We Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-Trumpification The damage he and his cronies have wrought could take decades to repair, particularly when it comes to science and public health.

The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Kitsch

The puzzle of human development by Rowan University Rowan University biologist, Natasha Shylo studies human development and asymmetry.

I suppose it's better late than never to mention that this September I started an Assistant Professor position at Rowan University @rowancsm.bsky.social. We will be doing cool work with chameleons 🦎 to understand early development, especially left-right patterning view.rowan.edu/the-human-pu...

Study highlights long-term neurologic impacts of Nipah infection A systematic review and meta-analysis finds residual neurologic effects in 45% of Nipah encephalitis survivors and 24% of those who had Nipah virus infection.

Study highlights long-term neurologic impacts of #Nipah infection www.cidrap.umn.edu/nipah/study-...

A likeness of Stevie Ray Vaughan on a car decorated by art students from Regan high school in #HTX Car is afixed with shiny beads and other baubles. It was an art project #Teaching. Go #teachers - you rock.

Houston Art Car parade

A likeness of Stevie Ray Vaughan on a car decorated by art students from Regan high school in #HTown Car is afixed with shiny beads and other baubles. It was an art project #Teaching. Go teachers - you rock.

This was definitely the best art car today.

Here's my niece's art club car.

Houston Art Car Parade - so fun.

Houston Art Car Parade

It’s Art Car Parade Day in Houston!

Upper Peninsula?

#Caturday

(NO, it’s not AI)

Holy Sea!

Do you want to listen to the RFK Jr podcast or should we just toss a spoon in the garbage disposal for half an hour

Regression Modeling Strategies 4-day virtual course May 14-15, 18-19. More than regression:principled flexible modeling, accuracy, interpretation, selection, stability, validation, Bayes, contrast w/ML &more. hbiostat.org/course @amstatnews.bsky.social @instats.bsky.social #Statistics #StatsSky

RNA binding as an emerging regulatory dimension in the type I IFN response Iselin et al. explore how the type I IFN response regulates RNA-binding activity using RNA-interactome capture and extend the RIC protocol to assess the role of phosphorylation in this process. Focusi...

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Trump is a titanic fuck up.

Rains in hell

Reign

As a pediatric resident in 2001 I saw an unvaccinated todler die of Hib meningitis/sepsis-- by far the worst death I've ever seen as a physician. I remember the senior pediatric attendings telling me how glad there were it was all but gone. I remember this child when I fight against antivaxxers.

Unforgivable. RFK, Jr. needs to be Nuremberg'd along with the rest of Trump's criminal regime.

Septic arthritis

A deadly bacterial disease is returning, doctors warn, as vaccination rates fall Hib once killed 1,000 children a year, permanently disabling many more. Doctors who've never seen the disease say the comeback is changing the way they practice medicine.

“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.”

-Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University

This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.

Blueberry muffins

Screenshot from our lesson on geometric layers, showing two examples of a timeline (with made-up data just for showcasing): first as overlapping areas – via geom_area(position = "identity") – and one with relative share by simply using position = "fill" instead.

For today's #30DayChartChallenge #Day1 "Part-to-Whole", I'm not sharing a polished #dataviz but a lesser-known #ggplot2 trick 🧙‍♀️

Turn your area chart into a timeline of relative shares by changing the position argument to "fill" 🤙

Example from our "gpgplot2 uncharted" course: ggplot2-uncharted.com

Two common misconceptions when repurposing data for #causalinference:
1) the target trial is an ideal trial
2) the target trial protocol can be prespecified

Our new paper examines how the target trial protocol depends on the causal question AND the available data.

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Ministers explore triggering break clause in Palantirs NHS contract.

Ministers are reportedly exploring how to cancel dangerous spy-tech firm Palantir's contract to handle NHS data after over 150k people joined me in calling on them to break the contract.

Join us - together we can kick out Palantir out of our NHS:

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Can’t ask how the sun shines if you don’t know about fusion

A grey rock that has a beautiful fossil trilobite. The rock is rough, but the trilobite sections are smooth. One of the main features is a compound eye, made of of many lenses.

The beautiful preservstion of trilobite compound eyes will never cease to amaze me. On this little 400ish million year old Phacops you can see all the little lenses - each one a rigid calcite mineral crystal! Together they had excellent 360° vision, perfect for finding lunch on the seafloor.

Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List

Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u... uplifting story meant to brighten your day

Trump Administration Begins Investigations Into Three Medical Schools

Trump Administration Begins Investigations Into Three Medical Schools www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/u... “let’s destroy the US”