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...

I've had to update the plot of the strongest tropical cyclones by ocean basin all too often in recent years, since climate change increases the number of high-end storms. Melissa has joined the club, tied with Dorian (2019) as strongest Atlantic hurricane recorded outside the Gulf of Mexico.

Howard County has lost 544 residents to COVID-19. A new memorial honors them.

NEW: The entire staff supporting ACIP was laid off, and most working groups haven't met in months. That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Since Sept. 1, bird flu outbreaks have wiped out 1.2 million turkeys from farms supplying meat for dinner tables—or 20 times more than at the start of last year's flu season. Egg-laying hens face a similar uptick. I wrote about what this could mean for Thanksgiving, egg prices, and biosecurity. 🧵

SNAP benefits to halt in some states amid government shutdown -- Jay O'Brien / ABC News abcnews.go.com/Politics/sta...

Reversing peanut advice prevented tens of thousands of allergy cases, researchers say - Bill Chappell / NPR www.npr.org/2025/10/21/n...

AWS is down, post hog

“On Tuesday, the state health authorities confirmed what the woman had known…She had chikungunya &appeared to have caught it on Long Island, the first such case of local transmission ever recorded in New York. That meant that the virus was circulating in mosquitoes, or at least one mosquito locally”

Re the CDC firings: Folks should update their reporting. HHS officials said in a Tuesday court filing that they sent reduction in force notices to approximately 1,760 department employees, nearly 780 of which were sent erroneously. - Sean Michael / Gov Exec www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

::hands out soup and hugs all around::

Apparently Bluesky is seeing an influx of new users. Welcome! If you're interested in science, journalism, and/or science writing, here are a bunch of folks worth following. go.bsky.app/7Z8u31b

Oh: "It would bring support for Argentina from, or arranged by, the U.S. to roughly $40 billion." ✍️: Courtenay Brown / Axios www.axios.com/2025/10/15/u...

I don't think people realize what an immediate impact this is going to have on outbreak response and containment.

"NHANES is the principal source of information measuring the health and nutritional status of people living in the community, according to the National Library of Medicine. It’s known for combining rigorous data measurements with answers to questionnaires."

And I oop...

Japan declares a flu epidemic — what this means for other nations - ✍️: Rachel Fieldhouse / Nature News

✍️: Meryl Kornfield and Lisa Rein www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture is infusing $300 million into a key federal nutrition program to keep it running through October, while a government shutdown continues without an apparent end point." - Shauneen Miranda www.newsfromthestates.com/article/nutr...

Finally, an AI app that people can get behind news.oregonstate.edu/news/smartph...

The jury is out on “better”, but private investment is definitely the vibe in global health right now. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...

More on the CDC tonight: @jeremyfaust.bsky.social , who is impeccably sourced there (physician, Harvard faculty) has details on the divisions hit by the apparently illegal RIFS. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Este estudio estara iniciando con talento Mexicano y Latinoamericano para vincular animadores de varios paises y ifrecera estudios a un animador Mexicano por cda ciclo escolar durante una decada entera.

Win some: CDC, its advisers quietly expand access to Covid-19 shot for pregnant women - Sophie Gardner/Politico

CDC has postponed the next meeting for its vaccine advisory panel - Tristan Manalac / BioSpace www.biospace.com/policy/acip-...

Sigh...

Yikes: "Among the evidence collected from Rinderknecht’s digital devices was an image he generated on ChatGPT depicting a burning city." Richard Winton and Hannah Fry / LA Times www.latimes.com/california/s...

Mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cells. Could they also be the fountain of youth and sources for unlimited energy? We question recent health fads on Skeptic Check: Health Fads bigpicturescience.org/episodes/ske...

AstraZeneca Makes Another AI Deal With $555M Algen Alliance - Tristan Manalac/BioSpace www.biospace.com/business/ast...

Think Global Health (@thinkglobalhealth.org) offers three charts to recount what has unfolded since the October 7 attack and to take stock of the immense health needs in Gaza.

The Sora AI disinfo nightmare is here For more like this: tiktok.com/@drewharwell instagram.com/bydrewharwell

Alberta is reporting its first measles death since outbreaks of the highly contagious illness began in the province in March. Jennifer Lee / CBC News www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

ProPublica obtained records from the USDA that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to aid. ✍️ 📊 📷: Ruth Talbot, Nicole Santa Cruz, and Stephanie Mei-Ling This interactive really slaps

Coming soon to PC and Xbox 😅 ... Video game lets you return African artifacts from Western museums -- Sam Peters / CNN www.cnn.com/world/africa...

Hamas agrees to some of Trump's plan but seeks negotiations Nidal Al-Mughrabi / Reuters www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Munich airport reopens after halting flights because of drone sightings - Deborah Cole/The Guardian

Very sad: "Suicide has overtaken cancer as the main cause of death among South Koreans in their forties for the first time since records began in 1983, amid growing concerns that the country is facing a mental health crisis."

This WSJ essay presents an interesting option for addressing the arguments over correlation studies, Tylenol, and autism ... ...if you can get past the headline and opening. 😅 🎁 www.wsj.com/health/does-...

People who hold racist, xenophobic, and transphobic beliefs and negative attitudes toward gay people are more likely to support political violence. Researchers found a similar trend among NRA supporters. Fairriona Magee/The Trace on research in The Lancet and a new preprint

"Day after day, in the sun and the wind and the rain, I climbed into the hills. This is where I was meant to be."

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget. “Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...