Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denies being anti-vax. But in repopulating a CDC advisory committee with like-minded allies, he is serving the most core goal of the anti-vaccine movement: eroding access to, and trust in, immunization, @katherinejwu.com writes.
Issue 23 is here!
Our front cover this week features Olexandr Isayev et al 🤩
'AIMNet2: a neural network potential to meet your neutral, charged, organic, and elemental-organic needs'
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#ChemSciCovers
A 256-step phase cycle laid out across 5 cycled pulses and two alternate receiver programs
I should create a gallery of terrible phase programs. #NMRchat
Doctors who profited from pro RFK propaganda articles have no right to complain about him now.
When medicine and science were under attack, they gave ammunition to its attackers instead of standing against them.
Silence is their only appropriate reaction now.
Specifically:
1) NIH R35 - MIRA for ESIs
2) NIH DP2 – NIH Director’s New Innovator Award for ESIs
3) NIH R21 – Exploratory/Developmental Grant for exploratory research for 2 years
4) Administrative supplements if you're a new lab
This is hilarious. Jay Batttacharia, the current director of NIH, doesn't realize that NIH already has research grants dedicated to new PIs and Early Stage Investigators (ESIs). What a novel idea Jay!
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For those wondering what the QT was. See below.
I am doing my best to hold down the fort on the “other app.” I hate how the reproducibility crisis is being weaponized against the whole idea of science and being blamed on hiring practices. It was an honor to peer review for JACS and I’d love to do so again if given the opportunity.
In fact I was extremely clear about what my take home message was from this interview and felt that came across in the article. I don’t give a fuck about Clippy Metzl’s quote. He’s not presented as an expert. Mike and I are.
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As one of the scientists interviewed for this piece, I disagree that this is how my comments or my expertise were portrayed in this article.
I didn’t appreciate when Alina Chan promoted her book with hot takes that presumed to speak for me & my colleagues. I don’t appreciate it here either.
Eliminating SNAP in order to give tax breaks to billionaires is pretty evil stuff and literally the opposite of “making America healthy.”
Note here that Musk is now literally assigning himself new contracts based on the use of his DOGE wrecking crew and the associated micro-bros. this isn't a "conflict of interest". it's just handing yourself federal money www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b...
Why does the richest man on earth need to hand himself federal contracts? Because he will never be satisfied until he has as much money as he can get, and the rest of us have virtually nothing.
As the measles outbreak in Texas keeps spreading, parents who previously chose not to vaccinate their children are now lining up to get their kids the shots needed to protect them from the serious illness.
Egg Prices Now Expected To Rise Twice As High As Earlier Projections In 2025
Egg prices are now expected to jump in price in 2025 by more than double earlier projections. dailyvoice.com/md/annapolis...
Bobby Whalen is a man with autism who had a job sterilizing surgical instruments at NIH. He was apparently quite good at it, but he just lost his job because of Musk’s hatchet job. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...
How did we get to this moment where is Fauci needed security and it’s legit scary that it got taken away.
This didn’t help.
And any doctor who normalized this whole pretending to care about tone didn’t help either.
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We should expect a lot of coincidental & purportedly “scientific” breaking reports from Federal departments published in the next week or two that claim to have found “new evidence” of a change from a previous conclusion or policy. Rest assured it’s likely politically motivated and dubious at best.
I’m still trying to fight the good fight and represent science well on twitter. But I find it hilarious when some tech bro anti-vaxxer is trying to lecture me about “the Reproducibility Crisis” when they can’t even tell me what type of data is the hardest to reproduce…
Okay sometimes scientists are really excellent at naming things.
Scientists found an activator of the Piezo1 channel and called it yoda1:
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They then found an analogue of yoda1 that inhibits its action, which they named... dooku1
Increasingly believing that RFK Jr. is the most dangerous nominee. Vaccines are gonna be the ideological fight of the decade lol hate this
Actually, that you care about the well being of antivaxxers doesn’t make you unique as you imply.
I’m sure most docs here are kind to their patients who don’t get vaccinated.
But if more people knew RFK was a lying crank, there would be fewer antivaxxers.
Well, this is false. RFK Jr antivaccine disinformation started in 2005.
Samoa was in 2019.
He been Americas #1 antivaxxer for years and he already has a body count.
When given the opportunity to talk to the press, this is the message to send.
Not this👇
Indeed. Thank you for the kind words.
But the journalist seems to think he’s looking down as if in shame at the remarks Bilbo seemingly directed at him. Grandpa told me that he and most of the soldiers there smirked and laughed at most of what Bilbo said. Little did Bilbo know that my grandad would go on to fight in the Korean War.
My grandad is photographed sitting down in front of him & is described as a “Chinese-American GI” lol. But I remember my grandad saying that Bilbo was slobbering when he talked (later got mouth cancer). So my grandad tilted his head down so he wouldn’t get his slobber/spit on his glasses.
It’s a magazine article from 1946 about a speech by then Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo. Among Bilbo’s ramblings about “mongoloids” or how the 442nd RCT shouldn’t exist, he was ranting at a speech about how “we’ll all be yellow… mongrels” in a few generations.
Losing my grandad, Albert Komatsu, this year has hit me hard. He was my last living relative to serve in uniform during WWII. His younger sister is now my only living relative to have experienced internment under EO 9066. Going through his stuff, I came upon something I hadn’t seen before.
Busy a busy morning. Nine C-17s. All but one landed at Ramstein. Oddly, a C5M headed towards Romania then returned towards Ramstein in midair. List of the C-17's in response. 1/2
Interesting follow-up on this. We're running automated analyses on H5N1 data on the SRA to look for potentially important mutations in the virus.
Following the study 👇, we looked to see if we could find *any* evidence of the HA Q226L mutation.
We did. In a mouse from June of this year.
Short 🧵
