Trump still wants to deny food to 40 million Americans who will otherwise go hungry, at the same time he spends millions of $$$ redecorating a White House ballroom. Marie Antoinette echoes, right? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Back when I was at The Post, every Friday at 10pm I'd plug my data/visualizations/jokes newsletter. Well, it's back. In 12 hours, the all-new How To Read This Chart lands in mailboxes. Sign up for free! howtoreadthisch.art

💊MedSky💊 ADHD A recent study published in the British Medical Journal has shown that medications like methylphenidate (brand name Ritalin) can significantly reduce these harmful outcomes in newly diagnosed patients.

Ancient DNA shows it wasn't just frigid cold that doomed Napoleon's army in Russia. It was disease-causing bacteria, now recovered from old soldiers' teeth. 🧪 @nature.com has a good story: www.nature.com/articles/d41... For more ancient plague DNA: www.scientificamerican.com/article/solv...

Not sure I agree that eagle skeleton below is "not so spooky." But it looks great.

What to do with a mentally declining president? A former White House doctor tells us. 🧪 #medsky

Now RFKjr claims circumcision and Tylenol cause autism. A claim without any good evidence. What does the science show? Read it here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-...

And we have more details, about how these Nobel-winning sponges started with diamonds, how they neutralize nerve gas, and are being used in cancer treatment. And what they have in common with Harry Potter books & movies, though they are science and not magic. Link below..🧪

Finally! After decades of also-runs, amazing molecular cages-which can do everything from trapping greenhouse gases to delivering and releasing drugs at specific parts of the body- won the Chemistry Nobel. Read @megha.bsky.social 's story, here, and watch for updates today.

And... the Nobel Prize for physics goes to quantum tunneling: showing that the smallest of the small takes place on a relatively big scale. Basically this is what makes electrical circuits in computers work. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/s...

If you want to understand why 3 scientists got the Nobel Prize in Medicine today for discovering what keeps our immune systems from running amok--and how that keeps you healthy-- read this @laurenjyoung.bsky.social story: www.scientificamerican.com/article/2025... #medsky 🧪

www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/s... #medsky 🧪

Jane Goodall celebrated. 🧪

Jane Goodall appreciation, from Scientific American. www.scientificamerican.com/article/jane... 🧪

For you free speech and US Constitution fans, a federal judge just ruled this: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

A little geometry quiz with your Barcelona architecture tour (and you thought you'd just be able to gawk at Gaudi and drink wine. Sorry. The NY Times isn't about fun): www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

www.scientificamerican.com/article/tyle... and--to understand WHY the autism-Tylenol connection is so flimsy: www.scientificamerican.com/article/does... 🧪 #MedSky

7 ways RFKjr and Trump are only pretending to want better evidence about vaccine safety and effectiveness (COI note: written by a former executive for Moderna but it's still really on target.) www.statnews.com/2025/09/05/m... 🧪 #medsky

Texas A&M fired their President, a course lecturer, and 2 administrators because they presented evidence there are more than 2 genders. Good evidence too. Do you think they should be fired? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Cut off the heads of worms and they still remember stuff when heads regrow. Dose them with anti -depressants, though, and that doesn't happen. What do anti depressants really do?

Seems to me that 1) law officers must be able to conceal identities at times, such as going undercover to gather evidence; 2) agents must reveal SOME identifying information during enforcement activity, like arrests. The Cal mask law weakens both. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

AI now scans for bird flu and measles news, but state public health officials say outbreaks can go undetected as the U.S. guts national and global tracking. Read the new story by Charlie Schmidt in @sciam.bsky.social. www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

Bluesky needs this Twitter classic from @ellearmageddon.bsky.social.

@tombartlett.bsky.social Hey there! Give this a listen: vm.tiktok.com/ZTHtGVWD51Xa... and check out their other stuff. It's not as hard hitting as "RFKs Victory Lap" (which i loved and you should be writing for us) but they are usually hysterically funny. Which we need.

We set out to quantify U.S. academic contributions to medicines. The results stunned even us www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u... via @statnews.com

Several cities in Republican states, like Memphis and Birmingham, have higher violent crime than DC. Yet neither Trump nor state governors have sent in national guard troops. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

1. It's possible to like dogs and worry about the impact of wind farms 2) it's possible-- here-- to alert others to your concerns. And still like dogs. And birds. And cats.

