Just adding to this. Pregnancy can be a transformative experience. It also can be - even under the best of circumstances - deeply uncomfortable and even physically painful. It's also a time when every single thing you do is scrutinized - by you, your doctor, & others

Telling pregnant folks not to take fever reducers during pregnancy will absolutely increase the KNOWN risk of adverse outcomes due to delayed treatment (or failure to treat) a dangerously high fever during pregnancy.

Science: only when you write up the manuscript, you realize what you should have done.

Was so delighted that the pharmacy downstairs of my PCP’s office had walk-ins for combined COVID/flu. Got the shots on the spot. Felt kind of under the weather for the evening. Totally fine by morning.

I was reminded of this gorgeous article by @miamingus.bsky.social today. Its a short read but it describes everything I'm always reaching for, and often missing, in life as a disabled person leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/a...

Is it okay to say regardless of whether DJT signed that poem (and we all know he did), and even though we can all agree on the misogyny of the whole thing, the whole poem and birthday book thing is also just really, really deeply weird?

This ep hit a little too close to home

For fuck's sake, gun control now.

Meanwhile they are pulling COVID vaccines from US pharmacies.

Just thinking again about how they’re going to talk about this period in US history 20, 50, and 100 years from now.

I’m sorry, but the framing of this article confuses me because science has always been political. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

This is so fucked up because it's really just a new way to blame and shame a patient by positing infertility as a consequence of "lifestyle choices". Yet, we know most fertility patients go to clinics bc they need actual medical procedures to enable conception. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

Every single fucking time. www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

In other words, big biz welcomes cooked govt stats bc they have equally good or alt sources of “data.” I think he’s right that Big Biz has access to lots of data. But govt stats were impt for creating information - it’s the authority behind meaning making, as much as the public access to it.

He’s also I think incorrect in assuming that Big Biz needs “good” data. That’s a) assuming a level of rationality in corporations and markets that the evidence is, to be kind, howlingly absent for; and b) assuming rationality / good data is tightly linked to profit. It isn’t. But power is.

I’ll be back on MSNBC tomorrow night around 8:40pm ET to discuss this

I’m pretty sympathetic to the idea that progressives should care about men and that a big problem with the “manosphere” is that it’s hurting them. But when there’s stuff like this that attributes struggling with rejection primarily to men, I’m a bit perplexed.

This so reckless and dangerous. Also, I hate how it's not at all clear what these peptides are or what they are intended to target. www.propublica.org/article/pept...

My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

I’m so excited about BILLIE JEAN PEET, ATHLETE! Available for pre-order now!

This is what they raged against as “woke Superman”. A Superman who by the movie’s own writing is just a guy who finds every living thing fundamentally worth saving. This is the philosophy the right finds absolutely appalling — just trying to be a good person.

"Many lung cancers in nonsmokers have no known cause and are discovered only by chance." This is how it was for my mother. She didn't have any symptoms. 10-25% of lung cancers occurs in people who have never smoked. In certain groups of Asian & Asian American women, it's 50% or more

This is the most chaotic menu ever. The kids menu items are more expensive than most regular entrees? The kids grilled cheese is the same price as a regular grilled cheese and fries, but with no crust? $12 egg sandwich? $6 for soft serve?

I'm not sure there's anyone out there who deserves recognition and commendation more than Alice Wong. Her work is incredible and she has already changed the world

Can confirm. 10k people signed up in the two weeks after he won -- last night we had our biggest candidate intro call *ever*. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbJV...

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Every time Dean Cain opens his mouth these days, I find more reasons to be embarrassed by the super huge crush I had on his Clark Kent in high school.

DO NOT GIVE UP! Our advocacy is working. A key Senate committee has indicated that it will reject Trump’s proposed cuts to science agencies including NASA and the NSF. Keep speaking up and calling your electeds 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.

"Despite Trump officially activating FEMA on Sunday, FEMA has just 86 total staff deployed at this point [to Texas], according to figures shared with staff Monday evening...In the past it would normally be in the several hundreds at this point in the disaster recovery process." My latest:

Over a 100 dead in Texas and he spent the weekend golfing.

The stories of the many lives lost following the flooding in Central Texas are really fucking me up tonight.

"Andrea Chu, the Midwest organizing director for Asian American Advancing Justice Chicago, said that Wu’s death shows the “devastating” impact of the China Initiative." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/04/n...

We’ve got to be hyper-vigilant about the bullshit being pushed out by the Trump Administration’s agencies. Check, double-check, and then spread the TRUTH. Don’t let Trump’s lies be the “official” word.

Reminder for science budget watchers-- House and Senate Appropriations Committees are working on FY26 spending bills to determine NSF and NIH funding. The White House recommended a 57% reduction for NSF and 40% for NIH. But Congress sets the budget. www.ascb.org/science-poli...

I never ever again want to hear that party describe themselves as the party of small government, fiscal responsibility, rural America, and the middle class.

House Minority Leader Jeffries has been speaking for nearly five hours, which buys us more time to put some last-minute pressure on Republicans. Call your GOP representative: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Or plan a visit to your local congressional office: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

I know there are a lot of fucked up things in the Trump budget bill with the ridiculous name, but please take a few minutes to be EXTREMELY CONCERNED that it proposes to cut NIH spending by 40%, which would effectively devastate biomedical research in this country.

MassLive.com recently interviewed several Harvard FlyBase people and wrote this news article about the importance of FlyBase: tinyurl.com/4chpts9f

Oh, it was a “peaceful” bombing now?

Millennials just screaming into the void - “what if we didn’t repeat the same mistakes over and over again”????

I continue to believe that LLMs are a textbook engineering “solution” still searching for a problem. In other words, it’s the quintessential “we made a thing because we could, now what do we do with it?”

The administration had proposed this in its 2026 budget, but now it's happening sooner. The stop-work order is effective as of July 17, a month from now.

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

BREAKING: Shootings reported at homes of 2 Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota. At least 3 people shot, suspect at large bnonews.com/index.php/20...

If you can't attend the rallies today for whatever reasons, something useful you can do is scour your local news outlets for coverage and share the coverage on social media and pump it out to all of your networks. Amplify what's happening locally so others in your communities are aware.

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SEN. PADILLA: “Saying I lunged is a lie, but that’s par for the course for this administration… I was behind the cameras listening, and at a certain point hearing Noem say they had to rescue LA from the Governor and Mayor was too much to take. So I raise my voice to ask a question.”