Researchers are relieved at Trump’s likely pick for National Cancer Institute | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

In a partnership with the Coalition for Health Resilience, Defend Public Health has a new blog post up about how vaccines are tested.

As we abandon investment into mRNA technology the UK is jumping on it. I foresee more loss of American talent. 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/09/25/m...

RFK Jr. is coming after abortion pills. It's not about safety, as it has already been reviewed. The "study" cited by Kennedy to justify the review is by the Ethics & Policy Center, w/ ties to the Heritage Foundation & Project 2025. This is not surprising. 🧪 www.scrippsnews.com/politics/abo...

“President Trump pledged to address America’s skyrocketing rates of autism, and his team is deploying Gold Standard Science to deliver on this pledge." NO. Not an iota of gold standard science. And no, he has not addressed the "skyrocketing rates of autism". 🧪 www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Rep. Jamie Raskin: Trump is holding our federal workers hostage, using their livelihoods as leverage while refusing to negotiate to keep govt open. Democrats will defend health care & workers’ rights. #TrumpsGovernmentShutdown #USDemocracy #Pinks social.demcast.com/s/EpvXmwWd

From a historian, author, professor, @timothysnyder.bsky.social Please read and share! #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #DV1 #Pinks Hegseth puts us all at risk open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

“President Trump pledged to address America’s skyrocketing rates of autism, and his team is deploying Gold Standard Science to deliver on this pledge." NO. Not an iota of gold standard science. And no, he has not addressed the "skyrocketing rates of autism". 🧪 www.wsj.com/health/healt...

RFK Jr. is coming after abortion pills. It's not about safety, as it has already been reviewed. The "study" cited by Kennedy to justify the review is by the Ethics & Policy Center, w/ ties to the Heritage Foundation & Project 2025. This is not surprising. 🧪 www.scrippsnews.com/politics/abo...

Trump's popularity has fallen dramatically, because more and more Americans see that he has failed to deliver the economic results he promised. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social gives us a #CupOfJoe w/ a latte promise. Stay involved. #Resist

As a pediatrician, I have treated kids with measles, bacterial meningitis, and whooping cough, and let me tell you, these kids are miserable. Vaccines can help prevent and save lives from these diseases. www.today.com/health/news/...

As we abandon investment into mRNA technology the UK is jumping on it. I foresee more loss of American talent. 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/09/25/m...

🚨BREAKING NEWS: Congresswoman files articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. We've been sounding the alarm for months, sending 3k+ quack-o-grams, and collecting 25k petition signatures calling on our reps to impeach & remove RFK Jr. We’re closing in on him. Help us WIN the fight. 🦆 zurl.co/vkZQV

The NCI will be getting a new director. Anthony Letai from Dana-Farber has research expertise cell death/apoptosis in leukemia. 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/09/24/n...

Jennifer Doudna, the Nobel Prize Winner for her work on CRISPR Vaccines have been so successful that we have collectively forgotten what it was like to live with deadly diseases that are now preventable. Via The Atlantic

Fascinating. Learning and practicing music every day doesn’t just sharpen your skill, but can rewire the brain in ways that change how humans experience the world, even something as fundamental as pain. 🧪 theconversation.com/neuroscience...

1. There are autisms, rather than just autism. 2. The diversity in symptoms & the range of biological contributors are too large. 3. The neurobiology is also too complex. 4. “If you had 100 kids with autism, you could have 100 different genetic causes.” 🧪🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Fascinating how the highest heights of the White House jumped on condemning the ICE shooting today but still has not said a word about the CDC shooting. Political violence is an emergency that our nation has to face. Silence from our leaders is complicit. #CDC #publichealth

Not at all surprising & I don’t blame them #AcademicSky

🧪 My thoughts too Annie. P-values are important.

Tomorrow is #WorldCancerResearchDay, a day to recognize the impact of cancer research and the strong public support for it. We released a survey indicating that 89% of voters support federal funding for medical research, and 83% support increased funding for cancer research.

Any mass firing like this by Trump, as punishment for shutdown or otherwise, is deeply illegal—as Judge Illston ruled and SCOTUS did not disagree though lawlessly let the firings continue. Also, this is a sign not of strength but of Vought weakness. He REALLY doesn’t want Congress to stand up. 1/

🧪Did you know that America is known for its cancer research b/c of the National Cancer Act in 1971 signed by Nixon. Mary Lasker took her cause to congress and the American public as a leading proponent of the National Cancer Act. She said, "If you think research is expensive, try disease!"

NO. The default reaction to ANY medical advice from the WH should be to ignore it. Untreated fevers during pregnancy can come with risks. 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/09/24/t...

