Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

I love when science investigates children’s books. Eric Carle describes this in A House for Hermit Crab!

#AHA25 Come for the science, stay for the friends! @ahascience.bsky.social

Excited to be in New Orleans for @ahascience.bsky.social Scientific Sessions 2025. This city knows!

🧵 Myth Busting Monday: “Vitamin supplements can help your immune system fight off viruses and bacteria.” The idea that taking vitamin supplements can “boost” your immune system and help you fight infections has been around for decades. It feels intuitive but the science is far more nuanced.

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: « Alternating bundle branch block »

So exhausting..

As a Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist, here are a list of exposures with conclusive evidence for adverse fetal & childhood outcomes: Alcohol Tobacco Cannabis Maternal suicide Maternal homicide Viruses (CMV, influenza, COVID, HIV, HepB&C) Bacteria (syphilis, listeria) Parasites (toxo)

A CRO has been scamming academic and industry labs in the US with fraudulent data that has been published in Nature and other high impact journals. Leonid has written a great piece on my findings: forbetterscience.com/2025/09/22/i...

I use my Brompton folding bike every day (combined with commuter rail). Here holding fresh croissants for my team!

I care for children in the hospital on inpatient & consult services. Most weeks there are at least a few kids admitted with vaccine preventable diseases. Often in children who can’t get vaccinated themselves. 15 years in pediatrics and I’ve never seen a single one admitted with vaccine injury.

Basic science research tools don’t always have to be high-tech/expensive. Rice cooker ftw!

As our kids go #BackToSchool, never forget that we ARE the traffic that we’re afraid of. If more kids walked, biked or rode transit to school, it would erase a massive number of car trips each day, and our kids would be safer, healthier and better at school. HT Ian Lockwood. Spread the word.

Excellent summary with outstanding graphics. Read it!

Not sure how many scientists here have tried Claude Code or similar command line coding assistants. I had a complicated family property tax problem that was best solved by a brute force Monte Carlo simulation approach, so I spent a few days coding up and analyzing a model with Claude Code.

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

Replication Crisis xkcd.com/3117/

When someone asks what parenting be like… 😂🤣 🐵 🥰

There’s something oddly satisfying about getting an abstract/paper/grant proposal within the word limit. These are all excellent tips! ✂️ ✂️ ✂️

Another night of single myocyte electrophysiology and rock n’ roll ❤️ ⚡️ 🤘🏻 #basicscience #cardiovascularresearch #EPeeps

Very important thread! Don’t be discouraged by the warning. Rants can be appropriate (like in this case)

This. I don’t even bother writing presenter notes anymore. Practice, practice, practice.

As a fibroid survivor myself I relate so much to Venus Williams' story. It took me changing physicians twice to get my symptoms taken seriously, and I am a physician! Too many women suffer in silence, esp Black women. Be relentless in advocating for yourself. www.today.com/health/women...

Rediscovering the spirograph while entertaining a sick toddler (aka art director). I vetoed pink for the last one.

Ces pommes, ça promet!! #lostintranslation

I wish more people would understand that

Today I worked for 16h straight. Why? For science. I am trying to understand how heart failure promotes #AFib. Sometimes this is best done with single atrial cells, in a dish (here with a calcium-sensitive fluo dye). Doing this right takes time. NIH used to fund this type of science. Now? Who knows.

Most disturbing thing for me was seeing kids die or get super sick only to recover and then have their family member who they likely infected die.

COVID infection in pregnancy is associated with DOUBLE the rate of stillbirths because the SARS-CoV-2 virus damages the placenta

Very excited for rhubarb season! The wait feels like forever in the Midwest.

Overnight Congress approved the big beautiful bill cutting Medicaid, which insures nearly 1/2 of all kids. You may think this won’t affect you but it will. More uninsured means crowded ERs, closing practices, higher costs & longer waits. Call your senators to tell them how ugly this bill is.

You know what to do.

#EPeeps How would you ablate this post-atriotomy flutter? @abbottcardio.bsky.social

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

#EPeeps An interesting ECG. What do you learn about the rhythm? What do you learn about the pacemaker? Hint below

All, if you've had your federally-funded research disrupted due to the admin's chaos, consider this funding opportunity from Robert Wood Johnson: Rapid Response Research Rapid Response Research awards are exclusively available to applicants who have already received federal funding... 🧪🧵

Morale in research labs is at an all-time low. But: we found stickers. Animal stickers. Sparking a little joy, one sticker at a time. #restorefundingforsciencenow

1/n I don’t understand the new Dept HHS assertion that childhood vaccines weren’t tested in placebo-controlled trials. That’s simply not true. I did a quick (non-exhaustive) PubMed search and they came up pretty quickly. For example here’s MMR

We just wanted to keep you all updated estimates are now approaching 4 million. Incredible job pulling this off on a holiday weekend! It was tough to get accurate counts today because small towns showed up in force. Some states had record-breaking turnout we didn’t expect this includes

Flashback to a laceration repair I performed during lockdown. Wow times have changed.

Another successful limb reattachment surgery. Even used an Aberdeen knot! #weekendsurgery

This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.

Perspective changes everything. [Ars Mathermatica]

Isolated HF atrial cardiomyocytes are definitely rock ‘n’ roll #basicscience #EPeeps @nmcardiovasc.bsky.social

Perfection. And it’s from today! theonion.com/flu-vaccinat...

#EPeeps Where's the pathway? Denoument in the reply

"It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies” www.bbc.com/news/article...

The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We need your help investigating this. Did you work on a terminated NIH grant? Please get in touch. www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...