Things pediatricians are scared of: Grapes Hot dogs Lawn mowers Unmounted TVs Babies on laps in cars Riders without helmets Ungated pools Crib bumpers Trampolines Hot tubs Guns Things pediatricians are not scared of: Any/all the vaccines

These are the top 5 questions/concerns I’ve gotten about the press conference on autism: -the “Harvard” study tho -what about “trusting the science”? -shouldn’t we warn people even if it’s just a correlation? -but Tylenol said don’t take it! -Hep B vaccine for newborns Asked and answered 👇

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

Let me tell you a beautiful story about this couch. 🧵 IG msviciousdesign

“What Trump is really doing is advancing a plan laid down years ago by plutocrats and polluters. And making a mockery of our country as he does so” @michaelemann.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...

My essay on crying in @accpchest.bsky.social today! #medsky #meded #hapc "But the lesson didn’t have to be that tears were a source of shame. Our humanity was part of what drew us to train to be healers in the first place" ❤️‍🩹 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social

Full speaker line-up for the Stanford Big Ideas in Medicine Conference. September 5-6, 2025. All are welcome! www.stanfordbigideas.org

18 year old me would never have imagined I would be raising my kids in a world in which our country would disappear people into concentration camps, actively assist in genocide, and be led by a man bending over backwards to protect child sex traffickers.

Gates Foundation pledges $2.5 billion to women’s health initiatives www.statnews.com/2025/08/04/b...

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal

Interesting how much resentment this photo created from white conservatives who assumed that the dismantling of DEI meant elite schools would return to the 1940s.

“I grew up soft on episodes of “Murphy Brown” and “The West Wing.” I believed that the arc of history bent toward Barack Obama, and technology solving the world’s problems, not causing them.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large

I know RFK Jr. has assembled a quack crew to concoct a study showing otherwise but here is an new important large cohort study of over 1.2 million children in Denmark showing no association Aluminum adsorbed vaccines and chronic dz in childhood including autism. www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of June!

6% of the NIH budget in 2024 was spent on women’s health. Good thing they’re cutting the little that was there, right? Who needs women’s health research anyway? Only half the country, I guess…

20-year-old U.S. citizen Adrian Andrew Martinez was swarmed by ICE in Pico Rivera while defending someone. He never hit back—just struggled—before being slammed into a CBP van. No records. No lawyer. His mom can’t find him. This is abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop.

This is perfect

I remember watching Ananda on MTV. She died at 52 from a preventable & treatable form of cancer bc she worried mammogram radiation would give her cancer. She then declined treatment when diagnosed, which she regretted when it was too late. The “wellness” industry is literally scaring people to death

This is worth 3 minutes of your time. No one wants to eat at a restaurant that only serves bland chicken. (It’s not about chicken, or restaurants, tho)

Ocean Beach per SFGate.com drone footage

Best image of the day:

Firearm Laws and Pediatric Mortality in the US. Our national @JAMAPediatrics study is live. Findings (2011-2023): •7,400 more deaths in most permissive and permissive firearm law states. •No increase in the stricter law states. •Decreases in 4 strict law states. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Please join us in congratulating the 2025 recipients and honorees of the ELAM 30th Anniversary Awards! See the full list of honorees and award descriptions at the link: tinyurl.com/mppy7233

ELUM Cardinale Smith, MD, PhD, has joined @mskcancercenter.bsky.social as the inaugural chief medical officer (CMO). Congratulations! Read more: tinyurl.com/57tcwxkz

New study links hospital privatisation to worse patient care www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-02...

It’s been five years since the murder of George Floyd, and police killings have increased while continuing to disproportionately target Indigenous, Black, and Hispanic people. But the real problem is we went overboard with “woke,” right? Figures from NYT, last slide from WaPo

The Lancet’s response to Tr*mp threatening medical journals is scathing: “one of the intents of authoritarian governments is to destroy independent science at government institutions and to silence academia...Science and medicine in the USA are being violently dismembered while the world watches.”

The report with the underlying data for the Washington Post story about firings of disproportionate numbers of women and underrepresented minorities from NIH Boards of Scientific Counselors. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

They are now estimating 2.3 million across the country. Keep it going folks. #handsoff #50501protests

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

He’s tanking the economy, destroying our standing in the world, depriving women and LGBTQ communities of their fundamental rights, attacking the environment, disappearing legal immigrants, gutting Veteran’s benefits and Social Security. And he’s making you pay for his golf trips while he’s at it.

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

🧪 #ScienceSky and #AcademicSky: We’re trying to learn more about the real-life scope and impact of the Trump administration terminating NIH grants. Here's how you can help our reporting 👇

@stanfordmedicine.bsky.social's study led by #StanDOM's Shreya Shah explores how to make Ambient AI Scribes more effective in healthcare. Read more at @jama.com: bit.ly/3QWAU57

Just learned that the entire division of blood disorders at the CDC was put on administrative leave or terminated effective immediately. The people who figured out HIV was infecting people through the blood supply. What could possibly go wrong?

Taking a quick lunch break and checked in on Booker over on Tik Tok. Over 55k current viewers and over 150M likes so far, just on that one platform. Say what you will, but we asked Dems to do something, and this IS SOMETHING. Bravo, @booker.senate.gov!

An elderly holocaust survivor confronts ICE and Tom Homan. His bravery after what he has experienced and endured shows his incredible indomitable spirit even the Nazis couldn’t crush. #MomSky

Some of the things they rescinded: -the need for research to be inclusive prohibition of political interference in research -prohibition of early grant terminations -the rights of NIH employees to communicate their findings to the public -whistleblower protections

Hope folks enjoyed these summaries! Here’s a photo of the group. It was an incredible day with so much learning and community—just what we needed! Pls lmk if you have suggestions for next year!

She shared her 5 Ps for success: Passion (do what you love) Plan (have a vision) People (build the best team) Practice with purpose (work hard) Party (don’t forget to have fun) On teaching: “A great teacher can take you somewhere you can’t go yourself.”

Our final speaker of the day is the amazing hall of famer Tara VanDerveer, the winningest coach in college basketball history, with 15 final four appearances, 3 national championships, 18 conference championships, and so much more!

More than half of women experience perimenopausal mood instability—yet we never talk about it!

There’s a menopause penalty! Study published this month found people who saw a provider re: menopause earn 10% less four years later!

13% of people experience >10 symptoms!! Almost 40% experience 5-9 symptoms. No wonder we’re miserable.

Our second-to-last talk is by Dr. Karen Adams discussing menopause—look at how common these symptoms are! And peri-menopause lasts for YEARS btw.

Highlights include -ask these models to generate your own bio (easy to spot the mistakes) -gen AI has about a 20% error rate across models -hallucinations are common! Definitely recommend inviting @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social to give this talk—she’s a fantastic, dynamic speaker on a hot topic!

And now we’re onto @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social’s presentation on using AI to enhance our professional life! AI has already brought up so many times, and we’re lucky to have an expert on it here!