This is one of the most important photos I’ve ever seen clearly this dog needs to be most valuable player of the week for the conference 😉

Certainly, all of you are welcome to enjoy women’s college sports… But I understand why you aren’t quite nearly as invested this particular girl dad

Apologies to all of the non-parents and non-lacrosse-parents to whom this evening I explained the intricacies of both conference & NCAA bracketology as we head into the last week of college women’s lacrosse conference play. I really can’t think about much else at the moment.

Gold standard science am I right?

Just finished up one of those evenings when you’re surrounded by people who share your desire to make the world a better place for (military) children, and in spite of [waves hands at the universe] am feeling really good about things.

Fill your cup, recharge your batteries, we have work to do.

💯

Not surprised in retrospect… but I was today years old when I learned that the very first influenza vaccine was specifically developed by the US Army for use and troops because it was such a problem for force health.

Civilian vaccination came later.

archive.cdc.gov/www_cdc_gov/...

Actual influenza infection is awful. Many people conflate the flu and other seasonal respiratory virus “colds”- definitely not the same

Frontiers | The US Military Commitment to Vaccine Development: A Century of Successes and Challenges The US military has been a leading proponent of vaccine development since its founding. General George Washington ordered the entire American army to be vari...

There is a reason why US military has been at the forefront of vaccine development. It comes from lessons learned in misery and woe, death and mission failure.

A pre-COVID / operation warp speed article on the topic
www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

“…But when you allow that neglect to pull back on the very control measures that are enabling that success, you're going to see a resurgence”

“It's really easy to forget what it means to live through an outbreak, an epidemic, to face a public health crisis….”
hillemanfilm.com/resources/fi...

Whether it’s preventing hospitalization, lost school/work/duty days, or limiting transmission to others, the flu vaccine is something I will continue recommending as both an individual and force health protection measure.

Even an imperfect flu vaccine offers demonstrable benefit.

Opens Google Translate….

“Precisely!!!!”
- me

Wisdom as an academic comes with experience & age. It looks like: not arguing indefinitely with co-authors over semantics and wordsmith-ing when you will just have the same arguments with the peer reviewers so you might as well save your energy for that.

Oooof

A row of five hanging baskets, full of purple flowers are lined up along a wooden floor in a hallway

All the hanging baskets inside tonight 💪

We’ll see similar results in kids.

“…growing body of evidence that seasonal COVID vaccination can play a role in reducing disease burden & associated costs, and it highlights the value of increasing vaccination coverage at a time when US public health leaders have downplayed its importance”

a man with a beard and long white hair is holding a sphere in his hand . Alt: Saruman from lord of the rings, a man with a beard and long white hair is holding his right hand above a sphere glowing inside with smoke and flames .

Peter Thiel doses ketamine and begins dictating his stream of consciousness screed into an AI prompt that converts it into Saruman speech.

Oh….

Mine as well!

Iris cristata. A small clump of a plant- deep green lancet shaped leaves studded with purplish blue, 6 petal’ed flowers with a central white dot.

Foxglove. A plant with numerous broad leaves low to the ground has two vertical stems shooting up laden with flower buds that have pink flowers starting to peek out. A single flower- tubular shaped is already open. Woodland phlox, a delicate plant with soft pink flowers, can be seen in the foreground, and Iris cristata, both blue and white in the background

A jack in the pulpit plant, a vertical picture shaped flower with central white stamen is beginning to show its characteristic vertical purple striping inside the leaf flower. The “pulpit” of the flower is shaded by a three loved leaf. A yellow Celandine poppy flower can be seen in the upper left corner of the image, dropping into view of the foreground

Good morning! I hope your morning is off to a great start. Please enjoy a view from my curbside wildflower garden.

I hope you enjoy watching this bumble bee at least half as much as she enjoyed this creeping phlox

Tough but fair

🤷‍♂️

Trying so so hard to keep it together

Also…. Why does the Secretary of HHS need a six person security detail walking through wha looks like a government building.

TMZ doing the lord’s work:

A very excited, oldest amazing daughter, a lacrosse player wearing a white uniform with red lettering is holding a trophy and taking a selfie with her very excited dad

It works!!!!