Dr. Rabbithole
@drrabbithole.bsky.social
Scientist, mom, creator, nerd.
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Dr. Rabbithole
@drrabbithole.bsky.social
· Sep 23
Today, I am making a long overdue post, adding USAID to Courage is Contagious
On March 5, USAID wrote a dissent letter. It read:
On March 5, USAID wrote a dissent letter. It read:
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December 30, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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“It should not surprise anyone that 2025 — when the nation’s most prominent anti-vaxxer rose to the highest health office in the land — is ending with our vaccine policies in disarray and our access to vaccines increasingly imperiled.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...
Opinion | This Is the Damage Kennedy Has Done in Less Than a Year
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
“It should not surprise anyone that 2025 — when the nation’s most prominent anti-vaxxer rose to the highest health office in the land — is ending with our vaccine policies in disarray and our access to vaccines increasingly imperiled.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...
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BREAKING: The National Institutes of Health has agreed to evaluate grant applications that were wrongfully frozen due to the Trump administration’s ideological purge of biomedical research.
December 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
BREAKING: The National Institutes of Health has agreed to evaluate grant applications that were wrongfully frozen due to the Trump administration’s ideological purge of biomedical research.
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A really important piece. The times when we have opened our country to talented people from around the world are among the moments when America has been truly great. Trump is destroying that legacy and fomenting unconscionable racism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
Opinion | One of America’s Most Successful Experiments Is Coming to a Shuddering Halt
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A really important piece. The times when we have opened our country to talented people from around the world are among the moments when America has been truly great. Trump is destroying that legacy and fomenting unconscionable racism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
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Thank you for helping to shape the agenda for the 2026 #Dementia Care & Caregiving Summit. We will use the questions and comments shared as they plan for the Summit in March 2026. Registration details coming soon. Questions? Contact NIADementiaCareSummit@mail.nih.gov! #geronsky
December 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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The NIH process for hiring and renewing senior leaders has for decades used committees of scientific experts to provide gold-standard external review of candidates.
This process has been an example of government accountability and top talent recruitment, and it’s a shame it’s being politicized.
This process has been an example of government accountability and top talent recruitment, and it’s a shame it’s being politicized.
More news (not good) from NIH
The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied.
I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.
The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied.
I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.
December 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The NIH process for hiring and renewing senior leaders has for decades used committees of scientific experts to provide gold-standard external review of candidates.
This process has been an example of government accountability and top talent recruitment, and it’s a shame it’s being politicized.
This process has been an example of government accountability and top talent recruitment, and it’s a shame it’s being politicized.
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Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”
December 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”
Also as a reminder: courage isn't the only thing that's contagious. Flu A, Norovirus, RSV & Measles are all circulating at higher rates than we would like to see. Get vaccinated for what you can, stay home if you're sick (or wear masks if you can't), and wash your hands! Even if RFK says otherwise!
My parents gifted me my own mug and I love them for it!!! Glad they are a part of Team Resistance!
December 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Also as a reminder: courage isn't the only thing that's contagious. Flu A, Norovirus, RSV & Measles are all circulating at higher rates than we would like to see. Get vaccinated for what you can, stay home if you're sick (or wear masks if you can't), and wash your hands! Even if RFK says otherwise!
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The American right, including Jay Bhattacharya, is trying to weaponize free speech by crying censorship.
But freedom of speech isn't freedom of reach.
To fight back, scientific institutions should say that junk science is junk.
New post from me:
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But freedom of speech isn't freedom of reach.
To fight back, scientific institutions should say that junk science is junk.
New post from me:
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Saying bad ideas are bad isn't censorship
The core goal is a free and fair public debate, and billionaires promoting their favored speech tilts the free marketplace of ideas.
scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The American right, including Jay Bhattacharya, is trying to weaponize free speech by crying censorship.
But freedom of speech isn't freedom of reach.
To fight back, scientific institutions should say that junk science is junk.
New post from me:
1/
But freedom of speech isn't freedom of reach.
To fight back, scientific institutions should say that junk science is junk.
New post from me:
1/
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Without taking a position on the legal issues in this post—
I wrote on Tue about the broader strategy employed by the right on free speech: Insisting on maximal individual free speech, while rightwing billionaires tilt public debate by paying to elevate speech they like. Link in next post: 1/
I wrote on Tue about the broader strategy employed by the right on free speech: Insisting on maximal individual free speech, while rightwing billionaires tilt public debate by paying to elevate speech they like. Link in next post: 1/
NEW: A prominent free speech group helped right-wing dark money score a legal win against an Ohio school board and its anti-bullying policy, which protected transgender and nonbinary students.
www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...
www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...
