Jonathan Emerson Kohler, MD, MA, FACS, FAAP
@jemkohler.bsky.social
Prof of Pediatric Surgery @ UC Davis. Founder rxcreative.com. Co-Founder thepathprogram.org. Developing new and better ways to provide equitable healthcare to neurodiverse patients and kids in general. Doing my best to help fix stuff. Views my own, etc
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How could the United States save ~$184 billion per year on outpatient prescription medications?
Use international reference pricing
@pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Use international reference pricing
@pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
January 5, 2026 at 8:53 PM
How could the United States save ~$184 billion per year on outpatient prescription medications?
Use international reference pricing
@pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Use international reference pricing
@pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Pod on this coming Wednesday!
Congestion pricing has improved commute times, bus speeds, noise levels, traffic safety, and businesses and restaurants have seen more profits. A runway success by any measure. And a model for other cities too. Gift 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Congestion pricing after one year: How life has changed. (Gift Article)
How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Pod on this coming Wednesday!
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Fascinating study about substance use among #ActuallyAutistic people. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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January 5, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Fascinating study about substance use among #ActuallyAutistic people. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Pleased to be supporting @drpanmd.bsky.social and his congressional campaign. We need a good MD in the national discourse. Hosting a fundraiser in Davis in a few weeks. DM for details if interested!
December 31, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Pleased to be supporting @drpanmd.bsky.social and his congressional campaign. We need a good MD in the national discourse. Hosting a fundraiser in Davis in a few weeks. DM for details if interested!
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Good advice.
Your main feed has no algorithm other than who you follow, in chronological order.
We collectively shape timelines by reskeeting interesting posts. Alt text & inclusion is important here. You will be reskeeted & shown to more users if you use alt text.
Your main feed has no algorithm other than who you follow, in chronological order.
We collectively shape timelines by reskeeting interesting posts. Alt text & inclusion is important here. You will be reskeeted & shown to more users if you use alt text.
🦋 Welcome to Buesky! 🦋
It's long past time to leave the Nazi bar, and you'll have a much better time here. I updated this guide due to the influx of users fleeing Grok's new AI bullshit. Share widely for all the newcomers!
It's long past time to leave the Nazi bar, and you'll have a much better time here. I updated this guide due to the influx of users fleeing Grok's new AI bullshit. Share widely for all the newcomers!
December 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Good advice.
Your main feed has no algorithm other than who you follow, in chronological order.
We collectively shape timelines by reskeeting interesting posts. Alt text & inclusion is important here. You will be reskeeted & shown to more users if you use alt text.
Your main feed has no algorithm other than who you follow, in chronological order.
We collectively shape timelines by reskeeting interesting posts. Alt text & inclusion is important here. You will be reskeeted & shown to more users if you use alt text.
I was a student, journalist, and EMT at Brown. Heartbreaking and enraging to see them be the latest school shooting. The good people at @browndailyherald.bsky.social have better coverage than the NYT.
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Live updates: Active shooter at Brown University
Serving the Brown University community since 1891
www.browndailyherald.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I was a student, journalist, and EMT at Brown. Heartbreaking and enraging to see them be the latest school shooting. The good people at @browndailyherald.bsky.social have better coverage than the NYT.
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Boom times ahead for my liver transplant colleagues.
West Coast Health Alliance, and Leading National Medical Organizations Recommend Hepatitis B Vaccination for Newborns
Hepatitis B vaccinations for all infants at birth have reduced pediatric hepatitis B infections in the United States by 99 percent.
RFK Jr ended them.
doh.wa.gov/newsroom/wes...
Hepatitis B vaccinations for all infants at birth have reduced pediatric hepatitis B infections in the United States by 99 percent.
RFK Jr ended them.
doh.wa.gov/newsroom/wes...
West Coast Health Alliance, WA DOH, and Leading National Medical Organizations Continue to Recommend Hepatitis B Vaccination for Newborns
For immediate release: December 5, 2025 (25-145) Contact: DOH Communications
doh.wa.gov
December 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Boom times ahead for my liver transplant colleagues.
With grocery prices where they are, and SNAP benefits about to pause in the shutdown, I was glad to finally get around to setting up a monthly donation to my local food bank. yolofoodbank.org
Yolo Food Bank — Nourishing Yolo County
Yolo Food Bank coordinates the recovery, storage, and distribution of more than 11 million pounds of food annually. We collaborate with a network of grocers and retailers, farmers and distributors, th...
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October 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
With grocery prices where they are, and SNAP benefits about to pause in the shutdown, I was glad to finally get around to setting up a monthly donation to my local food bank. yolofoodbank.org
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Congratulations to Dr. Satyan Lakshminrusimh, our pediatrician-in-chief, who received the Virginia Apgar Award by the AAP. The award honors an individual whose career has had a sustained and profound influence on the welfare of newborn infants. 👶 health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlin...
October 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Congratulations to Dr. Satyan Lakshminrusimh, our pediatrician-in-chief, who received the Virginia Apgar Award by the AAP. The award honors an individual whose career has had a sustained and profound influence on the welfare of newborn infants. 👶 health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlin...
