Reposted by DocMaertensLaurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 02/07/2026hilariously shady content from Pew this Fourth of July 1102
Reposted by DocMaertensDaniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Just for the record, I've worked on stigma, inequalities, and pain for 20 years, & the evidence is utterly overwhelming that women are vastly less likely to have their pain adequately diagnosed and treated than men. And of course WoC are less likely than white women. Etc. cc @maybell.bsky.social 25911
Reposted by DocMaertensFree DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 24/06/2026But yesterday, soldiers from the Minnesota National Guard arrived in DC to aid and abet Trump's immoral and illegal occupation of the capital city. 15615
Reposted by DocMaertensD. Scott Pumpkins 🎃🏳️🌈 @dslundberg.bsky.social · 24/06/2026City: Washington, DC I only need one word: Statehood 0276
Reposted by DocMaertensJanne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 24/06/2026There are words for that and they are “political” and “prisoner.” 420074
Reposted by DocMaertensProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 18/06/2026This is IMHO extremely important Keep an eye out—other government departments will hopefully follow🤞 The right-wing disinformation, violence, & abuse of women & children on X led the Attorney General to take his office OFF that Nazi cesspit Hermer himself has suffered grotesque antisemitism 1154
Reposted by DocMaertensae @aelkus.bsky.social · 16/06/2026at the end, @professormusgrave.bsky.social says future students will ask "why?" And I'm afraid that we'll have to tell them the answer is that a plurality of the American people wanted it to be 2019 again and thought nothing Trump did would impact them. Ditto to institutions that enabled him 10601124
Reposted by DocMaertensMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Also, the JCPOA was an actual painstakingly negotiated, detailed, actual international agreement, signed by 🇬🇧, 🇩🇪, 🇫🇷, 🇷🇺, & 🇨🇳alongside 🇺🇸, & 🇮🇷. We don’t even know if this is real, & this administration has exactly zero credibility to make agreements right now, even if they exist. 9980261
Reposted by DocMaertensDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/06/2026In case we had any doubtlemonde.frElon Musk's role was 'instrumental' in the Belfast riots, researchers sayThe newly crowned world's first trillionaire is once again facing criticism over the violent narratives he amplified on his platform X. 2233861316
Reposted by DocMaertens🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 14/06/2026If any future student of history wishes to learn what our era was like, they simply need to know that there was less than a year between Elon becoming a historic mass murderer and officially becoming the world's first trillionaire 112135
Reposted by DocMaertensFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 10/06/2026Twitter/X is an enormous national security threat on a global scale, and a lot more nations need to grow a spine and start blocking it (and taking other active, aggressive measures). 252780706
Reposted by DocMaertensAmesh Adalja @ameshaa.bsky.social · 11/06/2026In this @hannamwebster.bsky.social piece I’m quoted about how vaccination rates are a key component of school safety that should be widely publicized and also how it’s not suprising to see 60+ measles cases in PA as the virus has re-established endemicity. www.post-gazette.com/news/health/...post-gazette.comAmid a measles resurgence, Pennsylvania leaders say plunging vaccine rates in thousands of schools will be made publicAs measles cases in Pennsylvania spike to levels not seen in decades, state officials say they will disclose the vaccination rates in classrooms across... 012
Reposted by DocMaertensKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/06/2026It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform. 214141182949
Reposted by DocMaertensMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/06/2026reminder that the last time trump was at madison square garden was for a literal nazi rallynewrepublic.comTrump’s Madison Square Garden Event Was a Full Nazi RallyDonald Trump’s rally was rife with Nazi and Nazi-adjacent language and imagery. 303198787
Reposted by DocMaertensAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Read this whole piece. 4422181083
Reposted by DocMaertensSteven Kahn @sekahn.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I grew up in apartheid S Africa, where muzzling of speech and encroachment on academic freedom were the norm. I came to the USA to pursue a career in science. I never thought that at this stage of my career, I would ever experience my youth again. #StandUpForScience #ADA #ADA2026 711838
Reposted by DocMaertensDrug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 06/06/2026To be absolutely clear in the current environment, the bias identified here was a bias for white lead investigators and also for topics that are favored by white investigators, regardless of the lead investigator’s race. 12011
