Many studies have shown that there is no relationship between MMR vaccine and the development of autism. Here are two of the best. This one followed every single child born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 (n=537,303). There was no association.

kind of incredible...what masks, distancing and school closures did to influenza activity early in the pandemic. Dashed line is pandemic onset in Ontario. Red=flu B, blue = flu A. Masking and closures are not sustainable population level strategies, but cleaning indoor air (same result) is.

📢Last weeks #immunometabolism discoveries @biomednews.bsky.social 🔽🔽🔽 biomed.news/bims-imicid/... Highlight: Label-free metabolic imaging monitors the fitness of chimeric antigen receptor T cells www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It should be obvious, but from someone who is aware of the literature: There is no observed link between Tylenol use in pregnancy and autism. But there is significant data on all sorts of bad outcomes if pregnant women don't treat high fevers.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

It's important to be clear that what right wing protestors complain about as "cancel culture", things like student groups cancelling invitations to right wing speakers, is an insignificant threat to free speech compared to a government using the threat of regulatory action to silence media critics.

I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action

An insightful conversation with @milleridriss.bsky.social, an expert on violent extremism, about the ways that gender-based bigotry fuels hate — and how national security officials need to do something about it. By @jazzmyth.bsky.social @19thnews.org 19thnews.org/2025/09/how-...

Higher blood pressure in sepsis is associated with better outcomes, but this is a sicknesses effect as achieving higher pressures with higher doses of noradrenaline increases mortality. We should permit lower BP, the questions are , is 65mmHg low enough and could we individualise thresholds better?

Going viral on social media is the new journal impact factor Credit @tomgauld.bsky.social

“This is an observational study, and as such, no firm conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect. And … there might have been other unmeasured factors that may have influenced the results.” Undoubtedly there are. Separating well-managed vs unmanaged DM would also have been useful.

Dietary fibre-adapted gut microbiome clears dietary fructose and reverses hepatic steatosis www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Preprint @cellpress.bsky.social: Heterogeneity and Plasticity of the Naïve CD4+ T Cell Compartment papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Re today's fatal shooting: 'Under the changes in HB 128, which went into effect on May 7, individuals who are 18 years old or older and have a current Utah concealed weapon permit (CWP) may carry a weapon on campus, including in an “open” fashion.'

The findings suggest that preeclampsia may arise from a failure of renal progenitor cells to generate enough podocytes, opening the door to alternative therapeutic strategies. www.genengnews.com/topics/trans....

In mice. "Portal vein-enriched metabolites as intermediate regulators of the gut microbiome in insulin resistance" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

@ascbiology.bsky.social Potentially all papers published in MBoC are on this list. @jcellsci.bsky.social @jcb.org @biologists.bsky.social You too! Sue the heck out of them

“following rumors of his death donald trump held a press conference announcing extrajudicial killings of civilians and plans for a military invasion of an american city” is a perfectly factual headline that could be used to describe what we saw yesterday

Open peer reviews were longer, had some more praise, were a bit more informative, had more suggestions for improvement, and were more similar to each other. Women and reviewers with Western-affiliations wrote longer reports. Open peer review may help make reports less negative. #PRC10

I mean it was pretty obvious once they started being available anywhere other than pharmacies that vapes were a gateway to youth nicotine dependence. We could have regulated against them at any time *before* the youths became reliant so they would not choose to seek other sources upon regulation.

Our new review is out in Trends in Cancer. We had fund writing this :) We discuss the roles of retrotransposons in immune modulation in normal and malignant hematopoiesis. www.cell.com/trends/cance...

We published a new lane of research today on human gut fungi. Shout out to 1st author @emilyvansyoc.bsky.social sky.social & @erdavenport.bsky.social For 20 years, bacteria received the lion's share of interest in the human gut. Yet we know little about the gut mycobiome. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Something I didn't get to say yesterday: We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.

