Katie Wilkinson

This kind of bottle-shaming is a not-so-subtle way to push women out of the workforce.

The Married Scientists Torn Apart by a Covid Bioweapon Theory

Well this is pretty wild

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A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

Here’s the thing, emerging scientists aren’t going to flee to do science elsewhere…they just won’t do the science.

We will lose at least one, if not two generations of knowledge if we don’t get this shit sorted out immediately.

The effects of the ACIP poisoned recommendations may not be seen clearly at scale for years.

But every child that unnecessarily develops HepB-associated chronic liver disease and cancer is the fault of those on that committee, the HHS Secretary, and those that capitulated to put him in power.

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.

Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations

If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

“Calculators expanded reasoning; the printing press spread knowledge. ChatGPT, by contrast, doesn’t extend cognition—it automates it, turning thinking itself into a service. Rather than democratizing learning, it privatizes the act of thinking under corporate control. “

The wholesale destruction of America's leadership in science and medicine in progress.

Fire Bobby, Jay and Marty NOW!

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article) A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

New York Times article on science funding with some depressing but familiar curves with interactive graphics.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

22% fewer NIH grants

Call your reps!

Script: "I'm [name with spelling], and I'm a constituent from [city, zip code]. I'm calling [senator/rep] to demand they do something to prevent the FDA from rolling back critical vaccines for children.

It's dangerously anti-science and will do harm."

Say if you'd like a response.

Opinion | My Father Died of Hepatitis B Before the Vaccine. We Must Not Go Back.

This is the most important op-ed you'll read this week. The Trump administration is about to get rid of the birth-dose of hepatitis B vaccine. That is a deadly choice for many families. @helenouyang.bsky.social tells her story. Now call your member of Congress. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.

$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.

Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

A group of eight people, smiling, and surrounding a tree decorated in blue and gold with cork mouse ornaments

Hey series of cork mouse ornaments with colored cards, saying names glued on the bottom

A homemade muscle spindle ornament with a blue Christmas ball, nucleus and tapered, blue muscle spindle wrapped with gold pipe cleaners to make it look like a pseudo unipolar neuron.

I think this year’s Christmas in the Park Neurophysiology Lab tree is our best yet. The lab mice were busy making muscle spindle ornaments and decorating! 🧪🐭🎄

Ooh that’s a contender

Lab students have a poll to rename our rigs. Probably won’t solve problem of me never remembering which is which but ‘There’s a noise issue on Jerry Rig’ is so much more fun than rig 1.

You are too kind.

While RFK Jr spreads conspiracies, California will stick to science.

I have a story today about interoception--a kind of sixth sense that delivers information from within our bodies to our brains. nyti.ms/4rfTDtn

Fun fact- 3 of the students now have PhDs and one is a DVM!

YouTube video by Peter Luu Avian Surgery!

One of my favorite days in Intro Bio is the respiratory physiology day where I get the excuse to show this amazing video about bird lungs. It was made by 4 students from my SJSU Cardiorespiratory Phys class and won an @apsphysiology.bsky.social video award🫁 youtu.be/4QURSkPystI

Exclusive: CDC to end all monkey research Studies related to HIV and other infectious diseases will be phased out, sources say; fate of the agency's animals remains unclear

Setting aside the question of whether or not we are ready to phase out the use of animals in research (spoiler: we are not), there is an ethical way to do this. Abruptly shutting down research programs means that many animals are going to be euthanized! www.science.org/content/arti...

Screenshot from linked article: Learning is done best in community. The most important function of educational institutions is providing spaces for building that community. Every time we suggest a student would be well served by “asking a chatbot,” we are cutting off an opportunity for that student to engage with their classmates, instructors, or librarians. Those interactions, however small, are what constitute communities of learners.

Yes! This also comes up in my recent contribution to CHE:

www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

Full circle moment: former undergrad research student is now teaching another section of Intro Bio. I used some of her data from the lab as an exam question asking students to identify the dependent variable & whether the hypothesis was supported. 🧪

wilbur looking at the web charlotte wove, with resist woven into it

The fight has come to NC, and it just hit close to home. Our daughter teaches in Durham public schools and she said almost all of the Latinx kids are not in school today. ICE is targeting everyone who "looks Hispanic", citizen or not. I am even more angry today-kids need to go to school!