FYI - if you are looking for the 2025-2026 vaccine manufactured by Novavax at CVS, ask them to look up the actual vaccine name: Nuvaxovid (They will not find it in their system if they look up “Novavax”)

If you care about Medicaid, I need your help. These kids are the best chance we have of saving Medicaid. Families are on the way to DC. We need to cover van rentals and hotel rooms. I will not, I will NOT, waste your money or time. Can you help get this donation link in front of your people?

Another world is possible if we fight for it.

Here's a recording of the #AuDHD webinar from yesterday. There are so few resources on this topic, and this one is excellent. www.additudemag.com/webinar/auti...

🚨 We need some “This is what measles looks like” primary care CME *right now* A whole generation of doctors and nurses have NEVER SEEN THE MEASLES BECAUSE MASS UPTAKE OF THE VACCINE ERADICATED IT In 1998 then misinformation decreased vaccination levels - now it’s back. www.cdc.gov/measles/sign...

ADHD people were just as distracted before the first smart phone dropped. We just used to do this thing called daydreaming.

Tapping the sign again: Ableism is the problem and what we should expend our energy on dismantling. Autistic folx live full lives — if your narrative of “full” is based on ableist stereotypes then you should re-evaluate where the REAL problem lies and do the work of unlearning ableism.

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

New RECOVER study (preprint) of 465,717 kids. Long COVID risks highly elevated on reinfection with Omicron compared to first infection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... "Reinfections with Omicron are mild” is a straight up lie fabricated to lubricate societal machinery so people can live in denial.

all faculty and eligible university workers should pile into AAUP

Eight days ago, Israeli forces killed 15 paramedics in Gaza "one by one" and buried them in a mass grave. 1,060 healthcare workers have been killed in the past 18 months. These are war crimes. How many more must occur for our government to end arms sales and sanction Israel?

Some very bad news: New modelling predicts up to 10 million additional HIV infections following aid cuts www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

this stuff is happening across the country and even more intensively downstream of the veterans admin but it's happening in so many places at once and without any public notification that it's still only barely emerging in the news

Exasperatingly frequently necessary reminder that the weaponization of ableism and fatphobia and homophobia and transphobia against your political enemies still works to NORMALIZE those things, thus SYSTEMICALLY HARMING your supposed allies.

The researchers were surprised because new tech is usually adopted first by more educated, higher income earners. But genAI isn't like other tech. It's a slop machine. People who can already write well and are experts in their field don't need slop. It's the least surprising result in the world.

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

For 23 years, NIH grants could be tagged as autism research, helping track and coordinate funding. That mechanism has now quietly expired—no notice, no announcement. A junior faculty member discovered it when submitting her first autism grant. Whether oversight or intent, it’s gone.

Gulf of Distraction

How Ironic that on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Woman's portraits have been taken down at NIH and Women is a forbidden word that if found in your NSF grant could get it revoked. #womeninstem

Section 504 prohibits discrimination against disabled people & guarantees equal access to anything (services, programs, buildings, etc.) that receives federal funding. It paved the way for the ADA. The sit-in that got it passed is an extraordinary moment in US history. I am incandescent with rage.

Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.

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I blame dystopian fiction for the expectations I am seeing. Ironically, those books largely come after 50 years (or more) for a reason. You think the revolution is immediate because that's when you're brought into the story. But if the fall took decades, the revolution also took decades.

We are getting reports that disabled employees of the federal government who have already established reasonable accommodations on the basis of disability will have to reapply for those accommodations, and that the **agency head** will make the final determination

“accessibility”, “disability”, “disabled”… All words that when present in a scientific project mean it will be automatically rejected for funding by the US government. It’s a very scary time for people with Disabilities right now, especially marginalised illnesses like ME and LC. Sending hugs.

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#NurseSky are you hearing these types of instructions form your employers?

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

DYK? Since July 2022, the lag between COVID-19 symptom onset and a positive PCR test is 4.5-6.5 days. You might test positive earlier than 5 days after symptom onset, but it can be up to one week. That's PCR--with RATs you're even less likely to test positive within the first 5 days of symptoms.

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

An employee working for an agency funded by federal grants working in HIV care just told me that their manager said the CDC website is expected to come down "in its entirey" and "to save what they might need." Targethiv.org, run by the Health Resources and Services Administration, is already down.

Posting as an educator in Texas.

Moved to Texas from a blue state in 2021. This week it really feels like something shifted. People are coming out of the woodwork in support for fascism.

Too many people have not studied boycotts while throwing that word around as if there aren't many different kinds, purposes and desired outcomes of boycotts. "Organic" individual-purchasing power boycotts are not a tool of organizing power but instead exist to satisfy emotional reactions.

PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch. This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service. Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky

Covid pandemic madness ended up going lots of different directions, but the root of it, the molten core, was the genuine, heartfelt rage many people felt at being confronted with the need for empathy & solidarity. The reasons & justifications, all the pseudo-science & conspiracies, came later.

One of my friends has a grant from the #FDA to look at disparities in clinical trial research and just submitted a manuscript with the findings. She was told today by the collaborators from the #FDA to rescind it. #Censorhip has started, we are living in authoritarian government.

If you see this post an image you saved because it made you laugh

Public Health Avengers. Assemble. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Really excellent article on what it means to be “smart” and the ethics of valuing intelligence as a moral good. thebaffler.com/salvos/outsm...

What is one simple act of resistance that will absolutely infuriate any authoritarian determined to make the world ignore pandemics and climate change? Wearing a mask.

Data is mounting that the shingles vaccine is protective against dementia. It's not definitive, but it's interesting. In addition, the effect is more pronounced for women. vajenda.substack.com/p/is-the-shi...