The past 15 months have marked a dark chapter in US science; one that will require significant effort to repair. But I'm not interested in duct tape and bandaid solutions. Our system had problems before Jan 20th, 2025. So, @standupforscience.net is doing what we do best: TAKING ACTION. 1/7

An example of the perils of presidential control over science agencies. This Budget Request is dictated by the White House, Vought, and the P2025 OMB, not NSF. We have an imperial presidency, the dream of John Roberts and Charles Koch since the 80s. And it is incompatible with successful science.

#HepatitisB virus newborn vaccination rates in the US peaked at 83% in early 2023 but dropped to 73% by August 2025, coinciding with increased public discourse regarding childhood vaccination. ja.ma/47rCO6p

The last part abt how measles disrupts immunity vs other infections is, imo, underappreciated (& mechanism was recently clarified). It's part of why measles vaccination was seen to help beyond just reducing measles complications - not getting measles reduces severity of subsequent infections too.

Overjoyed to share our new work exploring the antigen specificity of CSF-expanded CD8+ T cells in #multiplesclerosis #EBV in @natimmunol.nature.com #immunology 🧪🧵1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The incidence and prevalence of #melanoma, the fifth most common cancer in the US, have increased over the last 5 decades. This Review summarizes the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of cutaneous melanoma. ja.ma/4j1AhEC

We are very excited to share the first preprint of a new direction for our group. Led by the fearless duo of @arthurwchow.bsky.social and @hoyinchu.bsky.social, our foray into computational protein design—

This is shocking stuff. John Quackenbush has been brilliant since forever. www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/r...

You run a new command in #rlang #python #bash, and you don’t really know how long it should take. Will it be done in 30 seconds? 5 minutes? 45 minutes? Longer? 😫 An automatic notification might help to stay focused on #programming Let me introduce you to ntfy.sh slowkow.com/notes/ntfy/

Cruz Godar shares stunning Javascript and webGL applets that demonstrate the beauty of mathematics. cruzgodar.com

A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions. A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪

Check out our new paper @nejm.org. RSV, COVID-19 & Influenza vaccines continue to show consistent effectiveness & safety based on a review & synthesis of 500+ research studies👇! We worked hard to evaluate the evidence so you can be confident about getting vaccinated this fall!

South Carolina schools recently sent home unvaccinated kids to stem a growing measles outbreak. It turned out 5 of them were infected and, if they'd been at school, could've unwittingly spread it to their classmates for days. That kind of precaution is now illegal in Idaho.

New release of PowerLMM.js! Browser-based power analysis for longitudinal models with dropout. Now includes: - Power analysis summary report - Reproducible & shareable configs (URL/JSON) - Calculations validated against R - Hypothesis region visualization powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

A visualization of average resting heart rate in Germany from 2020 through 2022. Link: corona-datenspende.github.io/en/vitaldata... Data: zenodo.org/records/8229...

I'd like to announce the medRxiv preprint of our latest work: A multimodal atlas of COVID-19 severity identifies hallmarks of dysregulated immunity. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Search #Pubmed and view the results on a 2D embedding. Each point represents a paper, and similar papers are near each other. Colors indicate clusters of similar papers. By Viktor Petukhov github.com/multicore-ca...

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

1. Make an Excel file with your author information 2. Drag and drop 3. Copy a nicely formatted author list into Word 🐶 slowkow.com/authorbud

Convert Markdown to C++, Python, MATLAB, and LaTeX iheartla.github.io by Yong Li

☀️THE SUMMER FIGHT FOR SCIENCE☀️ 🫵 WHO: You + all our friends 🧪 WHAT: Share science with your neighbors and tell them about the impact of proposed budget cuts. 🇺🇸 WHERE: Your local community 🏖️ WHEN: Now to Sept 30th 🔬 WHY: The 9/30 budget vote will determine the future of science in America.

5 pages of this in the HHS Terminated Grants document Link: taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

The destruction of the medical research enterprise in the U.S. will go down in history as one of the most damaging choices a government has made in setting its population backwards www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

Illegal arrests made by the Trump administration are intended to spread fear and silence dissent. We cannot allow Trump and his cronies to turn the United States of America into an authoritarian society in which people can be disappeared for their political beliefs.

