Oh FFS… www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Riley Fanning. #NewYorkerCartoons

Absolutely brilliant synopsis of the #ACIP meeting by @statnews.com @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social @elaineywchen.bsky.social @lizzylawrence.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/w...

Hexokinase 2 (HK2) is known for its metabolic role in #glycolysis. This study shows that it also functions as an #RNAbindingProtein that regulates mRNA translation, particularly of SOX10, promoting #melanoma cell proliferation independently of glycolysis @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3ViI1qL

From one SMH moment to another - this is beyond my level of comprehension as ID physician. C.D.C. Vaccine Advisers May Limit Hepatitis B Shots for Newborns www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/h...

We're hiring! 5 tenure track assistant professors. 2 #microbiology, 2 #Evolution, 1 #biologicalclocks jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675062/f...

Murder is wrong. Pogroms are wrong. Using a murder to incite a pogrom against a small and vulnerable group in society is wrong. (If I’m not mistaken, an assassination was the excuse for the wave of mob but state-sanctioned violence in Russia in 1881 that gave us the term “pogrom.”)

Sugarloaf, on the east side of the Organ Mountains, as seen from the Pine Tree Trail in southern New Mexico.

Toby Rogers PhD, the other anti-vax witness, also misused the literature. • he glibly dismissed compelling evidence for a genetic component of autism saying it can't account for the autism "epidemic" • he rejected many studies contradicting his conclusions because they lacked unvaccinated controls

BREAKING: Susan Monarez, forced out by RFK Jr as CDC director, to testify in front of Senate panel next week. Monarez has said RFK Jr pressured her around vaccines. RFK Jr has said she was untrustworthy. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Notably, Monarez said she was willing to testify under oath. RFK Jr. was not put under oath when he testified. (Via @ddiamond.bsky.social) www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

How does someone become an anti-vaxxer or come to believe that chemotherapy is more dangerous than cancer? I’ve spent all year working with Alexander Stockton and The NY Times trying to answer that question. Here’s our findings. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...

Top notch 🎦 OpEd by @derekberes.bsky.social & Alexander Stockton. “Using AI to identify narrative patterns across nearly 12,000 videos + podcasts from the world of wellness, NYT Opinion Video reconstructed the MAHA conspiracy theory rabbit hole” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...

Wow! Covid vaccine development and delivery cost $79.4 billion, but the health and economic benefits of vaccination were valued between $4.83 trillion–$37.8 trillion. A return on investment of $59.8–$475 per dollar invested!! This is why vaccine equity matters! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

"It's a new day, it's a new administration, and everything's going to come out to the public" Attorney General Pam Bondi, who oversees the Justice Department, to Sean Hannity, March 2025

Mr. Frog

“People need to know the story of what went down” internally at NIH, Jeanne Marrazzo, the former director of NIAID, told STAT. "The story needed to be told.” Via @aniloza.bsky.social @mmolteni.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/n...

Sequence data from the new Ebola outbreak in DRC suggests it is indeed a new spillover. And just incredible to see the virus sequenced and the data publicly shared less than 24 hours after confirmation of the outbreak. #IDsky 🧪 virological.org/t/the-16th-e...

If you’re in Louisiana and eligible for a COVID shot, CVS won’t give them at all. They’re cowards. But Walgreens will. I have mine scheduled for next week.

Oh sweet, I can join a waitlist to be an unpaid quality control agent for #Meta, multibillion dollar company. (What an abjectly absurd approach to misinformation, especially in the era of LLM/ AI that could easily flag >98% of “cod liver oil cures measles”-grade nonsense. #CommunityNotes

Spread the word - we at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social are searching to fill a new junior faculty at the interface of molecular and computational science. See link below!

CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo

🚨🧵My latest: As measles took off in Texas, the Trump administration took actions that prevented CDC scientists from responding. The outbreak became the biggest in 30 yrs. It’s far larger considering the outbreaks it sparked in other states & Mexico. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

I completely missed the news that David Nabarro died back in July. He was a very strong leader in the global health space - his deep insights and straight talk will be sorely missed. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

As with other coronaviruses, immunity to SARS-CoV-2 is short-lived. Prioritizing older persons for vaccination saves more lives, while targeting younger persons decreases the number of infections. Banning the vaccine will predictably result in more infections, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID.

