this is just astonishingly terrible judgment and would be a clinical disaster

RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."

El Niño is now likely to be stronger than anything we’ve seen in recorded history, and probably stronger than anything in the last 50 million years. Global temperatures are very likely to reach new, unprecedented levels in the next 1-2 years with far reaching impacts. #climate

This Day in Labor History: July 5, 1935. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act. This created real labor law and allowed unions to survive. Let's talk about the most important labor law in American history!

NIH grants have been under political scrutiny since early 2025. But what does the screening process actually look like? What is being flagged? I spent a month digging into leaked docs and emails. We've published the 235-word list that are being flagged by an internal AI tool. And so much more. 🧵

More reporting from @maxkozlov.bsky.social on the political screening process that is slowing public investment in science to a crawl www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is perhaps the most impressive #medical study I have seen in years: www.nature.com/articles/s41... It will save a lot of lives.

It’s here, it’s finally hereeeee!!!! This paper is in the AER because of two people: my co-author @atheendar.bsky.social, and our copy-editor @sameyler.bsky.social.

NEW at @thebulwark.com The fate of 300K+ Haitian refugees hangs on a Supreme Court ruling that could come any day now Here’s why America’s senior citizens—and their families—could pay a huge price www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-dep...

holy sh*t, STAT is not messing around "STAT does not know who the patient is. But given the patient demographics and the unusual nature of the application, STAT asked the White House whether the patient was President Trump" www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...

Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating

Much of this will be well-known to those of us in Primary Care. This is an engaging, authoritative read from Robert Kuttner. Including a cautionary tale about a certain New England health system. prospect.org/2026/06/01/c...

Bob Blendon, Harvard health policy expert and pollster, has died. via @joycefr.bsky.social #Medsky #politics #healthpolicy #healthlaw #Medicare #Medicaid

“A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i'm out here sweating to convince patients to take a vaccine with data from 100,000s of people while this idiot is treating the whole white house claiming MRIs are for finding visceral fat. you know how you can measure visceral fat? a tape measure. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/fi...

while i'd like to believe this, people that do vs don't get vaccinated are quite different on factors you can't capture no matter how much EHR data you have

By cutting #USAID & withholding funding from orgs working on treatments, the Trump Admin risks increasing US exposure to infectious diseases. @craigspencer.bsky.social shares, "The longer we allow this outbreak to go uncontrolled, the greater the risk is not just to the region but to the US”.

YES‼️ The "asymmetry btw the salience of misleading information and the effort required to debunk, 'prebunk,' or communicate messier, complex truths is a fundamental challenge..." But ESSENTIAL to battle bunk! 💪 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... by @mlbarnett.bsky.social @jeremyfaust.bsky.social 🙏

Okay so I read the whole working paper behind this claim. I’m going to accept the causal analysis as-is and explain why I still don’t think this makes sense. Starting with: the comparison is between counties with vs. without lots of iPhone network coverage, NOT owning vs. not owning an iPhone 🧵

very tough but real words: "the world only cares about their region when there is an Ebola outbreak underway" 😓 www.statnews.com/2026/06/13/w...

Yorkshire, indeed the world, has lost some of its colour today. Garrowby Hill, a Yorkshire landscape by David Hockney, 1998. So long, David.

cc @atheendar.bsky.social

So many fascinating tidbits in this article ✅ 22 specialists ✅ at least one from Harvard (!?) ✅ each probably did their own exam of their own organ per prior WH doc's memoir my hot take: this is an insane way to practice medicine for anyone

i'm on team STAT

New at Can We Still Govern: The Trump admin released a report saying that Medicaid work requirements will increase work and reduce poverty. There is a technical term for this: malarkey. Actual experts @chloeneast.bsky.social & @adrianna.bsky.social break it down. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Examining weight stigma shows that the "obese" cutoff increases patient mortality. Analyses of diagnostic effort and clinical documentation point to stigma as a mechanism, from Manasvini Singh www.nber.org/papers/w35277

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Reminder, if you’re going to @ashecon.bsky.social 2026, come to our Wednesday session of creative uses of recession discontinuity with some of the best in the business, including @aschwartz.bsky.social, @vinisingh.bsky.social, @dzeltzer.bsky.social, and @mlbarnett.bsky.social!

Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, which has 25 beds, had over 700 positive tests for alpha-gal allergy last year. If you live in Massachusetts, best to get your fill of red meat now

tl;dr - scientists ejected from the meeting for distributing flyers with an editorial critical of Jay Bhattacharya. what country are we living in??

It's worth watching where the jobs are being created.

Measles vaccines save millions of lives each year. Measles used to be an extremely common disease. Just sixty years ago, over 90% of children would have been infected by it, and of those who developed symptoms, around a quarter would be hospitalized.

hooray!!!

big news from these regs: "We interpret the statutory reference to this medically frail category to apply to individuals with an SUD regardless of whether they are in an active treatment program." BIG near miss if they had required active treatment to qualify for exemption. phew

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Psychologists doing clustering be like: #statsmeme

Reports of an explosion heard around Boston are believed to be a significant bolide/meteor entering the atmosphere, a very large flash was detected by GOES-19 satellite that does not correlate with active thunderstorms. https://t.co/MSDGX6ZnMA

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This seems related? From Thursday www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/u...

Did anyone else in Cambridge/Boston just hear what sounded like a loud boom and rumble? Like an explosion or large object falling?

weird us too. couldn't be thunder

this helpful article by @ddiamond.bsky.social is the first I'm aware of that confirms Trump has taken the Montreal Cognitive assessment, aka MoCA. it's been hard to know for sure since his recounting of "acing" the test involves things that are definitely NOT in the assessment

wow www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

A new proposed rule on federal grantmaking — across agencies, this is much broader than research awards — just dropped. Screenshot from page 48 public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

Unclear if this is trying to create a much discussed "lottery system" where all too scored grants have a similar shot, or if it's a way to create more license to dump grants that NIH leaders don't want to fund.

This should please the lottery fans. Right, lottery fans? Speak up now so everyone can respect your huge win.

no one: let's make the NIH application process even more opaque and frustrating!

confirmed here by multiple sources!! another fun rumor is apparently the small and inexperienced firm taking over will subcontract the work back to ResDAC! I can feel the efficiency growing!