Trump administration suspends 5 wind projects off the East Coast - 📝: Matthew Daly apnews.com/article/trum...

Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.

🗺️📝: Will Merrow www.cfr.org/article/mapp...

📝: Greg Ip

“exports have been curtailed to major trading partners; Canada has been boycotting American spirits since March in retaliation for President Trump’s ongoing trade war and U.S. whiskey sales to that country are down by more than 60% through October.” 📝: Janet Patton and Karla Ward

CDC awards $1.6 million for hepatitis B vaccine study, likely to controversial Danish researchers @LizSzabo The agency is paying the University of Southern Denmark to conduct a single-blind clinical trial of hepatitis B in Guinea-Bissau www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

"Pretty much the only sectors that are doing a fair amount of hiring these days are health care and social assistance, which collectively added about 64,000 jobs in November, according to the latest jobs report." - Samantha Fields www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...

📝: Robert King, David Lim, and Kelly Hooper www.politico.com/live-updates...

As diseases such as goat pox and bird flu threaten European food security, leaders have an opportunity to include funding for preventative animal health measures as part of the deliberations over the EU's Common Agricultural Policy.

Representative Haley Stevens of Michigan, a Democrat running for Senate, filed articles of impeachment on Wednesday against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 📝Annie Karni www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

Measles is one example of a virus that can linger in the body after an individual recovers from an initial infection. It can then re-emerge years later potentially fatal consequences. @viraldrmaggie.bsky.social explains why and how this happens on Public Health On Call. 🔗 youtu.be/n0M3B2iP5Ug

Another environmental win for congestion pricing: A new Cornell study finds the policy reduced PM2.5 pollution by 22% in Manhattan news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

She is also reopening a review of RSV products for infants (reviewed by FDA at the time when it had experts on board) showing that as head of CDER, her focus will be still on promoting her biases. www.reuters.com/business/hea... 3/4 (sorry).

Welp www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/n...

Why Some Doctors Say There Are Cancers That Shouldn’t Be Treated - Gina Kolata www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/h...

Scientist @jamesgerber.bsky.social spoke to the @nytimes.com about the emissions of coffee, which isn’t a huge climate polluter, but it does produce greenhouse gases. ☕️ To cut back on emissions look for certifications, such as those offered by the @rainforestalliance.bsky.social. Read more ⬇️

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake has hit north-eastern Japan, with reports thousands have been ordered to evacuate their homes. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪

"Kenneth T. Zemsky, a tax lawyer whose clients have included Martha Stewart, said that in his decades of practice, for every 10 people who have inquired about leaving New York, about one has ended up actually doing so." 📝: Matthew Haag www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/n...

RIP to this USGS webcam. 🧪

I've always loved em dashes and ellipses—and I won't apologize. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...

CDC ACIP restored time for a presentation about aluminum adjuvants, after removing it from the schedule last night. This presentation could be consequential, as changing policy on these adjuvants (which are safe) could affect nearly half of the childhood vaccine schedule at once.

A panel that advises #CDC on vaccine policy votes to do away with the recommendation all babies should be vaccinated against #hepatitisB at birth. "We are doing harm," said panel member Cody Meissner, who voted against this #ACIP recommendation. www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c...

The CDC member here is Adam Langer. If folks have a chance, they should try to find his statement. It was powerful and happened about 1.5 hours into the meeting.

This vote has gotten less attention but could lead to children not getting the full protection of the entire series.

Vaccine makers just raised this issue I wrote about the other day. Changing Hep B recs could create problems with other vaccine uptake given our reliance on combo shots... insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/v...

ACIP has released a final agenda for this week’s meeting about vaccine ingredients (specifically aluminum adjuvants) and the hepatitis B vaccine. www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa... Vice chair Robert Malone will lead the two-day session that starts this morning at 8 am ET. Hold on to your butts.

For the first time since 1988, the U.S. is not officially commemorating World AIDS Day - Gabrielle Emanuel www.npr.org/sections/goa...

An important write up from the NYT on the funding changes at the NIH. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Martin Kulldorff, the head of CDC's vaccine advisory committee (ACIP), is now the chief scientific officer for HHS's policy tank. www.hhs.gov/press-room/r... Also this week, ACIP will meet to discuss (aka blow up?) the childhood vaccine schedule. www.cdc.gov/acip/meeting...

I’m a contributor with the Big Picture Science radio show, and this week’s episode features a history of H5N1 bird flu. We look at how the virus has made its way into creatures traveling by wing, hoof, and fin.

Since 2005, the number of wild and domesticated birds H5N1 has killed is greater than the combined human populations of the U.S. and Russia. On this week's episode, why this version of avian influenza won’t go away. bigpicturescience.org/episodes/flu...

Washington resident dies from H5N5 bird flu case--the first global death due to this strain. State officials released this news on Friday, and as of early Monday afternoon, the CDC has NOT held a briefing or shared a press memo about it. - Christine Clarridge/Axios www.axios.com/local/seattl...

Whoa: “The acquisitive power of the very rich is soaring. The net worth held by the top 0.1% of households in the U.S. reached $23.3 trillion in the second quarter this year, from $10.7 trillion a decade earlier, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.” www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...

Getting ready for the upcoming ACIP meeting, I see. If your kids haven’t had their first MMR dose, get it as soon as you can.

Highly pathogenic H5N5 avian flu has mostly been detected in wild birds and transmitted from Europe to N. America by pelagic seabirds. Mammals (seals, walrus, cats) have been infected, but this is the 1st documented human case. Some have a PB2-E627K mutation known to facilitate mammalian adaptation.

Bird flu case in Washington state resident - Elise Takahama / Seattle Times www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

After eating burger, New Jersey man becomes first known death from meat allergy triggered by tick bites -- Brenda Goodman / CNN www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/h...

UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break 👀 - Natasha Bertrand www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Statement from the Public Health Agency of Canada about Canada losing its measles elimination status www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

Breaking: Canada has lost its measles elimination status - CTV www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

My successful public service loan forgiveness earlier this year feels more and more like it was the last helicopter out of Saigon.

BFD: The U.S. Ed Department is seeking to block public service loan forgiveness for people in cities/counties that resist the administration's immigration actions or its anti-DEI policies. ✍️: Cory Turner / NPR www.npr.org/2025/11/03/n...

A scoop that I’m not happy to report: CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution. heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

I’d like to meet the parents who’d agree to, “Ok, my kid can blame me if they develop cervical cancer.” www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

To Brendan Ruberry and @maxtani.bsky.social: No notes, standing ovation www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

Photos: Hurricane Melissa blasts through Jamaica -- Maansi Srivastava / NPR www.npr.org/sections/the...

Watch #Melissa meander on a path right through arguably the hottest (deep) waters on the planet, powering one of the strongest hurricanes ever, then leave a cool wake behind as it turns hot water into power to charge its rain and wind... 1/

I know it's a different database, but I can't help but question why I signed up for TSA pre-check

I'd love to say lots of nice things about this invaluable preventable disease tracker from @monscience.bsky.social and team at Think Global Health. It's an incredible resource. But I can't get over my anger & sadness that this resource is even needed. www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/vacc...