The leader of the federal panel that recommends vaccines for Americans said shots against polio and measles — and perhaps all diseases — should be optional. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/h...

And more: "Federal funding for higher education research should be based not on political litmus tests, but on academic, scientific, and intellectual criteria that serve the nation and the world." Clear, succinct, and a model to follow. Pass it on. It just might be contagious.

Exercise extreme caution when taking medical advice from an administration that sees facts as playthings to be misinterpreted, ignored, overlooked, or overplayed depending on how doing so serves a preferred narrative. And that won't bring us closer to discovery or cures.

"COVID Revisionism Has Gone Too Far" Ya think? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... Fascinating given that "In Covid's Wake" is unable to grapple with (i) the extent of COVID mortality and morbidity; (ii) lives saved due to interventions; (iii) missed opportunities to align health + the economy.

Motherfucking wind farms…

Following the data: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtiQ...

Check out the tail on this one! Nice work Adi. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Charlie Rice on This Week in Virology at ASV 2025 From TWiV 1237: Hep C and persistence with Charlie Rice

He makes everything dirtier

A 72 percent reduction in federal funding is devastating to math research. The American Mathematical Society is offering $1 million in backstop grants—but it’s likely not enough.

Scenes from a science crisis: a selection of recent developments 🧵1/6

www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.npr.org/sections/sho... Lysenkoism redux

To what end? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s... scienceimpacts.org www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/cuts-fe...

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-... 👍

A focus on the futures we will lose if the WH continues to dismantle research across agencies spanning the EPA, DHS, NIH, NSF, USAID, and DoD (via NASA Watch). When: Tuesday, July 8, 2025, 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET Where: Rayburn Foyer, Rayburn House Office Building nasawatch.com/congress/con...

The National Science Foundation has lost its 8-year-old headquarters building to another federal agency as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign to shrink the size of the U.S. government. scim.ag/3HYXNUk

Breaking news: The NIH yesterday moved to reinstate about 900 grants that a judge last week ruled had been canceled illegally because their topics, ranging from vaccine hesitancy or promoting diversity in the scientific workforce, had been blacklisted by the Trump administration. scim.ag/4lq9UrQ

The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt— a complex geological sequence in northeastern Canada—harbors surviving fragments of Earth’s oldest crust, dating back to ~4.16 billion years old, according to a new Science study. Learn more: scim.ag/3FXN8sq

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Please Re-Post. Our global GRUMP microbial ocean database is out in Scientific Data! Unfractionated, single universal PCR, with Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukaryotes all on the same scale with the same denominator. Pole to pole, depths to 6000m. Lots of metadata. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget. Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide. Interactive map and shareable report: scienceimpacts.org/fy26 a 🧵

also...a few pics from our lab's work in the N here:https://www.viralecologylab.com/gallery...updates forthcoming

This should be great! avw12.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

Hawaiian November sunrise. Inhale & exhale.