My colleagues and I demand answers from Kristi Noem and Marco Rubio about the illegal and inhumane abduction of Mohsen Mahdawi, a permanent legal resident of the United States. The Constitution guarantees people within our borders basic rights, including due process and free speech.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia must be released and brought home to Maryland. He is innocent. No government can snatch people off the street and ship them to prison without due process. It should terrify us all. I'm thankful @vanhollen.senate.gov is headed there to demand his release.

"It is critically important that we as Americans, regardless of party, stand up for all of these students who are being detained," says Vermont's @balint.house.gov. "This has got to stop. This is Trump creating his own army of brownshirts right here in our country."

We often use discretization to approximate continuous laws of physics, but it also goes the other way: You can use continuous equations to approximate the behavior of discrete systems! Here we'll see how electrical circuits can be modeled using the Laplace equation Δφ=0. [1/n]

I got the news this morning on two COVID related grants that were being terminated because its no longer seen as a research priority by Health and Human Services. My people have been given their notice. I have no words to express my feelings. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

I am so grateful for the reporters who are doing the work on telling the story of the incredible negative impact of the cessation of US aid. The human toll is hard to wrap one's head around. This article is a must read. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Measles, one of the most contagious diseases, was at Dulles airport last week. Get vaccinated/boosted or at least check your titers. This is serious, and, alas, the CDC is increasingly incapacitated. health.maryland.gov/newsroom/Pag...

Trump and Musk are going after Social Security, Medicaid, the VA, and public education. In what universe, in what world, in what religion is it morally acceptable to cut programs for hungry children in order to reward the wealthy?

Airborne Infection Prevention Using Germicidal UV-C: Training and Certification Program August 2025 in College Park, Maryland Developed by Dr. Rolf Bergman, Dr. Paul Jensen, Dr. David Sliney Funded by Balvi Filantropic Fund (@vitalik.ca) Sign up at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

By @katherinejwu.com "The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,” The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:

Johns Hopkins officials said the NIH funding cut puts at risk approximately 600 current and ongoing clinical trials at Hopkins, including open clinical trials in cancer, pediatrics and children’s health, heart and vascular studies and the aging brain. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

A Direct Hit, by @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/full/10.... "This is a moment to unite."

Update: 15 confirmed cases. Health officials are racing to offer vaccines to unvaccinated children, they're operating a mobile unit to screen for cases, pre-treating exposed infants. Schools & hospitals are on alert. Measles outbreaks are v hard to contain. A totally preventable situation.

Will universities finally speak up now? Or are they still "working behind the scenes" Texted with many academic colleagues last night, the consensus is, if these cuts hold, many of us can no longer have a career in academia. This will spur mass exodus. www.science.org/content/arti...

"Health institutions may be hesitant to criticise the new administration publicly, but this timidity is a mistake. Trump's actions must be called out for the damage they are doing."

I have run out of patience with the apparent silence of most US science institutions (and not just US) in the face of Trump & Musk's rampage. There are of so many facets of that, but in this column for @chemistryworld.com I talk about the assaults on inclusion. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

"These commitments — to reliable support for science, free scientific discourse, and inclusive opportunities to ensure that diverse people can participate in science — are not separate from our scientific mission but essential to its success."

An EO doesn't change that - STI rates are high & need effective diagnosis and treatment - US still has highest rate of congenital syphilis among rich countries. - AMR is rising - There's an uncontrolled HIV epidemic in the US SE. Hiding access to treatment guidelines worsens these crises for all.

"The MVDP’s aim is “to reduce the impact of malaria on children living in malaria-endemic areas of the world”. In sub-Saharan Africa, approximately 450,000 under-5s are killed by malaria each year." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Where are the universities speaking out against the #NSF funding freeze? As an alumna of @uoregon.bsky.social, I'm calling on the UO president to tell our elected officials how bad this is. I encourage you to do the same with your univeristy, union, etc. Full text in alt if you want inspiration. 🧪🌎