Wait, it gets worse. The team of economists and researchers responsible for the USDA survey that measures food insecurity and hunger were put on indefinite paid leave today. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it. It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019. This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

22 September 1908 | A Hungarian Jewish woman, Iboja Balaz, was born. In 1944, she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- Women at Auschwitz. Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/ Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

@grahamformaine.bsky.social Oyster farming for the win!

I am pleased to report that Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has dropped another total evisceration of the Supreme Court. He says originalism is a fraud—and the Republican justices are shamelessly making up facts and history to impose radical Christian nationalism: slate.com/news-and-pol...

#BlueSkyArtShow #Angles

CDC’s ACIP members spent their second session COVID vaccines, ending today with four votes on new recommendations. ACIP didn’t publicly post the text for the recs prior to the vote, and some members hadn’t read the text. Folks should take note of what happened with votes 1, 3, and 4...

We’re building a movement to fight for the working class — and to take our power back.

NEW: After being quoted earlier today suggesting that Trump nominees would benefit from more vetting (tinyurl.com/49mvhk4r) Susan Collins takes the unprecedented step of voting to confirm FORTY-EIGHT of his picks in a single vote. No individual scrutiny. No individual advice/consent. #MEpolitics

This graph shows a U.S. public health triumph: near-elimination of pediatric hepatitis B through universal birth vaccination. After 30 years of extraordinary progress, ACIP tomorrow considers dismantling it. Medical justification: none. Consequences: catastrophic. www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...

NO TRUST IN ACIP! Well, the absolutely incomprehensible vote at the end of the ACIP meeting has left everyone confused. MMRV resolution passed, so it’s off the schedule for younger children and CMS won’t cover it.

If RFK Jr. isn’t careful, Susan Collins is going to vote to put him on the Supreme Court.

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Our paper "Expanding and refining the mammalian phenotype ontology to enhance disease model discovery" is finally out! journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/... #SciSky #Ontology

This is what happens without vaccinations. The ducks are adorable. The hospitalized child with a respirator is tragic. And now preventable.

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“the most sweeping civil rights violation against federal employees in decades.” CDC ends telework for employees with disabilities, union says www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

The Atlantic has a handy feature to check if your YouTube videos are being used for this. @outsidextra.bsky.social, thought you might want to know that I found you on here. :( www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

You asked for it! We delivered Quack-O-Grams to our members of Congress urging them to #ImpeachRFK, and get that Quack out of office! There's still time for you to get in on this fluffy, feathery action: Send your own duck at zurl.co/W1ZnB#ImpeachRFKand keep the momentum going! 🦆

The ISB Annual General Meeting is coming up on October 27th. Register to hear what the society has been working on and to hear from our career award winners! forms.gle/tC5TMZ2ZvFAD...

I am deeply saddened and angered by news that more NIH RIFs may happen next week. This is unacceptable, especially after NIH staff have worked nights & weekends to dig out from the backlog created by this admin's incompetence. Tell your Congress people NIH needs its staff to keep delivering cures

.@OSHA_DOL extended the period for submitting comments to allow individuals interested in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on Methylene Chloride additional time to review the NPRM and collect information and data. Comments are due November 1: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

15 September 1900 | A Hungarian Jew, Eliahu Hershtik, was born. In 1944, he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.

15 September 1932 | A Romanian Jewish boy Solomon (Shlomo) Katz was born. In 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. https://t.co/vnohthzE9G

Pay attention. Something dark might be coming. The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent. 1/ Here's what's happening.

New suit accuses DHS of using Ghana as an intermediary to send migrants back to their countries of origin, despite orders barring such removal. One plaintiff is a bisexual man who had been granted deferral of removal to The Gambia. DHS deported him to Ghana, which then sent him back to The Gambia.

“With this move, they’re taking away the practical and material capacity of the federal government to do the basic elements of climate policymaking”

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A school-age child in Los Angeles has died of a rare complication from measles, years after being infected with the virus.

Wow! Covid vaccine development and delivery cost $79.4 billion, but the health and economic benefits of vaccination were valued between $4.83 trillion–$37.8 trillion. A return on investment of $59.8–$475 per dollar invested!! This is why vaccine equity matters! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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11 September 1902 | A Polish Jew, Nikodem Rawicki, was born in Kielce. A clerk. In #Auschwitz from 25 October 1941. No. 22189 He perished in the camp on 30 October 1941.

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Any of my @bsky.app friends have connections to the Football Players Health Study at Harvard?? If yes, can you please yell in my direction??

How about noncompetitive renewals that are late in being awarded? Here is the word cloud for all words in these grant titles. 1/2

So, what sorts of research were restricted, at least semantically, by having their titles changed? I looked at the words that were common to both the old and the new titles.

Inspired by Fred Rogers, @nature.com asked readers to help us 'find the helpers' amid the crisis in American science. What emerged were inspiring stories of researchers, legal experts, data hounds and government scientists who are fighting the dismantling of the US research enterprise. 🧪🧵1/6

Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award. 3/4

So... I did some analysis of grants that did receive noncompetitive renewals. In particular, I looked a those award where the title of the grant changed. Warning: The results are just what I expected, but oooph... 1/4

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... Harvard Funding Cuts Endanger the Massive Fruit Fly Database That Powers Genetic Research

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The International Brain Laboratory presents in Nature a brain-wide electrophysiological map that represents a resource for understanding how computations distributed across and within brain areas drive behaviour. go.nature.com/4nnnmhg 🧪 🧠📈

Auschwitz I site -) ‚Arbeit macht frei’ gate -) barbed wire fences of the camp -) Block 14 - one of the blocks for prisoners Auschwitz II-Birkenau -) barbed wire fences and remains of fence posts -) a railcar at the unloading & selection platform — Photos by: instagram.com/black_and_white_views

I care for children in the hospital on inpatient & consult services. Most weeks there are at least a few kids admitted with vaccine preventable diseases. Often in children who can’t get vaccinated themselves. 15 years in pediatrics and I’ve never seen a single one admitted with vaccine injury.

Can you fucking believe how The Washington Post frames what SCOTUS did today? Compare to how Democracy Docket describes and sign-up to support independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

Justice Sotomayor, not mincing words, also says that today's decision will lead to the "creation of [] a second-class citizenship status" for Latinos, who now will have the burden to "carry enough documentation to prove that they deserve to walk freely."