With grocery prices where they are, and SNAP benefits about to pause in the shutdown, I was glad to finally get around to setting up a monthly donation to my local food bank. yolofoodbank.org

Congratulations to Dr. Satyan Lakshminrusimh, our pediatrician-in-chief, who received the Virginia Apgar Award by the AAP. The award honors an individual whose career has had a sustained and profound influence on the welfare of newborn infants. 👶 health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlin...

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

There's a lot to not like about the world right now. But the doorbell just rang with a same-day free prescription delivery from my locally owned pharmacy. Small miracles exist. All is not lost. davispharm.com

Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.

I made this 9 years ago. Only gets more true.

This thread is absolutely right.

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

The bottom line with the proposed cuts to NSF is to cut the number of working scientists and disappear opportunities to train new scientists. This is a PROPOSED budget to Congress. Call your reps.

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

This. But for everything

China just pledged $500M to the WHO—filling the void left by the U.S. pullback. As Beijing expands its global health influence, America’s retreat signals a dangerous step back from leadership on the world stage. So much for "Making America Great" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

I commented. You should too!

Inspired by his clinical work and personal experience as a parent of an autistic child, Dr. Jonathan Kohler shares how PATH uses tools like social stories, pre-registration, and personalized care environments to reduce anxiety and improve medical outcomes. pedspandemicnetwork.org/ready-prep-g...

I just left a comment. If you are concerned that RFK Jr.'s FDA chief Marty Makary is limiting the Novavax COVID booster to those over 65 or with underlying conditions, and may do the same for Pfizer/Moderna as well, consider leaving a comment as well.

Autism care will be gutted by the new federal budget unless we make clear to our reps that that is not OK. New by me in the @sacbee.com www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...

Marco Buscaglia is the freelancer who admitted to using AI to complete the job in this report by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for @404media.co. While Buscaglia is right to be embarrassed, I think this is more a story about structural sloppification than about the ethics of a single journalist.

Today is a red letter day in media history where a major newspaper managed to passive voice the actual publishing of itself

Mariannette Miller-Meeks won her seat in 2024 by 799 votes. That margin is 1.2% the number of people in her district she's taking health care away from. It's extremely unlikely she'll hold that seat in the 2026 midterm election. Maybe Mariannette shouldn't have been Trump's marionette.

Delighted to share this episode of the Ready, Prep, Go podcast from the Pediatric Pandemic Network, where I discuss the work we’re doing at UCD to make acute care better for neurodiverse patients. pedspandemicnetwork.org/ready-prep-g...

Here is a video of the student with autism being draged down the hallway on his back after he refused to walk to the gym.

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We are looking for a child abuse specialist here at UC Davis. It's a great team doing incredible, important work. Doesn't require CAP board certification. If interested, or you know someone who might be: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07047 @neosatyan.bsky.social

"He's been her primary parent since she was born-doing all the diaper changes. Every single doctor's appointment, every cry, every nap, every meal. He takes care of her during the day and then works at night and on weekends. He does it all. He's everything for us." abc7.com/post/vietnam...

"The Republican-controlled Congress, backed by the president, is planning radical cuts to Medicaid, & there’s nothing more important for autistic ppl, their families & everyone with any disability or a loved one with a significant disability." @lollardfish.bsky.social: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

This is a great video about 2 kids with autism and all the things they can do. @pocan.house.gov was my rep for 5 years and I miss his advocacy and leadership.

All my places are there except UChicago. Brown, Emerson, Harvard, UWashington, UWisconsin, UCalifornia. That’s a bad list to not be on, guys. I’d tag them but they’re not on Bluesky either 🤷‍♂️

Thanks so much. If you liked my apperance on CNN, you can buy my book here. #Booksky #AutismAcceptanceMonth #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticAuthors #AutismAwarenessMonth www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...

Missing my home town of Concord, MA on the 250th anniversary of it becoming America’s home town (don’t listen to Lexington)

The shots heard around the world. Fired here on the Old North Bridge, Concord, Mass. 250 years ago this morning.

Favourite protest sign of the day - #handsoff #protest #resist

This is good. You can also find your reps at reps.fyi. Call 'em over the weekend and leave messages on their machines if you're phone shy!

Sign of the day…

“What does he do? He chainsaws the heads off dead whales and leaves bear cubs in Central Park. And I don’t think it’s performance art. I think it’s just that he’s creepy. What has he ever really done, other than have a last name?” Autistic people aren’t just poets. They can be insult comics too.

I knew the U.S. higher education system was a massive draw for foreigners, but I did not know the U.S. sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it did natural gas and coal combined. Great piece by @crampell.bsky.social

the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless

My son has autism, & pays taxes He is finishing his master's degree and going to teach math and science to high school students. It is difficult to image someone his age contributing more to society than he does. Thank you for speaking out about RFK's perversion of science and humanism

👇🎯 They. Are. Breaking. Signed. Contracts. For. No. Legal. Reason. You want to pass legislation not funding this stuff going forward? Fine. Epically idiotic, but legal. This is something else. Shredding the basic foundations of the rule of law. Textbook authoritarianism.

Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever they aren’t going into universities’ endowments they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

This is an incredibly easy thing for university presidents to sell to the public. THEY'RE DESTROYING CANCER RESEARCH & OUR HOSPITALS & THE PLACES YOU WANT YOUR KIDS TO GO TO COLLEGE. If you can't win this PR battle, there isn't a single PR battle you can win. And yet...they're barely even trying.

Several of my ancestors came here on the Mayflower. They've fought and died in every war since the Revolution. One of my great^3 grandfathers was Ralph Waldo Emerson. This makes me precisely as American as someone who took their citizenship oath this morning, which is the wonder of this nation.

“In any normal circumstances and in any previous era, Hegseth and Waltz would be expected to resign immediately: Hegseth for sharing what any reasonable observer would regard as details of war plans – and then lying about having done so – and Waltz for his shocking sloppiness around security״

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Reduce your risk with regular colonoscopies and taking charge of modifiable lifestyle factors. ✅ Visit UC Davis Department of Surgery on Linked In for evidence-based recommendations. 🔍 #colorectalcancerawareness

🏆✨ Big news! We’re thrilled to celebrate our incredible surgeons recognized in Sactown Magazine's Top Doctors 2025! 🎉 Thank you for setting the standard in surgical excellence! 👏

Happy #WorldDownSyndromeDay. It falls on 3/21, because people with Down syndrome have three copies of the twenty-first chromosome. This is the best Down syndrome PSA ever made and I want you to watch and share it. #WDSD2025

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