It’s Friday night and Mr Measured is at a mushroom foraging class and I am weaving while listening to the history of textiles because these dorks will NOT be caught flat footed in the coming apocalypse 😂😭

Reading another history of textiles and we are only in the 1300s and have THREE instances of kings interfering in free trade to prove local superiority (it doesn’t go well). Not that I expect anyone making decisions rn to pick up a book but can someone talk to them about the early 1300s wool trade 😭

#LongCovid represents one of the "greatest contemporary challenges for public health and clinical neuroscience" de Pádua Serafim et al 2025

Partitioning obesity by genomics, proteomics and health outcomes from >450,000 UK Biobank @naturemedicine.bsky.social —A protective subtype vs cardiometabolic diseases (GRS BFP) and —A risk subtype for these diseases (GRS uncoupling) GRS-genomic risk score nature.com/articles/s41...

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... Child got measles as an infant before they were eligible for their first measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) shot. Child recovered, but years later developed a rare, progressive brain disorder known as subacute sclerosing pan encephalitis.

in retrospect, there’s probably never been a name as threatening as “America Online”

In Barry Blitt’s latest Kvetchbook, R.F.K., Jr.,’s message goes viral. nyer.cm/TpnGp8H

One big problem is that to truly understand what the internet is doing to people, you have to be on it too much to play any useful role in society

They care more about this than any of the recent massacres of children because they see dead pundits as people and dead kids as content.

Something juicy to send to many of my colleagues... Ahem. 😈🧪 #edusky

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

I care for children in the hospital on inpatient & consult services. Most weeks there are at least a few kids admitted with vaccine preventable diseases. Often in children who can’t get vaccinated themselves. 15 years in pediatrics and I’ve never seen a single one admitted with vaccine injury.

this needs to be a bigger story — RFK is rushing to appoint SEVEN more anti-vaccine extremists to his phony vaccine panel so it’s packed with quacks. my read? he’s panicking and accelerating his plans to take away all of our vaccines. free to read: wapo.st/3JStzDh

I did my PhD just north of Mount Sinai. It is a truly stunning place, and of deep religious and cultural importance to many people. Turning it into a resort is not a positive step 🙁

Long COVID is hitting healthcare professionals hard. Evidence from the US www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

This 🎯🎯🎯🧵 by @dcrinyyc.bsky.social is one of the most underappreciated thread I've seen this past week. IMO, this is great recap of the key variables & their interactions: Full thread: x.com/DcrInYYC/sta... [To bookmark & share]

So.. since New York Governor Kathy Hochul now apparently cares about public health measures that reduce COVID spread, how about issuing at executive order that prevents mask bans and affirms the right for anyone to wear a mask to protect their health?

Acetaminophen/Tylenol use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis. This suggests associations observed in other, less rigorous analyses may have been attributable to familial confounding (aka erroneous finding):

Ok so I understand why people claim Night Watch is the “best” Discworld book (I disagree, but I understand), but I’m medium judgmental of anyone who says it’s their favorite

Here’s a gift link to the former CDC director telling a more plausible story in WSJ: www.wsj.com/opinion/robe...

Tylenol/autism stuff is bad for many reasons, but it will be used to push the idea that pregnant people shouldn't have pain relief. Women's pain is already dismissed.

Working on the fall zine (WIP).

Why didn’t some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? “I thought someone was going to kill me,” one explained. As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”

I'm starting to look into how inflammation is being misused by MAHA types in a way that very much distracts from chronic illness-inflammation problems people actually have. If you're an academic, doctor, immunologist etc with thoughts on this, please be in touch at [email protected]

Holy fuck…may those officials find out in the worst fucking way. Hey @thesarawithanh.bsky.social, you may want to show this to your husband.

This isn't abstract. Ending vaccine mandates will kill children. Any one who is trying to do this should be removed from office immediately.

I would get copies of your immunization records NOW if you’re someone who likes to or has to travel. Other countries have already been issuing travel advisories to the US due to the destabilizing of our public health system. They will NOT risk their population b/c of us.

Here’s a helpful chart to understand why people are panicking The country or your state’s immunity threshold doesn’t have to get to 0%. A 20% decrease in vaccination still has PALPABLE TANGIBLE CONSEQUENCES. Every seed of distrust harms ALL of us.

Gift link: #Medsky www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

As a survivor, I can't think of a more fitting metaphor than a rapist creating loud noises with planes as a survivor tries to tell her story. I mean... just wow. Nevertheless, she persisted.

In a country where bankruptcy due to medical care costs exists, America has decided to end all preventative disease infrastructure

It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

Hire a Black woman. We tend to be very good at what we do because we simply are not allowed to be bad at it.

“Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time.” So opens “A Talk to Teachers,” which James Baldwin delivered to a group of educators in October, 1963.

“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 #BookSky

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits

New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.

I realize it's been 5 years but how is it no one remembers the early days of the covid pandemic and how scared we were? I was waiting for medical doctors and epidemiologists to do their thing and save us. I welcomed the vaccine after I almost died. Does no one remember how bad it was?!

It is dangerous to be right in matters about which the established authorities are wrong. #Voltaire

The same people who villainize Dr. Anthony Fauci, an actual doctor with a speciality in immunology and research in virology, are praising RFK Jr who has never seen the inside of a lab.

Holy shit, the city of Atlanta government *can* still do yhings that actually help people

Happy international whale shark day! Whale sharks are absolutely unequivocally sharks, and are absolutely not whales. And they’re not half shark half whales. While I have you, they’re predators. Eating lots of tiny animals is still eating animals!

I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. -“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein

I’ve heard from a couple of messaging strategists now that people shouldn’t post so much about COVID19 vaccines because it’s “divisive”. I am here to say that I do not give a damn what is popular. I will never ignore scientific evidence for the sake of expediency, and neither should anyone else.

We no longer have a functional CDC. Our 10 local public health labs that have the capacity to test for terrorism level pathogens are next in line. We MUST find a way to work together NOW, and find foreign allies who will help us in spite of this admin’s vileness, or we will perish.

The Rev took attendance…

It really is this simple

The USDA is giving the public just three weeks to weigh in on a key step of its attempt to scrap the Roadless Rule, which protects almost 59 million acres of forest land from road construction and timber harvesting.