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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Excited to see our fMRI paper is out, led by Itamar Kahn’s lab. Our grad students, Amir Lawen and Bella Succi, in collab with Darcy Peterka, built a setup for simultaneous fMRI and dopamine fiber photometry in awake behaving mice. We learned some new biology too. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
science.org
Dopamine release-associated striatal blood oxygenation and whole-brain dynamics during associative learning
Dopaminergic signaling in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) is central to reward-based learning, but its relationship to brain-wide hemodynamics remains unclear. Using concurrent fMRI and dopamine photometr...
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STAT @statnews.com · 01/10/2026
A proposed redesign of the federal government’s annual health survey would result in significant undercounting of Americans with intellectual and developmental disabilities. www.statnews.com/2026/10/01/cdc-hea…
statnews.com
As CDC redesigns annual health survey, it removes questions about disabilities
Proposed changes to the federal government’s health survey would undercount Americans with disabilities, advocates say.
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Measles doesn't stop harming people when the rash goes away. Measles can damage the immune system, causing "immune amnesia" for up to five years. Measles outbreaks this year and last could leave thousands vulnerable to other infectious diseases. www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles-outb...
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Measles outbreaks could leave thousands vulnerable to infectious diseases for years
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 28/09/2026
Bundibugyo outbreak tops 8,000 confirmed cases as disease remains out of control apnews.com/article/cong...
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Congo's Ebola outbreak tops 8,000 confirmed cases as disease remains out of control
The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Congo has surged past 8,000 as the country struggles with a shortage of health workers. The new statistics were released Sunday.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 28/09/2026
Heidi Overton faced questions about her stances on vaccines, flavored vapes, birth control, and abortion late last week, during which she spent nearly two hours stonewalling the Senate health committee, even on softball inquiries: arstechnica.visitlink.me/lRqUrs
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Can Trump ever be wrong? His pick to lead FDA refused to say.
Heidi Overton faced questions focused on vaccines, birth control, and vapes.
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 28/09/2026
i did a little Climate Week postmortem on data centers: co2 emissions are far & away the most alarming part of the buildout. but there hasn't been much of a reckoning beyond climate spaces kind of wondering when it'll enter the larger convo, if at all, and what that may look like
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The Data Center Backlash Should Also Be a Climate Reckoning. It Isn’t Yet
Climate groups are latching onto the data center opposition movement, but it remains to be seen if they can get people to care about the facilities’ impact on the atmosphere.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
ANOTHER DHS VOTER FRAUD CLAIM COLLAPSES Trump’s DHS claimed as many as 15,903 noncitizens were on Nevada’s voter rolls. Nevada pushed back and demanded evidence. 15,903 became 185. Nevada checked the 185. The new number: ZERO. Every single one was a US citizen.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ICYMI: "It's a zombified CDC." The agency that was once the world's "undisputed leader in public health" is a skeleton of its former self. by @apoorvanyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
nytimes.com
‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wonderful profile of our new colleague in the Dept. of Biology in Maryland, @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social with secrets yet to be uncovered into a major evolutionary transition hanging out in murky waters. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/s...
nytimes.com
In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life (Gift Article)
A scrappy science project led to a significant discovery: two new species of a rare organism that could elucidate a fundamental transition in the history of life on our planet.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1. Vought tells Trump to cut NIH budget by 40% Congress rejects it 2. Vought moves to give political appointees power over grants Congress delays it 3. Vought writes EO to create NIH board that gives him veto power. It is blocked. Now, this. IMPEACH VOUGHT 🧪 www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Trump cancels $1B in federal spending in latest challenge to Congress
Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the "pocket rescission" tactic is illegal.
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NPR @npr.org · 28/09/2026
President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal. n.pr/4iMlJdT
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What to know about the $810 million in spending canceled by President Trump
President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/09/2026
It’s no secret that some high-ranking members of the Trump administration have long had it in for NIH—and that one official in particular has been pushing for something like this. @citizencohn.bsky.social on an emergency for medical research in The Breakdown:
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This Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Medical Research
Future cures and America’s innovation lead are in jeopardy thanks to Donald Trump and Russ Vought’s latest scheme.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
Tierra Walker should be alive. She thought her pregnancy was killing her—then it did. She asked for an abortion. None of the 90-plus doctors involved in her care even offered her one. Her son found her dead on December 30, 2024. Now her family is suing. New Baby Boom! Lawyered. Out now.
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Tierra Walker Died Under Texas's Abortion Ban. Now Her Family Is Suing
YouTube video by Rewire News Group
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 22/09/2026
Even after the CDC changed the way it counted measles deaths, it should now have updated numbers - but still nothing. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Why the CDC is excluding measles deaths in Pennsylvania even as outbreak appears to be ‘accelerating’
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention refuses to count four measles deaths in the state though doctors are ‘seeing new forms’ of disease
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
15/ ProPublica is revealing the existence of the case for the first time. We reviewed a trove of evidence gathered by the FBI and thousands of pages of legal records, and have independently corroborated much of Kao’s account. This is the first piece of an ongoing series:
