Anti-science. Censorship. Authoritarian. Orwellian. Etc. Can't be said enough: What a dangerous & regressive moment in human history. Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

How powerful is doubtmongering & misinformation? This powerful...👇 Despite a large body of evidence on safety & efficacy (showing benefits for both mom & baby), huge amount of uncertainty around routine vaccines during pregnancy. via @asc.upenn.edu #Vaccineswork #ScienceMatters

“I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation” | My new op-ed in the @sfchronicle.com: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... #ScienceUnderSiege

🪩 @genomebc.bsky.social announced funding for 4 new UBC & SFU research projects associated with Canada’s Immuno-Engineering and Biomanufacturing Hub, a UBC-led national initiative to accelerate the development of lifesaving medicines for Canada. Congrats to all project leads! https://bit.ly/3VClPId

The power of collaboration! Birdwatchers, landowners and conservationists join forces in Veracruz, Mexico, to protect a habitat and ecosystem important for many endemic species, notably a little hummingbird. Read more with @mongabay.com :

A new #ClinicalTrials unit at Mount Saint Joseph Hospital in Vancouver will allow B.C. life sciences companies to test early-stage drugs locally. It's the first facility in the province with the capacity to perform non-oncology Phase 1 clinical trials: https://bit.ly/4pzFQNu

🚨 Countdown to Deadline! Apply by FRIDAY 14 July 2025 🧬 Passionate about decoding life through genomics and cutting-edge science? 👉 Apply now🧬 bit.ly/4n9AuqN 💻 If you can't join in-person, there is a hybrid option 📍 Wellcome Genome Campus Organised by @eventswcs.bsky.social lnkd.in/ehpwy6Ee

🫐 It’s #NationalBlueberryDay BC grows over 90% of Canada’s highbush #Blueberries—worth over $270M in exports. With support from Genome BC, researchers are using #DNA science to build better tests, helping farmers catch infections early and protect BC’s blueberry bounty.

Exciting news in the #eDNA world! We’re proud to be part of this milestone—setting the standard with 125 new #eDNA assays that advance #Environmental monitoring and building global trust in this powerful tool. Learn more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

(1/3) 🌍🐢 Celebrating World Sea Turtle Day with Genomics! EBP-affiliate, the Vertebrate Genomes Project, is working to protect sea turtles by generating high-quality reference genomes. 🧬💚 #WorldSeaTurtleDay #SeaTurtles #GenomicsForConservation #Biodiversity #OceanConservation

From a week and a half ago: “As of Monday, the model shows, about 96,000 adults and 200,000 children have died because of the administration’s cutbacks to funding for aid groups and support organizations. The overall death count grows by 103 people an hour.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

With testing scaled back and vaccine guidance shifting, many are asking: Are we ready for the next pandemic? At Scripps Research, we’re advancing solutions—from early detection to universal vaccines, our research is helping to prepare for what’s next. ow.ly/jCxy50W1V46

Baby infected with #measles in utero and born prematurely dies in SW Ontario. Infant also faced serious medical complications unrelated to virus, said Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Just a few days left 🔍 Navigating Health Data Access in BC: Part 2 📅 June 9 | 🕤 9:30–10:30 AM PDT Join our next #DataLiteracy Series webinar to explore @BCGovNews & @PHSAofBC —BC’s secure, integrated health data platforms. 🎤 Speakers from 🔗 Register: events.genomebc.ca/hdpbc-panda/...

A simple test that saves lives goes unfunded. Only BC and PEI pay for self-tests for #HPV, which causes #CervicalCancer: Globe and Mail editorial www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit... via @theglobeandmail.com

🚨 Life Sciences Breakfast: Global Impact from BC 📅 May 27 | 8:30–10:30 AM 📍 UBC Robson Square Our CSO, @scienceisglobal.bsky.social, joins panel 2 to explore how BC’s life sciences sector is transforming healthcare worldwide. @innovationubc.bsky.social 🔗 lu.ma/i91k7xjl?tk=...

Keynote talk from Steven McCarroll from last weeks Biology of Genomes conf. My favorite talk of the whole meeting! #bog25 youtu.be/BCRAlmFv7ag?...

