My latest for @nytimes.com! For 40 years, paleontologists have grappled over whether a small tyrannosaur — named Nanotyrannus — was its own animal, or simply a teenage T.rex. The debate has been ... contentious. Which is why it's so fun to finally be able to say this: Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.

@sleepscientist.bsky.social did you see this? www.nasa.gov/universe/exo...

@sleepnp.bsky.social is second to none. Ellen’s credentials include FAASM and DBSM. She is cooking on research projects and she is sharing her wisdom with advocacy. Her present is bright, her future is brighter. Plus she is cool.

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

Got em

Waiting for my selfie @tonycunningham.bsky.social

VOTER: “But people will die!” (if you kick them of Medicaid) ERNST: “Well, we all are going to die.”

RFK Jr. is reportedly going to forbid government scientists from publishing in the world’s most respected medical journals — the Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, etc. It’s going to take decades to repair the damage done by this administration.

As a white dude I agreed to this…. 👇🏼👇🏼

Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless

Psychedelics linked to religious disaffiliation—but not spiritual change—in large-scale study

While America slept, House Republicans quietly unveiled their Medicaid plan. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says it strips health insurance from 13.7 million Americans.

I knew it! The White House is considering SUSPENDING HABEAS CORPUS. And here I thought I was being paranoid.

Please let me off this ride, I’m feeling ill.

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media. Great job Harvard!👏👏👏

PSA: If you use a gender/sex-based insult then poof! Blocked. If it's a reply, I'll hide it from everyone, too. Insults are fine when deserved, but base them on the person themself and not their sex, gender, body type, attractiveness, fashion sense, etc.

Sleep is the only ubiquitous behaviour whose function remains unknown. The Miesenböck group is looking for—and finding—clues to the mystery of sleep in the properties of sleep-inducing cells in the brain. www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/news/remembe...

Interesting tidbit that jives with the creativity of some of my PWN (people with narcolepsy) peers: “The findings indicate that damage to this circuit—caused by brain injuries or neurodegenerative diseases—may sometimes enhance creative abilities. “

after stealing every word they could find, they ran out of english text and couldn't improve the models further by volume, so they started generating fake text to help improve them more and also a bunch of the english text they fed in the first time is unreliable garbage because they didn't vet it

Over the past few years, I’ve shared my personal journey as a sleep scientist living with sleep apnea with other scientists and students to raise awareness and reduce stigma. I’m excited to reach an even broader audience in my recent interview with Parade 🎉 parade.com/health/i-fel...

#SleepPeeps, You may not know this, but apparently preventing SIDS is a woke neo-Marxist fraud.

As Bukele prepares to arrest multiple journalists for reporting on the deal he made with gangs before the State of Exception in 2022, remember that the Trump admin chose to send him an MS-13 leader set for a trial in the US who might have testified about that deal, thus ensuring his silence.

Well, I had an interesting Sunday night, how 'bout you?

Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social

I see no flaws in this logic at all.

ICE roundup bus leaving Nashville for parts unknown - rounded up in a raid overnight- this is a 3 minute clip but I watched this whole thing live and it’s horrifying #nashville #ice

RFK Jr: “autism destroys families” and is “an individual tragedy as well” NBC News: “he raised the profile of autism”

Trump freezes science. www.scientificamerican.com/article/unde...

#Trump vs #Science: Medical journals including @nejm.org and @jama.com hit with threatening letters from Justice Department "It's an indication of the degree to which this administration will go to try to interfere with scientific research and the scientific community" www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Front page @nytimes.com today 1 of 6 charts of the 1st 100 days www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🤯🤯🤯https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/nih-ends-participation-in-safe-to-sleep-campaign-to-prevent-infant-deaths/

It's important to know that when tech bros say they are "data driven" what they mean by "data" is their own experience and the assumptions. This is why you regularly hear things like "UBI will destroy society" and "if you give away housing no one will work" despite all studies showing the contrary.

Discussed here sciencebasedmedicine.org/big-pharma/

Could you imagine if the head of the United States healthcare system didn’t believe that HIV caused AIDS? …And that instead they believed that AIDS is caused by recreational drugs (“poppers”) used by gay people? Oh wait…🥴

Had to remind myself I'm a science reporter, not a political reporter😅, so I wrote this cool story on the search for a universal snake antivenom, something that's desperately needed to save lives across the developing world. www.statnews.com/2025/05/02/d...

Snake venom protection by a cocktail of varespladib and broadly neutralizing human antibodies www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... broad spectrum antivenom

In case you weren't yet sure this is about racism: The word cloud below shows the most common terms in the titles and abstracts of the 1,000+ NSF grants terminated in the last couple of weeks. (source: grant-watch.us/nsf-summary....) #academicsky

Twitter’s iPhone App being down all day has been remarkable for my mental health. The world is still on fire, but I don’t see the folks actively throwing accelerant on the fire.

Narcolepsy (narcolepsie coined by Jean-Baptiste Édouard Gélineau) has been around long enough that facial hair like this was in style.

Gélineau advanced the term "narcolepsy" in 1880 while de la Tourette described his eponymous syndrome in 1885. "Autism" was coined by Bleuler in 1911, with full diagnoses soon after. But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.

RFK Jr. logic: - I never heard of narcolepsy when I was a kid - Therefore, it didn't exist when I was a kid - Therefore, probably caused by red food dye Lesson: Maybe read at least 1 fucking article on a topic before spouting bullshit off the top of your head about it to the world? #sleeppeeps

Descriptions of narcolepsy first in 1877 and the term “narcolepsie” was coined by Jean-Baptiste Édouard Gélineau in 1880. Evidence suggests most cases of NT1 (with cataplexy) are autoimmune disorders not “injuries.” #SleepPeeps

So “oops, but you are still going to be punished because you defended academic integrity and embarrassed DJT.” @tonycunningham.bsky.social I’ve been meaning to check in but it is always too late to text. You have my voice and support. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

This is bad for so many reasons. People with chronic and rare conditions struggle to pay for meds already. Some products require an ex-US supply chain. Others can adapt, but it will take time. Patients will suffer.

Grateful to voices like my dear friend Lindsay Jesteadt and good-ish friend* @drchriswinter.bsky.social for highlighting pediatric narcolepsy! #SleepPeeps * - just kidding Chris is fantastic thebalancingact.com/the-struggle...