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RFK Jr. food pyramid site links to Grok, which says you shouldn’t trust RFK Jr. Grok generated a meal plan to fit RFK Jr.'s food pyramid, then explained why it's bad.

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Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪

Science News Names Inaugural Winner of the Starks-Murcutt Prize for Excellence in Science Journalism Science News is proud to name Celina Zhao as the inaugural winner of the $1,000 Starks-Murcutt Prize for Excellence in…

Congratulations to Celina Zhao on winning the first Starks-Murcutt Prize for science journalism by @sciencenews.bsky.social interns! www.societyforscience.org/blog/science...

A ‘shadow CDC’ is scrambling to fill gaps in public health data Dozens of routinely updated CDC databases have gone quiet. Here’s what states and medical societies are doing to preserve U.S. public health

Dozens of routinely updated CDC databases have gone quiet. Here’s what states and medical societies are doing to preserve U.S. public health

Illinois joins World Health Organization network, after Trump administration withdraws from group Joining the World Health Organization’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network is the state’s latest move into an area that was previously the domain of the federal government, before the…

More of this, please!

Trump pulled the US out of WHO. Two states took matters in their own hands. Illinois just joined GOARN, which provides info/resources to help control outbreaks & public health emergencies.

California was the first. Isolationist agenda will backfire.

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Modernizing the National Institutes of Health: Faster Discoveries, More Cures | The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Full Committee Hearing on February 3, 2026 at 5:00 AM

I'm on Capitol Hill watching NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya testify to the Senate HELP committee.

Thankfully I haven't been escorted out of this event (yet). Here's what I'm following. You can also watch live here:
www.help.senate.gov/hearings/mod...

The @society4science.bsky.social has announced that it will share many of these hard-won provisions with non-union employees. I'm pleased that our efforts will make this workplace better for everyone.

Without the union, none of these gains would have been possible.
We also won AI protections, more compassionate bereavement leave and up to 16 weeks of severance pay.

I am thrilled that after two years of negotiating we finally have a contract that our members could accept. This document will be a foundation on which we can build a more equitable, flexible and stronger workplace.

@standupforscience.bsky.social appreciation thread
Science Fight Club is important and necessary for two reasons:

1. Science has become incredibly political, as identity politics took over ALL politics.

2. Scientific institutions don't typically "fight"
and look where that got us. 🧪

He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing An NIH scientist’s maverick approach reveals legal, ethical, moral, scientific and social challenges to developing potentially life-saving vaccines.

This stemmed from my original story for @sciencenews.bsky.social
www.sciencenews.org/article/vacc...

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Canadian Broadcast Corp's As It Happens featured an interview with Chris Buck about vaccine beer. You can listen here at the 16:40 mark: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Yes. You’ll also find the other paper detailing the methods of Buck’s self-experiment linked in my story. Science News always links to the primary source

To be clear the oral route was less effective than purified injected particles but still
gave an immune reaction in mice. Buck made antibodies after drinking the beer but there’s no head to head comparison with injected vaccine because that one hasn’t entered clinical trials yet

The mice ate yeast mixed with kibble. They were not consuming alcohol

You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"

Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.

One of the Lithuanian collaborators worked in Buck's lab and brought the yeast with them. Buck taste-tested several strains before deciding on this one.

CDC funds controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in African newborns Scientists question the value of the proposed study, which will investigate a vaccine long known to be efficacious and safe

I am glad to see large media outlets reporting on this. Hopefully it shames the researchers into not continuing with the planned study or at minimum making sure ALL children in the study receive the birth dose of the HepB vaccine.
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US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’ Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies

I was interviewed for @theguardian.com by the wonderful @melodyschreiber.com, one of the finest health reporters in the world, about what I called a “neocolonialist” study planned by Danish researchers in Guinea-Bissau, funded by RFK Jr. So many red flags 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Confocal micrograph of NIH3T3 cells showing nuclei in green and primary cilia in holiday light colors.

It's Season's Greetings #FluorescenceFriday! Please enjoy these primary cilia colored to look like holiday lights! I hope you enjoy the season and get to spend some time with friends and family! 🔬 by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social postdoc Sam Hack 🧪 👩‍🔬

He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing An NIH scientist’s maverick approach reveals legal, ethical, moral, scientific and social challenges to developing potentially life-saving vaccines.

Well. It's certainly not boring over in vaccine world.

Buck says everyone has a right to self-experimentation and feels a moral imperative to get the vaccine beer to people who might benefit.

Buck wants others to be able to try vaccine beer for themselves. Marketing it as a food or dietary supplement would allow that to happen. Critics are worried that selling an untested vaccine as food could undermine confidence in vaccines and even the food supply.

His presentation at the World Vaccine Congress Washington was called "Making and sharing a vaccine beer." He was preparing to experiment on himself. But his employer, the National Institutes of Health frowns on self experimentation. He did it as a private citizen.

He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing An NIH scientist’s maverick approach reveals legal, ethical, moral, scientific and social challenges to developing potentially life-saving vaccines.

🧪In April, I met @chrisbuck.bsky.social at a conference. I followed his journey as he home brewed and tested the effects of a vaccine beer on himself. Critics are worried about the ramifications. My exclusive story @sciencenews.bsky.social

www.sciencenews.org/article/vacc...

All I want for Christmas is a fair contract but the @society4science.bsky.social is dragging their feet and now says they won't give us a proposal until next year. Our CEO gets huge raises far in excess of many guild members' salaries. Meanwhile, many of us are struggling to make ends meet.

‘Butt breathing’ could help people who can’t get oxygen the regular way Takanori Takebe’s strange investigation into whether humans can use the gut for breathing has surprisingly sentimental origins: helping his dad.

This story by Maria Temming for @sciencenews.bsky.social must be shared. www.sciencenews.org/article/butt...

Promotional graphic for the DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship Program. The background is a dark blue gradient with flowing wave-like patterns in blue and gold. At the top, white text reads: “DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship Applications Now Open.” Below, a yellow box with black text says: “Seeking Disabled Mentees and Dedicated Mentors to Champion Inclusion in STEM.” At the bottom, white text states: “Applications due December 5th.” In the lower right corner, there is the DisabledInSTEM logo.

It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years!

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The Spy Museum used to be in this building, and put up James Bond villain displays in windows before they moved. Nobody replaced them. So every Christmas, Xenia Onatopp and Largo look down menacingly on shoppers.

The Starbucks strike is open-ended and workers are prepared to stay on strike for a while. They're asking consumers not to buy Starbucks while they're striking so don't cross the picket line! bsky.app/profile/sbwo...