Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

Large-scale transcriptomic study reveals that eating disorders (ED) and OCD share common molecular substrate in the human brain. ED and OCD converge on cortico-striatal transcriptional programs. Downregulation links mitochondrial function and inhibitory synaptic signaling. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

My first art credit! 💅 Art director Samuel Velasco and I wanted a new visual metaphor for the genome — not a code or a sequence, but its tangled, twisted physical form. More cool yarn sculptures inside! Also it's a great piece by @philipcball.bsky.social that will change the way you think about DNA

The human genome is no blueprint or algorithm — it’s something else entirely, something living with promiscuous logic. Can new genomic AI models, such as Evo 2 and AlphaGenome, untangle these tricky knots or will the genome confound them, too? www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-huma...

Yet another disastrous move for public education: Shifting the Office for Civil Rights to the DOJ will strip marginalized students of vital protections leaving them more exposed to systemic discrimination, unsurprisingly subverting the core mission of the Office for Civil Rights. #AcademicSky

📢 The Department of Education is shifting key special education and civil rights responsibilities to other agencies. AFT President @rweingarten.bsky.social responded, calling the move “a dagger to the heart” of the department’s mission to protect the most vulnerable. Read her statement ⤵️

Attend the Leena Peltonen Award lecture now at #eshg2026 with Nicola Whiffin from Oxford University and learn About her recent discovieries in rare diseases and the broader inclusion of non-coding variants in clinical genetic testing that led to the Leena Peltonen Award. Congratulations!

new kick in the teeth for US science. These are PROPOSED new rules that just dropped in the federal register. TLDR: would effectively allow political appointees to direct the $ where ever they want. Comments open until July 13.

“Could you fucking NOT?!”

an amazing collaboration that identified a completely new pathway in Down syndrome - bioengineer.org/researchers-...

An amazing and inspiring collaboration across the Americas shows that the genetic architecture of autism is consistent across diverse ancestral populations. urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

Delighted to share that our study is now out @cp-cellstemcell.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce... Congrats to Dr. @federicamosti.bsky.social for the culmination of a beautiful thesis!

Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

How Congress can restore the independence of US science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

sparkns.org/news-and-ins... what an amazing opportunity!!

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

Your Ring camera can scam passing dogs and compare them to databases of missing dogs and that’s heartwarming and there are absolutely no sinister implications that’s why the guy in the button-down and Dockers is soothing

A good moment to remember all that Paul Allen did for science and for Seattle and for the Seahawks !!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

President Donald Trump’s administration has declined to reappoint Walter Koroshetz as head of the NIH’s neuroscience institute—even though the agency’s director had backed his renewal. https://scim.ag/4pZD0kq

Peter Thiel says he’ll leave California if they pass a 1% wealth tax on billionaires for five years. So… how much would it take to make him leave the U.S.?

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 43% fewer grants funded in mental health, 47% fewer grants funded in human genomics/genetics research, and 61% fewer grants funded in minority health.

A summary of the state of the art in autism; having a great interviewer like Leslie Schlachter makes all of the difference! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PQs...

www.newsweek.com/kentucky-off... and sharing this psa

www.foxnews.com/politics/soc... sharing this PSA

In Kyoto for a ceremony for three friends who have been authorized to teach the historic/foundational shakuhachi repertoire. Have been visiting temples, meeting fellow aficionados, hiking on beautiful mountain paths, with more to come. A wonderful way to celebrate a milestone birthday.

giving.mountsinai.org/site/SPageSe... It’s awkward posting for something nominally in my honor but this is really an event to support the large, dedicated, compassionate and transformative team at the Seaver Autism Center. Please support our wonderful team! And stop by if you can!

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky 🧪🛟 @altcdc.altgov.info With statements by former NIEHS Director Birnbaum and others.

If you thought MAHA was going to at least look at environmental risk in an unbiased way. Nope. A close friend of Vance is now head of NIEHS with no process amidst the shutdown: JD Vance officiated the wedding of new head of NIH environmental institute | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

The bell in First Congregational Church in Falmouth, MA was forged in 1796 by Paul Revere. It has been rung over 30,000,000 times. Today the congregation rang it especially for the No Kings event.

Nine years ago I was honored to be inducted into the National Academy of Medicine. But the president of NAM has been so muted about the devastating impact of the current administration on health sciences. I look forward to working with Dr Bertagnolli, the incoming president of NAM, from July 2026.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

For the big 65, I am raising money for the Seaver Autism Center at Mount Sinai. What can I say, I think it is a fantastic organization! And we can use your support! giving.mountsinai.org/goto/seavera...

Fantastic reporting on autism - youtu.be/E-yaxqDsfgY?...