Decisions decisions… @ the MIT museum for anyone looking for last minute gifts… 😅

The reason folks are focusing on DHS's refusal to honor Real IDs is that it means that the Trump regime is asserting the right to detain anyone in America, resident or visitor, without probable cause. It's an erasure of habeas corpus for all Americans. bsky.app/profile/jare...

Think my oldest person belief is "you don't always need to blast music in between the action at a sporting event"

Grateful to @katherinejwu.com for her reporting on the broader context as the Harvard School of Public Health struggles to meet the moment Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

Analytic challenges in defining structural phenotypes in OA clinical trials: a perspective - now published at Osteoarthritis Imaging or in other words, the journey through my NIAMS K01 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Pru celebrated Gay for Good during its 31 Nights of Light last night! The iPhone pic doesn’t do it justice, but look at the rainbow reflection on the Charles! gayforgood.org

Amid NIH funding delays, reversals and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one-third of her lab employees and wonders if she can continue her research experiments. n.pr/4a4N3zD

Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship oath ceremony at Faneuil Hall, group says. “Officers were asking what country people were from, and they were told to step out of line and that their ceremony had been canceled,” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/08/m...

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

Gift article about the across-the-board *slowdown* in federal funding for science - on ALL the topics. But especially for up-and-coming scientists. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 🎁

the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them

News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

New piece by @hsph.harvard.edu colleague Nancy Krieger on Trump's weaponization of science & hypocrisy in dismantling of research infrastructure: "Challenging The Administration’s Weaponized And Lethal 'Gold Standard Science'" www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore... @popassocamerica.bsky.social

Our opponents are disgusting, cruel, and craven. They have real power to do real harm, but they are not inevitable or unstoppable. They are not the majority. We are. And we will defeat them with acts of solidarity small and large in defense of justice and truth. That’s how we win.

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

I don’t understand why Dems have to choose? “Trump is a corrupt billionaire pedo whose self-serving policies have made your life more expensive” is not that hard of a message imo

I know that we’re seeing unprecedented corruption from this administration, but I just saw a video of a priest get pepper sprayed while protesting ICE. Republicans are implicated in two *different* pedophilia accusations. I have more to worry about than the cost of streaming @warren.senate.gov

Holy crap. They're triaging 2 out of 3 applications that are submitted. 2 out of every 3 applications will not even have a chance for discussion.

It just wasn't a big, newsworthy deal like, for instance, the college applications of a mayoral candidate to a school he didn't get into or attend.

No words. 1/2

The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.

if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Mamdani has won more votes than there are people in South Dakota.

multiple states are declaring food emergencies as the president holds decadent parties with showgirls and builds a golden ballroom

this is why I think Matt Yglesias’ stance that we shouldn’t talk about anything other than healthcare is insane the average American doesn’t yet realize that Trump has created a Gestapo. Democrats need to talk about it and raise awareness of videos like this rather than just ignore it.

Excited to share the results of the TeMPO (Treatment of Meniscal Problems in Osteoarthritis) trial, published today in NEJM: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... A labor of love from the #BWH #oracore team, with partners in Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland. 879 randomized with the COVID in the middle!

very proud of our 2nd year #OrACORe research assistants at #ACR25! Sasha Aronson spoke yesterday about cost-effectiveness of PT for people with OA and meniscal tear, and Ethan Eickmann presented a poster today on expanding indications for GLP1s in OA. 👏👏

I found the puppies! #ACR25

We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?

Getting ready for a full day at #ACR25. Looking forward to hearing from MGB Rheumatology Fellow Dr. Ana Valle at her poster "The Performance of Rule-Based Algorithms to Identify Patients With Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies in Electronic Health Records" www.acrconvergencetoday.org/the-performa...

The dismissal of AOC makes me think that they care less about working-class politicians and more about a kind of workerist male aesthetic.

I’m delighted to be in beautiful Chicago for #ACR25! Looking forward to seeing friends and hearing about exciting science, and getting to spend a few days in this amazing city! I’ve already ✅Chicago hot dog off the list! 🌭😂

It was an Issue on which serious people were expected to have opinions. Over and over again we’ve seen the media refuse to create Issues out of anything related to right-wing radicalization. If they get any mention, they’re in stories about ‘polarization,’ a misstatement of the actual problem.

🧵 Federal agents raided Family Night at La Catedral Arena in Wilder, Idaho. A community racetrack packed with families, food, and music. They came under the guise of “illegal betting.” What they unleashed was terror: children zip-tied, parents separated, and chaos erupting across a crowd of 1,000.

Boston says #NoKings

Trump's federal agents shot Marimar Martinez, a US citizen, multiple times for allegedly menacing them with her car in Chicago. Only hours later, Kristi Noem and DHS started spreading disinformation about the shooting. Now the official line is crumbling. 1/ (link) newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go." The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

My op-ed just came out discussing how NIH leadership is failing early career researchers and, importantly, how we can push back and take our future into our own hands.

Emergency Medicaid accounts for less than 1% of total #Medicaid spending, even in states with large undocumented populations. ja.ma/4mZsZSf

Proud to serve on the board of ANRF @curearthritis.bsky.social , where we’re opening the 2025 grant cycle. These awards give early-career scientists the chance to pursue bold arthritis and autoimmune disease research. Details here: curearthritis.org/research-grants/