ACOG Continues Recommending COVID-19 Vaccine During Pregnancy This JAMA Medical News article discusses updated guidance on COVID-19 vaccination in pregnant people from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

⚠️DEFYING RFK Jr’s CDC—The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) reaffirmed its support for COVID-19 vaccination in pregnant women, breaking from flawed advice in the most recent CDC immunization schedule set by RFK Jr.
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Trump Administration Cuts Put Medical Progress at Risk, Researchers Say Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. A planned $4 billion cut would leave colleges with large budget gaps.

🧪“I think the American people need to understand how devastating it would be if this goes through. A lot of research would just have to stop; I can’t imagine that the shortfall could be met from other sources.”
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Great explainer for those not familiar with what indirect costs actually mean and do, in scientific research.
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A skull and mandible of the fossil cat Proailurus lemanensis, viewed from the left side. The skull is somewhat broken and is missing much of the top of the snout and around the eyes, but the teeth and braincase are intact. The mandible is very well-preserved and looks almost like it came from a recent skeleton.

Where do cats even come from? Despite their unearthly cuteness, not outer space!

Cats belong to a family of carnivorous mammals called Felidae. The oldest know fossil cats belong to the genus Proailurus, which means "before cat." This specimen is about 20 million years old

#CaturdayCatFacts ⚒️🧪

Plasma proteomic evidence for increased β-amyloid pathology after SARS-CoV-2 infection - Nature Medicine Blood biomarkers in a middle-aged population suggest that SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with greater brain β-amyloid plaque accumulation.

Blood biomarkers in a middle-aged population suggest that SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with greater brain β-amyloid plaque accumulation. The findings published in Nature Medicine suggest that SARS-CoV-2 may increase the risk of future Alzheimer’s disease. #Medsky 🧪

Really enjoyed this piece. I spent two week in the hospital being treated with IV antibiotics because of BC surgery infection, I couldn’t pronounce. Either they didn’t work or I had a reaction to them.
Eight months of dealing with the wounds. Happy to think there’s something on the horizon.

Oyster 'Blood' May Be the Secret Weapon in Our Fight Against Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs, Study Finds In lab experiments, a protein found in the Sydney rock oyster made some antibiotics more effective and killed several types of illness-causing bacteria

Protein in oyster blood counters #antibiotic resistance. #infection🧪

“The protein killed Streptococcus pneumoniae … and Streptococcus pyogenes. When paired up with antibiotics, the protein also helped improve effectiveness against other bacteria.”
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Organic ligands in whale excrement support iron availability and reduce copper toxicity to the surface ocean - Communications Earth & Environment Whales transform prey biomass into labile micronutrients and inject them directly into the surface ocean, according to chemical analyses of whale excrement samples from the Southern Ocean.

🌊🐋 Whale Poop: The Ocean’s Micronutrient Booster?

Organic ligands in whale feces help keep iron available & reduce copper toxicity in the ocean.

By recycling nutrients, whales support marine ecosystems, something industrial whaling disrupted by 90%

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

#SciComm 🧪

Direct link to repositories:

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Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab

“Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov.”

🧪 #Archives #OpenData #OpenSciencelil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...e/

Are Pollinator Shortages Limiting Crop Yields? - Seed World The analysis indicates that one-third to two-thirds of farms are underperforming because of a lack of pollinators, a condition known as pollinator limitation. This finding is particularly significant ...

Global pollinator loss is now limiting yields of pollinator-dependent crops such as fruits and vegetables. Reform of harmful agricultural practices is urgently needed to preserve a nutritious food supply.
www.seedworld.com/us/2024/08/2...

The referenced Nature study is behind a paywall.
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Special Issue: Government Updates & Health 2/8/25 Today, I am writing a special issue of my newsletter summarizing most of the actions from the Trump administration this week, including important changes at the NIH, the Treasury, USAID and other US g...

✨Please share! Special newsletter on US govt changes this week on:
USAID
FBI
CIA
DEI
Treasury
Dept Education
Gaza, "Riviera of the Middle East"
FAA
NOAA
NIH grants
HHS payments
Layoffs
Censorship incl NSF Forbidden Words
& Medicine's response
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#medsky #IDsky 🛟🧪😷

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RIP American medical science?

One hopes this is hyperbole, but the danger is very real.

#biomedical #science #US #Trump 🧪

strict abortion laws in Texas medical students are facing significant limitations in their training regarding women's healthcare, particularly in areas like abortion care meaning they are not receiving comprehensive education on how to properly care for women in various reproductive health situation

The United States by virtue of a bipartisan commitment to biomedical research created one of the most vibrant, productive research ecosytems in the world. People came from all over to study here, do research here. It was a monumental accomplishment by both parties. 1/

Trump administration to cut billions in medical research funding National Institutes of Health said the $4bn loss will affect ‘indirect’ funding of buildings, equipment and staff

“America’s competitors will relish this self-inflicted wound. We urge NIH leaders to rescind this dangerous policy before its harms are felt by Americans.” 🧪

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I'm trying to understand non-surgical chemo and targeted therapy options, new pathology markers to better diagnose subtypes, and any data on progression in pediatric patients. Please feel free to share – I’m trying to cast a wide net due to the rarity of this condition and how little is known.

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’ An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

"Continued access to any payment systems by DOGE members, even ‘read only,’ likely poses the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
From a Treasury threat intelligence dept email www.wired.com/story/treasu...

Dr. Oz Shouldn't Be a Senator--or a Doctor His brand of misinformation has already tarnished medicine. In the halls of Congress, he’d do much worse

Fuck DR. OZ, and this absolute shit show of a cabinet. If the left was appointing TV personalities with zero qualifications to head these departments, the right would be burning it all down. Yet they want to claim they’re great picks and what US needs. 🖕🏻
www.scientificamerican.com/article/dr-o...

🧵Things that I didn’t know before, but have learned since 24th of February 2022:

1. The allegedly invincible russia has lost a whole lot of wars by shear incompetence looking back in history.
2. Tankies are far right authoritarian putinists.

FYI: It's possible to both support President Biden AND RIDE HIS ASS to engage. The two are not mutually exclusive.

Ron is correct. If you are terrified of the man you are supposed to be aggressively covering, retire. That television slot can be taken by someone with a spine.

Oh god no.

and you should see her other tweets. : )

Text of speech by Rep. Jim McGovern: McGovern: What the hell is going on here? And their cabinet picks so far? These are like beyond insane. Someone who paid hush money to cover up a sexual assault accusation, you know, to lead our military? Someone who says that tap water turns kids gay.

More of this energy please!

Great to work with the team from nightly news @nbcnews.bsky.social on distilling down the main points on the ongoing E. Coli outbreak across carrot distributors nationwide.

Hope you’ll give it a view!

#publichealth #medsky

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