IG post by @savehealthresearch.bsky.social on Jay Bhattacharya's frequent absences from work. Does he do all this on government time, when he should be leading the NIH? www.instagram.com/p/DTGhyKCkpy...

More attacks on children and those who care for them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

So here’s to making 2026 a better year. For science. For our country. For the American people. We have the momentum. The resistance is growing. Let’s make 2026 the year we turned the tide.

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pour one out to an icon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“It should not surprise anyone that 2025 — when the nation’s most prominent anti-vaxxer rose to the highest health office in the land — is ending with our vaccine policies in disarray and our access to vaccines increasingly imperiled.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...

BREAKING: The National Institutes of Health has agreed to evaluate grant applications that were wrongfully frozen due to the Trump administration’s ideological purge of biomedical research.

A really important piece. The times when we have opened our country to talented people from around the world are among the moments when America has been truly great. Trump is destroying that legacy and fomenting unconscionable racism. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

Thank you for helping to shape the agenda for the 2026 #Dementia Care & Caregiving Summit. We will use the questions and comments shared as they plan for the Summit in March 2026. Registration details coming soon. Questions? Contact [email protected]! #geronsky

Important piece, worth a read. @safa-science.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/sciencea...

The NIH process for hiring and renewing senior leaders has for decades used committees of scientific experts to provide gold-standard external review of candidates. This process has been an example of government accountability and top talent recruitment, and it’s a shame it’s being politicized.

Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”

Also as a reminder: courage isn't the only thing that's contagious. Flu A, Norovirus, RSV & Measles are all circulating at higher rates than we would like to see. Get vaccinated for what you can, stay home if you're sick (or wear masks if you can't), and wash your hands! Even if RFK says otherwise!

The American right, including Jay Bhattacharya, is trying to weaponize free speech by crying censorship. But freedom of speech isn't freedom of reach. To fight back, scientific institutions should say that junk science is junk. New post from me: 1/

Without taking a position on the legal issues in this post— I wrote on Tue about the broader strategy employed by the right on free speech: Insisting on maximal individual free speech, while rightwing billionaires tilt public debate by paying to elevate speech they like. Link in next post: 1/

My parents gifted me my own mug and I love them for it!!! Glad they are a part of Team Resistance!

Merry Christmas 🎄🧪! Here's a video I made of the predicted structure for the protein MERRYCHRISTMAS. I used AlphaFold to predict the structure and then colored the backbone (green), amino acids by index (rainbow), and noncovalent interactions (dotted lines). #sciart #science #MolBio

Quiz time: what is the song Jingle Bells about? a. Christmas b. Street racing c. A vehicle accident d. Picking up women

Here's hoping that the hearts of Jay Bhattacharya — and all other members of the Trump Administration — grow three sizes this Christmas.

It's a whole genre it's beautiful

📢 America’s Bravery Is Built From People Power open.substack.com/pub/peoplepo...

We live in the dumbest timeline. It's like a story from the Old Testament. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

billionaire: i have 3 brains. in my skull interviewer: incredible

Is this fucking real?!? It's just a bunch of black pages. Fuck these pedophiles and pedophile enablers. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

I don't know what to say about this garbage vote to criminalize gender affirming care btw. Been trying to find the words. I hear so many friends in sadness and fear today but of what use is "I hear you"? Not much I fear. To live through this moment sucks ass (negative). We must find a way through

Refuse. Lose funding. Shut down. Seriously. Make them feel REAL consequences for constantly inserting themselves in other people's medical care. We keep minimizing and saving them from the consequences of their actions. It's why they keep on with this BS. www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/h...

My quote of the day Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. Leonardo da Vinci

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has been an outspoken critic of RFKJ's vaccine disinformation and non evidence-based vaccine recommendations. Now they are losing millions in federal funding for mental health services, rural healthcare access, and more. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Powerful

I don’t use social media to argue about politics with strangers. I use social media to talk to people about fish. When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish. When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish.

This is a real headline on the New York Times website. Support independent media.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

Woke up to the terrible news that Rob Reiner and his wife were killed. Reiner directed so many amazing films and also seemed like a truly good man. There is too much violence in our world. 😭

The Washington Post, everyone

Hungary rejects fascism, millions call on the corrupt Orbàn regime to fall. #3E

We are watching the concept of reality slip away before our eyes...

Measles didn’t make a comeback on its own. This is RFK Jr’s anti-vax movement and his disinformation campaign. And equally as disturbing, some people are perfectly fine with this outcome.

Breaking: Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to announce on Monday that California has hired two former CDC leaders who accused the Trump administration of abandoning scientific standards. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters. His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound. A true hero.

This is horrific. Antisemitism is a scourge on humanity. Everyone should be able to freely practice their religion without the ongoing threat of violence. Thinking of the victims, their families, and all who celebrate Hanukkah today. May it be filled with light despite this darkness.

We sadly know Zoe Weissman because of Parkland. In fact, our families are so close, that she has been there for my wife and I after Parkland and helped with our foundation Orange Ribbons For Jaime. America, are you ok with this?

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…

This is extremely bad.

Marco Rubio has declared Calibri woke. I declare all fonts woke. We must go back to calligraphy scripts like Copperplate, as our Founders intended.