Offit “embarked on what would become his greatest professional accomplishment: researching & developing, over 25 years, the RotaTeq vaccine, alongside Stanley Plotkin & H. Fred Clark… Since hitting the market in 2006, RotaTeq has prevented ~70,000 infant deaths a year” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

This is why I keep it out of my classrooms. This is why I teach my students to be careful/critical in their consumption of gAI. This is why universities shouldn't be so bloody ridiculously uncritical in forcing gAI on faculty, staff and students. We're inculcating dependence on a catastrophic scale

Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: Trans activist flouted bathroom law at Kansas Statehouse. She proved ideologues weak and cowardly. #ksleg

Statistical Probability Regurgitron!

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Don't turn up your nose at tamales made with schmaltz (i raise chickens; it's what i have), either.

One aspect of bathroom bans I don't see discussed much is how they disproportionately impact trans folks with disabilities/chronic illness. Just a heads up, we've gotta talk poop. And in particular, diarrhea.

A fascinating read about one particular war crime, but it also explains what’s going on in universities and companies everywhere; the automation of decision-making that removes judgment and worker-autonomy in the name of efficiency and management tyranny. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

Just needed to let you guys know that if you annoy electric eels enough, they'll jump out of the water to slap you. WHILE electrically discharging. So naturally they did a study The diagrams do seem to raise as many questions as they answer

The AP's story on the IOC's new policy mentions that it "also restricts" athletes like two-time Olympic gold medalist Caster Semenya. That word "also" is doing a lot of work. New piece on who this policy is actually about: www.readtpa.com/p/the-iocs-n...

BREAKING: The DOJ inexplicably dropped its lawsuit seeking access to Oklahoma’s unredacted voter data — retreating before a judge could weigh in. The department had previously revealed it reached a potential settlement with a state it sued.

"ACT-UP's example is a reminder that even institutions like the Catholic Church aren't immune to disruption and public pressure. So get angry and...stop praising the damn papacy. Religious figures are not special. Their bigotry is not less repulsive because it's wrapped up in liturgy and ceremony."

Mississippi Department of Public Safety officials discovered Ku Klux Klan items while cleaning out a closet to move to the department’s new headquarters

Really excellent paper on the genetics of caterpillar butt ornaments journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

none of these mfs read douglas adams and it shows

This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

"If you allow people to become billionaires, they will send gangs of uneducated children to steal from and ransack your public institutions" certainly seems like an argument for something.

Active and public transport complement each other. "We need transit, not bike lanes!" is wrecker shit. We need both.

Despite cold, pro-science rally draws modest crowd to Capitol freepressokc.com/despite-cold... #Oklahoma

The list of reasons why there isn't more visible student organizing in the US today is long. But the shortest, simplest answer is this: Liberal politicians and institutions systematically undermined it for decades, then brutally crushed it when it miraculously rose from the dead.

“And doubts about vaccines are increasingly spilling into refusal of other mainstays of pediatric medicine… At a hospital in Boise, Idaho, for example, three infants died last year after their parents declined a shot of vitamin K, administered to newborns to prevent bleeding, said Dr. Amanda Lee”

{𝙖𝙅𝙎𝘿} Gift article, gentlefolk… Exclusive︱Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job ⇘ wapo.st/4bAFCQZ

Probably the most exciting news you'll read today. A single-dose oral treatment for gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (HAT)--also known as sleeping sickness--has been recommended for approval by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music Several dozen folks did Some even dubbed music over the original clip. I haven't been able to get this out of my head. So I give you A Bluesky exclusive: Reservoir Ducks 🐣 🪶

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

Tricyclists, too

About $50 million worth of solar panels will appear on Maryland Department of Transportation parking lots and brownfields in coming years, paid for with money from a state renewable energy fund that has been in the news recently. marylandmatters.org/2026/03/01/s...

Transpose this 1970 campaign speech by antisemitic white supremacist Asa Carter into the voice of JD Vance or Elon Musk or Matt Walsh and tell me if you could tell the difference.

Posted to the Facebook community group i admin. I spent far more time than the poster did reading about folic acid supplementation, alternative forms of folate, and legislative efforts to address folic acid deficiencies. And then i deleted the post.

"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner

“Everyone thinks universities have to do what donors want because they pay the bills. But that gets it backward, and not just at Hopkins.” I highly recommend reading this piece. www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

More trans polling. Competent framing matters. Focus on real problems, not dividing people over trans: 86/10 (Change Research, Nov ‘24) Elected official that speaks up on trans issues vs ignoring them: +61 with Dems, +9 with Independents (Jacobin/@dataforprogress.org, Sept ‘25)

a fucking pedophile sexually abused nearly every prospective and actual Olympian gymnast for over two decades, and the political discourse is hyper-fixated on the hypothetical unfairness of trans girls competing with cis girls

Norman High School students held a walkout Tuesday afternoon protesting against Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Protesters and a counterprotester spoke with OU Daily about student activism and what the walkout means to them.

Argentina, 1978: “The armed men who roved the city were at once secretive — driving cars without license plates and obscuring their faces with women's stockings — and brazen, abducting people off the street in broad daylight… daring bystanders: Acknowledge you've noticed us, see what happens.” 1/

(guy whose entire modus operandi is tricking people into paying for shit) so I've been looking at this technology, and I've realized it has INCREDIBLE potential as a "trick people into paying for fake bullshit" machine

Open borders create more safety than closed ones, and most of the benefits of safety are downriver from being the sort of people who keep their borders open, thereby avoiding the terrible dangers inherent to being the sort of people who would keep their borders closed.

Live your life so that you're the person people call when they find parasites on their pets

Norman, OK today.

Beneath Berlin's Potsdamer Platz, an overlooked retail strip has been reborn as a bicycle parking facility and public passage connecting users to the S-Bahn station. Modest in scale but rich in possibilities, it integrates seamlessly into the revitalised entertainment, commercial and office centre.🧵

Most people probably focus on the damage ICE has caused in Minnesota But their violent, fascist tactics affect people all over the country Here they are-terrorizing 4th and 5th graders at a bus stop in New Jersey May Trump and Stephen Miller rot in hell www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...

Updating the tracker and I came across this fascinating story of trans and/or non-binary trans life woven into the Catholic practices of Naples, Italy. For the photo alone I felt like I had to share it - but it's fascinating throughout. From @apnews.com apnews.com/article/ital...

I am by no means a class first — let alone class only — leftist, but the older I get the more I think that the way you disrupt a lot of sexual violence and exploitation, including Epstein type shit, is by raising the floor with a massive social safety net and lowering the ceiling with taxes.

Here in rural Oklahoma, i've seen various groups--some definitely wearing shiny metal hats-- yelling about biosolids on farm fields. I haven't been able to work out if it was a real or imaginary hazard, but i'm tending toward real after reading this story.

On this day in 1968, white state troopers fired into a mostly African American crowd on the campus of South Carolina State College, a historically Black college in Orangeburg, and killed three young Black men.

My interview with @healthbeat.org www.healthbeat.org/2026/02/05/g...

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Administrative subpoenas have predictably become a scourge. Why go through a judge or grand jury when some mid-level DHS douche can basically file their own? wapo.st/4rtfCw8