Caleb Alexander, one of my favorite AC committee members (always succinct and insightful) explaining why this AC to expert committee move is a very bad idea.

I find their insights into our current situation to always be insightful. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

As the Trump administration continues to drastically defund and dismantle basic science in America, the United States is presenting other countries with opportunities to take the lead in seeing farther ahead, … while the United States stands on the sidelines. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Gee, really?

Testing…. He is going to keep testing.

Professional societies are stepping up.

Just what we want in an NCI director.

Please, come lie and finesse me yet again so it looks like I really care about all this. Doing the same thing over and over rarely produces a different outcome. www.statnews.com/2025/09/18/c...

Something “worse than Teapot Dome”, is not what we are striving for. And so little notice of this. newrepublic.com/article/2005...

More of the ridiculous scattershot approach of the Trump administration in their war on Harvard. Modern medicine was and still is developed on data generated out of cheap, fast model organisms. www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

"I was the last remaining Black full-time opinion columnist at the Post, in one of the nation’s most diverse regions. Washington DC no longer has a paper that reflects the people it serves. What happened to me is part of a broader purge of Black voices from academia, business, government, and media"

This is the rational outcome of current administration policies. I couldn’t in good faith encourage scientific study in the US right now. We need to attract people to STEM, and current policies are repulsive, not attractive.

Some perspective after the past week.

Some perspective after the past week.

One weird thing after another, and so much for transparency. Yes, ACs are a lot of work for all concerned, but FDA learns things from the work, patient voices get heard, and there is open discussion on the drug, its risks and benefits. www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/f...

Another reminder that these “minor” illnesses sometimes are not minor at all. Prevention of low probability high cost events are another benefit of vaccines. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/h...

If you don't know, this is a secondhand account of what measles subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is like. www.voicesforvaccines.org/what-measles...

Likely we will be seeing more of this in future.

“ if you are in the attention economy, and the pieces you get most attention for are the pieces that are most likely to divide your readers, then it is not difficult to do the math about how to maintain readership” Pretty much sums it up.

Is Congress beginning to push back on RFK? Foreclosing mRNA vaccine technology is tremendously shortsighted, since it is so broadly applicable. Let’s hope so… www.statnews.com/2025/09/10/m...

Not regretting terminating my 30 yr subscription.

And this kids is why you don’t have a powered up cell phone on you at rallies. www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

One of the first “small bright spot” articles I have read on this topic. Scientists using their data heavy skills to fight back.

Clearly, it’s Ezra Klein week.

Okay, it’s tl/dr. But how JP Morgan managed to miss 4700 suspicious wire transfers totaling 1.1 billion is proof that money talks and rich white men hang together. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

Okay, Abundance infuriated me. But it seeks to solve problems that sort of no longer exist, that government no longer exists. But this piece is the kind of message the Democrats need to hear. I for one? Am not giving them money till they get a f$&king strategy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

Schumer always chickens out?

I don’t imagine most farmers will be this flexible. Miners certainly weren’t.

Moms complaining that they have to “ vaccinate their children against diseases they’ve never heard of” is actually a thing. We have arrived at the anti enlightenment. Which is going to look a lot like the dark ages.

From book title to anathema signifier. That was quick.

Extremely large amount of money to use an old technology ( whole killed virus) known to produce side effects. Then there is the no bid process and the self dealing. Outdated science for bad reasons seems to be the new order of the day. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

This is as true in US as it is in UK

In case you had any thought that Vinay Prasad was benign. He demanded the removal of videos he himself did, showing his on the record opinions. Whitewashing. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

What DEFCON level is Extremely Alarmed? Remember, she voted to approve RFK. www.pressherald.com/2025/08/28/s...

Going to get in the way of longevity therapy development, huh? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Swept up in the general chaos surrounding biomedical funding in the US” . Sigh. Yet another poorly aimed self inflicted wound by our own government. www.statnews.com/2025/07/16/c...

Sound advice for current Feds and indeed anyone. I spent a month aggregating necessary info when I left the govt. It’s not just employment records, it’s contact info for critical colleagues and info useful for continued employment. www.wired.com/story/whats-...

Good take on the nauseating obsequiousness of Trump’s cabinet. Though grouping a US leader with Mobutu, Franco and Ceausescu is not comforting. www.programmablemutter.com/p/short-post...

Bowing to the dictator. What did VP Harris say - nothing was more surprising than the capitulation of all our institutions.

I rather like this idea. They do have a lot to answer for.

this hilarious Jenny Chase riff on a cartoon sums it up. @katemac.bsky.social and I warned about the fortresses, & what countries are doing and should do in face of China's technological dominance www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

“Similarities” to state sponsored capitalism? How about this is state sponsored capitalism? Or communism with American characteristics. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/b...

Gotta love this woman

Takes one to know one, I guess.

We must find the wokeness where ever it may be. There is no enterprise that should not have our scrutiny. And, like his vendetta against colleges, it is not specific, all enterprises must shudder before his might. Even Cracker Barrel.

Performative stunt that will cost a lot of money.

Accurate, based on folks I talk to. But realize these cuts aren’t random. Folks who could retire, did, and among younger folks, those who could leave were the best, most mobile. So, beyond admin support, this took out skill and institutional memory. projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...