Steve Steinhubl

“An Egalitarian Pressure”: Australia Has Been Requiring People to Vote for 100 Years As Australia compels voters to show up at the polls this weekend, a scholar lays out the genesis of

"What we know from research is, if you don’t have compulsory voting, the people least likely to vote are poorer people, people from new migrant groups, and often the young," says an Australian scholar on what it means that Australia requires voting.

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All academic institutions will soon realize we are in this together, facing an autocratic ruler who wants to destroy academia, science, and public health (together with media and courts - pick up a history book).

There is only one solution - stand up, speak up, and, critically, collective action.

Stepping outside science: what and ugh

just went to immigration court in Lower Manhattan to see with my own eyes how masked and armed federal agents are apprehending people in the hallways as they walk out of their scheduled hearings.

Opinion | Doctors Have Lost Their Mount Olympus of Medicine

Highly recommended reading from a front line clinician.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...

Watch Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan | Netflix Official Site Ed Sullivan broke barriers by booking Black artists on his Sunday night variety show. This documentary spotlights the TV pioneer's legacy of equality.

Watching the documentary “Sunday Best.” Terrific because, 1. It shows the difference 1 person with principles & courage can make in the world, 2. It suggests that CBS at one time had a spine, & 3. As horrible as things are today, they were a lot worse in the 50s & 60s. www.netflix.com/title/82048609

‘It’s heartless, it’s careless, and it’s deeply damaging’ says former NIH director on cuts to medical research | CNN Dr. Francis Collins, former director of the National Institutes of Health, speaks to Christiane Amanpour about his decision to leave the agency and what he says is the Trump administration’s crackdown...

Straight talk from Dr. Francis Collins on the devastating - and politically motivated - cuts to science and public health in the United States.

Anybody who cares about their health or the future or science, technology, and innovation in this country should watch this.

www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/T...

Did alcohol facilitate the evolution of complex societies? - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Did alcohol facilitate the evolution of complex societies?

'Did alcohol facilitate the evolution of complex societies?' | @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders My thoughts on the Epstein files | Sen. Bernie Sanders

My thoughts on the Epstein files:

Our new @cellcellpress.bsky.social review on the generative A.I. era in medicine @rajpurkar.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

This 👇🏽is a really good breakdown of what Zohran has actually said, and why the smears calling him antisemitic are so (intentionally) disingenuous — including from his fellow Democrats.

Full @qasimrashid.com video: www.instagram.com/reel/DLfhcQW...

"These armed bounty hunters stormed a
family's home in Huntington Beach
no warrant, no ID, weapons drawn on kids. Do you recognize them? Help us identify them.

I doubt anyone will see me post, but this needs to be known... if you have a visible following please repost 💙🔥💙

Admitting he wants "his people... aka US " to behave like north Korea for Kim Jong Un.🤬

Incredibly sad news.

WATCH: What went wrong with the climate relocation of Newtok, Alaska?

The challenges of moving the town off a bed of thawing permafrost show how ill-prepared the U.S. is to respond to climate change, @emilyschwing.bsky.social‬ explains. ⤵️

Public health suffers when those in power dismiss knowledge “Knowledge is power”—or at least it was when Sir Francis Bacon coined this phrase in the 16th century. In today’s world, we frequently encounter a different variant of this philosophy, perhaps best de...

"Knowledge is power when it is wisely used to shape public health policy. The measles vaccines have saved around 94 million lives over the past 50 years." @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

He's right. "Nothing short of devastating"
By @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org
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its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....

Here's the NIH's proposed budget - from $48 billion to $27 billion. NIAID, current ~$7 billion cut to ~$4.2 billion.

The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains.

Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone.

www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...

The New Dark Age The Trump administration has launched an attack on knowledge itself.

In this day and age, only one of the major news outlets in the United States seems capable of actual journalism and describing things exactly the way they are - @theatlantic.com.

Example:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

SO GOOD!
Share this everywhere.

Journal collected $400,000 from papers it later retracted A Sage journal that holds the distinction of highest number of retracted articles in the Retraction Watch Database likely made in excess of $400,000 in revenue from those papers, by our calculation…

A Sage journal that holds the distinction of highest number of retracted articles in the Retraction Watch Database likely made in excess of $400,000 in revenue from those papers, by our calculations.

“An Egalitarian Pressure”: Australia Has Been Requiring People to Vote for 100 Years As Australia compels voters to show up at the polls this weekend, a scholar lays out the genesis of

"What we know from research is, if you don’t have compulsory voting, the people least likely to vote are poorer people, people from new migrant groups, and often the young," says an Australian scholar on what it means that Australia requires voting. boltsmag.org/compuls...

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Development of a personalized digital biomarker of vaccine-associated reactogenicity using wearable sensors and digital twin technology Communications Medicine - Steinhubl et al. evaluate individuals’ physiologic response to COVID-19 vaccines through continuous monitoring with a patch sensor. By creating physiologic digital...

In case you are looking for a small dose of vaccine science, in our recent publication we explored how wearables sensors can help distinguish individual differences in response to vaccines. A small step towards personalized vaccine. rdcu.be/ehx3K

holding my new book SUPER AGERS

Excited to get a hold of my new book!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-...

Exclusive | Ousted Vaccine Chief Says RFK Jr.’s Team Sought Data to Justify Anti-Science Stance Peter Marks says the new health secretary’s team wants to show vaccines aren’t safe while promoting dangerous and unproven treatments.

More from Peter Marks on RFK Jr and the FDA
This extends beyond anti-vax to unproven use of stem cells
Gift link
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Coordinated AI agents for advancing healthcare Nature Biomedical Engineering - Decentralized yet coordinated networks of specialized artificial intelligence agents, multi-agent systems for healthcare (MASH), that excel in performing tasks in an...

Our paper on A.I. agents for healthcare just published @rajpurkar.bsky.social Michael Moritz
free access rdcu.be/efW1n

HHS starts layoffs of thousands of workers across its agencies Layoff notices began arriving early Tuesday for thousands of employees of HHS and its subsidiary agencies, with as many 10,000 workers potentially expected to be hit by the cuts.

How I will remember April Fools' Day 2025.
Reckless.
My heart is out for these dedicated folks at NIH, FDA and CDC
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