DocMaertens @toxicological.bsky.social · 06/07/2026They are using them for science! Teeth are actually a great record of metal exposures and that way the Tooth Fairy can do biomarker studies. 0220
Reposted by DocMaertensLaurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 02/07/2026hilariously shady content from Pew this Fourth of July 1102
DocMaertens @toxicological.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Yep. People disowned their kids for being gay. I remember realizing a gay couple I knew couldn’t hug each other goodbye at the airport because same sex PDA was not tolerated then. 010
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
DocMaertens @toxicological.bsky.social · 25/06/2026As someone who lives near the Supreme Court I have dutifully sent bad vibes their way every time I pass by. I regret that I have but two birds to give to my country. 071
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
DocMaertens @toxicological.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Same! My excuse was that absent mindedness is an occupational hazard of being an academic. 020
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
DocMaertens @toxicological.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Indeed! And as long as you bicycle everywhere it doesn’t appear to cause obesity! 000
DocMaertens @toxicological.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Yeah also people who put mayonnaise on fries should not be casting stones 260
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
DocMaertens @toxicological.bsky.social · 11/06/2026“How our fear of poisons poisoned our politics”. Also, did you know poisoning is feminine-coded? 030
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
DocMaertens @toxicological.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Exactly - unless you can define what chemicals or micronutrients etc are causing specific health effects, this is all correlation not causation. And scientists should know better! 000
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
DocMaertens @toxicological.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Yeah, for sure, you really don’t want to store any food surplus. . .because of rats. (also, no rodent problem = no domesticated cats. So I’m going to call it a win based on that alone.) 020
Reposted by DocMaertensAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Read this whole piece. 4422181083
DocMaertens @toxicological.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Agreed. Based on my experience in public health - sure, of course there are things we could do better, things which should be different. But the people asking “How did public health cause this crisis?” are basically asking “What did you do to make him hit you?” 120
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
DocMaertens @toxicological.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I always got the impression (from the vantage of the science department) that the problem was indeed that very bad relativistic claims developed a certain cache amongst people for whom it was useful. Or more precisely, the philosophical scholarship was not the problem but the cheap popularization? 110
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
DocMaertens @toxicological.bsky.social · 10/05/2026How Markets Fail by John Cassidy is a good macro level view and very readable 030
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
DocMaertens @toxicological.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Some people just have very bad metabolic wiring, and there probably are a few kids who would benefit from GLP-1. I don’t think there’s a huge rush to prescribe them to every kid who looks a bit overweight. This feels a lot more like a moral panic vs serious public health concern. 010
DocMaertens @toxicological.bsky.social · 06/05/2026I am hoping to pitch a pop sci book soon and curious about your experience - any advice? 100
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