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You need a balanced, not boosted immune system!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I am really laser focused on getting all my adult patients updated on their vaccines. A few vaccine doses I gave out in clinic today: - pneumococcal vaccine - Td booster - Covid booster - MMR - HPV - Hep B vaccines 8/8 acceptances, zero refusals. OFFER, COUNSEL, VACCINATE

submitted 18 hours ago • 53 comments

Friends, as much fun as it is to play "Goon, fiend, or wanker? with the Trump regime, the sad reality is that this regime is actively attacking the LGBTQ+ community. Please share this LGBTQ+ friendly one-pager of mental health resources widely #PrideMonth #MentalHealth #AltComms

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

I know it's tempting to bring out that big tub of popcorn and watch the two circus monkeys spat today, but don't let it distract you from what 🪱🧠 is doing to our public health and response capabilities.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Our Bluesky account is now verified so you can be sure we're the official Health New Zealand. Our new handle is ‪@healthnewzealand.healthnz.govt.nz‬ 💙

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

submitted 2 days ago • 279 comments

These days it’s impossible to tell real life headlines from @theonion.com headlines 😒

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Opening Pride month with a reminder of what it takes to fight and what resistance looks like. It wasn’t polite, it wasn’t without personal costs, and it wasn’t limited to the halls of Congress. HIV funding has been eliminated and no one is coming to save it. It’s time to fight.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Thanks to drastic policy changes in the US and Big Tech’s embrace of the second Trump administration, many people are moving their digital lives abroad. Here are a few options for browsers, search engines, and email providers to get you started.

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

Come join our adventures!!!!

submitted 6 days ago • 31 comments

Embarrassed that I missed this paper from @wrigleyfield.bsky.social and colleagues: Americans are dying more than people from other high-income countries, and have been doing so since the 1980’s. But it’s really accelerated, and we are now a huge outlier. 😳

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

submitted 7 days ago • 66 comments

A new paper from one of my students, Caitlyn Wiener, looks at potential and realized access to mammography among privately insured Iowans and reminds us that more than just distance affects use of cancer screening: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Hello! This is the new account for Autism in Affinity Spaces project at Queen Mary London. Our linguistics project is examining how autistic young people communicate in online interest-based groups and how we can improve these experiences to build inclusive digital spaces

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

COVID During Pregnancy: How Might COVID Affect The Placenta? www.henryford.com/blog/2025/01...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

My quote of the day We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. Elie Wiesel

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Hundreds of National Science Foundation staffers turned out for a group photograph to celebrate the besieged agency’s 75th anniversary—despite efforts by NSF officials to prevent the picture from being taken. scim.ag/4jcGpIt

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

submitted 14 days ago • 37 comments

Check out this little scientist at work! (Thread 🧵)

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

"Millions of low-income Americans could lose access to food stamps or see reductions in their monthly benefits as a result of House Republicans’ newly adopted tax bill, according to an analysis released Thursday from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

<Taps sign> Characteristics of Fascism 1. Powerful, often exclusionary, populist nationalism centered on cult of a redemptive, "infallible" leader who never admits mistakes. 2. Political power derived from questioning reality, endorsing myth and rage, and promoting lies. ...

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

submitted 17 days ago • 17 comments

Postdoc opportunity! At National Genomics Infrastructure in Uppsala we're looking for a postdoc in genomics R&D. Cutting-edge methods dev in an excellent, international environment at the junction between academia and infrastructure. Deadline May 23! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment