Michael Pollan's gave support for RFK Jr. and MAHA "real food" agenda on Colbert. He is the teacher in the Ozark clip. Utopian ideals - local, organic food for all or a drug-free world - ignore the world we are currently in and the institutions that must be dismantled in getting to utopia.

Breaking: The Trump administration announces new pick to lead the EPA.

In June 2015, during Ramadan, I was in Antakya, Turkey working with an international aid organization on a plan to rebuild childhood vaccination programs across the border in Idlib, Syria that had been elicited by civil war. On my last night I was invited to Iftar with a refugee family.

Has anyone speculated on an invasion of Iran as a pretext for leaving NATO? i.e. start an unpopular war, then use the lack of support from NATO allies as a basis for leaving the alliance.

Shout out to the Olympic coaches whose job it is to take athletes more talented than they are and make them more talented than themselves.

Within hours of posting a pre-print, my inbox is inundated with emails from predatory journals and conferences. The efficiency is breathtaking, but also implies they're making enough money to maintain that efficiency, which is mind bottling

It has been many years since I listened to the story of the greatest voicemail message of all time. But hearing it now, in the post-twitter era lends a whole new perspective to a story of a message that defined and instant for which everyone felt the pull to add a piece of themselves to.

The conditions were deteriorating as we rolled along, but tried to make the best of it before the melt gets too bad.

I gave a talk to health care providers this week predicated on this: A LOT of what we know about measles today, was learned AFTER measles was common in the US 1/

I also say this to all my friends. Which is why I usually drink alone in my kitchen. Live Updates: In Munich, Rubio Calls Europe a Friend but Says It Must Change

Hang on. I've watched enough lawyer shows ... "I'm not going to comment on the existence of a list, except to say that someone is definitely on the list"? This is from the highest ranking lawyer in the federal government?

Exciting post-doc opportunity at UMD -- The Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park seeks applications for three quantitative biology postdoctoral fellow positions as part of its newly established Quantitative Biology Initiative (QBI)

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

I'm horrible at remembering names but I could always connect faces and contexts. Doing project with folks that I've only ever met on Zoom is like starting from scratch at every meeting.

I get that making multiple meals for yourself every day can become tiring. Doing it for others, who are probably not terribly thankful, compounds that. But the US trend of removing all the joy from food -- tasting it, sharing it with others -- in favor of expedience just makes me sad.

Someone asked me to give a 1h talk to health professionals about measles epidemiology .... I'm at 95 slides so far.

The snow was so good that we forgot to stop to take pictures today. But the end result was the same as yesterday. Mission accomplished.

A tired dog is a sign of a well spent day

Breaking: Mike Johnson named to coach the Atlanta Falcons in the 2017 Superbowl

Not for nothing. But I don’t have any need to spare the Clintons now and I voted for both of them.

Someone was asking me why I would give up all the opportunities and conveniences of city life. Yeah ... I can't imagine why.

Man, I wish the Democratic Party had a good social media intern who could capitalize on this.

I found this wonderful quote by Alan Hinman looking back on some old correspondence with him: "If an eradication program fails to strengthen infrastructure, it is a failure of planning and leadership, not inherently a failure of the program." This will be my new mantra.

Snow and sunshine are a helluva drug

This guy is the Simone Biles of mental gymnastics.

Some of my colleagues say they’ll work forever because they can’t imagine what they would do if they retired. I’m pretty sure I could keep myself busy.

Allan was a mensch, plain and simple. What a loss and what a well-lived life. He had a favorite pizza place in Geneva and we had dinner there several times. That I go to do such mundane things with my heroes will never cease to amaze me.

There's a lot of bad news in health and politics. But at least you didn't write this headline in Spring of 2025 ... ... it's me, I'm the one with the really bad timing.

timeline cleanse

there are few things in this world as good as a snow day

Reflections on nordic skiing: 1. you can be both envious and thankful of the one who breaks the trail 2. each person that skis in the track means that those behind can go faster and further 3. if you didn't get to break trail this time, it will snow again

I got to sit next to Bill Foege a day-long meeting with Bill Gates in 2015 about the feasibility of pathogen eradication. We were the only two people in a room of ~40 that were wearing ties. If that day is the closest to greatness I reach, I'm cool with that. 1/

Just to break up your feed

Lucy was built for winter. But even she says Fuck ICE.

Huh, you mean his excitement with Bill Gates over polio eradication hasn't held up? Color me shocked.

I have so many rewarding memories about my visits to WHO. It is to see the US abdicate its leadership in global health.

Winter light

Thinking of spring.

Mike Johnson re President Trump: “We take him seriously, not always literally.” I only wish he would take the same stance with the Constitution.

Has any one thought about sneaking tic-tac-toe into the next cognitive exam?

The complete abdication of public health leadership in the US

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I’m not posting enough Lucy content

I once heard discussion of a faculty candidate after an incoherent seminar where someone argued "well, they're just so smart that none of us could comprehend it". If someone argues "they're too smart to ..." they are arguing that they are definitely "not smart enough to ..."

Keep in mind the "straw that broke the camel's back" metaphor ... the last thing for the last person to come to their senses will be late, it will feel trivial, even frustrating, in comparison to all the things they ignored. What is important is that the back is broken, not the straw that did it.

This image is bonkers ... and that's the least bizarre thing in this story that just keeps getting weirder and weirder with each paragraph.

the bedfellows will indeed be strange

The US will likely lose its "measles elimination" status this week as we clock 365 days of continuous measles transmission. The status is just a signifier & is easy to dismiss. We've been searching for a relatable metaphor & have landed on this ... The US is the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI

Didn’t Kavanaugh explicitly say that this wouldn’t happen in his argument in favor of racial profiling?

Good news for measles and rubella programs under the revised Gavi 6.0 (2026-2030) strategy in light of fundraising shortfall 1. M/MR is considered a ‘guaranteed’ programme in country vaccine budgets and will have ‘guardrailed’ operational costs for follow-up campaigns in country cash envelopes 1/2