Eric Dane, the celebrated actor best known for his roles on “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Euphoria” and who later in life became advocate for ALS awareness, died at 53. https://wapo.st/4rtziAs
“It’s like going to battle with half your generals in place.” Of the 27 institutes and centers that make up NIH, 16 were missing permanent directors as of Friday, when staff received news of the latest departure. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
I knew I saw this somewhere before. Funny that it’s almost exactly what’s actually happening now.
Statement on Ford Plant Visit from VP Laura Dickerson, Ford Department Director
🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.
"Last April, HHS had informed staff of plans to terminate around 90% of NIOSH's roughly 1,000 employees, eviscerating the agency." Nine months later, the decision is reversed and layoff notices to workplace safety workers have been revoked. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
A good read: A brief history of vaccines.
The first vaccine was serendipitous & appeared a century before the germ theory was established. Electron microscopes gave us the first direct visualization of viruses.
Now, vaccines are designed with more precision.
🧪 worksinprogress.co/issue/the-go...
Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
"Our nation’s public health is not in good hands." — Public health lawyer @doritreiss.bsky.social breaks down this week's gobsmacking meeting of #CDC's vaccine advisory panel, #ACIP.
The #hepatitisB birth dose is gone. Kennedy's ACIP isn't done yet. www.statnews.com/2025/12/06/a...
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
In AIR-BORNE, I wrote about the reluctance many scientists had to acknowledge Covid can float to new hosts. Now it looks like something similar may be happening with bird flu, which may be blowing from farm to farm. Story in @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/bird...
BREAKING:
Jack Smith is requesting that Congress and the Justice Dept. let him testify in public.
In new letters to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, Smith says he wants to testify "in open hearings" because of "the many mischaracterizations" around his investigations.
Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom
Love this! I’ve been looking for something like this for my office for a very long time. I’ll have to keep an eye out for when you have another one available.
Taylor Swift announces ‘The Release Party of A Showgirl’ coming to theatres, featuring the premiere of “The Fate of Ophelia” music video.
Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended against flu shots containing the ingredient thimerosal. Why is the additive, safely used since the 1930s, being questioned again?
Climate change's projected changes to the environment will impact microbes that affect food safety and security.
Feeding 8+ billion people is challenging, especially with climate change threatening food security. Microbes offer powerful solutions like biofertilizers & biochar to boost sustainable agriculture. Explore their potential in the latest issue of Microcosm: asm.social/2u5
Bayer is asking state legislatures and the US Supreme Court to block lawsuits claiming that exposure to a federally approved pesticide caused a person to get cancer. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪
💥 🏛️ 🧪 NIH Grant Awards are Reportedly Resuming Along with Notices of Funding Opportunities
As a swiftie, I just purchased a shirt for the 4th that says “mad as hell because I loved this place”
Media cannot keep both-siding miasma vs germ theory—or decades of data on life-saving vaccines.
If Hegseth said the military can’t deploy abroad because the earth is flat and troops might fall off, we’d treat it as absurd.
It should be the same when RFK Jr. does it.
Who did this? 😂
Former NIH director Francis Collins speaks out about why he left NIH:
“I didn’t feel I could raise alarms about the harms that were being done to medical research. I was prohibited from speaking about it.”
#medsky
www.aamc.org/news/former-...
Twice-yearly lenacapavir just won FDA approval for PrEP - closest thing we have to an HIV vaccine.
Trials showed ≥99.9% protection
But approval doesn’t equal access.
The science delivered. Now policy has to. apnews.com/article/hiv-...
Do you hear the people sing?
My kids know an American flag when they see one – but they don't yet know all that it represents.
When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:
"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen.
This would help our bees "
via I Love Bees
Whatever it is, this is my favourite sport.
The collapse in American science did not occur overnight. As our book #scienceundersiege highlights: it evolved over years @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
and was organized/deliberate. Science/scientists were targeted for political/autocratic control/personal financial gain
