New Study Shows That Bones Are Incredibly Cool

Update: Ald. Fuentes held a presser this afternoon with other local electeds in response to this incident. She said the person the agents were arresting is a ~37 y/o man who broke his leg while being chased by ICE. Fuentes told press ICE agents blocked attorneys from speaking to the man.

Broadview, Illinois today— A dizzying array of federal and local police quashed an anti-deportation protest outside the Chicago ICE "processing" facility. Border Patrol agents once again violently attacked protesters, with arrest and crowd control support from IL state troopers.

new research suggests that for 1 in 20 birds, sex chromosomes do not predict reproductive anatomy. nature continues to show us that sex is not binary...

new research suggests that for 1 in 20 birds, sex chromosomes do not predict reproductive anatomy. nature continues to show us that sex is not binary...

NEW: California is on the verge of passing nearly a dozen bills supporting queer and trans rights—if Newsom doesn’t veto them. In our latest, Mady Castigan (@madycast.com) talks to trans people impacted by the bills as well as politicians who wrote them, and explains how you can pressure Newsom.

I wrote this open letter to my fellow science journalists, but it could very easily be adapted to address @jay.bsky.team and the rest of the bsky team galileospendulum.org/2025/06/05/o...

Two weeks after vaccine advisers approved new Covid recs, Kennedy still hasn’t given his approval, leaving states unable to order updated shots for low-income kids. www.statnews.com/2025/09/30/c...

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

Sporting my super cool shirt from @sarahmackattack.bsky.social —design by @franzanth.bsky.social 😁

For @truthout.org yesterday I wrote about how the government's lies about tylenol and autism reminds me a lot of the government's lies about trans people. truthout.org/articles/ant...

Awarding scientific grants based on scientific merit? That pales in comparison to my strategy, giving grants based on political loyalty www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk said recently in regards to trans healthcare for minors, “We are going to have to follow whatever rules the federal government proposes.” It's unclear if that includes UCLA Health, but this is very worrying and shows the need for a community response. archive.ph/DfR0M

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

as a former grfp fellow, this decision will be disastrous for training early stage graduate students and retaining talented scientists in research fields

if ucla still ends trans health care for adolescents - in spite of california law, the restoration of nsf and nih grants and a pending trial on the legality of the grant suspensions - then the institution would show the utmost disdain for their patients and community

RFK Jr. has turned down meetings with organizations like the Autism Society for America and other groups. www.statnews.com/2025/09/25/a...

this is AMAZING news. access to trans health care for adolescents at ucla health appears to be preserved for now. these grants were the government's leverage in attempts to strong-arm the university into regressive changes

hard to overstate how much anti-trans scientists lost their minds over this ioc-funded study

ICE agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her father to surrender to authorities last week, according to the girl's family

this is great news. these grants are leverage over ucla and the government is demanding concessions, including the elimination of trans health care for adolescents. ucla will have no reason to negotiate once the grants are restored.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

this is great news. these grants are leverage over ucla and the government is demanding concessions, including the elimination of trans health care for adolescents. ucla will have no reason to negotiate once the grants are restored.

Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. plan to tie Tylenol use during pregnancy and folate deficiencies to rising autism rates—but the evidence is thin

...and if you don't want to read the study itself, here is a good overview of it from @evln7.bsky.social: queersciencelab.beehiiv.com/p/new-study-...

...and multiple studies demonstrating that shifts in identity and/or stopping GAHT are overwhelmingly *not* indications of transition regret are linked to in this essay (specifically, in the "Detransition, Regret, and Dynamic Transition Trajectories" section): juliaserano.medium.com/spotting-ant...

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

Welp: Texas A&M President Mark Welch just stepped down after pressure from Republicans over a video of a professor who taught about transgender people in a children's literature class

This was from banning trans girls from girls sports. Just so you understand the reality of what's going on here.

Important: Gavin Newsom just announced that California, Oregon, Hawaii and Washington State released unified west coast vaccine recommendations expressly designed to counterprogram Trump/RFK's destruction of our public health system. This will gain momentum in blue states (see thread below).

Just FYI: while CDC is no longer tracking much of anything, wastewater data is still being reported. COVID-19 levels have just been nationally upgraded to “high”

as part of a proposed settlement to restore ucla's federal grants, the feds want the university to declare that trans people don't exist and to stop providing health care to trans adolescents...

Video of incident we mentioned earlier—masked ICE agents rushing to move a car out of the road after they broke windows and detained someone on the southwest side. This car was eventually returned to family. We're told agents abandoned several other vehicles today around Chicago.

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

Already seeing people excise the essential fact that trans existence was the inciting factor in the Texas A&M professor purge. Don't let them. Our lives are on the line and they want to make this solely about academic censorship.

People like Mace don't view these as the same because when they get facial feminization surgery it affirms their gender assignment; when trans women do it we transgress our assignment. It's not the health care they object to; it's the lives it helps trans people lead.

Everything he says about mental health becomes clearer when you realize he wants to shutter all outpatient care and return to the era of mass institutionalization

“Pseudoscience networks like SEGM are just misinformation at an academic scale. They are bad actors who hijack the process of knowledge production and infiltrate the media ecosystem with a false air of intellectualism.” queersciencelab.beehiiv.com/p/segm-commi...

new study in jama network open finds that 97.7% of trans people still identify as trans 10 years after gender dysphoria diagnosis

This is a fascinating story: SEGM commissioned systematic reviews on gender affirming care, claimed they showed care should be banned, so the authors have released this statement saying their research is being misused and that it is unconscionable to ban gender affirming care:

3 Sep 25 -- After settlement, admin. agrees to restore health webpages/datasets with content on trans health & DEI. HHS adds note to many: "Information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate & disconnected from truth &...this Department rejects it" @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

The fight for science and universities is, at its core, a fight for democracy itself. Lose one, and you will lose the other. I wrote about what we are up against for STAT News. www.statnews.com/2025/09/02/h...

i know who can solve this

with the cdc now in shambles, it's important that we do our part to preserve public health. state governments can help fill the gap (eg buying covid-19 vaccines in bulk to bypass anti-vax restrictions). you can use the provided call script and email template to encourage them to act now! ⬇️

for as long as i’ve seen, CA has been blue on these maps. thanks to newsom’s massive rightward lurch, it might no longer be safe for trans kids. anyone pushing this man for president needs to own the fact they’re advocating for abandoning the most vulnerable among us to people who’d exterminate us

I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.