Audrey Brumback
@audreybrumback.bsky.social
I’m a pediatric neurologist and neuroscientist specializing in neurodevelopmental disorders and neurodiversity.
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Clinicians have to explain to desperate parents the few knowns and the many unknowns about autism’s development. With the federal government now giving advice that doctors dispute, some families wonder whom they should believe.
A Furious Debate Over Autism’s Causes Leaves Parents Grasping for Answers
The Trump administration’s embrace of unproven or debunked theories about vaccines and Tylenol has left doctors fielding questions from worried parents.
nyti.ms
October 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Clinicians have to explain to desperate parents the few knowns and the many unknowns about autism’s development. With the federal government now giving advice that doctors dispute, some families wonder whom they should believe.
A Revived Focus on an Unproven Link Between Tylenol and Autism
"Studies over the last decade of acetaminophen use in pregnancy — including a recent scientific review — have yielded mixed results but have not found a causal connection." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/h...
"Studies over the last decade of acetaminophen use in pregnancy — including a recent scientific review — have yielded mixed results but have not found a causal connection." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/h...
A Revived Focus on an Unproven Link Between Tylenol and Autism
Studies over the last decade of acetaminophen use in pregnancy — including a recent scientific review — have yielded mixed results but have not found a causal connection.
www.nytimes.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
A Revived Focus on an Unproven Link Between Tylenol and Autism
"Studies over the last decade of acetaminophen use in pregnancy — including a recent scientific review — have yielded mixed results but have not found a causal connection." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/h...
"Studies over the last decade of acetaminophen use in pregnancy — including a recent scientific review — have yielded mixed results but have not found a causal connection." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/h...
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Great news! The Baltimore Museum of Art is taking “Amy Sherald: American Sublime,” which was originally scheduled to take place at the National Portrait Gallery. artbma.org/exhibition/a...
September 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Great news! The Baltimore Museum of Art is taking “Amy Sherald: American Sublime,” which was originally scheduled to take place at the National Portrait Gallery. artbma.org/exhibition/a...
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For the Pritzker fans (like me), this is a great speech he made:
August 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM
For the Pritzker fans (like me), this is a great speech he made:
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Today we gathered to honor Officer David Rose. He was a man of quiet integrity. He loved food, motorcycles, and most of all, his family.
He answered the call. Our call. And gave his life to protect the community he served
We will be forever grateful. Rest in peace.
www.11alive.com/article/news...
He answered the call. Our call. And gave his life to protect the community he served
We will be forever grateful. Rest in peace.
www.11alive.com/article/news...
Loved ones, fellow officers pay tribute to fallen DeKalb Police Officer David Rose
Family, friends, and fellow officers gathered at First Baptist Church in Atlanta on Friday morning, honoring Rose, who was killed by the gunman who shot at the CDC.
www.11alive.com
August 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Today we gathered to honor Officer David Rose. He was a man of quiet integrity. He loved food, motorcycles, and most of all, his family.
He answered the call. Our call. And gave his life to protect the community he served
We will be forever grateful. Rest in peace.
www.11alive.com/article/news...
He answered the call. Our call. And gave his life to protect the community he served
We will be forever grateful. Rest in peace.
www.11alive.com/article/news...
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In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.
The 504 Protests and the Black Panther Party – Disability Social History Project
disabilityhistory.org
August 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.
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As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview.
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
August 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview.
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
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🧵1/8
In the wake of Friday's shooting, we're all asking:
What happens now? How can we be safe?
Our union, AFGE Local 2883, released a powerful letter addressing these concerns. It's worth a full read:
📄 www.afge2883ga.org/post/in-soli...
In the wake of Friday's shooting, we're all asking:
What happens now? How can we be safe?
Our union, AFGE Local 2883, released a powerful letter addressing these concerns. It's worth a full read:
📄 www.afge2883ga.org/post/in-soli...
In solidarity after the CDC Roybal Shooting
To our CDC colleagues, We are heartbroken and outraged by the traumatic violence that unfolded yesterday afternoon at CDC’s Roybal Campus, in which DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose was killed i...
www.afge2883ga.org
August 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
🧵1/8
In the wake of Friday's shooting, we're all asking:
What happens now? How can we be safe?
Our union, AFGE Local 2883, released a powerful letter addressing these concerns. It's worth a full read:
📄 www.afge2883ga.org/post/in-soli...
In the wake of Friday's shooting, we're all asking:
What happens now? How can we be safe?
