Grandparents remember the days of polio as well as complications from measles, mumps and rubella👇

In North Dakota, a 14-year-old girl's near-fatal battle with measles demonstrates how serious the virus can be for the immunocompromised. She was exposed to the virus at school👇

Florida is trying to ignore measles until it can’t. Vaccination rates have fallen below the threshold required to prevent outbreaks & the state is in the midst of one. Out of the 30 states where measles has been detected in 2026, Florida ranks 3rd. The state health department has been mostly silent👇

12 lives hidden beneath one house. In Nazi-occupied Holland, hiding Jews was a death sentence, yet William Arnold Egger and his wife built a secret cellar in their The Hague home and risked everything to keep them alive. #EternalLight 1/10

RFK Jr. fired all of the legitimate scientific experts on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and replaced them with unqualified political appointees. A judge just ruled that the new members were not appropriately appointed, so ACIP cannot meet this week to spread more misinformation.

Federal court blocks Kennedy's vaccine changes, invalidates vaccine advisory panel #TheHill

Great news!! “Murphy issued a preliminary ruling finding that Kennedy’s reconstitution of a key vaccine advisory panel, and changes made to the childhood vaccine schedule in January, were likely illegal. Specifically, he ruled, those policy changes violated the Administrative Procedure Act”

Grandparents remember the days of polio as well as complications from measles, mumps and rubella👇

Canada and the big European powers have put out a statement condemning a possible Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon.

Now at 2 million downloads and the 4th highest @altmetric.com rated peer-reviewed paper in the past 3+ years Thanks to @ahandvanish.bsky.social @lisamccorkell.bsky.social @julialmv.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Florida is trying to ignore measles until it can’t. Vaccination rates have fallen below the threshold required to prevent outbreaks & the state is in the midst of one. Out of the 30 states where measles has been detected in 2026, Florida ranks 3rd. The state health department has been mostly silent👇

In North Dakota, a 14-year-old girl's near-fatal battle with measles demonstrates how serious the virus can be for the immunocompromised. She was exposed to the virus at school👇

One of the factors is how illiterate our country is & has been for a long time. People are reading less than ever, and many don’t read anything serious or factual. Romance novels and anime are not going to get us out of this damn nightmare.

Front page @latimes.com today Thousands in LA County, Millions in the US @corinnepurtill.bsky.social www.latimes.com/science/stor...

Young know-it-alls who know nothing at all are the Trump regime’s foot soldiers destroying the administrative infrastructure of the United States, a once-intricate federal system that set the US apart from other democracies 👇

Happy Pi Day!

Totalitarians have always pushed junk science. In Stalin’s Russia, scores died because of crank theories about agriculture promoted by Tofrim Lysenko. His beliefs led to crop failures & starvation. RFKjr, his 21st century counterpart, is pushing quack notions about vaccines & measles is flourishing👇

I had assumed the headline was a joke. But no. people.com/new-dime-coi...

Submit comments today. 🧪🌏🌐🧑‍🔬https://www.nsf.gov/funding/information/dcl-nsf-intent-restructure-critical-weather-infrastructure

Slightly squiffy 3D build from paper loops. This bipartite network is a model of the unusual niobium monoxide (NbO) structure (NB purple, O yellow!). The structure can be considered as a 1/4 depleted NaCl structure, where the cubic symmetry is preserved. 🧪 #SciArt #ChemSky

Happy Pi Day!

Totalitarians have always pushed junk science. In Stalin’s Russia, scores died because of crank theories about agriculture promoted by Tofrim Lysenko. His beliefs led to crop failures & starvation. RFKjr, his 21st century counterpart, is pushing quack notions about vaccines & measles is flourishing👇

On June 9, 2025, >300 current & former employees of the Nat'l Institutes of Health submitted a formal letter to NIH director & Trump lackey, Jayanta Bhattacharya. The letter is called the Bethesda Declaration. It calls for an end to the politicization of science. Signatories are still waiting👇

Retsef Levi, an MIT professor & on the CDC's once-prestigious vaccine advisory panel, has authored misleading papers on #Covid shots & approaches topics w/ a predetermined agenda. Now Levi is RFKjr’s pick to lead a #Covid shot review. RFK claims that quack Levi is "more than qualified"👇

Neurology: Incidence of Childhood Stroke and Association With Recent Infection: A Population-Based Study Using Linked Data Lachlan L Dalli et al bit.ly/4cGPsSs

After spreading doubt/mistrust in doctors, medicine and vaccines for 6 years, Podcast Jay suddenly wants trust to return, now that it is his job to stop measles. Like all MAHA doctors, he's failing. My latest.

