Check out our review on plasma cells, led by Colin Fields! How these fascinating cells are formed can influence what they do, where they live, and how long they live to keep you immune.
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The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.
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.
False balance is not rigor. It isn’t unbiased reporting. If someone tells you it’s raining and someone else says it isn’t, journalists aren’t supposed to say “people disagree about whether or not it’s raining,” they’re supposed to look outside and find out for themselves.
I keep learning new ways maternal antibodies protect infants! The latest from @babiesresearch.bsky.social on protection against E. coli sepsis and new potential vaccine targets.
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The impact is already hitting science agencies hard. The NIH—the world's largest public biomedical research funder—has had to rely on leftover stopgap funds.
New grant awards have slowed to a trickle — exacerbating the effects of a record-long shutdown in October.
(h/t @jeremymberg.bsky.social)
This is essentially what governments did in the late 1900s and early 2000s with respect to Nazis. Whether you were a lowly concentration camp guard or in Hitler's inner circle, if there was evidence you were a Nazi, it was straight to jail with your walker.
It worked.
O'Hara refusing to step away from the scene is something to keep an eye on
ICE just gunned down ANOTHER person, beating a man half to death before shooting him at point blank range. What the fuck are we doing?
ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW.
I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.
idk why everyone’s so mad it sounds like tim asked him very nicely to stop murdering us in the street.
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
🚨 New from me: Grant review at more than half of NIH's institutes could be frozen by the end of the year.
That's because crucial NIH grant-review panels are slated to be empty at those institutes by Jan 2027.
A wonky bureaucratic problem with big implications.
A short 🧵
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
If you’re a grown ass man in full tactical gear asking a child to show you ID or proof of citizenship you failed at life. Utterly & completely failed. Loser.
There’s no point during the detention of a five-year-old that any person with a functioning moral center would not step back to reassess the situation and their place in it. That nobody involved did proves they lack the common interiority required to successfully coexist in ordered society.
I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally
A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child
This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
Likewise, Congressman Cole from Oklahoma is the chair of the overall House Appropriations committee.
If you can, reach out to his office as well.
It is noteworthy that OMB is willing to veto a bill over a minor-seeming NIH operational issue.
This makes me think this is part of a bigger plan...
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Did slashing multiple vaccines from the childhood vaccine schedule bring the US in line with other countries? In a word, no.
The US now recommends all kids be protected against fewer diseases than South Korea, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan & many more. www.statnews.com/2026/01/09/c...
I don't think it's true (or helpful) to say that Denmark recommends fewer vaccines because their healthcare system can treat the diseases better.
The trend is for countries to move to universal recommendations over time. Some countries do it much earlier than others.
MAHA
YEAR ONE MAHA
Now the big question is: Can NIH be trusted to review these applications in good faith?
The Challenged Directives were extremely vague to begin with — so what's to stop the agency from applying them under the table, especially with more influence from political appointees?
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When I first saw the headline for this op-ed, I was hoping it would tell me that the science and policy are catching up to meet the climate goals. But instead it argues for giving up on the goals themselves and ignores why the goals were set in the first place.
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