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children." - Detrich Bonhoeffer www.themarshallproject.org/2026/06/09/b... #pinks
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25 Babies and Toddlers Are in ICE Custody on an Average Day
On an average day under Trump, ICE has 25 children aged 3 or younger in custody. In total, at least 500 babies and toddlers have been detained.
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
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Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”
nytimes.com
RFK Jr. Assures Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’
The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”
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Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"I'm not going to take away anybody's vaccines.” - Health Secretary Kennedy, November 2024. Covid vaccination cuts a child's risk of hospitalization by about two thirds. Half of American children get their vaccines through the Vaccines for Children Program. www.wsj.com/health/healt...
wsj.com
Exclusive | States Delayed in Getting Covid Shots for Children’s Immunization Program
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn’t opened up the ordering process, raising concerns about delays as vaccination programs kick off.
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ricciuti.bsky.social @ricciuti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On one hand, there's no way to prevent AI from going rogue. On the other hand, it's also polluting the environment, imploding the economy, and giving people psychosis.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 17/09/2026
In the EPA’s announcement of the proposed repeal, the agency claimed that its action was based on “the best reading of the Clean Air Act," an assertion that has drawn scrutiny from a long list of public health and environmental groups.
arstechnica.com
EPA immediately sued over plans to repeal climate rules for power plants
Public health groups warn EPA rule will cost Americans billions in health bills.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 15/09/2026
ICE is arresting a record number of pregnant women and teenagers, according to government documents obtained by the Guardian. At the same time, the agency appears to have lost count of how many suffered a miscarriage. 🧵
Two charts side by side. The first shows the number of pregnant people in ICE detention, which peaks in November 2025. The second shows the number of miscarriages recorded by ICE, until October 2025, when ICE said it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages.
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
CIDRAP Op-Ed: ‘Died with, not from’ was a COVID problem. It’s the wrong framework for measles. A Lancaster County family lost a newborn and then heard the HHS secretary suggest their child's death might have been invented. They deserve better. @jakescottmd.bsky.social Op-Ed: bit.ly/4xB0dx3
Illustration showing an orange measles virus highly magnified
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Jessica Nix @jessicanix.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW: For a third week in a row, the CDC hasn’t included the PA measles-associated deaths in its weekly update. The controversy around the deaths has eroded what little trust staff had in the new director. Gift link for @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
CDC Measles Death Pushback Stokes Staff Fears About New Leader
For the third week in a row, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention didn’t include two Pennsylvania measles deaths in its 2026 outbreak count.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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The Trace @thetrace.org · 13/09/2026
The CDC’s website now features misleading statistics about how often Americans use guns to protect themselves. The change puts the Trump administration in lockstep with a gun lobby that’s long promoted the idea that a “good guy with a gun” is the only thing that can stop a “bad guy with a gun.”
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Inflated Claim About Guns and Self-Defense Returns to CDC Website
The agency’s website now features misleading statistics about how often Americans use guns to protect themselves. Here’s what the data actually shows.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Eugenics: a common thread throughout the MAHA Administration Example: Bhattacharya & Memoli, who lead the NIH, say the US government should stop doing pandemic preparedness & instead the government must just urge individuals to get healthy so that at least the healthy survive the next pandemic 😳
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
CDC’s 9/11 world trade center health program was one of the first things this regime purged. just something to remember when republicans get really into the performative nationalism this week
abcnews.com
New York Republicans scold Trump for CDC cuts that affect 9/11 responders
Critics say the Trump administrations cuts to CDC staff will negatively affect a health fund for 9/11 first responders.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ultimately, this letter from NSF is an announcement that universities will be funded a lot less and politically-connected industry will be funded a lot more. Fancy words around old-fashioned corruption.
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NSF leadership in a new golden age of science
The U.S. National Science Foundation was established in 1950 to keep American discovery at the frontier. That mission has not changed. The science and technology ecosystem around it has...
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
lots of good stuff in here
The point is not simply that voters care about both affordability and corruption. It is that accountability gives an affordability agenda credibility. When voters believe the system is rigged, a promise to lower costs can sound like another campaign pledge that will never become reality. Showing voters that Democrats are willing to fight against the status quo answers the question lurking behind every campaign economic promise: why should voters believe this time will be different?
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Here’s what the evidence found on the flu, COVID-19 and RSV immunizations. ⬇️ There were no new safety concerns in comparative studies when examining currently recommended immunizations. Review the full reports, published in @jama.com: bit.ly/4x0nIhW
Graphic titled "VIP released an independent evidence review of respiratory virus immunizations." Includes logos of the Vaccine Integrity Project and CIDRAP. Text states, "Here's what the evidence found on the flu, COVID-19 and RSV immunizations." A rightward arrow is shown against a blue background with virus illustrations. CIDRAP and VIP logos are on the bottom of the graphic. A link to the VIP website is on the bottom right corner of the image. A graphic with an teal and blue ombre background. Microbe icons are in the background of the right hand side of the image. 

