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“Vaccine scientists and medical leaders announced today they are launching an unprecedented initiative to react to vaccine misinformation and scientifically unfounded vaccine decisions by the U.S. government.” www.science.org/content/arti...

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A strong letter! Yay! A strong letter!

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My latest in @plosglobalpublichealth.org On things we can do now to help walk back the damage from antivaccine activism journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

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Trump and those in the administration aren't acting as if they have a mandate from the last election. They're acting like they aren't planning to abide by the results of the next election.

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Snoozing mammals (I’m jelly- so much to do, not enough clear thinking hours!)

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Zeteo commissioned this poll from Data for Progress and it is pretty clear that the Democratic base prefers the progressive/leftist position on every issue from Israel-Palestine to healthcare to even immigration. Full poll results and analysis: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

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Private back-channel pleas and even market panic do not chasten Trump. The U.S. economy, like the U.S. democracy, needs real leadership. Sooner or later, business leaders and Republicans must speak out — if not out of courage, at least due to naked self-interest. wapo.st/42P1Edc

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The cowardice of the ruling class is palpable. wapo.st/42P1Edc

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They are taking away our vaccines. Jay Bhattacharya is talking about eliminating mRNA vaccines. Meanwhile, RFK Jr. has managed to ratfuck the Novavax approval process.

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An unconfirmed political appointee - who is an antivaxx grifter with no vaccine or immunology experience, or even drug or drug approval experience, …or even clinical trial experience for that matter - is making it impossible for the updated COVID Novavax (the non-mRNA option) vaccine to get approved

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Ugh this bums me out.

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3 US citizens, aged 2, 4 and 7, deported - one with metastatic cancer, deported without medication or any contact with their oncologist. And ICE knew.

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12 other CSU presidents, but not Cal Poly SLO...

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503 university president’s signed this letter stating “we must oppose undue government intrusion in the lives of those who learn, live, & work on our campuses” Cal Poly’s president refused saying the university “has no role in public policy” Feckless coward www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

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FBI Stages Courthouse Arrest of Wisconsin Judge talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fbi-sta...

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ADAI esteemed colleague Dr. Caleb Banta-Green was escorted out of this event after yelling "HEY!" then “Believe science! Respect spirituality! Respect choice! Respect government workers!” (The "HEY!" was omitted by the AP in this report but ADAI stands by it.) apnews.com/article/kenn...

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⤵️Thank you Caleb Banta-Green for speaking truth in the midst of these wild anti-science times. CBG said: “We have decades of science-based interventions that are proven effective for supporting recovery and reducing death from substance use disorder. The problem we have is massive underfunding.”

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"The Stop Cop City RICO indictment makes clear that, to those in power, the intertwined acts of practicing mutual aid and fighting to secure a livable planet are [..] domestic terrorism." "Movements that intend to win must plan from the beginning to withstand repression." #Georgia #USA #Policing

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Rise up. H/T @jfallows.bsky.social

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What people really don’t want to hear is that shaming people who brag about writing emails with AI would be just fine. Admirable in fact. Norms can sometimes do what law won’t.

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👶🏼 Many #vaccines are not effective in newborns. So how do we protect them from infectious disease? 🤰🏽 By vaccination in #pregnancy! Here we review… 💉 Established campaigns vs whooping cough, flu, COVID 💡 New approaches to RSV, GBS 🌈 Future challenges, opportunities #ReproSky #ImmunoSky #IDSky

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Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

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Happy to see @ucsantacruz.bsky.social's Chancellor Larive on this list

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Really great to see someone say what needs to be said over and over: lots of those executive orders are bullshit grabs for powers the president doesn't have--unless we give it to him, and that starts through misinformation.

