The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

What a lede mynews4.com/news/local/e...

Stanford Department of Medicine is recruiting a Division Chief for Gastroenterology and Hepatology. If you're passionate about advancing digestive health and leading a dynamic team, I invite you to apply. facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

The #tradewar is on. Real-time electricity prices doubled few minutes after midnight EST in New England. 🔌💡

A few weeks ago, I had an incredibly emotional call with James Coney, a writer for the Sunday Times whose son Charlie was in the @genomicsengland.bsky.social 100k project and was recently diagnosed with ReNU syndrome. This beautiful article tells their story ❤️ www.thetimes.com/article/0bcc...

It has been 38 days since the last NIH meeting was posted in the Federal Register. Reminder to call your Senator and Representative.

Reminding people that without the NIH, there's very little for people with rare diseases is an argument to make right now.

Today is Rare Disease Day, and a great reminder of the importance of NIH and science funding in driving hope 🧬⬇️ www.rarediseaseday.org

No one had died of measles in America for ten years, until yesterday. That 2015 death in WA was preceded by a 12y period of no US deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says it’s “not unusual.” apnews.com/article/meas... It is unusual. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

RNA xkcd.com/3056

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

If the block on the Federal Register isn’t removed in the next few months, I fear a majority of labs will close within a year. This small procedural wrench has the power to kill US science indefinitely, losing an entire generation of discovery and innovation.

NIH awards have quite literally flatlined since the change in administration. Council meetings, where the decisions on which grants to fund are made, are being canceled daily. No meetings, no decisions, no grants. The freeze is most definitely on, folks.

Joe DeRisi: "The feeling within the university, from my perspective, has been one that borders on panic" missionlocal.org/2025/02/ucsf...

I'm Blake Gendebien, the dairy farmer running to replace Elise Stefanik in #NY21 This election will be tough, but I'm ready to roll up my sleeves and get the job done. Will you? ✅Follow me ✅Share this post ✅Ask your friends to follow ✅Chip in if you can

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

This is the message we need to send at #TeslaTakedown protests today: we know Tesla's trillion dollar valuation is built on fraud and abuse, and we are coming for it. We will make Tesla ownership a taboo, cars and stock, unthinkable to anyone who believes in the basic values of the U.S. constitution

"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man." - Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC

BREAKING The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders. The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.

📑 New paper alert! Our work on returning #multi-omics results to research participants Key message-We need better systems and policies for returning research results in the multi-omics era 🙏 Thanks to my team of co-authors for tackling this complex issue in #researchethics 🔗 tinyurl.com/3hzc587m

More like Skynet

Day two of the Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein scientific launch conference. The morning session is focusing on cultivated meat / cellular agriculture. Such an interesting topic that continues to defy belief.

Congrats Sarah Abramowitz and Kristin Boulier and colleagues on this important work!

Dr. Sue Bodine presented updates of the MoTrPAC at today’s 21st Annual Harold Hamm Diabetes Research Symposium #MoTrPAC

Hello world! Here’s a starter pack for #cardiosky #aha24 go.bsky.app/BvQ8qse suggest additional follows!

A cat pic for the morning - waiting for Super Bowl Sunday

Interested in the #multiomic response to #exercise training? Check out #motrpac data at motrpac-data.org and our preprints here connect.biorxiv.org/relate/conte...

Undiagnosed with a suspected ultrarare disease? Consider applying to #UDN through undiagnosed.hms.harvard.edu/apply/ support from udnf.org and www.ninds.nih.gov

Hello world! joining @bsky.app and hoping (fingers crossed) that some rando billionaire doesn't ruin it for the rest of us. looking forward to sharing scientific discoveries and rejoining genomics and cardiovascular science social networks