When you find yourself writing this, when you’re scoffing “what is a child, really”, how can it not give you pause?

“Women should -“

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

“Moderate” is not a statement about your beliefs, but about your position in relation to others. In a world of runaway authoritarianism that means being dragged rightward like a tin can on a string behind a car

They’re calling it the least comprehensible achievement of all time.

Support for “one gender rules, another serves” surprisingly higher among would-be rulers.

Fanfuckingtastic. Like I needed more reasons to despair over the impact of LLMs on academia.

The HPV vaccine outcome epi just keeps getting better and better. From England, a 100% mortality reduction in the most recent female adult cohort (20-24yo) that had proper high coverage at ~12yo. Still one of the greatest ID AND oncology successes ever observed. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I generally don't like cross-posting from Twitter, but Mike Young absolutely nails how the US wound up with a resurgence of the flesh-eating screwworm decades after it had been eliminated.

Even Mercola can’t justify fearmongering about the Vitamin K shot. Any more. Great, now do vaccines you until-recently-shameless hack. www.propublica.org/article/vita...

The goal is *a* free press, not *the* Free Press, we did not in fact want the entire media to be the video arm of Bari Weiss’ Substack

Metrics for this editorial. This, friends, is called the Streisand Effect. Nice work ADA Leadership!!

“There was a thumb on the scale for the president’s version of events that I felt was a level of political influence that I had never seen in 37 years at CBS News.” My god. In a normal world, Bari Weiss would not survive this explosive Pelley interview. Gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/7/ma...

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people. Sound efficient? HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

Scientists--I'm a journalist looking for interesting examples of global health research that has managed to continue or adapt following the dismantling of USAID. Re-posts appreciated!

Hann veit hver hann er 😒

Ronny Chieng was a commencement speaker at Harvard this year, and he had some thoughts about AI: youtube.com/shorts/0z7Q0...

Fun fact: when I had more energy to debate antivaxxers, I would fall back on tetanus and rabies as the ones we could find common ground on. Because the vaccines can be given post-exposure, the argument that the disease is “so unlikely” falls apart, 1/x

Husbands “love”? Guess we’ll never know who the rest of the family are obeying and submitting to.

Well that could not possibly be more on the nose.

So Texas, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, and Tennessee can redraw districts without a referendum and that stands, but when Virginia lets voters decide directly at the ballot box, it gets overturned?

This sounds like excellent advice we are giving the young people. And it seems to be working?! A triumph for public health, I can’t imagine anyone has any objection to *touches earpiece*

This is so, so well-articulated.

I saw a video where a homeowner had hired some day laborers to work on their roof, and then called ICE on them when their work was done. Full-on Nazi, slavecatcher, take-your-pick of the worst monsters in history behavior. We’re going to need two Nurembergs.

Seems bad!

This is a WIN for science. RFK Jr’s overhaul of vaccine recommendations has been BLOCKED by a federal court. The ACIP committee cannot meet as planned this week, since its membership has been invalidated, and ALL votes made by those advisers in the last year have also been invalidated.

The unprecedented changes to routine US immunization recommendations in January, when health officials unilaterally changed one-third of the schedule, were “arbitrary and capricious” and were also blocked, the court found. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ALL votes made by those advisers are also invalidated, including decisions to ban thimerosal (thiomersal) from flu vaccines; ending the recommendation for the combination measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) and chickenpox vaccine; and the end of the universal birth dose recommendation for the

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

The… busywork… is your education. It’s LEARNING. it’s why we are both there (or we were, until ~Einstein~). If you do none of the work, you will not learn a single solitary thing and it terrifies me that there are people selling that and probably more people willing to buy it.

My grandparents both lost family members to measles and struggled to comprehend that there could be such a thing as an anti-vaccine parent. Somehow I thought that no one who had seen a child, their child, suffer this way could stick to their anti-vax guns. These stories keep proving me wrong.

Sure did. Huge numbers in early childhood, sepsis after childbirth, pneumonia among older adults, and even in conflict. WWI was the first conflict where the majority of deaths of combatants weren’t due to disease (still a third).

Wow.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

An excellent thread. The brutality doesn’t stop after the violent arrests, broken glass, wrecked cars…

No science, just vibes.

No science, just vibes.

Follow-up questions: WHY WOULD YOU THINK THAT?! HOW WOULD THAT HAPPEN?

Can you imagine being this callous? Even if you can, I guarantee you can’t imagine being this rich. Safely evacuating his fired journalists would have been absolutely nothing to Bezos.

Marimar Martinez's attorneys also take on claims that it would "sully" Border Patrol agent Charles Exum to release his text messages. Martinez's attorneys call it "a fully deserved self-imposed sullying."

Follow-up questions: WHY WOULD YOU THINK THAT?! HOW WOULD THAT HAPPEN?

Entirely consistent with what I see in my teaching. I get fewer emails asking for help on homework assignments, but more students totally lost during closed-book tests.

Every incident the evidence “appears to undercut” or “seems to contradict”, at what point can we just skip all this and assume ICE lies?

Here’s what they found: Women are interrupted more often than men—by about 10–20% in economics seminars. Those interruptions are more likely to: - Cut women off mid-sentence - Come from men - Be adversarial rather than clarifying in nature