Excited to share our new @pubs.acs.org paper! We engineered cells with ~10% photolipids in the ER membrane. This enabled optical control of membrane viscosity to study its impact on ER→Golgi protein transport. @dirktrauner.bsky.social @noemijimenezrojo.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

As lots of TCR alleles encode different amino acids, the ability to resolve full protein sequence closely tracks allelic confidence. In other (what maybe shouldn’t be surprising) words: if we want to be able to say what a TCR rearrangement’s translated sequence is, we need to sequence that whole V.

Finally, we look at simulated TCRseq read length vs TCR V calling confidence. As expected, the more you sequence the better you get, and calling 'gene' is easy. What’s maybe less expected is that you can sequence halfway into the V and still only be able to narrow down to a handful of alleles.

Fantastic paper, worth reading if you have an interest in TCRs or even adaptive immunology generally, or bioinformatic annotation and the importance of metadata. Explainer on why to state specific ref sequence used, why to keep an open mind re gene/ORF annotations, and how these change over time.

The same mainstream media who continues to write about Biden’s health months after his presidency ended, and who made Hillary’s cough national news, has been silent on Trump’s health. Meanwhile, here’s an excellent, non-speculative, non-sensationalist post doing the MSM’s job for them.

well on the one hand it's bad for democracy and social cohesion that Keir Starmer is trying to appeal to the racists by pretending to be one of them, but on the other hand it's not actually working and the racists still don't want to vote for him

🧪In 1982, I was a 22yo cancer patient who wanted a PhD. Cornell said yes but didn’t offer health insurance so I went U Mich whose grad students won health benefits by striking and the Teamsters honored the picket line and stopped campus food deliveries. My PhD is a union PhD HAPPY FUCKING LABOR DAY

Analysis of Metabolic Stability under Environmental Perturbations Using a Kinetic Model https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.27.672763v1

Happy Labor Day 🙂

The rise, fall and renaissance of electrochemistry 🧟 The once unfashionable science which began with a dissected frog is now behind a vast array of indispensable modern innovations, writes Gillian Collins, PhD scholar in the Department of Chemistry. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...

why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"

Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda…For that reason, she has been targeted.” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Summer break prevented me from properly advertising this serie of reviews on the function of cell death during development that I edited. There is still a lot to dig in regarding regulation of apoptosis in vivo ad I hope we managed to illustrate this well www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Proud to be signatory on this letter.

People doubted me when I said researchers were moving from #Twitter to #Bluesky. Then @altmetric.com showed early data supporting the claim, and now @whysharksmatter.bsky.social & @drjuliawester.bsky.social confirm it with their research. The trend is real. Switch now! #SocialMedia #X #ResearchSky

A progressive Democrat flipped a staunchly Republican seat in *Iowa*— won it by 10 points, in fact— by running *As A Progressive* focusing on issues of education, and making housing, child care, and health care affordable. Stop running to the right. Stay left, and fight.

TIL: I’m one of the authors being ripped off too. I had no idea. Take a moment to check for your academic papers. Consider making it easy for lawyers to find you as their class action suit proceeds.

Check if your papers have been used to train AI with the search tool in the article linked below. At least 2 of mine are in there.

LOV-BirA, light regulated biotin ligase, engineered by Song-Yi Lee www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

From paleoart to fine art, comics to medical illustration, bioart to space imagery, explore the rich SciArt ecosystem on Bluesky with the SciArt Starter Pack. 150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡. And no gen AI or NFTs.

Excited to share our new review with @depaceraffa.bsky.social‬, @saikat2025.bsky.social‬, and Chad Williamson on the BLOC-1 and BORC complexes—key regulators of endolysosomal processes and linked to several genetic diseases. #NIH #Lysosomes #RareDiseases authors.elsevier.com/a/1lg4i8jWWJ...

When institutions depend on wealthy people for status and resources, they have an incentive to let those wealthy people get away with breaking the rules. I've seen this in my research on schooling, and I'm grateful for @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social's work showing similar patterns in churches.

Earlier this month, at the Senior Center of Mount Olive, New Jersey, ecologist Megan O’Rourke turned from overseeing federal research to a new challenge: persuading voters to elect her to the U.S. Congress. https://scim.ag/3Jz1i4D