Filling classrooms with computers didn't have the huge and positive impact on learning that was promised. Filling them with tablets hasn't done it either. I know this might sound absurd to many (especially politicians) but what if we filled them with highly skilled and properly supported educators?

I challenge you to test your knowledge about the state of Americans’ health. You might (or might not?) be surprised…. wapo.st/46VMWnZ

Some MAHA activists are extremely frustrated that Trump has blamed the existence of autism on Tylenol, and not vaccines.

What a difference when sci/health journalists cover sci topics (even highly politicized ones). With the increased politicization of sci over the yrs, the standard political journalism practice of both-sides-ing is unhelpful for reporting a story--can help legitimate/amp un-/poorly-supported claims.

my favorite step in the scientific method: gossip

🚨 "Sick to my stomach." That's how the researcher who found a link between Tylenol and autism felt when she realized MAHA would link her analysis to vaccines. My latest exclusive @kffhealthnews.org kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

@amymaxmen.bsky.social reports: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

As President Trump ties Tylenol to autism, many in the scientific community are alarmed by the politicized rush to present drug like leucovorin as solutions, bypassing the slow careful work research demands.

an annoying thing I did as a young child when my parents read me this and Narnia was talk about how I would have tied some kind of rope to myself, obviously, idiots.

We have gone through the looking glass. Will we find our way back out?

This 👇

“There can be beauty, even when the worst of humanity is on display.”

Yes there can Dr. Ranney. Well said. I think you will like my favorite poet writing on kindness.

24 years ago today, I fell in love in NYC. In the shadow of Ground Zero & the horrors of that day. We have been married for 22 years now. And we have two fabulous children. I think of this whenever I worry about the darkness. There can be beauty, even when the worst of humanity is on display.

"Restoring trust in science -- A pair of authors offer a “battle plan” for combating antiscience sentiment" | Great review of #ScienceUnderSiege by @meganranney.bsky.social for #ScienceMagazine: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Political violence is bad because civil conflict is absolutely fucking terrible for everyone. It empowers the worst people within a society and feeds into endless cycles of escalating violence that get harder and harder to stop.

Sandy Hook and our collective inaction, to me, remains one of the greatest national sins. Both today’s attacks on Charlie Kirk and the school shorting in Colorado are abhorrent and should have no place in out society. I hope we get a chance to atone, and finally get serious about fixing it.

Let me say the same thing today, in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, as I said when Brian Thompson was assassinated, when the CDC campus was shot & a police officer lost his life, and when school shootings happen: *Violence is never the answer.* Our rhetoric & actions need to make that clear. 💔

🗓️ Dean @meganranney.bsky.social, Professor Adjunct Susan Mayne, and other experts will be discussing ultra-processed foods and children's health today at 3pm ET with @nam.edu: www.eventbrite.com/e/what-shoul... 11/11

Tomorrow I’ll be joined by @yalesph.bsky.social alum Alex Urry, MPH ’19, now Senior Policy Advisor for the U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) for what I'm SURE will be a fascinating discussion. 🔗 Register here: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Well THIS is timely....

As a firearm injury prevention researcher…. What?!?!

On September 4th, @solomonctryls.bsky.social and @yalesph.bsky.social hosted former CDC Director Mandy Cohen for a conversation with YSPH Dean @meganranney.bsky.social and Solomon Center Faculty Director @abbegluck.bsky.social on the changing landscape of public health. law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...

In 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and *Prevention* (at least until the fascists change the name) highlighted the 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century. Trump's people are undermining ~all~ ~of~ ~them~. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview...

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My dad LOVED close games. I asked him to help out towards the end. So thanks, Dad.

This is like the only part I got at the end

ABSOLUTE. CINEMA. 🙌🍿 The Bills rally back from a 15-point deficit in the 4th quarter to stun the Ravens on a game-winning field goal.

All things are possible through Joshua Patrick Allen

🏈 BAL 40 - 41 BUF FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1092nd unique final score in NFL history.

I love my Buffalo Bills but omgggg this game was something. #GoBills

Read about the surprising cells you carry from your relatives, why getting up early might be the best life hack, what happens when your kid’s best friend is a problem, and more in The Atlantic Daily.

RFK Jr. went on Fox News today to claim that HHS has had “no successes” in the past 40 years. I beg to differ. Figure from Lei et al., NEJM 2020. Link below.

People ought to start noticing that MAHA ignores three major killers ... Alcohol, cigarettes, and guns Why? It's fine to have a goal to make people healthy, but shouldn't we emphasize what is really killing them?

TAPPER: Hepatitis A, whooping cough, & chickenpox cases are rising in Florida. Before you made this decision to lift vaccine mandates, did your dept do any analysis of how many new cases there will be? LADAPO: Absolutely not T: You didn't even do a projection? L: It's an issue of right & wrong

Important column from APHA on how to communicate and build trust- share stories, speak plainly and without jargon or acronyms (guilty here!), and engage new messengers publichealthnewswire.org?p=repairing-...

West Point cancels ceremony to honor Tom Hanks as ‘outstanding US citizen’

If you do any genealogy you ultimately come to that point where you try and construct a family from church baptism records -- and have to cross check the death records in same years to understand which maybe 3-4 of the 9 births survived past the first year of life.

I remember the fear of polio when I was young and how thrilled people were when the vaccines became available. We all lined up and got ours in school those first years. I know people who still have problems because they got polio before the vaccine was available. The March of Dimes was a huge deal

My uncle was in lifelong pain from the polio he had as a toddler. He was hospitalized with post-polio syndrome in his 60s. When the polio vaccine became available, my grandma waited in line overnight for 2 days to get it for the other 5 kids.

Didn't know we had an old family cemetary until my mom put a headstone on her sister's grave. Marion was 2 when she died of diphtheria. Mom, 4, was sick too. She held Marion as she died. Marion is buried in a rural cemetery, as forgotten as other infants there. My mother never got over the trauma.

My grandmother lost her 5 uncles on her mother’s side to a diphtheria epidemic in Bavaria in the 1860s. 10 children. The 5 girls made it and the 5 boys died.

My grandfather lost his 5 young siblings in a diptheria epidemic in NYC. My husband’s aunt became a quadriplegic from polio when she was a mother of three young kids. This was just a year or two before the vaccine became available. A schoolmate was so brain damaged by measles she never returned.

While all eyes are on the CDC, let’s not forget about the challenges to the new science that will inform their future health recommendations - and our country’s & globe’s future health: www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/n...

Our cemetery (the old one) has them too. A grim reminder of how childhood diseases took many before the age of two. Virtuoso violinist Itzak Perlman has been on crutches his whole life because of Polio. If it had taken his arms instead of his legs we would never have heard his wonderful music.

Now this is an interesting idea.