And obviously, it is not true that vaccines cause people to become any flavor of neurodivergent. But, these conspiracy theories does come with the underlying message that a dead child is better than an autistic one.
Exactly
My thoughts exactly
A fucking vacuum
Dear Company I Ordered From Online:
This is not cat litter.
The new ACIP charter includes liaison memberships for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Physicians for Informed Consent, and the Independent Medical Alliance.
None of these are expert societies and all of them have a history of disseminating antivaccine propaganda.
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“Acting CDC director delayed release of study showing benefit of Covid vaccines”
“An HHS spokesperson said Dr. Jay Bhattacharya had concerns about the paper’s methodology.”
(.. or about the paper’s (strong) conclusion that the vaccine protected against severe disease)
2/3. There are often questions about why we spend money studying these kinds of things. There are many answers to those questions, but one important one is that we never know where those discoveries will lead. Sometimes they lead us to create things like what is allowing you to read this.
While we're celebrating space things, let me direct you to one of my favorite Golden Goose Awards. One of the reasons we have supercomputers now (that run the internet we enjoy) is because scientists needed more powerful computers to study black holes. 1/3
www.goldengooseaward.org/01awardees/b...
Cohort study of 615k+ vaccinated & ~2.3M unvaccinated males ages 9-26 finds males vaccinated w/ 9-valent-HPV vaccine had lower risk of HPV-related cancer vs. the unvaxxed cohort. The negative assoc. of the 9v-HPV vax w/ HPV-related cancer was found in males ages 9-14 as well as 15-26.🛟😷
Some good news! Another win for vaccines! 💉💪
Heard a talk by @alondra.bsky.social about a year ago and I was similarly impressed. Can’t agree more with the rec to check out her work: absolutely someone to amplify
My latest piece argues that as LLMs commodify routine cognitive tasks like data manipulation & text-drafting, a surprising implications emerges: namely that a traditional liberal arts education is what provides the skills that will be most valued in this era: www.noemamag.com/why-a-libera....
NASA's comms team is a reminder of the value of science communications.
It's not just the mission, but how the science is made visible & shared openly through multimedia
Without storytelling, even the most extraordinary achievements wouldn't get the attention they deserve
“The crew described a field of stars surrounding a darkened moon, and identified Mars from its reddish hue as well as an orangy Saturn. Earth also glimmered bright. Mr. Wiseman and Mr. Hansen reported flashes of light on the lunar surface - meteor strikes in real time - which made Dr. Young rise from her seat. As the sun emerged on the other side of the moon, the astronauts likened the growing spot of light on the lunar horizon to a flame, and the wispy streams of its outer atmosphere to baby hair. After a while, words just couldn't suffice. "No matter how long we look at this, our brains are not processing," said Mr. Wiseman said, who jokingly requested that mission control send him a list of new words to expand his vocabulary.”
“Science is oftn viewed as colorless &objtve, to be conducted w/little emotion or expression.But as the Artemis II crew members painted lunar hills, valleys&plains in the minds of listenrs back home,they provided a model for a poignant approach to scientific inquiry”🧪
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/s...
"Based on your results, we assume this comes as a great relief to you. The bridge trolling field requires little formal education, none whatsoever to be precise. If you are reading this letter at school, you may leave at any moment and head straight for the nearest bridge."
A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.
It's National Public Health Week! 🎉
Public health in the US has roots going back to 1799, built on the belief that communities deserve protection from preventable disease. That mission hasn't changed, even when federal priorities do.
What does public health mean to YOU right now? Let's talk…
AND! If you're not good at one or more, the best thing about being human is that we can teach each other and work together. You don't have to go through the universe alone. All of humanity can be with you, if we let each other.
Do science. Read poems. Do art. Sing. Do mathematics. Do it all because you're a complete human person and they are all a part of you, an indefeasible patrimony, an incredible gift.
Thank you for taking down Dan Hurley
are we back in medieval times cause everything sure is mid and evil illustration of a goblin on a snail
🎨 @wizardofbarge.bsky.social
For more information (by NIH institute or center or NSF by Directorate), go to
grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
5/5
A line grant of the cumulative numbers of new grant awards for NIH from fiscal years 2021-2026. The curve for fiscal year 2026 lies below the other curves.
New awards
These are still lagging well below the curves for other years.
3/5
A line grant of the cumulative numbers of awards for NSF from fiscal years 2021-2026. The curve for fiscal year 2026 lies below well the other curves.
NSF update
Still looking very bleak.
4/5
Wow. They hated the grant I submitted THAT much?
I made a pledge not to leave my office until I finished this week's tasks (reviewing, reading, writing).
Now I am wondering if I have enough food to last me until next Wednesday...
Excerpt from article interview of Paul Offit where he describes an interaction from 2005nwuth RFK Jr. "He made me a bad guy" Offit told The Philadelphi a Citizen last fall. "But I honestly don't think anybody is going to kill me. I certainly don't think they'll give me a heads-up first. They just want me to shut up." "And," he added, “fuck them."
@pauloffit.bsky.social is a total badass
"Jobs will still exist even with AI" is something that's easy to say for a labor economist
It's less easy to say as a kid who grew up watching his town get fucked by deindustrialization and who took on debt to go to university to avoid working a non-union assembly line job with bad knees at 50
