Wishing all a Happy Earth Day! Let’s show our planet some love instead of continuing to destroy it. We have the option to do good rather than harm.

The first epidemic of the 1918 flu in the United States occurred at the military’s Camp Funston, Kansas (later Fort Riley). Infected soldiers headed to WWI battlefields carried the flu to Europe. Millions died It’s not *vaccination* that weakens force readiness.

How is the war in Iran directly affecting US public health? ⚠️Billions spent on bombs while millions have no health insurance ⚠️Trump proposing further safety net and research cuts to send more money to DOD ⚠️Supply shortages of essential materials/chemicals for medical research and treatment

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We are starting to see this unfold

So exhausted. Check on your fed friends (any agency). Check on your public health and science friends.

Reuters: COVID shots, newer vaccines in limbo after US court halts Kennedy’s advisory panel by Julie Steenhuysen @reuters.com reut.rs/3OeMvPm

www.biotechtv.com/post/peter-h... @biotechtv.bsky.social

💯 The real high-risk science is “Let 1,000 flowers bloom“ science, which spreads money around to many many different individuals to pursue their best ideas. 🧪

Thread 🧵 1/4 When institutions are already on fire 🔥, they hand leadership to a woman and call it progress. When it fails? She takes the blame. 👎

Currently, Kennedy is at a senate hearing on the 2027 HHS budget. This a an op ed from a mother whose child contracted measles & died before she turned 11. Hospital visits MRIs Brain swelling Seizures Breathing tubes Subacute sclerosing pancephalitis YOU DO NOT WANT THIS 🧪 archive.today/aAM9t

Emily Bass: PEPFAR's Chief Science Officer Resigns on Matters of Public Health Principle bit.ly/48NnCRD by @emilybass.bsky.social

🤥 It’s a huge LIE when RFK Jr says “I’ve never been anti-vaxx” For decades he’s been the world’s most extreme, dangerous anti-vaxxer LIE: when he said that women vaccinated against HPV have a HIGHER risk of cervical cancer LIE: when he said Covid vaccines are the “deadliest vaccines” in history

Real cleaning up of the risk pool would be access to all preventative health care, access to clean air and water, stable housing, healthy food. You know, all of those pesky social determinants of health that he finds so abhorrent.

“I’m pro-science. I just think we need to ask the right questions”. -RFK Jr., known conspiracy theorist, anti-vaxxer, and disinformation profiteer, in a congressional hearing.

Fuck it...let's live skeet the Senate Labor sub committee hearing of RFK Jr. I'm in a MOOD. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5yu...

Pointed essay about what Americans faced during wars, the great depression, and the civil rights movement. Now what is needed is to stay engaged, pay attention, and help where you can. America is worth it.

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years. Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.” wapo.st/4euUt1c

I often think about what it will look like to rebuild NIH. It's going to be hard, expensive work. And that's if we stop the damage and start rebuilding soon. It's only going to get harder the longer this lasts.

NIH Director Bhattacharya quote-tweeted this email from Matt Memoli when he was an intramural scientist concerned about COVID vaccine mandates. 1/3

Those of us doing research related to women’s health have been hit particularly hard by the govt’s sabotage of the NIH. I spoke to WaPo for this piece, as painful as it was to discuss the reality my lab is facing. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

Another day, another study showing once again that there’s no link between Tylenol in pregnancy and autism—RFK Jr’s claims are not based on data, only his own “vibes”

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Given all of modern civilization is basically a giant distributed ledger, and massive amounts of data about each of our lives is being recorded each day, Trevor Noah asks an interesting question in his latest comedy special: "Who will you be when history calls?"

My wokest take is liberty and justice for all actually means ALL.

I don’t see how Democrats, when they return to power, can continue to fund Palantir (well, I can imagine how they would, but they shouldn’t). Find yourself a Democrat who looks at the security state the same way Russell Vought looks at CDC and NIH.

Former AACR President and #AACRFellows Antoni Ribas receives the AACR-Margaret Foti Award for Leadership and Extraordinary Achievements in Cancer Research at the #AACR26 Opening Ceremony.

#AACRFellows and Nobel Laureate James P. Allison is presented with the AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research during the AACR Annual Meeting 2026 Opening Ceremony. #AACR26

Four Democrats voted with the GOP on reauthorizing a little-known law that lets the government sidestep the Constitution and spy on US citizens. If you’re represented by Gluesenkamp Perez, Golden, Gottheimer, or Suozzi, ask them why they’re siding with the Trump regime on government surveillance.

USDA is actively soliciting farmer input for a fertilizer price collusion investigation. The input pricing squeeze has been a known prob for decades. Interesting timing for an antitrust probe, but if you’re a farmer, this is the survey to fill out…. farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2026/04/usda...

‘Oscar of science’ awarded to team behind gene therapy that restores lost vision www.theguardian.com/science/2026... #news #science #GeneTherapy #breakthrough #blindness #vision

Congresswoman Summer Lee grills RFK, Jr. on black maternal health. This health crisis in the U.S. is a persistent emergency where Black women are 2.5 to 3.5 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than White women, with rates up to 49.5 deaths per 100,000 live births.

This is the potential that has excited researchers about mRNA technology, at the exact same time that the very same technology has been targeted by HHS for huge cuts when applied to infectious diseases. 🧪

Tune in Sunday for the Opening Plenary, spotlighting groundbreaking research across the cancer continuum—from mechanistic insights to patient outcomes. Read more in AACR Annual Meeting News: buff.ly/aHaksHK

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Rest in Power to a major figure in the AIDS treatment activism in the 1980s, a time when many were indifferent or looking away.

It's crucial to remember that RFK Jr isn't just doing all he can to roll back vaccination & drive up childhood infectious diseases in the US but also WORLWIDE & he's especially targeting children in the lowest income countries He has suspended US funding to Gavi, which supports global vaccination 🧵

It’s been a year and a day since this account was established. It’s been a wild ride and it’s great to see all the heroes working to save our democracy!

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This is a well-documented pattern in medical research and reflects systemic gender bias in pain assessment and treatment.👇

My quote of the day We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. Ambrose Bierce

My "favorite" in this space is Bhattacharya justifying placing @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social on admin leave: Bhattacharya told Just the News that his (free speech) policy did not apply to Norton (PhD, MPH) because she’s a program officer (aka Health Science Admin) and “not in a scientist position.”

CALL YOUR HOUSE REP AND TELL THEM TO CO-SPONSOR THE ARTICLES. NOW!

well dorks...I'm in the HOUSE! (At the Education and Workforce hearing of RFK Jr.) And we are LIVE SKEETING! (p.s. we met someone in the wild who come to our Virtual Rally on 3/28!)

RFK Jr. hearing is in recess, so I wanted to take a minute to address his stated belief that Black Americans died of COVID19 at higher rates than others because, he said: 1. Family members couldn’t visit them in the hospital, so 2. Hospitals had no incentive to care for these patients properly

Nice comprehensive science spending site from @jdworkin.bsky.social sciencespending.org#methods

Yep. It’s fabulous that teen pregnancies are down! Also, birth rates have declined in nearly ALL developed countries. Female autonomy is the 1° reason, along with lower child mortality rates. (you don’t need 6 kids so 2 become adults) A societal shift occurs … 1/?