Reposted by DocMaertensCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift linknytimes.comPolice Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration 5629151465
Reposted by DocMaertensDaniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 05/06/2026The new NIH policy requiring co-authorships with foreign scientists to be reported seems like an opportunity for a mass protest-by-cooperation: if each of us requested permission for each of our co-authorships (1 email per ms), the NIH would be deluged with these and it would convey how absurd it is 22716
Reposted by DocMaertensDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I work on global ocean conservation policy. I don’t know if it’s possible to do that without collaboration with foreign experts. It’s definitely not possible to do it well. 34510
Reposted by DocMaertensDanielle R. Snowflack, Ph.D. @drsnowflack.bsky.social · 31/05/2026www.capitalweather.com Found it and sent some bucks.capitalweather.comCapital WeatherTrusted D.C.-area weather forecasts, storm coverage, climate reporting and analysis from the Capital Weather meteorologists 152
Reposted by DocMaertensliberation psychiatrist @libpsych.bsky.social · 25/05/2026The first Memorial Day dates to 1865 when members of Black churches re-buried Union soldiers from a mass grave in a Confederate prison camp to individual grave sites. Memory of the event was later suppressed. apnews.com/31e1623c7565...apnews.comCharleston can lay a claim to 1st Memorial DayCHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The city that plunged the nation into its bloodiest conflict can also lay a claim to holding the first Memorial Day observance honoring the dead from the Civil War. In a little... 02620
Reposted by DocMaertensAmesh Adalja @ameshaa.bsky.social · 23/05/2026“Twenty of those cases are part of an ongoing outbreak that started in Lebanon County over the past month and has spread to three other counties: Berks, Dauphin and Lancaster.” www.post-gazette.com/news/health/...post-gazette.comMeasles cases continue to spread in Pa., hitting the highest number since 1991As vaccination rates plummet in hundreds of schools across Pennsylvania, state health officials say 32 cases of measles have been reported so far... 012
Reposted by DocMaertensEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 20/05/2026100% worth your 63 seconds if you have my reading speed. sinceyouarrived.world/takensinceyouarrived.worldtaken.A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you. 125429
Reposted by DocMaertensKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 18/05/2026“Dr. Antaki, a biomedical engineer, had been building an artificial heart for babies and young children, a pump the size of a AA battery, and he was getting close. But with his research grants stopped, Dr. Antaki slowly drained his lab’s rainy day funds, and he was forced to lay off all his staff.”nytimes.comHow a Funding Pause Derailed an Artificial Heart for Babies 2849475
Reposted by DocMaertensKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 18/05/2026Also the next somebody says reparations for black people is a ridiculous idea, remind them that we have a reparations program for trying to overthrow the government 172291664
Reposted by DocMaertensBill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 15/05/2026The most accurate portrayal of the pro-Jim Crow, white nationalist Roberts Supreme Court I've seen yet. 215106943615
Reposted by DocMaertensKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 13/05/2026“Let me start with what worked…the part of the story most Americans do not know. The Nebraska biocontainment unit now holding our returning passengers is a Level 1 Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center… the highest tier of a national network built specifically for moments like this.”statnews.comThe hantavirus is a wake-up call. Will the Trump administration answer it?Arriving in the isolation ward of a biocontainment hospital is an unsettling, scary experience. In 2014, I spent 19 days in one while being treated for 313772
Reposted by DocMaertensSarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Happy Frances Perkins feast day (Episcopal Church calendar, May 13)! Witness to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, later FDR’s Labor Secretary; she wrote the Social Security Act in her church’s rectory kitchen. She pushed to admit Jewish refugees. Known as FDR’s conscience and author of the New Deal. ⚓️ 19877311
Reposted by DocMaertensCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/05/2026Look, even this level of idiocy is not reason to panic. It just reemphasizes the point here: 231054
Reposted by DocMaertensProPublica @propublica.org · 10/05/2026When Rubio abruptly halted foreign aid last year, cleanup crews in Vietnam were forced to abandon one of the largest chemical spills in the world for weeks. Left exposed: open pits of soil contaminated with dioxin, the deadly byproduct of Agent Orange. From Pulitzer finalist “The End of Aid”:propublica.orgTrump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health and relations with a key strategic pa... 4519411125
