Nice to hear some good @fda.gov news today. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

Does he understand how health insurance works? Serious question.

A great way to stand up to cancer is voting in politicians who will fund scientific research.

A view of the (now razed) Jacqueline Kennedy Rose Garden from the #EastWing from my visit to the #WhiteHouse in January, 2025.

Posting this picture from my January trip to the beautiful and historic East Wing of the White House for no particular reason today.

This is an obvious example of why honest public health data are needed and how data-driven health policy changes can have a real impact on outcomes. #allergies #publichealth #peanuts www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...

The two latest additions to the @ucsfhealth.bsky.social inpatient ecosystems now have new names: UCSF Health Stanyan and UCSF Health Hyde Hospitals. And both will play a big part of our expansion to best meet the needs of residents of San Francisco and beyond. www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/10...

NHANES is an invaluable tool that many researchers including myself use to report on conditions in the general population. Like the fact that ~40% of 12-21yo females are iron deficient. Tinyurl.com/JAMAFe And so much more important work. But they’re destroying it all.

These large national cohorts provided data that supported healthcare policymaking across the public and private sectors. They were some of the most important works that only CDC was able to perform - and execute well - as a nationally representative survey. www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

I asked ChatGPT to draw me a map showing where Columbus actually landed and glad my historical gaps are all cleared up now.

Yes, America - the president is telling you you’ll be paid to take your meds. FFS

Good for my alma mater. apple.news/Aa2I29qo-SVq...

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.