Our union, AFGE Local 2883, released a powerful letter addressing these concerns. It's worth a full read:
📄 www.afge2883ga.org/post/in-soli...
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RFK Jr. knows the consequences of his rhetoric.
“Mr. Kennedy has previously called the C.D.C. a “cesspool of corruption,” and a fascist enterprise. He accused C.D.C. employees of covering up vaccine harms to children, comparing it to the Catholic Church’s coverup of child sex abuse.”
Gift link.
“Mr. Kennedy has previously called the C.D.C. a “cesspool of corruption,” and a fascist enterprise. He accused C.D.C. employees of covering up vaccine harms to children, comparing it to the Catholic Church’s coverup of child sex abuse.”
Gift link.
Gunman in Deadly C.D.C. Shooting Fixated on Covid Vaccine, Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
August 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
RFK Jr. knows the consequences of his rhetoric.
“Mr. Kennedy has previously called the C.D.C. a “cesspool of corruption,” and a fascist enterprise. He accused C.D.C. employees of covering up vaccine harms to children, comparing it to the Catholic Church’s coverup of child sex abuse.”
Gift link.
“Mr. Kennedy has previously called the C.D.C. a “cesspool of corruption,” and a fascist enterprise. He accused C.D.C. employees of covering up vaccine harms to children, comparing it to the Catholic Church’s coverup of child sex abuse.”
Gift link.
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Science is effectively dead in the US for at least the next 3½ years, and will then take another several years to even get started again. Canceled research doesn’t just uncancel itself, and scientists who find opportunity elsewhere won’t just come flocking back.
The damage is generational.
The damage is generational.
All scientific grant funding must now be approved by a political appointee and "demonstrably advance the President's policy priorities."
I wonder where innovation will happen in the future? It won't be in the US
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
I wonder where innovation will happen in the future? It won't be in the US
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
New executive order puts all grants under political control
All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants.
arstechnica.com
August 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Science is effectively dead in the US for at least the next 3½ years, and will then take another several years to even get started again. Canceled research doesn’t just uncancel itself, and scientists who find opportunity elsewhere won’t just come flocking back.
The damage is generational.
The damage is generational.
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as the chronically insightful @tressiemcphd.bsky.social said on @samsanders.bsky.social's show, "boots on the ground" is the people's song of the summer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQxQ...
803Fresh - Boots On The Ground (Official Music Video) "Where Them Fans At?"
YouTube video by 803Fresh
www.youtube.com
August 6, 2025 at 11:06 AM
as the chronically insightful @tressiemcphd.bsky.social said on @samsanders.bsky.social's show, "boots on the ground" is the people's song of the summer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQxQ...
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Africa’s children need continued access to lifesaving vaccines. In Devex, President @jmkikwete makes the case for fully funding @gavi – and explains why the world can’t afford to fall short. www.devex.com/news/opinion...
Opinion: I fail to see the rationale for not supporting Gavi
As a former head of an African state, I am acutely aware that falling short on funding Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance means children in Africa will die. I urge the world to continue supporting this initia...
www.devex.com
August 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Africa’s children need continued access to lifesaving vaccines. In Devex, President @jmkikwete makes the case for fully funding @gavi – and explains why the world can’t afford to fall short. www.devex.com/news/opinion...
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Mary K Gaillard, a theorist who had a knack for telling experimental physicists where to look, died in her home on May 23 at 86.
Dr. Gaillard was an unpaid scientist at CERN for more than a decade, & the first woman physicist hired & tenured at Berkeley:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...
Dr. Gaillard was an unpaid scientist at CERN for more than a decade, & the first woman physicist hired & tenured at Berkeley:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...
Mary K. Gaillard, 86, Physicist Who Probed the Subatomic Universe, Dies
www.nytimes.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Mary K Gaillard, a theorist who had a knack for telling experimental physicists where to look, died in her home on May 23 at 86.
Dr. Gaillard was an unpaid scientist at CERN for more than a decade, & the first woman physicist hired & tenured at Berkeley:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...
Dr. Gaillard was an unpaid scientist at CERN for more than a decade, & the first woman physicist hired & tenured at Berkeley:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...
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Always share this cartoon when I see it 🩺
July 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Always share this cartoon when I see it 🩺
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When you strip away humanity
July 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
When you strip away humanity
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Still seeing *wayyyyy* too many scientists trying to keep their heads down and stay out of the fray.
1. This isn’t going away!
2. Science *IS* political!
3. It’s not too late to step up and take action!
4. You’ll feel so much better if you take action w/ others!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
1. This isn’t going away!
2. Science *IS* political!
3. It’s not too late to step up and take action!
4. You’ll feel so much better if you take action w/ others!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Still seeing *wayyyyy* too many scientists trying to keep their heads down and stay out of the fray.
