A guide to the US aircraft shot down over Iran. By me, no paywall. fallows.substack.com/p/your-score...

There is a fly standing on my eye.

In my last job I read every firearm CCIR in the total Army (active, NG, Reserves). Every. Day. Suicide, malfeasance, domestic violence, and accidents are done with private firearms. By a ratio of more than 10:1. 1/4

Question for ethicists: Is an Expression of Concern enough when authors claim to have trained ML to diagnose autism from facial appearance, using a collection of facial images that were scraped from the Intertubes without niceties like "formal diagnosis" or "consent"? pubpeer.com/publications...

NEW: Before Nick Shirley went to California this year, DOGE's Edward "Big Balls" Coristine was helping him "extract" info from a public dataset to identify targets for his YouTube "investigation" into fraud. w/ @telliotter.bsky.social More here: www.wired.com/story/edward...

"From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'" ― Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut.

“there are ways to beat back unpopular federal building plans outside of courtrooms. He points to the victorious protests of planned federal nuclear power plants in the 1970s.” boltsmag.org/how-state-an...

Currently taking new applications from words bad enough to describe the wholesale destruction of the United States and the people who are responsible. Abominable, atrocious, catastrophic, corrupt, egregious, horrifying etc etc have done the heavy lifting but just can’t get the job done anymore.

CDC, health groups spent millions to buy ads on websites flagged for misinformation. Advocacy groups say they didn't realize automated advertising platforms were placing their ads on questionable sites. www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science...

I fact checked cancer misinformation promoted by MAHA with Chelsea Clinton: We aren’t hiding “natural cures to cancer” Microwaves don’t cause cancer Neither does Wi-Fi Watch it: youtube.com/shorts/j59mL...

To add to the festivities, a photo of all that Jim Byron's about, from a silly puff piece in an LATimes pub by the editor of "the official publication of the Balboa Bay Club." Misleading headline; MAGA-fueled nonsense-talk title; pose/demeanor not inspiring confidence; an all-White crowd. 🤌

New feature: Which nextgen Covid vaxes are advancing the most? I highlight 3 in mid- to late-stage trials with manufacturers—including a "universal" Covid vax & a mucosal one—and another 6 vaccines. Plus more trial results & 10 preclinical reports: absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/04/02/a...

Two miners in West Virginia died in separate mining incidents between Thursday evening and Friday morning at mines facing dozens of federal citations for safety violations since the beginning of the year, according to information from MSHA, reports @caitycoyne.bsky.social.

Not unusual for the current administration but it is quite jarring how explicit the racism, sexism, transphobia and other forms of bigotry are in reading their proposed NIH cuts.

I saw that Dr. Caplan had posted this elsewhere, but I don't see him on @bsky.app yet. ATTN: #MedSky.

During the 2024–25 season, three-fourths of health care workers received a flu vaccine, while only about 40% got a COVID shot. Read more: ow.ly/L1nm50YCYVO

@pauloffit.bsky.social is a total badass

Thanks to @doritreiss.bsky.social for live posting @nusl.bsky.social #HLC2026, and in particular, our FDA panel!

2 planes, 1 day U.S. loses F-15 and A-10 Warthog after Trump crows that Iran has "no anti-aircraft equipment. Their radar is 100 percent annihilated" theintercept.com/2026/04/03/i...

The National Security Archive is a nonprofit housed at GWU, not a govt agency. They FOIA for the public good, capturing an enormous amount of U.S. history. Their Chronology itemizes >100 disappearances, from shutting the Spanish WH website to purging Holocaust remembrances from DOD website. 😢

These are not the heirs of Galileo. They are the heirs of the men who refused to look through the telescope, because they had already decided what they would see.

Yeah I'm a good old missile buying, ship building, nuke stockpiling hawk, as hawk as they come really, and this budget proposal is a crock of bull. We need a bigger DOD topline, but guess what? We need the rest too, if your aim is keeping Americans safe. A nation can't eat guns. We need butter.

