Sharon Simmons, the DoorDash grandma who was just part of a Trump photo op at the White House, says on Fox News that "no tax on tips" helped her because she couldn't afford her husband's cancer treatments

Christina Koch being greeted by her dog after returning from space is the dose of Monday hopium we all needed 💕

Absolutely this. I would be glad to do this as well. Not to be immodest, but I think it is likely that I have forgotten more about NIH than he knows.

You send a president, he calls on God. It’s the Chicago way.

Again, the authoritarianism extremism of the American Republican Party far exceeds that of...Viktor Orban & Fidesz, who just immediately conceded an election without any of the shenanigans, coups, nonstop lies about nonexistent voter fraud, or endless litigation of the GOP after every US election.

The last time I tried to engage with Jay Bhattacharya in dialogue I ended up on administrative leave. 🤷‍♀️

Péter Magyar victory speech: "We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others." He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.

You know this is shameful. He literally has destroyed NIH--he's not an advocate for reform. I am shocked you and the NAS think he should be platformed--he was just at CPAC USA, destroying anything that was left of his credibility

When will SCOTUS - or at least Justices Thomas and Alito - vote to stay the results of the election in Hungary? (On the shadow docket, duh.)

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit

Trump: "I was thinking about calling it the Gulf of Trump, and I decided not to do it. I think that one maybe wouldn't have worked out. I'm not so sure. But I was thinking about it's gonna be called the Gulf of Trump."

The “engagement” Jay is willing to do only covers the topics that fit his narrative…and his use of the open science movement is to weaponize it against scientists to justify destroying the American scientific ecosystem. When you platform him, you advance the destruction. It IS that simple.

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

It is a bit insane that the Artemis II crew started from the earth, flew around the moon, and came back to the earth, faster than it takes for the journals to send your paper out for review.

Pointing out that NAS platforming those actively destroying science is a truly terrible idea isn’t “vitriol” or “ang[er]”. It’s simply pointing out that NAS platforming those actively destroying science is a truly terrible idea. And, to put it mildly, unbelievably disappointing.

I have three questions for Jay Bhattacharya. If he can’t answer these questions, or if no one is willing to ask them, he’s an odd choice for educating people on scientific integrity. 1/4

Hummingbirds looking a bit rough this year.

As excited as we are (and should be) about Artemis II and returning astronauts to deep space, we should not lose sight of how much NASA has accomplished in the last 53 years. Many probes, Hubble, the JWST, COBE, and so on... #NASA #SpaceScience

🧪Totally disingenuous. The question is not whether the speakers you chose are popular or unpopular. The question is whether or not they are qualified. And an administrator cutting science for political purposes and suppressing scientific studies is not "advocating for scientific reforms".

You consider cutting NIH grants for political reasons advocating for scientific reform? Really?

#BidenFundedNASA In 2025 Chump tried to defund NASA but he failed. He is trying again this year.

call me a liberal nationalist but I feel proud to export an American culture of space exploration, multicultural immigrant cuisine, the Black American music tradition, football basketball baseball, NY Jewish comedy, land grant universities, and social libertarianism

Its not a business! It’s a public good! And it’s not “running out of money,” either. Republicans deliberately created this illusion by requiring USPS to prefund pensions *75 years* into the future. Literally no other agency (or business, lol) requires this.

How Flat is the Earth? All sides will be represented at an upcoming NAS conference on the shape of the planet. Presumably the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

Of all of the post-splashdown photos from the Artemis II mission, this is my favorite. It captures the best of who we are, the best of who we can be. (More here: www.nasa.gov/gallery/arte...)

The shared excitement over NASA’s recent mission compared to the general indifference to SpaceX missions speaks to the power of something seen as the product of communal human effort rather than just the ego and avarice of one obnoxious dork.

Disappointing.

Trump 2027 budget isn’t reform—it’s a demolition job on public health. Billions cut from NIH and domestic care, while global health leadership is abandoned and institutions like WHO/PAHO are smeared & defunded. America 1st in practice weaker science,prevention healthpolicy-watch.news/ttrump-2027-...

Just amazing watching the NASA feed on Twitter. One can see what the U.S. can do if not saddled with a corrupt kleptocracy.

Now would be a great time to reconsider that 46% cut to NASA’s science budget for FY2027.

During these crazy and sad times, this mission shows the very best of humanity and what we are capable of 🙏🏽

Love this shot. I think this is a thermal infrared camera, showing how the bottom of the capsule is still glowing due to its warmth after hypersonically ramming the atmosphere — compressing a gas heats it up a LOT when you're moving at superorbital speeds. #ArtemisII

Science is good. We should fund it.

HOUSTON (AP) — Artemis II’s astronauts return to Earth, ending a record-breaking trip around the moon with a splashdown in the Pacific.

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

I'd like to take a second to explain all the ways that this comment is disqualifying as a marker of legitimate expertise in vaccination. 🧵 www.nytimes.com./2026/04/09/h...

This is all good and well but does it work on congressmen?

New rules, same old RFK Jr tricks. The new changes reflect "a continued effort to do more of the same things to undermine ACIP, undermine vaccine policy" and public confidence, said Richard H. Hughes IV, an attorney representing the AAP. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

If ACIP membership qualifications can include knowledge of “recovery from serious vaccine injuries” perhaps it should also include memory of pediatric death rates before vaccines. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

"All of these things frighten me, and they should frighten you as well. I made the decision to create a life for myself here, because I viewed this as a place that rewarded determination, hard work, and integrity. It still has a chance to be that place again." open.substack.com/pub/ofthebra...

RFK Jr. Has Stopped Talking About Vaccines. A Memo Shows Why By Rachel Cohrs Zhang and Jessica Nix @rachelcohrs.bsky.social @jessicanix.bsky.social bloom.bg/48q2TmJ

Greatest. Correction. Ever.

As long as Russell Vought is running the OMB, no one should be confident that funds authorized by Congress will be spent as intended or upheld by the courts. His solitary goal is the consolidation of _all_ spending decision-making in the “unitary executive.”

As RFK Jr. allies hailed Mississippi’s rollback of strict school vaccine rules, whooping cough surged and a baby died The campaign to change Mississippi's childhood vaccine rules – and to use that victory to make change across the nation – was years in the making. It was orchestrated in part by…

Here is a plot of NIH funding in 2024 as a function of population by state. Overall, the correlation is reasonable with some states (MA, MD, NC) above that expected based on population and some states (NY, FL, and TX) below. 2/5

“The police power of the states embrace[s]…such reasonable regulations…as will protect the public health and the public safety. West Virginia’s compulsory vaccination law does exactly that. It is a legitimate exercise of the state’s power to protect the health and well-being of school children”.

Take 2 by RFK in his bid to remake ACIP: the charter for the committee was edited to (among other changes) -add RFK-aligned liaison orgs -Change language on the requisite expertise of members (a subject of the aap lawsuit) w/ @helenbranswell.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2026/04/09/n...