Just try to wrap your mind around the fact that republicans are linking tylenol to autism but not guns to mass shootings 🤯

If only there was a study of Tylenol and Autism.... oh wait! "Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis. " jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Had to tell my kids that since they both gave me kidney stones I took copious Tylenol when pregnant with them....🤷‍♀️

This was fun because it circles back to the very first paper from my lab that showed that Myc is required for neural crest stemness (Dev Cell, 2003 Jun;4(6):827-39), three years before Yamanaka published its role in reprogramming cells to pluripotency

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gonna respectfully disagree with you here. These are not normal times. If we and the us scientific enterprise are to survive we ALL NEED TO STEP UP and do our part.

For those of you who might have thought I was exaggerating the seriousness of what we face www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

👏👏👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGD...

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Everyone with their head down "focusing on the science": Our grandchildren are going to ask us someday what we did in this moment to protect their rights - what will you say??

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

We are a failing democracy

Truth 💯

What to say when Trump has launched a $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times — naming reporters Peter Baker, Michael Schmidt, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner — because he doesn't like what they have written about him.... #onlygettingworse ....

This is the Vice President of the US. You gonna cover this scary shit @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @wsj.com ??!!

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

Sadly yes we are www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

remaining in science long-term is dependent on the current administation's efforts to destroy science failing. Join the community actively working to save science rather than ignoring what is happening! www.statnews.com/2025/09/02/h...

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So Much This

Partial summary judgement victory for Harvard: The Court GRANTS Harvard's motion for summary judgment as to Counts 1, 3, and 4 and Defendants' cross motion for summary judgment as to Counts 2 and 6. As to Count 5, the Court GRANTS IN PART Harvard's motion with respect to the Freeze Orders

More than 1,000 past and present HHS workers demand the resignation of Robert F Kennedy Jr (not seeing this in major US papers...) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Thanks Jenna - that means a lot coming from a #BethesdaDeclaration signee

I get that many would prefer not to engage with this reality. But we must. This is going hand in hand with Trump deploying Texas troops to Chicago this week. There is no doubt about the playbook they are executing.

We cannot normalize this autocratic bullshit: Gov. Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. They will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) and raid Latino communities

I "live" here and have died every day for the past 24 years...

The fight for science and universities is, at its core, a fight for democracy itself. Lose one, and you will lose the other. I wrote about what we are up against for STAT News. www.statnews.com/2025/09/02/h...

GOP Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education bill starts at a 1% decrease to NIH. Repudiates the Trump budget and a good starting point for reconciliation with the Senate democrats-appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

oh for fu*cks sake

Slowly we are starting to see people acknowledge what we are facing - we need to wake up before its too late. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...

The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism. In the end, faster than I imagined possible, it did happen here. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

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I am more concerned that so many prominent scientists - Nobel laureates, Academy Members and others with platforms - have said nothing or almost nothing. If not them then who??!!

Everyone needs to call their Senators and Representatives, R or D and demand they call for RFK Jr to be fired. Call every day until it happens. Get your friends and family to call. Keeping quackery out of our health care system should not be partisan.

CDC Walkout. Not all hereo's wear capes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...

"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now." www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Do you have even the slightest awareness of the exestential crisis currenly facing science? Of the junior folks who are being driven out by attacks and funding cuts and post-docs in fear for their futures? Perhaps THAT is where your voice should be focused right now?! Maybe try to be a learner?

Threatening science and scientists is not going to make Americans healthier, and it will have a massively negative economic and health impact that will be felt for generations....a huge self-inflicted wound that will not soon heal. www.statnews.com/2025/08/26/f... via @statnews.com

Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

The MAHA assault on vaccines will kill people & usher in a scientific Dark Age. RFK Jr has got to go. Please join me, my fellow @accountabilityji.bsky.social advisory board members, Nobel laureates, National Academy members, & colleagues calling for his resignation. www.change.org/p/demand-rfk...

They want to divide us into 500 different fights so we "win" by diluting ourselves into 500 separated lanes makes no sense. We win by coalescing into a single powerful front against autocracy. #WhenWeFightWeWin

I increasingly think the only way forward is with a mass movement to resist authoritarianism - it is not enough to fight for science OR trans kids OR voting rights. It has to be all of the above. This site is worth your time-our window to preserve democracy is short. freedomtrainers.net/trainings/

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not sure I agree with this. It implies that there are different isolated wrongs that everyone can choose their favorite adventure to push back on. But thats wrong. They are executing the authoritarian playbook and all theses pieces are interconnected parts of a whole. We are becoming Hungary.

💯this. The window for stopping the total destruction of US science is short - ask a scientist in Hungary. This is a time for bravery, resolve and action, not for putting your head down and “focusing on the science”. We need all hands on deck.

Certain extramural investigators have received NOAs this week listing the indirects at 15%. What's happening at your institution?

Science is fun when it is not being used as a partisan weapon against truth, facts and academia and when it strives to be equitable and inclusive.