The papers that HHS cites to bolster their claim appear to have convinced many people that this is a legit scientific observation. But the citations actually show no correlation between Tylenol use and autism. PSA: Don't believe something because someone provides a citation. Go read the cited paper🧪

OMG it is really happening en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_(2...

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit. Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil. 1🧵 #PlaymobilÖtzi #PlaymobilInfestation

Intense ivory poaching has led to the evolution of tusklessness in some African elephant populations, which might reduce poaching, but also happens to be an X-chromosome–linked dominant trait that is lethal to males #EleFunFactFriday #TheMoreYouKnow 💫 🧪 🐘 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hi Canadian friends! Want to help prevent what’s happening to science south of our border from happening here?? Hope the answer is YES… Assuming it is, it took me about 2 mins to fill out and send this pre written letter #ArmchairActivism #AcademicSky 🇨🇦 🧪

A paper in Nature suggests a quarter of heatwave events from 2000-23 would have been near impossible without anthropogenic climate change. The paper also indicates that major carbon emitters are responsible for around 50% of the increase in intensity of these events. ⚒️ 🧪

Booze is in our genes, since before primates were primates www.science.org/content/arti...

The Ig Nobel awards for science that makes you laugh then think are back. Highlights this year include the preferred pizza of rainbow lizards at a seaside resort, the physics of perfect pasta dish and a man who documented the growth of a fingernail for 35 years! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A clean energy source I did not have on my bingo card. 🧪 newatlas.com/energy/elect...

The OWWG has a new home at workforce.psi.edu/owwg/ ! We also have a new mailing list hosted by PSI. You can subscribe by sending a message to [email protected]. Thank you to PSI for hosting our new webpage and mailing list! 🧪🔭🪐

[On the bench today ⚒️ #BehindTheScenes] Mars Curiosity Rover wheel pendant necklace in sterling silver. Including the hidden Morse code message 😎 🔭🧪🐡🎨

Sounds like mosquitos evolved to go for a typical human.

I hear you—but here’s why this is huge: we know *how* microbes can evolve into sentient life. That’s just #evolution. What we don’t know is how life _begins_ from organics that we see everywhere. If Mars had life, it means that leap happened twice in one solar system. That’s the *real* BFD. 🔭🧪

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My thoughts exactly. Despite a formidable body of evidence that Covid vaccines are safe, Kennedy insists it is not enough. His intent is to erode public confidence in scientists by hiding behind the cloak of “healthy skepticism”. Gaslighting is the word. 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/09/05/m...

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You know when cats get really freaked, they ball up into this tight mass of muscle, and a deep deep growl emerges from the depths. Everybody in science and public health is in that mode. They are being attacked by their own government. This sick country. 🧪 🩺

Europe steps up as US science funding shrinks. Aix-Marseille’s $16M “Safe Place for Science” drew an unexpected 300+ US applicants in 2 weeks, while the EU launches a $500M “Choose Europe for Science” push to attract top researchers. 🧪🧬🔬 #SciComm

🚗 Black cars amplify city heat Parked cars intensify the urban heat island effect. In Lisbon, a black car heated nearby air by up to 3.8 °C more than the asphalt beneath it. Light colours and shading cut the effect. 🔗 www.zmescience.com/ecology/clim... #SciComm #Cars 🧪

🚨 🧪 @drdemetre.bsky.social “The CDC you knew is over… Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” “The American people expect that public health functions at a level that is so great that they don’t perceive that it exists” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

🧪 TIL of sand batteries ⬇️ Good article, worth a read -

The Climate Systems Engineering initiative (CSEi) at the University of Chicago is seeking postdoctoral researchers interested in marine carbon dioxide removal to start in a year. 🌊🧪 Annual salary: $90,000/year Research and travel funding: $10,000/year Relation assistance: $3,000

Scientific illustrations are a great way to add visual interest to your paper, especially if your species are hard to photograph (ahem… fish). Not to mention, they look pretty great in a PowerPoint! #scientificillustration #ecology #evolutionarybiology 🧪

Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!! 30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing. Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊

Good thread by Dr. @katharinehayhoe.com for my #ENVSCOMM2025-2 students to check out, in which she explains how we know humans are largely responsible for the rapid climate change we're experiencing now. #scicomm 🧪

Scientists who study climate don't automatically attribute all changes to human activity. Rather, we carefully investigate every possible natural factor that could explain the planet's warming. Could these be the real culprits? The evidence is in--and the answer is NO. This thread explains! 🧵

New study led by Joanna Baker shows bigger brains and relatively longer thumbs coevolved in primates. Humans have huge thumbs, but only what our brain size (esp. neocortex) would predict. It’s NOT driven by tool use. A fantastic paper with a huge amount of work, and superb data presentation 🧪🏺👍🧠💀🐒🦧

Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.

“President Trump purported to fire me ‘for cause’ when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign," Lisa Cook said tonight in response to Trump

My latest: The Trump administration is not waiting for the next fiscal year -- or Congress -- to cut climate science at NOAA. A new document details the money it won't spend *this* year on climate research.

The @NYTimes has done a fantastic job on explaining what the Trump administration’s savage cuts to biomedical research mean: cures that won’t happen. Please share this widely. This is a catastrophe. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

National Guard troops on duty in President Trump’s D.C. crackdown began carrying weapons Sunday evening, according to a spokesman for the National Guard task force.

It's not quite #InverteFest in North America yet, but it is in the rest of the world, so... here is a coral crab from Anilao. My best guess at id is Quadrella maculosa but I'm not at all sure. #MarineLife 🦀🌿

When a whale dies and falls to the seafloor, its lipid-rich bones decay into sulfide. Idas washingtonia is a clam that specializes in colonizing during this "sulfophilic" stage, years after the initial whale fall. >10000 appear on the skeleton, using bacteria on their gills that eat sulfide! (205)

My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA. I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe. What's going on right now is not normal.

Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.

If you believe that keeping your head down and being quiet will spare you from this fate, you are mistaken. This will be all of us.

Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)

I am imploring media outlets to speak the word fascism and explain why that’s what we’re seeing. Explain the historical parallels. Don’t “both sides” it. Don’t make ineffective messengers like Jeffries, who inevitably come off as political, be the ones making the case. Your job is to inform/warn.

Nobody is asking for military occupation. No community in the U.S. is asking for that. And at best, it serves no legitimate purpose. It’s just a show of force meant to intimidate political opponents of the president. Likely, it signals the start of heinous human rights violations.

FWIW, "yours for the restoration of the Republic" was a common salutation American fascists gave to each other in the 1950s and 1960s. This is from a 1952 letter by Ohio white supremacist terrorist Peter Xavier. The rest of the rhetoric here might be familiar too.

Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong. Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:

Science in the United States is being dismantled at a rapid rate. It's just like Sarah Kendzior says, "This is a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government." 🧪

A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...

“Gavin Newsom is doing something leading Democrats could and should have done a long time ago, but they were too busy listening to the wrong people.” @brianbeutler.bsky.social

Let The Race Begin! A Call for a Competitive Anti-Trumpism talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/let-t...

In a major blow to scientists who had NIH grants terminated by the Trump administration, the U.S. Supreme Court has told the government it can refuse to restore $783 million in federal research funding. https://scim.ag/45R0QWZ

I'm hiring a postdoc to work in theoretical / computational phylogenomics! More info at tinyurl.com/63hb5ew8. Please share!