Prof Gavin Yamey

I love how every defense sounds like "May he who did not get a Nazi tattoo while drunk in his 20s throw the first stone?" because that is truly an insane position.

I sometimes think we overuse the George Orwell quote from 1984 but in this case

Six federal scientists run out by Trump talk about the work left undone | CNN Federal data shows the NIH lost about 4,400 people — more than 20% of its workforce. Scientists say the departures harm the U.S.’ ability to respond to disease outbreaks, develop treatments for chroni...

Federal data shows that #NIH lost ~4400 people, 20% of the workforce. Many scientists have been pushed out.

~80% of NIH $ is awarded to universities & research institutions. Funding cuts are having a trickle down effect all over the country, affecting job prospects.

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I wonder if Claude would be “anxious” because the military is using it to bomb schoolgirls or because it’s poisoning the air around data centers or because it’s going to crash the economy or because it’s encouraged thousands of psychotic delusions or all of the above

Surely Republicans, who spent decades crassly singing “Bomb Iran” to the tune of Beach Boys songs would never have launched a war with Iran if not forced to by Netanyahu. Certainly not Donald Trump, who during his first term withdrew from the JCPOA with Iran & assassinated Iranian military leaders.

Durham doctor's flashy suits bring smiles to ALS patients Rick Bedlack, MD, PhD is known as a champion of ALS patients. He's also known for his flashy clothes. Now, the Duke ALS researcher has the ultimate sparkly suit with matching mask by celebrity designe...

Take a look at my Duke colleague; he brings joy to the clinic with his clothes

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OMG I will tell my spouse you said that 😎

“When people are being shot, detained inhumanely, deported, and abused for having the same identities we are removing from grants, it is abundantly clear we are participating in hate”

-anonymous NIH program officer

I’ll keep saying it: if you can’t see the links between ICE & THIS, wake up already

My mid-century socks and floral slip-ons

🧦👟 It’s pretty bleak out there, so I cheered myself up by wearing yellow and black mid-century socks (inherited from my father in law after he passed) and, um, floral slip-ons

As I’ve said before, nobody should ever take fashion advice from me, lol

I am frankly more concerned about the apathy of the American public and even more importantly the lack of leadership in the Democratic Party.

This is not a dress rehearsal. Every single American must speak out against this Facist administration.

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

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Premeditated mass murder, with no attempt to rescue any survivors

Read this story and weep

I’m so repulsed by the MAHA parents: they support RFK Jr’s deadly anti-vaxx campaign & Trump kidnapping & torturing kids & putting them in concentration camps & the MAGA/MAHA administration worsening climate change & damaging the environment. MAHA folks are happy to pay this price for food dye bans

This is the world that RFK Jr dreamed of—now that he runs the US health system he’s able to achieve his dreams each & every day, aided & abetted by Drs Bhattacharya, Makary, Høeg, Kulldorff, Prasad & Oz

We can’t rebuild the devastation until all 7 of these federal health agency leaders are gone

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

NPR just reported that Trump wants to choose Iran’s next leader, and, like, I’m not an Iran scholar, obvs, but I’m, like, pretty sure that this is not how things work?

RFK Jr in a suit

So does his buddy RFK Jr

There should not be billionaires

Those who exist should be like MacKenzie Scott, who gave away $26 billion from 2019 to 2025–including $18 million to Durham Public Schools (no strings attached)

They’re evil billionaires representing all that’s ruinous AND, even with all that money, they look disheveled and unshaven and unserious and they wear those stupid RFK Jr tiny-collared shirts—like, can’t they even get it together and get a basic low cost J Crew Ludlow suit (the one Mamdani wears)?

Yup

What a remarkable statement. Both true and chilling.

"It is clear that the sum of US policy choices amount to mortality worse than a COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing, year after year" @gavinyamey.bsky.social

“Angelina Farella, a Texas-based pediatrician and self-described “frontline viral doctor,” has baselessly claimed that mRNA vaccines can cause “some kind of unusual hepatitis in children,” labeled the RSV vaccine an “utter failure” and repeatedly made calls on social media to “#stoptheshots.””

Changes in paracetamol and leucovorin use after a White House briefing Changes in federal prescribing recommendations follow deliberate and transparent processes involving US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientists, which normally include input from stakeholders an...

What happened after the weird Sept 2025 White House press conference on autism?

📉 Tylenol use in the ED dropped >10% among pregnant patients
📈 leucovorin rx jumped 93% among kids 5-17 immediately afterwards

new @thelancet.com today with @jeremyfaust.bsky.social

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This is exactly right:

Bhattacharya seems bent on “rewriting all of history retroactively to prove he was right all along”

I mean, the Great Barrington Declaration won. Trump & RFK Jr chose them to lead & dismantle the US health system. Podcast Jay is the nation’s most powerful MAGA/MAHA scientist

Powerful piece on the new CDC director—the Great Barrington Declaration/MAGA/MAHA/Brownstone bro who campaigned for RFK Jr when RFK Jr ran for president

This nails it:

"As much as he may claim to be working to restore trust in the agency, his actions seem far more likely to achieve the opposite"

They were amazing (I was not a fan of the Fatboy Slim remix, the original was waaaaaay better IMHO)

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“This is really an economic disaster, a public health disaster, a moral disaster”