This is a truly disgusting, antisemitic comment. I’m appalled at the level of bigotry and xenophobia that has become normalized in our politics. We cannot accept it, and we must call it out regardless of what party or individual it comes from. (1/2)

What a shock that the Prasad/Hoeg claim about child deaths from the COVID vaccine was a big fat lie.

Important factoids to keep in mind: The money proposed for the Slush Fund ($1.8B) would pay the health insurance premiums in ACA marketplaces for 2,841,000 for one month (silver plan) Money proposed for White House Ballroom ($1B) would pay premiums in the marketplaces for 1,600,000 for one month.

The most principled figure in American politics: a retiring Republican Senator thinking about their book deal

Yale undergraduate Mateo Ramírez-Valentini writes about families who travel long distances for experimental treatments. He focuses on how some of these treatments are scams or over-hyped. One Argentinean family raised $350k after being enticed by notorious cancer quack Stanislaw Burzynski.

from Africa CDC Statement on US Travel Restrictions Related to the Bundibugyo Ebola Outbreak: africacdc.org/news-item/u-s-travel-restrictions-related-to-the-bundibugyo-ebola-outbreak/

Wooo there is video bsky.app/profile/bubb...

Probably not a great time to have a large & growing #Ebola epidemic with Trump (&/ Kennedy) in charge of the US response. Not clear to me if/when anyone from CDC would be in-country to assist, but the infected US physician is with a NGO in the country and was flown to Berlin for treatment. Godspeed?

this is a masterpiece

Security guard Amin Abdullah warned the teachers at the San Diego mosque's school to lock the classroom doors. There were 200 children inside at the time, Imam Taha Hassane said. “By doing this, he saved so many, many, many souls,” he said. https://wapo.st/4dAEAEo

did you know i am doing a dissertation on workplace leave use among full-time workers in the US who have experienced miscarriage? well now you do! and if you think you may be eligible, you can take a screener survey at go.uic.edu/leavestudy or scan the QR code. #reprosky #healthpolicy #miscarriage

Reason number billionty we don't have to forgive MTG - She's an anti-vaxxer now!

What! Get a load of the people making George Washington’s bed and working in his fields. www.facebook.com/share/v/1Dyc...

There’s a LOT going on as researchers and public health experts race to respond to the Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak in DRC and Uganda before it grows bigger. Some really important questions still open, but also a few answers coming into view🧪 My overview in @science.org is here (and thread coming):

"The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I." 🫠🫠🫠

Birth rate discourse is like “It turns out if you give women more choices, they’re less likely to make ones that make their lives harder.” Which is really helpful in figuring out how we can improve society somewhat. But instead people are like wow giving women more choices was a mistake

I signed this and if you care about public higher education in Ohio you should sign this too.

Ohioans: our legislature is trying to do even more to gut state higher education. HB698 is moving along now to make SB1 from last year even worse. Sign to send to the General Assembly to show that Ohioans are done with these bullshit attacks on our institutions. (Sponsored by Ohio AAUP).

Ohioans: our legislature is trying to do even more to gut state higher education. HB698 is moving along now to make SB1 from last year even worse. Sign to send to the General Assembly to show that Ohioans are done with these bullshit attacks on our institutions. (Sponsored by Ohio AAUP).

Wtf is Bundibugyo virus & why should you care? 1. It’s a type of ebolavirus 2. This outbreak is very bad already & we don’t have any idea how big it is. It’s been going on for weeks or even months. 3. We’re about to enter the find out stage of #MAHA #FAFO. And the US has a lot to account for.

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

Okay I'm going to be the voice of reason here. This absolutely doesn't need to be in ALL CAPS fear mongering bs mode. We have cases of the virus in Colorado more often than I'd like to see, but it's mostly older people exposed to poor conditions or an old shed had the dirt kicked up. Clickbait.

Eight of the top 10 officials at the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have now been pushed out since President Donald Trump took office

Cassidy is directly responsible for the bedlam that has befallen HHS and is currently endangering the American people. I suppose we'll have to see how much worse his replacement is.

Reminder RFK Jr is HHS Secretary because this loser was afraid to cross Trump.

WHO: Epidemic of Ebola Disease caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda determined a public health emergency of international concern bit.ly/49BaOy8 @who.int

What a tragedy. My family is waiting for a cure. I'd venture a guess that most families are, of one kind or another. Destroying our country's biomedical enterprise puts that brighter future out of reach. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Well. This is startling. “At least one of the NIH’s 27 institutes and centres has lost so many GMSs that it has asked early-career researchers, including postdocs and graduate students, who work in the NIH’s own labs to consider working temporarily as a GMS on a volunteer basis”

Today's installment of poems I can't record but want to share.

Have you told your Senators to vote no on Saphier yet? Click below to send it to them.

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

Vaccines are good, period.

I do not know why WANDERERS is a dollar ninety nine at all the electromagic ebook marketplaces but it is! So come get your peri-apocalyptic book about crumbling American dynasties and AI and plagues and rock and roll and the CDC and also hope amidst the chaos! Tell everyone! Black Swan says hi!

"The 80-bed facility was run by MSF for more than 3 decades. The only sec. healthcare centre in the region, it offered life-saving care including maternal and paediatric services... severe malnutrition and malaria... ~250,000 people depended on it." www.theguardian.com/global-devel... #SouthSudan

Fun fact! Land-grant public universities were opposed by the southern states and only happened due to the The Morrill Act of 1862 while they were off being the Confederacy. I WONDER WHY THE MODERN GOP HATES THEM NOW?!?! It is a DEEP MYSTERY!

The hits just keep on coming. Trump, Vought and RFK Jr. want to be able to fire at will the people at HHS who actually know what they’re talking about. Their revenge on scientists who embarrassed them for their rank stupidity continues.

It is insane that person who is funding the world’s white supremacist movement & is daily spewing racism, who killed 100,000’s last year by yanking USAID without warning, is regularly discussed in Corporate Media as an industrialist, without any mention of the white supremacism or mass murder.

People are getting fired everywhere at FDA tonight.

Ebola outbreak kills 65 people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Doctors who "know everything about everything" are our medical gurus. Discussed here.

Made a video of my thoughts on the RFK Jr/Cleveland Clinic/heart surgery debacle. Good news is I don’t think he brought roadkill into the OR, but I still have A LOT of questions!!

Look who is suddenly an expert on Andes hantavirus, telling us everything we need to know 🤦‍♂️ It takes a lot of, um, chutzpah to write such a piece when you have, um, no expertise on or experience of hantaviruses! H/T an actual virologist with expertise in viruses, @angierasmussen.bsky.social

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

Update on CDC's hantavirus response - it's worth the read because, well, it's a mess. A few things: 1️⃣ The US doesn't actually have a validated PCR test for Andes virus 2️⃣ "Mildly positive" was due to 2 conflicting tests. That's called "inconclusive" 3️⃣ Poor coordination www.cdc.gov/media/releas...

A truly great thing about Ohio is that we have many such schools, all with something great to recommend them and for which there is tons of public goodwill, yet it has been the 30-year mission of Republicans to do whatever they can to destroy them. Vivek is literally running on this and this alone!

STAT+: MIT says research has fallen 10%, and grad student enrollment is down www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/14/b...

Kennedy's reason for hating flu shots would be hilarious in its stupidity, if it didn't affect all of us.