Text reads, "The influenza review found: 
Among adults over 65, the flu vaccine increased protection against hospitalization by 31%.*
Vaccine effectiveness was 80% against laboratory-confirmed influenza-associated deaths among infants and children aged 6 months to 17 years.**
*according to an analysis of VISION Network data
** in a case-cohort analysis of national surveillance data over eight seasons (2016-2020, 2021-2025)"
CIDRAP and VIP logos are on the bottom of the graphic. A link to the VIP website is on the bottom right corner of the image. A graphic with an teal and blue ombre background. Microbe icons are in the background of the right hand side of the image. 

Text reads, "The COVID-19 review found: 
For adults over 65, vaccination cut the risk of COVID-related hospitalization by 53% in the 2025-26 respiratory virus season. 

Maternal vaccination lowered the risk of emergency department and urgent care visits for pregnant women by 58% and to infants aged 0-2 months too with a vaccine effectiveness range of 50-54%.

Vaccinated young children (9 months-4 years) saw a 76% reduction in COVID-related pediatric emergency department visits."

CIDRAP and VIP logos are on the bottom of the graphic. A link to the VIP website is on the bottom right corner of the image. A graphic with an teal and blue ombre background. Microbe icons are in the background of the right hand side of the image. 

Text reads, "The RSV review found: 
For adults over 60, studies showed significant protection against hospitalization, with vaccine effectiveness ranging from 69%-83% within the same season as vaccination.

Vaccination during pregnancy reduced the risk of RSV among vaccinees by 82% and also reduced the risk of RSV-associated hospitalization among infants born subsequently.

The infant monoclonal antibody immunization nirsevimab reduced the risk of RSV-related hospitalization by 64%-93% within 6-12 months."

