1/OpEd in @washingtonpost.com by #RANDCorporation’s @beaukilmer.bsky.social & #Standford’s #KeithHumphreys: Legal #cannabis markets have surged — but regs haven’t kept up. Today’s ultra-potent #THC (20%+ flower, 60–90% concentrates) means more impairment & risky driving. bit.ly/49fAVto

We cannot afford another eight years of RFK Jr. We will be paying the price in tiny coffins and mounting hospital bills. MAHA Action has a war chest worth millions, and have been organizing for years. We cannot throw in the towel. Science must get their act together, and fight back in 2026.

You know what, shitbird? I have an idea. What about a VACCINE? There are several in late stages of development. Will you promote them so we can get “children back into the woods” as you say?

Machine learning identifies two types of MS using sNfL levels and location of CNS lesions/shrinkage. MS likely not one disease… www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Blood Test Identifies Colon Cancer in Adults Ages 20-35 With 98.5% Accuracy Study: An Exosome-Based Liquid Biopsy for the Detection of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer: The ENCODER Multicenter Study buff.ly/xi4fYNY #medsky #GIsky 🛟🧪

"The U.S. (child vaccination) schedule is not a historical accident or the result of bureaucratic overreach. It is the product of decades of rigorous, U.S.-specific epidemiology, modeling and real-world data... Replacing it with Denmark’s schedule is not simplification. It is negligence." 🛟😷 Policy

Highly recommend this Tribune story on ICE’s Chicago operation — and the brave resistance it faced here. (Gift link.) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...

I love this paragraph on the ever-present uncertainty in science. From the book Unrooted by @doctorzedd.bsky.social

An alternative for those who want to dive in. 'Asymptomatic: The Silent Spread of COVID-19 and the Future of Pandemics (JHU Press). Addresses the roots of Covid grievances (hint: never the flu) & how to realign preparedness to control silent spread. www.amazon.com/Asymptomatic...

Macedo and Lee misrepresent what actually happened during the pandemic and are unable to confront Covid's actual toll, presumably because it undermines their premise. A longer take here w/my colleague Greg Gibson: joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/revisionis...

Enabled by NIH support, mRNA Covid-19 vaccines were 'Decades in the Making' & helped saved millions of lives. Why wouldn't NIH share the history of its long-term investment in mRNA vaccine research with the world? For now, access from abroad yields: 403 Forbidden www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-con...

This is an outstanding essay describing some of the important roles and influences of NIH program officers (from an insider perspective). Read! elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...

Agree 100% with this.

This is the best news I’ve seen in a while. Fingers crossed for speedy progress to approval and adoption

How it started… How it’s going! A HUGE thank you to everyone who came to the rescue & helped support independent journalism in this darkest of years. We lost our news organisation…but we built a new one! @thenerve_news 🙏🙏🙏

Measles has been eliminated in Australia. That means that we do not have Sustained transmission, we have small outbreaks which start with importation (people getting measles overseas.) This was a huge achievement in public health and it takes a lot of work, ongoing. www.who.int/westernpacif...

The Trump Administration literally wants to erase trans people. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/an-h...

One example of many. Seems to me it will be hard to reset US research when and if the current mess is over. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/s...

How Bad Is This Bill? The Answer in 10 Charts. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Kennedy says adding folic acid to tortillas is “waging war” against poor residents. Folic acid has long been added to cereal and bread and the CDC website currently says it’s safe for those with the mutation mentioned in the thread Kennedy is replying to.

SUVs and big Utes "are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with a sedan, and 82 per cent more likely to kill a child" www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

2025 RECAP: From installing an anti-vax conspiracy theorist as our nation's top health care official to taking an axe to lifesaving biomedical research, the Trump administration has systematically put politics over science.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

Back from a week in Canada visiting my in-laws. Normally we get together in the Poconos, as it’s central for all of the families, but the in-laws aren’t comfortable coming here under Trump’s new rules so we moved it all north of the border. That’s probably $8k that would’ve gone to Pennsylvania.

