In bad news, with disability education oversight being moved to the Department of Health and Human Services from the Department of Education, that means Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will have power over disability policy positions. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

CDC has just released some incredibly sobering projections for the Ebola outbreak caused by Bundibugyo Virus (BVD). I'm going to step through the report here and the full text is linked below. CDC modeled several scenarios to project how large this outbreak might get in the next 3 months.

www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo... he's editor in chief of your journal and you kick him out for handing out copies of the editorial printed in your journal?

Attorney for @ameracadpeds.bsky.social and other medical groups suing HHS says Executive Order on vaccine schedule flies in the face of federal judge's March ruling on ACIP. My story for @medscape.com #IDsky #healthlaw #healthpolicy #vaccines #pediatrics #publichealth #familymedicine

🧵OF KEY CONCERNS We've now read Alan Levinovitz's WIRED piece on Long Covid. Our concern isn't that it discusses psychological theories. Our concern is that it repeatedly conflates criticism of evidence with creating a "climate of fear". Those are not the same thing. /1

When the Domestic Workers endorse a billionaire, you gotta ask why. I did. Turns out Steyer met personally with Union reps who traveled to Sacramento. He heard their concerns and offered ways forward. Becerra declined to even give them a rep to meet with.

this seems like a very big problem

🚨REMINDER: "...final step is contaminated hands touching nose, mouth or eyes...despite this assumption being at heart of global IPC policy...🚨no satisfactory physical mechanism exists to explain how virus particles transfer from hands to..receptors in nasal cavity & respiratory tract🚨"

Today’s free newsletter is about how LLMs are the perfect grift to exploit an economy dominated by do-nothing managers and executives disconnected from any real work, and how the facade is crumbling as companies pay the true cost of AI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/

There’s only one correct answer to a request like this and it’s “get fucked.” I realize that most individual investigators are not in a position to respond this way, but isolationism as a condition of funding will destroy US science even faster than a dearth of funding will.

read the whole sub-thread

You may have read about the woman who gave birth in a Brooklyn courtroom Friday night while waiting to be arraigned. I spoke to an attorney who saw the whole thing, and says it was much worse than has previously been reported, a scene of "complete violence." hellgatenyc.com/birth-in-bro...

Please tell me someone is making gender affirming care memes about the right wing penile implant doctor

looking forward to this webinar and including communication strategies in my next presentation

The important lesson to take away from this is not that we are all going to die of Hantavirus. We aren’t. It’s that the United States has zero pandemic prevention capacity at the present because of deliberate sabotage by the president and his appointed lackeys.

Literally The Median Voter

Can we help make this the latest example of The Streisand effect. 👇

Whoever called the faction of the press who still want to attend the White House Correspondents Dinner the ‘Access of Evil’ I salute you

"Your apathy and enabling will automatically and permanently become what you actually chose to do in April 2026 when powerful disinformation forces threatened science and medicine. You’ll be an accomplice. Everyone will know it, and no one will forget it. "

The Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, a major U.S. pediatric conference, is hosting a panel on transgender youth healthcare. The conference's sole panel on trans health is affiliated with Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM), a group that opposes gender-affirming care.

more people probably died from diarrhea, malaria and typhoid during the civil war than actual fighting

In a recent testimony before Congress, Secretary RFK Jr argued against the use of a birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine because he confidently claimed that the death rate in children was practically zero for hepatitis B. As usual, he was wrong.

this was a great webinar

Hi friends, sharing this short roundtable webinar on how permanent daylight saving time disproportionally impacts vulnerable groups If you're supportive of DST - it's worth a listen, there are some important equity concerns www.neurologylive.com/view/health-...

I was shocked to have a) not heard about this tragedy, and b) when I saw about kids being mass murdered, that I didn't know it was their dad

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Vaccine "skeptics" will read an article like this and their takeaway will be "nobody died" .https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emerging-topics/report-details-tetanus-4-unvaccinated-us-kids-including-refusal-post-exposure

Fighting for each other makes us proud bc it makes us good. It makes us better versions of ourselves. We see our own works & can't help but think that we deserve that pride. There was a time when just being queer in public required a bravery we could be proud of. Today, lets ask more of ourselves.

