Hey, great news gang! Vinay Prasad is out at the FDA.
Again.
Let’s hope it sticks this time.
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Hey, great news gang! Vinay Prasad is out at the FDA.
Again.
Let’s hope it sticks this time.
“Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in.” — Carl Sagan
Yeap, 2025 and 2026 haven't been great vintage years to come visit the US. 😵💫
Today marks six years of long COVID for me. I knew it wouldn't be weeks or even months trying to wade through a pandemic, that it would be years. I just didn't expect this much anti-science to make it impossible to ever get out of it.
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Federal funding for first 100 days after inauguration.
OMB is still trying to screw science via administrative action since they’ve been denied legislative authorization (i.e. Congress did not cut NIH budget, but this administration will still try to). Assholes.
White House stalls release of approved US science budgets www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A year ago Ukraine was told it had “no cards.”
Today the U.S. is asking Kyiv how to defend against Iranian drone swarms.
War has a strange way of reshuffling the deck. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... #IranWar #BlueSky #MedSky #PoliSky #LawSky
Sorry, Michael. That's 😡
A graph with white and light grey striped background showing levels of COVID-19, RSV, FLU A, and FLU B levels for Ontario
Wastewater levels for Ontario, released today, March 6th, 2026…otherwise known as “during COVID”
wwater.ca/Ontario
Just listening to abc radio news.
Apparently the algorithm determining disability support is not working. It’s denying high level support to people that can’t breathe without assistance.
Wot. A. Surprise.
#Robodebt
Direct link to the research mentioned in the post above:
Taste dysfunction in long COVID (Jan 29, 2026)
academic.oup.com/chemse/artic...
[ FREE PDF available ]
A new study looked at long-term taste dysfunction after COVID-19. Researchers combined psychophysical taste tests, biopsies of tongue papillae, and gene-expression analysis in taste cells from patients with persistent symptoms more than a year after infection🧵
🚨🧵by Zdenek Vrozina on XTwitter:
"A new study looked at long-term taste dysfunction after C19.
Researchers combined psychophysical taste tests, biopsies of tongue papillae, and gene-expression analysis in taste cells from patients w/ persistent symptoms > 1yr"
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threadreaderapp.com/thread/20298...
Yeah, it's been really tough in MN this year.
Have you ever visited MN? Colder than many parts of .CA in winter; vibrant in the Spring (1 week?😂); giant mosquitos in the Summer (ok, not until June); and lovely in the Fall. 😄
Oui, le Français (but it's way too darn hard to type on a US keyboard).
I don't speak Greek (despite the last name).
Happy #WomansDay to all the Military Spouses out there…
Who’s unpaid and largely unrecognized feminized labour keep the #CAF operational.
Yeah we still have work to do, but I see you. 👀❤️🔥
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#CanSky #CdnPoli #Canada
The arc of the last decades has been pretty wild. First everyone was told that because all the manufacturing was moving to Asia, they needed to get higher education to be part of a white collar work force. People did. They indebted themselves to unsustainable levels to do it.
Absolutely. Glad you're giving yourself the space to make that happen.
I'm typing these words while sitting outside on my porch in MN (the first time of 2026 as it's currently 50F)
Oh, I'm sorry for your loss. 🫂
A white and gray background with blue circles. A family of four sits together. "Protect the youngest among us! Stay up to date on your measles vaccine."
Measles is an extremely contagious virus. Make sure you and your family are up to date on your measles vaccine to stay protected.
Find more vaccination information at: cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Immunization/family.aspx
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The atmospheric pressure change at higher altitudes is compensated. No "offset" but calculation accordingly to sensor element manufacturer's recommended formula. Compensation calculation is programmed in the firmware. Regarding altitude - sensor can be used without limitations up to 4000 m
Here are the slides I am presenting at this morning's @ceirrnetwork.bsky.social seminar related to characterizing the human neutralizing antibody landscape to human seasonal influenza for purposes such as vaccine strain selection: slides.com/jbloom/flu-s...
This looks amazing. Enjoy the peace and quiet (as the world is anything but), Nancy.
Take out health care and the U.S. job market is basically frozen.
Health care added 693,000 jobs last year. Without it, the economy would have lost 570,000 jobs.
Hiring across the rest of the labor market? “Glacial”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/b... #BlueSky #IMSky #MedSky #EconSky #NurseSky
1. A #flu update:
Another 11 children have died this flu season, bringing the total to date to 90. #CDC says of those with known vaccination status, 85% weren't fully vaccinated.
That number will continue to rise in coming weeks. But 2026 may not be as bad as 2025 for peds flu deaths.🤞🤞
Threaded version of tern's 🚨 posts (originals below):
skywriter.blue/@1goodtern.b...
Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño
We are insane.
Our species is insane.
📣 Have 2 minutes today? Call your senator - Vote NO on Casey Means’ confirmation as Surgeon General 📣
This thread is a great explanation of what the Surgeon General does - and why Casey Means is fundamentally unqualified to become “America’s doctor"
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