@snowaking.bsky.social
complex/social/dynamical/health systems Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont https://sarahnowakphd.com/ #medsky #sciencesky
Maple tree on a forest-lined street with bright orange and deep red leaves.
Peak fall-o-meter #vermont #peakfall
20.10.2025 15:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Don't parents by definition... have children?
16.10.2025 22:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reflecting on what she learned and experienced since her physics degree, Nowak’s suggestion to a junior researcher in today’s uncertain times is to focus on what drew them into research in the first place: “Most people who go into academic and scientific research are guided by their values — whether that’s curiosity, a love for the scientific method or a belief that advances in science, technology and medicine can help make the world a better place. My advice is to remember to let those values guide you and find community with others who share them.”
It's the 20th anniversary of Nature Physics and my first paper, which appeared in that first issue. I was asked to reflect on the past 2 decades and offer thoughts for todays' junior researchers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
16.10.2025 12:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We got a power crisis on our hands, you get that nuclear power plant started like I asked?
Sure did boss, real far away, just like you asked, true story.
What.
NIH released its Autism Data Science Initiative Funding Opportunities announcement. It doesn't use a normal NIH funding mechanism, so there's less transparency and standardization to the process than is typical. It also has a crazy fast timeline. dpcpsi.nih.gov/autism-data-... #medsky #sciencesky
03.06.2025 16:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The hummingbirds are here! Yes, this is basically my profile picture, but that was last year and this is today. #vermont #birding
14.05.2025 16:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
bleeding heart flowers in front of a mossy tree trunk
We get spring late in #vermont, but even more than bulbs, my bleeding hearts are my favorite sign.
06.05.2025 09:37 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/w... #medsky #sciencesky
29.04.2025 11:03 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"you call us... and that includes all of us, including our brother, SMART apprentice Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who we demand be returned to us and his family now."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K31t...
Like "censoring" the idea the vitamin A can be just as effective against measles as the vaccine? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/h...
It seems like this call could be interpreted to include pretty much any public health messaging, including things like smoking increases the risk of lung cancer. #medsky
Oh FFS
24.03.2025 16:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What could go wrong?
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h... #sciencesky #medsky
Vaccines are "recommended" for West Texans, but the risks of immunization have been underestimated, he said. Mr. Kennedy acknowledged that vaccines "do prevent infection" and said that the federal government was helping ensure that people have access to "good medicines, including those who want them, to vaccines." "In highly unvaccinated communities like Mennonites, it's something that we recommend," he said.
"In highly unvaccinated communities like Mennonites, it is something we recommend." - RFK Jr. He seems to be implying the reverse as well -- that it is ok, perhaps even recommended, to free ride on community immunity where vaccination rates are high. #medsky #sciencesky
17.03.2025 18:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
publications.aap.org/aapnews/news... #medsky #sciencesky
16.03.2025 09:10 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This pairs well with my last post bsky.app/profile/snow...
14.03.2025 16:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Image of a made for you spotify mix called Protest Songs Mix. "Protest Songs music picked just for you"
This is what happens when you listen to (We're in the middle of a) Hostile Government Takeover on repeat on Spotify. This is a real mix I saw today in my app.
14.03.2025 12:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Today, a reporter from the Russian state news agency TASS gained unauthorized access to the Oval Office. How does one gain unauthorized access to the Oval Office? Meanwhile, AP and Reuters were blocked.
28.02.2025 21:52 — 👍 15269 🔁 3805 💬 462 📌 226Cancelled Amazon prime today
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NEWS
The FDA, which operates under the authority of Robert Kennedy Jr., canceled the meeting to discuss next year’s flu vaccines.
This could interfere with or delay production of flu vaccines.
86 children and 19,000 adults have died from flu this season.
About 430,000 people were hospitalized.
The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion...
The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.
I'm excited to share that @sanders.senate.gov and Senator Peter Welch will be joining our tele-townhall so Vermonters can hear from us together!
Join us on Wednesday, February 26, at 6:30PM. RSVP at balint.house.gov/live. Talk to you soon!
Gift link.
The actual story of the shackled people being deported without even being told where they were being taken — maybe to countries where they’d face torture or death — while their terrified children cried.😢
The White House posted that pic with “ASMR” tag.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
This kind of foreign policy gaslighting frightens me more than anything else.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
The intention is incredibly bad, and if this is a real list, the execution is incredibly stupid. Bias has a technical meaning important for evaluating the performance of statistical/machine learning/AI methods that has nothing to do with the specifics of the application, just one of many examples.
04.02.2025 14:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Why Did the LA Times Edit This RFK Jr. Article to Be More Pro-Trump?"
newrepublic.com/post/191007/...
This is NOT the way to cover RFK Jr. Are there some areas where he might be reasonable? Sure. Someone doesn't have to be terrible on *every* aspect of policy to be a terrible choice to lead a gov't agency.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/inter...
Interesting article about some of the *correlations* between raw milk consumption and reduced allergies that drive the raw milk movement. (Does *not* suggest that the benefits outweigh the risks, only that there's interesting science to be done.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/m...