CIDRAP and VIP logos are on the bottom of the graphic. A link to the VIP website is on the bottom right corner of the image.
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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Some thoughts on how a tragedy--2 measles-related deaths in PA--has turned into a political circus. So much for new CDC director Erica Schwartz's promise to "speak truth to power." My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁):
bloomberg.com
Erica Schwartz Is Failing Her First Test as CDC Head
A tragedy in Pennsylvania — two measles-related deaths, including that of an infant — has devolved into a political circus led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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ricciuti.bsky.social @ricciuti.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Who needs medical research when we're all going to die?
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
arstechnica.com
Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them
CDC staff had already accepted the measles death reports when RFK Jr. meddled.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
RFK Jr.’s HHS Is Under Fire After a Judge Discovered the Agency Based Its New Policy on Scientific Studies That Do Not Actually Exist www.themarysue.com/rfk-jr-s-hhs...
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RFK Jr.'s HHS is under fire after a judge discovered the agency based its new policy on scientific studies that do not actually exist
RFK Jr.'s HHS is under fire after a judge discovered the agency based its new policy on scientific studies that do not actually exist
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NPR @npr.org · 04/09/2026
Research published in the journal Science illuminates a "missing piece" in the biological understanding of profound autism and offers new targets for drug development. n.pr/4ihEq9b
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Scientists map key protein interactions linked with profound autism
Research published in the journal Science illuminates a "missing piece" in the biological understanding of profound autism and offers new targets for drug development.
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem & Dorothy Pitman in 1971 and again in 2017. “Black women and white women can make this change together, but not until we acknowledge and resolve the racism problem that stands between us." - Dorothy Pitman Together, they started Ms. Magazine & Women’s Action Alliance. ⚡️Icons⚡️ #Pinks
Dorothy Pitman and Gloria Steinem re create their iconic 1971 photo in 2017 in a photo by Daniel Bagan. Both are standing with their fists in the air in solidarity of equal rights for women.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
CMS isn’t even collecting race and ethnicity data on the 2728 form for end stage kidney disease. That’s been a primary source of research data in ESKD. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com
Nonreporting of Race and Ethnicity in Medical Research Harms Us All
At JAMA Internal Medicine, we have become increasingly aware that some US researchers are unable to report on race or ethnicity as demographic variables to describe their sample or to conduct stratifi...
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A new analysis found that refusals of the vitamin K shot rose by more than 50% in the first half of 2026 in the US. This intervention has protected babies for decades. This is what happens when misinformation spreads unchecked leading to the rejection of science. www.reuters.com/world/us-ref...
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EXCLUSIVE: US refusals of crucial newborn vitamin spike, raising risk of dangerous bleeding
The percentage of parents and caregivers in the United States refusing a standard vitamin K shot for infants at birth has accelerated sharply this year, an ​exclusive data analysis for Reuters found, ...
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
An ICE agent directed Emilio, a Venezuelan Deaf man, to get onto a bus. He asked for an interpreter and didn’t get one. When he saw a Mexican flag, he realized he was being deported to Mexico, sans passport. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How Trump’s deportation machine deprives Deaf people of their humanity
An extra layer of cruelty is added by limiting communication access for Deaf people.
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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026
In 2026, there is no longer any lab leak hypothesis you can state consistently with the available evidence. Despite this, it has been the dominant media narrative for six years. Read my new data-driven investigation: www.protagonist-science.com/p/biased-med...
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Biased media coverage and the lab leak theory
Gain-of-function fearmongering and blame gets the glitzy NYT visual treatment as Republicans weaponize the lab leak theory again in attacks on Dr. Anthony Fauci
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
@hhmi-science.bsky.social has several upcoming competitions for scientists at various career stages. Here is a list (pl share whatever you feel will be useful): 1) Rising college juniors & seniors in summer 2027 can apply to the Cech Fellows program (www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...) Deadline: Nov 10
hhmi.org
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (REU) | Cech Fellows | HHMI
The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I know there are lot of people who think voting does nothing to stop fascism, but I do notice that one group who seems to think voting does something to stop fascism are the fascists, who are trying to prevent it as much as possible.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He’s Approaching 300 Days Behind Bars With a Festering Wound. theintercept.com/2026/08/16/r...
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ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He’s Approaching 300 Days Behind Bars With a Festering Wound.
With the case of Carlitos Ricardo Parias, the U.S. has broken its own record for holding a journalist in custody.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/08/2026
NEW: To prove the president’s claims of illegal voting, the government has harnessed the power of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of DHS established to combat the worst cross-border crime. So far, the effort has produced meager results.
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How Trump’s Unprecedented Effort to Prosecute Noncitizen Voters Fell Apart
To prove the president’s claims of illegal voting, the government has harnessed the power of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of DHS established to combat the worst cross-border crime. So fa...
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Erin had been addicted to meth for years when in January 2025, she received a blast of ultrasound waves to her brain. She hasn't craved drugs since. I wrote about her journey, and the promise of focused ultrasound for brain disorders, for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/brain-...
wired.com
Her Brain Was Broken. It Was Fixed With Sound—Not a Scalpel
One woman’s meth addiction was so bad, the only option left might have been brain surgery. Then a single session of noninvasive, focused ultrasound seemed to do what years of treatment could not.
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Trump’s EO has ZERO LEGAL POWER to change anything about US vaccine policy. CDC red’d vaccines stay the same. The ONLY thing it does is cause confusion. Here’s the history/context to the order and how reporters can accurately cover it for their audiences. healthjournalism.org/blog/2026/08...
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What Trump's latest executive order means (and doesn't mean) for vaccine policy
While Trump’s order on vaccines won't change policy or insurance coverage, it may create confusion and contribute to vaccine hesitancy.
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Jackmerius Tacktheritrix @j-tacktheritrix.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
No matter how bad you think this sounds, it's definitely worse. I worked on the Unaccompanied Children program for a period spanning the Biden and Trump II administrations, and it's impossible to imagine a population more vulnerable. The reason for the special handling Aaron notes (1/x)
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