Important new article in NEJM: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

I had an opportunity to speak with @washingtonpost.com about last week’s ACIP meeting. I was not impressed with the caliber of the science presented by some of the speakers. I was very impressed with the data presented by the career CDC scientists who are experts.

Glad to see OpenAI admitting that correctness and LLMs are fundamentally at odds. At what point do we stop pouring so much money, energy, compute, and talent into this technology? www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

I’m never on X anymore but I saw the Health Department responded there: x.com/healthvermon...

oh no... reached Zotero storage maximum...

Duh

This is hilarious. These people have never run a real business. It is 100% a scam operated by skiled, dedicated grifters. www.wsj.com/articles/sto...

Enjoyed being on my first podcast! I make the case for power-based organizing as the only hope to save justice-oriented public health against the rising fascism. Give it a listen: www.infectiousdose.com/post/from-ev... @defendpublichealth.bsky.social @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

Enjoyed being on my first podcast! I make the case for power-based organizing as the only hope to save justice-oriented public health against the rising fascism. Give it a listen: www.infectiousdose.com/post/from-ev... @defendpublichealth.bsky.social @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

this pretty much sums it up www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

sure seems like Vermont should be on this list...

CDC ACIP meetings can be streamed here: Today's: www.youtube.com/live/-6uBNXs... and Tomorrow's: www.youtube.com/live/_9ChY9S...

consequential couple of days for vaccine policy in these here US's of A. www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...

With @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social leading the way, a few of us helped @defendpublichealth.bsky.social to fight back against the erroneous claims that the COVID vaccine caused the deaths of 25 children. Read more about WHY we know this isn’t true.

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New podcast just dropped with our own @jonshaffer.bsky.social talking about public health organizing. You can check it out here!

bb's first podcast. Here's my conversation w/ Heather McSherry abt @defendpublichealth.bsky.social, science, power, organizing, & the existential threats to public health in this precipice moment. www.infectiousdose.com/post/from-ev... @pathogenscribe.bsky.social @infectdosepodcast.bsky.social

On Friday, the Trump administration claimed that COVID19 vaccines caused the deaths of 25 children. They are doing this to gin up a reason for their unnecessary restrictions on COVID19 vaccines. We explain the science for how we know these vaccines didn’t cause pediatric deaths in our report.

cosign. a relatively small amount of money invested in real community organizers and some small media outlets would be transformative.

what dr. susan monarez is doing today is incredibly courageous. she’s putting the public’s health first

where my head's at, lately.

bb's first podcast. Here's my conversation w/ Heather McSherry abt @defendpublichealth.bsky.social, science, power, organizing, & the existential threats to public health in this precipice moment. www.infectiousdose.com/post/from-ev... @pathogenscribe.bsky.social @infectdosepodcast.bsky.social

Crucial words and thinking, as usual, from Ta-Nehisi Coates. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

the cover goes hard but the contents of this report go harder. rfk jr. is a clear and present danger to us all. he must go.

Turned 39 today! It's a funny age -- just let me get to 40 so I can really lean into my longstanding middle aged proclivities! At least 40 has some gravitas!

"...every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, convulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism...nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN commission of inquiry www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

fascist governmentality is a thing to behold.

It’s official: the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concludes Israel is committing genocide. The UN body calls on nations to stop sending weapons to Israel, ensure people within their jurisdiction aren’t aiding or inciting the genocide, and hold those who are accountable.

The federal program, which funds nutrition and exercise education for eligible recipients, will end Sept. 30, eliciting worry from officials and providers.

Update on this: The teen's parents have been ordered to meet with ICE tomorrow in Burlington. Many activists think this is just an attempt to kidnap his parents (they are seeking asylum). People are gathering at the ICE field office in Burlington tomorrow at 9 a.m.

This is false. For example, the libertarian @cato.org breaks down the numbers, showing about 6 deaths from right-wing politically motivated attackers for every 1 from left-wing attackers. Moreover, the claim that shooters represent anyone other than an unhinged fraction of society is the deeper lie.

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Everyday we get more evidence that the most revered organizations in America are willing to help re-segregate daily life. Today, I woke up to the Washington Post and Harvard-organizations ostensibly committed to "truth"-(continuing) to help re-segregation along.

I'll be reviewing applications for developmental and biobehavioral psychology PhD students this cycle (not clinical). More info and FAQs here! www.fernlab-uvm.com

"Taking away those tools, I think, is really going to impact who sees Harvard as being open to them." This is great reporting from the Harvard Crimson about Harvard quietly ending a minority recruitment program.

This is beyond outrageous.

The asymmetric rules of political rhetoric have really reached their peak this past week. Conservatives have and continued to call for liberals to be murdered. And now when liberals *literally quote Charlie Kirk's words* it gets described as dangerous rhetoric. It's so fucking ridiculous.

The United States didn’t reach its current state overnight. While the conservative political spectrum captured the struggles stemming from economic instability of the American public better than the “liberals”, they offered the wrong solutions. The divide is between have and have nots.

Case in point for how content empty ‘liberalism’ paves the way for fascism. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/w...

This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.

Ezra Klein is trying in this column to argue that Kirk was doing politics correctly if you just ignore the content of what he was advocating. That he was contributing to American democracy by arguing civilly for the subjugation of women, gay people, trans people. It simply doesn’t work.

This is legitimately scary.

jfc

extremely stupid bullshit.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

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"For academia, AI is part of a techno-utopian attack on the entire system. It’s not great new technology designed to help us avoid chores. As one of their sources writes, “When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning.”"

The Crimson, scooping every news outlet not run by undergraduates working in between classes, gets into how court orders mandating return of research funding have been flaunted, and makes a clear case for contempt proceedings against DOGE officials. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...