political reporters: "who's to say which side is right? I'm just reporting what they say!" science & health reporters: "me! I can say who's right! can anyone hear me?"

The Muppets Take Ghorman: a musical

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... #socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob #psycjobs #psychology 1/n

the essence of conservatism is to object to knowledge because it leads to policy

This is what is happening with NIH not releasing paylines, too—less transparency allows for picking and choosing separate from the evaluation of the science.

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

The impact this will have on residency training programs and communities that benefit from these doctors will be astounding. This is so very, very stupid.

wait until you hear where we get a lot of doctors every year

Members of random juries on either coast are braver than the most powerful politicians, university administrators, entrepreneurs, and billionaires in the country.

Now accepting applications for the PhD program in Health Policy and Administration at Penn State. We have specialty tracks in health economics, population health, and health care management and organization plus a dual title PhD program in HPA and Demography. #WeAre hhd.psu.edu/hpa/graduate....

None of the young male mass shooters and now political assassins I've written about in recent years had stayed in higher education and pursued a bachelor's degree. Crazy enough, it's almost like college is a positive socializing force, not a radicalizing one

Check out the NDWS Special Collection just published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. It includes five open access articles on survey questionnaire development, sample frame development, data collection, and more.

I am here for all your marching band content

This is one article from Special Collection on the NIA-funded National Dementia Workforce Study (@ndws.bsky.social) just published (open access!) in @agsjournal.bsky.social agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... cc @joannespetz.bsky.social @um-ihpi.bsky.social @ucsf-ihps.bsky.social

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

Y'all were so concerned about a few tents impeding the teaching mission of the university. What do you think it might do to the teaching mission if one little video from your classroom results in a campaign from [clears throat]: the President, the feds, right wing trustees ... I'm not finished (2/3)

If you click through to the video, you’ll hear a young woman repeatedly telling a college professor that President Trump has declared that what the Professor had been teaching is illegal and she’ll be meeting with the head of the university about it. It’s chilling and scary.

A professor at Texas A&M taught… something related to gender that offended a student, who secretly filmed herself objecting. That video is picked up by TX legislators, who demand her firing, and now the dean and dept head have been fired. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

KLEYAAAAAAAAA

My MCDB dept is accepting applications for a faculty position at the Assistant Professor level! Applications Due by October 15, 2025 We welcome applications from all areas of physiology and neuroscience, spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal levels. lsa.umich.edu/mcdb/news-ev...

Normally I don’t understand legalese when I read screenshots from court decisions but this was pretty easy to get.

For med students--Did you ever wonder what pediatrics was like back when there were fewer well-child visits? Well now you can find out! #medsky

I refuse to give em dashes to the AI

This is insane:

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

Moderna vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 2/2

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2

My quote of the day Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get. William Foege

An aside: Sparkle Sooknanan is an incredible name.

This is how America should be now and feel. Like this Bald Eagle.

I am chairing the search for two (2) Tenure Track positions at the Department of Health Services, Policy and Management at @uscarnoldschool.bsky.social We are looking to move relatively fast so please get your applications in quickly uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...

tfw some public school systems push back harder than your big university employer

It is a frustrating time to want to care about evidence-based policy that promotes health.

Siri: show me bad survey design

Except this isn't even accurate, right? "The Trump administration has slashed funding for the National Institutes of Health . . ." Those funds were appropriated by Congress. The Executive has unlawfully stopped the funds.

These are exactly the kinds of students we should be hoovering up and then convincing to stay and work/found their companies here. Even Trump has said so. But this is what happens when you outsource your immigration policy to Stephen Miller, who hates immigrants more than he loves America.

I am confused . . . I thought shootings were due to untreated mental health. But now perhaps we are saying there is too much mental health treatment? Hmm. But definitely not guns. Shootings are definitely not a function of access to guns.

One of critical benefits of traditional Medicare is it *not* requiring this type of garbage.

Paging @mirandayaver.bsky.social. This will be deadly. Older adults --and especially the one's sickest enough to need these procedures--will struggle to fight back. Less than 1% of people appeal.

Heroes in our public service are making sharp sacrifices to stand against extremist attacks on our institutions. What a contrast to what others are doing.

If you had told college freshman me that this would be the sort of environment in which my children were going to college? Insanity.

an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening

Impact of the MISSION Act on Quality and Outcomes of Major Cardiovascular Procedures in Veterans url:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2837067?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=082625

Interesting headline paired with the bulk data training I had to do yesterday as a PI to comply with federal regulations

me returning to work after 4 days away

@meganranney.bsky.social is being polite they are not "inexplicably in charge of studies at HHS" RFKjr is a committed antivax grifter who appointed shoddy antivax scientishs to contribute to his dangerous and profoundly antiscience and antichild war on incredibly safe and effective vaccines

The practical upshot is that justice delayed is justice denied; or to be more precise, a lab which had to fire all of its researchers and halt work on groundbreaking research isn't going to be able to ever restore itself to the same position it would have been without a multi-year pause in funding.