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man, almost like plague isn't and wasn't the most important thing happening in outbreak world in the last month

Please pass this message along! #Pinks #ProudBlue #OneV1

The Siberian Plague Scare Reveals That America Is Unprepared @ggronvall.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/o...

Jack Smith at last night’s Power to the People concert, wearing a Springsteen/No Kings shirt.

garymarcus.substack.com/p/hot-take-o... Reading between the Accord between the lines We agree not be regulated We agree not to give the public a voice Trust us

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What. A. Day. NIH grant-making was paused for several hours today. Not sure who gave the order. But in light of the Friday night Bhattacharya-Vought feud & threatened EO to implement #ScienceDeathPanels, my money is on Russell Vought. I learned of the pause from a colleague around 11:30. 🧵

Profile in Courage: Dr. Steven Kahn is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington and Editor of the Diabetes Care journal, where he co-authored an editorial speaking out against the destructive and anti-science actions of the Trump administration.

What has Covid left behind for the scientists who study dangerous viruses? @chafkin.bsky.social and I spent time with Bob Garry, whose shrinking Tulane lab offers a glimpse of what’s happening to virology just as the forces that drive outbreaks grow. 🎁🔗👇 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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The father (Lancaster County) said “somebody named Kennedy called”

Trailer for "The Social Reckoning," a companion piece to The Social Network, is coming to theatres October 9. I love it already. The only genre Meta belongs in is a dangerous thriller.

2025 was the year of a lot of “what could go wrong?” posts by me. 2026 is the year those questions are being answered.

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Alina Chan is a discredited crank and it is embarrassing for the Times to publish this

This is the most important thing Alina Chan has said or written.

Leprosy is still spreading in #Florida, to the point that the CDC says it's becoming endemic. These 2 women want that to change. www.theledger.com/story/news/h...

Thank you, @alsobrooks.senate.gov On behalf of CDC career staff and the public health community, thank you for putting Vought in his place and telling the truth to his ugly face. We salute you. 🫡

Our Dad - “Doc”

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Project 2025’s proposed new rule will destroy peer review and cement political control of all manner of federal grants across the country. It takes about two minutes to send a letter of opposition, a little longer if you personalize the text. Links below w/ thanks to @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

“Evidence suggests that AI-driven ‘deskilling’ is starting to happen in medicine, computer science and other fields. Researchers are now discussing how to preserve important human expertise in the age of AI. “ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It's Thursday and Russell Vought is still trying to take over all federal grant making, put it under his thumb and political control. It's a mad power grab. We need to stop it. Click on this and write a letter to your members of Congress. And share, share, share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

AND everyone can submit comments on the rule until 13 July. Read this on how to submit. Federal grants affect us all. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration (Dani Blum/New York Times) #Trump

ALRIGHT SCIENCE ACTIVISTS! Here is what to expect in the next couple days from @standupforscience.net: ✨ Our organizational comment on OMB-2025-0034 ✨ A tutorial on HOW to make a good comment for orgs and individuals ✨ Emergency Meeting Recording!! ✨ Wide press/media coverage

Jon Ossof’s speech this weekend. Don’t miss it! youtu.be/czbhRAfxhj8?...

OMB is planing to end peer review by allowing political appointees to override funding decisions. It takes 3 minutes to submit a public comment. DO IT HERE fight2win.standupforscience.net?utm_source=o...

This is the end of American science and innovation. Russell Vought is the angel of death who is presiding over this abomination of a OMB regulation.

If you want to see the hugely positive effect of the leadership of the National Academies of Science in shying away from topics that are deemed controversial based on partisan positions, here you go... 1/3

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Because @nationalacademies.org decided to bend the knee and host a session with Jay Bhattacharya and some of his fellow travelers, they tarnished a meeting on the important topic of scientific integrity even before it began. 1/

“Dude. No. Way…Fin!

tech bros and eugenics will never be parted

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Tinton Falls” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Is it possible to quit an advisory committee that was already disbanded by the order of a federal judge? Robert Malone tests the hypothesis in his new quest for a drama free life

If I were @umpamdk.bsky.social there wouldn’t be enough tea bourbon in the world to take the edge off of declaring my quisling status and then looking forward to an engaging and intellectually provocative discourse!

This is a HUGE win. Let’s do USAID next. www.kare11.com/article/synd...

What might we miss if discussions on AI and biological risk continue to focus mainly on lab/tech rather than on the actors, purposes, and processes that shape BW acquisition? New work from @cser.bsky.social, @ghionis.bsky.social, L. Sundaram, T. Hobson, @nnconnell papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Yeah like DEI you know it was like what the EO said and we would like refer to the language in the EO to um like decide which grants to like terminate

What happens when the Straight of Hormuz closes @pamelaannbrown substack.com/@pamelaannbr...

ChatGPT is shedding users fast. Since yesterday alone, estimates suggest more than a million accounts have been deleted and the boycott continues to gain momentum. Incredible work, everyone!

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

“… we are proud that Casey Means, MD, has been nominated to serve as the United States Surgeon General.” bookmarking this one not because it’s surprising — see scott atlas and jay bhattacharya — but because Woke 2 will not forget the collaborators

New preprint from our Gates-funded Modjadji initiative showing that whole-genome surveillance of measles virus from wastewater greatly expands our ability for monitoring and control. Here, with our colleagues in South Africa - U.S., unfortunately, likely up next. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

NEW: Natasha Korecki at NBC reports that in light of the SCOTUS tariff ruling, Gov. Pritzker sent President Donald Trump an invoice of $8.6 billion.

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share. *one voice altered to disguise identity