🧒 Inequality reshapes young brains A study of more than 10,000 US children found that living in states with greater income inequality is linked to structural brain changes and poorer mental health, regardless of family wealth. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #SciComm #Inequality 🧪

For 75 years, every time any U.S. state has requested epidemiologic assistance (an “Epi-Aid”), CDC sent disease detectives. Now, Wisconsin has asked for help to address newly discovered lead poisoning in Milwaukee. But all CDC experts in lead poisoning were just fired.

Would love to see this in Canada.

Yikes!

An unprecedented assault on higher education.

🧪⚛️ Slashing the number of fellowships awarded in half is awful. This is the clearest sign that NSF leadership is worried that their budget next year will be cut by a similar fraction. Push on your legislators about the negative consequences of such cuts.

Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.

The story gets worse.

Why we @yalesph.bsky.social are trying to fill the gaps

He is doing exactly what he said he was going to do back in November 2023, when he was a presidential candidate. “I’m gonna say to NIH scientists, God bless you all,” Kennedy said. “Thank you for public service. We’re going to give infectious disease a break for about eight years.”

Wall Street Journal editorial board: "Our worst fears about Mr. Kennedy are coming true..." www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

Ugh.

Another disastrous decision for public health.

Thank you @statnews.com & @rosebroderick.bsky.social for including this piece in the Morning Rounds newsletter today!

Long Covid is a DEI issue and "The Resistance" might want to start talking about it. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/we-dont-ha...

"The tobacco and ultra-processed food industries exemplify the detrimental effects of corporate influence on public health." @thelancet.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Folks, very bad news for #LongCOVID. Deep breath. 29 awarded grants to do with COVID and Long COVID have been rescinded by NIH. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Disastrous, leaving millions who already suffer Long COVID unsupported, and abandoning all efforts to prevent more from succumbing to preventable debility and death.

Worse than many third world countries. Who would want to risk delivering a child in TX?

If you fire the staff, turn off the phones, and close the offices that allow the Social Security Administration to function, and in so doing, curtail access to payments and reconciliation, that’s effectively a cut in benefits whether you cut the funds themselves or not.

More irresponsible abandonment of critical Public Health obligations. States must take up these responsibilities.

Another disastrous public health decision.

Including the wrong recipient is a mistake. Using a non-government platform for classified information is a crime.

Well that’s either extreme incompetence, extreme negligence, or extreme corruption plus a completely transparent coverup. Any other options in this case?

Worst secure comms breach by senior DoD officials in my living memory.

This sounds bad….

Does anyone have the equivalent BlueSky graphic?

Let’s please all follow and repost! Give them some love for resisting and fighting @savecivilservice.bsky.social

You don’t want this. Really.

Clearly a solvable problem. US exceptionalism seems to be holding us back, eh?

Board member Kimbal Musk sold $27.6 million in Tesla stock last month. Tesla's board chair, Robyn Denholm, dumped $117 million in Tesla stock over the last three months. Yet Elon is pleading with employees not to sell their stock.

Uh oh. Short your hospitality and tourism stocks.

Huh

Study estimates that there are currently 44.69 to 48.04 million long COVID cases in the U.S., which would cost the country $2.01 to $6.56 billion each year.

Mapping changes in temperature: every decade from the 1850s to 2020s

In this 2024 article, Dr Ziyad Al-Aly (@zalaly.bsky.social) discusses how the blood-brain barrier gets breached by #COVID19: "By inducing that inflammation of the brain, that makes that barrier leaky, so it starts leaking things into the brain that shouldn't be there." www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

In today's The Big Picture, Jay Kuo identifies and calls out the classic fascist tactics Trump and Musk are deploying, so that we can fight back against them more effectively.

I’d prefer that the US not allow massive profits for inflicting misery.

“Less medical research, a pull-back on life-saving vaccines, turning away from science and embracing folk medicine. Make America Healthy Again. Again. Meaning: America used to be ‘healthy’ and now is not. This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

HOW HITLER DISMANTLED DEMOCRACY IN 53 DAYS The similarities between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler are utterly chilling, and we need to pay serious attention. Trump is currently doing the same thing to the United States that Hitler did to Germany. Their tactics are the same.😳😬 Part 1 of 2

More destruction being wrought upon our nation’s future.

'UK doctor says Britain is failing children with #LongCovid' @emmabatha.bsky.social Pulmonologist @binitakane.bsky.social helped set up a Long Covid clinic after struggling to get treatment for her daughter. www.context.news/socioeconomi... #LongCovidAwareness #LongCovidKids #PaediatricLongCovid

If anyone ever tells you the Covid-19 pandemic is over/ it's mild/ washing hands protects against it, etc, etc, please send them this guide from @thewhn.bsky.social

Sen Dems vote against CR. Then demand a new minority leader.

Insurers warn that US weather agency mass firings will hit climate risk data https://www.ft.com/content/33a4d1f6-848f-4b63-86c6-9330fe6f6d89

Yeah make America great again. What a fucking joke. It took close to a century to build up biomedical research in this country, which made it the envy of the world. And it's been destroyed in an instant. #Trump #Musk #Vance #Vought are modern day Visigoths. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...