A statue depicting President Trump and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein briefly appeared Tuesday on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., with the title, “Best Friends Forever,” and included lines from Trump’s birthday message to Epstein. nyti.ms/4nPZW4d

Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

How many children must die for people to understand that vaccines save lives? Or are the lives of children that trivial? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/h...

If you are available, please consider attending the Prevent Child Abuse America Associate Board's cocktail party! When: Wednesday, October 8, 2025 Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM Where: Twenty Six Chicago give.preventchildabuse.org/event/blue-s...

The overall takeaway from the Epstein survivors’ press conference is that they are united and are no longer going to allow rich and powerful men to victimize, silence and intimidate them. Including the ones in Congress and the perp in the Oval Office.

Florida is a center of international tourism and has one of the top 3 populations of retirees. Ending childhood vaccine requirements for school entry there is so dangerous I don’t even know where to start. Ground zero for massive unchecked outbreaks of vaccine preventable disease.

And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas

Harvard Secures a Court Victory in Its Fight With Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Doctors Find Early Success With Partial Heart Transplants www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/w...

Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."

It’s amazing how little this country cares about preventing its own children from being gunned down.

"This could be the difference whether your child gets cancer. Are you willing for them to die because the therapy for them is delayed?" Powerful video with voices from top US scientists on the very real and devastating impacts of the funding cuts.

Amidst all the daily bad news, here is some good news to lift up your week! Botswana eliminates paediatric HIV www.nature.com/articles/d44...

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

Study saying monthly cash won’t help children’s health is highly misleading — even irresponsible www.statnews.com/2025/08/19/b... via @statnews.com #medsky

A grim but important read. In those who die ages 25-44, 62% of those deaths are BECAUSE we're Americans, in ways that both are and aren't related to #COVID. Rather, our shoddy HC infrastructure means a young person's first adverse health event can be their last. slate.com/technology/2...

www.statnews.com/2025/08/21/i... #medsky

Update on NIH funding through July (August 1 budget start dates) Non-competitive renewal awards by month for fiscal year 2025 1/7

Antivaxxers love accusing scientists of censorship but in reality they are the ones trying censor science. RFK just tried bullying a scientific journal into retracting a major study of 1.2 M kids that found that aluminum in vaccines do not increase the risk of autism or asthma. The journal refused.

Excited to share this American Academy of Pediatrics blog post I co-wrote with Nick Wilson and @loganicole.bsky.social about childhood food insecurity! www.aap.org/en/news-room...

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

This study was published in Annals of Internal Medicine; the journal is NOT retracting it just because of political pressure from the world's most extreme & dangerous anti-vaxx activist The lead author, Anders Peter Hviid, says "I have not been targeted by a political figurehead in this way before"

Precision Functional Mapping (PFM). 8 yrs ago some told us it wasn't interesting. Now it's helping cure depression as part of PACE (Personalized Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation), ... commercialized by @turingmedical.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps... www.cell.com/neuron/comme...

Including "fascist" in that list is an admission.

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

The dismantling of the science-driven #ACIP continues, with members of professional groups (pediatricians, family docs, obgyns, etc) that have liaison status on the panel that shapes #CDC's vaccination policy told they are biased, can't serve on ACIP work groups. www.statnews.com/2025/08/01/c...

U.S. special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee inspected an aid distribution center operated by the U.S. and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in Rafah.

U.S. childhood vaccination rates fall again as exemptions set another record www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/c... via @statnews.com

HONOLULU (AP) — Tsunami warning sirens blare in Honolulu and people are told to move to higher ground after earthquake off Russia.

Huge tsunami headed for our coast and no more science funding, welcome to 2025 and probably the rest of time. Fuck.

"...it appears President Trump and Russ Vought are working to make it official that they do in fact intend to decimate lifesaving research in this country..." Trump administration blocks NIH from awarding any research grants and contracts www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/t... via @statnews.com

A cut to Medicare that could affect millions is buried in Trump’s tax law www.statnews.com/2025/07/28/m... via @statnews.com

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Ending the federal LGBTQ+ suicide prevention line is a public health failure www.statnews.com/2025/07/12/e... via @statnews.com

The real reason why this is happening is to silence Musk on the Epstein files.

Plan to Indefinitely Displace Palestinians Threatens to Derail Gaza Truce www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/w...

Yes. And the other thing about this Trump #NIH move is it’s NOT ABOUT organoids, nor models, nor in fact research. This is merely an effort to destroy American science and universities. Animal research policy is a useful tool in that destruction, because it is a political wedge issue. That’s it!

Awful: Stephen Miller is urging red states to build their own versions of "Alligator Alcatraz." And guess what: Buried in the budget bill is funding that states can try to tap for exactly that. This could become a route to MAGA glory for young GOPers. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1978...

Zackie Achmat, an activist once at the center of South Africa’s push for lifesaving HIV treatment, has come out of retirement as U.S. funding cuts and his own government’s inertia revive old fears.

Spread the word: The European Center for Angioscience @uniheidelberg.bsky.social continues to grow: We have openings for 2 additional Junior Group Leader positions. Get in touch with us if you are ready to start your own lab. See also corresponding ad in @nature.com: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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Completely unacceptable that EPA put on leave their employees who spoke up in defense of their agency's mission to protect public health. EPA officials are demonstrating their unwillingness to even engage with their own staff. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/c...

Excited to share this new preprint from my time in the Rudebeck Lab at Mount Sinai! #AcademicSky #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Wisconsin Supreme Court Strikes Down 1849 Abortion Ban www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

Senate Republicans voted to debate a bill that will kill thousands of infants, children, adolescents, and adults. To starve children, low income, and the elderly. To shrink the physician workforce. To close hospitals in rural communities. Know their names. Vote them out.

‘I Think He Is About to Destroy Vaccines in This Country’ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...

Excited to wear this pin to upcoming conferences! @t4cip 👶🏾