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Autistic people deserve much better, my latest www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...

🚨We’ve got the Quack-O-Gram video up on YouTube!🚨 Please share widely—Bobby “The Quack” Jr has to go. He’s unqualified, corrupt, and going to get people killed. 🐥It’s not to late to send a QOG or bundle of Quacks to Congress: www.standupforscience.net/quack-o-grams youtu.be/wjET_T15qBk?...

In 2024, a team of science writers at AAAS ran a long-term experiment to see if ChatGPT could cut it writing news items about scientific research. Here's what they learned. Worth a look. 🧪 #scicomm www.science.org/content/blog...

In my latest at @sciam.bsky.social, I interviewed Regina Shih, Emory epi & co-PI of the NIH-funded State Alzheimer’s Research Support Center, about the current & worsening dementia care crisis and what must happen to meet the needs of an aging population.

EXCLUSIVE: A summary of possible CDC funding based on the President’s Budget, the House markup, and the Senate markup. Red: programs Trump wants entirely slashed. Yellow: programs Trump requested substantial cuts. Blue: flat or increased funding. What does all this mean? 🧵

Where does Senator Marshall get this 70-80 vaccines number? From yearly flu shots? WTF

Monarez not adequately prepared for Senator Rand Paul! Argh

BREAKING: The CDC is temporarily ending remote work. The decision leaves scores of employees in the lurch, even forcing people with disabilities with high-support needs to come into the office. #disability www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/c...

DUCK AROUND, FIND OUT! With our duck delivery in tow, we waddled up to the Hill to let our representatives know that it's time to send the Quack-In-Chief packing. #ImpeachRFK

Bravo @decaturish.bsky.social for staying on top of local government and being detail-oriented. Especially when the detail is: two (more) people died!

This week, a group of experts will step up in a big way to ensure that science goes on, despite Trump administration cuts to Federal science advice. They join several other independent science efforts fighting back. 🧵 blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

This review is wonderful, but it is a reminder that the history of 20th century #sleep research is difficult to fit into a paragraph; it's much more unruly once you dive into it @kenmillerwrites.bsky.social

Really looking forward to seeing these quackograms @standupforscience.bsky.social !

Wait- Malcolm Tucker had a sex life?

If you run a life science lab where research has either significantly slowed or shut down completely due to Trump administration policies, I’d like to hear your story. I'm a biotech and life sciences reporter for @statnews.com, and you can reach me at [email protected] #journorequest

Tell the CDC: We Need Immediate Universal Access to COVID Vaccines and Broad Access to All Vaccines Make public comments to the CDC ACIP vaccine committee now through 9/13 at 11:59pm EDT Visit precaution.substack.com/p/tell-the-c... for more details, a sample comment, and instructions

Happy to see this from @rgrapevine.bsky.social and @voices4vaccines.bsky.social re #vaccines and hesitancy/trust www.healthbeat.org/atlanta/2025...

Awesome to see they will award up to 3000 fellowships! Hope NSF posts full announcement- including recommendation deadline- soon! Last year recs were due before GFRP deadline so students should be requesting them now.

They’re afraid to participate in the public square. They don’t know how to advocate for themselves or their value. They’ve been told by comms teams that boldness is all downside -that it will make them a target. There is no collective voice or network. They are utterly unprepared for modern comms.

We all know RFK Jr. is peddling junk science and helping dismantle public health. So why not send him a duck—delivered by someone in a duck costume—just to make sure he knows we see the quack for what he is? 🦆 #quack #science #indivisible #standupforscience www.standupforscience.net/quack-o-grams

Ah - the Project Veritas playbook

Research from our department -- 1st author Zach McEachin -- covers #ALS ASOs (antisense oligonucleotides) -- patient response varies widely with ASOs and we need to figure out why. This study covers BIIB078; more recent example jacifusen/ulefnersen news.emory.edu/stories/2025...

Dr Trotti is a champion for people living with sleep disorders such as #narcolepsy and #idiopathichypersomnia news.emory.edu/stories/2025...

