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Elijah Carter

@becarter.bsky.social

@vicmmic.bsky.social how about some Sandhill cranes!?

December 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM

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Erik Corley

@erikcorley.bsky.social

The only factual connection between autism and vaccines was published in 2016 by @zachweinersmith.bsky.social.

www.smbc-comics.com/comic/autism...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Autism and Vaccines

www.smbc-comics.com

November 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM

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David Bingham Brown

@bingham.bsky.social

As we're about to hear a whole lot more about autism and vaccines, the great @zachweinersmith.bsky.social has already pointed out the only relevant relationship between the two.

www.smbc-comics.com/comic/autism...

Comic with two people talking, one wearing a white labcoat. "Wait a minute. Autism-spectrum people are over-represented in research science. But... But that means..." "My god" Caption: AUTISM CAUSES VACCINES.

April 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM

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K.T. Elliott

@ktelliottmicro.bsky.social

Agreed! (With alt text for those who need it)

Judge Reyes: EO 14183 adopts the definitions of a separate executive order called Defending Women from Gender Ideology, Extremism and Restoring biological Truth to the federal government. And that EO states, "sex shall refer to an individual's immutable biological classification as either male or female." And it states that, "It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female." Do you see that or do you remember that?
Jason C. Lynch:| will take the court's word for it.
Judge Reyes: You understand, as a matter of biology, it's just incorrect that there are only two sexes, right?
Jason C. Lynch: Do I understand that to be incorrect as a biological matter?
Judge Reyes: Yes. It is incorrect as a biological matter. You understand that, right?
Jason C. Lynch: I don't understand that to be incorrect.
Judge Reyes: You understand that not everyone has an xx or an xy chromosome, right?
Jason C. Lynch: Honestly, no, I don't.
Judge Reyes: It's actually kind of a really important point because this executive order is premised on an assertion that's not biologically correct. There are anywhere near about 30 different intersex examples. So someone who does not have just xx or xy chromosome is not just male or female. They're intersex. And there are over 30 potential different intersex examples. We've got genetic differences. We have people with xxx chromosomes. We have androgen insensitivity, xy genetically, that may have female external sex characteristics and internally have testes. There's a five alpha reductase deficiency that causes changes in testosterone metabolism, xy that may have female external genitalia or ambiguous genitalia.
The point being, and I'm happy to have you guys brief this more if you want, but I'm telling you right now that there are people who are neither male or female. And so the premise of the executive order is just incorrect.

February 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM

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allie igwe

@anigwe.bsky.social

They know “DEI” doesn’t mean unqualified, but they are taking actions that try to make it true.

Trajan Hammonds @starlord37.bsky.social · Feb 8

Indeed, if you make a new program aimed at minorities, incentivize them to apply with better pay and less teaching, and then discourage them from applying to other NSF fellowships, then cutting that program will absolutely take a bunch of minorities right out of academia 13/n

February 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM

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Dr. Lucky Tran

@luckytran.com

As a science advocate, something I hear a lot is that people think government would be better if there were more scientists and physicians elected to Congress. Senator Bill Cassidy's cowardice in voting for RFK Jr, show us that expertise is useless if you have no morals.

February 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM

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allie igwe

@anigwe.bsky.social

Checked on the article I wrote about Juneteenth in 2023…
”under review”

Screenshot of the webpage that formerly hosted an article about Juneteenth. Page now reads, “Under Review The page you have tried to access is currently under review as we evaluate the new Executive Order”

February 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM

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Carl T. Bergstrom

@carlbergstrom.com

Today the Trump admin abruptly and indefinitely terminated many of the activities of the National Institutes of Health, the $50B/year collection of agencies that power the US biotech and health ecosystems. Even if these orders were lifted tomorrow, the disruption would be enormous.

Why care? 🧵

Josh Barocas, MD ⭕️ @jabarocas.bsky.social · Jan 23

Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better…
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)

January 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM

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Zach Weinersmith

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social

Without saying who or where, I was at an event not too long after all this broke out, talking to an older woman, quite successful, who'd been in the business a long time. And she said something I think about a lot, because it helps explains why people so often disappoint you: