Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈

I don't have a problem with Tim. But I do think it is deleterious that so many smart people spend so much time on X, which has essentially become an algorithmically and AI-optimized far-right MAGA message testing and propaganda machine. People assume X posts represent the masses, but they don't!

NIH Says It Will No Longer Recognize the Research Fellows’ Union NIH leadership said the union “should never have been certified,” in an email to the union’s leadership.

Podcast Jay continues to attack the very people he promises to support, early career investigators. Now he wants to rip up the collective bargaining agreement with the NIH Fellows Union (illegal, BTW). Who's next, the NIH police union? The firefighters?
www.notus.org/health-scien...

It makes me sad a little bit every time I see scientists post long threads on X, so the billionaire bigot-fascist profits from their work.

Will do. I’m both.

This is eugenics. Genocide. An attack on science, medical ethics, bodily autonomy, and human rights.

Where is the outcry from the biomedical community? Trans people aren't just abstract patients and research participants: We're your friends, family, and co-workers.

Speak up before it's too late

Hello -- not-billionaire-owned major local news org here www.inquirer.com/offers/

Now would be a good time to delete this.

Locasale seems very bitter. About something.

Jay Bhattacharya saying “there is no cure for measles, which is why prevention is so critical.”

Jay Bhattacharya saying “the MMR vaccine remains the most reliable and effective way to prevent it.”

Bhattacharya saying “vaccination protects not only individuals, but entire communities.”

You know what? No notes, Jay.

I don’t doubt he believes this.

Bhattacharya didn’t embrace anti-vax nonsense until it served his political, anti-public agenda.

That said, he really did he embrace that world.

Still, he has tended to fall back on sorta defending the MMR to appear more credible.

Maybe you shouldn’t credulously report that’s he’s trying to make a “deal” again.

They actually took glamour shots of Curtis Yarvin (a difficult thing to do) in their fawning profile of him. That’s a choice.

Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!

Operation Epstein Fury is the most sophisticated military operation in the history of the United States.

by Pete Hegseth

Oh good lord.

Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission.

Full statement from the band:

100% with you. A lot of casual homophobia around. Sometimes straight men are just bad & it's not okay to call them gay bc you're demonising & assigning homosexuality as bad. Homophobia on the left & right is everywhere on so many levels & it's exhausting to have to live with after fighting so long.🏳️‍🌈

They’ll rewrite “Let that be your last battlefield” and allow Bele to arrest Lokai and deport him to some desert planet with no due process.

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

The funniest line - “I could write more about why I left Notre Dame…” and this was 5000 words into the piece.

Podcast Jay strikes again.

Left identified people on twitter love to accuse this or that Trump official of being secretly gay and they find it hilarious. Bc homophobia is funny to them I guess. It’s not fun to be the brunt of that kind of joke. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

New version of our preprint on bioRxiv about bioRxiv up. Now that’s what I call a revision – 6 years after the first version!
It has new data about our progress and highlights from a massive user survey. 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

Philadelphia opens new LGBTQ+ visitor center, one of few in country Located at 1130 Locust, the center offers visitor services, including itinerary planning and travel information with a focus on LGBTQ+-affirming destinations.

www.inquirer.com/news/philly-...

She’s a 5th place grifter.

True words. More justice is due.

Oppose Nomination of Casey Means for Surgeon General The Senate HELP Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on the nomination of Casey Means to serve as U.S. Surgeon General on Wednesday, February 25th. While we were hoping this nomination was dead, i...

Still time to write to your Senators (and get your friends to do the same). Casey Means is a charlatan with dangerous views on contraception, raw milk, vaccines and has a whole lot of conflict of interest--she's making money off it all. Just say no to the quack. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

Woohoo! Justice.

Look. I’ve talked, shared, shouted, written articles; I have a whole book dedicated to only this: #trans people are not new; #transgender care, surgical + hormone, more than 100 years old. I will write for anyone willing to kick the NYT butt over their ‘it’s a fad’ crap

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Holden Thorp’s slides from a recent talk.

The fundamental flaw with @holdenthorp.bsky.social’s argument is thinking that organizations and people can only do one thing at a time (even though he is really close to acknowledging it!)

Let’s break it down, bc I’m tired of this. 🧵

(cred: @ianlmorgan.bsky.social)