Alejandra Canales
@alliecanales.bsky.social
Science writer who covers neuroscience and brain tumors. Neuroscience PhD. AAAS MMF '21. Chicana. She/her. Views = mine.
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20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...
Transgender Healthcare: Explainer — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
December 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...
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Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
December 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
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get your kiddos vaccinated, but don’t forget the clean air either—vaccines do not prevent infection, and children are not immune to longcovid. reduction is great, prevention is better.
December 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
get your kiddos vaccinated, but don’t forget the clean air either—vaccines do not prevent infection, and children are not immune to longcovid. reduction is great, prevention is better.
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RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France
This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...
jamanetwork.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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wrote about yapping (making small talk) for @statnews.com . why I love to do it, why I need to get better at it (in terms of talking about public health) and why everyone should make friendly conversation with a stranger.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/p...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/p...
Can chatting with strangers improve public health?
Science and data are important, research shows, but people are incredibly receptive to personal stories about public health.
www.statnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
wrote about yapping (making small talk) for @statnews.com . why I love to do it, why I need to get better at it (in terms of talking about public health) and why everyone should make friendly conversation with a stranger.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/p...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/p...
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If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
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How do you replace magical thinking with critical thinking? Question for our #SciWri25 plenary speaker but it really is the true challenge of our times. 🧪#ScienceSky
November 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
How do you replace magical thinking with critical thinking? Question for our #SciWri25 plenary speaker but it really is the true challenge of our times. 🧪#ScienceSky
Some good analysis here on postseason baseball.
defector.com/the-dodgers-...
defector.com/the-dodgers-...
The Dodgers Never Had It Made | Defector
This World Series ended the only way it could, which was frenzied and late. The clocks turned back just a few hours after that; the next day was in another season, shorter and darker. The day after th...
defector.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Some good analysis here on postseason baseball.
defector.com/the-dodgers-...
defector.com/the-dodgers-...
What a game!!
a cartoon pikachu is standing next to a boy .
Alt: Pikachu dancing in excitement.
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:28 AM
What a game!!
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The NIH has insisted there are no banned words
But, an analysis by @jeremymberg.bsky.social found over 700 hundred grants changed their titles from '24 to '25
Some see it as a small price to pay to keep their grant, but others are worried about what comes next
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
But, an analysis by @jeremymberg.bsky.social found over 700 hundred grants changed their titles from '24 to '25
Some see it as a small price to pay to keep their grant, but others are worried about what comes next
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next
The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a former agency official
www.statnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The NIH has insisted there are no banned words
But, an analysis by @jeremymberg.bsky.social found over 700 hundred grants changed their titles from '24 to '25
Some see it as a small price to pay to keep their grant, but others are worried about what comes next
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
But, an analysis by @jeremymberg.bsky.social found over 700 hundred grants changed their titles from '24 to '25
Some see it as a small price to pay to keep their grant, but others are worried about what comes next
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
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you, reader, can still embody the ethos many of us longed to grow from this time within your sphere of ability by, say, wearing a mask in, at the very least, public indoor spaces and participating/donating to your local mask bloc, among other possibilities (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.
It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.
It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.
Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?
October 30, 2025 at 4:32 AM
you, reader, can still embody the ethos many of us longed to grow from this time within your sphere of ability by, say, wearing a mask in, at the very least, public indoor spaces and participating/donating to your local mask bloc, among other possibilities (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
People are overwhelmingly willing to help each other out.
The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)
October 30, 2025 at 3:02 AM
People are overwhelmingly willing to help each other out.
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local unions investing in 3 critical approaches:
Supermajority organizing
Bargaining for the common good: affordable housing, climate resilience, +racial justice
Apply upermajority organizing to electoral work, canvassing, relationships bw union+communities
labornotes.org/2025/10/stop...
Supermajority organizing
Bargaining for the common good: affordable housing, climate resilience, +racial justice
Apply upermajority organizing to electoral work, canvassing, relationships bw union+communities
labornotes.org/2025/10/stop...
To Stop Trump, Unions Need Joint Campaigns and a Shared Vision
[This article is part of a Labor Notes roundtable series: How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Against Trump 2.0? We will be publishing more contributions here and in our magazine in the months ahead. C...
labornotes.org
October 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
local unions investing in 3 critical approaches:
Supermajority organizing
Bargaining for the common good: affordable housing, climate resilience, +racial justice
Apply upermajority organizing to electoral work, canvassing, relationships bw union+communities
labornotes.org/2025/10/stop...
