U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands. wapo.st/49zDc43 via @washingtonpost.com @laurenweberhp.bsky.social Caitlin Gilbert Dylan Moriarty and Joshua Lott

These people have no business steering HHS. What monsters.

RIP "On the metro desk, Ms. Schlossberg covered grisly murders as well as lighter fare, including . . . the mysterious discovery of a dead black bear cub in Central Park in 2014. 10 years later, The New Yorker reported that the carcass had been left there by her cousin RFK Jr. as a peculiar prank."

"One might imagine that a string of scandals like this would trigger some institutional soul-searching. Yet each episode has come and gone with barely a flicker of concern, much less alarm." www.startribune.com/umn-professo...

Yes, the rumors are true. I've been dropped from the group because I'm apparently "not good at singing" and "medically uncoordinated" according to my management team.

I don’t want to grade anymore. I just want to watch Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition.

"[P]ossession of any distinctive, unconventional personality traits was a slippery slope on the way to being outright weird."

“The case is the first positive test in Cook County since 1964, and the first in Illinois since 1994, according to the department… Thirteen people who had contact with the dog have not shown symptoms and are being given preventative treatment, according to the county.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

3 years ago, I gave a talk at an ABA event in Las Vegas, and after, I worked out at a bodybuilding gym in the city. At Dragon's Lair Gym, I saw Dan Bilzerian. With wild hair and a beard, short shorts, and a conspicuously expensive watch, a quick Google search confirmed: Stay far away from this dude.

So awesome to see my wonderful @umnlawschool.bsky.social classmate Lisa Beane appointed to the Minnesota Court of Appeals! Governor Walz has chosen wisely. mn.gov/governor/new...

“The anti-vaccine movement is not a spontaneous expression of grassroots concern. It’s an industry.”

NEW LIFE GOAL: OVERSEE OF CARAVAN OF POTTY-TRAINED ANIMALS TO VISIT CARE HOME RESIDENTS. Yes, that beautiful petite horse is potty-trained. youtu.be/idIiZylu0Ks?...

Reading the nation's health news makes me want to get quintuple vaccinated and to live as bubble boy.

The perfect title to capture my holiday attention.

Jonathan Mitchell is bringing us two of the most cherished gifts of the holiday season: hate and intolerance! www.texastribune.org/2025/12/19/t...

"The changes they say will degrade U.S. food safety include the reduced number of pathogens now monitored by a key surveillance program, brain drain of the foodborne illness staff at the CDC and FDA amid low morale and overwork, and cuts to the administrative staff who support FDA inspectors[.]"

“That one we think has great potential because injecting gene therapy into the penis sounds exciting,” says Leshko. Exciting to whom?!

My favorite part of the holidays is watching celebrities self-immolate. apnews.com/article/nick...

"As the housing market generated greater wealth for Hong Kong’s tycoons, the construction and real-estate industries achieved growing immunity from regulatory oversight. Government deference, in turn, allowed corruption and corner cutting to proliferate[.]"

PEOPLE NEED BASIC HYGIENE SERVICES, INCLUDING TOILETS AND HANDWASHING FACILITIES! Thanks to @ricksteves.bsky.social for doing what government and private property owners should already be doing.

I've signed up for a marathon. It's 10 months from now. Is it the greatest mistake I've ever made? If you think "yes," boy . . . I have a *lot* to tell you.

The queers in your life will be mumbling this during the holiday season.

"It’s actually amazing how many people have risen to the occasion . . . those of us who continue to see hope and have worked so hard this year for a better future despite the darkness all around us."

“I was not prepared for how inflexible work would be, how expensive it would be and how much our society and economic systems are built off of taking my labor as a mother for granted.”

Whooping cough cases soar as vaccination rates drop www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-... via @nbcnews.com @erikaedwards.bsky.social and too many colleagues for a tweet.

It’s like we’re living in that alternate reality universe where Biff is in charge.

I miss my friend, Melissa. This is a beautiful piece about her life. 💚 🌳 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"Sorry trans kids. But maybe this will help: try getting super blazed." -The President apnews.com/article/trum...

Agreed. And if anyone wants to read more, keep an eye out for Seema Shah's forthcoming book about controlled human infection research! www.amazon.com/Intentionall...

Everything else right now is totally normal, but THIS is fucking nuts. "Texas Department of Public Safety officers guard the women’s bathroom and ask some individuals to show ID to enter at the Capitol in Austin on Dec. 6, 2025."

"By the third week in February, they were on track to wipe out 90% of USAID’s work. . . . In just a month’s time, the small band of appointees had set in motion its destruction. In a corner conference room, it was time to party. They traded congratulatory speeches and cut into a sheet cake."

"Susan Monarez and Dr. Debra Houry have been hired as consultants for the California Department of Public Health." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

In 2024, when #H5N1 #birdful was rampaging through dairy farms in the major producing states, Wisconsin never reported a case. The 2nd largest dairy producer seemed to have extraordinary luck. Luck's over. #USDA reports milk testing has turned up a positive in WI. www.aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-...

The thing about academia, is that through your colleagues and friends, you get to know a lot about their alma maters (at least I do), and Brown has always stood out as such a special place. What a horror to fall upon all those who currently--or have at some point--call it home.

Rick in this caribbean: Me [innocently]: “I hope this chicken will eat this vegetable scrap!” Local: “That chicken eats styrofoam.”

We went to Greg Bovino’s mountain hometown and his last posting along the Mexico-California border — and also traced his family tree. Here’s the American story of an immigrant coal miner’s great-grandson turned scourge of foreigners chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

"Some [exposed] children . . . have resorted to remote learning, with adults calling out from work to take care of them. Frustrations about the length of quarantines are bubbling up in the community. And . . . many [are] resistant to vaccinations, especially those meant for their children."

Is this too much to ask?

Never stop obsessing. NEVER! "My lecture style on this material can best be described as 'hollering.' But you know what? No one interrupts me. Unlike Will Hunting, they’re polite. Many of them are on their phones, probably texting their friends about how impressive I am."

Positive news about COVID vaccines for kids published in MMWR! (Sad to immediately think that CDC employees may have risked their jobs in order to publish it…) www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power. In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.” www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...

Do you know an amazing post-doc interested in FDA policy and maybe even with some Delphi experience? Send them our way - we're looking to hire on our new project ASAP! postdocs.yale.edu/posts/2025-1...

What a great project run by the best people! Kuddos to this all-star team!

A(nother) good bit of reasoning about why women should be in charge. youtube.com/shorts/Wjw0z...

Brag alert: On back/bicep days, I do about 50 COMPLETE pull-ups with better form than RFK, Jr. I also believe in vaccines, and that women should feed their infants in whatever way works best for mother and child.

On this day in 2025, Cora Weiss died. She was a key figure in Women Strike for Peace. She said: “You can march, you can protest, you can make phone calls, you can write letters. But education is the closest thing, I think, to a sustainable form of social change.” RIP www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...

Today, a call to join the next era of LPE: a democratic, independent, member-led organization that will serve as a home for a broad array of LPE work.

RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

"ACIP shouldn’t be this lively, interesting, or funny. These people make decisions that impact people’s lives. Given that, the members’ lack of expertise, incompetence, and blatant anti-vaccine biases were dismaying. Our nation’s public health is not in good hands." - @doritreiss.bsky.social

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