...And then there is a second America – an America where a majority of people live paycheck to paycheck, struggling to secure the very basic necessities of life – food, healthcare, housing and education. #Pinks www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1. There are autisms, rather than just autism. 2. The diversity in symptoms & the range of biological contributors are too large. 3. The neurobiology is also too complex. 4. “If you had 100 kids with autism, you could have 100 different genetic causes.” 🧪🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

It's Bek's starter pack #31. As always, please vet, follow, and share. I tried to add more new people along with some favorites to expand our community. 💙🫶 go.bsky.app/DtdJipj

We're getting the discharge petition!! RELEASE ALL THE FILES! TIME FOR SOME JUSTICE FOR THESE WOMEN!" "Massie said he expected his discharge petition to have the required 218 signatures following Adelita Grijalva's (D) win in the Arizona special election." #Pinks www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson...

"When Kennedy was young, vaccine-preventable illnesses killed hundreds annually." Nostalgia is longing for the past. What RFK Jr has is "anemoia," a term coined by Koenig to describe longing for a time never experienced (in this case, because it never existed). www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

NO. The default reaction to ANY medical advice from the WH should be to ignore it. Untreated fevers during pregnancy can come with risks. 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/09/24/t...

The experts from around the world react to bad medical advice from the WH “Don't pay any attention whatsoever to what Donald Trump says about medicine” -UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting 🧪 www.npr.org/2025/09/23/g...

I hope this catches on. 22 CDC websites are down. All are LGBTQ/DEI related. We are not free. When science is silenced, we all pay the price. Science has been censored in the past. Like before, it will not end well. 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

...We must cherish and honor the word 'free' or it will cease to apply to us. And that would be an inconceivable situation..." -Eleanor Roosevelt (Tomorrow is Now, 1963) We are in this situation now. #Pinks

🧪 Scientists have other talents too. Love this thread by @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social Maybe I'll get into writing poetry again. I've had sometimes people tell me that my writing is "too flowery" for science lol.

So you're a scientist about to face a government shutdown? Have you considered becoming a rock star? It's easy AND profitable! 🎸🧪 Let's list off five scientists who turned rockers:

✊🏾 #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory

ACOG reaffirms safety of acetaminophen. “Suggestions that acetaminophen use in pregnancy causes autism are not only highly concerning to clinicians but also irresponsible when considering the harmful and confusing message they send to pregnant patients…” 🧪 www.acog.org/news/news-re...

Nobelist Marie Curie performed pioneering research on radiation that resulted in her developing aplastic anemia. Upon her death at age 66 in 1934, she was buried next to her husband in the Curie family plot in Sceaux commune (Paris). In 1995, her remains were to be moved to the Panthéon...

A must read. It takes years to see a spark transformed to a groundbreaking treatment. It all begins with basic research. Due to sustained #NIH funding, we have better therapeutics, cancer detection, vaccines. We are like 1930s Germany. 🧪 www.infotimes.us/basic-scienc... via @markhisted.org

There is no robust evidence that suggests any causal relationship between autism and use of Tylenol during pregnancy. "At the heart of this is people trying to look for simple answers to complex problems.” This is exactly the problem with today's HHS. 🧪 archive.today/bwvIC

RFK,Jr and his crew are against immunizations for serious and often deadly viruses that are now eradicated in the U.S.A. thanks to vaccines. Take a good look at people who had smallpox in these photos. #VaccinationsSaveLives #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #DV1 #Pinks www.immunize.org/clinical/ima...

...We must cherish and honor the word 'free' or it will cease to apply to us. And that would be an inconceivable situation..." -Eleanor Roosevelt (Tomorrow is Now, 1963) We are in this situation now. #Pinks

There is no robust evidence that suggests any causal relationship between autism and use of Tylenol during pregnancy. "At the heart of this is people trying to look for simple answers to complex problems.” This is exactly the problem with today's HHS. 🧪 archive.today/bwvIC

Trump thinks "we found an answer to autism". This is not it. Again, the research that already looked into it was ignored. HHS is no longer a source of reliable information as it was in the past. 🧪 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/... archive.today/uT7km

That feeling when your entire division + funding gets cut and someone like RFK Jr. says they will find the cause for autism by "September". I agree with Erin McCanlies that when someone arrogantly & ignorantly says that the work has not been done or it can easily be done. via🧪 @propublica.org

Considering there was a press conference where he told us to inject ourselves with bleach, this is saying something.

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Blaming an ingredient in headache medicine as the root cause for Autism🤯🙄 The dumbest, most unqualified & most dangerous admin to ever occupy the WH Thank you #science for NOT backing up this false & BS claim www.npr.org/sections/sho...

A good read. This tracks with Project 2025/Trump's agenda "A woman’s “most glorious duty is to give children to her people & nation, children who can continue the line of generations & who guarantee the immortality of the nation” -Joseph Goebbels #pinks www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

That feeling when your entire division + funding gets cut and someone like RFK Jr. says they will find the cause for autism by "September". I agree with Erin McCanlies that when someone arrogantly & ignorantly says that the work has not been done or it can easily be done. via🧪 @propublica.org