Please read about the terrible impact(s) of tear gas which is a weapon of WAR: issuu.com/projectnia/d...

Since returning to office, Trump admin has aggressively cut live-saving federal science programs, medical research, and grants. Today, the AAUP & AFT launched a new campaign to halt these cuts and to support the bipartisan commitment to funding scientific research that saves lives!

You asked for it! We delivered Quack-O-Grams to our members of Congress urging them to #ImpeachRFK, and get that Quack out of office! There's still time for you to get in on this fluffy, feathery action: Send your own duck at zurl.co/W1ZnB#ImpeachRFKand keep the momentum going! 🦆

Vaccines not only save lives, they save money. Paying a hospital bill for what should have been an avoidable illness could bankrupt families and cost the government billions. Vaccines work and are a cost-effective investment.

My friend volunteers for this shelter (luckily not there that day) and they could use donations to recover from this if you have some $ to spare.

This breaks my heart. I’ve had many similar discussions with students, esp bc I lead a research ed program for undergrads to support biomed workforce. It’s hard to know what to say. Should they (pre 2025)? Should they (post 2025)? Two entirely different convos 😢 We are losing a gen of scientists

💙 Another child dies from measles 💙 🍼 Infected with measles as an infant BEFORE they were eligible to receive the vaccine. 🧠 They developed SSPE - a rare but fatal complication that shows 2-10 years after infection. ‼️ THIS is we why need need vaccine mandates. Save our babies. #SacktheQuack

👇🎯 Quite literally, the published course descriptions at most universities are <decades> old & incredibly generic because the course has been taught by dozens of different professors over many years & stop it, this is not serious behavior from Texas A&M leaders & we don't need to pretend that it is.

Nobody is safe if anyone can be snatched off the street without probable cause then deported without due process.

I ask my Intro Bio students what societal problems need biology knowledge to solve, and say they can think about things affecting their communities. Interestingly, this year vaccines and misinformation came out as a popular response and didn't the past two yrs I did this. 🧪

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.

Even Trump knows: siding with RFK Jr. on vaccines is a losing bet. Help us deal the final blow: send your reps a Quack-O-Gram. Impeach and Remove the Quack! act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/... #standupforscience #impeachthequack

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The only vaccine graphic that anyone needs to see

Robert F Kennedy, Jr. must resign, immediately, before the lives of millions of Americans are further imperiled by his reckless disregard for medical expertise. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

We need an HHS Secretary who respects science and does not make policy based on conspiracy theories. Vaccines are safe and effective. Kennedy is threatening the health of our kids and all Americans. He must resign.

I can't watch this hearing without punching a wall (and the walls are thin in our office building), so depending on clips. Thank you @senwyden.bsky.social for the bluntness needed

This morning I called @schiff.senate.gov, @padilla.senate.gov and @liccardo.house.gov to ask them to call for the firing or resignation of RFK Jr who is lying to Congress this morning and will lead to many deaths from preventable illnesses. Join me in flooding Congress’s phones today 🧪

RFK pressured her to *pre approve* panel recommendations for a panel that had not actually met! "Once trusted experts are removed and advisory bodies are stacked, the results are predetermined. That isn’t reform. It is sabotage."

The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.

Good God - why does it have to be Rand Paul saying the obvious stuff? Where the F are Democrats?

Tomorrow, when you call your senators and representatives again to demand RFK's resignation, remind them that the nation's major medical societies (and our largest nurses union! @nationalnurses.bsky.social) demand it, too.

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

Breaking News: Saying the CDC has become “a political tool,” California, Oregon and Washington announced plans to form an alliance that would coordinate vaccine recommendations for the three states.

New office art thanks to @skypeascientist.bsky.social : Research funding does save lives. 🧪

Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq

In the past couple weeks, people have really stepped up to ensure all ABRCMS students have a great experience, so THANK YOU! There are still a few disciplines that could use some help: where are my Cell Bio, Cancer Bio, and Immunology folks at?!? abrcms.org/donate/stude...

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

FORTUNATELY, for everyone we have a fun way to tell your House rep that you think Bobby Jr is a quack and has to go… For $3 we will hand deliver (by a man in a duck costume) a rubber ducky with a message to “impeach the quack” to your rep! QUACK-O-GRAMS! act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

When charlatans like RFK Jr. say "stop trusting the experts," what they're really saying is, "discount knowledge and experience and buy into my own bullshit instead."

What gets me about this is that it is the opposite of the truth. Democracy is a collaborative effort, and part of that effort is trusting the judgment of experts regarding their fields of study. It is a dictatorship where the experts’ opinions are subservient to the will of the dictator.

NEW: Don't ask too many questions, but... NIH may not re-terminate the 900ish grants at issue in the main NIH lawsuits after all. To the PIs of reinstated grants, SPEND NOW! 🧵 Here's what NIH is probably thinking. Bear with me:

Honestly, the only thing even in the same league as vaccines is sanitation. Antibiotics are the next level down.

100% @apspublications.bsky.social are the🐐. Where else can you publish OA in a reputable journal for < $1000

Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.

someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

I've called about this the last two days. RFK Jr and his pseudoscientist minions must go. I'd love to see more Democrats get loud about this (hint hint @liccardo.house.gov, @schiff.senate.gov , & @padilla.senate.gov ) and Republicans actually provide some oversight and pushback.

This is a good time to plug the SJSU Open Access 2025 conference! The theme is "Defend Research, Defend Open Access" and I will be one of the keynote speakers. scholarworks.sjsu.edu/oa-un-confer...

Was going to be a part of a special issue proposal for J Physiol but Wiley $5k open access fees are too much for me. Kudos to @apspublications.bsky.social for their $995 APC cost for members in most journals, plus making Subscribe to Open Target so all papers open access this yr.

“[Monarez] had two lines in the sand,” Besser said. “One was anything that was deemed illegal. And the second was anything that she felt flew in the face of science. And she says she was asked to do both of those.” Principled leadership matters. RFK Jr is unfit to serve as Secretary of HHS.

"We need Congress to intervene, we need appropriations back. We need to follow science. We need to have ethics back...We need to be able to do (our work) without interference. I believe in our scientists. We need our leaders above us to believe in CDC." — Debra Houry

📲 Now is a moment to call your Senators and Reps! 5calls.org/issue/rfk-hh...

REMINDER: in this moment, the thing you want your Congressperson to do is (1) demand resignations and (2) threaten endless hearings. Impeachment isn't going to work. Read the article if you don't want to take my word for it - Larry is the most respected health law expert in America.

10 of my papers were in this data base.

The shooter at Annunciation Catholic School used an assault weapon to fire dozens of rounds through the stained glass windows of the school’s church—killing two children and wounding 17 others, including 14 children.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: “Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying.” Thoughts and prayers won’t stop gunmen with assault weapons or keep our kids safe. Banning assault weapons will.

The list is long and includes low hanging fruit like physical inactivity which means most adults Americans will still meet criteria to get a COVID vaccine booster if they wish. Know the list, find your comorbidity and get your booster come fall.💅🤷‍♀️