Really cool, conceptually simple approach here: cross-referencing grant proposal scores with literature citations and explicit acknowledgments in drug patents to identify patents linked to projects that wouldn't have been funded given a smaller budget

Brave, brave, defenders. Two of them beating up on an unarmed, helpless man.

14-year-old critically wounded in Evergreen High School shooting confronted attacker, family says

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

New from #SCIMaP - analysis of the White House’s Proposed FY 2026 National Science Foundation Budget. Take-home: Slashing NSF by >50% will lead to ~$11 billion in economic loss and extensive job loss and reduced training opportunities in communities nationwide. Report: osf.io/e8rnc a 🧵

Still requires enormous caution. Gene therapy is unpredictable and therapy delivered into the brain can have weird side effects. Yes, Huntington's is godawful and anything that might help would be enormous but I hate seeing words like "breakthrough" and "groundbreaking" in these stories.

Please take care with this one. It's based on a corporate news release, not on a detailed, peer-reviewed scientific paper. This is not a treatment available to anyone yet. Not even close. www.uniqure.com/investors-me...

though RSV can be devastating and fast in older adults.

I'll never forget my first time in a NICU and asking some fellow parents why they were there. It was for RSV. Someone with a simple cold had infected their newborn. A big nothing for a healthy adult; a life threatening infection for an infant.

(I know AP, CNN, and Reuters also put out quick stories, but Reuters pointed to WFAA in Dallas as a source, so I just went straight to them.)

We all need some good news 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 “The revolutionary HIV prevention tool, injectable lenacapavir, will be available at a cost of US$40 a year in 120 low- and middle-income countries starting in 2027” @unitaid.bsky.social CHAI Wits RHI unitaid.org/news-blog/le...

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

I wasn't contradicting you. I am just despairing that so many people with MDs are willing to sell out. A lot of the people grifting off supplements, fake treatments and anti-vax movements are physicians.

Except for this part: Marty Makary is a doctor. Mehmet Oz is a doctor. Plenty of people's doctors give them terrible advice. We're in a situation now where it is really, really hard to know who to listen to.

This made me laugh too much so it is blessed

Health and science reporters should lead the coverage of all these health-related conspiracy theories & newsroom leaders should keep their both-sides political reporters out of their way.

Now, why would RFK Jr and Trump, people who make money suing people, do what they did yesterday? Hmmmmmmm www.axios.com/2025/09/23/t...?

big part of this is because they sent the health reporters, not the political reporters

Our tracking polls on health misinformation and trust have found a large muddled middle. Confused and unsure who and what to believe they are up for grabs. Yesterday’s announcement on Tylenol and autism will add significantly to it.

And yet people are reporting the hell out of it and amplifying his words all over the place.

I think it's been pretty well established that Donald Trump is a terrible source of medical advice.

So. Much. Stupid. Today.

Apparently, The Rapture is happening tomorrow. Yes, again. Anyone know the details? Like, what time? Is it like the new year where it rolls through time zones? Or is it simultaneous?

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

I slam the NYT when it normalizes Trump and reaches for neutral language to characterize his batshit craziness. But here they got it right.

If it was a suspected drug boat, the US Coast Guard would interdict it as it approached our national waters. And the government would present proof of drugs. It’s September 2025. We are well & truly past “Stenographize whatever the lying authoritarians tell you” in the headlines.

Fascisms also look to men to be the state's enforcers. And I'd argue that they persuade men to fill those roles by making jobs in law enforcement, military, and corrections the best path to security and esteem for men without college degrees.

Pathetic.

162,000 doctors strong: The American College of Physicians demands RFK Jr. be removed as HHS Secretary, warning he is undermining vaccines, science, and public health. www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom... #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #SciSky

The only acceptable response from the Pentagon press corps is "nice try."

The new mandate was the latest in a series of actions by the Trump administration to limit the ability of the media to cover the federal government without interference. Read the restrictions:

A woman protesting outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, was brutally assaulted by goons who used mace and sting balls on her.

Breaking news: The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered scientists in at least one of its research offices to immediately pause almost all research and stop publishing their studies.

Excellent summary of the chaotic and imcompetent mess that is the ACCIP (Advisory Clown Car on Immunization Practices)

1/ Two days of ACIP chaos: Self-described "rookies" eliminated universal COVID vaccine recommendations, added FDA-debunked theories to consent forms, voted outside their legal authority. They literally don't know what they're doing or what they're allowed to do.

Welcome to Hell... * correction...

This is a perfect description.

Some good news. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...

“Wheaton’s Hispanic Heritage Month festival has been canceled ‘Out of Intense Fear’” www.mymcmedia.org/wheaton-hisp...

As of 8am CDC's ACIP website does not have the proposed vote language for today's COVID vaccine recommendation posted. How is the public able to engage and provide informed comments? I testified before Senator Cassidy and @sanders.senate.gov on Wednesday- this is not radical transparency.

Experienced reporters do not fall for this one.

People (read: me) are ENRAGED.

Yes - White House press officers have tried this over the years, and also get top level officials to call up reporters randomly to try to impress or intimidate them. Good reporters brush it off. They have no way of verifying who you've interviewed. Well, not yet.

Yay!

People are upset.

The Palestinian death toll in the Israel-Hamas war has surpassed 65,000 as Israel pushes forward with its new offensive in Gaza City.

This has been basically every ACIP meeting with The New Batch. These people are so grossly unqualified, it would be hilarious if it weren’t so serious.

Got my flu and covid shots today. The pharmacist told me I was number 89 for the day. People are packing in to get them while they can.