Pregnant women can't access the #COVID vaccine. If they get #COVID and develop a fever, they can't take Tylenol? 🫠. Both COVID infection and untreated maternal fever increase the risk of bad outcomes for both fetus and mother ranging from preterm delivery to death. None of this is pro-life.

I am begging all news reporters who cover the "tylenol and vaccines cause autism" press conference PLEASE lead your reporting and headlines with facts and caveat that these assertions were not backed by any scientific evidence but rather the whims and feelings on unqualified non-scientists

I'm thrilled to join the #OHSU ID faculty in early 2026, where I will continue my work to find a cure for the fungus #Coccidioides, which causes Valley Fever. Thanks to #UCSF for a wonderful 15 years of medicine & science. Excited for this new chapter ahead! Recruiting for the Homer Lab soon!

As a first-year oncology fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City I had the privilege of rotating through all of the clinics. Lung, beast, ovarian, leukemia, lymphoma. 1/7

@nphstuff.bsky.social finished Box 2 and enjoyed all the very slick puzzles! Saw some cool parallels with the Lost Cabinet 😁

Extremely saddened to see the Supreme Court decision today denying equal protection to transgender children and, at the same time, the end of the LGBTQIA suicide hotline. 😥 Everyone deserves medical treatment!

Mother to child transmission of HIV is completely preventable with antiretroviral drugs. We cannot go back to the 80s and 90s of the HIV epidemic.

This is gotta be intentional. But it’s also just weird! How many NYT readers were at protests? What % of subscribers? A substantial %! How can it not be seen as newsworthy, especially given the readership?

Happy for the opportunity to attend a protest today with my parents 💜

#nokings in SF

#nokings San Jose, CA

San Jose gathering for #NoKings #50501. Great turnout and energy for this peaceful and powerful crowd!

This is not hard. Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious arrest of Sen Padilla. “A Republic if you can keep it” is now.

Senator Padilla was forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference in Los Angeles while attempting to ask a question. Padilla was thrown down and handcuffed. A senator in his own state! (He has since been released.) The Trump regime is out of control.

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS 50501 San Jose Protest” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

My message to Trump’s NIH Director? No one in America wants us to do LESS cancer research. No one is asking Trump to make it harder to cure Alzheimer's disease. Yet Trump is cutting all of this NOW and demanding an $18 BILLION cut to NIH next year. Not on my watch.

LA occupation is costing us over $130 million. Now expanding to more cities. Military vanity parade costs us $45 million and counting. Trump golfing costs us $4 million each. Elon... STFU about being fiscally responsible, GOP!

This is a reasonable suggestion. Anyone who wants to be a Democratic leader should be willing to be in LA now. And I don’t mean with a TV crew, or behind a lectern, or giving interviews, but simply to stand with the community and engage in congressional fact-finding. And to tell any reporter that.

‼️ This is absolutely absurd. Trump is actively manufacturing a crisis. The Pentagon just announced that he’s federalizing another 2,000 California National Guard troops bringing the total to 4,000, plus 700 active-duty Marines heading into LA. This is a military occupation, not public safety.

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity: 1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas… 2) enabled by Engineering Innovations… 3) based on Science Research in Universities… 4) funded by Grants from the US Government. It’s time more people understood this.

My ongoing request: If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here. NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h... NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h... Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.

I'm very proud that our manuscript performing high-density transcriptomics of the fungal pathogen Coccidioides is officially out in print. New biology in the infectious spore stage, interesting mechanisms of regulation, and we hope a great resource for the field! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

My amazing colleague Dr. Victoria Chu highlighting the important work of CDC, and critical need for continued infectious disease support and funding. Helicopter rappelling is just one of many of her incredible accomplishments @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

Death rates in pregnancy DOUBLED during 2020-2021, and there are mountains of evidence showing COVID infection leads to significantly worse outcomes for pregnancy & baby. There are also mountains of evidence showing COVID vaccination has no adverse effects on pregnancy or baby but does protect them.

Please consider contributing ideas to this website which is tracking all the wonderful benefits we have received so far from federally-funded research! (and check out all the cool examples gathered thus far) publicusaresearchbenefits.com Protect research in the US to keep these benefits coming!

"Imagine the auto industry without 3D printing. NSF funded that. Artificial intelligence? NSF. MRI machines that help doctors diagnose you? NSF. Doppler radar technology that makes aviation safer by conquering wind shear? NSF. Duolingo‘s underlying programming? NSF. The internet itself? NSF."

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb.)

NIH is ending billions of dollars in foreign subawards, jeopardizing thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more. Unless foreign researchers secure funding directly from NIH by October — a tall order for any researcher — clinical trials abroad and other research will shut down.

Donald Trump spent $23M on golf (up to mid march). Over 56 days, he spent $410k of our tax dollars each day at his own clubs. That is one 3-year NSF grant per day. Waste and abuse, my ass. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Congratulations @nathanlo.bsky.social for this study - raising attention that we need to get vaccination rates back up to prevent measles from becoming extremely common again

" I also hope each person reading this will do something to help get public health research back on track in this country. Everyone benefits from it — including you." Powerful, gut wrenching must read personal essay. Read. Share. Don't look away! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

🧵1/N New study published in @jama.com on re-emergence of vaccine-eliminated infectious diseases under declining vaccination in the US. We model long-term risk and conditions for return to endemicity for measles, rubella, polio, & diphtheria. Collab w/ @Mathewkiang.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

A tragic turn of events for understanding the health of 50.5% of our population. This has been a landmark study and such a waste to end it early and disassemble the massive infrastructure built to yield new insights into women's health.

I guess tech billionaires only believe in freedom of expression when it targets vulnerable groups and isn't revealing their hypocrisy. Thank you to Seth Rogan for speaking up on behalf of science! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/a...

DUH! I'm so tired of supposed leaders in my industry falling behind this administration, and it's about time they realized their callousness.

Last night in my newsletter, I wrote about an important court case you probably haven't heard about. An Alabama group, the Yellowhammer Fund, helps women go to states where abortion is legal to obtain one. They sued the state's AG for threatening to prosecute joycevance.substack.com/p/a-case-to-...

Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence 16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world" 17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent" 18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial" 19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"

More good news - votes can't be bought!

Wholeheartedly agree with this letter and glad to see so many familiar names among the signatories

Nope, let's keep talking about this until changes are made.

Silence=Death Redux: Infectious Diseases, Public Health, and the Imperative to Resist ✅ Just Accepted ✍️ @ericmeyerowitz.bsky.social @germhuntermd.bsky.social #IDSky

If anyone is wondering what the impacts of cuts to NIH funding are, check out this really well-done website tracking them: scienceimpacts.org

Some good news in the state elections showing that the people are not with the current administration

there are like three overlapping scandals with signalgate — illegal distribution of sensitive government materials by top members of the administration, illegal attempt to circumvent records laws and possible unlawful use of military force — and democrats should be screaming about them all

Today is World TB Day. As we see the current administration dismantle top-notch US research and specifically target global health (including research on TB and services to treat TB), remember that we do not live in isolation. TB infections rising worldwide will affect the US. Please speak up!

We need the public to speak up for the NIH

This is the first case I’ve seen so far of a returning permanent resident detained without any acknowledged rationale (family says she has no prior convictions and that they haven’t been given any information)

One this is for certain, #measles in Texas is not spreading among those who are vaccinated. So pretending we do not know how to end this outbreak is in itself a misinformation campaign by health leadership.