If you work in science communication and engagement this message is for you! I know I am not alone in this, but I am always so bad at linking up with my colleagues and connecting with community so if anyone in scicomm sees this...Hello! #scicomm #science #sciencecommunication #scienceengagement

RFK Jr and other Trump officials do not want to testify in front of Congress. What are they trying to hide? Gift article, no paywall. wapo.st/3LlDNx0

Matt Taibbi is suing @eoinhiggins.bsky.social in a very dumb defamation suit. If claims this nonspecific and broad were actionable under defamation law, Taibbi would be financially bankrupt in addition to intellectually bankrupt. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🚨 REMINDER: 30% of the U.S. population STILL HAS UNTIL NEW YEAR'S EVE to enroll in #ACA coverage with a January 1st start date! CA, IL, MD, NV, NJ, NM, PA, RI, VA & WA residents should read my Open Enrollment Guide & #GetCovered TODAY! acasignups.net/25/12/25/gro...

Reporter note: PP fundraising emails about fighting the Trump "defund" provision that could close 200 health centers are seeking donations for its c4 advocacy org—not the clinics at risk of closure. If people want $ to go to clinics, give to local affiliate prod.cdn.everyaction.com/emails/van/A...

Lovely review by @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social of my book ‘The Tree of Life’ in the Wall Street Journal today. Free guest link if you’re interested. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

California High-Speed Rail Authority terminated Its lawsuit against Trump admin seeking to restore the $4 b the admin cut from the project, “reflecting the state's "assessment that the federal govt is not a reliable, constructive, or trustworthy partner in advancing high-speed rail in California."”

It did not "go viral". It was intentionally filmed and disseminated using a network of coordinated bots, amplified by an algorithm designed to spread this kind of content quickly. This was a harassment campaign, intended to silence everyone. Call it what it is.

OSTP has issued a request for information, please share with them your ideas for how to improve government functions related to science funding and policy www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

“Miss, do you agree with the sign?” “Absolutely not. My great niece was 4 months pregnant and her fetus had no skull. And because of men involving themselves in women’s bodies she was forced to deliver the fetus… there’s a reason God created medicine.”🔥 #ForcedBirthNation

Interesting retelling of the public-private race to sequence the human genome 🧬 over the 1990s at #ThePulse. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The incredibly corrupt, lawless, & unconstitutional nature of the entire DOGE enterprise requires Elon Musk and lots of other people to spend the rest of their lives in jail.

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

I personally know a brilliant guy who loves twitter for its arguments. Still posts here. Starts off w “Liberals suck because X”. Gets zero traction. Thank you Bsky. But seriously there must be an endorphin rush from getting people to fight you. Center of attention? Adrenaline? So weird to me.

Legend Imran Ahmed (CEO of CCDH) just sued the U.S. Government for the wildly inappropriate visa sanctions. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York just granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against this inappropriate government action. What a Christmas gift!

This is not a “duel,” which suggests both sides are equally culpable, but the latest salvo in the Trump administration’s ideological war on Harvard and higher education. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...

The "pharma shill" charge persists not because it's true but because it's useful. It discredits doctors while shielding those who actually profit from vaccine doubt. I examined the economics here: open.substack.com/pub/jakescot...

Imran Ahmed Chief Exec of Centre for Digital Hate is one of the Europeans being targeted by the Trump administration for visa revocation. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

It’s nice to see people like this article. But I want to discuss a comment it received from a political scientist at Stanford. But first some background. 🧵

The whole smoking is cool in Hollywood again and libs should reconsider banning smoking from public places smells to high heaven like a manufactured PR campaign. But, sure, let's pretend it's a grass roots revival thing. Like being vaccines. Or unbridled racism.

On or off Broadway, public health lives or dies at the level of ordinary, everyday interactions. www.statnews.com/2025/12/24/f...

Good WSJ video about doctors who do videos to counter HHS disinfo . WSJ is no RFK fan. www.wsj.com/video/meet-t...

Someone should sit the new members of ACIP down and explain what their job is and is not to them in simple terms, and maybe teach them some basic law. Dr. Malone's claims here have several misunderstandings. 1/n