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Tuberculosis Outbreaks in Nunavik, Quebec Worsening While Province Ignores Calls to Declare Public Health Emergency New research finds lack of resources, language barriers persist in this Inuit region, where Red Cross has been called to help with TB pressprogress.ca/tuberculosis...

comcast technical support. "aside from the issue you called about, how is your day going?" i mean, it'd be better if i weren't on the phone with you?

I'd like to take a second to explain all the ways that this comment is disqualifying as a marker of legitimate expertise in vaccination. 🧵 www.nytimes.com./2026/04/09/h...

More than 100 pediatricians who work for Packard Children's Health Alliance, part of Stanford Medicine Children's Health, have filed to unionize with the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD). excellent!! www.medpagetoday.com/hospitalbase...

This feels SO beyond that. He’s like that fungus that makes ants into zombies.

Donald Trump just threatened to unilaterally destroy an entire civilization. Is there genuinely no limit to what Republicans will allow this unhinged, unwell man to do? Congress must come back to Washington to rein in this dangerous behavior immediately.

It's Trans Day of Visibility and I wrote about how visibility without protection is a trap, and it often seems like the loudest calls for us to be visible are coming from those who have done nothing to protect us. www.coyotemedia.org/im-supposed-...

Groundbreaking brand new tool by @mikehoney.bsky.social : FOr the first time we have a pandemic to investigate age preferences of a variant. It is especially relevant now that BA.3.2 shows a marked prevalence in infecting kids.

I think this is SUCH an important discussion, and she was so great. Reupping so people know this is out there. I raved to my husband about it all evening— she was fantastic.

Infection Control Today: 'COVID‑19 showed respiratory viruses spread through a continuum of airborne particles, not just droplets. With multiple viruses circulating, hospitals must prioritise ventilation, respirators, and stronger air‑exchange systems.' www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/droplet...

how are people winning on this downcoding bullshit?

Swalwell: "I want to knock out this argument we even need ICE doing what they're doing in the first place. If they are so easily moved from our streets, where they are terrorizing people, to passing out bottles of water in the airport, did we really need them terrorizing people in the first place?"

In case you needed any more proof that the institutional transphobia and pro-genocide ideology reaches up to the executives of the NYT, here is their PR account issuing yet another blatantly false fact check.

any pediatric urologists I can ask a quick question to?

"There are a number of studies that show one of the benefits of COVID vaccination during pregnancy is the passage of antibodies to the newborn, and then that protects the newborn against COVID" Thanks @npr.org + @tarahaelle.bsky.social. #MedSky + #ObGynSky. www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

Over the last decade, Helen Lewis has written 40+ versions of the same anti-trans article. 2015: 1 2016: 3 2017: 1 2018: 4 2019: 2 2020: 4 2021: 4 2022: 4 2023: 6 2024: 7 2025: 7 It's quite remarkable to see them as a list, so I compiled one here: www.transgendermap.com/issues/topic...

ICE officers getting paid for standing around doing nothing while TSA employees work without pay is a pretty succinct summation of where we're at right now

if you'd asked me i'd have said this wouldn't be how i'd organize a global economy. but nobody asked me

Notes from a rabbithole I fell into: AI-generated rabbis are trending on Instagram, antisemitic conspiracy theories and disinformation included. I found 35 such accounts with a total of 2.3 million followers. English version here: ohje-internet.de/en/2026/03/1...

Jews head into Shabbat with apprehension & devastation after antisemitic attacks on synagogues in Michigan, Toronto, and Belgium. Fear and grief can be exceedingly lonely experiences. But we are not alone. We are all too aware that the fear many of us feel right now is shared by our Muslim cousins.

something like 30-50% of pediatric prescribing is off label