Supermajority organizing
Bargaining for the common good: affordable housing, climate resilience, +racial justice
Apply upermajority organizing to electoral work, canvassing, relationships bw union+communities
labornotes.org/2025/10/stop...
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I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is jmetraux@motherjones.com and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.
October 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is jmetraux@motherjones.com and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.
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Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have tracked data centers’ growing water footprint. He says California is “well positioned” to support the AI-driven data center boom, and he is reluctant to impose “rigid reporting requirements.” www.latimes.com/environment/...
California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use
Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.
www.latimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have tracked data centers’ growing water footprint. He says California is “well positioned” to support the AI-driven data center boom, and he is reluctant to impose “rigid reporting requirements.” www.latimes.com/environment/...
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three cheers for slow science, each Nobel representing decades of inquiry that paved the way for the technology, treatments, & toys of tomorrow:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
three cheers for slow science, each Nobel representing decades of inquiry that paved the way for the technology, treatments, & toys of tomorrow:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
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Really gratifying to see journalists attend to the administrative burdens that impede access to services and benefits to which people are entitled and desperately need. This really matters for vaccination.
Pregnancy outcomes are correlated with socioeconomics.
The people most at risk are often the same people who can't spend days searching for someone who will vaccinate them, or pay out of pocket, or generally navigate the morass, Dr. @kevinault.bsky.social of ACOG's immunization work group told me.
The people most at risk are often the same people who can't spend days searching for someone who will vaccinate them, or pay out of pocket, or generally navigate the morass, Dr. @kevinault.bsky.social of ACOG's immunization work group told me.
Covid Shots Protect Pregnant Women, but Getting Them Now Can Be Hard
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Really gratifying to see journalists attend to the administrative burdens that impede access to services and benefits to which people are entitled and desperately need. This really matters for vaccination.
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A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.
September 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.
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If you haven't gotten your updated COVID vaccine by now, book an appointment fast before next week's ACIP meeting. After that, you might not be able to get one. I plan on getting mine this weekend if I possibly can. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
RFK Jr.’s CDC may limit COVID shots to 75 and up, claim they killed kids
A battle is brewing over mRNA vaccines, which could intensify backlash against Kennedy.
arstechnica.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
If you haven't gotten your updated COVID vaccine by now, book an appointment fast before next week's ACIP meeting. After that, you might not be able to get one. I plan on getting mine this weekend if I possibly can. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
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The University of California receives $17 billion annually in federal funds. Its president is warning of a possible Trump push across the system, making current federal cuts at UCLA and elsewhere seem “minor in comparison to the threat that looms”
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
It's not just UCLA. UC president warns of Trump push into all campuses and hospitals
President James B. Milliken said current federal cuts are "minor in comparison to the threat that looms." Cuts, he said, could go far beyond UCLA and hit all 10 UC campuses as well as hospitals.
www.latimes.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:23 AM
The University of California receives $17 billion annually in federal funds. Its president is warning of a possible Trump push across the system, making current federal cuts at UCLA and elsewhere seem “minor in comparison to the threat that looms”
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Can confirm in CA. I got my shot yesterday at my local CVS with no issues 💉
🚨 UPDATE on the current COVID vaccine access situation in the US.
Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.
Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.
September 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Can confirm in CA. I got my shot yesterday at my local CVS with no issues 💉
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It's official: Updated COVID vaccines have been approved by the FDA, but with restrictions.
Moderna: 6 months and up if high risk
Pfizer: 5 years and up if high risk
Novavax: 12 years and up if high risk
Anyone 65 years and up is eligible for updated COVID vaccines regardless of risk status.
Moderna: 6 months and up if high risk
Pfizer: 5 years and up if high risk
Novavax: 12 years and up if high risk
Anyone 65 years and up is eligible for updated COVID vaccines regardless of risk status.
August 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
It's official: Updated COVID vaccines have been approved by the FDA, but with restrictions.
Moderna: 6 months and up if high risk
Pfizer: 5 years and up if high risk
Novavax: 12 years and up if high risk
Anyone 65 years and up is eligible for updated COVID vaccines regardless of risk status.
Moderna: 6 months and up if high risk
Pfizer: 5 years and up if high risk
Novavax: 12 years and up if high risk
Anyone 65 years and up is eligible for updated COVID vaccines regardless of risk status.