NYC is planning to open a digital tech-focused high school that "would make students 'builders as well as ethical users of AI'". Meanwhile, the City has not yet come out with an AI policy for schools themselves. Very concerning. This is a decision that communities should make.

Public health disaster in Bangor, Maine: HIV outbreak now up to 39 cases. Locals blame defunding of harm reduction/clean syringe programs, the busting up of a homeless encampment, and a lack of ID doctors #IDSky

The reactivation of herpes simplex virus (HSV-1, not only herpes zoster) may be tied to accelerated aging and dementia, and account in part for the mechanism of Shingrix vaccine''s protection www.wired.com/story/shingl...

Before universities opened their doors to women, one woman spent 7 years making a quilt of the Solar System to teach other women astronomy: www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...

Michigan got measles from Florida.

“Measles in Utah is raging through unvaccinated children in several communities”. “Since measles began spreading in Utah last summer, state health officials have barely acknowledged it”. “We’re trying to find ways of tweaking the message” “Few seem to be listening”.

Not going away!!! #Iran #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Retsef Levi, an MIT professor & on the CDC's once-prestigious vaccine advisory panel, has authored misleading papers on #Covid shots & approaches topics w/ a predetermined agenda. Now Levi is RFKjr’s pick to lead a #Covid shot review. RFK claims that quack Levi is "more than qualified"👇

I’m really tired of living in an Orwell novel. Can some other country do regime change to us HERE?

On June 9, 2025, >300 current & former employees of the Nat'l Institutes of Health submitted a formal letter to NIH director & Trump lackey, Jayanta Bhattacharya. The letter is called the Bethesda Declaration. It calls for an end to the politicization of science. Signatories are still waiting👇

Don't ever let anyone try to convince you that measles is a benign infection: A boy, 7, has died of a brain condition caused by measles, the world’s most contagious virus. He succumbed to subacute sclerosing panencephalitis—a delayed measles complication—years after having the infection as a baby👇

Jayanta Bhattacharya, NIH & CDC director, has started a new lecture series at the Nat'l Institutes of Health: "Scientific Freedom." First speaker—Matthew Ridley—a British kook & ex-science writer. He's a lab leak proponent, downplayed #Covid vaccination & claims climate change is exaggerated👇

Rare cancers & malformed fish are plaguing Native American communities downstream from an Exxon petroleum operation in Canada. Worse, officials are considering loosening regulations to allow Exxon to release treated wastewater directly into a nearby river (Gift link)👉 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/h...

'(...) academics at Tsinghua Uni. found AI adoption reduced the number of topics studied by 5% & led engagement between researchers working on related questions to fall by 24%. The technology that accelerates individual careers seems to be simultaneously narrowing what science collectively explores'

"The Parallels between RFK Jr and Tofrim Lysenko: When Pseudoscience Infects National Leadership" "And by understanding the history of an unqualified person driving nonscientific decisions in scientific public policy, perhaps we can avoid another disaster." skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/th...

Everybody should know who @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social is. In this day and age it is more risky to keep your head down than to be the whistleblower that we needs. Right now, being called "a radical leftist" is a badge of honor. And imperative. Read her story here. 🧪 www.statnews.com/2026/03/12/n...

Being a journalist means having people talk about experiences nobody should have to go through. I’m so grateful for the people who agree to have these conversations, including @prosanta.bsky.social and Becca Lynch, for this one from today about people under 50 getting diagnosed w colon cancer.

As a former EPA scientist, this is both heartbreaking and enraging. 🧪🌏🥼🔬

Don't ever let anyone try to convince you that measles is a benign infection: A boy, 7, has died of a brain condition caused by measles, the world’s most contagious virus. He succumbed to subacute sclerosing panencephalitis—a delayed measles complication—years after having the infection as a baby👇

Dr. Kristin Roman, the physician who performed the autopsy on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, says she was hesitant to declare his death a suicide www.msn.com/en-us/news/c...

Human touch www.alphaomegaalpha.org/wp-content/u...

Palantir helped provide the targeting of the Iranian elementary school, but we're supposed to trust them with our medical systems? wapo.st/4llWy0R

"Patients and communities can play a direct role. Ask your clinic: “What happens to my data beyond this visit? Do you have policies that protect it from ICE?” Ask your hospital whether they contract with companies that also work with ICE."

RFK Jr is trying to get 14 peptides licensed without data on safety or efficacy. His favorite is BPC-157. "Only three small human studies of BPC-157 exist, the largest of which is a telephone survey of 16 people who received an injection of the drug for knee pain" www.economist.com/science-and-...