Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).

“All of a sudden, I was given a press release with a quotation by myself written in it, and asked to just agree to it,” Pazdur said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. Top FDA Scientist Explains Why He Quit After Getting a Promotion From RFK Jr. archive.is/2026.02.14-0...

Maybe Canada is the solution? Many of us are still open for students for Fall '26 or Jan '27 (our programs tend to be much more flexible than US programs about admission times...we also do May, and it doesn't really matter when someone starts).

Hey #ChemSky. I'm wondering what PhD applicants are experiencing this year. I have a student with essentially a 4.0, 3 years of research experience in my group, 1 summer (another pending) interning at Pfizer who currently has no offers. IMO this is complete nonsense. He's getting antsy.

“The deficiencies outlined in the FDA’s rejection letter are ‘addressable’ with another clinical trial already underway, the company added.” “The agency posted the rejection letter on its website Friday afternoon, sending Disc shares down 31%” Why was this given CNPV again?

“There is power in numbers. But sometimes there’s no one to call.” ICE moves out to the suburbs www.theverge.com/policy/87871...

me getting caught up on baseball injury news

More of Hudson from the Gold House Lunar New Year Celebration via evachen212

I've been interacting with the internet for so long now that when a guy knocked on my door today to try to sell window installation, I realized, "Oh, this is spam. It's just in-person spam." And that made me imagine roving gangs of people knocking on doors to claim to be Marriott customer service.

A few ways we will know ICE is actually gone: • Commuters no longer report regular verified ICE sightings • Abduction reports dry up • Hotel and car rentals end • Non-ICE federal employees are brought back to the Whipple

Still around 100 community reports of ICE activity around the Twin Cities today, the most of any state by far. In case you’re wondering why so many of us aren’t quite taking Homan’s presser today at face value.

Maybe, and this is me going out on a limb perhaps, teams shouldn't be entering into deals with 13-year-olds

Ahem.

They literally dragged a minor employee out of a Target as he was wailing that he was a US citizen, roughed him up in their car, and then dropped him off bloodied and bruised in the freezing cold a couple of miles away, so miss us with this.

4,049 people gone from NIH compared to 2024, an 18% loss in staff. www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

WSJ editorial board hits FDA: It’s hard to recall a regulator who has done as much damage to medical innovation in as little time as Vinay Prasad who rejected Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine without even a cursory review. www.wsj.com/opinion/vina...

is that an ad for Catan at the Timberwolves game?

It's all fun and games until you suddenly have like 300 people in your classes 😆😅 On the plus side: I've got a lot of cute panda pictures now!

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped

Phillies Remove Nick Castellanos Picture, Tell Him To Stay Away From Camp Why remove the picture when you could just draw a circle with a cross through it? 🚫❌⛔️ (h/t @allaws.bsky.social) www.forbes.com/sites/peterc...

I knew that there are a ton of supplements (all unregulated!) targeted to people who are taking GLP-1 RAs but this labeling leaves much to be desired

This is why Minnesotans are begging folks outside the state to keep talking about us. Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger.

Are the wings at Quarry House still good?

I just ask myself constantly is it perimenopause or is it fascism

Am I the only one whose brain sings “maybe it’s menopause” to the tune of “maybe it’s Maybelline”

A thing about middle age that no prepares you for is waking up with a sore muscle to which absolutely nothing new has happened. Maybe you slept funny, maybe it is menopause

This Nationals ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶ bag doesn’t look so great

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist. Cool. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

This is real bad. Companies work WITH the FDA to design then execute the trial. If Moderna dropped $750M on this trial (as reported) after setting it up with the FDA only to have FDA turnaround and not even consider the data after the fact is an abomination. Absolute clown show

For people who don't follow the FDA closely: this is insane. Like my jaw hit the floor when I saw this. The FDA is flat out refusing to even consider Moderna's application for a new flu vaccine? The federal health apparatus is fully compromised by anti-vax conspiracy. THIS IS NUTS! BAD

I think it’s too cold to go to a baseball game in Minnesota in April, but there’s a day game on my birthday and my boss already told me that everyone in our group usually takes the day off on their birthday…..

This is troubling for multiple reasons, but one big one is companies won’t want to invest in R&D and clinical trials if they don’t think they can get a fair regulatory review—which is at the end of a long and extremely expensive process. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...

It will be interesting to see if any other pharma or biotech companies will speak up. A refusal to file after years of discussions is bad news for everyone… www.statnews.com/2026/02/10/f...

Increasing autism rates over the last 25 years may just be kids with mild forms getting diagnosed. Rates of moderate to severe impairment due to autism have actually fallen slightly. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

Just in the past few months in Minnesota, there have been as many ICE employees arrested for sex trafficking as there's been people executed by ICE agents

Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.

I’m pleased my family—including our 10 year old son—is up to date on our flu vaccine It was so sad to see RFK Jr drop the recommendation that all kids get vaccinated It was horrific & dystopian to hear him say it may be “better” if fewer kids got vaccinated (www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...)

Reminder: It has been a very bad flu season. Undercutting flu vaccination is a perfect Trump Administration special combination of stupid and dangerous.

Guess who is doing Kennedy's bidding at the FDA...

Please read our latest of the Maga donors at Uline and their reliance on Mexican labor. For the first time, one worker who was badly hurt on the job has spoken to us and told us his story (with @maanvisingh.bsky.social ) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Inspired by @labmuffin.com

The "Melania" director — who's also accused of sexual misconduct and assault and appears in the Epstein files — was also behind that Mike Tyson/MAHA Super Bowl ad 👇

I almost wish we had a Hitchhiker’s chapter about Panicans

Drafts are here #chemchat

I need to renew my TSA PreCheck and it's the first time I've done this since they started outsourcing to private companies. I haaaaaaaaaaate this

More than 140 Asian immigrants were arrested during the first few weeks of Operation Midway Blitz. Powerful reporting from @estheryjkang.bsky.social www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Lilly is hiring: Associate Director - Engineering API External Manufacturing Peptides & Large Molecules #chemjobs careers.lilly.com/us/en/job/R-...

Botany valentine. Another oldie.