Pearl Freier

Thank you Boston Globe.
h/t @pearlf.bsky.social for catching this.

IT would be helpful for everyone if y'all could do one simple thing: Quit trying to ascribe logic to these people. Quit attempting to explain their actions and statement through a lens of rationality. Start using words like, "lie", "unacceptable", "false", "unqualified", "junk science".

This is the subject line from The Boston Globe in email alert about today's WH press conference on autism #medsky

If there's an Ebola and/or bird flu outbreak among humans in the US, the "experts" who spoke at today's WH press conference on autism are currently in charge of responding to infectious disease outbreaks. #medsky

Vaccine Panel Stacked by RFK Jr. Recommends Delaying MMRV Immunization The vaccine advisory group ACIP, not all members of which seemed to know what the group does, recommended to the CDC that combined MMRV shots not be given before age 4.

I watched 7 hours of yesterday's ACIP meeting so you didn't have to.
www.wired.com/story/vaccin...

AI & biopharma: speakers from Pfizer, Novartis, the Broad, Vertex & Formation Bio will discuss some key areas where biopharma industry has been successful in developing & applying AI & they're giving career advice on Boston panel tomorrow/Friday. harvardbiotechclub.typeform.com/to/YoaosYwk?...

Biogen is buying Alcyone for $85M upfront to advance ThecaFlex DRx, implantable subcutaneous port & catheter device being investigated 4 better delivery of antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) 4 neuro diseases incl SMA patients—alternative 2repeat lumbar punctures www.biopharmadive.com/news/biogen-...

> @newyorker.com

In the past, Maher was able to go to HBO when he was fired at ABC in the '00s for his remarks. But if Paramount/Skydance may buys Warner/HBO, that may not be possible for Kimmel or other comedians

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Could boosting this molecule slow pancreatic cancer progression? - Salk Institute for Biological Studies LA JOLLA—Pancreatic cancer has the highest mortality rate of all major cancers, and its incidence is climbing. Because it is typically asymptomatic at early stages, pancreatic cancer is especially dif...

www.salk.edu/news-release...

Margaret Chu-Moyer & her team at Amgen were honored by @acs.org @cenmag.bsky.social as "2025 Heroes of Chemistry" & FDA-approved drug Lumakras "targeted therapy that treats patients with advanced KRAS G12C–mutated NSCLC". She's speaking on Friday's panel in Boston cc @chemjobber.bsky.social #chemsky

BMS EVP & Chief Research Officer Robert Plenge,
NVS VP & Head of Data42 Birgit Schoeberl, Amgen's VP & Head of Small Molecule Therapeutic Discovery Margaret Chu-Moyer, Sanofi's VP & Head Ophthalmology Rrch Anneke den Hollander on 9/19 1:30 Harvard Med School panel www.thebiotechclub.org/career-fair

Wow- Cassidy says that "I understand that Sen Mullin implied there was a recording of the meeting between Dr Monarez and Sec Kennedy. I will note that if materials have been provided to Mullin, they are official committee records...if it does not exist, I ask Mullin to retract his line of questions"

Below is official US govt account for HHS—supposed to be a resource for informing public re: healthcare. They're posting clips from FL & OK senators not asking about polio or measles at Senate hearing but trying 2 claim POTUS's CDC Dir nominee is part of conspiracy w/ "anti-Trump lawyers." #medsky

I saw the last 10 min or so & Houry & Monarez's responses- what a loss that they no longer work at CDC. Marshall sounds like a nightmare for a patient if he were their doctor especially a female patient. He seems like the kind of doctor who wouldn't listen to his patient & would take RFK's advice

Sad to see a congressman who is a pharmacist post conspiracy theories about the president's nominee for CDC director, Monarez, who is testifying at a Senate hearing today about her experience working for HHS Secretary Kennedy for <30 days #medsky

Generate:Biomedicines Welcomes Laurie Lee, MD, as Chief Medical… Generate Biomedicines is a new kind of therapeutics company—existing at the intersection of biology, machine learning, and biological engineering.

Here's the press release: www.generatebiomedicines.com/media-center...

CSL Behring's VP R&D Transplant & Immunology & GSK alum Laurie Lee was recruited by AI-focused clinical stage biotech Generate Biomedicines as Chief Medical Officer. She'll lead the late stage development of GB's respiratory & dermatology treatments in clinical trials. Incl GB-0895 4 severe asthma

Horrible

She's in the queue for a pardon, perhaps

I follow you on both and am curious if you post on Threads & if you've had a better experience on Threads than on Bluesky.

been reading @sepinwall.bsky.social on the various social sites over the years. Just subscribed to his newsletter - I hate that he was let go from Rolling Stone, but am excited to send my $$ to him directly.

Here's the link if u want 2 attend the AI & Data Sci panel
on Fri 9/19 w/speakers incl Enoch Huang, @drannecarpenter.bsky.social
Jeremy Jenkins, Enrique Garcia-Rivera. Listed after the keynote by Vertex SVP Mark Bunnage thebiotechclub.org/career-fair cc Boston Protein Design Club & @sokrypton.org

Pfizer's VP ML Enoch Huang, @broadinstitute.org's @drannecarpenter.bsky.social, Novartis VP Jeremy Jenkins, Formation Bio's Head of Data Sci Enrique Garcia-Rivera & Vertex alum Maria E. Morales r speakers on 9/19 AI panel at Harvard Biotech Club cc @cdbahl.com @dr-alphalyrae.bsky.social Link ⬇️

Also did she reportedly quit 6 months before finishing her training, who does that?

Another Ebola outbreak in DRC & Ervebo vaccine is being deployed. However US withdrew from WHO, CDC experts fired for "disloyalty" to Kennedy & US Health Secretary is anti-vaxxer. Ebola cases in the US in '14 but competent US health leadership then. What happens if new US Ebola cases in '25? #medsky

Bill and Ted on Broadway

As you are aware, on Sept. 3, Judge Allison Burroughs of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts found unlawful the multiple recent terminations of federal research grants to Harvard; the administration has indicated its intention to appeal. Earlier this week, we shared that we had begun to receive reinstatements on many of the previously terminated federal awards from a range of federal agencies. Over the past two days, this volume has increased, and we now have received indications that the majority of our direct National Institutes of Health (NIH) award population has been restored. This is the case for certain other federal sponsors as well, and we continue to receive restoration notices daily. That said, we are monitoring funding receipts closely, and thus far, payments have not been restored on these awards.

Update: Harvard has received reinstatement notices for more than half of its NIH grants (over 600 were terminated), but no money is flowing yet, per an internal email to staff this afternoon.

Here's the link if you would like to register to attend Harvard Biotech Club's AI & Data Sciences panel on Fri 9/19 @harvardmed.bsky.social . It's listed after the keynote by Vertex's Mark Bunnage www.thebiotechclub.org/career-fair #biosky