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Neuroscientist & long-time academic | Once an NIH Program Officer (until I wasn’t) | Standing up for science, justice & truth
WTF???
This is the most narcissistic, petty display ever.
It’s so obvious Trump is unwell, but what I don’t get is how this is allowed to happen to the people’s house. He’s a temporary occupant. He doesn’t own the joint.
It’s so obvious Trump is unwell, but what I don’t get is how this is allowed to happen to the people’s house. He’s a temporary occupant. He doesn’t own the joint.
December 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
WTF???
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I miss when CDC guidance and medical org guidelines mostly lined up.
You know—because they were all following the same thing: evidence.
Now, CDC guidelines being signed off by our acting director, Jim O’Neill: not a scientist, doesn’t get science, and doesn’t care.
You know—because they were all following the same thing: evidence.
Now, CDC guidelines being signed off by our acting director, Jim O’Neill: not a scientist, doesn’t get science, and doesn’t care.
Maternity hospitals will now play a significant role in whether babies will universally be vaccinated against hepatitis B at birth. But many of the largest ones won’t say how they are responding to a controversial change in federal guidance. www.healthbeat.org/2025/12/18/h... #medsky #publichealth
Newborn hepatitis B vaccine: Will hospitals follow new guidance?
Healthbeat asked 10 of the nation's largest maternity hospitals and systems that deliver the most babies about their policies for giving hepatitis B vaccines at birth and whether they are changing. Mo...
www.healthbeat.org
December 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I miss when CDC guidance and medical org guidelines mostly lined up.
You know—because they were all following the same thing: evidence.
Now, CDC guidelines being signed off by our acting director, Jim O’Neill: not a scientist, doesn’t get science, and doesn’t care.
You know—because they were all following the same thing: evidence.
Now, CDC guidelines being signed off by our acting director, Jim O’Neill: not a scientist, doesn’t get science, and doesn’t care.
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Maria Shriver, niece of JFK:
He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial.
C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.
He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial.
C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.
December 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Maria Shriver, niece of JFK:
He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial.
C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.
He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial.
C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.
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Just to be clear. It’s the John F Kennedy center legally.
Just like it’s still the department of defense
Just like it’s still the department of defense
December 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Just to be clear. It’s the John F Kennedy center legally.
Just like it’s still the department of defense
Just like it’s still the department of defense
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Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Diminished T cell immunity during aging can have profound effects on responses to vaccines, cancer immunotherapy and infection. This article describes a unique way to enhance T cell immunity in mice, which could someday be translated to humans. #Science 🧪
Transient hepatic reconstitution of trophic factors enhances aged immunity - Nature
Using lipid nanoparticle delivery of mRNAs to the liver in aged mice, T cell function and declining immune cues can be restored.
www.nature.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Diminished T cell immunity during aging can have profound effects on responses to vaccines, cancer immunotherapy and infection. This article describes a unique way to enhance T cell immunity in mice, which could someday be translated to humans. #Science 🧪
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1/ Medspas are everywhere right now, but a recent NYC investigation found serious health and safety violations at multiple locations. As we head into the holidays, here’s what to know about medspas along with the rest of this week’s New York #publichealth news 👇
December 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
1/ Medspas are everywhere right now, but a recent NYC investigation found serious health and safety violations at multiple locations. As we head into the holidays, here’s what to know about medspas along with the rest of this week’s New York #publichealth news 👇
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Didn't get what they wanted.
December 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Didn't get what they wanted.
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NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead.
Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
projects.propublica.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead.
Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
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EXCLUSIVE: the Working Families Party is putting out a recruitment call for people opposed to data centers in their communities to run for local office
the recruitment effort comes just 2 days after Bernie Sanders called for a moratorium on data center construction
the recruitment effort comes just 2 days after Bernie Sanders called for a moratorium on data center construction
Opposed to Data Centers? The Working Families Party Wants You to Run for Office
The influential progressive third party announced Thursday that it was putting out a recruitment call for candidates specifically opposed to data centers.
www.wired.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
EXCLUSIVE: the Working Families Party is putting out a recruitment call for people opposed to data centers in their communities to run for local office
the recruitment effort comes just 2 days after Bernie Sanders called for a moratorium on data center construction
the recruitment effort comes just 2 days after Bernie Sanders called for a moratorium on data center construction
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To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
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ICE is refusing to provide emergency medical care to people in their custody.
