This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

The form of mercury that was used in a small proportion of flu vaccines was safe. Because not all mercury-containing compounds are the same.

Seems clear the administration’s eventual goal is no contraception, no antidepressants, no abortion and care from the fine folks at the new “fertility clinics” from the title X funding

Online Now! A new @genomicspc.bsky.social Spotlight: "Psychiatric disorders: teasing apart genetic similarities and differences" by Jiayi Xu (徐佳依) (@xujiayi.bsky.social) & Laura M. Huckins (@laurahuckins.bsky.social) Read for FREE till Aug. 23rd at this link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lNROcQbJF...

A good thread on today in America with the launch of US concentration camps, and the moral dilemmas all of us are facing. It happened slowly in 1930s Germany too; many people were tested in different ways. Will you take the moral stand when tested?

“My counsel says we were not aware of the extermination of the millions. He would give you the excuse: We were only aware of the extermination of the hundreds. Does that make us any the less guilty? Maybe we didn't know the details. But if we didn't know, it was because we didn't want to know.”

The. Republican. Party. Wants. To. End. American. Science.

On brand. Disaster relief will now be a personal favor from the President to communities that pledge loyalty. Be grateful if you're from a (relatively) non-disaster prone part of the country.

Feeling a lot like I did in early days of the pandemic these days. It is so clear what’s coming: The people that will die because of cuts in global health, because of cuts to research, because of the concerted anti-vaccine push. It’s clear what’s coming, but we will have to wait to count the dead.🧪

This panel is never approving another vaccine.

Hey, fellow Asian So. Cal Fam: ICE is visiting local Asian grocery stores like HMart and 99 Ranch - just heard this from a local contact. Please be careful AND please take this as a sign - this impacts us too. Call. Protest. Donate.

Seems bad

I am hopeful of this too, but it can't wait. If things continue like this for the next 18 months, we will lose huge swaths of our biomedical (and I assume other fields) workforce, including me I am an early stage investigator, and if I don't get grant funding in the next 2 years, I can't continue 🧪

Tip for PhD applicants reaching out to prospective advisors: Don’t use an LLM to write these emails. It’s not a great first impression to express your admiration for a recent paper the faculty member published if that paper does not exist.

Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Multiple recent studies, including 3 impressive natural experiments, consistently show a link between Shingles vaccines and reduced dementia. This week a nationwide S Korea study added a reduction of cardiovascular events My summary Table. More here on dementia erictopol.substack.com/p/the-shingl...

Delighted to be back at the New York Academy of Medicine celebrating the achievements of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai MD/PhD students!

Enormous congratulations to Dr. Rebecca Signer, who successfully defended her PhD thesis today! Rebecca's thesis examines the differences between eating disorders, obesity, thinness, and depression using a case-case gwas, and then delves into how our BMI can change regulation of gene expression.

🌍Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a devastating condition that affects people globally and can be chronic But it's complex and experiences are diverse... So how do we effectively measure severity to help inform research and best treat ALL people suffering from AN? 🧵1/6

✨Welcome to the PGC Eating Disorders Working Group takeover! Over the next two weeks, we'll be filling your Bluesky with all things #eatingdisorder #genetics. You'll be hearing from @helenadavies.bsky.social, Kylie Reed, and @natashaberthold.bsky.social 💜 1/3

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language. The results tell us a lot! Extracts below... 🧵

Now that the first Advisory Council meeting will be announced in the Federal Register tomorrow (National Institute for Complementary and Integrative Health) tomorrow, I want to clarify something that has been happening for at least the past 30 days. 1/n

If there is one thing scientists need to know right now it’s this. Every effort you make now has to be directed at reaching the average normal person. That means reaching off Bluesky. Hold local events, write local papers, get on local TV. Go to any space average people get info.

Wow. "NIH" canceled my co-mentored (with Dave Sulzer) PhD student's F31 funding. His work is on understanding the genetics and neuroscience of language learning disorders. F31 provides no indirect $ to Columbia, just pays his salary. Not that it should matter, but he's an American citizen. W.T.F.

Exactly. This sort of “on your permanent record” poisoning is a hugely predictable concern. It serves their interest in excluding people of color from federal service and federal grants/contracts.

Some of Huckins Lab (and the next generation!) braved the cold on Friday to fight for Science! #FundtheNIH #WomenInScience

+1e9 This isn’t just about NIH or NSF, it’s not about biology vs math/physics vs health outcomes research, not about intramural or extramural. This is a coordinated attack on ALL US science. The gov’t / academia partnership IS what makes US science. They’re trying to end all science research.

Everybody (me included) is getting bogged down on the details of events at NIH et al. Fatal mistake. The big picture is Musk/Trump are trying to shut down all gov-funded Medical/Disease research in the US. Have to understand that to have any hope of stopping it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/act-now

I'm pleased to share the first paper I've worked on during my PhD in @kristenbrennand.bsky.social's lab led by the amazing Carina Seah with @laurahuckins.bsky.social on the implications of gene x environment interactions for PTSD @wutsaiyale.bsky.social @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth. It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.

Unsure how recent changes in U.S. policy regarding the NIH will impact the psychiatric genetics world? You're not alone. Join ISPG for a Member’s Meetup for community discussion and support: 📅 Wednesday, January 29 🕗 3 PM EST 📍 Pre-Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#jobalert #postdoc #scijob Our lab will be hiring a postdoc to specialize in integrating functional genomics data with GWAS! We're especially interested in how environment shapes eQTL relationships, and how that might help uncover the etiology of PTSD and Eating Disorders.

Huckins Lab has a fun new holiday tradition- gingerbread houses! Complete with DNA roof tiles, pathways, and gumdrop histones 🍭🧬❄️☃️

First up- huge congratulations to former Huckins lab grad student, now Huckins lab postdoc, Dr. Emily Hicks, who defended her thesis last week!

Hi, everyone- I'm excited to be here! I'll be posting about psychiatric genetics, trauma, women's health, and the intersection of politics and science- in particular, I'll be highlighting work from my amazing team here @yaleuniversity.bsky.social