A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns. Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.

I think some folks are way past the the skills of 3 Christmas ghosts. Let's just give Krampus a map of D.C. and call it a day.

My feed right now

C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

@aoc.bsky.social says of Mamdani victory: "A lot of people...are willing to talk about party unity when it serves them, but not party unity when it serves everybody." "We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind."

My favorite thing about Mamdani’s victory is that it shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that progress won’t be curtailed by the centrists in the Democratic party. The “moderate” candidate was also on the ballot, with endorsements, name recognition, and $$millions. And he still lost.

I’m stoked about Mamdani, but since I’m not an NYC resident I’m also extremely excited that voters in Aurora might have ousted an incumbent city council member who helped stoke all the TDA rumors

Today I took our ballots to the drop box! Local elections are so important, I hope we get to see city council and school board members who care about our community! 💪🏼

I blogged about standing on my apartment roof a mile northwest of this photo, on a warm September afternoon 24 years ago, trying to take in the fact that passengers had forced their own plane into the soil rather than allow this to happen.

I’ve already been expanding my recipe rotation with beans and lentils for protein because of the cost of meat. Here’s another good reason 😳

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Pseudoscience is popular in part because it seeks to confirm our beliefs. Science can be less popular in part because it seeks to interrogate our beliefs. Good science, like good art and literature, can upset the established ways in which we see the world.

Without an understanding of immune tolerance, organ transplantation will not be possible. Also, their discoveries opened avenues for cancer and auto immune disease therapies. Congratulations to these year's awardees of the nobel prize in physiology or medicine. bit.ly/4mC0Gc5

Stimulating immune cells in vitro is a common experimental lab model. We profiled 150K blood immune cells treated with 11 different stimuli to compare the effects. The data are freely available for researchers. See the preprint for our findings and to access the data 🧪 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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

News from the front lines.

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

If you’re still in line for the future of this country, STAY IN LINE! All jokes aside, I do find it oddly comforting to come across empirical evidence countering the “everything is over” narrative.

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

I have two professor colleagues who have faced threats and harassment due to the organization Charlie Kirk built, and they were not alone. We can denounce and loathe political violence without hagiography for its victims. This is dangerous nonsense.

I bet if Charlie Kirk had run a website called the Pundit Watchlist the reaction might be a bit different right now

Literally the second meme I've made in my life.

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you can’t get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.

when it happens... I will be online ALL day. cancel my appointments. hold my calls. "what were you doing when you found out?" my grandchildren will ask. "the posts, children, I was reading the posts!!" I'll say, and we'll all crowd around my scrapbook containing the best ones

FORTUNATELY, for everyone we have a fun way to tell your House rep that you think Bobby Jr is a quack and has to go… For $3 we will hand deliver (by a man in a duck costume) a rubber ducky with a message to “impeach the quack” to your rep! QUACK-O-GRAMS! act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

Don’t get me wrong, my kids had pureed meats alongside pureed carrots & squash, and cubed meat and fish along with their first finger foods. I have pictures of them before age 2 gnawing on lamb bones. But you need to be a special kind of ignorant to think humans ever existed on meat-only diets.

My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Yes! Vaccines are your body making its own medicine. No refill, no follow up, no “lifetime customer.” The simplistic “pharma keeps us sick to keep us hooked” MAHA narrative collapses when you actually look at political economy of vaccines. Vaccines literally end their own market except for kids.

mRNA prime-boost vaccination promotes clonal continuity in germinal center reactions and broadens SARS-CoV-2 variant coverage @moltherapy.bsky.social www.cell.com/molecular-th...

Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

I’m profoundly uncomfortable with how much this resonates. Hey @ellecordova.bsky.social why didn’t NIH and NSF get to be in the bunker?

I wish more aspiring academics really appreciated this aspect, that academia is dialogical. You have to be able to extemporaneously defend your ideas and discuss them in great detail, orally. You have to know it well enough to have it at your fingertips.

Still seeing *wayyyyy* too many scientists trying to keep their heads down and stay out of the fray. 1. This isn’t going away! 2. Science *IS* political! 3. It’s not too late to step up and take action! 4. You’ll feel so much better if you take action w/ others! @standupforscience.bsky.social

goose: where'd he get the canister? goose: where'd he get the canister, motherfucker?

I still hold on to hope that someday these monsters will face trial. And be found guilty. I have a great idea for their sentencing. It involves the camps they’ve built and feeding them the way they feed the poor.

Back from a conference. Half the lab is still out, and the ones who are in this week are experiencing me to be groggy and possibly absent today. I’ve been up since 1AM making plans and I feel like someone should warn them what they’re about to encounter when they get in this morning. #newpi 🧪

Well good news and bad news: The good news is I’ve been back stateside for less than a day and I’ve already cleared my inbox and planned out my week! The bad news is I did it between 1-3AM because my body clearly is still 8 hours ahead of this time zone.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Happy 4th of July! Casual reminder that the most traditional way to celebrate is to overthrow a tyrannical government and start a new one from scratch.

It’s probably not great to wake up this pissed off. Then I think of how pissed off Justice Jackson must be.

Trump’s attack against Iran is illegal and immoral. And any leader who tells you otherwise is lying to you.

ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment. Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.

Greater awareness is what led me to seek a diagnosis in my thirties. I wasn’t diagnosed as a child because I did well in school. Now that I’m aware of the signs, I can see them in older members of my family, none of whom are diagnosed.

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

Pharmacies near us didn’t carry the COVID booster for kids. We didn’t say no, we just didn’t have the opportunity to say yes.