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
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Original (left) and corrected (right) Fig. 4a in the paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10305-0 showing the chemical structures of amino acids (only the right one) the left figure is just an embarrassment
I wonder... 🤔🤔🧪 #chemsky
a) what program did the authors use to make the original (left) figure in the paper? Wild guess, ChatGPT
b) how such high school science level of disgrace pass peer review in @nature.com?
Note this was Fig.4.a NOT in SI
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
...the money you pay society journals to publish at least partially goes into conference costs, fellowships, workshops, seminar series, community projects like Plantae, preLights, etc.
These are two strange arguments. How are society journals not the clearly better option here?
#SciPub
Hey DORKS! Are you attending your local Saturday, March 7th National Day of Action rally?
Not sure where your nearest rally is? Visit standupforscience.net/march7 to find your local rally!!!
#March7
#standupforscience
#science
#rally
I’m still in disbelief that Capitol Police and a Republican senator broke the arm of a Marine in full dress uniform because he was voicing opposition to sending troops to Iran. Horrifying.
With this war on Iran costing $1B per day, we are now at 4$B, an amount that would fund 3,200 five year NIH biomedical research grants.
An announcement that the Senate voted to reauthroize the SBIR/STTR program.
The Senate has (finally) voted to reauthorize the small business SBIR/STTR program.
Not reauthorized yet, but this was likely the biggest hurdle.
Friends in central NJ, come out this lovely weekend to help me qualify for the ballot! Send an educator and scientist to Congress!
Canvassing for signatures in Princeton and Montogomery:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
This thread though 😂 needed that laugh.
Richmond, Va. — Today, the Supreme Court of Virginia confirmed that the April 21 redistricting referendum will move forward as planned, ensuring that Virginia voters — not politicians — will have the final say. The decision comes as Donald Trump and Republican legislatures in states like Texas and Florida pursue aggressive mid-decade redistricting efforts designed to lock in control of Congress before voters can weigh in. While politicians elsewhere redraw maps behind closed doors, Virginia is putting the question directly to the people. “Today is a victory not just for Virginia voters, but for the principle that voters should decide the rules of our democracy,” said Virginians for Fair Elections spokesman Dan Gottlieb. “At a moment when Trump and MAGA Republicans across the country are attempting to rig the midterms by manipulating district lines, Virginia is doing the opposite — giving voters the chance to directly respond. The Court has made clear that the April 21 election will proceed and voters will decide.” After losing before the Virginia Supreme Court once already, Republicans filed repeat lawsuits in new venues in an attempt to delay and confuse voters. Today’s action confirms what has been clear from the start: the election proceeds, early voting begins March 6, and the final decision rests with Virginians. Early voting begins March 6. Election Day is April 21. The Vote YES campaign will continue full speed ahead with paid media statewide, grassroots organizing, and a growing coalition mobilizing voters across the Commonwealth. For more information, visit www.virginiansforfairelections.com.
"Supreme Court of Virginia Is Clear: April 21 Election Will Go Forward as Virginia Stands Up to MAGA’s National Mid-Decade Map Rigging"; Early voting begins THIS FRIDAY bluevirginia.us/2026/03/brea...
Same with NOMD. Anyone see a mitochondria oriented replacement? RIP
Yes! We literally cannot shut up about our work.
Looks like the zebrafish community is using this one h/t @schoppik.com
www.jenabioscience.com/rna-technolo...
Neuroscientist @samwang.bsky.social, whose research implicated the cerebellum in autism, now hopes to “fix bugs in democracy”—by running for Congress.
By Lauren Schenkman
#neuroskyence
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Please click here to send a letter to your Senator to oppose this nomination.
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www.statnews.com/2026/02/27/c... via @statnews.com
Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
Monitoring gene expression in the brain with a simple blood test?
In collaboration with @jerzyszablowski.bsky.social & his lab we figured out how to do it nonhuman primates using noninvasive neuroengineering of synthetic serum markers.
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Line graph of the number new and competitive renewal grants funded by NIH in fiscal year 2026 through February 20, compared to fiscal years 2020-2025. The fiscal year 2026 is well below the other curves.
New and Competitive Renewals
Only 803 grants have been made compared to ~2650 in fiscal years 2023 and 2024 through February 20.
All institutes and centers (include OD now) have made awards except NIAAA, NLM, NCCIH, and FIC.
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3i is hiring a Microscopist - repost & tell a friend!
Ideal candidate has experience in fundamental optical theory & familiarity with lightsheet, spinning disk, multiphoton, TIRF etc. Full-time, exempt position (travel to visit customers) offering a competitive salary & comprehensive benefits.
Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.
Off the top of my head:
www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email
Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.
Just saw this! Way to go 👏
This week's cover @thelancet.com
Hard to imagine finding a less qualified candidate for the administration's health policy team than Bobby and Jay, but dang if they haven't done it.
www.npr.org/2026/02/25/n...
That's one thing to call it.
Bill Gates: “…was a serious error in judgement.”
Larry Summers: “…was a major error in judgement."
Thomas Pritzker: “I exercised terrible judgment.”
I need to address this immediately, because I am WAY too Minnesotan to ever claim credit for this.
I built a thing to point the fire hose of people's generosity in the right direction. That's it.
I am thankful for the piece, because hopefully it means people will donate more money.
The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.
The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.
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The U.S. women's hockey gold medal-winning team has politely declined an invitation from President Donald Trump to attend his State of the Union address on Tuesday.
“…as the president’s many critics have warned, institutions like the C.D.C., F.D.A. and N.I.H. will be far more difficult to rebuild than they have been to destroy — especially if their intended beneficiaries lose all faith in them or forget why they existed in the first place.”
“…Stacked against these measures, the administration’s explanations — which focus on cutting waste and eliminating so-called woke politics from science — have been inadequate and disingenuous.”
