Turns out, no

“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’” GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON

"The Peace President." [Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad]

Peyton Stearns into the Final of her home event in Austin. Wins 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 vs Kimberly Birrell. Will face either Krueger or Townsend tomorrow afternoon. 📸 Jimmie48/WTA Tour

Frankly, I expected better from a FIFA Peace prize winner

ABC: “The toll from a strike on a girls' elementary school in Minab in southern Iran has risen to 64 dead and 92 injured, according to Iran's semiofficial Tasnim News Agency, which cited the local governor.” abc7ny.com/live-updates...

At least it was still weird 🤷‍♀️

Child care costs are crushing families. And that’s a policy failure, not a personal one. The U.S. is the wealthiest country on the planet. High-quality child care should not be a luxury reserved for the rich. Every family deserves access to affordable child care.

This however is not what makes the headlines. Instead the press release blurts out that the "AI-enabled stethoscopes show promise for improving diagnosis of cardiovascular conditions" How is this possible, when the result - unequivocally - showed no benefit between the randomised groups? 🧵 3/

Totino’s pizza rolls

News: Venus Williams will be playing doubles with Leylah Fernandez at Indian Wells. Also took a wild card into singles there. Fernandez and Venus were so fun to watch in New York last year, made the Quarterfinals and had packed out crowds. Indian Wells crowd will enjoy them as well I'm sure.

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

The high proportion of US scientists among those recruited by France shows that “enthusiasm and morale for doing science is low” in the US, says Sharon Milgram, who led early-career researcher programs at NIH for nearly 20 years, until she retired in December. By @lizziegibney.bsky.social and me

Recommendations for Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis in Critically Ill Adults CCR Journal Watch https://criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidence/journal-watch

Some of the most impressive choreography I’ve seen in a halftime show 🐇🇵🇷

Human warehouses

Today's Paper of the Day is: Nine Myths about Enteral Feeding in Critically Ill Adults: An Expert Perspective https://criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidence/paper-of-the-day Join us to read 1 paper per day and stay up-to-date as we cover the spectrum of critical care across 2026

Let's make a little noise for Tokito Oda. At 19yo, he currently holds ALL FOUR GRAND SLAM TITLES in Men's Wheelchair. He's the youngest person to do that in ANY format of professional tennis. All hail the OdaSlam!

Elena Rybakina gets a breakthrough in Melbourne. • 2nd Grand Slam Title • First Grand Slam since 2022 Wimbledon • 20-1 in last 21 Matches • 9-6 Record vs World #1's 📸 Jimmie48/WTA Tour

Dreading doing your taxes? Billionaires aren’t. While Trump does nothing to lower the cost of living for you, he's making it even easier for billionaires to get away with cheating on their taxes.

The formal withdrawal of the WHO will have major consequences for both the United States & the WHO itself. First, let’s think about the U.S. The U.S. has shot itself in the foot—it has now made itself much more vulnerable to disaster and devastation when the next epidemic or pandemic hits. A 🧵

I’ve listened to the beginning of today’s @servedpodcast.bsky.social 10 times. Andy’s anecdotes are killing me 🤣🤣💀

Two officers fired at Alex Pretti. He wasn’t threatening them. He wasn’t brandishing a gun. He was defending a woman who was thrown to the ground and pepper-sprayed by DHS. JUSTICE FOR ALEX.

“I want the NIH to be a central driver of the MAHA agenda,” Bhattacharya said. “Essentially, it's kind of the research arm of MAHA.” NIH is not an ideological toy or 'arm'. We must insist on its scientific independence, especially if its Director will not. 🚨 www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

New federal ACA open enrollment numbers are out today. Sign-ups are down roughly 1.2 million to 1.3 million compared with last year. State officials say coverage losses are likely to grow in the coming months as more people struggle to make premium payments and plans get terminated.

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

JPeg!!

Learner! 🎾🦘

Yessir, Learner Tien! 🎾

Over 100,000 years of experience lost from the STEM PhDs that have quit

Logged on. Saw a father grieving over his 18 year-old son’s body in Iran, a general surgeon there who may soon be sentenced to death for caring for protesters, and Alex Pretti’s body being wheeled through the VA where he worked. Anyone who isn’t broken by all this has lost their humanity.

“One day w/ a million people in the streets, that's a holiday, that's not a campaign. What you need is to have people in the streets every weekend for months on end. Despite rain, despite snow. That's how they showed their resolve to stand against the government.” www.alieward.com/ologies/revo...

Damn proud of Minnesota.

This is Alex Pretti. This morning he was murdered by ICE. Six ICE agents held him down and shot him at point blank range. Alex was a nurse and researcher at the VA. Our thoughts are with his loved ones and we stand united in action calling for the abolishment of ICE. #ScientistsAgainstICE

Man shot dead by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis. www.lpm.org/news/2026-01...

As a physician I can say with utmost confidence that the biggest threat to public health in our country at this point is our own fucking government.

After the Minneapolis shooting, the AP reports an angry crowd gathered and screamed profanities at federal officers, calling them “cowards” and telling them to go home. One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling them: “Boo hoo.”

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

A 12-year-old boy died on Saturday after being bitten in both legs by a large shark at a beach near Sydney earlier this week, the authorities said, amid heightened concern in Australia following recent shark encounters at popular beaches.

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune. 👀

genuinely stunning image

Yup! Join our fight to #SaveNCAR at tr.ee/save-ncar !

@standupforscience.bsky.social made a sweet new action page - it makes it easy for you to write and/or call your senators and tell the how much you love NCAR and high quality weather alerts and reports (and so much more)!

Ever wonder how much of your body you can lose? Check this out! You may recognize a familiar name 😉 #LiveScience #MedSky www.livescience.com/health/how-m...

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

'Great British Baking Show' judge Prue Leith departs competition after nine years