Cathie Klapperich

exactly!

two pathways: submission directly - OR - you get a member to submit for you, and then THEY are the editor guiding the submission. I believe you and I both have this avenue open to us, and neither of us have exploited it!

next do PNAS!

But in a fully vaccinated household, the risk of bringing measles home is very low. For your newborn, the biggest protection is the “cocoon effect” everyone around the baby being vaccinated. Make sure household members are up to date on MMR, Tdap (pertussis), influenza, and COVID

yes, and as an engineering prof who assigns writing tasks, I feel like my time has been wasted at an epic level - AI is the *perfect* cheat tool for engineering types who don't want to/are scared of writing. So now I am a cop who watches them write by hand in class. sigh.

can AI do organic chemistry homework yet?

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

Many of the scientists Jeffrey Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that.

Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/40qbXnv

Compliance in advance.

The Retreat from DEI: The Impact of Legal and Political Developments on DEI Language in U.S. Private Foundations Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, large private foundations in the United States widely adopted language related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) on their public-facing websites. In 2023, a series of legal and political developments began reversing the institutional pressures that had encouraged this adoption: first the Supreme Court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (2023), then state-level anti-DEI legislation, and culminating in President Trump’s Executive Order 14151 (2025). Using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, we constructed a longitudinal corpus of 3,612 archived web pages from thirteen large U.S. private foundations and tracked the frequency of sixty-seven DEI-related terms from 2019 to 2025. Among the nine foundations with data in both years, a Wilcoxon signed-rank test indicates a decline from 2023 to 2025 (one-sided p = .029, two-sided p = .059), with median usage falling approximately 40 percent. The decline was broad-based across many terms. These patterns are consistent with coercive isomorphism: the same process that drove widespread, convergent adoption of DEI language after 2020 now appears to be reversing it. The findings establish an empirical baseline for tracking how political pressure reshapes organizational communication about equity.

🚨What if some intrepid students and I decided to see if private foundations' public stances on justice were thin enough to fold under anti-DEI pressure? We tracked their website language using Wayback Machine. The retreat is real and it seems political vibes alone supercharged it. osf.io/29gda_v1

Fact-Checking Trump’s 2026 State of the Union Speech President Donald Trump presented a frequently distorted account of the state of the union Tuesday.

“My first 10 months I ended eight wars," President Donald Trump said during Tuesday's State of the Union address.

This statistic, which Trump frequently cites, is highly exaggerated.

3. How does the current instability at the NIH positively impact the careers of early-career researchers?

2) What would your reaction be if a future NIH Director decided to force all grants considered
"MAHA activities" to be renegotiated three to four years from now?

NIH Director is an incredibly important and consequential job. Statements like “we believe in supporting early career researchers” must be met with data. Not just anecdotes.

The data is showing something that’s different from rhetoric and anecdotes…

Made a short video as a response. 3 questions remain for me.

1) What is the definition of a "DEl activity," and how is it being communicated to NIH staff so they can determine whether a grant qualifies?

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Cervical cancer rates higher in states with low HPV vaccination rates

RFK Jr *lies* when he says cervical cancer risk is increased in women who get the HPV vaccine.

New study: "States with high vaccination rates have seen the biggest drop in cervical cancer, while states with low vaccination rates have had little to no progress"

www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...

I paid it when they put Andy and Anderson behind it. I held out until I was desperate.

I'm going to take a wild guess here.....

Turns out, just saying no at the first Nazi tattoo was not only efficient it was absolutely correct

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)

Directorates to follow

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Kash Patel’s Girlfriend Seeks Fame and Fortune, Escorted by an F.B.I. SWAT Team

And Biden flies coach:
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/27/n...

🧪 February is #BlackHistoryMonth

In 1951, Henrietta Lacks's cervical cancer cells were taken w/o her consent & used for research.

Her cells, coined HeLa, became the first immortal human cell line. They engendered advances in medicine such as cancer/HIV research, vaccine dev & genome sequencing.

I think a lot of Americans who are anti-war presume that trying to avoid military escalation, bloodshed, civilian casualties, etc. would be a normative progressive position & we have to be painfully reminded over & over that this is not actually the case.

We're turning people away (fire code) from this anti-ICE training today. New Yorkers are fired up

Bringing some summer zen 🌱

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Epstein Files Are Missing Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump

NEW: The New York Times confirms my reporting that the DOJ is withholding several FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

The haunting thing about the past few years is how little of this we're seeing from our (alleged) opposition party. Overwhelming majority of Democrats can't even manage enough spine for a symbolic gesture like this one. Everyone sitting there with a blank face is just as complicit as any Republican.

Jeffrey Epstein’s tissue samples ignited a furor in the Harvard lab of George Church Exclusive: Harvard geneticist George Church knew more about Jeffrey Epstein's activities than he has previously said, before accepting new donations from the sex offender.

At a Harvard lab in 2013, the Personal Genome Project had an odd request.

There was a push to fast-track one person's tissue sample for genome sequencing, ahead of some that had been waiting for years.

When the person's ID was revealed, uproar broke out:

Shame on anyone who told women they were silly to worry that, post-Dobbs, birth control would be next.