📣📣 "While intersectional MAIHDA is a promising new approach..., it is important to acknowledge that, in many ways, the world is far more hostile to this kind of work than when I first began developing the approach over a decade ago." @clarerevans.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A 10-year retrospective review and future directions for intersectional MAIHDA

Marking the 10th anniversary of intersectional MAIHDA (multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy), this commentary o…

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"A 10-Year Retrospective Review and Future Directions for Intersectional MAIHDA" Free author link (until the end of July) 👇 authors.elsevier.com/a/1nFcs-CmV9...

I know Jey through our parallel efforts to have trans scientists centered in the discussion of why transphobes are wrong about science. To think that visibility from that + other trans activism led to this is horrifying- let's make sure they at least don't have to worry about the financial cost!

Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️‍⚧️🧬@jeymccreight.bsky.social · 3mo ago

You may have noticed I disappeared from social media after my launch of @beyondxandy.bsky.social I was violently attacked by a transphobe who recognized me and have been in the hospital and resting If you'd like to help me with my medical bills, please consider donating here: gofund.me/9328f91f2

Dr. Fauci came to Stanford for Medicine grand rounds and shared a few reflections I thought were worth passing on: The first was about Operation Warp Speed and the current state of the NIH. As you’ll recall the first mRNA vax was developed at record speed. Fauci atttributes that success to 4 factors

the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And there it is, folks. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

There is so much more to science funding than top line budget fights. If orgs and Congress want to engage in what is really happening, they need to look into their own communities where people and projects are being abandoned. This cannot wait until 2029.

Abraham Palmer@abepalmer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A colleague received bad news from her NIH program officer today: my colleague’s grant got a great score, but NIH still can’t pay it, and my colleague will have to closer her lab. The call ended with the program officer (not my colleague) crying. Awful on so many levels.

It was such a pleasure to host Dr. Clare Evans @clarerevans.bsky.social at the University of Calgary over the past few days! She delivered an incredible workshop on MAIHDA that has left us all inspired! 🌟 💫 Looking forward to future collaboration! #EpiSky #ScienceSky #MedSky

I guess with race science discourse still percolating, I should re-up my starter pack for people who work on the topic

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

After big dams on the upper Klamath River in far northern CA were removed in 2024, Chinook (king) salmon migrated upstream for the first time in 100+ years--and now they have hatched.

Chinook salmon found naturally hatching in Upper Klamath River for first time in a century

The Klamath Tribes are celebrating evidence of Chinook salmon spawning in Klamath River tributary.

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NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book

Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

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We leave you tonight with this joyful display of affection. What a bond. 15/10. Sadie is a good girl.

WeRateDogs@weratedogs.com · 4mo ago

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

The UnPopulist@theunpopulist.net · 4mo ago

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

There will be a post-Bhattacharya, post-RFK Jr world, when we can and will rebuild after the destruction. It will take time (some folks think a generation), but we WILL get there 💪

Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc@rahallclifford.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'm just sick about this (and also literally sick with long covid that mRNA vaccines help prevent)

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

This is now the LOST generation for all doctoral research, from engineering to public health, from literature to psychology, from religion to economics. Some programs will suffer more than others, but this is a tremendous loss to the future. This is ALL on #RussellVought #DonaldTrump #JDVance.

Jay Van Bavel, PhD@jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I've seen a lot of demoralized posts (and emails) from people who didn't get into grad school this cycle. This was one of the worst cycles I've ever seen due to massive cuts to research funding, financial difficulties at universities, and technological disruptions.

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.

'Ridiculous': Kristi Noem's 28-year-old aide wasted millions on unusable ICE vehicles

A former deputy to outgoing Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem saddled the department with millions of dollars in wasted funding for vehicles that cannot be used.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcem...

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You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off. Leave your comment here: eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-... morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ...

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests

One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

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🚨 🚨 🚨 Our local hospital in Lane County, serving Eugene and Springfield, Oregon. We need to contact our reps and Oregon Health Authority and make some noise about this outrage at PeaceHealth 👇👇👇

Corporate Healthcare Strikes Again

YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken

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ruwa romman is a georgia state house rep running for governor. one of the real ones👇

Ruwa Romman@ruwaromman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Today we met with detainees including Rodney Taylor to hear from them directly about the conditions in Stewart Detention Center. This detention center is notorious and accounts for the majority of deaths in ICE custody.

There must be trials. Not as an emotive aspiration, rhetorical meme, or empty threat. A concrete plan. A dedicated special court for it. Structural legislation and prosecutors and funding and all the rest of it. Everything necessary for it can be done constitutionally. All it takes is the will.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

#FDA backs down on #Moderna: The agency had refused to review the company's licensure application for an mRNA flu vaccine, but after significant pushback has relented. www.statnews.com/2026/02/18/f...

FDA reverses course, agrees to review Moderna’s flu vaccine

The FDA reversed course and told Moderna it would review its application for a new flu vaccine, the company announced Wednesday.

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The 2-month-old baby in ICE detention was so sick he was hospitalized and unresponsive last night. Despite that, today, he and his entire family were deported. Now we don’t know where they are or if the baby is receiving healthcare.

Joaquin Castro@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 6mo ago

After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.

"We need to stop treating him like an eccentric CEO....He is a criminal protected by his wealth.... [and] one of the deadliest men of the 21st century."

Joni Askola@joniaskola.bsky.social · 6mo ago

1/12 Elon Musk is responsible for more deaths in one year than ISIS and Al-Qaeda caused in thirty. In 2025 his "Department of Government Efficiency" dismantled USAID. He tweeted that he fed it "into the wood chipper." The result was a massacre 🧵

“The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds, whether they actually slept with the women on offer or simply shared Epstein’s fantasies in order to gain influence.”

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott

Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

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The Mellon Foundation trained me in the art of the sword; she taught me how to love, and how to kill in the name of second-wave feminism. The Mellon Foundation taught me the Weirding Way; my name became a killing word (my name is "Intersectionality").