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Dr. Rabbithole

@drrabbithole.bsky.social
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Scientist, mom, creator, nerd. "held under these smothering waves, by your cold and thick-veined hand. But one of these days, I'm gonna wriggle up on dry land" -John Darnielle Signer of the Bethesda Declaration. Views are my own

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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Accurate. Also, absolutely humbling to have my art still resonating with people.
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NIH Employees Lived in A Culture of Fear, So They Started Keeping Receipts
Sylvia Chou, former NIH program director, says “nobody’s OK” after massive disruptions to funding policies and infrastructure.
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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Standing with Ukrainian scientists. 🇺🇦 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
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Russian Drone Strikes Ukraine’s Science Academy, Causing Fire in City Center (Gift Article)
A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
This is an entirely new phenomenon because before the vaccine, most women who survived measles were immune because they had it when they were young. But now, idiots who refuse to get vaccinated are giving birth to babies with measles. Two babies have died. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@angierasmussen.bsky.social is spot on here. Russell Vought is evil and dangerous.
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Russell Vought Doesn’t Care Who Dies, Including You
If the OMB Director doesn’t destroy science to fund fascism, it won’t be for lack of trying
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Six Dettmar @sixdettmar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’M AT THE URGENT CARE I’M AT THE TACO BELL I’M AT THE COMBINATION URGENT CARE AND TACO BELL
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𝓪 𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓿𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓶𝓸𝓽𝓱 🦋 @totr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wouldn't exactly recommend this channel but it's a pretty good explainer on what happened, and unlike the guardian reporting it actually covers the controversial bits
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The Navier Stokes situation is insane
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
JON STEWART: “They began covering their ass 3 weeks after 9/11… There was poison in the air, on the ground, on your pets/clothes… THE CITY KNEW. Rather than limit the damage, they covered it up… After 9/11, business will never be usual again.” (From @mamdanibulletin.bsky.social )
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/09/2026
AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money
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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Trump is trying for Green Lantern but he's actually serving Sauron. comicbookmovie.com/tv/dc/lanter...
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The White House Posts Trump As Green Lantern Hours Before Lanterns Episode 4
The White House posted an AI video of President Donald J. Trump as a Green Lantern with the Corps oath as the caption, hours before Lanterns episode 4.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Bhattacharya’s NIH has made a habit of ignoring the expert input of NIH staff. They push forward “solutions” even when we point out the new problems they will create. The consequences come in harm to research participants, lost research advances & a contracted workforce. substack.com/@27unihted/n...
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Changing policies without staff input is creating foreseeable damage
Concern 6 of the Bethesda Declaration: One Year Later
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Totalitarianism demands, in fact, the continuous alteration of the past, and in the long run probably demands a disbelief in the very existence of objective truth” —George Orwell, from Orwell on Truth
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is the exact type of science the regime is trying to squash. But it's the science we need to build communities that foster health. Adverse social determinants in early adulthood are associated with higher coronary artery calcification risk later in life. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Developing a novel index for neighborhood social determinants of cardiovascular diseases in the CARDIA study - Nature Communications
Neighborhood social determinants of health influence cardiovascular risk, but early-life exposure effects remain unclear. Here the authors show that higher early adulthood neighborhood social determin...
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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thank you, Gloria, for all you have done to try to make society more fair. You have inspired me and countless others and we will do our best to fight the good fight without you. Rest in power.
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I give this proposal a 😂 inpreparation.substack.com/p/nih-simpli...
NIH logo followed by a (kind of) satirical post, stating the new NIH rating system would be 👍, 🤷 or 😂
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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I want younger people in politics too, but not transphobic capitulating losers.
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Senator Ed Markey, 80, Turns Back Younger Challenger in Massachusetts (Gift Article)
The oldest senator in Massachusetts history used a progressive message to beat Representative Seth Moulton, 47, defying calls for generational change.
