The amazing @BlairH_PhD has just advised This amazing systematic Review and Meta-Analysis has just been accepted in international journal of transgender health. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

BREAKING: I GOT MY SNAP BENEFITS. (NYC HERE) CHECK YOUR EBT CARDS AND PLEASE REPORT BACK!!!!!

i hope one thing we take away from all these political prosecutions (and the deference given to government during them) is how easily people of color and low income folks can be wrongly incarcerated. so maybe we should do something about that

Newsom: "Think about the state of mind of the VP. How do you square the circle when you go to a prayer breakfast? Old testament, new testament. What's the fundamental thing that connects John to Matthew to Proverbs? It's this notion of hunger, feeding the poor. It's central to advancing God's will."

Republicans will wreak havoc on air travel if it means not lowering healthcare costs. THANK A MAGAT!

Before her (too early) death, the amazing Sharon Begley wrote this piece on double helix co-discoverer James Watson and the racist and sexist pronouncements he seemed to revel in making in later life. Fascinating read about a troubling individual. www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...

“Modeled after the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), this board would investigate outbreaks across all food categories, free from agency silos and political pressure… The status quo is simply too dangerous to continue. Investigations can lack coordination and timeliness in response”

So, NIH seems to have opened some high-level, director-of-institute type positions today, with a window of only two weeks. During a shutdown. Hm.

This blood is on your hands, Elon.

Oops. Ooooooooooooops. I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675 h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social

Debates over Medicaid and affordable healthcare are at the center of the ongoing government shutdown. Our research shows that 1.8 million LGBT adults rely on Medicaid as their primary health insurance.

New study sheds light on women’s attraction to aggression in pornography

Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

“Research published earlier this week found that 65.8 per cent of Americans support same-sex couples’ right to marry, with 36.2 per cent saying they ‘strongly’ support keeping protections in place.” www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/07/s...

More jobs like this. Not fewer

The U.S. will not attend the annual UN climate summit, COP30, which kicks off on Thursday in Brazil. And that's just fine for those who see the Trump administration’s hostility toward anything related to climate change as a menace to international cooperation.

🔎 Could camming spice up your relationship? 💻 Among a small proportion of participants who’d cammed w/ a partner, most reported positive-neutral effects on their relationship, inc. better sexual communication & understanding + less awkwardness. www.doi.org/10.1177/02654075251392288

More than 60 California professors say they are suppressing their own work due to Trump's looming threats over UC. The chill is affecting students 7 medical patients alike. "The purpose is censorship," said Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel & UC Irvine professor. @veenadubal.bsky.social

The Ctr for Urban Research at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social (led by @jomoko.bsky.social) has prepared an online map for tonight's NYC mayoral results. Link below in #thread. For now the map is blank, but it'll fill in w/unofficial returns tonight. The map will do more than show the 2025 #s. 1/n

TACO is NOT building a ballroom. He is building a bunker. Booze Allen is not an architecture firm. It’s a defense contractor.

People's risk of heart attack or stroke skyrockets after a bout with the flu or COVID-19. www.upi.com/Health_News/...

Even as the anti-vax lobby erodes public trust, new evidence confirms that "immunizations against Covid-19, RSV, and influenza have shown consistent effectiveness & safety and are associated with a substantially reduced risk of hospitalization & severe disease" www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Unlike the version of the virus that spread around the world in 2022, this one has had more severe outcomes.

More for Dark Age 2.0... Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n... "They are trying to make people afraid to use the word ‘equity.’ They’re trying to make people afraid to use the term ‘transgender.’"

Results from recently published, peer-reviewed studies support the safety and effectiveness of immunizations against Covid-19, RSV, and influenza. Learn more in a Special Article: nej.md/3L8m1gt #MedSky #IDSky

Global drop in parental trust in childhood vaccines linked to measles resurgence medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10... "...pandemic has contributed to a diminishing public trust in childhood vaccines..." Key: this distrust LARGELY manufactured by misinformation mongers. #VaccinesWork

The East Wing was built in 1902 & rebuilt in 1942, long after asbestos was used as a fire retardant. So, I’m sure the White House took steps to prevent a known carcinogen from entering the air during the current willy-nilly demolition. Kidding! These irresponsible assholes don’t care who they kill.

Did anyone spot moving vans outside the White House recently that could have been used to remove precious, historic furniture, mantel pieces, fixtures, chandeliers, lamps, and portraits from the East Wing to safety?

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

A culture that tolerates and elevates pseudoscience will be at odds with the health of its citizens.

Following Republicans’ playbook, I’m calling for work requirement for people receiving money from the government to legislate.

Meanwhile in TX the AG is telling Drs how to practice medicine: Ignorance is believing in the science that makes organ transplantation possible while rejecting the science of vaccines which ensure that transplant recipients can enjoy the increase in lifespan made possible by the transplanted organ.

Transsexual people generally do identify as men/male or women/female. What the new @thefireorg.bsky.social survey shows is that fewer are identifying as non-binary or something else. unherd.com/newsroom/why...

⚠️ STATES, LOCALS, TRIBAL NATIONS, TERRITORIES ⚠️ HHS has eliminated EVERY SINGLE SAFEGUARD FOR DATA PROTECTION AT CDC. Giving data to CDC is no longer safe and puts your residents at risk. Unless and until all CDC’s data protections are restored you should consider CDC a bad actor.

How does kidnapping children without informing their parents make America great? How does this make us safer or help the economy or promote rule of law? This is intended only to intimidate and humiliate immigrant families who are doing their best to follow the rules. Shame on these immoral people.

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m. The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom. While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop. The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

When scientists look under the tinfoil hat, they see that conspiracy mentality is linked to distress, impulsivity, negative affect, and lack of intellectual humility. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

"Conversion therapy" is a polite name for something that isn’t conversion and isn’t therapy. It’s abuse.

Next year, Americans will see the biggest jump in health insurance costs in 15 years. Meanwhile, the six largest health insurers raked in more than $31 billion in net income last year. Still not sure if we need Medicare for All?

Jeffrey Epstein had doctors prescribe birth control and sedatives to his victims. They also screened his victims for STDs. He had dentists work on their teeth. I’d like to know who these people are and why they have been protected.

My neighbor in Orlando mentioned this EXACT concern to me last night!

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

Wow! Covid vaccine development and delivery cost $79.4 billion, but the health and economic benefits of vaccination were valued between $4.83 trillion–$37.8 trillion. A return on investment of $59.8–$475 per dollar invested!! This is why vaccine equity matters! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Brilliant piece on how to engage in conversation with strangers about vaccines and public health @statnews.com @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/09/06/c...

Most trans folks live in the South. #SOGIdata #transdemography

Tonight, @ericschrimshaw.bsky.social and I went to a UCF football game for the first time. (We were joined by Eric's sister, Lori, and brother-in-law, Sean.)

Love how DeSantis will stop vaccines for public schools when his kids go to a private school that requires vaccinations. So trumpian.