Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...

Wishing a v merry Xmas to all who observe

"the researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers"

"Generative AI" doesn’t tell the truth, which is believing you know facts & trying to communicate them; it doesn't lie, which is believing you know facts & trying to obscure them; it isn't even "mistaken," which is Trying to tell the truth but erring in either what's known, how it's told, or both. …

Happy Winter Solstice! Beer can, pinhole camera photos of the Summer to Winter Solstice (2024) and the Winter to Summer Solstice (2025). You never know quite what you're going to get with these photos, set the beer can pointing towards the sun at hopefully the correct angle and wait 6 months!

This is the worst case scenario that everybody was worried about

75 faculty from cut departments (like Earth & Atmospheric Sciences) received notice that their jobs will end in Jan 2027. A year seems like a lot of notice, but it's basically too late for this year's job cycle and too early for next year's. From Nebraska's AAUP: thebugeater.com/uncategorize...

'Political goons rant about things they don't understand on stolen CDC letterhead'

The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”. NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC. ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr. Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

This would be so wildly disruptive of the actual educational process that if enforced it would almost guarantee mass student protests.

I’m delighted to be joining Dr. Lisa Bowleg and the ITI Salon on Feb 11 with @albeccia.bsky.social and Dougie Zubizarreta to discuss Intersectional MAIHDA!

I did this in person once. Met the guy who wrote the paper that changed my career and told him about it. He said, “wow, I didn’t think anyone read that paper!” 😂

Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted

"The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

WCHA disagrees with CDC’s Advisory Committee’s change to decades-long vaccine recommendation that has reduced pediatric hepatitis B infections by 99 percent. doh.wa.gov/newsroom/wes...

Of course they visualize the schedule like this because it elicits a strong emotional reaction—especially among new parents. Let’s add some critical context to this image…

This really was one of the most heartbreaking articles I’ve read in a while. I don’t think people comprehend the scale of destruction wrought by this administration already, not even close nymag.com/intelligence...

The CDC is compromised and is advocating against evidence-based public health. This is a pro-death and pro-disease recommendation.

I'm devastated by what the field has lost in terms of pandemic prevention research and infrastructure, but even more for the (to date, 60+) PhD students and postdocs on the project, many of whom face an immediate funding cliff at the end of the year. NSF had the funds for them and just didn't pay /3

Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵

Without The Rule of Law, There Is No Law Enforcement open.substack.com/pub/resistan...

‘Tis the season to resurrect the epicookies from #EpiTwitter circa 2021

I love Star Trek

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

As someone who works professionally in federal civic tech, I've said from the beginning: it was never about efficiency. It has ALWAYS been a heist, of your data, of your systems, of your code. The richest man in the world stole your information and is using it to make himself even richer.

It's a strange, almost surreal, experience to be educating students in a field where my career is probably over. But I see from their work the ways they will push the field forward, so I will do everything I can for them while I still have a contract. After that I think I need to find my own path.

You read that right. The President of the United States has called for execution of legislative opponents .

listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

We knew this regulation was going into effect, but we didn't yet know whether and how NIH might seek to use it. Yesterday, we found out. NIH will indeed add specific language to new grant terms and, in doing so, it'll preserve the option to use this new power. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... 2/

NEW: An analysis finds that NIH funding cuts have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants that were enrolled in studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

A reminder this #WorldDiabetesDay that insulin rationing is still very much a problem in the United States, despite recent policy changes and PR moves by pharmaceutical companies. One in four patients in the U.S. still ration insulin.

Today is #WorldDiabetesDay. #Diabetes can affect anyone, at any stage of life. Support at home, school, work and during pregnancy makes a real difference. Listen, learn and show up for those living with diabetes. More info 🔗 bit.ly/4hUOjY0

On #WorldDiabetesDay, we’re highlighting the reality for people living with #diabetes in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps, in #Bangladesh. Our teams support patients by providing self-monitoring tools, insulin pens and clay pots for safe insulin storage without electricity.

FINALLY some good news!

Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up. Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.

I want my Chinese students, mentees, collaborators, and colleagues to know that I will NEVER stop working proudly with and for you.

Malicious compliance is a tragically underused tool of resistance.

I hope people understand that we're far past just setting shit 47 has knocked over back upright. This will be rebuilding: NEW legislation, new institutional knowledge, new case law even. This will take decades. Not 4 years, not 8.

The New York Times **HAD EMAILS IN ITS POSSESSION** tying Donald Trump directly to Jeffrey Epstein's global elite pedophile cabal conspiracy –– in the middle of a 2016 election where a global elite pedophile cabal conspiracy was a HUGE topic –– and they didn't publish one word it for a decade.

It's that time again. For the next 24 hours, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related questions below in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Responses are for information only and are NOT medical advice. #AskAnIDDoc November 2025 edition.

Unreal, the impact this is having on scientists. I spent over 700 hrs writing 4 grants submitted Apr-Sept that *might* have been funded next Apr; 2 abt to be 3 apps missed review bc of shutdown. In normal times takes 9-24 mo to get a grant funded. No hope for labs like mine. Literally no hope.

"The fact that children in 2025 are suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is not just a public health failure. It is a moral failure." — @stefanswartpet.bsky.social & @madhupai.bsky.social argue children have the right to be vaccinated. www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...

This constant drumbeat of "trust us, not your eyes" stuff gets exhausting, and I don't even live there.

PSA for people with NIH grant periods starting January 1st (including most NIGMS MIRAs): your RPPR is due Saturday, but they haven’t sent out the usual automated reminders, presumably due to the shutdown

This is very true. As a quantitative methodologist, my advice to grad students for how to become a better scholar includes things like “read more history books” and “take a creative writing class.” #AcademicChatter