Child: I know your name. Mamdani.

Obama: What’s his first name?

Child: Mayor.

📣GREAT NEWS📣 Just spoke to Hill champions: your hundreds of calls & emails are making such a difference, they've extended deadline for Senator sign-on to #FundLongCOVID Dear Colleague letter to MONDAY APRIL 20 10am ET! More @lccampaign.bsky.social details incoming, senators now signed: 1/x

The richest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of stocks.

The richest 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks.

It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.

Healthcare is a right.

You shouldn’t have to earn it.

It shouldn’t be dependent on employment or economic status.

It shouldn’t be something you have to fight for.

It shouldn’t be something that leaves you in debt for life.

Universal healthcare saves lives.

SARS-CoV-2 infection heightens the risk of developing HPV-related carcinoma in situ and cancer - Discover Oncology Objective This study aims to investigate the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on HPV-related cancer and carcinoma in situ. Method We utilized data from TriNetX, a database encompassing 106 healthcare or...

"SARS-CoV-2 infection heightens the risk of developing HPV-related carcinoma in situ and cancer"

#COVID19

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Just a reminder that if you are a scientist wondering how you can communicate the value of federally-funded scientific research outside of your bubble, @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social is here to help you pitch and publish in your hometown newspaper
sciencehomecoming.com

Scicomm matters now more than ever!

Returning from a trip to rural USA, realizing the messages so familiar to is are not getting out - both in terms of 1) disruptions to US science and 2) healthcare misinformation.

Efforts like @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social matter! /1

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Long COVID is significantly underreported across the globe - The Sick Times Long COVID, which has affected more than 400 million people around the world, is often underreported, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

The Sick Times: 'Long COVID is significantly underreported across the globe'

Written by Jamie Ducharme

'Researchers and advocates are trying to change that.'

thesicktimes.org/2026/04/14/l...

For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩‍🚀🚀💕

*All four astronauts went to public schools!

Hot off the press! Read our report, 'Safer shared air - a critical accessibility and inclusion issue' online here 📖 https://buff.ly/40Wgb7v

#CleanAir #InclusionMatters #SaferSharedAir #SaferAirProject

Portable air filter purchasing guide — The Safer Air Project Portable air filters, like HEPA filters, can improve indoor air quality by removing viruses, allergens, and other harmful particles from the air we breathe. This purchasing guide can help you choose t...

If you're considering buying one, we've put together a portable air filter purchasing guide to help you choose the right one for your space.

www.saferairproject.com/resources/po...

#Bushfires #AirQuality #HEPA

Why CEOs should treat office air quality like a financial KPI COMMENT Smart Space’s Dan Drogman on a financial risk hiding in plain sight

When air is unsafe, people with chronic illness, disability or immunocompromise are excluded first, from offices, meetings, events and everyday participation.
If the accessibility case isn’t enough, perhaps the economics will be.

Read more here: www.estatesgazette.co.uk/news/why-ceo...

🚨 The NSW Parliament’s Clean indoor air inquiry webcast is live!

The hearings have started, and at 1:30pm you can hear our founder, Plum Stone and others for a deep dive into indoor air quality as a critical accessibility and inclusion issue.

Webcast: www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/Pages/webcas...

Trump has turned Title X upside down: from a contraception program into a pro-natalist machine | Moira Donegan First the administration sought to defund Title X. Now it’s reimagining what it stands for

I wrote about the Trump administration’s transformation of Title X, the federal contraception program, which has been reimagined as a pro-natalist initiative. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Also, if you don't think there's an ableism problem on the left, you need to make friends with more disabled people.

Graham Platner claims he's changed. Why is he still using the r-word? The left have their own ableism problems to grapple with, not just Republicans.

Using the r-word is just bad. Democrats should have higher standards for themselves than Trump when it comes to using a slur that MANY disabled people find offensive. Looking at you, Graham Platner. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Remember states vary with how easy it is to vote by mail, vote absentee, and/or early vote.

PSA: If you're organizing a conference in the US, please don't hold it on Election Day, especially if people have to travel from across the country to attend.

Election Day should be a national holiday. We should take all the steps we can to make it easier for people to vote.

Back to the Dark Ages Christina (Makenzie Morgan Gomez), a former Broadway dancer and marathoner becomes disabled by Long COVID. One morning she accidentally summons the ghost of Wilhelmina the Philanderer (Mary von Aue), a woman who died begging her medieval village to take the Black Death seriously. Writer + Director: Anna Pakman

Strangely Optimistic Nina chugs pickle juice, sings encouraging songs from the floor, and leans on her loyal dog as she develops Long COVID during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her witless telehealth doctor advises her to exercise more, get a hobby, consider her hormones, talk to someone — oh, and did he mention exercise more? Writer + Director: Nina Storey

The 13th annual Easterseals Disability Film Challenge features two new short dramedy films about #LongCOVID. Read more from @heatherhogan.bsky.social and check them out on YouTube! bit.ly/4catlBT

The CDC has delayed the publication of a report showing that the Covid vaccine significantly reduced the likelihood of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter.

This is a clear example of putting politics over science at the cost of lives.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/h...

So many people in the US are struggling to access healthcare due to the cost.

Recent polling showed "About one-third (36%) of adults say that in the past 12 months they have skipped or postponed getting health care they needed because of the cost."

www.kff.org/health-costs...

Long COVID associated with higher risk of heart disease As the number of people living with long COVID continues to grow, understanding its broader health consequences will be essential.

The Conversation: 'Long COVID associated with higher risk of heart disease'

theconversation.com/long-covid-a...

There is more that Congressmembers can do than just tweet.

Cc @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

Chopping science means progress stops. Time to write home about the value of American science. Science Homecoming has resources on our website. Encourage your colleagues to pencil up ✏️

Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request to Congress

I am shocked to see this language from the NSF.

“The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”

AACR Calls on Congress to Once Again Summarily Reject the President’s Budget Proposal for NIH The AACR is calling on Congress to stand up in unified opposition to the President’s FY 2027 budget request for the NIH.

The AACR called on Congress to stand up in bipartisan opposition to the Administration's proposed cut of nearly $6 billion to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget. Americans overwhelmingly support increased federal investment in biomedical research: buff.ly/9L622rz #FundNIH

NIH would get $5 billion cut under Trump’s 2027 budget, but Congress unlikely to go along The White House is asking Congress to cut $5 billion from the National Institutes of Health and downsize the number of institutes and centers from 27 to 22

STAT story on the President's NIH budget request

www.statnews.com/2026/04/03/t...

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Priorities.

More people requesting ‘unvaccinated’ blood for themselves or their children

According to a new study, more patients who need transfusions are requesting blood from unvaccinated donors. Wow.

Wearing a mask is such a simple way to protect your health in crowded indoor spaces, especially high-risk places like hospitals. It still blows me away how many people would rather get sick over & over again & potentially get long-term health issues from COVID & more, rather than wear a simple mask.