#ProudBlue #Pinks #ResistanceUnited Let’s have some fun! Happy International Dog Day! Please post pictures of your sweet babies! I’ll go first!

Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.

@jcparker.bsky.social here asked CVS what health problems adults need to have in order to get a COVID booster at the pharmacy this fall. Here's their answer:

Horseshoe crabs are gentrifying yet another area of Brooklyn.

After White House forced out top CDC experts Wed, "The real question is ‘Who’s going to take the job now? Who’s credible?’ I mean, why would anybody take a science-based job where you know your boss doesn't follow science?"-- Georges Benjamin, Amer Public Health Assoc in @sciam.bsky.social🧪 #medsky

COVID vaccines-which saved 1.4 million lives 2020-2024 (jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...) won't be easy to get now, though the disease still kills 100 people weekly. Today FDA changed approval to cover only senior citizens; kids/adults w/ health problems will have to jump thru unknown hoops.🧪🩺

The NYT has a story today saying Democrats are at deaths door b/c they lost 2m registered Dems in 2024, though they still have an edge nationwide. Not sure this is a great measure. Dems still had an edge but lost popular and electoral vote anyway. Party loyalty not a vote lock anymore.

vm.tiktok.com/ZT6VGAgnN/ The minivan of fonts was our introduction to 2025. On the big screen in Times Square. But perhaps we should be using the Chevy Corvair for 2025. Unsafe at any speed. But what font is truly the Corvair of fonts? Please suggest in comments.

Neutron stars, linguine, and clams in a white wine and garlic sauce.

When Trump orders Nat. Guards with guns into DC because "Yes, crime in DC is out of control" share.google/qLRKm15GER4C... HIS OWN CITED SOURCE shows he's WRONG. His stats show violent crime was 5.3k 2023 but 3.4k in '24. Aug '24 it was 2.1k; this year it's 1.5k. Down trend, not up. Trump's source:

Non-sci or health post here. Today in LA, Trump had border patrol agents, with guns and masks, press into a crowd around the CA Governor. Instead of doing their jobs by, oh, patrolling the border. In DC Trump made cops look for migrants instead of local crimes. Showing us he's got his own army.

I listened to Bhattacharya on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast. If you want to know how it went, see the following email that I just sent. 1/13

Should you be scared the big chikungunya virus outbreak in China could reach the U.S? The infection is really painful. And yes it could hit the US, I report today in @sciam.bsky.social. We have the mosquitoes that carry the virus. But there are outbreaks much closer. Plus we have vaccines. 🧪🩺

🧪🩺 All the controversy about the best "social distance" to stop virus transmission? It depends a lot on room temperature. And basic physics, says @charlescmann.bsky.social and some smart university students.

A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it. (1/2)

Words frequently used by ChatGPT, including “delve” and “meticulous,” are getting more common in spoken language, according to an analysis of more than 700,000 hours of videos and podcasts spklr.io/63326BDCCG

For 40 years, virus detectives have flocked to NJ beaches to track avian influenza. Their clues? Bird poop 💩 I followed that team to explain H5N1's history in a special Science Quickly podcast series. Featured today in @sciam.bsky.social's bird flu issue: www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

Congress might soften Trump slashes to NSF and NOAA science, reports Nature. But NIH remains on the chopping block. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Update: HHS walked back its earlier statement saying it was cancelling contracts to Springer Nature. Now, HHS says NIH staff have continued access to all scientific journals. Unclear if this applies to other HHS agencies like FDA or CMS. And USDA, DOE, NASA have allegedly cut all SN contracts.

Point-of-care diagnosis of TB in 1 hour without need for sputum for $3 that can be performed anywhere (such a test does not exist); work supported by NIH www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

To boost "manliness and mood" men spend millions of $$$ on testosterone therapy. But many won't see benefits. Labs sell TRT to men it won't help, and it can make them infertile. Read @sciam.bluesky.social's investigation: www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-... 🧪🩺

Today's mtg of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee-- w/ RFKjr appointees w/ little vaccine knowledge--showcased a lot of falsehoods. Here's 2 reports on actual vaccine safety science from @sciam.bsky.social. 🧪🩺 www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... www.scientificamerican.com/article/thes...