NEW: In February, I visited Raw Farm. You may have heard of it. RFK Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow are customers. It supplies raw dairy products to 500 stores nationwide. And regulators have linked it to over a dozen recalls and outbreaks that have made hundreds sick. 🧵👇

Narrative Creation and Its Impact on Learners' Attitudes Toward Older Adults in Long-Term Care. #geriatrics https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.70531

We are no long a free country, free to express dissent, free to express opinions. More: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

It’s June 6th. Do something to reject fascism today.

We need to make sure this editorial goes viral Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now! diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

"As anti-LGBTQ+ narratives based on populist fear sweep the United States—drawing comparisons in the media to the Satanic Panic and fueling legislation targeting queer people—false stereotypes once again risk resulting in real criminalization." Valena Beety

When your agents shot my coworker Alex, that was pretty fucking unlawful.

“What OMB is proposing is not a reform of grants management,” Elizabeth Ginexi, a former program officer at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), writes in a Substack post. “It is a vehicle for complete political control of science … ” www.science.org/content/arti...

The latest assault by the Trump Administration would effectively end scientific research in the US (funding will be decided by political appointees—not scientists—& must advance Trump’s political agenda) This is the time for universities to step up If not now—when? If not now—what are they for?

This must be the free and open academic debate we keep hearing about

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

This is the destruction of federal funding for scientific research & universities as we know it. A total, comprehensive politicization of the process & an end run around Congress.

This is a good point, I think. We have a progress Pride flag in the window and various stickers and signs inside and we put it on our website. Virtue signalling is good! Getting the customers you actually want is good!

The article! bsky.app/profile/swil...

US friends: what’s it like living in 🇨🇦 now? Me: Well, earlier this week I turned on the AC but today there was a frost warning so I guess that summer is over. But otherwise amazing! 🤩

An interesting thing about NASA is that they’ve never had to worry whether scrubbing a launch for safety reasons would impact their IPO

A quick reminder that every time Bhattacharya's NIH asks you to remove words like "gender," "diverse," or "social determinants of health," they are undermining the institution's foundational statue. Gender: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/... SDOH/diverse: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

More on the destruction of US science. www.chronicle.com/article/they...

NEW: Records released tonight show that Reynolds, makers of Vuse vapes, gave $5 Million to MAGA Inc. days before the FDA wrote a policy that could allow them to make millions selling flavored vapes. Via @kenvogel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

From @veritenews.org The Louisiana SPCA reported a surge in pets being given up for adoption last year following the federal immigration raids. veritenews.org/2026/05/18/s...

bottom line: older people in the ER with abdominal pain have worse outcomes & a wider range of bad things, plus less reliable signs & symptoms may be worth thinking of “geriatric abdominal pain” as somewhat distinct from abdominal pain thanks again @abfriedman.com ! @aem-journal.bsky.social

American science right now is basically 10,000 of these stories, all with their own heartbreaking specificity Lost careers, lost progress, lost discoveries I feel so sad every day for all we’ve lost and continue to lose 💔

Corporations reportedly received “VIP invitations” to “networking” events in exchange for sponsoring Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s road trip. The sponsors included Boeing, Toyota, and United Airlines — all of which are regulated by Duffy’s department. The corruption never ends.

David Venturella, formerly of private prison company Geo Group, will lead ICE. A federal ethics rule generally bars government employees from working on contracts awarded to their former employers for one year, but the Trump admin. granted him a waiver. https://wapo.st/42sRsYe

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 May CICnews Canada is now providing trans Americans with Canadian ancestry expedited processing of citizenship applications, some in as little as 2 weeks as thousands have applied in order to have a back-up to their U.S. citizenship.

Happening NOW. Join us in Potomac C for a fun and interesting talk on “generalist disease” #SGIM26 @societygim.bsky.social

Some voters remember the creation of District 9, the majority-Black congressional seat representing Memphis. Now, they’re seeing it taken away by TN Republicans.

Universal perinatal cash transfers through Rx Kids in Flint were associated with a 32% reduction in investigated infant maltreatment allegations compared with control cities. ja.ma/4u0NVMX #SGIM26 @societygim.bsky.social

Happening now! Join us (D is behind C down the dark hallway) #SGIM26 SSG: Individual Solutions, Collective Impact: Approaches to Diversifying Funding Support for GIM Research Across the Lifespan Thu, May 7 3:30 – 4:30 PM EDT Potomac D

And here is a summary slide of the outstanding Update in Geriatrics. #SGIM26 @societygim.bsky.social

🚨 Looking for your next opportunity in academic internal medicine? Swing by the SGIM Expo & Career Fair—your one-stop shop for job openings, career resources, and employer connections! 🌟 Check it out in Cherry Blossom & Woodrow Wilson - open until 7:15pm! #SGIM26 #SGIMCareers #InternalMedicine

Amazing Update in Geriatrics at #SGIM26 @societygim.bsky.social How did you fit so much great content in such a short amount of time?!?

Hey #AGS26 be sure to check out student and resident posters happening live now! @amergeriatrics.bsky.social @agsjournal.bsky.social @ucsfgeriatrics.bsky.social @geritjas.bsky.social @geripal.bsky.social @jenncarn1.bsky.social

ICYMI: The House Appropriations Committee voted 35-25 yesterday to advance a bill that would underfund WIC and cut fruit and vegetable benefits for almost 5.4 million toddlers, preschoolers, new moms & pregnant women in low-income families.

🚨🚨🚨 Tl; dr: Enrollment in Medicaid expansion is associated with dramatic long-term improvements in credit score and reductions in medical debt sent to collections! Published today in @jamanetworkopen.com (full paper is linked below) Read on for more details 1/n www.uofmhealth.org/health-lab/m...

notably his cure is from CAR-T therapy, which is so new I didn’t even learn about it in med school THIS is why we invest in science

One proposed data center due to be finished by 2028 would take up 17 football fields’ worth of land, and would require 750,000 gallons of water a day to operate. People are becoming increasingly concerned about the effect data centers will have on water quality, water supply and costs in their area.

A year on, parts of Zambia are witnessing the devastating consequences of American cuts to a lifesaving HIV program.

This reminds me of one of my favorite Abraham Lincoln quotes: How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.

AI is best understood as a cyberattack against a functioning society and should be treated as such

Proponents of work requirements argue that they incentivize people who are “work-ready” to seek and keep jobs, reducing dependence on government assistance and upholding the “dignity of work.” The reality is that requiring recipients to work does not lower an area’s unemployment rate.

Convince me that this episode hasn't revealed in stark contrast Director(s) Bhattacharya's true motivations and values.

This is highly concerning

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces. 249 years later, we have this idiot.

And finally: K grants These support post-docs and early career researchers. Landing one of these can be your ticket to a tenure track gig. They're career-makers. # of new grants issued through April 15 in FY2024 (the last “normal” year): 374 FY2025: 252 FY2026: 140

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

Very good (if tragic) story from the Washington Post [GIft Link] wapo.st/3OONwh6 1/8

U.S. infectious disease research is on the brink. Without immediate action from Congress, much of it will cease to exist within a year. For example👇 1️⃣ No collaborative RFAs posted for >1 year (normal: many / year). 2️⃣ No foreign collaborators allowed on grants. 🧪🪦 www.idsociety.org/globalassets...