DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

Flu is widespread in Northeast… ERs full of it. Get your vaccine and high-risk patients should consider wearing a mask in crowded places if you want to avoid illness. Ps vax is not perfect but better than nothing.

Seasons Greetings.

Imagine that a decade ago someone had told you that in 2025 Americans would be torrenting a handheld video of a Canadian television screen to see a 60 minutes broadcast about Trump‘s torture prisons.

Snow on a partially frozen pond makes for some wild visuals

Canada doing Radio Free Europe for Americans

Thanks @hypoautonomic.bsky.social for putting this together. Warning: May cause you to throw things or bang your head against the wall.

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Let's pull the number up to the top: $75 billion per year That's the economic cost of taking Nobel prize-winning, life saving technology and chucking it in the trash as a vice signal

Here is the 60 Minutes segment Bari is trying to keep you from seeing. They keep getting taken down so watch asap

WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night

Beyond the financial toll, the researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers. 3/3

A new report from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have devastating health and economic consequences for the nation.

The report estimates that mRNA vaccines could avert over $75 billion in economic costs annually. 2/3

Western carmakers are coming up against fast-growing Chinese electric-vehicle brands all over the world. Those that slow down production risk giving their competitors an unassailable lead

"Rather than democratizing scientific publishing, Open Access has helped commercial publishers generate more profits".

Entrancing….

Happy Holidays. May you have time to relax and rejuvenate. And not obsess about news for a bit. I made a chocolate krantz cake (aka. Babka) and it was so so so good.

Before the pond ice melted this week, we had an inch of water over thick ice, whipped by wind and rain.

Why are rich people paying trillions for “artificial intelligence?” I know people who have genuine intelligence. The real deal. None of this fake shit. Give them your money. It’s a better product.

No paper from me or my lab will ever be submitted to an MDPI journal - including any of their superfluous "special issues". I will very rarely (if ever) cite MDPI papers. And I will never review for them. deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/08/gues... The same goes for FrontiersIn journals, among others.

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

TAPPER: “This is one of the documents Trump’s DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. ALL BLACK. That’s the ‘transparency’ we’re getting.” #TrumpEpsteinCoverup

for those in my boat, the designation has changed on my grant from yesterday to this new pergatory

I wonder to what extent this is due to lower vaccine uptake this flu season? www.wfsb.com/2025/12/16/f...

‘…the U.S. is now squandering an opportunity to reap the benefits of its own technology’ something that we absolutely cannot afford to do. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@joho.bsky.social Podcast Jay with another straight banger

Federal funding cuts are having real consequences for biomedical research — including at PNRI. Long-term studies can’t simply be paused. Through Dec. 31, every gift is matched dollar-for-dollar. 👉https://bit.ly/4j1GTma #raredisease #T1D #supportscience #genetics

SCIMaP: Imposed Trump #NIH changes to research infrastructure support would lead to a reduction of ~ $6B in federally funds, $16B reduction in economic activity & a projected loss of approximately 70k jobs in communities in the U.S. This was in Project 2025. 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/n...

New story in STAT with data about Early Stage Investigators www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/n... 1/4

As far as I can tell, RFK Jr.'s latest antivax stunt runs counter to the WMA Declaration of Helsinki. Withholding HepB vaccination clearly does not meet any definition of clinical equipoise. Doing it anyway, overseas, is straight up colonialist medicine. Details in Dr. Jacobs's thread below.

It won’t change votes much. But the gutting of USAID might be the most consequential policy of the second Trump administration simply in terms of people who died, who went without food or medicine www.propublica.org/article/keny...

Incorporating realistic ecological interactions changes our understanding of which traits are optimal in different environments, including the temperature-size rule. Awesome paper by David Anderson, outstanding former postdoc with me and Mary O'Connor.

And whether or not you are at #AGU25, you can join us in speaking out against moves by the Trump administration to dismantle @ncar-ucar.bsky.social, the premier weather and climate research center for the nation. secure.ucs.org/a/2025-prote...

It's a problem, not a hoax.

The former Justice Department special counsel told the House Judiciary Committee that his team developed "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" that Trump took part in a criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 election. n.pr/3N5wwln

SCOOP: American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr. Research included reducing sudden infant deaths and identifying autism early. Me and @Paigecunningham.Bsky.Social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

“The arc of history bends towards justice, but it doesn’t bend by itself, it’s not gravity, we have to bend it”

NEW: A Utah plastic surgeon was on trial for falsifying COVID-19 vaccine cards. Then Pam Bondi stepped in. Bondi’s dismissal of the case signals the increasing clout of “medical freedom” activists and vaccine skeptics under the leadership of RFK Jr. With @sltrib.com

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

Commentary: Making the same screw up twice and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. A fitting example? Two trade-busting Trump administrations twice devastating Ohio’s farm economy and twice requiring billions in taxpayer bailouts ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/16/t...

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Playing with aerial perspective for some self portraits on a snow covered frozen pond.

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A cast of Trump’s lesser-known political appointees and DOGE operatives cut programs in ways that guaranteed widespread harm and death in some of the world’s most desperate situations. From our friends at @propublica.org:

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