this has to be an april fool's joke and the time zones are off... right? please??

VaxImpactMap: Costs of Declining Childhood Vaccination Explore VaxImpactMap, an interactive tool that projects the real-world consequences of reduced vaccine coverage.

Sharing this cool tool developed by a team at Emory that projects the real-world consequences of reduced vaccine coverage for three vaccine preventable diseases: Rotavirus, Pertussis (Whooping Cough), and Pneumococcal Disease.

US Laws Restricting Medical Care for Transgender Minors This Special Communication analyzes US legislation seeking to prohibit gender-affirming medical care for transgender and gender-diverse minors to determine the extent to which such legislation contain...

One thing re: bans on gender-affirming care is that for all the hand-wringing about procedural expense, capacity, and physical safety, these bans explicitly allow and encourage similar procedures to be used without consent on intersex kids. We wrote about this:

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"For people with heart disease, the flu vaccine should be presented not merely as protection against a respiratory illness, but as a proven cardiovascular intervention to reduce heart attacks and strokes."

Bald guy in a hand-knit sweater smiles at the camera holding two early voting stickers

Today is the start of early voting! It’s an absolutely gorgeous fall morning. I voted for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and got TWO stickers. Best possible way to start my day.

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

🎶Turn the AI off TURN THE AI OFF🎶

Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...

Even though it's crisis #192308 in our current time, I don't think it's sufficiently sunk in with ppl in the academic community that getting federal funding for your research will primarily depend on whether Trump political appointees find you and your work useful
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bald man in clear glasses and a green shirt smiles at the camera. he is wearing a CPAP mask that covers his nose and mouth, with a connector for the hose (not pictured) at the top of his head.

Congrats and welcome to the club!! Wishing you many nights of restful sleep.

hailey @hailey.at • 6h an unfortunate irony about this post - and even if you are the staunchest anti-ai critic out there, i think you'd agree - is that some of the most bigoted things are being said to respond to this. copy/pasting phrasing and terminology used by bigots but replacing "dna" with "bits" doesn't make it ok 4J @dystopiabreaker.xyz • 3d i'm completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron 89 $ 107 90 企 hailey @hailey.at • 6h if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that

*takes massive bong rip*

Logo reading "Beyond X&Y" where the X and Y are part of the trans symbol. Beneath it reads "Trust the real science. Biology is nonbinary."

It's the scientific community's duty to fight misinformation, bioessentialism, and eugenics

That's why we're launching Beyond X&Y, an educational campaign combating the rise of unscientific political propaganda used to attack trans and intersex people

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Hey now, that’s insulting to cocksuckers!

Emergency Department Survey of Vaccination Knowledge... This report describes an emergency department (ED) survey of vaccine knowledge, self-reported vaccination status, and willingness to receive vaccines if offered in an ED.

CDC does good work including MMWR

Extreme heat puts Philadelphia’s aging population at risk An extreme June heat wave that prompted a heat health emergency declaration killed five people in the city and had been made four times more likely by climate change, according to Climate Central.

"Heat is the number one weather-related cause of death of Americans, according to the EPA and the National Weather Service.
Exposure to extreme heat over time can increase health risks and is associated with a disproportionate increased risk of cognitive decline among Black and low-income people."

Gotta love it when an agency head says, "that's just not happening", and entire agency staff says, "uhhh... wtf dude?"

🧪 NIH PIs: here's a call to action from a Bethesda Declaration signer of how you can help!

every dumpling in its soul is antifascist

Everyone should know what an overdose looks like. Feel free to share:

Congratulations, Dr. Carr!!!!

I’ve been having REALLY vivid dreams on my latest insomnia medication.

Last night I dreamt that I won a scavenger hunt and the prizes were all crayon boxes so I chose a Barbie-branded box that had a built-in stapler(????) in addition to the crayon sharpener.

Sleeping but at what cost!!

How did New Yorkers rank their mayoral candidates? The data is in. Gothamist analyzes New York City Board of Elections data on how voters ranked candidates on their ballots last month.

“No-Cuomo voters made up 70% of fully completed ballots.” ✊✊✊ gothamist.com/news/how-did...

Stacked bar chart showing how major of a problem people believe delays and denials are. Results shown by total adults and insurance coverage. The chart shows that large majorities across insurance types view delays and denials of health care by insurance companies as a major problem.

NEW: About three-quarters of the public view insurers’ delays and denials of health care as a “major problem,” including similar shares across types of insurers.

Our poll examines the public’s views and experiences with prior authorization requirements: on.kff.org/3GT9dZA

The attribution of human health outcomes to climate change: transdisciplinary practical guidance - Climatic Change For over 30 years, detection and attribution (D&A) studies have informed key conclusions in international and national assessments of climate science, providing compelling evidence for the reality and...

New workshop paper out today with 60 of our closest friends, providing guidance on how to design a study attributing health impacts to climate change. Hopefully this helps expand the field and start closing the representation gaps we discuss in our forthcoming work link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The only thing to understand about the pronoun thing is that just because something is outside of your lived experience doesn’t mean it’s not real or the person telling you is mistaken or you are being inconvenienced

Oh belated update to this BTW! It’s just the PDF tab on the right of the query page (the third tab on the right in the image). You do have to go file-by-file, but you get to see both text-selected and area-selected content.

Screenshot of old lady gaga tweet saying “I can’t stop crying. We did it kids.”

[redacted] going home on love island is the win I needed today

Absolutely baffling! I’m so curious what the peer reviews (if any) said about the manuscript.

or are they just comparing straight up numbers of births for those who were or were not vaccinated during pregnancy, like this is a glorified t-test? trying to parse their methods section is giving me a headache and that feels intentional lol

“Successful conceptions” is such a deceptive phrasing because that implies it’s in comparison to “unsuccessful conceptions”, but it seems like they’re just comparing live births to those who didn’t give birth (regardless of whether they were wanting/trying to get pregnant)?

Yes, this is bad for porn.

But porn famously has no clear legal definition. As such:

This is a direct path to censoring anything the GOP wants to censor and can argue is “adult” - info on birth control, queer identity, anything about trans people or gender diversity or safe sex or HIV or drag or

This energy immediately reeked of “my child(ren) went no-contact”