Dave Chen
@dave3d.bsky.social
3d graphics geek, dad, Tar Heel, lousy golfer, NIH scientist, Wonketteer, wannabe guitarist, slacker, probably not the Dave Chen you're looking for
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Dave Chen
@dave3d.bsky.social
· Jan 13
In honor of Taiwan’s Election Day, here are my mom and the DPP candidates and us at a DPP rally.
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Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website
Key NIH research institute told to remove references to 'pandemic preparedness'
Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website, a Nature investigation finds
www.scientificamerican.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website
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Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases
Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.
www.thebanner.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
Couldn't prouder to be working for this guy. 🤦♂️
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. on Theo Von's podcast:
"I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats."
"I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats."
February 13, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Couldn't prouder to be working for this guy. 🤦♂️
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4,049 people gone from NIH compared to 2024, an 18% loss in staff.
www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
Here's How Many Jobs HHS Has Lost Since RFK Jr. Took Over
See the totals from NIH, FDA, CDC, and CMS, too
www.medpagetoday.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:21 AM
4,049 people gone from NIH compared to 2024, an 18% loss in staff.
www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
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So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.
Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine
The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.
Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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Now Trump's / RFK Jr's FDA is refusing to even look at scientific data on vaccines.
People will die, just as 83 people died in Samoa following RFK Jr's anti-vaxx lobbying and as children have died needlessly of chickenpox this year in the USA. RFK Jr wats annual flu deaths to rise.
People will die, just as 83 people died in Samoa following RFK Jr's anti-vaxx lobbying and as children have died needlessly of chickenpox this year in the USA. RFK Jr wats annual flu deaths to rise.
FDA declines to review Moderna application for new flu vaccine
Moderna requests meeting to discuss refusal as decision could have implications for all new and updated vaccines
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Now Trump's / RFK Jr's FDA is refusing to even look at scientific data on vaccines.
People will die, just as 83 people died in Samoa following RFK Jr's anti-vaxx lobbying and as children have died needlessly of chickenpox this year in the USA. RFK Jr wats annual flu deaths to rise.
People will die, just as 83 people died in Samoa following RFK Jr's anti-vaxx lobbying and as children have died needlessly of chickenpox this year in the USA. RFK Jr wats annual flu deaths to rise.
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And the new NCI Director moves to piss away his scientific credibility.
First, killing cancer cells is a very low bar; many compounds kill cancer cells and are not the least bit useful for treating cancer.
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First, killing cancer cells is a very low bar; many compounds kill cancer cells and are not the least bit useful for treating cancer.
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The National Cancer Institute will begin studying ivermectin's ability to kill cancer cells, @rachanadpradhan.bsky.social reports
www.statnews.com/2026/02/10/i...
www.statnews.com/2026/02/10/i...
National Cancer Institute studying ivermectin’s ‘ability to kill cancer cells,’ alarming career scientists
The National Cancer Institute is studying ivermectin as a potential cancer treatment, according to its top official, alarming career scientists.
www.statnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:01 PM
And the new NCI Director moves to piss away his scientific credibility.
First, killing cancer cells is a very low bar; many compounds kill cancer cells and are not the least bit useful for treating cancer.
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First, killing cancer cells is a very low bar; many compounds kill cancer cells and are not the least bit useful for treating cancer.
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Seahawks win the Super Bowl and Carolina beats Dook! Hard to top that for a Dave Sports Weekend.
February 9, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Seahawks win the Super Bowl and Carolina beats Dook! Hard to top that for a Dave Sports Weekend.
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I am still in complete disbelief!
As always, this game delivers. The best rivalry in all of sports doesn’t disappoint. Wow!! #GDTBATH 🩵🐏👣🏀
As always, this game delivers. The best rivalry in all of sports doesn’t disappoint. Wow!! #GDTBATH 🩵🐏👣🏀
February 8, 2026 at 3:36 AM
I am still in complete disbelief!
As always, this game delivers. The best rivalry in all of sports doesn’t disappoint. Wow!! #GDTBATH 🩵🐏👣🏀
As always, this game delivers. The best rivalry in all of sports doesn’t disappoint. Wow!! #GDTBATH 🩵🐏👣🏀
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In response to ongoing ICE activity in Minnesota and around the country, Superchunk is reprinting their "Abolish ICE" T-shirt, with profits from the sale benefiting The People’s Laundry Minneapolis and the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota.
February 6, 2026 at 9:41 PM
In response to ongoing ICE activity in Minnesota and around the country, Superchunk is reprinting their "Abolish ICE" T-shirt, with profits from the sale benefiting The People’s Laundry Minneapolis and the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota.
I'm heartbroken to learn of the passing of Parthenon Huxley. I took guitar lesson from him from years, and I got him to do a cover of @superchunk.bsky.social 's Rosemarie. I was going to overlay me playing the guitar solo, but I never got around to it. LMK if you'd like the whole song.