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
There's a lot to not like about the world right now. But the doorbell just rang with a same-day free prescription delivery from my locally owned pharmacy. Small miracles exist. All is not lost. davispharm.com
Davis Pharmacy – Your Partner in Health and Healing
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October 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
There's a lot to not like about the world right now. But the doorbell just rang with a same-day free prescription delivery from my locally owned pharmacy. Small miracles exist. All is not lost. davispharm.com
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Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
I made this 9 years ago. Only gets more true.
Nation Indivisible
YouTube video by Jonathan Kohler
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July 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I made this 9 years ago. Only gets more true.
This thread is absolutely right.
This is the core of it. In the 20th century, verification happened inside institutions.
Now, it has to happen in us.
A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵
Now, it has to happen in us.
A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵
Who should do the fact checks with millions and millions of fake news? The nature of social media itself is the problem. However it probably is impossible to get rid of every social network and revert debates to pre 2010-status.
June 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This thread is absolutely right.
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Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
June 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
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The bottom line with the proposed cuts to NSF is to cut the number of working scientists and disappear opportunities to train new scientists.
This is a PROPOSED budget to Congress. Call your reps.
This is a PROPOSED budget to Congress. Call your reps.
May 31, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The bottom line with the proposed cuts to NSF is to cut the number of working scientists and disappear opportunities to train new scientists.
This is a PROPOSED budget to Congress. Call your reps.
This is a PROPOSED budget to Congress. Call your reps.
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"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...
Go, Elon, and Never Darken Our Doors Again
The worst ultra-billionaire on Earth says he’s leaving government. Let’s hope he actually does it.
prospect.org
May 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...
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This. But for everything
Harvard correctly understands that it’s in a fight for its life and there is no appeasement that will save it. I wish a lot more institutions understood this.
Harvard was able to file a 72 page complaint less than 24 hours after Trump attacked foreign students. Guess they were expecting it
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
May 24, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This. But for everything
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China just pledged $500M to the WHO—filling the void left by the U.S. pullback. As Beijing expands its global health influence, America’s retreat signals a dangerous step back from leadership on the world stage.
So much for "Making America Great"
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
So much for "Making America Great"
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
China to donate $500 million to WHO, stepping into gap left by U.S.
Beijing will replace the United States as the organization’s top state donor, expanding its influence as the U.S. retreats from international cooperation.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:05 AM
China just pledged $500M to the WHO—filling the void left by the U.S. pullback. As Beijing expands its global health influence, America’s retreat signals a dangerous step back from leadership on the world stage.
So much for "Making America Great"
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
So much for "Making America Great"
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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I commented. You should too!
🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
May 22, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I commented. You should too!
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Inspired by his clinical work and personal experience as a parent of an autistic child, Dr. Jonathan Kohler shares how PATH uses tools like social stories, pre-registration, and personalized care environments to reduce anxiety and improve medical outcomes. pedspandemicnetwork.org/ready-prep-g...
The PATH Forward | Pediatric Pandemic Network
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May 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Inspired by his clinical work and personal experience as a parent of an autistic child, Dr. Jonathan Kohler shares how PATH uses tools like social stories, pre-registration, and personalized care environments to reduce anxiety and improve medical outcomes. pedspandemicnetwork.org/ready-prep-g...
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If you are concerned that RFK Jr.'s FDA chief Marty Makary is limiting the Novavax COVID booster to those over 65 or with underlying conditions, and may do the same for Pfizer/Moderna as well, consider leaving a comment as well.
If you are concerned that RFK Jr.'s FDA chief Marty Makary is limiting the Novavax COVID booster to those over 65 or with underlying conditions, and may do the same for Pfizer/Moderna as well, consider leaving a comment as well.
You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
May 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I just left a comment.
If you are concerned that RFK Jr.'s FDA chief Marty Makary is limiting the Novavax COVID booster to those over 65 or with underlying conditions, and may do the same for Pfizer/Moderna as well, consider leaving a comment as well.
If you are concerned that RFK Jr.'s FDA chief Marty Makary is limiting the Novavax COVID booster to those over 65 or with underlying conditions, and may do the same for Pfizer/Moderna as well, consider leaving a comment as well.
Autism care will be gutted by the new federal budget unless we make clear to our reps that that is not OK. New by me in the @sacbee.com www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...
RFK Jr.’s proposed budget cuts threaten autism care in Northern California | Opinion
“People with autism don’t need a cause or a cure. They need basic supports and accommodations that allow them to be happy and healthy.”
www.sacbee.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Autism care will be gutted by the new federal budget unless we make clear to our reps that that is not OK. New by me in the @sacbee.com www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...
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Marco Buscaglia is the freelancer who admitted to using AI to complete the job in this report by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for @404media.co.
While Buscaglia is right to be embarrassed, I think this is more a story about structural sloppification than about the ethics of a single journalist.
While Buscaglia is right to be embarrassed, I think this is more a story about structural sloppification than about the ethics of a single journalist.
Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist
"I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses," the writer said. "I'm completely embarrassed."
www.404media.co
May 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Marco Buscaglia is the freelancer who admitted to using AI to complete the job in this report by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for @404media.co.
While Buscaglia is right to be embarrassed, I think this is more a story about structural sloppification than about the ethics of a single journalist.
While Buscaglia is right to be embarrassed, I think this is more a story about structural sloppification than about the ethics of a single journalist.