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California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50.

California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.

Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.

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CHOP study finds peanut allergies declined in kids after updated guidance There was a 43% decline in peanut allergies among U.S. children under 3 after the release of new early introduction guidelines.

www.inquirer.com/health/peanu...

Thanks Philadelphia Inquirer!

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How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Abraham Lincoln

The gSOS Polygenic Score is Associated with Bone Density and Fracture Risk in Childhood Abstract. The polygenic risk score genetic quantitative ultrasound speed of sound (gSOS) was developed using machine learning algorithms in adults of Europ

Just out: Led by @j-a-mitchell.bsky.social and Babette Zemel "gSOS Polygenic Score is Associated with Bone Density and Fracture Risk in Childhood" @asbmr.bsky.social. Funded by our #NICHD award R01 HD100406. @chopresearch.bsky.social @penngenetics.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/jbmr/article...

Just here to remind everyone that while the federal government is shutdown, all study sections at the NIH are currently on hold. Another blow to science and to early career scientists like myself with young labs and research groups. Very hard to remain positive about this career path.

Our #ASHG25 platform activities:

Vrathasha Vrathasha: 3D genomics & glaucoma. 206AB, W 10.45-11

Winter Bruner: MPRA & childhood obesity. 205ABC, T 11-11.15

Matt Pahl: Ancillary Session, Predicted Effector Genes. 259A, F 1.45-1.15

Struan Grant chairs Metabolic Matrix session. 253ABC, S 10-11

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Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.

F. Lee Bailey

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Low dose aspirin (160mg/d) reduced recurrence in people with colon cancer and PI3K mutations. Emblematic of precision, individualized medicine since the data for aspirin across all colon cancer has been mixed.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

My quote of the day

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

John Milton

Trump Loses a Lawyer—And Much More - The Atlantic

Civil servants standing in solidarity. From NIH, NSF, EPA, CDC, NASA and now FEMA! Text reads Courage is Contagious

Welcome FEMA to the letter resistance!! The Katrina Declaration was released today out of concern that we are going back to a time when our response was its own man-made disaster. Say Never Again and sign in support!!!

@rebelfema.altgov.info

act.standupforscience.net/forms/sign-o...

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A woman's place is in the house - the House of Representatives.

Bella Abzug

Seriously?!? As if the current #science environment isn’t brutal enough! Now fake acceptance letters.

Online today! *Aging, Immune Fitness and Cancer* 🔬 Learn the latest about the intersection between these processes in
@natrevcancer.nature.com 🧬 Great to work with
@sandramcallister.bsky.social lab again 😁 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Haile Selassie

My son holding the sign he passed the test for instrument rating as a pilot while standing in front of a small plane.

When the world feels like it is falling apart it is nice to have #happy and #proud parent moments! Seeing your children follow their dreams in these chaotic times is #priceless

Sharing this new review written by two talented trainees from the Ford lab, Sheera Rosenbaum and Kaiah Fields. @kaiahfields.bsky.social

RFK Jr.’s Plan to Eliminate Vaccines Think VICP

🚨 A must-read from vaccine expert Dr. Paul Offit @pauloffit.bsky.social .

RFK Jr. isn’t just “raising questions” about vaccines — he’s using his HHS seat to break the system. Bogus aluminum studies, anti-vax appointees, and legal traps threaten vaccine supply.

#VaccinesWork #ProtectPublicHealth 🛡️

My quote of the day

I think as a leader, you just take accountability. That's what leadership is. Leadership is taking accountability yourself and holding others to the same standard, regardless of what's going on.

Jason Kelce

'Highballed': How disproportionate property taxes are forcing some Americans out of their homes An analysis of real estate data by ABC Owned Television Stations shows that homeowners in majority-nonwhite neighborhoods tend to pay disproportionate property taxes.

Appaling and disgusting how overt discrimination and racism contiues in plain sight and is justified @booker.senate.gov @kim.senate.gov abcnews.go.com/US/highballe...

The fact that Republicans are unfazed that Donald Trump is giving special treatment to a woman who ran this country’s most notorious pedophile ring on behalf of its most notorious serial pedophile is the latest sign of the GOP’s complete moral rot.

U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee Shows Strong Bipartisan Support for Cancer Research Funding in FY26 Bill Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations considered and approved its draft FY26 appropriations bill that includes increases for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and increases for fede...

Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations considered and approved its draft FY26 appropriations bill that includes increases for:

✅ National Institutes of Health
✅ Federal #CancerResearch funding at the National Cancer Institute
✅ CDC’s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control

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Public Science Engagement Using Social Media — Center for Wildlife Studies

Friends, it’s never been more important for scientists to break out of the ivory tower and engage with the public.

My course- which you can take for graduate school course credit, continuing professional education credit, or just to learn a new skill- can help.

Please share!

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Texas AG claimed three homes as primary residence. Democrats are being probed for similar issue Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife, Angela, are longtime owners of a $1.5 million home in a Dallas suburb. In 2015, they snapped up a second house in Austin.

“Mortgages signed by the Paxtons contained inaccurate statements declaring that each of those three houses was their primary residence, enabling the now-estranged couple to improperly lock in low interest rates, according to an Associated Press review of public records.”

I don't want wellness practices that teach me to be at peace with an inequitable world. I need practices that help me to stay sane while doing my part to fight against it. if it makes you compliant to injustice, it's not healing—it's sedation.

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. 

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Why is this the last paragraph of an AP article about the new legislation? The President of the US stating he hates Democrats!
‘In a speech in Iowa after the bill passed, he said Democrats only opposed it because they “hated Trump.” That didn’t bother him, he said, “because I hate them, too.”’