It’s tragic that we have someone so utterly incompetent—with zero public health training (he’s an economist)—leading the nation’s public health agency (the CDC) & health research agency (NIH) His approach to outbreaks is: do nothing, fire CDC staff, let infections spread, let the strong survive

NEW: A serious staffing shortage — of the Trump admin's own making — is delaying the agency's ability to send billions to universities around the country, leaving labs reeling in the meantime. “I thought we were at rock bottom”, a senior NIH official said. “We are below rock bottom now.”

Mayor Mamdani restores library funding after public outcry gothamist.com/news/mayor-m...

CDC, FDA, NIH, and Surgeon General. And NSF Board. Would be humiliating if it weren’t both so horrifying and deadly. I hope we can save our country, and our families, in our lifetime.

Universities coughing up profs as a slop commodity. ASU, no shame? @arizonastateuni.bsky.social

New paper in press at Cognitive Science, with postdoc Julie Bannon and PhD student Barb Hlachova! For decades, we’ve known that syntactic and prosodic boundaries tend to align. But how close is that alignment in unrehearsed speech?

Open letter calling for the reinstatement of the National Science Board. This letter is from leaders of the National Academies Note: This does not refer to the leaders on paper such as presidents of the NAS, NAM, and NAE. www.standupforscience.net/nasem-letter... @standupforscience.net

lol, they gave Artemis II astronaut (and Philadelphia sports fan) Christina Koch an astronaut Gritty

Gustav Klimt was 17 years old in 1879 when he drew (with charcoal and black chalk) this portrait of a young girl. His superb technical ability as a draughtsman is evident even as a teenager in the way he uses shadow to create a three-dimensional picture on paper.

Water Mill (1892) by Frits Thaulow

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Breaking: Sweaty claims from AI* boosters regarding the educational benefits of LLMs may be greatly exaggerated. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/i...

Keep saying it. Our kids shouldn’t be a market, or a commodity, in school. Learning requires focus facilitated by human interaction. Edtech provides neither, and disturbs both.

"On Polymarket, the Journal found, 67% of profits go to just 0.1% of accounts. That means less than 2,000 accounts netted a total of nearly half a billion dollars."

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

Project 2025 called for gutting the EPA's scientific research office. In under a year, the Trump Administration has done exactly that, taking a division of more than 1,500 scientists down to 124…

This paper was retracted from the @nejm.org because the images of bronchial branching after smoke inhalation were obviously and transparently manipulated by generative AI. Look at the ruler. I don't even know what lesson to draw from this. www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

Alright! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u...

In today's @pubperspectives.bsky.social: - PEN America announces The Rutherford County Library Alliance will receive the 2026 PEN/Benenson Courage Award. - @peninternational.bsky.social releases its annual international case list of persecuted writers. publishingperspectives.com/2026/04/pen-...

Welp, we ain’t getting real scientific guidelines for a while.

Finally public. Thank you!

Deadline 31 May: Postdoc, perceptual inference in the auditory system w/ A. Tabas, Basque Center on Cog. Brain + Lang. www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/j...

“...the worst kind of political patronage... meant to contribute to an intentional degradation of confidence in the NIH.” - Joshua Gordon, former NIMH Director on Kristine Blanche, wife of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, being appointed to NCCIH Council www.statnews.com/2026/04/26/k...

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Trump ousts National Science Board members www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

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Because @nationalacademies.org decided to bend the knee and host a session with Jay Bhattacharya and some of his fellow travelers, they tarnished a meeting on the important topic of scientific integrity even before it began. 1/

Congratulations to @stephenking.bsky.social for this well-deserved honor!👍 (Novels/Novellas: Approximately 65 to 67 Non-fiction books: 5 books. Short Stories: Over 200 Pseudonyms: 7 novels were published as Richard Bachman. Frequency: He has published at least one book almost every year since 1974)

Recommendation to my US mutuals on insta is lizthedeveloper because she seems to have realistic ideas on being safe in a difficult setting. Also Rubin_allergy who is pointing people to health info cdc doesn’t share any more etc

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In the first eleven months of 2025, 10,109 doctoral-trained scientists left the federal government. The losses were concentrated in agencies that fund medical research, regulate environmental standards and model climate. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/more-than-...?

"the rule of law, checks and balances and the peaceful transition of power..." www.scientificamerican.com/article/ex-n...

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🚨 NEW: Fireside Chats at the Anti-Intellectual Bonfire The National Academies have decided that hosting two deeply unscientific social media personalities are the key to "enhancing scientific integrity." Have we learned...anything? 👇 READ, SHARE, SUBSCRIBE: www.panaccindex.info/p/fireside-c...

Deadline 15 July: Assoc or full, tenured prof., open area, Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, NTU Singapore apply.ap1.interfolio.com/119095

Anti-science ideologue Bhattacharya stroking his ego while people still get long covid and still are hospitalized and perish

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces. 249 years later, we have this idiot.

What fools

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

CDC is lacking leadership. ~80% of top roles are vacated (resigned or forced out). Staff say work is at a “standstill” as key public health decisions stall. ~2,400 CDC staff have left or been illegally fired under RFK Jr. Morale has collapsed. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Thursday he’s overhauling a group of external experts who decide what medical services are preventive and must be covered fully by insurers under the Affordable Care Act. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Robert F. Influencer Jr. Is Selling Politics, Not Health www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/pres...

FDA to Weigh Easing Limits on Unproven Peptides Favored by RFK Jr. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

Protect Our Care publishes scathing report of Kennedy's tenure ahead of congressional hearing marathon thehill.com/policy/healt...

Fluoride in drinking water has no effect on IQ or brain function, a long-term study shows. The new research is the first to measure community water fluoridation exposure during childhood and any potential impact on cognition up to age 80. The results contradict RFK Jr. statements.

Cinco horas separan estas dos imágenes😀

The success of the U.S. vaccination system depends on two fundamental pillars: parents trusting in vaccines and children having access to them. Under RFK Jr., both are in peril.

Grief for our country