I’ll add that it appears real until you use the database links to view the article. The whole thing falls apart and it’s clear that the article doesn’t exist. This happens because AI generated citations cite fake article in real journals, leading to the fleeting impression of credibility here

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

When a travelling doctor questioned why a patient had been receiving dangerous cancer treatments for 11 years, he set off a chain of events that would divide a city and implicate a beloved oncologist in a string of suspicious deaths. (Published Dec. 2024)

Letters to scientific journals surge as ‘prolific debutante’ authors likely use AI | Science | AAAS - fascinating report by @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

The acting CDC Director has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health. Trump has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health. Both are calling to make the MMR vaccine into 3 separate shots, which makes absolutely no scientific or public health sense.

Me studying for ID boards: rats can give you Hanta, Lassa, Lepto, LCMV, Rat bite fever, Plague.... and can snatch you up!

Successful poster presentation at #IDWeek2025! #CMV #Transcription

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

This is the result of a lot of people pretending racism is one of the greatest taboos in our culture while failing to address racism substantively. People are appalled by the idea of being called racist while being totally committed to upholding racism throughout society.

None of the 9 campuses the Trump administration has asked to sign a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” have done so, but conservative lawmakers in Iowa are urging the Board of Regents to be the 1st. “Iowa has a chance to be a leader.” www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi. David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison. Here's their story.

Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, former Director of NIAID, is Fired by Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy in Retaliation for Filing Whistleblower Complaint with the Office of Special Counsel bit.ly/4gRA3yx

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

More than 25% of farmers and ranchers rely on the ACA marketplace for their health insurance coverage. With insurance premiums expected to rise, more people may choose to drop health insurance coverage, especially as the cost-of-living has increased. #montana #healthcare www.kff.org/affordable-c...

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

If it’s run for profit, then it’s profiting off of … us. When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

All the media has to do is ask a question like “tell me what kind of study you’d like to see that hasn’t been done before” instead of letting these losers just spew antivaxx lies on air. Markwayne Mullin couldn’t find his way out of a multiplication table let alone talk about research methodologies.

RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.

Thinking about this moment ahead of RFK Jr's Senate hearing tomorrow.

This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.

'Tariffs threaten to hit antibiotics particularly hard. The drugs have very thin profit margins, they are vulnerable to shortages and U.S. production is very limited. Other widely used and vulnerable antibiotics include ciprofloxacin and doxycycline.' www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/h...

The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/

one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.

"I feel like people misunderstood my $250,000 for Cuomo for real enthusiasm" belongs in the Louvre

ICE crossed a line in LA

The House budget reconciliation bill contains many health-insurance related provisions. Kaiser Family Foundation has a helpful table: (www.kff.org/tracking-the...). Among them are increased restrictions on enrolling into Medicaid. Here's why those restrictions are a problem...

I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/

What people don't seem to understand is that even if *they* are not using Medicaid, a large share of their providers' patient population does. That means that their healthcare providers may be unable to stay solvent and in practice when Medicaid is cut. We all lose when Medicaid is cut.

REPORT: Biden Officials Admit They Never Pressured Israel for Ceasefire, as Israeli Leaders Boast of Playing Washington Here’s what the investigation revealed: 🧵⬇️

“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field. By @arthurallen202.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

This is a very sad story, but what makes me crazy is that people tried to explain that this is what would happen and got caricatured as "woke" hysterics www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

A lot of people have been tagging me in this article as confirmation of Thursday's Rolling Stone reporting, but I want to make clear that it is not. NACHA rules, which are incorporated into U.S. law, require payment returns on death notification. fiscal.treasury.gov/files/refere...

NEW PIECE- with a version in @rollingstone.com . Can the Trump Administration arbitrarily Take money from Anyone's bank account? The Federal Government debiting 80.5 million dollars from New York City government's central bank account suggests yes. www.crisesnotes.com/can-the-trum...

The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.

Nice thread on NIH announcement from today to shift all review to CSR

I have good news and bad news. The terrible Senate vaccine bill is dead. But a bad House vaccine bill got through subcommittee today and is on the agenda for the full Judiciary Committee tomorrow. www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/...

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Inspiring words at Fight The Oligarchy Rally with Bernie! Iowa Students for a National Health Program's @zachgrissom.bsky.social made a powerful speech on stopping Medicare work-requirements! Join @pnhpiowa.bsky.social to keep the momentum to improve Medicare and Medicaid!

Let's stand up for mental health protections for railroad workers! Join the Fight for Phil rally Tues Feb 18 in Des Moines, Iowa @dsa-dsm.bsky.social @seiuhcmnia.bsky.social

A bill to penalize nonimmigrant visa-holding students, staff and faculty at public and private universities for “certain expressions of terrorist activities or organizations” advanced in the Iowa House, Brooklyn Draisey reports via Report for America. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/02/11/b...

Link to full "Campus Announcement" from the University of Iowa on February 10. research.uiowa.edu/2025-federal...