Exclusive: Publisher investigating DNA contamination paper that authors say CDC vaccine committee will consider retractionwatch.com/2025/09/18/c... via @retractionwatch.com

When a manuscript has serious concerns raised about its scientific validity and integrity, it should be carefully examined, particularly when it’s being used to justify anti-vax quackery.

I hope this is widely read. It reflects the extraordinary diligence of CDC during the extreme stress of the pandemic. None of this information is secret--it was discussed and presented publicly. www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/c...

Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible” In Q&A, Drew Weissman says vast literature shows Covid shots are safe, refutes claims from Retsef Levi www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/d...

New blog post – A quick look at Roche's SBX lh3.github.io/2025/09/11/a...

DeepSeek R1 - the first widely used LLM to be peer reviewed and published in a research journal. And… with transparent peer reviewed! @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hankyoreh now has an official English translation of this editorial: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

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

A deep dive into the destruction of US cancer research by @jonathanmahler.bsky.social “It’s an absolutely unmitigated disaster,” a former top official at NIH told him. “It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” Gift link: nyti.ms/48iH3Cr

Though it’s traumatic for me to bring this up, I was targeted by a group allied with Turning Point USA in 2018, with the help of Tucker Carlson on Fox. My home address circulated online and I got death threats. 1/

Our latest paper outlining our ecosystem of tools for mining the neuroimaging literature, is finally officially published in eLife! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

SINGER, our ARG inference method, is finally published and freely available online: doi.org/10.1038/s415... It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...

Some people call it a minefield. Others call it dangerous, even irresponsible. I call it the most promising field in life sciences. My love letter to social science genetics: communities.springernature.com/posts/a-love...

Hoarding of health data is common across Africa go.nature.com/4npaCGY

So much respect for this man - for his impact on the world and on my small life.

Clearly stated by the Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We're still not finding any good evidence for a microbiome in any cancer type: see our new paper in @ScienceTM led by PhD student Yuchen (Peter) Ge www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and the accompanying news piece, www.science.org/content/arti...

Powerful. This strategy of rubber stamping non-evidence based dogma laid out here is frightening. I hope oversight happens--Sen Cassidy knows better. www.wsj.com/opinion/robe...

In these dark times, it comes as a rare pleasure to highlight @natanaels.bsky.social ‬ & @marcdemanuel.bsky.social's work on germline and somatic mutations in humans. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2

The #1 cause of death in women is heart disease. A new report makes the case for treating women with statins who have a high inflammation marker (hs-CRP) but no traditional risk factors academic.oup.com/eurheartj/ad...

Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation (CAGI) challenges are live! 🧬💻 genomeinterpretation.org/cagi7-challe... A total of 12 challenges have launched Including #DeepMutationalScanning Challenges ⏰ Deadlines approaching! #CAGI #GenomeInterpretation #VariantEffect

Last week, the NIH published a plan to “drive Gold Standard Science.” The plan cunningly wraps what are obvious Lysenkoist ideological purity tests disguised as “academic freedom” and “unbiased peer review” in seemingly reasonable proposals. sciencebasedmedicine.org/jay-bhattach...

MAHA wasn’t a response to COVID and any journalist who doesn’t understand that it *exploited COVID* intentionally, deliberately from day one should pack it in bc they’re a dupe. Cover people who want to improve nutrition if that’s what you want to talk about. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

NIH funding had a 156% basic annual return in 2024 (ie not taking into account any previous and/or future investments and/or returns). I’m no finance expert but it seems crazy that we’re all going to have that thrown away cause some people think public schools want to turn kids into transgender mice

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

A technology that played a key part in saving millions of lives during the pandemic should be celebrated. Yet in the US, research into mRNA vaccines is being cut. While sadly not unexpected, it’s irresponsible as we argue in our editorial this week 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our colleagues in federal service at the CDC and throughout HHS deserve better than leadership that inspires terrorism and violence against them. Please read and sign their letter and give them your support. www.savehhs.org/read-the-let...

If you want to understand why RFK Jr. has halted $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine development, look no further than Synthroid and herbal medicines. It has nothing to do with following better science and everything to do with alt med beliefs. sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-do-mrna...

Trump's war on immigrants is not generating jobs for US-born workers Compared to last year, prime-age employment rates of US-born workers are pretty similar and may be lower

Reported conflicts of interest have decreased in federal #vaccine advisory committees from 2000 to 2024 due to policy changes and increased scrutiny. ja.ma/45CPR2Z

"Last week’s attack on the #CDC could have been a slaughter." Absolutely. And, importantly, thanks to the inflammatory rhetoric, falsehoods, disinformation, and conspiracy theories constantly spouted by the very same person who's responsible for the agency - HHS Secretary RFK Jr. He must go.

The results of the ISCB Leadership vote are in!  Terms for the ISCB President-Elect and ISCB Vice President will start on January 21, 2026.

If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇

We need a word for someone who is beyond perverse, sadistic, sociopathic. Blocking mRNA vaccine research means that you or someone you love will die of something you could have avoided or survived. He is intentionally killing people.

New @nature.com The possibility that lithium deficiency is a driver of Alzheimer's disease. Experimental model shows Li depletion impedes amyloid clearance, and repletion in humans could be achieved with low doses nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper benchmarking foundation models for perturbation effect prediction is finally published 🎉🥳🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... We show that none of the available* models outperform simple linear baselines. Since the original preprint, we added more methods, metrics, and prettier figures! 🧵

The Platinum Pedigree offers a pedigree-derived benchmark for SNVs, indels, structural variants and tandem repeats. The resulting variant map will help validate sequencing workflows and support development of new variant callers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

one cool thing about Scandinavian countries with comprehensive public health insurance is places like Denmark can do a study on… everybody and conclude that yes COVID vaccines are safe

I just got an email informing me that my Annual Review on structural racism with @tyson-brown.bsky.social and @pahoman.bsky.social is open access. So, download away.

#SCIMaP estimates current & future economic losses in local communities across the US (counties & Congressional Districts). We explain our approach in a new preprint: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... (w @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @asinclair.bsky.social @cl10.bsky.social)

We have officially started #HitSeq track @hitseq.bsky.social at #ISMBECCB2025. Francisco de la Vega, introduces our first #keynote speaker Valentina Boeva @valboeva.bsky.social with her talk: "Learning variant effects on chromatin accessibility and 3D structure without matched Hi-C data"

We open our second day at #Hitseq @hitseq.bsky.social with our last key note speaker Tobias Marschall and his insightful talk about the human pangenome and the challenges for structural variation analysis. His work has focused on tackling current limitations such as sample size and remaining gaps

‘Genetic Risk Effects on Psychiatric Disorders Act in Sets’, the title of our new preprint on @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social! This huge collaborative effort advances our understanding of psychiatric genetic architecture and emphasizes the importance of looking beyond additive effects. 🧵1/n; 🧪👩🏽‍🔬🧬

Another taste of the future of human genetics, also in @nature.com. Long-read sequencing in >1,000 humans across 26 populations shows how the approach can accelerate biological & medical research. Work led by @bernardo-rodriguez.bsky.social @trausch.bsky.social @tobiasmar.bsky.social & Jan Korbel.🧬🧪