🌐"Data collected for advertising should not be repurposed for law enforcement surveillance or tracking." To learn more more, download the new statement from ACM USTPC: buff.ly/6TD0kHH

Vaccines don’t cause or are even remotely related to autism.

This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says: “The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.

The Erosion of Harm Reduction | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Days before federal SNAP funding is set to run out, Governor Maura Healey announced that Massachusetts will double its support for food banks and pantries for next month to help bridge the gap.

📣New publication from Zwick et al. questioning the health and economic outcomes of police sweeps in Massachusetts. Swipe or visit JAMA Network Open to find out more!

I'm very excited to present the work I've been doing with @syndemicslab.bsky.social this year at @smdm.bsky.social annual conference! So grateful for the work done with my co-authors and excited to continue working with you!

Together with leading researchers, a reporting team "quantified the energy and emissions impacts of individual queries to AI models and tallied what it all adds up to, both right now and for the years ahead." Here's what they learned: www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/22/1... #TechNews #AI

🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨 Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham. It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda. We’ve launched an open letter. SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

Join us for the Advanced Discrete — Event Simulations in R short course at the SMDM 47th Annual Meeting! Taught by experts from Brown and Stanford. 🔗 Learn more & register here: loom.ly/Xdd1k6s #SMDM2025

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

Calling all Community Health Workers! Register for our Comprehensive Outreach Education Certificate Program by April 1, 2025. Expand your skills in providing effective community outreach and health education with our nationally recognized program. Learn more and apply at boston.gov/bphc-chec.

Thank you to everyone who has joined the resistance! Our ranks grow stronger every day.

They are being fired for the amount of time that they’ve been there. This assumes that their job is not vital to the nations health and security. This is quite possibly the dumbest approach to federal firings that one could invent. Also, Musk is in his probationary period. Fire him.

Thank you for this reporting @wstonereports.bsky.social With quotes from me, @meganranney.bsky.social, Perry Halkitis, Nirav Shah and others. These data keep everyone safe! www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Lost a family member to overdose? Boston’s Family Overdose Support Fund provides up to $5,000 to eligible families to help cover funeral costs, therapy, childcare, and legal services. Learn more and apply at haloinitiatives.org. #OpioidCrisis #FamilySupport #Boston

New data show a 39% decrease in opioid-related overdose deaths from May to August 2024 compared to the same period in 2023. Data show significant decreases among Black and Latinx residents who experienced a 56% and 28% decrease, respectively. Read more: www.boston.gov/news/decline...

The latest issue of #AdvancesInComputing is here! 🔍 A deep dive into self-designing software—a glimpse at the future of autonomous programming. 📉 How did Intel’s “fall from grace” happen? 💡 Plus, handpicked stories from ACM’s Interactions and XRDS magazines. www.linkedin.com/pulse/self-d...

The pandemic interrupted childhood immunizations across the U.S., and rates have not yet recovered. If that continues, preventable infectious diseases will resurface in all age groups, experts say. Whooping cough is the most stark example of what happens when vaccination rates decline.

To eliminate HCV, we need to worry less about the specter of undiagnosed cirrhosis and more about treating as many people as possible. Insisting on gold standard disease staging before HCV treatment paradoxically leads to worse outcomes. academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

Naloxone is an overdose-reversing medication that saves lives. We're so grateful to partner with organizations across Boston to set up public health vending machines and naloxone kiosks, so people can pick up this life-saving resource for free. www.boston.gov/news/public-...

Trying this again since I'm hoping that #bluesky is actually a place for curious inquiry, evidence, and dissemination of scientific findings. We used some methods drawn from wildlife ecology to estimate the prevalence of stimulant misuse/use disorder in MA. In @addictionjournal.bsky.social.

We've launched an official City of Boston starter pack to make it easy to follow City departments. This starter pack will stay up to date as more teams join the Bluesky community. Give them a follow!

Flour Bakery is coming to the Boston Common in 2025! @parks.boston.gov announced today that Flour has been selected to manage the Boston Common Concession Pavilion. Congratulations, Flour! 🥯

Modularizing the SageMath library: passagemath-ntl provides the Cython interface to NTL, the library for number theory by Shoup. pypi.org/project/pass... #Python #OpenSource #Mathematics #MathSky

#Hiring: Program Director, Entre Familia Family Residential Program. We're looking for someone committed to supporting families and shares a philosophy of substance use disorder and harm reduction treatment models. Learn more and apply: recruiting.adp.com/srccar/publi... #BostonJobs

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

Do you want to #model quantitative trait #evolution? Do you like #SPDEs? Happy to say my first solo author paper, now out in Theoretical Population Biology, is about just this! Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I'm super proud of this y'all :') #scisky 🧪 🧬 #mathsky #physics