Population #genomics, genomic offset analysis, & ecological niche modelling can be integrated to inform targeted conservation efforts onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #biodiversity #genomics

If you’re around in London next Sunday afternoon, I’ll be talking all things Proof at @conwayhall.bsky.social: www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

“It is exciting to see funding for multivalent inactivated influenza vaccines, but it will be important to continue funding other promising platforms as well, like mRNA vaccines that can simultaneously deliver dozens of influenza vaccine antigens.”

This seems to reflect a wider (and woefully misguided) shift in US health research strategy, away from well-designed studies and careful research questions, towards an attitude that we can get all the answers by just scraping various routine datasets and chucking some rushed analysis at them.

Why are there religious and philosophical exemptions to vaccination of children attending school? Personal beliefs should not be allowed to put the health of children at risk, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com #measles

Pretty amazing graphic to go with the @financialtimes.com article about the cost of Trump's attack on US science NIH is HUGE! www.ft.com/content/67fd...

A frontal assault graph from www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u... editorial @postopinions.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

🟢The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) aims to coordinate the production of high-quality #genome sequences that represent eukaryotic #biodiversity in #Europe. ⏩ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

He wasn’t just censored. They altered his responses to NYT questions on his publication Egregious. www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/h...

Now in airport vending machines. The evidence that it does anything to promote one's health does not exist.

Political lies have a pattern — and radical-right populist parties are leading the charge www.psypost.org/political-li... Misinformation "...disproportionately linked to radical-right populist parties." From the study: "...part & parcel of the current wave of radical right populism."

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.

This is another big loss at NIH. He explains why in the thread below. Our recent conversation about what we should eat erictopol.substack.com/p/kevin-hall...

"Approximately 5%of annual cancer diagnoses or 100,000 cancers were projected to result from [U.S.] CT utilization in 2023. "https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2832778

Line drawn! static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

New paper 🧵 A team co-led by #cpgsthlm 's researcher @jcchacond.bsky.social has analysed DNA from a large number of mammoths across a million-year timescale 🦣🧬 The findings include the discovery and analysis of the oldest known woolly #mammoth in North America! 👉 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Me and a few of my mates got together and wrote a review on the current state of clinical translation of microbiome research. A great summary of the state of the art for microbiome research. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It’s like it was never about pro-life beliefs or making America healthy. Newborn screens are game-changers in identifying rare diseases that can benefit from early interventions. Shame on them. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com looks at the heartbreaking, harmful gutting of LGBTQ health-related research, which our analysis found was acutely targeted in the massive NIH cuts.

The arrogance. The ignoring of the scientific process & the body of evidence. The fearmongering. The lies... It is staggering & sickening. U.S. will know cause of autism epidemic by September, Health Secretary RFK Jr. says www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-pol...

THIS is where we are? Thx, RFK Jr and the Ministers of Darkness & Ignorance. Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity after measles hospitalizations www.usatoday.com/story/news/h... "...abnormal liver function believed to be caused by vitamin A toxicity..."

"The [NIH]'s National Human Genome Research Institute on Tuesday started laying off dozens of employees, putting them on administrative leave, including acting Director Vence Bonham Jr., who had replaced former NHGRI director Eric Green just two weeks ago." www.genomeweb.com/policy-legis... 🧪

Excited to get a hold of my new book! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-...

An immigration crackdown in the United States is rattling the global research community, with high-profile detentions and deportations of academics stoking fears even for travellers with valid entry documents. https://go.nature.com/4kWG273

Misinformation isn’t just an online problem — it’s a public health crisis calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... via @calgaryherald.com Me: "Fact-checking, media literacy and pre-bunking — teaching people to recognize misinformation before they encounter it — are proven strategies..."

Trump cuts on Cape Cod: NOAA layoffs hit Woods Hole science center

In a time when inspiration feels scarce, @wellcometrust.bsky.social Genomic Futures Workshop @sangerinstitute.bsky.social was a refreshing reminder of why we do what we do! The shared vision of a future shaped by genomics reignited a sense of responsibility and possibility.

If you're a member of the genomics research community and want to talk about what Green's departure means for the future of the field here in the U.S., I'm at [email protected] and on Signal at mmolteni.13

Still processing what this means. www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/t...