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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A wee explainer on why the NIH hiding impact scores and percentages from peer review of grants: 1. Spend 6 months writing proposal 2. Submit to NIH 3. Peers review it, give it a score, and it’s ranked by percentile—the lower, the better 4. If you’re in the 1st percentile you can expect funds

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The incidence and prevalence of #LongCovid worse than anticipated in the US, with 1 of 6 persons affected, and of these 89% had at least 1 chronic condition requiring management. From 58 hospitals, 4 regions, 457,950 patients. Prevalence increased thru mid 2024. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Long COVID Persistence and Surveillance Gaps Across 58 US Hospitals

This cohort study quantifies the gap between true postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 burden and diagnostic code–based estimates, determines the proportion representing chronic disease, and characterizes...

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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/03/2026

Every time I write a critique of the New York Time's coverage of transgender people, people always tell me, "submit a letter to the editor." I have, multiple times. I don't think people understand how averse the NYT is to publishing a trans person. It's almost frustrating that people ask me to.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

(Going to be rude and irrational, fair warning) Im very sorry they couldn't socialize and make friends like they expected during COVID, or have graduation ceremonies. Its very sad. A great loss. Meanwhile, a friend of mine lost both parents in 2 weeks. My mother died in 2025 of COVID complications.

It led to a huge sense of frustration among students who felt they were missing out on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study and make lifelong friends.

Graduation ceremonies were virtual or delayed, and those leaving university were seeking their first graduate jobs in an economy recovering from the pandemic.

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Molly Flaherty @drmollyflaherty.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Just adding that I showed this to my spouse and she confirms that we have had multiple interactions just like this. And she laughed uproariously.

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Molly Flaherty @drmollyflaherty.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This is a challenging question! My favorite silly one is Small Potatoes. Favorite scary one is probably Squeeze? I also love Humbug and Detour though. And many others...

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 24/01/2026

The DHS funding bill can’t pass the Senate without Democratic votes. We must flood Senate Democrats’ offices with calls and force them to use their leverage to rein in ICE. Call your senators: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena... Or send an email: act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/01/2026

the horror of this is compounded by the fact that the whipple building sits on the same military fort where 1600+ Dakota, mostly women and children were held in a concentration camp in 1863, where over 300 died

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Molly Flaherty @drmollyflaherty.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Oh, Gareth. Merry Christmas to you, your family, and your dad jokes!

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other. It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Sorry I refuse to entertain the complete non-existent world where white people don’t know that countless cultures, including some of their own but certainly diasporic racialized ones, call their mom’s cousin’s friend’s sister they grew up with “cousin” and call close women elders “aunt/auntie”

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Oh look! A list of 83 Bible verses about feeding the hungry! No reason! www.openbible.info/topics/feeding

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What Does the Bible Say About Feeding?

Bible verses about Feeding

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Thank you, Senator Jeff Merkley, for your incredible 22-hour and 37-minute marathon speech on the Senate floor!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15/10/2025

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust. From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad." I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Something I hadn’t even considered until I wrote this piece: Not taking Tylenol is not an option for #ActuallyAutistic moms since many of them experience pain and nausea and many of them have hypermobility, which increases pain during pregnancy. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Autistic moms are livid after Trump and RFK Jr blame Tylenol — and them

Autistic moms tell Eric Garcia that they fear Trump’s outlandish and conspiratorial claims about autism and Tylenol both erase their needs and those of their children

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

There is only one possible ending to this story, and sports aren't the last chapter. I guarantee that if you haven't lost five decades of rights in two weeks, you have no idea what this feels like, so I'm begging you: protect trans kids right now with everything you've got.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The "misinformation" in question here is that gender-affirming care reduces suicides among youth. It merely reduces depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicidal ideation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Liberal Misinformation Bubble About Youth Gender Medicine
How the left ended up disbelieving the science

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“We often ask parents, ‘Would you rather have a dead son than a live daughter?’” Johanna Olson-Kennedy of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles once explained to ABC News. Variations on the phrase crop up in innumerable media articles and public statements by influencers, activists, and LGBTQ groups. The same idea—that the choice is transition or death—appeared in the arguments made by Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration’s solicitor general, before the Supreme Court last year. Tennessee’s law prohibiting the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to treat minors with gender dysphoria would, she said, “increase the risk of suicide.”

But there is a huge problem with this emotive formulation: It isn’t true. When Justice Samuel Alito challenged the ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio on such claims during oral arguments, Strangio made a startling admission. He conceded that there is no evidence to support the idea that medical transition reduces adolescent suicide rates.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans. Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The house has passed a ban on coverage of gender care for all ages under Medicaid, CHIP and ACA plans. I don't know what to say to anyone this morning other than that the hundreds of thousands of people who are about to lose access to the care they need to stay alive deserve better than silence.

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Our R01 was part of yesterday's "mass termination" at Harvard; 1 of ~1000 NIH grants in Trump's "fight". The irony of how many Jewish (& non-Jewish) researchers/scientists/physicians/patients/students will be harmed in the name of "fighting antisemitism" is sickening.deliberately cruel. #AcademicSky

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16/05/2025

I want every gay person that doesn't realize that transgender rights and gay rights are interconnected to read this story. A far-right judge just erased your rights against harassment in the workplace along with ours. We are in this together and there's only one way out.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

No, you’re not crazy. They are deporting brown people and importing white people.

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Rob McEntarffer @rmcenta.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

NE friends: now more than ever, it's important to contact our representatives in Washington! I usually try to focus on only one or two issues when I call, but I felt I had to talk about three big issues this time! docs.google.com/document/d/1... #NE

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Shout out to the disabled community for always showing up, always being on the right side of history and justice, always willing to put their bodies on the line, all for the cause of making sure *everyone* has the basic dignity of health care.

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Martha W. Alibali @marthaalibali.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

"Imagine the auto industry without 3D printing. NSF funded that. Artificial intelligence? NSF. MRI machines that help doctors diagnose you? NSF. Doppler radar technology that makes aviation safer by conquering wind shear? NSF. Duolingo‘s underlying programming? NSF. The internet itself? NSF."

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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 09/05/2025

As mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka has a responsibility to ensure that facilities operating in the city are adhering to laws that protect the safety and wellbeing of occupants and residents.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

We hadn’t won World War II by May 8th. I know because my family and I were still in an internment camp in Tule Lake, California.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/04/2025

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Rick Steves — the guidebook author, trip host and massive personal travel brand — has put his personal commitment behind the cause of anti-fascism, with a self-funded documentary hosted on his own website. Respect.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Texas measles outbreak update today, up 14% since Tuesday (actual cases likely 4-5X reported) And further spreading in New Mexico and multiple other states throughout the US.

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Sen. Tillis (R-N.C.) says he’s inclined to support the Grassley-Cantwell bill. Says he’s heard from constituents worried about the tariffs, esp farmers & restaurant/lodging sectors. Everyone in red states :: call your reps!!

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Liz Borkowski @lizborkowski.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

NIH has rescinded its scientific integrity policy. Hard to see this as anything other than clearing the way for shoddy research on things like vaccines. Regardless of the rationale, it's bad news for public health. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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NOT-OD-25-080: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health NOT-OD-25-080. OD

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Katelyn Jetelina @kkjetelina.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

There was an abrupt $11B cut to local/state public health (PH) infrastructure yesterday. I don't think people realize what this means: -Want an updated system to check your immunizations instead of digging through docs? PH no longer able to carry out upgrades to immunization information systems

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

So scary. We said people would be taken off the street in broad daylight. Here we are.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

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