The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. projects.propublica.... 1/3

“Every $1,300 New York City invested in building bike lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to one additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.” That’s a better return on investment than some direct health treatments…”

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year. Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants. They are good for society and the economy.

Ruin a book or band name with one letter: Glade Runner

Even among healthy people, immune systems operate at different baseline levels. In our new Cell paper, we show that these immune states are stable over time and are associated with the gut microbiome. 🧵 @cp-cell.bsky.social #Immunology #SystemsImmunology

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

Hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, and discrimination are viruses, magnified by suffering, carried in buckets, spilled onto the world. We cannot eliminate them by actions that magnify hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, discrimination and suffering - only by actions that relieve them.

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

Our preprint examining the specificity of human antibodies that cross-react with subclade K H3N2 viruses was posted this morning on medRxiv. These studies have implications on what vaccine strains should be selected for next year’s influenza season. 1/ www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Why are there such big differences between the sexes when it comes to immune responses? This Essay looks at what further research is required to fully determine sex-differential mechanisms in #immunity.🧪 #immunosky

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

"Climate injustice persists as those least responsible often bear the greatest impacts, both between and within countries." While billionaires get richer, billions suffer, and many millions will likely lose their lives. WE ✊ NEED ✊ TO ✊ FIGHT ✊ THIS www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For everyone not fortunate enough to be at the Midwinter #Immunology conference in Seefeld, you can have a little taste of it through my talk on #tissueTregs and using lung Tregs to fight #respiratory #pathology (unpublished work from @drntombizodwa.bsky.social!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_X4...

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

'When we asked authors for the data, we have obtained it in less than 50% of the cases & often did not even receive a response. In addition, if repository numbers are included, the data in the repository is often classified as private and therefore not accessible.' link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Mapping the science–technology translational landscape in biomedicine - @pku1898.bsky.social go.nature.com/4bbgxfR

After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts go.nature.com/4qLPpcb

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

'By analyzing all articles indexed in the PubMed database (>36.5 million articles published in >36,000 biomedical and life sciences journals), we show that the median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles'

Vaccination against whooping cough, RSV and flu during pregnancy saves babies lives, but expectant parents are sometimes unsure. How do I know it's safe? Will it protect my baby? To answer these questions, we've created www.vaccinesinpregnancy.org #ObGynSky #MedSky #ImmunoSky 1/

Real power lies in feelings. Watch #NightThoughts on Hulu.

"The High Seas Treaty was enabled by science. Now, science must be used to successfully implement the agreement and the protected areas it creates," write Kirsten Grorud-Colvert and Jenna Sullivan-Stack in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/3YERGtu

Traveling? Be aware that US Customs might demand to see what’s on your phone upon entry. Here’s some advice on how to handle the problem. GIFT ARTICLE

Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.

Fortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE: -Amazon -AT&T -Booz Allen Hamilton -Caci -Charter Communications -Comcast -Dell -Ecolab -FedEx -General Dynamics -L3Harris -Motorola -Thermo Fisher -UPS Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.

NEW article by me! We can now visualize pathogens down to atoms; design vaccines in weeks; manufacture them in microbial factories; engineer them more precise than ever before. We're living through a golden age of vaccine development, but only if we continue to invest in them.

What do these companies have in common? -Cigna -Comcast -General Mills -Allstate -Marriott -Hilton -Walmart -Amazon -Microsoft -Meta All promised after January 6, 2021 to stop funding lawmakers who tried to overturn the 2020 election. And all have broken that promise.

If we can capture another country's president, can another country come and capture ours? Asking for a friend.

One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.

Dear listeners, When the days feel narrow and the noise gets loud, try a song. Not as escape — as evidence. Someone, somewhere, once felt this too and made something that still holds. If hope is hiding, it often hums first.

One positive outcome from this year’s #COP30 was the launch of the Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change, which has now been signed by 20 countries. In her blog, UCS’s Kate Cell discusses how we can fight for the right to information and highlights the perils of silencing science.

Are authors fairly judged by assessing the #journals in which their work is published? @bihutchins.bsky.social &co reveal that most influential papers are published in lower tier journals, and more authors would be better recognized with #ArticleLevelMetrics #ALMs @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4oV58Ed

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

Applications are still open! The Science for Public Good Fund offers up to $1500 to support community-driven science advocacy projects. From workshops to local campaigns, you can help spark change. Apply here now: act.ucsusa.org/3KVR9Qo

Have you heard about the Night Science Podcast, where we talk about the creative process of doing science? We explore this with discussions with brilliant scientists & philosophers and artists, to figure out the tricks of the creative scientific trade. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

The traditional pipeline view of academia no longer reflects the reality of scientific #careers. In this Perspective, Alexandra A-T Weber @eawag.bsky.social reframes success as a network of paths that recognizes excellence in its many forms 🧪 #AcademicSky plos.io/4pSgzx5

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

🔭 Are you looking for a #PhD project in infectious disease research and #immunology? 🧪 Do you want to be part of a vibrant research environment? 👉 The 2026 call of the IMPRS-IDI graduate school is now open with 6 exciting PhD projects in Berlin: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/imprs-idi-call

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

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“Thousands of very competitive projects in areas like cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorders and public health improvements most like went unfunded in 2025. Similarly, at the National Science Foundation, the roughly 3,000 fewer new grants encompassed reductions to every area of science”