I have always been mildly suspicious of this form of currency. Now I know why.

Powerful new article in NYT Magazine on cancer research [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

I'm a Former Surgeon General. Here's Why I'm Getting the COVID Shot This Year. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

"I never thought I would see the day when I couldn't rely on the CDC website for fact-based information with transparency about how it got there, what it's recommending and why." Former CDC director and author of "The Formula of Better Health," Dr. Tom Frieden, on @npr.org's All Things Considered:

www.aap.org Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule: United States, 2025 The American Academy of Pediatrics evidence-based immunization schedule includes updated guidance for children and adolescents from birth to age 18.

Tell your own Senators and Representatives to stand up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

Reading another of Anne Applebaum’s terrific books. www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...

Powerful op-ed in STAT www.statnews.com/2025/08/09/c... 1/2

Loved this book by John Dean who reminds us of the critical function of government and the institutions responsible for making government work for everybody (and what happens when government doesn’t work work right). www.goodreads.com/book/show/88...

Strongly recommend Timothy Snyder’s Road to Unfreedom and On Tyranny. www.goodreads.com/book/show/36...

Good policy decisions are based on evidence. There is no good reason for HHS to take this action. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi... RFK Jr.'s wants to eliminate vaccines. Here is how he will do it.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

www.umass.edu/natural-scie... Go Science! Go UMass!

I came across this from PBS during Bayh-Dole compliance training. The Bayh-Dole act allows universities the right to develop commercial applications of federally-funded research. One company you might have heard of that was founded because of the Bayh-Dole act? Google! www.wfyi.org/programs/sim...

"Even when shown pessimistic information about mobility, right-wing respondents do not want to support more redistribution policies, because they see the government as a 'problem' and not as the 'solution.'"

On Juneteenth, we celebrate freedom and recommit ourselves to the work that remains undone. We remember that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope for tomorrow’s light.

Nothing really new here but another account of the imposed demise of American science.

New from @newsweek.com - I discuss AAMC’s new report on the threats to all of academic medicine. Thanks to Alexis Kayser for the conversation. www.newsweek.com/aamc-directo...

ACETAL? But not ATACTIC? #SpellingBee

Want America to be first in science? Proceed with caution. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Kennedy unilaterally strikes healthy kids & healthy pregnant people from the list of people who should get Covid boosters per the #CDC's approved schedule. There's a process for doing this, but it was not followed. "He's overstepped his bounds," one expert told STAT. www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/c...

David Liu @harvard.edu beautifully articulates the criticality of basic science funding for developing revolutionary therapeutics like life-saving base editors 👏 youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw?...

Please consider passing around this very informative interview to everyone you know (especially non-scientists). I believe it does an excellent job explaining why taxpayers benefit from the federal government’s support of scientific research. www.pbs.org/video/breakt...

Press release from Senator Welch about the event... www.welch.senate.gov/hear-from-th...

Loving Day, the landmark case that overturned U.S. state laws against interracial marriage, is on June 12. NPR wants to hear from people who celebrate this day.

📣 BREAKING NEWS: Harvard sues Trump administration over foreign student ban, calling move unconstitutional and a threat to academic freedom. “Harvard is not Harvard without its international students,” the university writes. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

New Forbes story about the economic consequences of science cuts. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... Thoughtful and thorough analysis. 1/n

“[a] range of actors are using a purported concern about Jewish safety as a cudgel to weaken higher education, due process, checks and balances, freedom of speech and the press.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

"When we talk about measures and practices put in place to separate the 'deserving and undeserving poor,' we should recognize that these measures are based on a much more severe, harsh, and fundamental idea that the poor should be controlled and punished for being poor."

Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon.

This is good talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

More horrifying news from @policyhound.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

“I will miss the creativity of teaching.” During #TeacherAppreciationWeek, check out this #ScienceWorkingLife essay from a retired professor emeritus on how she challenged students to think beyond facts—and how she learned to teach like a scientist. scim.ag/3Ys7gc7

Responding to economic uncertainty and a longer and deeper chemical industry downturn than it had anticipated, Dow is planning further cuts to manufacturing. cen.acs.org/business/fin...

Good news from the “civic responsibility” files. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/c...

Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10

Historically, NIH has had a pretty great model for funding research: Take a look at the best ideas and then fund those that are the best of the best. It’s hard to square that extremely successful approach with this news. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Huh. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...

In its ongoing mission to shrink the federal government, the Trump administration is now proposing a more than 40% budget cut to the National Institutes of Health - the crown jewel of American medical research. 60 Minutes, Sunday.

When @nellminow.bsky.social’s father ignored an order from the president, she learned that American values are nothing without those who have the courage to uphold them:

Science, baby! www.wsj.com/health/welln...

What does it mean for US law enforcement when senators are saying that “retaliation is real.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...