Bear down!!

🐥If this Senate hearing with Bobby "The Quack" Jr pissed you off, send a message: Quack-O-Gram delivery begins on 9/15🐥

🐥 $3. Man in a duck suit. Rubber duck with "impeach the quack" message to YOUR Rep🐥

Link: www.standupforscience.net/quack-o-grams
#ImpeachTheQuack
@standupforscience.bsky.social

Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq

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Out of the terrible destruction of the Manhattan Project came a decades-long partnership between the federal government and universities, attracting talent from around the world, to do good--the NIH, NSF all are a product of that era, now being destroyed by Donald Trump and Russell Vought.

The CDC Shooting is a Dark Sign for Science and America An infectious diseases physician explains why the horrific shooting at the CDC should alarm all Americans.

I trained at Emory & worked at the CDC. Friday, those same halls became a crime scene.

“A shooting targeted institutions whose mission is to prevent illness, save lives, and advance knowledge.” 

This is a dark warning sign for science and America.

time.com/7308980/cdc-shooting-dark-sign-america

Getting our Science on at #ASMicrobe

Only you can save Birmingham’s medical rainforest: op-ed from UAB researcher he fuel that propels Academic Health Centers like UAB comes, in large part, from NIH funding.

www.al.com/politics/202... “Academic Health Centers are like tropical rainforests: They take decades to develop and weeks to destroy.”

Happy 123rd Birthday, Dr. Barbara McClintock!

Thank you to the #scientists participating in the nationwide #SciComm initiative, #McClintockLettters, that is in her honor.

We are speaking to our local hometown communities about the value of federally funded research, and the impactful work we do.

Graduate Students Push Back Against Science Funding Cuts Hundreds of graduate students are writing to their hometown newspapers to defend their research, as the Trump administration drastically reduces science funding.

Honored to be featured in this @nytimes.com article yesterday about the McClintock Letters initiative! Op-eds from scientists across the country are going out in their hometown newspapers over the next couple of weeks, keep an eye out for one near you. tinyurl.com/nytmcclintock
#SciComm #McClintock

Stand Up For Science Summer Campaign! Can you help us mobilize the fight for science and democracy? Every contribution matters!

🚨HEY DORKS, WE NEED YOUR HELP🚨

We preparing for a BIG fight against Trump's attack on science and we won't stop until we win!

We are grassroots and run on donations. Whether it's $5 or $500, every little bit counts in the fight to save science.
#standupforscience

actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

Happy to share our latest paper looking at HDV US epidemiology is now available.

So glad you are here!

I have been saying this since the CDC website started going dark. We will see a loss of scientific talent in this country.

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Laboratory Testing of Oropouche Virus ASM and APHL jointly developed a FAQ document for clinical laboratories on testing of oropouche virus.

Oropouche virus (OROV) is an arbovirus transmitted by midges and mosquitoes. OROV overlaps with many other pathogens, posing a challenge for diagnosis. Get answers to your questions! Read the ASM-APHL FAQ document on testing of OROV: buff.ly/3F7XVza
#ASMClinMicro #microbiology #publichealth

This is crazy!

LA is holding a Stand Up For Science solidarity event! Join us to amplify our voices and our values at the Federal Building in Westwood at the corner of Wilshire and Veteran at 12 PM! If you’re looking for an event in your city, see standupforscience2025.org/local-events/

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

This was my first thought when the CDC website started going dark. We are going see a loss of talent in this country and it will only hurt us as a nation.

It was his Susan Collins moment.

Yellow background. Different CDC websites that have been removed. Some are in black and white. Others are purple or red and green.

✨PLEASE SHARE! CDC GUIDELINE ARCHIVES✨

▶️STI GUIDELINES
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▶️Others from @jessicavalenti.bsky.social
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#medsky #pedsky #IDsky 🛟🧪