Speaking entirely for myself: for years, I didn't really get flu shots. It was entirely because of laziness. Then, in 2014ish, I got insanely sick — sickest I've ever been, tbh. Collapsed on my kitchen floor. Lost my sense of smell for a month. It was the flu.* I get a flu shot every year now.

Vaccines are a triumph of human ingenuity, modern medicine and public health. It’s no surprise that when the nation’s most prominent anti-vaxxer rose to the highest health office in the land,US vaccine policies are in disarray and access to vaccines is imperiled. 🧪🦠 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...

Statement from the American Academy of Neurology: “This decision was made without consulting key neurology stakeholders, and there was no formal announcement nor a clear succession plan for NINDS leadership. NINDS plays a vital role in funding and directing research into the brain”

This is not how government in a democracy should function. It's not how it functioned until 2025.

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

What if we could harness the complexity of the real world to guide clinical questions? Atheen Venkataramani and Lizzie Bair explore this in their new paper by diving into how real-world shocks and policy changes could help answer the Q: Does this treatment work? evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

"We welcome PhDs to a round table table discussion from assistant professors who were recently on the job market"

100%. Our Muslim friends and neighbors came forward and stood by us when we needed them. ❤️

Hundreds Quarantined in South Carolina as Measles Spreads #medsky www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...

✨NEW SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY✨ For trainees interested in a Geri EM experience! Must be an AGEM member (free to join with SAEM membership) Apply NOW until Feb 15, 2026 www.saem.org/about-saem/a... @saemonline.bsky.social #emergencymedicine #saem #agem #geriatricmedicine #emergencydepartment

In response to recent posts about fabricated citations, someone was telling me how awesome Gemini is, and implied that because it's Google there's some kind of secondary checking of sources happening. Anyway I asked for recent books about AI published by academic presses. This was quite a ride. 🧵

It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.

Multiple large natural experiments have documented Shingles vaccine is linked with ~20-25% reduced risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A new report today adds to that and extends the to slowing the progression of dementia @cellcellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Forget about the dystopian nature of this, it will kill tourism through sheer cost of compliance.

@agem-saem.bsky.social Trainee Scholarship for geriatric emergency medicine has been reconceived and now available to medical students, residents, or post-docs. www.saem.org/about-saem/a...

AI in primary care scoping review: new work from Kevin Johnson's group. link.springer.com/article/10.1... "Several systemic issues emerged from the studies reviewed, including...rapid deployment of commercial AI tools without academic validation."

New must-read from @candicenorwood.bsky.social — how periods in prison become a trap. Incarcerated women and trans people are forced to choose between maintaining their dignity and health — or facing the penalties.

“agents told her in the truck that if she didn’t watch herself “they were going to pull me over to the side of the road and give me this OC,” law enforcement shorthand for pepper spray” In detention, they “cut off her wedding ring”

Waiting for Instacart's rebuttal: "Critics are wrong; we are not extracting consumer surplus via price discrimination. We are merely randomizing prices to estimate a demand elasticity so we can extract consumer surplus better through uniform pricing."

Wow... NYC's congestion pricing has led to big drops in PM2.5 and real improvements in local air quality.

Cool new evidence from postwar occupied Japan: exposure to radio programs aired by the US occupying force led to ⬆️ women's political turnout, ⬇️ fertility. By Okuyama published in the JDE

Dr. Sunita Desai's team in the Department of Population Health at NYU is hiring for in-person, hybrid, or remote work. Great team and professor to work for doing brilliant, impactful work. med.nyu.edu/faculty/suni... Descriptions below.

Can recommend this team!

The Yale crew is awesome and doing incredibly innovative things in the Medicaid and SNAP space. If you're interested in health policy and a predoc, run, do not walk, to apply for this!

Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc... ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner: "'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Elon Musk's AI bot says it would kill every Jewish person on earth to save Elon Musk. We talk so much about antisemitism, but somehow it's not considered antisemitic to use Elon Musk's apps.

The NIH grant cuts in 2025 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Now published for real www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/...

“On Not Betraying Our Trainees, Especially Now” I won an Extraordinary Achievement Award from the Critical Care Assembly last month The @atscommunity.bsky.social premier journal @atsblueeditor.bsky.social TODAY published the remarks I made on that occasion www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/...

Slackware 0.9.2 IIRC. Definitely not off a CD-ROM....

W/o showing his work, Prasad blames at least 10 pediatric deaths on the COVID vax. Meanwhile, a "2023 JAMA paper said that during the 12 months ending in July 2022, 821 people aged 19 and under died of Covid." The authors also indicated that was an underestimate. www.statnews.com/2025/11/29/c...

Full of eye-opening quotes about what happens when demand exceeds resources supplied. "Participants repeatedly discussed the emotional toll of attempting to ensure patient safety when clinician-to-patient ratios in the waiting room were low, at levels they perceived as inherently unsafe."

New qualitative work in BMC Geriatrics led by Penn CECPR Fellow Sarah Nessen: Waiting room and hallway care for older adults doi.org/10.1186/s12877-025-06384-9

🚨New Paper🚨 US doctors are paid very different amounts for treating different patients—even when providing identical services. How much less are physicians paid for treating non-White patients? In @jamahealthforum.com, we offer the 1st national estimates. (1/7) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Arrrrrrgg. This is pretty much the opposite of what we say in this paper that they SHOULD be doing to integrate federal data into a real, secure, useful linkage system.

At Law Dork, I look into the challenges to DOJ’s subpoenas seeking invasive information from providers of gender-affirming medical care for trans minors. I write about 4 rulings for the challengers, 3 public opinions, and 2 instances of judges directly questioning the actions of DOJ’s lawyers.

Antifungal 'Nystatin' is named for the NY State Department of Health. 'Statins', on the other hand, are from Latin 'stare' meaning to "stay or hold still" for their ability to slow or stop cholesterol production via inhibition of liver enzyme HMG-CoA reductase.

The truth continues to exist whether you accept it or not. Vaccines prevent disease. Vaccines save lives. This is not a matter of “orthodoxy.” It is the result of consistent, reproducible scientific evidence collected across continents and generations.

You cannot change the truth by issuing orders. You cannot rewrite decades of research with a directive. You cannot bend biology, epidemiology, or statistics to your will because they are inconvenient to your ideology.

🧵 The claim that a political leader “personally instructed” the CDC to abandon its scientific conclusions about vaccines is more than troubling — it is a direct attack on the foundations of evidence-based medicine.

🤌🍝🤢⚰️ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/b...

NEW: FDA review staff was excluded from voting on whether to approve first priority voucher drug. Top leaders like Vinay Prasad, George Tidmarsh, and Tracy Høeg led the vote instead. Read for the full list, and expert reaction from @hollylynchez.bsky.social: www.statnews.com/2025/11/21/t...

Pennsylvania Releases our Rural Health Transformation Plan! www.pa.gov/agencies/dhs...

#Research #letters that are under 600 words. How do we feel about them> I've written a few, and a few years later wished I would have just written a longer paper instead. Outside of simple descriptives, 600 words rarely satisfies.

Summers called this female Chinese economist “peril.” “Yellow peril” was partially built on the claim that Chinese women were sexually immoral threats. That logic fueled the Page Act of 1875, which barred Chinese women by presuming they were prostitutes, even before the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.

Important new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans. > 74 thousand trial participants affected jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 1/4