Typically clear explainer from Jenn here on why embryo selection using polygenic scores to produce kids with certain traits simply won’t work 👇 This has obvious relevance to the claims of eugenicists that it’s possible to engineer future human societies. It really isn’t.

Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.

One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.

They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.

Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism"

"That theory has been debunked"

"One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence
"implications are profound"
New @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com/articles/s41...

This is at least six kinds of stupid.

You’re assuming any significant number of birds HAVE immunity (unlikely), that recovered birds recover in any salable way (dubious), that the long-term-sick birds don’t infect humans (improbable), AND that the virus doesn’t mutate (impossible). 🧪

Old and rare David Brooks banger

The last time RFK Jr gave advice about a measels outbreak, 83 people died, most of them children under age 5.
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Devastating www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

WATCH — @mrjamesob.bsky.social : “Nothing says something has proved successful like the person targeted by the campaign getting his friend the president to start selling cars.”

DOGE recommended firing workers at:

-FDA, which oversees Neuralink

-FAA, which oversees SpaceX

-USAID, which probed Starlink

-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.

"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

You can now access our latest work published in Behavioural Brain Research until February 22th:

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Meet Lizzy and Vicky, the Queens of the house. #caturday

As we've left Twitter, I'll promote the podcast here now.

2Ts in a Pod Episode 75: What If...?

This time on the podcast Katy and Tim explore some hypothetical scenarios and what they would do in them.

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As the daughter of two parents diagnosed with dementia - this is really encouraging news.
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Good public health is invisible. People tend not to notice the absence of disease.

Until people like RFK Jr start bringing it back.

My new piece

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Announcing a new open access textbook for entry level behavioral neuro. Funded by NSF. Written by a collection of 26 neuro experts. Method demonstration videos and author interviews too. Consider using it in your courses to reduce financial barriers to education.

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