If any historian, archivist, political scientist, journalist, or advocate wants to write about and save the NHPRC, you'll get great information, examples, and perspectives from this three-panel mega-hearing about the commission I held in 2010 at House Oversight: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

After a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to pare down childhood vaccine recommendations, plenty of questions remain — like how annual vaccines for the flu will get approved. @julierovner.bsky.social spoke about the confusion with @wamu.org 🎧 ⤵️

Trump, defunding Inspectors General while claiming to care about fraud (his new fraud task force, in the White House, employs the former US Attorney who helped criminally frame Joe and Hunter Biden).

Updates from the Post And Courier about Jane Doe 4 on Hilton Head Island, SC. #EpsteinFiles @postandcourier.bsky.social www.postandcourier.com/news/fbi-wit...

Tirzepatide is broken down by digestive enzymes before it can be absorbed. This is also why insulin cannot be taken orally. No clinical trial has ever shown this peptide to be effective orally. So of course The Wellness Company is selling 30 pieces of "tirzepatide gum" for...checks notes...$250.

The legacy of MAHA/MAGA doctors and all who enabled them.

kenobi snuggled the whole time i was setting this up

where is the urgency, inside NIH or in Congress? delays like this lead to canceled clinical trials, culled animals, and lab closures — even though the work was deemed meritorious at every stage & funded by Congress

An important note about the budget announcements today. These are from the President's FY 2027 budget request, which is a list of asks for Congress, not what will necessarily become law. And there are is only a very, very slim chance that the FY 2027 budget passes before a new Congress takes office.

“My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it.”

"Do good work." To celebrate Gus Grissom’s 100th birthday, a free copy of my Grissom biography to the first person to name what he and John Young nicknamed their Gemini 3 spacecraft.

This is awful. What has happened to the US?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=SXgO... Video currently being disseminated throughout CG spaces after being sent via email today. Apparently, CG leadership is also not being given updates on pay, and, like the rest of the service, has to wait to see if paychecks hit bank accounts. Interesting.

This is where his National Guard is showing because no officer who's ever been in charge of an active duty barracks wants to introduce firearms into that environment.

Someone needs to tell the American people what's going on in the Pentagon, and it obviously won't be Pete Hegseth, who is at war with America's senior military officers. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Former ACIP member Retsef Levi gave a long interview to Children's Health Defense and one of his complaints about the AAP is that they wanted to appoint epidemiologists and vaccinologists to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. H/t @doritreiss.bsky.social Link in comments

Sneak peek at Build Up Dietitians Newsletter ... open.substack.com/pub/buildupd...

The article has a lot more on why Christie’s was so eager to please Epstein and the valuation and fate of the Hercules: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma.... But to me the most important info is that provenance info can be vastly less certain than it seems from the catalog listing.

Amazing job

It’s Autism Acceptance Month! Want to participate? Excellent. The best choice is to listen, learn—and lean back to make space for autistic people & autistic-informed resources. We have advice about good (and bad) autism orgs: tinyurl.com/UsefulAutismOrgs #AutismAcceptanceMonth #neurodiversity

Twitter quack reckons bleaching your eye will restore vision after Kirsch went blind using “McCullough’s detox protocol”. No downside! * not medical advice though #QuackDrake #QuackMcCullough #QuackLawrie

I found this secluded meeting with Epstein and the Saudis, in which Michael Wolff "will share with them all [he knows] about [White House] operation." I think @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social need to pay attention to whatever was happening here. #EpsteinFiles @rokhanna.bsky.social

“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.” -Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.

Born #OTD in 1921, "WASP" #WW2 pilot Shirley Slade. #WeRememberThem.

Since I'm getting a questions about the new data - a few _preliminary_ comments: 1️⃣ Are the outbreaks in the US connected? 👉 Very likely. 2️⃣ Does this mean US will lose elimination status? 👉 Yes, but that's been clear for a while. Data: nextstrain.org/measles/geno... A few details + caveats 🧵👇

“You have this very important agency that is being steered by people that don’t have the goal of public health really as their main mission" quote via @drdemetre.bsky.social - #MedSky + #IDSky. www.biopharmadive.com/news/ACIP-hi...

“‘Testosterone health’ is a “nonsense statement" My story for @medscape.com #Medsky #Endosky #supplements #hormones #diet #nutrition #Foodpyramid #endocrinology #obesity #weightloss