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Sad to hear of the passing of Dr. Gerald Fischbach, who had the vision to start the SCPAB at the Simons. He will be missed.

Beatrice Keul, testified that she was introduced by Jeffrey Epstein to Donald J Trump, who then brutally raped her in a hotel room in Atlantic City, NJ, and her claims were deemed credible by a panel of the House Judiciary Committee today. The NYT has decided that this is not reportable news.

SCOOP: The CDC's deputy director is leaving. Jen Shuford, an infectious-disease physician who had been Texas's health commissioner, was hired to help restore trust in CDC. Now she's out after six months. More with @lenasun.bsky.social.

This is one of the most powerful depictions of health research-driven progress. No statistics required.

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

In just five days, Uganda vaccinated 8.3 million children against measles and rubella. The nationwide drive, which ended on 5 October, covered every child aged nine months to five years, whatever their vaccine history. The Cooperator buff.ly/7VnZOYR #ShareGoodNewsToo

Some good news today: A clinical trial to test Ebola Bundibugyo vaccines candidates has started. The first participant was vaccinated in Bunia in the DRC today. 🧪 #IDsky I wrote about the plans and the background a few days ago in @science.org: www.science.org/content/arti...

Within my lifetime, we’ve seen cancer treatments that save lives and prevention cancers. Within my lifetime the infectious disease that killed from AIDS has been relegated to a chronic condition. Why? How? Robust funding of biomedical research that is now under sustained attack from our own govt..

❤️‍🩹 “I’m home.” Freed Ukrainian POWs call their families for the first time in years following the latest prisoner exchange.

In a functioning regulatory environment, FDA and USDA would shut this down just on efficacy grounds because it is scientifically nonsense. Instead, these creeps will inflict a huge amount of cruelty not to create "better" dogs, just for high prices and preferred procurement from a moron-led DoD.

I loved my time as a PhD student here!

To Albertans who made their voices heard, and to every volunteer who showed up to help build a stronger, more united Canada: thank you.    This is what Canada strong looks like.

This paper is so good. More evidence we can't just lift things from 🐁 and apply to 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 because low and behold primate brains are different. 🐒 models matter. @anitadisney.bsky.social huge congrats on lovely meaningful work!

Science peeps (and everyone who cares about science): Please comment on this. Yes, I know the relentless onslaught of this sort of thing is exhausting... But we must keep at it. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

I support replacing animal testing where we can. I also study why we can't yet. The FDA just took a step that treats the replacement as closer than it is.

Comment by Dec 7, docket FDA-2026-N-5347 at regulations.gov. The rule: www.federalregister.gov/d/2026-19350 I've written this fall on why neural implants fail and the biology you need live animals to see. The series: bioniclab.substack.com/s/why-bcis-f...

If y'all didn't believe me about George Church and his Colossal crew being fraudsters with few if any limits or morals, this should push you over the edge

Gotta rant… I am not going to see the Elizabeth Holmes movie and it’s making me kind of crazy that it’s becoming a phenomenon, because the Theranos story is about who got fooled, not who fooled them. This jaunty @wired.com piece is reasonable all things considered www.wired.com/story/how-el...

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A poll by Nature in 2025 showed that 75% of researchers considered leaving the country due to research disruptions, funding cuts, etc. Other countries are offering our scientists opportunities to do research. If you want people stay, vote blue in November. 🧪 apnews.com/article/trum...

I am an NIH scientist, I am not anonymous, and RFK jr is destroying the NIH

Q: The president is coming back to Georgia on Saturday-- OSSOFF: Good. It will remind Georgians of the president's failure

My department at UCSF (Cell & Tissue Biology) is recruiting for a tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor studying the fundamental cell biology underlying disease. Join us! App due Dec 1. aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF06272

I'm an NIH scientist, I'm not anonymous, and RFK Jr is destroying NIH.

RFK Jr’s unethical experiment on African babies is officially canned, thanks to public backlash driven by Stand Up For Science 🎉 ✊️ 🧵 🧪

BREAKING: SCOTUS rejects Trump admin's request to allow it to end gender-affirming medical care in prisons — a significant, if tentative, rejection of one of the admin's most extreme anti-trans arguments. Only Thomas and Alito noted they would have granted the stay. More to come: www.lawdork.com

Are these honest western blots done on unintentionally wrong cell lines? Faked western blots done with malicious intent? Honest western blots done on correct cell lines but with unintentionally wrong antibodies from one of the 15 companies selling antibodies with faked validation data? 😵‍💫

I will add my name to this, too. Another NIH scientist, not anonymous, declaring that RFK, jr. is destroying NIH. Don’t want to take my & @markhisted.org’s word for it? 39 current/recent NIHers put their name to this just a few months ago: www.27unihted.org/bethesda-dec...

Trump and RFK Jr. have put our public health system on life support. We can't just rebuild what they've broken; we have to build a stronger public health system and protect it from anti-science political interference going forward.

This week, NIH advisors rebuked RFK for harming #NIH and US science. Sheryl Gay Stolberg reported it. Then RFK posted calling her sources anonymous or corrupt. I'll say this hoping it does good: I'm an NIH scientist, I'm not anonymous, and RFK Jr is destroying NIH. More in attachment:

The fact that Amy Acton was removed from her mother’s care and went on to obtain an MD and flourish in public health makes her even more of a hero in my eyes. This type of trauma never really goes away. Yet when there was a fork in the road, she chose the one where she helps others. Hero.

If you couldn't see (refused to see) Putin's puppet strings manipulating Trump before, you sure as hell can see them now.

@newyorkstateag.bsky.social does New York or other Blue states happen to have treason laws on the books? bsky.app/profile/carl...

The Society for Developmental Biology mourns the loss of Conklin Medalist Noriyuki Satoh of the @oistedu.bsky.social. Satoh was a leader in the field of ascidian development and recently focused on environmental genomics of coral reef biology. bit.ly/4yIlW6k

How an unethical study on babies in Africa will affect children in the U.S. 🧵

Insanity

This is not the news I wanted to read today. It is clear that the uncontrolled outbreak in the DRC is not tenable and we will continue to see imported cases outside of the DRC. Kenya and now Nigeria. This is a regional/ global emergency. www.wsls.com/health/2026/...

if millennials could afford homes this wouldnt be a problem but this is going to hit the generation like a truck

Alberta voters overwhelmingly vote to remain in Canada; more than 75% in favor. 🇨🇦♥️💪🌸. Ok. I can go to sleep now. Whew.

"I Believed American Healthcare Was the Best in the World. Then I Did the Math" Yale epidemiologist @Alison_Galvani anticipated a hefty price tag for Medicare for All. But she found that we are already paying more than enough right now to cover the cost of universal healthcare.