Now might be a good time to repost this story about what scientists actually know about the complex causes of autism, and what's behind the increasing prevalence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A heartbreaking but essential read: Jacob Carter & Elisabeth Marnick surveyed students about how the administration’s research cuts and other actions are shaping their current work and futures. It's a grim picture of how the US STEM pipeline is shrinking. scilight.substack.com/p/189-studen...

Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital is the second deadliest single attack on the press ever recorded by CPJ, following the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines. Read more: cpj.org?p=522184

You guys have to read the termination letter that @washingtonpost.com sent @karenattiah.bsky.social because they essentially accused her of anti-white racism because she mentioned that Charlie Kirk was a white man 😵‍💫 Then they called her a “risk.” 🤡 karenattiah.substack.com/p/why-washin...

This kind of repudiation of the Supreme Court by a state Supreme Court justice is very rare. But — speaking as a former Alaska Supreme Court clerk — this is also part of their structural purpose. There’s a reason our rights can be, and often are, given *better* protection under state constitutions.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

How does NOT publishing science make America Healthy Again? Oh right because it’s never been about that

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

For anyone who thinks the current assault on free speech is limited to people who criticize Charlie Kirk…

Listening to ACIP meeting which is a catastrophe, as predicted. I’d like emphasize in all this that the CDC subject matter experts and leads have been tremendous and continue to represent good science on our behalf. I am very grateful for their dedication, despite internal and external pressure.

And hats off to Dr. Fryhofer for her continuing advocacy for maternal immunization. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPHN...

My thought on why the ACIP HepB vote was postponed. The scientific evidence that was presented by career CDC scientists as well as from the numerous expert public commenters inarguably demonstrated why the birth dose is NECESSARY. RFK Jr.’s ACIP couldn’t come up with a way to deny it in time.

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

"Officials from New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware announced the collaboration in a press release Thursday after months of unofficial discussions." VT too. HUZZAH!!!! newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/09/18/h...

A Statement From US Jews Opposing Trump’s Attacks on Colleges and Students www.thenation.com/article/soci...

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

We are witnessing a full blown war on science, public health & truth itself. Let me be clear: Vaccines have prevented more than 1.1 million deaths, 500 million cases of illness & 32 million hospitalizations. That's a lot of moms and dads who don't have to bury their children.

When your anti-vax Health Secretary stacks the vaccine committee: "Some members seemed confused about the data they were being presented. After their vote on the program that provides free vaccines for children, some members asked what they just voted on." wapo.st/3K9OBNV

President of Texas A&M resigns. This is the second Texas A&M President chased out of College Station in two years as a result of right wing politicians and activists attacks on academic freedom. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Not sure whether to laugh or cry at the latest from @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDiX...

“I was fired for holding the line on scientific integrity. But that line does not disappear with me.” Important testimony today from former CDC director Dr. Susan Coller Monarez:

I'm watching the ACIP meeting. #Follow along for updates. The committee will vote on whether to delay the hepatitis B vaccine for babies and whether to give the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) and chickenpox vaccines separately.

RFK Jr wants to link 25 deaths of children to the COVID vaccines by misrepresenting VAERS reports. www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap... via @skepticalraptor.bsky.social

Vaccine safety surveillance systems in the US were all able to very rapidly detect myocarditis in some subgroups after COVID19 vaccination. Yet none of them have ever detected an uptick in deaths. Do we think RFK Jr.’s HHS somehow magically found something? The answer is NO.

stumbled across an article showing that this year's freshman class at my alma mater is 5% Black, which hasn't been the case since 1968 it prompted me to take another look at the Supreme Court's affirmative action decision, & how it's already working as intended ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

A very helpful thread on today’s hearing:

Sen. Bill Cassidy: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expected you to change the childhood vaccine schedule, despite a lack of science or data to support that move? Former CDC Director Susan Monarez: "Correct."

With this disappointing court decision, many of the people who have the fewest options for healthcare are losing access to a source of high-quality reproductive care. Did your member of Congress vote to strip care from Medicaid recipients? If so, now's a good time to let them know how you feel.

My family member died from hepatocellular cancer from chronic hepatitis B. My family comes from Asia, we know that congenital or perinatal hep B is bad. 14% of US women don't get screened. HepB is 100 times MORE infectious than HIV. It can live in specks of blood on nail clippers, towels, #MomSky

i share this mayo clinic video every year because more people need to see and hear how horrific a disease whooping cough is

Worth noticing the parallels between Trump's attack on the federal civil service and civil society. This is akin to firing probationary workers and imposing a hiring freeze for entry-level positions in civil society. The attacks against mid- and late-career civil society are coming, I'm sure.

More on how Social Security has managed to bring disability backlogs down this year, despite *everything*: 1. The disability determination staff who process applications are state employees & were not subject to the DOGE efforts earlier this year that pushed out thousands of SSA staff.

📍 𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐓𝐎𝐍, 𝐃.𝐂.: Nearly 40% of child care workers in D.C. are immigrants. With National Guard deployment and a surge of ICE agents, providers say fear is disrupting classrooms and worsening an already dire staffing shortage. #AbuseofPowerWatch

This is a THREAD of people NOT FIRED. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Powerful new article in NYT Magazine on cancer research [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

“Hawaii is proud to stand with our West Coast partners to ensure public health decisions are grounded in science, not politics,” said Gov. Josh Green, who is also a physician. “As an island state, we understand how critical it is to protect our communities from preventable disease.”

On the new acting CDC director. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.

Hitler was also the product of a democratic election.

1/ Contrary to recent claims by two political scientists, new work by @adrianraftery.bsky.social & Nick Irons estimates that COVID non-pharmacuetical interventions (NPIs) saved an estimated 860,000 lives in the US *in 2020 alone*. bmcglobalpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

"To speak of Kirk as a champion of reasoned discussion is also to ignore his frequent calls for the state suppression of his political opponents." - @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

Hearing that a bunch of USDOT grants are being canceled because safety is not an agency priority While ~30% of traffic deaths involve speeding and speed limits in the US are routinely higher than recommended for safety, efforts to improve safety don't align with agency priorities #SafetyOverSpeed

Nearly half a million eligible children and new parents could lose #WIC and over 4 million see reduced benefits unless Congress fully funds the program in the 2026 spending bill and prevents administration overrides: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

NEWS: Pretty wild exclusive from @arthurallen202.bsky.social -- Trump's team wants to abandon the whole FDA system of having outside experts review the evidence for new drugs and devices. They maintain releasing "complete response letters" is more transparent. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Chris Wright/the DOE dissolved the 5-denier ghould cadre that produced the bad climate report. They are not withdrawing the report though; Wright claims the "resulting debate it invited exceeded my expectations." That "debate" is every other scientist explaining how wrong they are about everything.

BREAKING: New UCS report shows the Trump admin has systematically cut the public out of federal decision making, and six agencies bypassed public participation processes required by law in 182 out of 591 rules that were issued, rolled back, or delayed between January 20 and July 31.

Two former NIH officials filed whistle-blower complaints stating they were removed from their positions at NIH "after objecting to Trump administration efforts to undermine vaccines, flout court orders, withhold research money & politicize the grant-making process." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/h...