Reposted by DocMaertensAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Zelensky has issued a presidential decree “allowing” Russia to hold its annual Victory Day parade in Moscow. The decree provides exact coordinates of the Red Square that shall be excluded from the list of Ukrainian strike targets. Phenomenal power play. 14835461021
Reposted by DocMaertensMike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 03/05/2026absolutely, and it's because we lack statehood. I realize, for obvious reasons, that most people view D.C. statehood in terms of 2 (almost certainly) Democratic senate seats, but the lack of self-governance is a real problem. Imagine if Congress had a de facto line item veto over your state budget. 1614136
Reposted by DocMaertensHL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026This should be a bigger story. I didn't know Isaiah but almost everyone in my lab, my TA, and a few close colleagues knew him well. They all say he was a sweet guy who was just really into herps. This is a tragedy. 11975533
Reposted by DocMaertensMallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 29/04/2026NIH Director's stump speech lists stats on how it's hard to be early career & proposes no solution past "elevate new ideas" while he slashes our opportunities. If you're a scientific org inviting him & don't point this out, I'll assume you don't care about us. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/04/that... 27928
Reposted by DocMaertensJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/04/2026This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today. 38504153916663
Reposted by DocMaertensDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 17/04/2026Yousof Azizi, Iranian researcher, journalist, commentator and PhD candidate at @virginiatech.bsky.social with valid legal status, has been illegally detained by ICE. He was taken from in front of his home, has been denied access to a lawyer, and may be transferred to a detention center in Louisiana:change.orgSign the PetitionRelease Yousof Azizi from ICE detention 3244183
Reposted by DocMaertensLaura Haynes👩🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Once again, I have no words (or at least words that won’t get me in trouble) for the shit that our government is doing 😡 2189
Reposted by DocMaertensColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Public servants who are doing everything they can to document the damage and throw sand in the gears are CRITICAL to saving our democracy. I trust @repauchincloss.bsky.social and his team. If this is you, please reach out. You will be protected and supported. 12411
Reposted by DocMaertensAmesh Adalja @ameshaa.bsky.social · 10/04/2026“Año Nuevo State Park in San Mateo County, California, is set to reopen this upcoming weekend after a bird flu outbreak killed several elephant seals and other marine mammals.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...cidrap.umn.eduIndiana tracks more avian flu in hard-hit countiesIn the past 30 days, APHIS has confirmed outbreaks in 56 flocks. 111
Reposted by DocMaertensMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 10/04/2026things don't actually sound better on vinyl 220611
Reposted by DocMaertensJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 09/04/2026If we are using taxpayer fairness as a criterion, Black Americans make up ~14% of the population yet receive less than 1% of of NIH funding. 5/5media.tenor.coma poster for rules are rules shows a cartoon characterALT: a poster for rules are rules shows a cartoon character 39220
Reposted by DocMaertensJasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!! 341251755043
Reposted by DocMaertensSenator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 08/04/2026I'm on the train back to DC – I call on all my colleagues to come back, too. Congress must vote to end this war IMMEDIATELY. 20957651185
Reposted by DocMaertensRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16/03/2026It you watch one thing from the Oscars, let it be this… 6335211428
Reposted by DocMaertensJenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026I read the “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read it because, if they had, they would be sounding the alarm about the provision in Point 1, below, which almost none of them have even mentioned. I hope this summary helps raise awareness. 1/ 22752993493
Reposted by DocMaertensEos @eos.org · 13/03/2026In 1896, Florence Bascom became the first woman to work for USGS! She was also the first woman to earn a Ph.D. from @jhu.edu (in 1893) and created the geology program at Bryn Mawr College. She retired at age 74. #WomensHistoryMonthusgs.govFlorence Bascom, Trailblazer of the U.S. Geological SurveyEach March, Women’s History Month commemorates the trailblazers, visionaries and notable women who have forever changed the world. 04720
Reposted by DocMaertensAlexander Fox @alexanderfox1.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Finally, a flag worth fighting for. 3134421090