Dr. Tracy Catalde

Trump blocks FBI terror threat alert linked to Iran war Top Trump officials ordered it placed on hold over concerns that it could show the domestic risk of the war and further erode public support.

White House blocks intelligence report warning of rising US homeland terror threat linked to Iran war

Oppose Nomination of Casey Means for Surgeon General The Senate HELP Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on the nomination of Casey Means to serve as U.S. Surgeon General on Wednesday, February 25th. While we were hoping this nomination was dead, i...

Tired of unqualified hacks running the U.S. public health system? I sure am.

Sometimes it feels like there is nothing we can do to fight this.

But right now, we can write letters to our Senators to oppose Casey Means as Surgeon General to prevent yet another quack from gaining power.

Stand Up For Science Founder and CEO Colette Delawalla speaking at the Washington D.C. Take Back Our Science Rally!

Stand Up For Science Founder & CEO Colette Delawalla states three demands:

1. Remove RFK Jr.

2. Reinstate the American Dream of Science.

3. Science should be driven by scientists not political appointees.

Join the fight!
standupforscience.net/march7

Picture of the crowd at the Stand Up For Science rally at City Hall Park in NYC!

Picture of the crowd at the Stand Up For Science rally at City Hall Park in NYC

Today at the Stand Up For Science rally at City Hall Park in NYC! #standupforscience

I am focused on the Stand Up for Science events today, but I will dig into these data early next week.

I was continuously funded from when I started my independent career in 1988 until I move to NIH in 2003, usually with multiple grants.

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there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

‘I Genuinely Am Upset That Your Kids Are Vaccinated’ Del Bigtree, a longtime ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., isn’t just anti-vaccine. He’s pro-infection.

Del Bigtree thinks that

If all kids contract measles, they will be blessed with the “Ferrari of immunity, while the rest of us will be driving around in Ford Pintos.”

This is the absurdity we are dealing with and why healthcare costs are going to increase.

🧪 archive.today/rXoNL

Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.

No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.

Stand up for Science Stand up for Science

LOS ANGELES!!! TOMORROW IS THE DAY!
On Saturday, March 7th, attend your local National Day of Action Rally to Save Science, Protect Health, and Defend Democracy!
WE NEED YOU!
Visit this link to learn more! zurl.co/SlUG9

#March7LA
#standupforscience
#science
#rally
#savescience

Stand up for Science Stand up for Science

NEW YORK CITY!!! TOMORROW IS THE DAY!
On Saturday, March 7th, attend your local National Day of Action Rally to Save Science, Protect Health, and Defend Democracy!
WE NEED YOU!
Visit this link to learn more! zurl.co/GXGOG/

#March7NYC
#standupforscience
#science
#rally
#savescience

The majority of America’s teachers — a whopping 71% — have at least one side job because they’re so underpaid.

Meanwhile, the country is about to be launched into a long, drawn-out war that has already cost an estimated $2 billion.

Priorities.

Bhattacharya urges measles vaccination as US activity increases

After remaining silent for almost a year about the U.S. measles outbreak, NIH/CDC poseur Jay Bhattacharya is now recommending measles vaccines.

And this is where he gets to see the impact of the destruction of trust in public health and vaccines, for which he is partially responsible.

We taxpayers pay members of Congress very large salaries and for them to have better healthcare than all their constituents combined and in return they do nothing to help or protect the American people whilst letting a tyrannical criminal do whatever he wants. That’s sick.

A titan of vaccine development sees his field’s achievements slip away Stanley Plotkin, the 93-year-old "godfather of vaccines," is watching his field’s achievements slip away.

At 93, The "godfather of vaccines" observes the results of vaccine skepticism.

As a young intern, Stanley Plotkin witnessed the death of a 3 yr old from Influenza B infection. The boy's epiglottis swelled, killing him. Plotkin went on to develop the rubella vaccine & others.

🧪 archive.today/T5rft

Measles outbreaks are costing the U.S. millions of dollars. The true losses can't be counted. As vaccination rates decline, the economic consequences will increase, research suggests.

Measles is costing the U.S. millions of dollars. The true losses can't be counted. www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-... via @nbcnews.com @erikaedwards.bsky.social

The appropriation bill was signed on January 23, more than a month ago.

The data are from www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/... but NSF presents these data as individual files for each grant.

I am building spreadsheets for each year and will post them on my dashboard soon.

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)

Directorates to follow

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Measles outbreaks are costing the U.S. millions of dollars. The true losses can't be counted. As vaccination rates decline, the economic consequences will increase, research suggests.

The first concern with measles is, of course, the devastating health impact.

But this article does a great job of explaining the economic costs.

SAVE America Act would crash voter registration drives “Florida, Texas and Arizona… they're seen as places where you have a laboratory for cutting civil rights.”

Republicans in Congress could steer voter registration drives into a ditch with bills that would all but prevent civic organizations like churches and grassroots community groups from collecting and submitting registration forms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

February is #BlackHistoryMonth.

Did you know…

We owe the development of modern chemotherapy and clinical oncology to the black oncologist Jane Cooke Wright.

Of note- basic research (cell culture) helped adding chemotherapy as a #breastcancer treatment option.

@joelburvell on IG

The idea of a legislative body representing the population having the ability to check the ultimate power of a country’s leader sounds really neat. Someone should write that down.

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Russ Vought is refusing to release the scientific research funding allocated to the NIH by Congress.

“We want them in trauma”.

Mission accomplished.

What RFK Jr.’s CDC Doesn’t Want You to Know The CDC is withholding critical information about vaccine-preventable diseases from the American public. Why?

What RFK Jr.’s CDC Doesn’t Want You to Know: While claiming he stands for "radical transparency," Kennedy is suppressing information in database, to justify continuing to push against vaccines - and hide the resulting harms and deaths. @pauloffit.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi...

STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated) All Eyes on the Senate

STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated)
My new piece is up with lots of info about the SAVE America Act - the version of the SAVE Act that passed the House and is before the Senate this week. This is a MUST READ and then ACT.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

A reminder that a majority rejected Trump's attack on Iran last year. In this CNN poll it was 44% approve, 56% disapprove.

A fun nugget - just 9% support sending ground troops into Iran. Hard to see how more chaos and adventurism is going to return his STRENGTH.

www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/p...

They can’t figure out how to spend the extra $500 billion they gave themselves for the military, but cut our healthcare and food assistance because they said they couldn’t afford it.

I wrote about this a while back. (People forget It's a Wonderful Life is really dark!) newrepublic.com/article/1893...

Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people… |... Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people ca...

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

FDA’s Makary backs measles vaccinations as South Carolina cases rise Feb 13 (Reuters) - U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Martin Makary, in an interview on Friday, urged Americans to get vaccinated for measles, ​as the country faces its largest measles ‌su...

Another one now is urging people to get vaccinated, as measles cases rise in SC. First it was Dr. Oz. As unvaccinated children attend school, outbreaks will increase. 950 reported cases in SC. Again, preventable. Thinking about how many encephalitis cases will be reported.
🧪 wkzo.com/2026/02/13/f...

This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like A shocking move by RFK Jr.’s team has the industry spooked—for good reason.

NEW: "This was not a decision to reject the Moderna vaccine. It was a refusal even to think about approving it."
www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-wh...