About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

Italian photographer Ray Giubilo with a one-in-a-million shot of Jasmine Paolini at the US Open.

Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.

👏 The rankings are in! We’re proud to be among the nation’s #BestHospitals — and the No. 1 hospital in California and San Francisco, according to @usnews.com! 🎉

There’s a deli in south Minneapolis that’s North Stars themed (complete with showing old games) 35 years after the team relocated to Dallas. Pretty badass.

Make America Salmonella Again.

This work and that of Edward Chang at @ucsfhealth.bsky.social is staggering in its implications of how we understand speech generation and wiil map its output in individuals unable to form words. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... What a world this is and why we need #SCIENCENOW for a better tomorrow.

Quite surprised to learn that cytomegalovirus was this into football.

I hope it wasn’t sentient so they don’t send the ships from the home planet tomorrow.

Innumerate

Not a surprise to anyone with a basic understanding of economics and trade.

One thing I’ve learned in leadership is regardless of position about where strategy should go, decisions should be based on transparent, reliable data. This is deeply disturbing. And Orwellian.

Interestingly, the Board *does have control. Powell only gets one vote See also: not understanding how the economy works

Childhood Vaccination Rates Have Dropped Again, C.D.C. Data Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/h...

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What a great, great farewell note

Someone needs to name a punk band “Roving Patrol.”

😂 #AI

As an MIT I alum I have to agree.

Gut the NIH but gold leaf the ceilings.

It's a sad & harmful day for patients & health care across the U.S., & its impact will reverberate for years. This bill moves us in the wrong direction. It will make it harder to access care & make patients sicker because the lifelines of Medicaid & CHIP are severed. http://spr.ly/633284mR2n

The evil that men do lives after them

For the life of me I don’t understand going to the effort - time, money, everything - of running for Congress, winning, and then just rolling over. It makes no sense.

Senate GOP version of the tax bill would strip 11.8 million people of health insurance over the next decade, CBO estimated. www.statnews.com/2025/06/28/s...

RIP Jim Parkinson, an iconic Oakland-based typeface designer who designed or refined the nameplate of every magazine and newspaper you know

Important read from all 17 highly qualified ACIP members who recently dismissed - read and share widely jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

news.abbvie.com/2025-06-16-A... Wow — top line VERONA results are negative — no advantage to AZA + VEN compared to AZA alone for higher-risk #MDSsm. AZA or DAC alone remain the standard for HR-MDS. So disappointing😢 🎗️🩸

I heard this morning that my informatics colleague Dr. Atul Butte passed after a battle with cancer. He was a giant in the field & inspired many of us over his distinguished career. He was a passionate champion of the power of big data & his impact on our field is immeasurable. RIP Atul & thanks.

Atul Butte died yesterday. The world lost a giant. A big bear of a man. With a huge smile. With love for everyone. With energy that could power a room. I loved everything about Atul. I loved how he was always happy. I loved how excited he was about science and helping people.

For those of you who may not have known him, Dr. Atul Butte, a pioneer in informatics, was the winner of the 2024 Morris F. Collen award, a pinnacle achievement in our field, as part of his storied career. His passing is a major loss to us all. RIP Dr. Butte #MedSky

Magnificent. The Greatest Sports Photo Ever Made Turns 60. #Photography www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/a...

Beautifully articulated concerns about the US medical research enterprise by Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois. The buck stops with the NIH Director and he agrees with that. How can we live with a budget that promised deep and devastating cuts to #cancer research? #ResearchSavesLives #NIH #NCI

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

President Trump’s 2026 budget proposes slashing the NIH’s central function, supporting research by awarding grants to universities, academic medical centers, and other institutions, by 43% compared to 2025 levels. www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/n...

RIP Jim Marshall, one of the legendary Purple People Eaters and one of the most durable and toughest NFL players in history. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/s... #Vikings #Defense #NFL #SKOL

Comment by a respected journalist and former Navy and US foreign service officer.

Agree. I don’t see the impact of recent changes as temporary. My speculation is that we will take 5-10 years to recover from these losses even if the pendulum swings back in the next presidential term.

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That @ascocancer.bsky.social #ASCO25 plenary had something for everyone. A little hematology, several practice changing studies including lots of #immunotherapy advances, and even a shout out to Taylor Swift. Capped by a masterful patient-centered perspective by Mark Lewis. #oncology

Conclusion slide by Dr. Andrew Kuykendall on VERIFY Rusfertide study for patients with PCV. Meaningful impacts on transfusion requirements and patient reported outcomes demonstrated in this pivotal study. #hematology #ASCO25 #polycythemiavera #mpnsm

Wow. The hematologist in me no longer feels out of my element as the #ASCO25 plenary moves to a trial of polycythemia vera (Rusfertide vs CSC, the VERIFY Study). #mpnsm #hematology

Nice shout out after discussion of Nivo PostOp study in head and neck cancer at @ascocancer.bsky.social plenary for judicial and financial advocacy for cancer patients and researchers. #ASCO25

Once again, this is all nonsense

I had the privilege of meeting Nick Kristof last year and am certain he speaks the truth here. Sad that defense of bad policy would include an attempt to discredit a decorated and highly respected journalist.

I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...

Exactly

To paraphrase Logan Roy, these are not serious people.

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

I implore people to think about what Memorial Day means, and then think about…this