🐥If this Senate hearing with Bobby "The Quack" Jr pissed you off, send a message: Quack-O-Gram delivery begins on 9/15🐥 🐥 $3. Man in a duck suit. Rubber duck with "impeach the quack" message to YOUR Rep🐥 Link: www.standupforscience.net/quack-o-grams #ImpeachTheQuack @standupforscience.bsky.social

Former infectious-diseases chief Jeanne Marrazzo and international-research chief Kathleen Neuzil allege in a whistleblower complaint they were removed from their posts after objecting to Trump administration efforts to undermine vaccines, flout court orders, withhold research money, NYT reports.

"Once trusted experts are removed and advisory bodies are stacked, the results are predetermined. That isn’t reform. It is sabotage." Susan Monarez WSJ op-ed www.wsj.com/opinion/robe...

Why are federal agents wearing masks to hide their face? Public servants should face the public — take off your masks! We just launched ads at over a hundred bus shelters around Washington, D.C. — check them out!

Send your US House Representative a message via @standupforscience.bsky.social - have a Rubber Ducky hand-delivered by someone dressed as a duck, calling on them to #ImpeachRFKJr Only $3 to hand deliver 1 duck! Follow @cdelawalla.bsky.social for more brilliant ideas bsky.app/profile/cdel...

New research from our department + partners led by Elizabeth Leslie-Clarkson! Genetic variants in PRKCI causing Van der Woude syndrome: cleft lip/palate + lip pits. This is 3rd gene responsible for VWS -- 1st (IRF6) discovered in 2002 #Genesky @scgdb.bsky.social www.cell.com/ajhg/abstrac...

Send your US House Representative a message via @standupforscience.bsky.social - have a Rubber Ducky hand-delivered by someone dressed as a duck, calling on them to #ImpeachRFKJr Only $3 to hand deliver 1 duck! Follow @cdelawalla.bsky.social for more brilliant ideas bsky.app/profile/cdel...

Outreach for #StandUpforScience @standupforscience.bsky.social goes better with treats like banana bread and chocolate chip cookies (thanks to Judy Fridovich-Keil)

“Competent prose generated by a machine, I’ve come to realize, might not be what science actually needs.” ? By Tim Requarth #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/from-bench-t...

TODAY! Tuesday, September 2—Support the CDC 11am—A roundtable discussion about the CDC inside the State Capitol. (If you’re planning to attend, make sure any signs you bring don’t have sticks/posts/poles/etc. attached) NOON—An outdoor press conference. Show up to support the CDC.

Are you starting a #geneticcounseling program this fall? Check out this episode with former genetic counseling students discussing how to prepare & what to expect during the 1st year! ✍️📚

This is fantastic. It also makes me reconsider many of my writing habits -- that is, those that are genuinely human brain-driven) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

For those following the NIH budget fight, the next big development will be this Tuesday, Sept 2nd, with the House LHHS subcommittee markups. The bill text will likely come out late Monday. The House bill is likely to be closer to the president's budget request than the Senate's was, so be prepared.

This is not satire

Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

“RFK Jr. was never qualified to be secretary of HHS, and he never should have been allowed to set foot in the building. The longer we wait, the more lives we risk” - Rep Rosa DeLauro ctmirror.org/2025/08/28/r...

It is not just that these employees are risking being put on leave or even fired for standing up for science (see EPA/FEMA officials), they are standing in front of a workplace that was the subject of a terrorist attack a couple of weeks ago, by a man who believes what their boss believes.

BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey JUST CALLED FOR a statewide and federal ban on assault weapons. Who’s with him?

For those justifiably concerned/angry about this, there's a way to make your voices heard. Public notice and comment on this proposed rule goes through Sep 27 Go to this link and click "Submit a public comment" at the top: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.

It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.

Makes it a good time to re-up: IMPEACH and remove RFF Jr as the head of HHS:

Why does Taylor Lorenz block me? I'm harmless!

Some scientists haven't yet internalized the "why" behind science writing for the public - not just as a service, but for themselves. (I didn't always get it). In this piece for @natrevneuro.nature.com, I draw on the neuroscience of curiosity & decision making to unpack its value. rdcu.be/eCGr7

We need a lot more Dr. Jessica Steiers to pull a body of evidence together like this @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social 👏 theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/how-a-gove... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Anti-vaxxers aren’t stupid. But they are getting brainwashed. How can we Talk about Vaccines in an Era of Scientific Mistrust? By @tarahaelle.bsky.social: www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-... Remember, #vaccinesWork and have nothing to do with autism (except in keeping autistics healthy.)