4. Now #measles: #CDC reports that as of 2/12, there have been 910 confirmed measles cases so far this year. That's more cases in 6 weeks than the US recorded between 2000 & 2010 combined. Yes, more cases in 6 weeks than in a decade. How bad is this year going to get? www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

you know, it still seems like it should be an even bigger issue that the president has been sending armed forces to kidnap and assault people in an ethnic cleansing campaign, with a specific geographic focus on regions that didn't vote for him in the last election

it's not the worst thing AI is doing but: i love cat videos so much and it's so annoying that people are posting ai cat videos now

The MAGA/MAHA administration is torturing kids & building more & more concentration camps to lock up & torture more kids It is a horrific, sickening, repulsive irony that the first MAHA report, coauthored by folks like Drs Makary & Bhattacharya, was called Make Our Children Healthy Again

This is the key point - it's not about Moderna's flu vaccine, it's about sending a signal to the rest of the industry that vaccine development isn't viable in the US. It's all part of the larger anti-vaccine agenda.

it's not easy breeding deer for gigantism, but that's why I make the big bucks

Ok, I know promised a thread on the fascinating and important new research explaining what happened with the rare, serious side effects of AstraZeneca's and Johnson&Johnson's Covid-19 vaccines. So, @science.org story is here and 🧪🧵 is coming: www.science.org/content/arti...

What were once vices are now. . . essential for human reproduction, apparently. Ancient retroviral sequences put to use:

At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures. Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:

I’d been wondering about this!

Our government is getting a taste for torturing children. DHS is buying more and more building space to do more and more of it. They’ll find people to fill all that space if we let them.

If my followers have been inspired by the fierce resistance the Twin Cities has put up to ICE, you should make it a point to take a trip here (April through October 😬), enjoy the wonderful things MN has to offer and support our small businesses. It continues to be a really tough time for them.

Nice piece- I think the word "typical" does not mean this is typical for the FDA but appears to be par for the course for the current FDA administration, and is really atypical for how these things normally go.

What’s happening with Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine at the FDA is awful, but unfortunately typical:

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

Scoop: Top FDA official Vinay Prasad overruled the agency’s reviewers when he refused to accept Moderna’s application for a new influenza vaccine, STAT has learned. www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...

As a longtime spaceflight and astronomy enthusiast, allow me to put down a marker or two here re: SpaceX and Elon Musk.

It will be interesting to see if any other pharma or biotech companies will speak up. A refusal to file after years of discussions is bad news for everyone… www.statnews.com/2026/02/10/f...

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

And the new NCI Director moves to piss away his scientific credibility. First, killing cancer cells is a very low bar; many compounds kill cancer cells and are not the least bit useful for treating cancer. 1/2

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then it's Monday. The Founders simply could not imagine men, even of the same party, so careless about their own power & oaths to allow all of this.

In the old stories, the convention was that the troll demanding ransom for safe passage had to live under the bridge in question.

NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...

also, can we recognize how absolutely full of shit kristi noem's ICE threat was. they are so much weaker than they want you to believe. we are going to win.

the public health response to this has to be “close the camps and free them all” and nothing less

SMH. RFK's CDC measles dashboard has a lead image of flights coming into the US from abroad -- as if other countries are to blame for our skyrocketing measles numbers. >89% of cases last year were home-grown and >92% of cases this year. This is a US problem that needs domestic solutions.

one chatbot told a participant in this study to go lay down in the dark when he was presenting with a brain hemorrhage... what are we even doing www.404media.co/chatbots-hea...

Hey Frontiers, if you don't want your editors corrupted by bribery, I have a brilliant idea. Pay them more than the bribe. www.researchinformation.info/news/frontie...

Pure inadvertent comedy gold #IDSky

Have I ever mentioned how surreal it is to be an Editor-in-Chief of a journal called Vaccine right now? www.science.org/content/arti... It’s pretty wild, at least by typical academic journal editorial office standards.

I have attempted to play Wordle all week, but I seem to ended up playing the far-less-entertaining “Guess Those Consonants” instead.

Spoke with a PI whose postdoc is trapped abroad because of social media vetting. It appears the postdoc missed disclosing one account and it's unclear if they can come back… ever. This is the country we live in now.

They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

To all our international friends attending the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in Milan tomorrow: Please loudly boo JD Vance and his delegation. Make him feel like shit. We encourage it. We wish we could be there to boo him, too. Signed, the American people

RFK is using his position to push things that have never shown any benefit in autism & have shown serious harms, including numerous dead kids thru the years. Why push for things known to harm instead of looking for things that could actually provide benefit? Because the harmful things are profitable

Preach, EP Thompson. Thompson, E.P. “Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism.” Past & Present, no. 38 (December 1967): 56–97. www.jstor.org/stable/649749. 73.

Absolutely. Everyone with a working brain and a working heart is getting reallllly familiar with this feeling.

These are all totally reasonable. My hope is that when the Republicans reject them - as they are very likely to - that Schumer and Jeffries just walk out until they’re met. My fear is instead that they’ll use this list as a starting point and negotiate a lot of it away before caving.

We shouldn't put all "AI-based tools" in the same bag. Grammar editing, yes. Translation tools, yes. All with some checks. It's not the same as using GenAI to create text from prompts.

Farooq Sher is a papermilling fraudster at Nottingham Trent University in UK. He also runs a predatory conference scam. Farooq the Crook even sent lawyers to threaten me. forbetterscience.com/tag/farooq-s... forbetterscience.com/2022/10/17/n...

I would be very glad to see examples of this, if anyone knows of some.

I am not exaggerating: Removing this webpage warning against fake autism "treatments" will kill autistic people. www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...

I get to review journal articles sometimes. Can confirm, it’s getting pretty sloppy. It astonishes me that people ask these things scientific questions at all. You should see what the citations look like in a paper generated by a plagiarism robot. Utterly worthless.

First author Farooq Sher is well-known :) at least in the pubpeer crowd. Here is a collage from some of his best work! pubpeer.com/search?q=Far...

Welcome, piles of slop filling up the journals with clouds of useless wordy garbage. Case in point:

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power. They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

It seems that cancer has a preventative effect on Alzheimer's - but turning that phenomenon into something useful is not going to be straightforward:

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.