NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Reminder: including alt-text on your images is helpful in many ways! It increases accessibility, can add context/detail, makes search more effective, & can improve your reach (a lot of us won’t re-share images without alt-text). If you set it as required in accessibility settings, you can’t forget!

Reminder that measles is one of the most contagious viruses in existence. Just one infected person can spread the respiratory virus to 90% of non-immune people in the same room. Oh, and it's airborne and can live in the air for two hours. Masking in public settings can protect you.

@pauloffit.bsky.social is a total badass

Can you imagine how many people approved it before publishing? Shameful.

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

This is so, so well-articulated.

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.” -Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.

The Shingles vaccine is linked w/ reduced risk of Alzheimer's in 4 large natural experiments Today, the potential of high-dose flu vaccines vs standard dose in a large retrospective age 65+ cohort for less Alzheimer’s. More pronounced in women (like Shingles vaccines) neurology.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

You know how much I love an oral argument. I am a big fan of the law. I like the faint, wheezing sound it makes as I trample on it, and the mountains of litigation that result. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Things Gen X probably should have had counseling for: - The TV movie “Adam” - The TV movie “The Day After” - The Challenger explosion - Baby Jessica falling down a well - Watching Reagan get shot - Reading “Flowers in the Attic” way too young - Kids getting killed making Twilight Zone movie

The CDC stopped doing rabies testing and experts are afraid they won't start back up again:

Just a reminder that 1yr ago today many dedicated NIH employees received RIF notices and started the process where many others were told they must leave their positions/ICs after years of service. The pain felt across the scientific community in the last year is also felt by those serving it.

Oil and Gas Land Management Commission opens more Salt Fork State Park and Egypt Valley land for fracking. Jake Zuckerman @signalohio.bsky.social: bit.ly/4sZNZw1 Rubberstamp vote was despite hundreds of citizen comments against industrializing these lands. @amyactonoh.bsky.social

seeing a lot of "higher gas prices won't affect me because I don't drive very much" and unfortunately it is my sad duty to inform you that your food does not teleport to the grocery store

Don't be fooled. This and Restef Levi's secret panel on vaccine injuries and long Covid cannot be taken in good faith. In fact I'm very worried about how RFK Jr. is making long Covid seem less credible by associating it with MAHA. thesicktimes.org/2026/03/31/n...

Yes, this is real.

ontology : palantir :: groceries : trump

CIDRAP: Antidepressant relieves fatigue in people with long COVID, study finds by Liz Szabo @cidrap.bsky.social @lizszabo.bsky.social bit.ly/41Dcnam

My next book, a practical guide for how to write for mass media, publishes four weeks from today. I hope you'll consider ordering it now, inviting me to speak, and to tell others. Here's what @tressiemcphd.bsky.social said about my work. Pre-order here: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

🎶Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us, only sky🎶

Oh hello it's Trans Day of Visibility and, like many trans people, I'm only visible if I say something. If you think you don't know anyone trans, you probably do. If you want to read my post about how I understand my gender, it's at daniellaurison.com/n...

The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.

Hello! Today is THE LAST DAY to file a claim in Bartz v. Anthropic. GET YOUR MONEY! Check the works list to see if you are on it here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/ File a claim here: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/claim-form

Maybe you heard somewhere that the COVID-19 pandemic started with a lab leak? NO! That is NOT what the evidence shows. It was not a goddamn lab leak. I’ve had enough. Here is what the evidence shows: it was zoonotic spillover at the market rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/five-reaso...

Oh NO this is at DANISH universities, American women are like 10x as screwed

I am shocked I tell you. SHOCKED.

Apply to be an editor at an ASM Journal! Open call for editors at mBio, mSphere, mSystems, and Microbiology Spectrum. This is a very fulfilling way to share your expertise and give back to our society journals. @asm.org journals.asm.org/asm-call-for...

Also disappointing is this quote from the AMA President: “On the vaccine issue, I know we see things differently. I’m totally fine with putting that on the shelf and working on this together”. You can’t put the “vaccine issue” on a shelf. It is harming people all over the globe.

4) Trump wins election, appoints some of the plaintiffs to his administration 5) As the new president, Trump inherits the *defense* of Biden's policies 6) Trump "admits" that Biden censored, settles case with his friends the plaintiffs 7) Plaintiffs declare landmark legal victory

None of this is legally precise but here is *very roughly* how the Biden jawboning case went: 1) Right-wingers and antivaxxers sue Biden, saying he coerced tech firms to censor them 2) Trump-appointed judges rule for plaintiffs in lower courts 3) SCOTUS smacks them down, overturns and remands (2/3)

This is a good writeup by @mmasnick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy but I'm gonna offer my own TLDR here because it's a case I covered extensively and I think a very simple, rough timeline of events is the easiest way to grasp how upside-down this outcome is: www.techdirt.com/2026/03/27/t... (1/3)

This is the definition of the Merchants of Doubt strategy: Amplifying 3% of experts with fringe opinions to make it look like the debate is a 50/50 proposition.

Seems crazy that one would need to even model scenarios like this 👇🏾 Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available projects.propublica.org/childhood-va...

The only “online debate” I’ve seen about this movie is about how he loaded the centrifuge, and it’s not much of a debate - we all agree that Ryan Gosling doesn’t know how to load a centrifuge www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

also nobody in the history of cinema has ever gone as hard as John Leguizamo did as Tybalt

That sound you here is from historians of medicine everywhere collectively rolling their eyes.

This was sparked by a child who visited Texas during the #measles outbreak there. This is on us, and Kennedy.

Mexico is battling 36,000+ suspected measles cases with a massive vaccine push of 2.5M doses/week. But hesitancy, inequality & coverage gaps are real challenges. Measles is preventable. Get vaccinated. 🔗

In youngest US kids, vaccine uptake drops for flu, hepatitis B, rotavirus, pneumococcal, & Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccines. Read more on the report: ow.ly/qmZh50YzXsM

Hey Iowa folks (& others who just love great shirts), I'll be coming your way in 2 weeks to talk #vaccines, & ICDD is partnering w/ other groups to sell these awesome Raygun tees.

🧪This is important. Russel Vought fact check by @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social When a non-scientist says w/ certainty that NIH caused the Covid19 pandemic, it is a red flag & arrogance. His intention is to destroy science & implement Project 2025. Articles of impeachment have been drafted.

Amid the bad news, some good news on tuberculosis - the world's biggest infectious disease killer. 10m cases, 1.2m deaths Two new vaccines are now in the final stage of clinical trials. We currently only have one vaccine, it's 100 years old, and only works in children www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

“After major breakthroughs in obtaining the penises of a manatee, an armadillo, and a pygmy jerboa, I’m pleased to announce that my experimental anticancer elixir is mere weeks away from completion,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

BREAKING: The U.S. Justice Department confirmed in court Thursday that it is sharing sensitive voter data with Homeland Security. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has given the Trump Justice Department personal info for 8 million Ohio voters. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/27/r...

Dear Speakers, However excellent you are, when you're part of a panel with other people, you need to respect the time allotments, because otherwise you're cutting into other people's talks, and that's unfair. Thank you, an audience member.

The evidence is overwhelming - COVID vaccines #ProtectYouBoth!! True then, true now - equitable, community centered outreach makes a difference in helping pregnant & lactating folks get vaccinated.

I’d like to point out as well that as I was making my lil Table of CDC Directors I had to laugh, because only the woman was required to have relevant training and experience for the position. For the men, it was what the hell, let’s just give them the job in the absence of any real qualifications.