Early-career journalists, this is your moment! SHERF gives you training, mentorship and support to grow your reporting. Deadline Dec. 19. Apply here 👉 healthjournalism.org/fellowships/...

Refusing to fix it is very much an action.

Because the serious media decided some time ago that conducting a serious discussion about the president's mental health, informed by experts, simply cannot happen because of some "rule" from the last century, we are left with futile "bonkers" comments and late night comedy.

"We are saying that we have no specific scientific knowledge of genetic reasons that one child performs better than another, and we don’t appear especially close to discovering any."

This reporter deserves better than the "next gig" to continue this excellent and essential work.

"Who knows what secrets the banded panther worm, African spiny mouse, axolotl, or organisms yet to be found contain?"

Viral immunologist @pgtimmune.bsky.social, who recently joined Fred Hutch's Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Division, aims to harness the "incredible potential" of the immune system to advance diagnostics, vaccines and cancer therapies. bit.ly/3WJVpos

I’m all up for a scare on Halloween like the next gal, but this is just taking the gore too far! 🎃💀

Congrats to Steven Henikoff, PhD, of @basicsci.fredhutch.org on receiving the 55th Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research! @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social recognized Henikoff with this prestigious award for his innovative studies on gene expression.

Dr. Steven Henikoff receives the 55th Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research. www.brandeis.edu/rosenstiel/r... (Personal note: I continue to be inspired and astonished by my postdoctoral mentor & current colleague)

@kakape.bsky.social KSJ '24, shares actionable tips for journalists seeking to reduce the harm of misinformation. ksj.mit.edu/news/2025/10...

@jhigginswriter.bsky.social wrote an article about my lab and our frog 🐸 at the Hutch! Thank you!

I wanted to write this story as soon as I heard we were getting frogs again. Our photographer/videographer Robert Hood really brought it to life. Purely coincidental that frogs (or at least folks dressed up as frogs) are having a moment.

The pride of Edmonds, WA and as true a patriot as you'll ever meet.

Looking forward to reading about this work from one of the premiere labs figuring out how this incredible, complex machine gets built every time a cell divides (and what happens when it doesn't get built correctly.)

Big congrats to Claudia Rowe, National Book Award Finalist!

Millions of Americans--especially those who work for or own small businesses, live in rural areas, or retired early--will be forced to make tough choices if enhanced subsidies for ACA plans expire. The health of the nation will suffer for it. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):

Looking for your next step in fly genetics? The Rajan Lab at Fred Hutch is hiring a staff scientist + postdoc for projects on fat–brain signals, immunity, and brain aging. Stable, long-term role in a collaborative lab. Apply: careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30062/j...

"This effort to amp up your political side in times of extreme emotion, to not just condemn the individual act but to slander all your political opposition at once, is the kind of thing you see in societies in open civil warfare."

Such an important point. Writing as diagnostic. Where it's muddled, where the tension is slack,the rhythm off, there lies the thing that is difficult to think or feel...the real gold that doesn't glitter until you put the words down.

Such a privilege and joy to tell some of the incredible story that is this place and these people, always striving to do hard things.

This all day and twice on election day.

We're glad to see this new, free resource, which curates some of @theopennotebook.bsky.social's instructive essays, features, and interviews on science journalism craft into a "101" curriculum that anyone can use — from university professors to independent journalists.

This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org

Moment of bliss from the Pando aspen grove near Fish Lake, Utah, The detour from I-70 was soooo worth it.

The @rwjf.org Rapid Response Research funding is available to applicants who have received federal funding for their health equity research, but have had it partially or fully rescinded due to federal administrative actions. Deadline is 10/1/25. Details in the link: www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

This is such cool work. In a story for Hutch News last year, I likened the RBD up/down motion to a submarine's periscope - up for cell attack, down for stealthy escape from antibodies. www.fredhutch.org/content/www/...

This is the site of an American concentration camp. The National Park Service has done a terrific job here, sharing the stories of survivors of WW2 incarceration. Extremely relevant for our troubled times.

So true. Thanks, Katie and all the other smart, creative and talented folks I follow on this still decent platform.

Not quite a miracle. Difficult, diligent, damn hard work but as close to a miracle as anything we've seen this century...or will again in this country if this attack on reason stands.

Some mornings Bluesky serves up a dish of amazing 🤩

We are six months into the second Trump administration and the scale and severity of its assault on our nation's science and democracy has been unrelenting. Today, @ucs.org releases a detailed assessment of the damage so far and where we go from here: www.ucs.org/resources/sc... #ProtectScience

CASP, the protein structure competition that rocketed AlphaFold to fame and a Nobel, is losing its NIH funding. David Baker on how CASP impacted his career (and Nobel Prize), and what's the latest on CASP's funding status: #bioML 🧪🧬⚗️🩺🖥️ www.statnews.com/2025/07/16/c...

I enjoyed writing this story. Teaching is sometimes considered a chore best pawned off on the least senior faculty, an impediment to research and accomplishment. But Michael and Harmit see mentorship as a high calling, essential for science and a true measure of accomplishment.

Since 1991, the Women’s Health Initiative has saved lives, cut costs, and fostered team science Read more about the history of this initiative, featuring a new article by @fredhutch.bsky.social‬ and a timeline of past coverage of WHI. https://cancerletter.com/in-the-archives/20250703_5/

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

Maybe it's time to consider that all this $ isn't just or even mainly for removing immigrants.

Terrific storytelling!

That happens when #ACIP recommendations are no longer science based? When #CDC's vaccine schedules include recommendations based on opinions, not data? We're heading towards a balkanization of vaccination recommendations, experts fear. www.statnews.com/2025/06/24/v...

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

A letter with an appeal. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... "As queer and TGnC scientists, we call on researchers at all levels—from undergraduates to university presidents—to take direct, consistent, and rapid action."

We're excited to share our 2025 Community Health Assessment! The report identifies inequities in cancer outcomes across Washington and suggests strategies for achieving more equitable health access. We hope it's helpful in your work and welcome your questions and insights! #CHA #cancerdata

Edmonds' own Rick Steves fires up the crowd, introduced by a Navy vet of Iraq war who said the only channel she got growing up in Appalachia was PBS. Watching Rick Steves inspired her to enlist and see the world.

Best sign in Edmonds WA today: support king salmon, not president kings

Health experts sound the alarm: An HHS document sent to members of Congress uses debunked studies to question the safety of covid vaccines. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

My Keynote Talk at the CSHL 50th annual meeting on Retroviruses is now online: leadingstrand.cshl.edu/Keynote/Medi... Some more general parts such as ~ the 8'30" mark with the "What I learned from Howard Temin" slide and ~ the 40' mark with the "What is important to me in science" section.

Highlighting for Joni Ernst: "If you take Sarah Miller’s research on what the Medicaid expansions did, she found that for every 529 people covered, a life was saved. That means that kicking 13.7 million people off of health insurance would lead to 23,000 more deaths a year in America."

It was such beautiful day and retirement party!