Lisa Kadlec

He is a menace. And this is horrible. It’s bad enough that unqualified people are in important positions like this, but he’s worse than incompetent - he’s actively undermining competence.

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024.

It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness.

They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.

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Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

RFK Jr’s health department to halt $500m in mRNA vaccine research Agency to end 22 federal contracts, questioning safety of technology credited with helping end Covid pandemic

He must love infections and cancer.
A short list of what’s been achieved or is in active development with this tech:
– Seasonal flu (Phase 3)
– RSV (FDA-approved, 2024)
– CMV (Phase 3)
– HIV (early trials)
– Rapid-response design for emerging pathogens
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I would send this picture from @virginiasavy.bsky.social previously posted by @socdevbio.bsky.social of a mouse blastocyst showing early lineage specification, and all the potential to become a fully realized complex life form:

This is amazing news! I’m SO happy for Scooter!! How is he with using the litter box/peeing on his own? What an amazing little guy he is!!

phillyinquirero ... OPINION Donald Trump's shortsighted, ugly, terrible, horrible, no good, very bad bill "The Big Beautiful Bill is cruel and inhumane - unless you are in the top income bracket." BY THE INQUIRER EDITORIAL BOARD

phillyinquirer "Republicans appear poised to ram through Donald Trump's massive economic and domestic policy bill that gives to the rich and takes from the poor, all while leaving future generations saddled with trillions more in debt," writes The Inquirer Editorial Board. "Most Americans oppose the bill. Even 66% of Republican-leaning voters who don't identify with the MAGA movement are against the proposed legislation. As usual, Trump oversold the measure, which he simplistically called "one big beautiful bill" — a name Republicans legitimized as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. But under any name, it's really one big bankrupt bill - both morally and fiscally. How bad is the proposal? Details are still getting sorted out between the House and Senate, but let us count some of the ways." Read the full opinion at the link in our bio. by The Inquirer Editorial Board i by Mark Schiefelbein / Staff

@inquirer.com
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OPINION

“Donald Trump's shortsighted, ugly, terrible, horrible, no good, very bad bill
"The Big Beautiful Bill is cruel and inhumane - unless you are in the top income bracket."

BY THE INQUIRER EDITORIAL BOARD

Hear that? The calls are spooking representatives.

Tomorrow, call your reps again. Thank them if they're doing the right thing! Or if they're not, give them heck.

The June 25th target date is (just) past, but you can still donate to help the GEP bring genomics research opportunities to students!

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‘This is bull——”: National Science Foundation employees protest HUD's takeover Dozens of National Science Foundation employees crowded the agency’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, Wednesday to protest the news that the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, w...

Another day testing the limits of resilience.

The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels.

Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels.

The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.

REMINDER: Obama admin and US allies had reached a deal with Iran to ensure they would not develop a nuclear weapon. But in 2018 Trump ended that deal at the request of Netanyahu. This is 2018 article from Times of Israel www.timesofisrael.com/in-recording...

Thanks to Joyce for watching and reporting on this. 🧵

McGovern: "You are literally taking food off kids' plates to buy Elon Musk another yacht. I guess he's getting a good return on his campaign donations ... this is not policy. This is theft."

McGovern: "This is not a governing philosophy. It is a scam. I wasn't sent here to vote for trash. I can't understand why you'd choose a career of public service to do this -- to rip away the healthcare & food assistance of working & middle class Americans. Is that really what you came here to do?"

Pope Cracker VI

I mean that could be anyone

Every now and then I just pause and think that … we could have just elected Kamala Harris, and we’d still have an economy that was the strongest in the world; we’d still have an American-led trans-Atlantic order; we’d be assured that our universities would remain the envy of the world; … (1/x)

P.S. Long overdue update, but I got an MMR shot back in early March. The pharmacist who gave me the shot told me that they'd been getting a lot of calls about MMR vaccines and were potentially going to have to increase their stock!

Benny, as he faced his cancer diagnosis, created a remarkable video reflecting on his long and eventful life
www.youtube.com/watch?v=50cK...

Trump headlining $1 million a person super PAC dinner as stocks sink over tariffs Donors attending the Mar-a-Lago candlelight fundraising dinner Friday are being charged $1 million a plate.

People are losing their jobs and savings, prices are rising higher, and the entire economy is on the brink of disaster—but Donald Trump couldn’t care less.

His billionaire political donors will be just fine.

Jeffrey Goldberg from The Atlantic on Mike Waltz:

"This isn't The Matrix...My phone number was in his phone because my phone number was in his phone. He's telling everyone that he's never met me or spoken to me. That's simply not true."

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Most people genuinely do not realize how many things the federal government does for them. This sheet has a variety of stickers on many issues to remind them. Download, print on labels, educate people. Sorry for the ugly link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/9eqrf...

Made it to #Dros25 with 3 of my students, who will be presenting a poster on their undergraduate research tomorrow (649T). Obligatory “we just hung up our poster” photo.

Opinion | A Day of American Infamy (Gift Article) A dreadful moment for Ukraine, for the free world, for the legacy of an America that once stood for the principles of the Atlantic Charter.

Strong words from Bret Stephens: “Roosevelt and Reagan must be spinning in their graves, as are Churchill and Thatcher. It’s up to the rest of us to reclaim America’s honor from the gangsters who besmirched it in the White House.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

This has to be photo of the year.

Zelensky is the entire world outside of MAGA.

Today is a reminder of Zelensky's superhuman stamina and strength. He deflected deeply unfair vile attacks in his 3rd language and kept it together while two bullies threatened his country's existence and repeated the tired but infuriating propaganda tropes of the aggressor.

Two photos: One shows Zelenskyy in a black quarter zip at the White House meeting, the other shows Elon Musk in a black graphic t-shirt, black topcoat, and black ball cap, also meeting with the Trump cabinet.

One reason why I think respectability is stupid is because it's often used as a mask. Such judgements are rarely about the clothes themselves, but more often about the bodies beneath them. To wit, no one raised an issue when Elon wore a graphic t-shirt and ball cap to meet the Trump cabinet.

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