I don't think most Americans have any idea how dangerous it is for a president to declare an entire ethnic group to be "garbage." This is how the worst atrocities in human history have begun.

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

Gee. I wonder why. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

CBS News abruptly removed a segment from “60 Minutes” that was to feature the stories of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to what the program called a “brutal” prison in El Salvador. Sharyn Alfonsi, the correspondent, criticized the network’s decision to remove her reporting.

Bhattacharya’s leadership of the NIH is a chaotic clown show 🤦‍♂️

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There have been at least 4.6 million illnesses, 49,000 hospitalizations, and 1,900 deaths from flu this season so far. There is a lot of flu out there. Getting the flu shot prevents hospitalisations and death! Please get your flu shot it id not too late.

The planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines. bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...

"Ethical standards do not become optional because the participants are African." bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...

“NIH is in crisis, grants are being terminated, labs are closing….but they found $1.6 million for an unsolicited proposal to study whether we should delay a vaccine we’ve been safely giving for 40 years, in a country where infants are at high risk of infection” www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

This is making me irrationally angry. www.thriftbooks.com/w/monas-eyes...

Ha ha ha. Damage control from the Vanity Fair article. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Absolute evil. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

It's all about pleasing RFK Jr and his anti-vaxx MAHA movement

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

Faculty and staff need to be fluent in the language and techniques of univ budgets. Budgets are how an institution's mission is operationalized. But they're arcane documents, cloaked in obscurantism. And upper admin and boards use that opacity to do all sorts of shit, unaccountable and unfettered

Happy Hanukkah 🕎 to all my friends who celebrate!

December in NOLA

True Breaking News (Washington Post): VA to cut 35,000 health care jobs across nation like nurses & doctors. VA already strained. Did our vets refuse to give back medals to melt into gold bars/coin/ballroom sconces for Trump? Truly the worst vets’ Christmas present ever.

“A deeper, context specific approach would be to treat #OneHealth implementation at the community level as a co-design partnership, with local, traditional and Indigenous knowledges forming the very basis of any One Health interventions.” @naohun.bsky.social @onehealthuofg.bsky.social

The FDA says more information about claims that Covid vaccines resulted in death - for children and adults - will be coming "soon." But experts say the delay has been "striking." My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power. In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.” www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...

Grateful to @katherinejwu.com for her reporting on the broader context as the Harvard School of Public Health struggles to meet the moment Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

Germany's Friedrich Merz has urged Donald Trump not to pursue a Ukraine peace deal “above Europe’s head”, as he offered to host talks with Washington on potential territorial concessions to Russia to secure a ceasefire. w/ @chassnews.bsky.social @maxseddon.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/5e2fa2f2-c...

Trump is putting the public’s health at risk— vaccine preventable diseases should remain prevented.

There goes the lucrative industry of international tourism, already fairly wrecked. The US was "the world’s most powerful Travel & Tourism market, contributing a record-breaking $2.36 TN to the nation’s economy last year" said the World Travel & Tourism Council in 2024.

Board member Emily Gurley offers nonscientists a guide to understanding research studies in this article from @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social. publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/how-to-...

Check out this amazing suite of tools related to climate and health. @sjryan3.bsky.social www.tactic-tools.org

All of these new rulings don’t just affect today, they rewrite precedent. Trump still has three years left, and whatever expanded powers the Court hands him now will automatically pass to the next president as well.

One way to get credit for something is to destroy everything and then “rebuild” it and brand it as something de novo. www.state.gov/united-state...

Live footage of "Why that baby aint got no coat on?"

More than 70 vultures found dead on athletic fields in Ohio. They most likely died from bird flu. This isn't going away. www.wlwt.com/article/dead...

Jared Kushner's involvement was "not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar." fancy that

ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

So, to all the "RFK's got some good ideas" folks (Rachael Bedard, Leana Wen) and Jay Bhattacharya is "an excellent choice for NIH" (Steven Macedo, Frances Lee) and Vinay Prasad "will bring a breath of fresh air to FDA" (Adam Cifu, John Mandrola) groupies--you own this now too.

"the very programs best equipped to study the social and ethical implications of AI were being defunded, even as the university promoted the use of OpenAI’s products across campus. This isn’t innovation—it’s institutional auto-cannibalism." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Feed cleanse. My dad (bass), my uncle (drums), and their friend.

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The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children. Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT

I know there's a lot of news but if you can tear yourself away from the CDC vaccine committee today — you should really read this series on how the Trump administration has upended science in just 10 months, from my incredibly talented colleagues: www.statnews.com/american-sci...

Now official policy of the United States: —Immigration is exclusively harmful —All nations must “only rarely” grant citizenship to foreigners —Immigration will “erase” Europe within 20 years and the US must act to prevent that Read it yourself.

I am begging reporters to heed @jessicacalarco.com's warning here. There is too much equivocation even in articles that highlight RFK Jr's anti-vaccine zealotry. These articles juxtapose a claim he offers, with "other experts say." It is a pernicious tic of mainstream journalism and has to stop.

My takeaway from ACIP so far: they have not presented any evidence of harm from the hepatitis B vaccine, yet there are immense benefits.

THIS is how you do health journalism—including the highly responsible title that gets immediately to the real story Thank goodness for journalists like @melodyschreiber.com & columnists like @lisamjarvis.bsky.social at Bloomberg, who are covering the dangerous shenanigans of the MAHA crew so well

Happy Wednesday, everyone! open.spotify.com/track/1r9LoK...

"Prosecutors said Mr. Hernández was key to a scheme that lasted more than 20 years and brought more than 500 tons of cocaine into the United States." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...