How a Free Speech Group Helped Right-Wing Dark Money Undermine Protections for Trans and Nonbinary Students
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression weighed in on a case brought by Parents Defending Education in Ohio.
www.importantcontext.news
December 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Without taking a position on the legal issues in this post—
I wrote on Tue about the broader strategy employed by the right on free speech: Insisting on maximal individual free speech, while rightwing billionaires tilt public debate by paying to elevate speech they like. Link in next post: 1/
I wrote on Tue about the broader strategy employed by the right on free speech: Insisting on maximal individual free speech, while rightwing billionaires tilt public debate by paying to elevate speech they like. Link in next post: 1/
My parents gifted me my own mug and I love them for it!!! Glad they are a part of Team Resistance!
December 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
My parents gifted me my own mug and I love them for it!!! Glad they are a part of Team Resistance!
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Merry Christmas 🎄🧪! Here's a video I made of the predicted structure for the protein MERRYCHRISTMAS. I used AlphaFold to predict the structure and then colored the backbone (green), amino acids by index (rainbow), and noncovalent interactions (dotted lines). #sciart #science #MolBio
December 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Quiz time: what is the song Jingle Bells about?
a. Christmas
b. Street racing
c. A vehicle accident
d. Picking up women
a. Christmas
b. Street racing
c. A vehicle accident
d. Picking up women
December 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Quiz time: what is the song Jingle Bells about?
a. Christmas
b. Street racing
c. A vehicle accident
d. Picking up women
a. Christmas
b. Street racing
c. A vehicle accident
d. Picking up women
Here's hoping that the hearts of Jay Bhattacharya — and all other members of the Trump Administration — grow three sizes this Christmas.
December 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Here's hoping that the hearts of Jay Bhattacharya — and all other members of the Trump Administration — grow three sizes this Christmas.
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It's a whole genre it's beautiful
December 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
It's a whole genre it's beautiful
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📢 America’s Bravery Is Built From People Power
open.substack.com/pub/peoplepo...
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📢 America’s Bravery Is Built From People Power
America is brave because its people are. Why love, courage, and people power are essential to defeating corruption and defending democracy.
open.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
📢 America’s Bravery Is Built From People Power
open.substack.com/pub/peoplepo...
open.substack.com/pub/peoplepo...
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We live in the dumbest timeline.
It's like a story from the Old Testament.
www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
It's like a story from the Old Testament.
www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
20 more measles cases found in Rockland County, New York, as health leaders urge getting vaccinated
A spike in measles cases in Rockland County has New York health officials urging families to get vaccinated.
www.cbsnews.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
We live in the dumbest timeline.
It's like a story from the Old Testament.
www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
It's like a story from the Old Testament.
www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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billionaire: i have 3 brains. in my skull
interviewer: incredible
interviewer: incredible
December 20, 2025 at 4:33 AM
billionaire: i have 3 brains. in my skull
interviewer: incredible
interviewer: incredible
Is this fucking real?!? It's just a bunch of black pages.
Fuck these pedophiles and pedophile enablers.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
Fuck these pedophiles and pedophile enablers.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov
December 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Is this fucking real?!? It's just a bunch of black pages.
Fuck these pedophiles and pedophile enablers.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
Fuck these pedophiles and pedophile enablers.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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I don't know what to say about this garbage vote to criminalize gender affirming care btw. Been trying to find the words. I hear so many friends in sadness and fear today but of what use is "I hear you"? Not much I fear. To live through this moment sucks ass (negative). We must find a way through
December 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I don't know what to say about this garbage vote to criminalize gender affirming care btw. Been trying to find the words. I hear so many friends in sadness and fear today but of what use is "I hear you"? Not much I fear. To live through this moment sucks ass (negative). We must find a way through
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Refuse. Lose funding. Shut down. Seriously. Make them feel REAL consequences for constantly inserting themselves in other people's medical care. We keep minimizing and saving them from the consequences of their actions. It's why they keep on with this BS.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/h...
Kennedy, US health officials outline new rules, warnings to block transgender care for youth in the US | CNN
US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other health officials said Thursday that the federal government will block hospitals and doctors from providing transgender care to ch...
www.cnn.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Refuse. Lose funding. Shut down. Seriously. Make them feel REAL consequences for constantly inserting themselves in other people's medical care. We keep minimizing and saving them from the consequences of their actions. It's why they keep on with this BS.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/h...