We're demanding a federal judge intervene so our clients can get the lifesaving care they need.
We're demanding a federal judge intervene so our clients can get the lifesaving care they need.
'I am afraid that I might die here': ICE detainee fears 'imminent death' without lifesaving care, lawyers say
In an emergency motion, attorneys asked a federal judge to order ICE to immediately provide lifesaving medical care to two detainees held at the California City Detention Facility.
www.latimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
ICE is refusing to provide emergency medical care to people in their custody.
We're demanding a federal judge intervene so our clients can get the lifesaving care they need.
We're demanding a federal judge intervene so our clients can get the lifesaving care they need.
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One thing about @standupforscience.bsky.social: we are *going* to get our message across.
December 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
One thing about @standupforscience.bsky.social: we are *going* to get our message across.
No words……
So, the mic was snatched out of my hand when he was responding and I was able to say anything else.
BUT I’m working on a full response to his patronizing answer.
Bless his heart for thinking he could patronize me on record and get away with it 🤣😈
BUT I’m working on a full response to his patronizing answer.
Bless his heart for thinking he could patronize me on record and get away with it 🤣😈
We gave Jay Bhattacharya an opportunity to clarify his vaccine stance: does he REALLY believe that the vaccine is worse than the disease? Instead, he launched into a defense of MAHA as the future of scientific inquiry, and never really gave us a straight answer...
@repauchincloss.bsky.social
@repauchincloss.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
No words……
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This year has been a doozy for science...
I started @standupforscience.bsky.social on Feb 8th with a post here on @bsky.app...we have been VERY busy since then.
Let me show you what we have done this year!!!
Chip in to keep up the momentum, here: act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...
I started @standupforscience.bsky.social on Feb 8th with a post here on @bsky.app...we have been VERY busy since then.
Let me show you what we have done this year!!!
Chip in to keep up the momentum, here: act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...
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December 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
This year has been a doozy for science...
I started @standupforscience.bsky.social on Feb 8th with a post here on @bsky.app...we have been VERY busy since then.
Let me show you what we have done this year!!!
Chip in to keep up the momentum, here: act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...
I started @standupforscience.bsky.social on Feb 8th with a post here on @bsky.app...we have been VERY busy since then.
Let me show you what we have done this year!!!
Chip in to keep up the momentum, here: act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...
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Jeanne Marrazzo, the former head of the U.S. NIAID, has sued the federal government, which fired her on 26 September.
Her suit claims it did so in retaliation for a whistleblower complaint she filed against the Trump administration. https://scim.ag/48HUI5X
Her suit claims it did so in retaliation for a whistleblower complaint she filed against the Trump administration. https://scim.ag/48HUI5X
Fired NIH institute head sues Trump administration
Jeanne Marrazzo says she lost her job because she spoke out against risky public-health policies
www.science.org
December 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Jeanne Marrazzo, the former head of the U.S. NIAID, has sued the federal government, which fired her on 26 September.
Her suit claims it did so in retaliation for a whistleblower complaint she filed against the Trump administration. https://scim.ag/48HUI5X
Her suit claims it did so in retaliation for a whistleblower complaint she filed against the Trump administration. https://scim.ag/48HUI5X
How many more families like this do we not know about? We must do better.
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She was a school counselor for a decade. Now, her family of 5 is homeless. — USA TODAY
Most Americans are one crisis away from homelessness. Nika Jamison and her family in Charlotte, North Carolina are living that reality.
apple.news
December 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
How many more families like this do we not know about? We must do better.
apple.news/AiN3fW92VRKi...
apple.news/AiN3fW92VRKi...
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watching regular people who have to stand behind Trump while he speak is captivating
this poor guy
this poor guy
December 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
watching regular people who have to stand behind Trump while he speak is captivating
this poor guy
this poor guy
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My quote of the day
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin
December 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
My quote of the day
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin
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Couldn't agree more. All of these proposals are constitutional, reasonable, and vital. (1/2)
December 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Couldn't agree more. All of these proposals are constitutional, reasonable, and vital. (1/2)
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