Flagging this for my students as a perfect example counterfactual reasoning 😊

New Preprint out! In this short and sweet article, we showcase how management practices (antibiotic treatment) has impacted the AMR profiles associated with bee microbiomes. The take home? More management = more plasmid-borne resistance! doi.org/10.1101/2025... #microbiome 🧪 🐝

By teaching us to view poverty as a moral failure of the individual, society keeps us from realizing that poverty is actually an ethical failure of society itself. We can choose with UBI to prevent everyone from ever experiencing the poverty that 60% of us will experience in life, and we just don't.

Just wow, but tbh, it's not unfamiliar to me, as well. 🙄🤐😬👋

The evidence that Trump et al. used to claim that Tylenol causes autism was a paper by Harvard’s Andrea Baccarelli. The paper did not show a causal relationship, but Dr. Baccarelli was paid $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in court. RFK Jr. says conflicts are bad tho.

and THAT’s what’s being cited as “proof” by the Trump administration? …just asking! If you want the whole juicy story, read the article I wrote today: 🔗 news.immunologic.org/p/the-tyleno...

Will @hsph.harvard.edu take action given they hired Andrea Bacarrelli in 2024 AFTER he falsified links between Tylenol use in pregnancy & autism in federal court (& was paid $150,000) and THEN published the same claims in a journal with a history of fake peer review & falsified data 1/

In fact, it’s often used as an appeal to authority to enable them to spread MORE misinformation. That’s why media headlines like “study out of Harvard” go viral, even if it’s absolute trash data. People associate names of institutions with belief they are inherently reputable.

Well-said Dr. Love. Very well-said 😮‍💨👋🫡

Same same and ugh, sigh 😮‍💨😔

Who’s harmed by this disinformation? • Pregnant patients who are scared, confused, and at risk. • Children who will be subjected to treatments with no evidence to support them. • Parents who are being told it’s their fault their child is neurodivergent. 5/

The strongest predictor of autism is genetics. Data: • If one identical twin has ASD, the other has a 90–99% chance. • Compare that to 31–67% chance for fraternal twins. • Non-twin siblings have ~20% likelihood of ASD, 7-fold higher than general population. 1/

The Tylenol–Autism Pseudoscience Pipeline How false testimony about Tylenol and autism failed in court, was repackaged as “peer-reviewed” junk science, and is now driving Trump’s dangerous medical advice. by @drandrealove.bsky.social news.immunologic.org... 1/3

Omg, this is epic and I'm speechless..thank you @keagar.bsky.social hope you have a wonderful Wednesday. 🙏🙋‍♀️👋🏻👋🏻

I HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT. DRINKING WATER CAUSES AUTISM. IN A DEFINITIVE STUDY ON THIS ISSUE, THE RESEARCHERS FOUND THAT THE PARENTS OF EVERY AUTISTIC CHILD HAD DRUNK WATER DURING THE PREGNANCY. THIS PROVES IT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

Are we vaccinating under 2s more than a generation (30 years) ago? We used fewer vaccines, protecting against 8 infectious diseases. These complex vaccines, containing over 3000 antigens, were good, but there was room for improvement. 1/8

Where does COVID vaccine mRNA go? There’s confusion & fearmongering out there. Let’s go through what regulators and studies actually show. 1) “Local” means the muscle where the shot is given + the draining lymph nodes. That’s exactly where vaccines are designed to act! 1/10

Ugh, this one made me so sad 😮‍💨😓

I can't help but to notice similarities

Reporter Laura Weiss (@lauralew105.bsky.social) is looking to speak with people with #LongCOVID who are on Medicaid and concerned about losing benefits due to work requirements or otherwise due to Trump's spending bill. Contact her at (lauraweisswrites at gmail dot com).

World health officials counter Trump's unproven claim of link between acetaminophen and autism https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/world-reacts-trump-link-tylenol-autism-pregnancy-safe-paracetamol-rcna233133 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

🧵 Happiness Incubator (2016) | Original pen & ink on paper drawing by Robert Bohan [1]

“I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell.” To the people of the world who wonder if there are Americans who grasp how mad he is: There are. We can see it. We are working to mobilize our people to oppose him and his dangerous regime.

"This questionable statement reflects a widespread myth in the wellness community concerning an extremely common gene mutation called MTHFR, which can inhibit the ability of cells’ mitochondria to process folic acid." Yep. I wrote about this in March 2019 and it won't die.

Correlation isn't causation: Trump reprised his #Covid-era role, but this time w/ unproven autism advice. He distorted facts on autism, Tylenol & vaccines & even called his announcement "historic." Bloviating RFK jr is a joke. The study they cited was a meta-analysis 👇

Oh, wow, cool work

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases. This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions. arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

🔴 Praying for you Joe 🕊♥️💐 And Canks ~ You need to go 🐥

2 decades after the first GLP-1 drug, we're still in the early stages for where this is headed. Nice, succinct summary and graphic by a pioneer of the field: @danieljdrucker.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Me too @leftistlawyer.com sigh. Long exasperated sigh 😮‍💨👋🏻🙋‍♀️🫡

Couldn't agree more, LOL 😂😂😂

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

oh no...

It is a very human temptation to tell ourselves stories to try to calm the fear as United States is being destroyed from within. Our rights are being taken away from us. Do not look away. It’s happening. The United States is in mortal danger.

Oh Jeez. They're STILL talking about The Free Speech while I'm a Turk expat mostly living in either Israel or the US, I'm so very 👇👇 whatever 🤣🤣🤣🫩😬🤐🤫🇹🇷🙋‍♀️🫡

Terrible advice.

yeah

Hahahhahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤐🤣🤣🤣🤣 youtube.com/shorts/sZw0z...

Soon there will be only ONE gender : transgender.

I'm working a Nigerian scammer, using Yoruba slang to try to get him to open up. As usual, when I recognized he (?) Was a scammer I used to word "Alaye" to let him know I'm in the game, too. He replied with "Idan mhi" which is equivalent to My Dude! and asked which scam I'm running. I replied /1

you got insomnia in my anxiety! you got anxiety in my insomnia! Reese's Anxiety Insomnia Cups™

Lol, I'm dying @the-bob-lucas.bsky.social I mean, I feel lucky to get to know you. Yeah, not irl. I wish i could. You're so cool 🙋‍♀️😅😱😳😬🤐🫡👋🏻

Here's why it doesn't matter who killed CK or why he was killed; The assassination of Charlie Kirk is more than an act of gun violence; it's a catalyst. To understand what comes next, we need to explore the powerful, timeless process of how a political movement forges a martyr. /1

Oh Lord. I dunno, i hate deep fake, too. Oh nooooooooo 🫩

God all the reporting on the shooters roommate sound like actual 17th century witchcraft accusations She did nothing

So yeah, I live in an alternate universe full of wonderful curious people that want to take care of themselves, and me, and be safe at work…

Finally, I spoke to a tradie about the benefits of wearing a respie when working with dirt and aerosol hazards on a job site… and they were really interested…

Not to forget flu is also an annual ECONOMIC BIG ISSUE.

Because *somebody* spent such a lot of time promoting the words “only like a flu” that people have forgotten flu is an annual BIG KILLER.