Congratulations to Bijan Teja @utoronto.ca #idccm #anesthesiology on his #phd!!

Today is World Polio Day. #polio eradication worldwide is the goal. On Roosevelt island is a crumbling smallpox hospital -a disease we don’t worry about due to #vaccination. Keep #vaccinating!

Opinion | The Waste Musk Created

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Women’s prize for fiction goes to debut novelist Yael van der Wouden’s The Safekeep Nonfiction award goes to Rachel Clarke’s ‘ beautiful and compassionate’ The Story of a Heart, about a lifesaving transplant seen from all sides

Congratulations to Dr Rachel Clarke @doctoroxford.com for winning the UK women’s prize for non-fiction for her book about heart transplants!

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Atul Gawande on Instagram: "“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false. So far, 190,000 children and 90,000 adults have died due to the dismantling of USAID (even assuming... 9 likes, 0 comments - atul.gawande on May 24, 2025: "“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false. So far, 190,000 children and 90,000 adults have died due to the dismantlin...

“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false. Credible estimates count 190K deaths so far.

In Kenya, I am seeing devastating impact, incl this child's starvation & many deaths directly caused by Rubio’s actions. More in my @msnbc.com clip. www.instagram.com/atul.gawande...

Thanks to the New York Society Library for their support!

Join me at the NYSL in discussion with Pulitzer Prize winner David Oshinsky for a discussion of my book, The Autumn Ghost. Now out in paperback!

#teslatakedown #nyc
Explain it to younger generations and take them along! #genalpha

'Polio, bad': Bill Nye the Science Guy rebukes RFK Jr. over vaccine views Bill Nye critiqued HHS chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his views on science and vaccines at a STAT event in New York.

‘Polio, bad’: Bill Nye the Science Guy rebukes RFK Jr. over vaccine views www.statnews.com/2025/03/21/b... via @statnews.com

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

The idiots accidentally texted war plans to a journalist and others in a text chain. When do the firings start? #Resist
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We've been tracking unlawful NIH grant terminations for 3 weeks. Spread the word👇!

Fellow PIs: what can you do upon termination?
✅ Email PO + document questions
✅ Submit FOIA
✅ Advocate to your OCG/OSP for appeal + litigation
✅ Consider outside litigation
✅ Donate to state AGs + legal orgs

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‘Colossally Wasteful’: Trump’s Cuts Imperil Medical Research at Columbia Dozens of medical and scientific studies are ending or at risk of ending, leaving researchers scrambling to find alternative funding.

Colossally wasteful is right. This is devastating for medical research and will destroy generations of researchers.
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Think about this and please make sure to "repost" it so that everybody understands what's really going on.

Don't just "like" it -- "repost" it -- this is important!

#standupforscience2025
#boston

Oh hey, lookie here RFK Jr—the “CDC estimates that influenza #vaccination prevented 📌9.8 million influenza-related illnesses, 📌4.8 million medical visits, 📌120,000 influenza-related hospitalizations, & 📌7,900 influenza-related deaths” in 2023-2024.

➡️Maybe don’t block flu vaccine production? 🙏

This is catastrophic for US public health…so many people are protected by timely planning and rollout of the flu vaccine each year.

☀️☀️☀️ NEW WEBSITE IS UP! ☀️☀️☀️

www.standupforscience2025.org

Read about us, our policy goals, and ways to get involved. This website will also continue to grow as we do, so keep an eye on it!

Senate Confirms Kennedy as Health Secretary The vote capped a remarkable rise for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was confirmed by a Republican Senate in a chamber where his father and uncles once served as Democrats.

A very very dark day for public health in the US, and because our world is so interconnected, for public health worldwide.
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NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, sending shockwaves through science The NIH said Friday night that it would slash support for indirect costs on all existing and future grants to 15%

“This is a blatant attempt to gut the universities and health research that have saved so many lives and given economic opportunity to so many people.” @iwashyna.bsky.social on impact of new NIh order to cut research indirect costs. www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/n...

NIH funded researchers and all who care: This is an excellent call script that you can adapt to your own situation and send to your family and friends to call their reps.

Spotlight on the Shortlist: The Autumn Ghost by @hwunsch.bsky.social. Published by Greystone Books. Join us as we celebrate the best science writing in Canada today! Free to attend, reserve your spot today! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-lane-a...

Why We Need to Remember the Physical Effects of Polio A doctor and professor explains how we have forgotten the contagious and painful symptoms of Polio.

We must continue to tell the stories of polio survivors. Reducing uptake of the polio vaccine will have devastating consequences for the entire world.
@rotaryclubs.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social @endpolionow.bsky.social

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Excited to be a finalist at the Lane Anderson Award Ceremony for the best science writing in Canada on the evening of Wed, Jan 29. The event (at the North York Central Library in Toronto) is open to the public. Please come join me if you are in Toronto and free!
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Yes - It seems like a lack of knowledge about it is the issue - I’d never heard of it!

I recommend a viewing of Casablanca at the start of every year. So good every time.
Happy 2025!

No wonder we're in shock . . .

Such a pleasure to talk writing, careers (and polio) with #clinepi students at #UofT

Thanks for the shout out! Unfortunate to see polio in the headlines like this!

Great thread on polio! And gives me the opportunity to plug @hwunsch.bsky.social’s excellent book, The Autumn Ghost, on how the Copenhagen #polio epidemic of 1952 shaped modern #ICU!

I spent Thanksgiving week reading The Autumn Ghost by @hwunsch.bsky.social and, oh man, what a great book. I knew the outlines of how the Danish polio epidemic led to mass hand-ventilation and on to ventilators but so much more. Thanks @chriscarrollmd.bsky.social (I think) for the rec too.