1. This isn’t going away!
2. Science *IS* political!
3. It’s not too late to step up and take action!
4. You’ll feel so much better if you take action w/ others!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
1. This isn’t going away!
2. Science *IS* political!
3. It’s not too late to step up and take action!
4. You’ll feel so much better if you take action w/ others!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
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45-year-old Venus Williams becomes the oldest woman since Martina Navratilova to win a singles match apnews.com/article/venu...
July 23, 2025 at 2:11 AM
45-year-old Venus Williams becomes the oldest woman since Martina Navratilova to win a singles match apnews.com/article/venu...
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Mildred Cohn was born 112 years ago today. In the middle of the 20th century she pioneered the use of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to probe the chemical processes governing the storage and release of energy in ATP. Here is her story!
tinyurl.com/3xn9hhs2
#WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #HistSci 🧪
tinyurl.com/3xn9hhs2
#WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #HistSci 🧪
From ATP to MRI: Mildred Cohn's Pioneering Work in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
ATP is the stuff of life. Without it, cell communication shuts down, muscles freeze, and anything requiring ready energy (which is to say, darn near everything) stops. For biologists, it's a critica...
tinyurl.com
July 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Mildred Cohn was born 112 years ago today. In the middle of the 20th century she pioneered the use of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to probe the chemical processes governing the storage and release of energy in ATP. Here is her story!
tinyurl.com/3xn9hhs2
#WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #HistSci 🧪
tinyurl.com/3xn9hhs2
#WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #HistSci 🧪
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I made a book, a very tiny book.
On vintage paper with watercolour illustrations and a nonsense verse.
If anyone wants to publish it for me I would be overjoyed. This is just a rough to see how it works out
On vintage paper with watercolour illustrations and a nonsense verse.
If anyone wants to publish it for me I would be overjoyed. This is just a rough to see how it works out
July 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I made a book, a very tiny book.
On vintage paper with watercolour illustrations and a nonsense verse.
If anyone wants to publish it for me I would be overjoyed. This is just a rough to see how it works out
On vintage paper with watercolour illustrations and a nonsense verse.
If anyone wants to publish it for me I would be overjoyed. This is just a rough to see how it works out
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Kennedy provides a bunch of references for his claim that thimerosal in vaccines (barely used anymore) is harmful.
If a high-school student submitted this as their reference list, they would fail.
I will do what Kennedy didn’t - actually look at them. 🧵
If a high-school student submitted this as their reference list, they would fail.
I will do what Kennedy didn’t - actually look at them. 🧵
June 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Kennedy provides a bunch of references for his claim that thimerosal in vaccines (barely used anymore) is harmful.
If a high-school student submitted this as their reference list, they would fail.
I will do what Kennedy didn’t - actually look at them. 🧵
If a high-school student submitted this as their reference list, they would fail.
I will do what Kennedy didn’t - actually look at them. 🧵
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Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
June 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
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In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.
Iran
Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television, you'll discover the splendid monuments of...
www.ricksteves.com
June 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.
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Neuroscience research and training has taken a $323 million hit in the form of grants rescinded by the U.S. NIH, according to an analysis by @thetransmitter.bsky.social.
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/nih-...
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/nih-...
NIH cuts quash $323 million for neuroscience research and training
“I am frightened for the state of the future of our field if this isn't reversed rapidly,” says Joshua Gordon, professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and former director of the National…
www.thetransmitter.org
June 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Neuroscience research and training has taken a $323 million hit in the form of grants rescinded by the U.S. NIH, according to an analysis by @thetransmitter.bsky.social.
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/nih-...
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/nih-...
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FYI: The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is trying to get more info on the impact of recent research grant terminations.
If your award has been canceled since Jan 20, you can fill out this survey: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela...
If your award has been canceled since Jan 20, you can fill out this survey: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela...
June 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
FYI: The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is trying to get more info on the impact of recent research grant terminations.
If your award has been canceled since Jan 20, you can fill out this survey: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela...
If your award has been canceled since Jan 20, you can fill out this survey: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela...
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On this date in 1967, the Supreme Court legalized interracial marriage nationwide. Mildred & Richard Loving got married right here in DC. #LovingDay
June 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
On this date in 1967, the Supreme Court legalized interracial marriage nationwide. Mildred & Richard Loving got married right here in DC. #LovingDay