February 2, 2026 at 5:33 PM
I'm heartbroken to learn of the passing of Parthenon Huxley. I took guitar lesson from him from years, and I got him to do a cover of @superchunk.bsky.social 's Rosemarie. I was going to overlay me playing the guitar solo, but I never got around to it. LMK if you'd like the whole song.
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This tweet which NIH Director Bhattacharya retweeted raises some interesting points (although perhaps not the ones that they intended).
The tweeter notes how AIDS was treated when he started medical school in the San Francisco Bay area in 1988.
This is misinformed. Sorry for a long 🧵
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The tweeter notes how AIDS was treated when he started medical school in the San Francisco Bay area in 1988.
This is misinformed. Sorry for a long 🧵
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February 1, 2026 at 9:43 PM
This tweet which NIH Director Bhattacharya retweeted raises some interesting points (although perhaps not the ones that they intended).
The tweeter notes how AIDS was treated when he started medical school in the San Francisco Bay area in 1988.
This is misinformed. Sorry for a long 🧵
1/19
The tweeter notes how AIDS was treated when he started medical school in the San Francisco Bay area in 1988.
This is misinformed. Sorry for a long 🧵
1/19
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Today CBP officers executed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37 year old nurse who worked at the VA. He was an observer, he was restrained and he was on the ground.
The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."
Live: Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning, police chief says
A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.
www.startribune.com
January 24, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Today CBP officers executed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37 year old nurse who worked at the VA. He was an observer, he was restrained and he was on the ground.
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The deadly shooting in Minneapolis today was a straight-up execution of a protester by Trump's federal brownshirts.
The thugs wrestled him to the ground. They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times. They murdered him.
The thugs wrestled him to the ground. They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times. They murdered him.
January 24, 2026 at 7:40 PM
The deadly shooting in Minneapolis today was a straight-up execution of a protester by Trump's federal brownshirts.
The thugs wrestled him to the ground. They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times. They murdered him.
The thugs wrestled him to the ground. They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times. They murdered him.
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No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.
January 21, 2026 at 2:49 PM
No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.
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ST. PAUL MAYOR: “We’ve received reports of ICE officers going door to door asking where the Asian people live… I myself have received advice to carry my passport with me because they may target me based on what I look like.”
January 19, 2026 at 10:52 PM
ST. PAUL MAYOR: “We’ve received reports of ICE officers going door to door asking where the Asian people live… I myself have received advice to carry my passport with me because they may target me based on what I look like.”
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this Greenland shit is fucking insane. it’s fucking insane. the fact that anyone is humoring him is fucking insane. the biggest problem in the world today is that nobody is taking the president seriously for the fucking psychopath he is. this isn’t all some fucking joke
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 5:53 AM
this Greenland shit is fucking insane. it’s fucking insane. the fact that anyone is humoring him is fucking insane. the biggest problem in the world today is that nobody is taking the president seriously for the fucking psychopath he is. this isn’t all some fucking joke
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For years, the FDA provided an informational webpage for parents warning them of the dangers of bogus autism treatments—before it was quietly deleted at the end of 2025.
FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies
The agency used to warn of chelation, used by RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally David Geier.
arstechnica.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:29 PM
For years, the FDA provided an informational webpage for parents warning them of the dangers of bogus autism treatments—before it was quietly deleted at the end of 2025.
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If you only have time to read one piece today, read this. It voices the particular pain civil servants have felt since “the purge”, which was never about waste, but rather removing the scientific and professional foundations of American government, making it easier to raid, sell, and manipulate.
The Purged
Donald Trump’s destruction of the civil service is a tragedy not just for the roughly 300,000 workers who have been discarded, but for an entire nation.
www.theatlantic.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:39 PM
If you only have time to read one piece today, read this. It voices the particular pain civil servants have felt since “the purge”, which was never about waste, but rather removing the scientific and professional foundations of American government, making it easier to raid, sell, and manipulate.
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"I doubt NATO would be there for us if we really needed them." ~Donald Trump.
The USA invoked Article 5 after 9/11.
This photo shows members of the Danish Huntsman Corps in Helmand Province (2009). I wasn't there in 2009, but I did work with this group in 2002, Task Force K-Bar.
The USA invoked Article 5 after 9/11.
This photo shows members of the Danish Huntsman Corps in Helmand Province (2009). I wasn't there in 2009, but I did work with this group in 2002, Task Force K-Bar.
January 11, 2026 at 12:18 PM
"I doubt NATO would be there for us if we really needed them." ~Donald Trump.
The USA invoked Article 5 after 9/11.
This photo shows members of the Danish Huntsman Corps in Helmand Province (2009). I wasn't there in 2009, but I did work with this group in 2002, Task Force K-Bar.
The USA invoked Article 5 after 9/11.
This photo shows members of the Danish Huntsman Corps in Helmand Province (2009). I wasn't there in 2009, but I did work with this group in 2002, Task Force K-Bar.
