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Biosciences & Tech policy Post about research, innovation, public health, politics & policy making, regulation, disinfo She/Her/Antifacist

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Florida just cut off HIV meds for 16,000 people.

01.03.2026 01:14 — 👍 1627    🔁 783    💬 14    📌 20
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US measles cases soar past 1,100

US measles cases soar past 1,100 www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/us-m...

01.03.2026 02:55 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

Stop using war to talk about corporate strategies.
It’s theft or IP violation or whatever… but missiles aren’t being fired people aren’t dying. It’s not war.

01.03.2026 04:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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US cybersecurity agency CISA reportedly in dire shape amid Trump cuts and layoffs | TechCrunch Under the first year of the Trump administration, the U.S. cyber agency CISA has faced cuts, layoffs, and furloughs, as bipartisan lawmakers and cybersecurity industry sources say the agency is unprep...

Iran, China, and North Korea will love that, well done

01.03.2026 04:00 — 👍 23    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1
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Trump touted support for gun rights but has defended restrictions in court The Trump administration has backed some loosening of gun restrictions while defending others. Second Amendment advocates say it has fallen short.

NEW: A Supreme Court case being argued on Monday puts a spotlight on the Trump administration's mixed messaging on gun rights:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

28.02.2026 17:32 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
White text: "Tell Congress: No unconstitutional war with Iran". ACLU logo. Photos of the Capitol and military troops. Dark red background.

White text: "Tell Congress: No unconstitutional war with Iran". ACLU logo. Photos of the Capitol and military troops. Dark red background.

Tell your members of Congress: Vote YES on the Khanna-Massie War Powers Resolution and end President Trump’s unconstitutional and unauthorized use of military force against Iran.

Send your message now at aclu.org/war-on-iran-

01.03.2026 00:38 — 👍 865    🔁 365    💬 26    📌 19

Very sad news. David Botstein made enormous contributions to molecular biology & genetics. I first met him in a grad school interview. I learned something from him each of the few times I saw him since. Indelible personality. Here he is giving a keynote at the 2015 UCSD Genetics Retreat.

28.02.2026 20:35 — 👍 20    🔁 7    💬 3    📌 1

The A team, huh?

28.02.2026 20:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The NIH Restructuring Congress Rejected Is Happening Anyway (I used Gemini Nano Banana 2 to create this fictional image.)

Anyone who cares about the dismantling of the NIH needs to read this analysis what has been done by JB.

Despite his soft jazz drone, he's an architect of destruction.

Media needs to stop treating him as if he's a hot-house flower.

elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/the-nih-re...

28.02.2026 20:35 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Once scientists accept Bhattacharya's mission which is "health and longevity" then they are "free".

"It frees you up from all of the baggage. You don't have to worry about being ideologically pure enough. You just focus on the science."

Orwellian POS.

h/t @joho.bsky.social

28.02.2026 20:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Podcast Jay describes which science he wants to censor
YouTube video by Jonathan Howard Podcast Jay describes which science he wants to censor

Jay Bhattacharya on his media PR tour. Agrees there are big changes in "the breadth of topics and the types of topic that are being funded."

"There's more space for actual science."
"The cultural shift is enormous."
Now scientists know why they are "here".

www.youtube.com/shorts/AcdMC...

28.02.2026 20:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The NIH Restructuring Congress Rejected Is Happening Anyway (I used Gemini Nano Banana 2 to create this fictional image.)

Then read this for another insider view of how exactly NIH is getting dismantled by Bhattacharya & Vought.

elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/the-nih-re...

28.02.2026 19:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People The mere act of bombing Iran will not by itself create a stable regime.

The American bombardment of Iran has been launched without explanation, without Congress, without public support. Above all it has been launched without a coherent strategy for the Iranian people, and without a plan to let them build a legitimate Iranian state.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

28.02.2026 18:41 — 👍 2030    🔁 907    💬 136    📌 50
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The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.

28.02.2026 17:05 — 👍 20559    🔁 5801    💬 1165    📌 361

What a weird and telling framing, Politico.

28.02.2026 19:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In April 2024, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale interviewed exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. He titled it, “The Path to Regime Change in Iran…” 1/ youtu.be/MmoEeCx30Fc?...

28.02.2026 19:09 — 👍 366    🔁 238    💬 25    📌 44
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Epstein Received Sensitive Military Intelligence Amid Gates Foundation Polio Campaign in Pakistan Justice Department emails show that Epstein helped the Gates Foundation gain access to the Taliban—and received confidential reports and intelligence on Pakistani military operations.

It will be lost in today's news, but @dropsitenews.com is doing amazing work digging into the Epstein files, and its revelations that Epstein involved himself in the polio eradication campaign with the cooperation of the Gates Foundation is just jaw-dropping. www.dropsitenews.com/p/epstein-se...

28.02.2026 13:26 — 👍 36    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 0

I've made a new starter pack of people to follow for news and commentary on Iran.

Got the idea from a request by @kakape.bsky.social

28.02.2026 17:53 — 👍 80    🔁 48    💬 8    📌 1

Monday?

28.02.2026 17:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

28.02.2026 16:43 — 👍 2899    🔁 962    💬 30    📌 32

Trump acknowledges he has launched a war.

This shreds our Constitution, which assigns decisions of war to Congress.

Congress must vote on a War Powers Resolution immediately.  No war with Iran!

28.02.2026 16:24 — 👍 140    🔁 43    💬 25    📌 4

Heavy PR schedule!

28.02.2026 17:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is that a recent interview?

28.02.2026 17:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

No justification, no authorization from Congress, and no clear objective.

But none of that matters to Donald Trump — and apparently neither do the safety and lives of American service members.

28.02.2026 14:33 — 👍 3307    🔁 876    💬 165    📌 47

Congress must return immediately and vote to put an end to this war.

Every Senator should be on the record—the American people deserve to know which of their leaders supports another potentially bloody and costly war in the Middle East.

No war with Iran.

28.02.2026 16:00 — 👍 2712    🔁 648    💬 145    📌 56
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Why did Trump attack Iran? Nobody knows. - EUROPE SAYS Early Saturday, the United States launched an open-ended war on Iran. And nobody really knows why.

Why did Trump attack Iran? Nobody knows.

https://www.europesays.com/2812644/

Early Saturday, the United States launched an open-ended war on Iran. And nobody really knows why. For the…

28.02.2026 16:46 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Retraction Note: Efficacy of oral folinic acid supplementation in children with autism spectrum disorder: a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial - European Journal of Pediatrics European Journal of Pediatrics -

Retraction Note: Efficacy of oral folinic acid supplementation in children with autism spectrum disorder: a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Glad to see the "Leucovorin is a magic cure for autism" grift is crumbling.

28.02.2026 15:47 — 👍 9    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Trump’s Strikes on Iran Were Unlawful. Here’s Why That Matters.

The strikes on Iran are blatantly illegal. I explained in June why the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities were unlawful under US and international law. Everything I wrote then is true today, but this is a far larger assault with far graver consequences.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

28.02.2026 12:38 — 👍 1787    🔁 589    💬 45    📌 22
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Towards unified global action on ultra-processed foods: understanding commercial determinants, countering corporate power, and mobilising a public health response The rise of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) in human diets is harming global public health. However, policy responses are still emerging—much like tobacco control efforts decades ago—indicating the need ...

This is how to do health inequality research going forward'
Towards unified global action on ultra-processed foods: understanding commercial determinants, countering corporate power, and mobilising a public health response - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

28.02.2026 12:20 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

By whom? Makary looking for someone to do the hit job? Or is this from the White House?

28.02.2026 14:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0