I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

@rnbluthenthal.bsky.social Thank you for an amazing episode!

🚨 NEW EPISODE ALERT 🚨 In this week's episode we invited Dr. Ricky Bluthenthal to discuss harm reduction, systemic barriers impeding access to it, and just how much policy influences health outcomes. Don't miss out - listen here or anywhere you get your podcasts! open.spotify.com/episode/6Fmy...

Such good news. Human beings are capable of magical and wonderful things. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hopping on a plane to DC tonight, because @standupforscience.net is fighting this new OMB rule proposal with everything we’ve got. My calendar is literally booked for 12 hours of meetings, on the Hill, in a row for three days. Wanna sponsor the trip? secure.qgiv.com/for/stop-vou...

Five diabetes researchers were removed from the field’s premier conference in New Orleans after handing out copies of an editorial criticizing the Trump administration’s “dismantling” of the biomedical research enterprise.

Often times becoming homeless occurs after generations of challenges. This recollection from a Blue Hollywood Sanctuary participant is a moving example full of tragedy, recovery and comparison. www.bluehollywoodstreetsanctuary.com/blog/black-b...

A reminder that DOJ has sued 30 states for access to their sensitive voter files. DOJ is currently 0-8 in decided cases. This is what I mean when I say the future of democracy is on the docket. www.democracydocket.com

An effective push back against GOP culture war tactics? Seems to me it should be.

Vought is trying to destroy American science as we know it. Here's what you can do to stop him: 👉 Visit our action center: zurl.co/NXVak 👉 Donate to Fuel the Fight for Science: zurl.co/PHtGH

If you’re interested in how scientific advances build on each other, watch one of my favorite series of all time. James Burke’s “Connections” had a huge influence on me when it originally aired.

GFP technology is used to screen the drugs you take, detect antibiotic residues in the milk you drink, and monitor pathogens in your water supply. If you've had a medication developed after 2000, fluorescent proteins likely helped screen it. You're already benefiting from the jellyfish. Every day.

🔗 This is part of the "Your Tax Dollars At Work" series on federally funded research that sounded ridiculous but generated enormous returns. Full series archive: bioniclab.substack.com/notes #YourTaxDollarsAtWork

Jasmine Clark will become the first Black woman with a science Ph.D. to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. https://scim.ag/4dDZe6P

Because this country likes to forget what it’s capable of, I take it as a duty to remind us. We sit at the brink of the largest decimation of Black political power since the fall of Reconstruction — a Second Redemption. And the end of Black political power means the end of democracy itself.

This incident has it all! But you still cannot overdose on fentanyl from just being near it, whether through air or skin. We shouldn’t obscure the tragedy of overdose - entirely preventable! - with bad response to overdoses youtu.be/215hLEVD9ww?...

Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4a7l1TR

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Family comes in all shapes & sizes, & #HarmReduction mamas are the heartbeat of communities across the world. This #MothersDay, we're lifting up the time, energy, & care mamas pour into their life-saving work making this world a safer, healthier world for people who use drugs & all people.

After 13 years working on UBI full-time, I've learned: in tech, talking about UBI is easy. Funding it is rare. So I've just launched the AI Pledge for Humanity to separate the talkers from the doers. And to share Elon's role in silencing one of his own engineers who pushed for UBI.

If you're in Chicago, come join me, Nabarun Dasgupta and Mary Pounder a week from Saturday. www.chicagohumanities.org/events/atten...

Just saw a kid run up to a MetroBus as it was pulling away. The bus driver kept driving, but a woman on the bus yelled “STOP, that’s my son!” The driver stopped and let the kid on. The kid was not the woman’s son. Not sure what’s more impressive: the rider solidarity or the quick-thinking lie!

www.linkedin.com/posts/ricky-... I presented along with Sid Ganesh PhD on structural violence, structural disempowerment and clinical care for people who use drugs. Enjoy.

This is straight-up ratfucking of biomedical research by Russell Vought, Jay Bhattacharya, Matthew Memoli and Jon Lorsch. It's despicable dirty tricks.

My latest for @thenation.com. For those of us in healthcare, public health, science resisting is a duty born of our commitment to serve, make the world a better place. But our institutions don't make it easy. But we still have to do it in large and small ways. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Do you want somebody to blame? Start with Russell Vought at OMB, Jay Bhattacharya, Matthew Memoli, Jon Lorsch at NIH. These are evil, small minded men. I hope one day they’re held accountable for the destruction of biomedical research in the United States.

Superb reporting from @katherineeban.bsky.social for @rollingstone.com on the scandal around the RFK-fueled, unethical HBV vaccine study in Guinea Bissau that horrified CDC staff, scientists and ethicists around the world. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Our amicus in AAP v. Kennedy. Thanks to Wendy Parmet at Northeastern and Dorit Reiss at University of San Francisco for making this happen. You can find our amicus here: litigationtracker.law.georgetown.edu/litigation/a...

Important discussion featuring @uscpphs.bsky.social chair @rnbluthenthal.bsky.social at @yaleadm.bsky.social. More --> medicine.yale.edu/internal-med... #MedSky #AddictionScience

Join us on March 7th to rally to take back science!

When people's basic needs are met before crises erupt, our communities stay peaceful, not because we police more, but because fewer people are pushed into making desperate choices.

Thanks all who joined us, today, for Addiction Med Grand Rounds w/ Sandra Springer! A recording will be available online, soon! Coming up in February, we'll be joined by @rnbluthenthal.bsky.social & Sid Ganesh (@keck.usc.edu). Register @ the link below. 🔗 medicine.yale.edu/internal-med...

16 years ago today, the Supreme Court made its absurd Citizens United decision, opening the floodgates for big money to overwhelm our democracy. This video is from 2020, but it still rings true today: we have to get Big Money out of politics.

Save the Date! | Submissions open Feb 1. AMERSA’s 50th Annual Conference is coming to Washington, DC Nov 12–14, 2026. New Deadlines! Abstracts & workshops due April 1 Scholarship award applications due May 17

New reporting on homeless encampment sweeps. Includes quotes from Josh Barocas and cites our study on sweeps, overdose, and mortality among unhoused people. Homeless Camp Sweeps Can Harm Health. Some Cities Are Trying a New Way. tradeoffs.org/2025/11/20/h...

From @michellegamage.bsky.social: Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum have been found guilty of drug trafficking, after they operated a compassion club in the midst of a deadly overdose crisis. The conviction is suspended as their lawyers start a constitutional challenge. thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

Breaking: the founders of DULF have been found guilty of three counts of drug trafficking. @michellegamage.bsky.social will have the full story later today thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Had an interesting and thoughtful conversation about harm reduction and the challenges of substance use disorder with Chad LaComb. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0b-...

A patient losing “my seizure medication” to a sweep was the reason I was consulted recently. Couldn’t get another appointment/meds in a timely way (because we have a neurologist shortage and a broken system) and they keep seizing. Would be kinder (and cheaper) to pay for housing over hospital visits

"PFNA is so hazardous that the EPA struck an agreement with eight companies to phase it out nearly two decades ago." And yet, the report is stuck in limbo, still not released to the public.

Call for papers for Special Issue: Including lived experience in substance use research think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An HIV outbreak in Maine points to a series of poor policy decisions, including ending needle-exchange programs and clearing a homeless encampment. As those policies go national, there is a risk the disease will spread, too: kffhealthnews.org/news/article... @brian-goldstone.bsky.social