All my emails to Director Bhattacharya now available... jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

I've been feeling someone needs to create this meme for a while now, but given I've not seen it, I've taken on this heavy burden myself.

So please don’t both sides the critique of the truly terrible NY Times piece this morning. As Daniel Patrick Moynihan said once: you are entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts. The piece is garbage.

Don’t take it from me, take it from my brilliant colleague @markhisted.org. At what point do we stop giving weight to the words of those who are ignorant, malicious, and/or ideologues and listen to the scientists about the destruction Jay & his cronies are inflicting on American science?

It goes without saying that Jay Chattacharya op-ed is Quack Racket ™️

Tylenol/acetaminophen/paracetamol use in pregnancy probably doesn't give babies autism. Now unlocked for all to read gidmk.substack.com/p/tylenol-us...

Good Morning

Three jobs in our shiny new building:

Just let me vent for one second. I wake up this morning. @washingtonpost.com piece that leaves out major study on Tylenol and autism (which found no link) Then a @nytimes.com piece on the failures of NIH written by a guy with ties to right-wing theocrats and undisclosed. What the hell is going on?

In fact, Jay reminds me of Lysenko. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

Can't stress enough how great Silent Hill F looks. These aren't press screens, they're ones I took myself

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways. I could write a whole article about this, but as one example: “To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…” No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.

Of course some processes at NIH & in US science in general should be reformed. But uncritically presenting Jay Bhattacharya as a naive idealist rather than a hypocrite & political operative charged with NIH’s destruction is wildly divorced from reality. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...

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“Ridiculous sensationalist hyperbole.”

One stark marker of how much our society has devolved in just a few years is Bob Iger personally got on a call to convince us to let Disney/HULU make the 1619 Project. That America no longer exists.

We in the West don't see them, but REAL PEOPLE in drought and conflict zones have been killed by Musk. It's not over. DOGE is a death machine, still rolling.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Excited to share our EvANI benchmarking workflow, published in Briefings in Bioinformatics doi.org/10.1093/bib/... Computing average nucleotide identity (ANI) is neither conceptually nor computationally trivial. Its definition has evolved over years, with different meanings and assumptions (1/5)

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer confirmed the U.K. is recognizing a Palestinian state despite opposition from the U.S. and Israel. His announcement follows those from Canada and Australia.

I'm live, continuing to test the Megaswitch HD, both for Genesis and SMS this time. Come hang out if you're bored: www.youtube.com/live/kL4JXSK...

Eight states and New York City officially announced the Northeast Public Health Collaborative this week, while the West Coast Health Alliance released its first vaccination guidelines. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

MMseqs2-GPU sets new standards in single query search speed, allows near instant search of big databases, scales to multiple GPUs and is fast beyond VRAM. It enables ColabFold MSA generation in seconds and sub-second Foldseek search against AFDB50. 1/n 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💿 mmseqs.com

Call for Applications WashU School of Public Health Faculty at All Levels The Washington University School of Public Health is seeking outstanding faculty at all levels See call for list of areas where applications are particularly encouraged apply.interfolio.com/173629

Today, Canada recognises the State of Palestine.   My statement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

Australia recognizes the State of Palestine

Some White House RFK Jr announcements expected early this week about autism, here’s my detailed interview with Boston @museumofscience.bsky.social explaining why it’s not related to vaccines www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHxb...

JUST IN: The law, opposed by police organizations, was aimed by lawmakers at immigration agents and will test state powers over the conduct of federal officials.

Our government is telling lies in the press about me. I’m allowed to find that annoying.

And guess what. This sort of constant name calling had an effect. It wore people down and took its toll. Who wants to be treated this way for warning about RFK and friends? Many people had it much worse than me, and many of them have retreated from the public space.

Extremely irresponsible of DHS to not have official communications about this at the very beginning (Even with the official communication, this is still absolutely terrible)

NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas. Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

Breaking News: Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation that prohibits federal immigration agents from wearing masks in California.

Despite refusing to coordinate with the state or city, we’re monitoring the ongoing federal deployments that are instilling fear in our communities. Americans have a right to peaceful assembly and to make their voices heard. Even if the Trump admin won’t follow the law, we will.

The most corrupt administration we have ever seen. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

"In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration..." www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

To recap, Trump signed a proclamation saying that after midnight tonight, no one with an H-1B visa may enter the US unless they have paid $100,000. However, anonymous White House officials are saying it doesn't apply to people with current H-1B visas — yet there is NO official guidance! None!

Oh my GOD. This is the first official confirmation that the new H-1B entry ban does not apply to people with current visas (despite the text not containing ANY exception for people with current visas), and it’s not even something on an official website, it’s a passive aggressive tweet!

I hope the one unnamed Whitehouse source cited here is correct. Clear, official confirmation of this would be nice, 12 hours before the deadline.

A few words about my friend, Billy. I'll miss you, dude!

www.axios.com/2025/09/20/t... New H-1B visa fee will not apply to existing holders, official says

John Romero will be speaking at SDCC Malaga September 28th! A meet and greet will follow. Hope to see you there! 🤘 #DOOM #Quake #Wolfenstein #SDCCMalaga

The First Amendment is not optional. Censoring artists and cancelling shows is an attack on American values. We will fight for the truth, and we will not yield.

I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research. And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?