This is 100% correct.

Influx of Bluesky bot accounts with vague illustrious credentials out to follow new people 🤖

NEW: He called Covid vaccines "the most failing medical product in the history of medical products." Now he's running a C.D.C. task force reviewing them. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/h...

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

"Independent scientists conducted more than 40 high-quality studies since 1998 involving over 5.6 million people across seven countries. All found no connection between vaccines and autism." But RFK Jr has recruited a father-son team with a long trail of fraudulent research to reopen the question.

"Political narratives about mRNA have fueled confusion, which leads to mistrust, yet the scientific evidence consistently shows that mRNA technology is safe and effective, and holds enormous potential for future vaccines and treatments" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...

'Here, we show that death following the loss of RNA Pol II activity does not result from dysregulated gene expression. Instead, it occurs in response to loss of the hypophosphorylated form of Rbp1 (also called RNA Pol IIA)' www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Ugh. So many businesses thrive only by amplifying insecurities and making us feel inadequate: Not good enough, not beautiful enough, not clean enough, not rich enough, not thin enough, not popular enough, not tech savvy enough. EFF THAT. Don’t buy what they’re selling. You’re wonderful as you are.

"The Covid vaccine made him suicidal. . . It’s proven to alter brain chemistry. Several of my regulars posted that the shot made them like this.” Um, no. The COVID vaccine does not cause suicidality. Vaccination actually correlates with lower risk of depression (Coley et al. Soc Sci Med, 2023).

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."

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Just a reminder that if you want to do your postdoc in the best city in the world, well, you might be in luck - our position is still open and we're hoping to fill it within the next couple of weeks, so hurry up!

Deep sigh! They won't stop until the US becomes a vaccine wasteland

Defending US democracy: the role of scientists @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Science is a long game. Translational science, or clinical medicine is only possibly because of basic science discoveries where the clinical applications are not yet known. Also: Nobels are typically awarded for basic science… *exploratory* basic science. True story.

Over 20 years after Julius’s lab and mine cloned TRPM8, it is rewarding to see this science helping patients. The TRPM8 agonist Tryptyr treats dry eye by increasing tear production. A reminder that NIH-funded curiosity-driven research translates to medicines. tryptyr.myalcon.com?gad_source=1...

Wallpaper in the bathroom of a local place here in Pittsburgh.

A reminder that the mRNA vaccine technology saved millions of lives during the Covid pandemic and received the 2023 Nobel Prize for Medicine

After Years of Anger Directed at C.D.C., Shooting Manifests Worst Fears. Story by @apoorvanyt.bsky.social nyti.ms/459fNV5

I couldn’t possibly speculate, as someone once said. But I would like to point you towards the non-partisan News Literacy Project, which I have supported for more than a decade, which aims to help students become discerning consumers of both news and what pretends to be news. newslit.org

I'm excited to announce our new biorxiv preprint, wherein we investigate the evolution of the weirdest genetic locus I've ever seen! Behold the tgr genes of the social amoeba, which mediate self/non-self discrimination during facultative multicellularity 🐅 🧵 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

“To the scientists wondering if there will even be an NIH by the end of this administration, this committee’s resounding message is: ‘Yes, Congress has your back’,” said @murray.senate.gov We’re not near the finish line yet - but this is a strong step in the right direction. zurl.co/AzSK7

Our research has been engulfed by an endless torrent of lab leak conspiracy theories about the origin of the pandemic - even as the evidence for zoonosis has only grown stronger. This fuels anti-science agendas and erodes public trust. Now, we respond 👇 theconversation.com/how-conspira...

In his new book "Proof," mathematician @adamjkucharski.bsky.social explores our complicated history of separating fact from fiction. buff.ly/joJHPeh