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Ryan Quinn @ryanequinn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The NIH Director Says a Lot. Critics Call Much of It Misleading www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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NIH Director Says a Lot. Critics Call Much of It Misleading
Jay Bhattacharya insists he wants to restore trust in the National Institutes of Health. Current and former agency employees say he’s doing the opposite.
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NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A web of the relationships between the new Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the “vaccines cause autism” community. This guy will be controlling what NICHD grants are funded.
Network of relationships between key players of the anti-vax community and the new director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Stella Parton on her sister, Dolly: "What the world saw is exactly who she was, so much so, she told me recently that if there was no hope for her, she would still allow her medical team to try experimental drugs in the hope of helping others in the future." Absolute legend.
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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yayoi Kusama has passed on to infinity. This has been a devastating week for creative and fabulous humans, and the people who love them and their work.
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Yayoi Kusama, Japanese Pop Artist Known for Polka-Dot Paintings, Dies at 97 (Gift Article)
The Japanese artist’s polka-dot-covered paintings, phallic sculptures and public performances caused a stir in New York City and Europe in the 1960s.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Actor Tim Curry has died at 80, TMZ reports
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Actor Tim Curry Dead at 80
Tim Curry -- the legendary film and TV actor best known for playing Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" -- has died ... TMZ has learned.
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NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Russell Vought has been deleting some of your comments on the proposed OMB rule to politicize grantmaking. Particularly ones that mention him by name and that his daughter was treated for CF with an NIH-funded therapeutic.
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Comments on OMB research rule mysteriously removed from federal website
Some comments on a proposed OMB research rule have been mysteriously removed from a public-facing government webpage.
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She
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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP, Queen.
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Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You (Live)
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Hagerstown Rapid Response @hagerstownrapidresponse.com · 23/08/2026
🚨Please submit a public comment through our campaign opposing the proposed ICE jail in Washington County, Maryland. Do it in 30 seconds @ NoKingsNoCamps.com
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Tell DHS: Stop the ICE Warehouse in Washington County
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is attempting to convert an 825,000-square-foot industrial warehouse in Washington County, Maryland into a massive ICE detention facility despite overwhelming...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Oh, you say you care are about genocide? So why do you remain silent about the ethnic cleansing of future AI people.
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RedPen/BlackPen @redpenblackpen.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Aaaaand here's another one. The post on LinkedIn credited me and linked to my LinkedIn (which I do appreciate). But I have to ask - WHYAI? WHYAI? I don't understAInd!?? Guys: the image on the LEFT is the AI one - you know - you might have been confused about that.
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RedPen/BlackPen @redpenblackpen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
why meet anymore amirite?
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RedPen/BlackPen @redpenblackpen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Tag yourself with your current location!
A map in the style of Tolkein titled 'The Map of Manuscript Earth'. This is something I'm calling 'artography' - and it lists lots of geographic locations on the way to submitting a (scientific) manuscript.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Meanwhile, the right never meant any of it. They moaned about "cancellation" for a decade but embarked on mass firings as soon as they took power. They pretended to care about "free speech restrictions" and "educational indoctrination" while embarking on them every chance they got.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Personally, I think what needs reckoning with is how fake it all was. Centrists convinced themselves annoying leftists on twitter were an equivalent threat to Jan 6 insurrectionists. They wildly inflated the threat of left-wing authoritarianism while ignoring how it was taking hold on the right.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The third category of alleged "excesses" are simply real issues the right disagrees with. However you feel about the slogan "defund the police," shifting police resources to social spending isn't particularly radical — and the need for police reform is still urgent. Also, it didn't happen!