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SCIENTISTS: The proposed Schedule F is out. It has potential to undermine or destroy merit-based science. Rules/regulations have the force of law. This rule may put peer review in the hands of political appointees. Make your public comment here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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Its not just skipping the humanities, ethics and the arts: they are taught that those ways of seeing the world and understanding it are inferior and useless. Ive seen way too many CS students laugh at these fields. They are taught that their way of seeing the world is not only superior, but complete

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Wow. Thank you San Luis Obispo. For your wonderful questions – and for coming out 2000 strong on a Tuesday night in defense of decency and our democracy.

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On Tuesday, the SCOTUS conservatives made clear that the case over Montgomery County’s public schools and books with LGBTQ themes is a part of their larger religious supremacy project. The day included disturbing, anti-LGBTQ arguments.

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When people I care about show me AI-generated Studio Gihbli-style pictures, I tell them the truth. They don’t know but Miyazaki was famously disgusted by AI. This is breathtakingly disrespectful. They’re shocked. They didn’t know & want nothing to do with it. It just feels wrong. Because it is.

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Please stop repeating that he is deporting people. He is kidnapping them and trafficking them into a gulag in the fucking jungle. We don’t do that to anyone, much less someone whose only “crime” is being undocumented. We don’t do that to fucking murderers for fucks sake.

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The importance of the immune system for healthy aging. A large multi-cohort study identifies a mechanism of immune resilience with substantial impact for outcomes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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SLO county showed out at the town hall w @schiff.senate.gov and @carbajal.house.gov Great to see democracy in action & so many folks out, brought my 17yo. But- it was frustrating that so many answers were basically “protest harder”. I get it- but I still want more direct action from them!

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Sure AI hallucinated this reference, but look at it's confidence that Dr. M. Patel was involved!

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A Venezuelan immigrant in Michigan was detained in January, ordered deported, then housed in Texas, but no one knows where he has been since March. The U.S. says he has been 'removed from the United States,' but there's no record of him on the lists of people in El Salvador, or anywhere else.

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Oh goodie! Chat-GPT Edu will be available for Cal State folks as a part of their AI integration and “leverage” 😡 They say our use materials will be private and not be used for training public AI. Do we believe this? And how is CSU accounting for expanding AI climate impacts and water use?

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If your university leadership signed onto the AACU letter & you’re happy, TELL THEM! Follow-up asking for more details, specific commitments, next steps. I think building a habit of sending strong “yes! do more like this!” signals is healthy strategy for all of us. bsky.app/profile/lizn...

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Not me checking every univerity my 17yo is considering for next year. Where you at UC system?? Only two CSUs (and not Cal Poly) Stand together and unite to fight!

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I currently count 173 presidents on today’s AACU letter: “As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, & scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education." www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

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The presidents of 200 US colleges declare: "As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education." Good! www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

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“Q: When it comes to the state of vaccines, what does the average person need to know right now? A: Understand that this is really bad. It will affect your health and the health of the people you love. You need to tune in and be aware of what’s happening, even though it’s really depressing.” 🧪

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when women can choose, they choose to have significantly fewer kids whether they're in Norway or Japan, and I'm not certain there's anything that counters that, no matter how generous the state is. Many women don't want to be mothers, and that's their right and should come first.

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So sick and exhausted by AI as solution to all the things- when in fact it is more often than not a contributor to the problem, and a terrible, inefficient, costly solution. (Also where TF are employers “demanding AI literacy” of our students. I call BS)

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Harvesting brocolli requires team work as these farm workers near Santa Maria CA show. There are cutters, packers, box loaders and a tractor driver , all earning minimum wage for their work. #WeFeedYou

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In 2003, President George W. Bush launched PEPFAR & saved 25M lives globally, supported 7M orphans & vulnerable children, and enabled 5.5M babies to be born HIV-free. However a Trump administration executive order on Jan. 20, U.S. foreign aid PAUSED funds for PEPFAR.🤬 abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

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Just announced: University of Michigan Faculty Senate resoundingly votes to support Big Ten academic mutual defense compact. 92.8% of over 3,000 votes.

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