Ashley de Marchena ☕️

Very important finding!

Happy Black History Month!

Heather Cox Richardson, Joanne Freeman, Paul Offit

70 years after the 1936 Berlin Olympics

I would like for trump and vance to summarily execute fewer people in Minnesota, sorry to sound partisan

FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies The agency used to warn of chelation, used by RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally David Geier.

This was my big concern with RFK Jr.'s fearmongering about autism: That it would lead to the rationalization of draconian quack "treatments" for autism. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

@notalawyer.bsky.social @michaelhobbes.bsky.social from The Onion, April 2002

Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.

Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.

Even worse

CDC’s New Autism Webpage Distorts Science and Rejects Decades of Evidence on Vaccine Safety autismsciencefoundation.org/press_releas...

Link doesn’t work! Can you re-post? This is such interesting and important work! It’s raising so many questions for me already. We used to se a lot of (autistic, missed diagnosis) kids who had been diagnosed with “auditory processing disorder,” and this is reminding me of that and making me think!

Summers' first statement addressing the newly unveiled Epstein correspondence comes on the heels of Sen. Elizabeth Warren calling on Harvard to sever ties with Summers and putting new pressure on the elite university to hold Summers accountable for his close friendship with Epstein. Warren, a former Harvard Law School professor and now the Democratic senior senator from Massachusetts, had said in response to a CNN inquiry that she believes Summers — Harvard's former president and one of its most prominent faculty members — "cannot be trusted" with students given his past relationship with Epstein. "For decades, Larry Summers has demonstrated his attraction to serving the wealthy and well-connected, but his willingness to cozy up to a convicted sex offender demonstrates monumentally bad judgment," Warren told CNN. "If he had so little ability to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein even after all that was publicly known about Epstein's sex offenses involving underage girls, then Summers cannot be trusted to advise our nation's politicians, policymakers, and institutions - or teach a generation of students at Harvard or anywhere else."

"If he had so little ability to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein even after all that was publicly known about Epstein's sex offenses involving underage girls, then Summers cannot… teach a generation of students at Harvard or anywhere else." - @warren.senate.gov
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Robert Roberson - Innocence Project Robert Roberson faces execution on Oct. 16, 2025 for a crime he did not commit. Read key facts about the case and act to stop this injustice.

I'm surprised at how many people in my network don't know about the case of Robert Roberson, an autistic father scheduled to be executed next week for a crime that never happened. Please join me in speaking up against this. It's not too late to exonerate him! innocenceproject.org/cases/robert...

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

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Furloughed NIH worker: Left office with 'pit' in my stomach about future of our country On day three of the government shutdown, around 750,000 federal employees are furloughed as the White House threatens mass firings as early as today. Furloughed NIH Program Director Jenna Norton joins...

Shared how the greater shutdown of NIH science has been underway since January on @msnbc.com today.

We need Congress to stand firm to protect science, democracy and the American people.

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Yes! I’ve been dying for someone to make this figure.

General reminder that people who engage in political assassinations often have pretty muddled world views.

That and fever reduction! You know fevers, that are harmful to both the pregnant person and the fetus? Yeah, keep those raging.

The .5 is pretty much diagnostic.

The pretexts for these paramilitary takeovers don’t matter

They’re lies

Don’t buy into their narrative

They’re normalizing military takeovers

That should be the opposing narrative, not crime rates which let them steer the conversation

WE should steer it
What they’re doing is unacceptable
Period

With @jamestrujillo.bsky.social

New Research Recommendations for Supporting Autistic Adults to Ensure Their Communication Success To better understand the communication difficulties experienced by autistic adults and help the clinicians and researchers who have autistic people in their lives, researchers from Drexel University’s...

Want to be a better communication partner for the autistic adults in your life? Here are some of our top recommendations:

⏳ Allow time for processing.

🗣️ Focus on explicit communication.

🔍 Check in for understanding.

📏 Use direct, concrete language.

💬 Offer alternatives such as writing.

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IMPORTANT UPDATE IMPORTANT UPDATE

Regarding APHU/ACLU et al. vs. NIH Lawsuit

Thanks for sharing our work, @thinkingautism.com!

Psychologist here! As a field, we completely agree with you (look up “biopsychosocial model”, eg). This is why change is so hard! Not impossible - but really really hard.

Really appreciated Peter’s discussion of children’s rights to an education vs. parents’ rights to control their education. Would love to learn about more cases in which parent/child rights are potentially in conflict.

Teenage boy holding a series of six images based on his favorite podcast.

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social @ifbookspod.bsky.social

My son turned 14 today so of course we had to gift him an AI-generated “we deserve this cheese” poster. AI was not especially cooperative, but that made it all the more enjoyable.

Thank you @thinkingautism.com for highlighting our new study on nonverbal communication experiences of autistic adults!

This one was an absolute treat to work on.

With Holly Radford, @drstevenkapp.bsky.social, and Bronte Reidinger