Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

We do not have a free country in this moment. When they can nab someone off the street because they don't like what they say, they can nab anyone.

Come hear MPEC investigators share their research at #CROI2025 ! We have several posters during today’s session at 2:30pm PST. @caitlindugdale.bsky.social @anneneilan.bsky.social @andreaciaranello.bsky.social @iddocjen.bsky.social @mgh-id.bsky.social

Exclusive: U.S. CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.

That didn't take anytime at all. What a waste. Defunding cancer research, health disparities research, gebe therapy and real vaccine research to waste the valuable time of scientists to study debunked conspiracies.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration

“Thinking about the event in the U.S. capital started about a month ago, when five scientists, nearly all of them graduate and Ph.D. students, bonded on Bluesky over their concerns about the impact of Trump’s executive orders on science.” 🧪

A photograph of protesters holding up signs at the stand up for science protest in Boston

#standupforscience

Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.


https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

In ‘Stand Up For Science,’ researchers aim to get loud and push back - The Boston Globe Inspired by the 2017 March for Science that drew millions, organizers are planning rallies in Washington D.C., Boston and other state capitals.

BOSTON #StandUpForScience Friday March 7 at the State House, starting at noon, according to this @bostonglobe.com report 👇🧪
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/20/m...

Dieses Gefühl, wenn man täglich mit den Konsequenzen der Trump Regierung konfrontiert wird, und dann in der Bundestagswahl nicht mitwählen kann, weil die Briefwahl-Unterlagen nicht ankommen...

Environment more crucial than genes in risk of early death, study suggests Analysis of UK BioBank data shows importance of factors including living conditions and smoking, say experts

Environmental factors, or the "exposome", are about 10X more important than genes in explaining why some people have a higher risk of an early death than others, research has suggested.
🧪 #medsky

Link to open access study below.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and Their Children* Abstract. This paper examines the impact of denying a wanted abortion on women and children in Colombia using high-quality administrative microdata and cre

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and their Children,” by Londoño-Vélez (@jlondonovelez.bsky.social) and Saravia: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Snakebite envenoming at MSF: A decade of clinical challenges and antivenom access issues The medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides medical care in more than 70 countries and admits more than 7000 cases o…

Happy #YearOfTheSnake, hopefully an auspicious year for #snakebite, a neglected disease, to get the attention it deserves. 🐍 #NTDs
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It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.

Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.

Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

This week, amidst a broader purge of LGTBQ-mentioning materials from federal health sites, NIAID deleted its HIV Language Guide, an important reference on destigmatizing, people-first terminology. But it's still a public domain document, so we reposted it on TheBody:

www.thebody.com/hiv/niaid-hi...

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring. Researchers facing "a lot uncertainty, fear and panic," by @meredithwadman.bsky.social, Jocelyn Kaiser www.science.org/content/arti... via @science.org @monscience.bsky.social

A screenshot of the Die Zeit website. It is a photo of Musk in black and white doing the Hitler “seig heil” salute - but the actual salute is blocked out by blue material on the left hand side of the photo. The headline is underneath.

A paper that understands its responsibility, in a country that knows it when it sees it.

Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was.

Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”

screengrab of Die Zeit story on Elon Musk

Die Zeit, a prominent German publication, titles its article: 'A Hitler salute is a Hitler salute is a Hitler salute.'

Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.

WITHDRAWING THE UNITED STATES FROM THE WORLDHEALTH ORGANIZATION – The White House WITHDRAWING THE UNITED STATES FROM THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the

Trump unlawfully issues an executive order to withdraw the U.S. from the WHO. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The U.S. first joined back in 1948 through a joint resolution from Congress. Presidents may not leave without the "express approval" of Congress. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Cervical Cancer Mortality Among US Women Younger Than 25 Years This study examines trends in cervical cancer mortality in US women aged younger than 25 years before and after the introduction of human papillomavirus vaccines.

Ugh, RFK Jr made it clear he has HPV vaccination in his sights

A new study finds "a steep decline in cervical cancer mortality" in US women under 25 from 2016-2021

"This cohort of women is the first to be widely protected against cervical cancer by HPV vaccines"

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Das ZEW hat ausgerechnet, welche Einkommensgruppen von den Wahlprogrammen der Parteien jeweils am stärksten profitieren: www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

Help spread the word. The @minnpop.bsky.social is a great place to work. @popassocamerica.bsky.social @iaphs.bsky.social #Demography #PublicHealth #Sociology

Want to better understand the growing anti-science and anti-public health movement? These books can help! 2025 promises to be a tough year for the fight against disinformation, anti-science, anti-vaccine and anti-public health. Thankfully, American physicians and scientists have published books that can h...

2025 will be a tough year for the fight against disinformation, anti-science, anti-vaccine and anti-public health

These books can help prepare us

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Just a reminder for Germans abroad that you need to re-register to vote in the Federal Election, even if you didn't move houses since 2021 (yes, I'm a political scientist and had to google this). Here are the docs you need: www.bundeswahlleiterin.de/bundestagswa.... (1)

**New working paper**

How does the under-representation of females in Economics affect the career trajectory of female Ph.D. students?

Sahar Parsa and I look at this in a new working paper by exploring sabbatical leaves taken by female professors at top-50 US Econ departments.

Armut ist einer der Hauptrisikofaktoren für psychische Störungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter aber auch über die gesamte Lebensspanne. Kinderarmut zu bekämpfen ist damit auch eine enorm wichtige und wirksame präventive Maßnahme für die psychische Gesundheit der Gesamtbevölkerung.

A right wing car maker who bought a media outlet in order to amplify antisemitic conspiracy theories is advocating for a far right German party that promises to expel a disfavored minority? You don’t say.