Parker Holman

We are never going to fix this until journalists start holding politicans who actively stoke antivax, antiscience sentiment for political gain accountable. Antivax sentiment isn't some grass roots will of the people thing, it's a manufactured political manipulation tool.

Irony is dead…

I'll never understand the chest thumping Canadian govt/funders/uni do over bribing scientists to move here DESPITE the funding environment while foregoing every opportunity to make it a funding environment that attracts people in the first place. Truly embarassing.

Defend medical research

Mass blocking even.🙂
bsky.app/profile/did:...

Block list for Trump regime government accounts. How to Dismantle a Dictatorship, Step 4: Block validation. #3E bsky.app/profile/did:...

Poilievre is getting increasingly deranged. I haven't always likes comparisons between the CPC and MAGA, but their explicitly-stated desires in the past year to politicize judicial appointments and the national police force should deeply disturb us all.

Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

This is outrageous - after the #Greenbelt #Scandal and this is DoFo’s response??? This should be rejected by Ontarians

Any Ontario minister in Doug Ford’s government could soon have the power to create law-free zones — and decide what gets built there.

Ontario reporter @fatimabsyed.bsky.social explains:

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Lancet: Offline: Those one should not forgive (Makary and Bhattacharya)

by Richard Horton

bit.ly/3IPC0PD

Dear Director Bhattacharya: I listened to more of your conversation with Glenn Beck. You made a number of statements that are false and misleading. You have considerable responsibilities in your current position and need to live up to them. You dismiss critics of President Trump's comments at the press conference by saying: "I think the key point here is something called "Trump Derangement Syndrome".

A new email to Director Bhattacharya this morning.

1/n

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon

The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions

Autism and Tylenol: Exploring the Evidence on Acetaminophen in Pregnancy - NAM Margaret McCarthy discusses the genetics of autism, how to interpret associations with Tylenol (acetaminophen) use in health studies, and why medical guidance matters.

Interview with @pegmccarthy.bsky.social on the *evidence* related to Tylenol and pregnancy

nam.edu/news-and-ins...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

One of the cruellest and most devastating diseases – Huntington's – has been successfully treated for the first time, say doctors.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

#science #huntingtonsdisease

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

There are many problems with this statement, but Klein’s fundamental error reveals something much more dangerous: he’s mistaking performance for discourse, spectacle for persuasion. Kirk wasn’t showing up to campuses to “talk with anyone who would talk to him.” He was showing up armed with a string of logical fallacies, nonsense talking points, and gotcha questions specifically designed to enrage inexperienced college students so he could generate viral social media clips of himself “owning the libs.”

It's wild to me how ostensibly smart people cannot/could not/will not see what is so obvious.

@mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes.

www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...

Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political.

Two genders - male, and political.

Two religions - Christian, and political.

Two races - white, and political.

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

Obergefell v. Hodges made me believe in the whole "arc of history bends towards justice." In the 90s, I didn't think gay marriage would be legalized in my lifetime because homophobia was so deeply ingrained. We would have never gotten here without the decision and now it may be overturned.

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya:

“Science should not be partisan”.

Also NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya:

“Every grant that comes into the NIH will be reviewed by a Trump appointee to make sure it fits the MAGA agenda”.

Fuck you, Jay!

Woohoo! Congrats Siara!!!

Hmm. I think there are separate--but perhaps a little overlapping--things going on here that are being somewhat conflated...

All it takes to get invited onto @jimmyfallon.bsky.social is wishing you could rehabilitate the term “Nazi”

a man with a beard is wearing an orange turtleneck and a gray shirt . Alt: a man with a beard is wearing an orange turtleneck and a gray shirt .

This is 💯

Thank you for your advocacy!!!!

In preparation of today's mark-up of the NIH appropriations bill in the Senate and other activities, I sent this note to Senator Susan Collins' office.

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Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.