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Caryn Rogers 🦫
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volunteer senior science writer for the Preeclampsia Foundation, some philsci/social epi. Epistemic beaver. The best way to judge is to get a boat, and fill the boat with tacos. #NAFO 🇺🇸

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_fXdD70AAAAJ&hl=en
Pinned
This is also what happens to pregnant women and their babies when they fall for snake-oil treatments for preeclampsia.

Nature bats last.
The physical world still exists and eventually ideas formed in the mass hallucination chamber of social media will collide with it, even for the people in the grips of the hallucinations. And when that happens a lot of people will die.
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FUN FACT: In 2016, Republicans controlled 31 governorships and 68 legislative chambers, but by January, the GOP will control only 26 governorships and 57 legislative chambers.
November 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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We are hiring: #PhD fellow in Ecosystem-based management and marine connectivity🐋🧪🛰️

Want to work with tracking data from migratory species to identify ecological corridors and help inform biodiversity conservation priorities?
Apply by Dec 7th!
@bioprotectproject.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/ytfmfhfc
PhD Fellow in Ecology/Ecosystem-Based Management (289259) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Job title: PhD Fellow in Ecology/Ecosystem-Based Management (289259), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Sunday, December 7, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Always, always, ALWAYS FOLLOW THE MONEY!
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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He claims the public can’t govern because people are fragmented and easily steered by media. The symptoms are real, but the cause is the collapse of shared verification. In a disordered information environment, this is inevitable.
demos.co.uk/research/ver...
Verification, Deliberation, Accountability: A new framework for tackling epistemic collapse and renewing democracy
Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.
demos.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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“This move is neither streamlining nor reform–it’s an abdication and abandonment of America’s future. Rather than show leadership in helping all students seize their potential, it walks away from that responsibility.” — @rweingarten.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/11/18/p...
Trump administration accelerates push to dismantle Education Department as it offloads work to other agencies | CNN Politics
The Department of Education on Tuesday announced a further dismantling of the agency by transferring much of its remaining workload to other federal agencies in a bid to convince Congress the departme...
www.cnn.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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As we and others have repeatedly reported, credible researchers have said there is no link between vaccines and autism.
CDC plans study on vaccines and autism despite research showing no link
President Donald Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have repeatedly raised the idea that autism could be linked to vaccines.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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A new NEJM paper just dropped evaluating a quadrivalent modified mRNA (modRNA) influenza vaccine in a phase 3 trial. This is the largest test yet of whether the mRNA platform that transformed COVID-19 vaccination can improve our fight against flu.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Efficacy, Immunogenicity, and Safety of Modified mRNA Influenza Vaccine | NEJM
Influenza remains a major health burden despite the use of licensed vaccines. Nucleoside-modified messenger RNA (modRNA) influenza vaccines have shown promising immunogenicity against influenza and...
www.nejm.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.’

George Orwell, Animal Farm
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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The CDC website now disseminates disinformation about vaccines, claiming erroneously that infant vaccines might cause autism, when we know conclusively that they do not. It is difficult to overstate just how dangerous this is. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
November 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Again, Trump talks about climate change all the time. He lies about clean energy all the time.

BECAUSE HE KNOWS PEOPLE CARE ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE AND LIKE CLEAN ENERGY

Trump always tries to shape people’s ideas about things to justify his own doings.

#EndClimateSilence
Trump: "I don't think Saudi Arabia would like me too much if we decided to kill oil and natural gas. There's nothing like it. It works. Windmills don't work. Other things -- I don't want to get it into too much -- but they don't work. What does work is natural gas, oil, nuclear, and other things."
November 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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and i think we could often do a better job of making the pro-business case for bike and transit upgrades. the data is there but we forget to lead with it, only to find our projects so often get roadblocked or scaled back at the last minute by "business interests"
A complete, connected, comfortable network of protected bike-lanes is a climate mitigation strategy. It’s a healthy cities strategy. It’s a social equity strategy. It’s an affordability strategy. It’s an economic devt strategy. It’s a smart mobility & space saving strategy.

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Etc.
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.

Period.

This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Job posting alert! Open Science Specialist at the University of Calgary (in Canada!) #job #OpenScience careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1704502...
Specialist, Open Science, Research Services in Calgary, AB, ...
Specialist, Open Science, Research Services in Calgary, AB, ...
careers.ucalgary.ca
November 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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November 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy
HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.
November 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Not only is it infuriating that guys like RFK Jr and Dr Oz are destroying public trust in vaccines by falsely linking them to autism, but it's just fucking embarassing that we have those two dipshits in charge of (formerly) prestigious institutions containing some of the top scientists and doctors
November 20, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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We’ve gone full Soviet. You never go full Soviet. Google Lysenkoism. Go on. I’ll wait.
This is truly the state dictating reality. And I worry. The people who believe this is a victory— because that is the construct provided to them— remind me of livestock (stop eating horse wormer if you don’t want to be compared to livestock) celebrating the wolves freeing them from the shepherd.
November 20, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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2/ the DOJ to punish political enemies and and using it to restore American Democracy and all the norms that used to be our common political heritage. But we cannot return to that status quo without a thorough cleaning that lands substantial numbers of GOP operatives and their friends in jail
November 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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This is why it is essential that the Democrats retake the House, and by a decent margin, in 2026. We need to begin the hearings that lead to prosecutions in 2029 should the Democrats retake the White House. The GOP will claim "lawfare." Let them blabber. There is a big difference between using
November 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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It’s a blessing to Constitutional Democracy that they’re so impossibly stupid.
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.

Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM