Sally Jacob

Just how much are we spending on AI?

Compared to other massive infrastructure projects, AI is the sixth largest in US history, so far.

For children and teens, heart and blood vessel complications of Covid overshadow the very rare and short-term risk of vaccinations, a new report from nearly 14 million kids
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Trying to wade through disparate datasets, decided to see if ChatGPT could save me time by synthesizing/summarizing key trends in (drug) biotech over past 50 years. Its response was "This is hard. There are a lot of disparate datasets out there. You'll need to hire a consultant and pay around $50K."

Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:

Acyn @Acyn X.com RFK JR: I'm looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation-you can tell from their faces, movements, and lack of social connection TEXAS "MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN" LEGISLATION ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. Health & Human Services Secretary 0:12 From CSPAN C-SPANG* 15:04 • 8/27/25

wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them?

This is an insane person.

few outcomes, except for 99% of FDA-approved drugs, 174 recipients of 104 Nobel Prizes, training ~30K MDs and ~10K PhDs per year to enter the workforce, and a 34% reduction in age-adjusted cancer deaths since 1990 -- the largest decrease in history

Write or call your congressperson NOW to express your views on this matter.

Colossal scientist now admits they haven’t really made dire wolves Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company's chief scientist now concedes that the animals are merely modified grey wolve...

Quietly backtracking now that the publicity has died down www.newscientist.com/article/2481...

Please make a comment on this NOW (they are due tomorrow). We can't let NIH and NSF POs and division directors become political appointees--this will completely destroy science.

What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...

And 5 years later, this is DOGE-level efficient use of government resources how...?

Worth nothing that the current COVID booster protects against the variant widely circulating this summer/fall (but not the latest variant), so some who contracted that earlier variant recently (thanks in part to lack of booster offering in spring!) may be waiting longer to get the "new" booster.

Thank you for this article. Beyond concerns for the safety of the many who are using compounded tirzepatide, there's the concern that reported or anecdotal AEs related to use of tirzepatide, including compounded versions, may confound safety data and/or influence provider and payer decisions.

Someone must have left it underneath the carpet

The migration of MedTwitter, along with a large cohort of science journalists, to BlueSky is striking in its scale and rapidity. In a short time, this shift has effectively transformed BlueSky into the essential hub for breaking medical news and vibrant scientific discourse.