “Yet new COVID infections are producing new #LongCovid patients. People who were healthy and active just a few months ago are still arriving at USC’s clinic with cardiovascular and cognitive problems that have upended their lives.”

To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIP— a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passport— both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.

The SAVE America Act is a voter suppression scam. It would take away the rights of working people to make their voices heard at the ballot box. The Senate must reject this bill.

Over five million people protested against the regime in June. More than seven million people took to the streets in October. March 28 will be even bigger, with nearly 3,000 events already on the No Kings Day map. Be part of the largest protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

National Science Foundation: $9 billion total in FY2026

Before No Kings Day on March 28, we highly recommend joining the @aclu.org’s know your rights training. You will learn about your constitutional right to peacefully protest and best practices for reducing risks while taking to the streets.

Make your plans now for No Kings Day on March 28. Stand up against bigotry, grift and state violence. Find a protest near you at this link. Bring your family and friends.

We the People reject Trump’s brutality at home and abroad. Let’s show up on March 28 to say in one voice: No wars of aggression. No terrorizing our communities or yours. No tyrants, no conquests, no kings. Find your local No Kings Day event: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

China increases science funding again (by at least 7-% over the next 5 years) as it pledges billion-dollar spending boost for science 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

*sigh* www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Florida just cut off HIV meds for 16,000 people.

The horror and the heart break to wake up and find your government is waging illegal war on yet another country...😔 The war crimes of our Mad King continue... clearly it is up to all of us to stop them. BAY AREA: Emergency Protest Today 3 pm SF Federal building at 90 7th St, San Francisco

When fascists take rights away from a group of people, they never stop there. Eventually, they come for everything. Invalidating the drivers licenses of trans people in Kansas is just the start. Who will be next? www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

The @whyshoulditrustyou.bsky.social team asked some tough questions of NIH Director Bhattacharya. It's worth a listen: substack.com/home/post/p-... I wanted to add some additional context on Bhattacharya's responses. Sorry, long thread. 🧵1/19

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

New Jersey has proposed the F.U.C.K.I.C.E Act. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

"Always, always, always concentration camps are an end run around the existing legal system. These people that are getting rounded up because whoever’s in power wants to do something that they can’t do using the letter of the law..." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol... The only reason Republicans want this bill is to make it harder for most people to vote, especially women, poorer and younger Americans, who usually vote for Democrats.

This person is a caricature. "Høeg also told staff to ‘question the norms’ and quoted the philosopher Ayn Rand."

Doing science in the US is starting to feel untenable. The CDC has had no stable leader. RFK Jr broke his promises on vaccines & research. Climate change is denied. Moderna will no longer invest in late stage vaccine trials. Europe and China are seizing the moment. 🧪 bit.ly/3ZF0yzI

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #pulmsky #EpiSky #policysky #polisky 🧪🛟 🫁💊 N.I.H. Director Will Temporarily Run C.D.C. in Leadership Shake-Up

Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime: www.404media.co/leaked-email...

BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/

HHS canceled $500M in novel mRNA research, narrowed criteria on who should get the mRNA COVID vaccine, refused to review a completed study of a mRNA flu vaccine. “We reject the claim that our approach to vaccines is anti-science or hostile to innovation.” 🧪 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...

This is how you live a life

As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues. About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”

In Uganda, I met people who went from earning $200 a month doing HIV prevention to just $60 because USAID went away—and who are still doing the work for a fraction of the pay. I met ppl who lost their jobs entirely and stiil do HIV work for free for food. Meanwhile theintercept.com/2026/02/09/t...

Now more than ever, people have seen the real-world risk of invasive face recognition technology. We won’t lose focus. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years. The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.

The GOP’s “Save America Act” (previously just “SAVE”) requires that states implement voter purge programs using programs such as the “SAVE” system, which had an error rate of at least 14% in one of the counties that used it, per the Texas Tribune & ProPublica. 14%! #NoOnSAVE 1/

I read the Trump-backed voter suppression bill, the so-called “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Please tell your Senators to vote NO on this abomination: 202-224-3121. TY. 1/

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... Is There a Remedy for Presidential Profiteering? Until now, Trump always seemed unembarrassed to crow about his side hustles. But, if the Emirati payment was kept secret, what else might be?