You can ignore science, but science will never ignore you. Measles incidence in the United States.

Very few people in the history of our species have saved as many people's lives as William Foege, who designed and lead the global elimination of smallpox, a highly contagious disease that killed 1 out 3 people it infected. ✊ www.scientificamerican.com/article/smal...

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

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Videos verified by The New York Times show the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday was holding a phone, not a gun, before the agents took him to the ground and shot him. At least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Remember when these guys lied that they were preserving Confederate monuments because you had to leave up the whole messy contested historical record rather than erasing history?

"Liam’s teacher, Ella Sullivan, teared up when thinking about Liam. 'He’s a bright young student,' she said, 'and he’s so kind and loving. His classmates miss him.'" www.startribune.com/preschooler-...

Yale is honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. through events centered on service, scholarship, and community, including programs at the Peabody Museum, an open mic night, and a keynote conversation with Col. (Ret.) Edna W. Cummings. #Yale

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MLK was only 39 when he was killed. Growing up, I thought that was old. But I’m 43 now and I’m stunned by the burden he shouldered at such a young age. I’m also a lot more aware of how hard it is, at any age, to carry the hopes and dreams of an oppressed people on your shoulders, as so many do.

Dr. Bill Cassidy gave green light to the nomination of RFK, in spite of his training as a physician and huge concerns about RFK’s views on vaccines/science, due to political pressures and to avoid this scenario. Yet here he is.

Another truly dark event for science.

Excellent article, must read

Piece on why Nature became so influential and “important”. This quote: “history shows that much of its success has been circumstantial and opportunistic rather than meritorious…we should not mistake the system that emerged for one that reliably surfaces the best work.” www.asimov.press/p/nature

Everyone has an accent

“I have treated patients who have harmed others. I have cared for people in police custody, people accused of violent crimes…. None of that alters my obligation. When someone is bleeding in front of you, your duty is to stop the bleeding.” @josephsakran.bsky.social

"In every society fallen to authoritarianism, the state goes after the press first+ closes in on universities next. All of us who live, work,+learn within the university should think of our institution as part of the larger constitutional structure of the nation." www.chronicle.com/article/univ...

Pirates of the Caribbean, 2026 edition.

Currently in Puerto Rico. My flight today was canceled bc the airspace was closed by US military. Archipelago is highly militarized, with frequent military patrols. Flashback to cold war theater of 1980s.

RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!” “A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”

Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed

Understanding the mind takes many ways of seeing. Faculty at the Wu Tsai Institute are working across neuroscience, engineering, and psychology to study how the mind works. A look inside the institute’s new home shows how shared spaces and new tools are supporting discovery through collaboration.

Yale Law Prof S. Baldwin in 1899: “To give.. the ignorant and lawless brigands that infest Puerto Rico.. the benefit of such immunities .. would be a serious obstacle to the maintenance ..an efficient government”. Today: Dean of Yale Law is of P Rican and Cuban descent. Congratulations Cristina!

This about sums it up, folks. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Remember when Qatar hosted World Cup and everyone was told to be respectful of local customs and culture? Let’s hear that same energy about Seattle culture.

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene. A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

Today's NYT front page. A methodical quest and the latest salvo

Honorary PhDs from academic institutions in 3,2,1….

“What have I done!” 🤡

omg they've got me reposting George F Will

This paper was written by my WormAtlas colleagues, Dave and Nate, in addition to 5 Nobel Prize winners. Hopefully more attention and funding will find its way to the invaluable C. elegans resources described in the paper.

"Minority women...have traditionally been excluded [from STEM] because of biases related to both their race or ethnicity and gender, constituting a double bind." 🧪 web.mit.edu/cortiz/www/D...

“Those Muslims must assimilate to our way of life. Like we did when we ‘visited’ other countries.”

Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."

Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.

Arden Patapoutian, Immigrant “from third world country” & Nobel Prize Laureate, 2021.

I was one of those immigrants, and we commit fewer crimes than people born here. “Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the US by revoking their legal status.” apnews.com/article/trum...

C. elegans researchers were early adopters of open science: "The development of common resources and the belief that research findings and mutant strains should be freely shared has propelled worm research to the forefront" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

One of our founding directors Anthony Hyman @hymanlab.bsky.social will become @embl.org Director General: www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

All hail Caenorhabditis elegans, one of the most researched organisms on Earth. Collaborative data sharing in the nematode research community led to four Nobel Prize-winning discoveries about human development and disease. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/uNqU50Xyj4e

"a debilitated CDC unable to protect the health of the American people." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancet.com

🧪 This is what whooping cough looks & sounds like. A baby tragically died of whooping cough today. Dr. Ralph Abraham is the CDC’s new deputy director. He: 1. Halted Louisiana's mass vaccination campaign 2. Promoted ivermectin 3. Delayed public warnings about a deadly whooping cough outbreak

After immigrating to the U.S. from Lebanon, neuroscientist @ardemp.bskyverified.social found belonging in science—and did Nobel-winning work on the sense of touch: buff.ly/boCE6ZY

As we get ready to shop for Thanksgiving remember the farm workers who harvest the food. We wouldn't enjoy a #Thanksgiving dinner without their hard work. #WeFeedYou

“Do not trust the CDC website and quite certainly do not trust anything that RFK says around your own health” Former CDC official @drdemetre.bsky.social says plainly that information coming out of the CDC cannot be trusted under Robert F. Kennedy’s leadership.