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The second is the widespread "cancellation" of public and private figures who broke from left-wing orthodoxy. This one is mostly fake. Most "cancellations" were simply criticism of celebrities and ordinary market forces at work. There were some dumb firings during Woke 1 but they're rare.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
There's a few categories of "excesses" to reckon with. The first — and most numerous — were annoying-but-harmless updates to language and norms. The HR person at work telling you to stop saying 'brown bag' or 'flip chart' may be cringe in hindsight but don't really matter that much.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“Silly” is a good way to put it! There were excesses in 2020 but they were mostly low-stakes efforts by well-intentioned people to address real injustices. The excesses of the right during the same era were far more harmful. The reckoning we need now is about how elites lost sight of that.
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NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
New Substack from @27unihted.bsky.social just dropped breaking down decreases in NIH funding by institute and PI race. TL;DR biggest decreases in funding between 2024-2025 are for Black and Latino scientists
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Disparities in success rates at NIH: inequality across institutes, race, and more
To date in FY26, awards by month for all extramural grants are following the same trajectory as in FY25 with only about two months remaining in the fiscal year
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It’s incredibly sad that we had to write this piece, but it’s critical for those of us who live in the reality-based world—a world where facts, evidence, & data matter—keep countering dangerous or even deadly conspiracy theories & extreme anti-science & anti-vaccine rhetoric
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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
YES. Impeach Russell Vought NOW!!!!!!!!
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Today, I attended Bhattacharya's "Scientific Freedom" lecture with Carole Hooven on the "reality" of human sex differences. Knowing the premise of the lecture series & Carole Hooven's prior writing, I had low expectations for the scientific quality of the lecture. It was worse than I expected. 🧵
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Such a surprise that Jay “I Am a MAGA and MAHA Hero Cuz I Cured the NIH of DEI!” Bhattacharya keeps picking super-kooks, climate denialists, lab leakers, & transphobes to talk at his “freedom” lecture series! She says trans women are men….but promised us she does know and like some trans people 🤯
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27 UNIHTED @27unihted.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🚨Live Bluesky Fact Check: Thurs, August 6 at 1PM-2:30PM EST🚨 Tomorrow NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya will host his third installment of the NIH “Scientific Freedom” Lecture Series, which has been platforming speakers driven by ideology rather than science. Tomorrow, his guest is Carole Hooven.
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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Just a PSA that this is a different Max Miller than the host of Tasting History. THAT Max Miller is a delight. The Representative from Ohio is a psychopath. Anyway, highly recommend Tasting History as a way to calm yourself down after reading terrible, terrible things. @tastinghistory.bsky.social
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donnayoungdc @donnayoungdc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It's like the Salem Witch Trials all over again.🤪 The United States is fast becoming a nation of ignorant fools. How have Americans allowed our country to fall this low this fast? Dr. Anthony Fauci is an American hero! Rand Paul is a KOOK! And Republicans are COWARDS! #2026Midterms #MedSky #Fauci
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Republican elected officials, particularly Rand Paul and Ron Johnson, are a disgrace. Aside from their repeated attacks on Dr. Fauci, I ask you this: Who in their right mind will ever try to lead an American pandemic response again if the consequence is being harassed for the rest of your life?
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Senators vote to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress for pleading the Fifth during tense hearing
Fauci declined to answer senators’ questions more than 100 times during last week’s hearing, angering Republican lawmakers who have targeted him for years.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/08/2026
Max Miller is cruel and abusive.
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Isaac Bogoch @isaacbogoch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
There was just a locally acquired case of dengue fever reported in Virginia, USA. The climate is becoming more suitable, the compatible mosquito species (Aedes) is already there, and we’ll likely see more cases across a wider area. Link: tinyurl.com/2pu4xrc5
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The so-called president of the United States is a massive money launderer and cut off by the bank that discovered it. Yet the story barely registers with the legacy media. What a disgrace.
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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Jesus, is this incompetence or peak narcissism?
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Helicopter Carrying Trump Flies Near Passenger Jet in Washington Airspace (Gift Article)
Marine One, the helicopter that ferries the president, came within less than a mile of an Envoy Air flight on Tuesday, raising new concerns about air traffic control in the congested area.
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