BIG, but also fool me once, you know...
"Vinay Prasad will depart in April, after a year leading the FDA division that approves vaccines and biotech drugs"
📝: Liz Essley Whyte / WSJ www.wsj.com/health/healt...
Most trusted group? Primary care providers
The data reinforces why public health messaging should target them.
No problem! I'd want someone to tell me.
Fascinating new piece by @sipappas.bsky.social looking at the geology behind the geopolitics:
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Small typo here:
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Congrats!
"Nearly all the traffic cameras in Tehran had been hacked for years, their images encrypted and transmitted to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel, according to two people familiar with the matter."
📝: Mehul Srivastava, James Shotter, Neri Zilber and Steff Chávez
Coming to Europe...
#Medsky #IDsky #influenza #COVID #vaccines #Moderna #MRNA
Pokémon turns 30 — how the fictional pocket monsters shaped science - Miryam Naddaf
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
In puzzling outbreak, officials look to cold beer, gross ice, and ChatGPT - Beth Mole arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
just gonna share some interesting science and health news in case people need a distraction
Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week - Alex Wilkins www.newscientist.com/article/2517...
“.. By Forbes estimates, the elder Ellison, who is also Oracle’s largest shareholder, doesn’t have enough cash on hand to fulfill his part of Paramount’s $111 billion offer for Warner Bros. Discovery.”
@forbes.com $ORCL $PSKY
www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...
My long-time editor at Penguin Press died this week and I can't let her go without telling you how remarkable - talented, tough, generous, kind - she was and how much she'll be missed. And how lucky I was to work with her. (gift article) @penguinpress.bsky.social
"The company has enrolled tens of thousands of people across nearly 200 employers. Twin gets paid only when users achieve certain clinical outcomes, such as lower blood sugar, weight loss, or the reduction of metabolic medications."
pretty small sample size, fwiw
Educators fear that disappearing public health jobs and backlash against the field could soon impact enrollment in programs training the next generation of experts who keep us safe and healthy. @thinkglobalhealth.org www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/publ...
“Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a ‘missing person.’” - acting Columbia University President Claire Shipman
📝: Nadia Knoblauch and Dora Gao
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/02...
The Washington Spirit’s new uniforms, unveiled today, are inspired DC’s iconic cherry blossoms.
washingtonian.com/2026/02/26/c...
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He’s either running out the clock or this is going to be soooo long.
Awkward: South Carolina seeks non-CDC reinforcements to contain growing measles outbreak
📝: Julie Steenhuysen and Chad Terhune
www.reuters.com/world/south-...
23 of the 27 original members of the WHO's Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) summarize key insights from the world’s first comprehensive investigation into how the COVID-19 pandemic started. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ralph Abraham, MD, abruptly resigned his role as principal deputy director at the CDC today, after less than two months on the job, becoming the second senior official to exit the agency this month.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...
EXCLUSIVE: An @npr.org investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
Other documents that mention Trump have been taken down (and some restored).
More:
NEW: Local officials blocked from visiting migrants at Portsmouth airport who were stranded on ICE deportation plane for 14 hours.
Full writethru with new images:
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/breaking-sha...
Think of all the people who vetted this statement before he said it …
Mexico has witnessed a bunch of measles pediatric deaths since last year. Those experiences are also common overseas. The author could easily interview those parents
