Darth Vader praises Flock cameras: "This is what the Emperor needs. This technology will help us find the rebel scum and their hidden base on Hoth."

Today is my last day at Scientific American, which has been sold to LabX media group. For three decades I've led the magazine's coverage of human origins, archaeology, paleontology, animal behavior, ecology, BIRDS. End of an era. Anyway this feels weird to say, but I'm now available for assignments!

ADA leaders were forcibly removed from their own meeting for sharing copies of an ADA OpEd critical of Jay Bhattacharya. Thanks to you it's now got >125,000 views. As CDC interim director, Jay also blocked publication of this paper because it showed that COVID vaccines work. You know what to do.

Interim Estimated Effectiveness of 2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccines in Adults

This case-control study estimates vaccine effectiveness of 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccines among adults with COVID-19–associated emergency department or urgent care encounters and COVID-19–associated hosp...

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Who all is at #ESHG2026?

After the great news from the UK about #SequenceME (a continuation and deeper dive of the first GWAS study @decodemestudy.bsky.social into the genetic factors involved in #ME/CFS). This recent paper by Prof. @lizworthey.bsky.social et al. is a must read Uncovering the genetic architecture of ME

Uncovering the genetic architecture of ME/CFS: a precision approach reveals impact of rare monogenic variation - Journal of Translational Medicine

Journal of Translational Medicine - Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a disabling and heterogeneous disorder lacking validated biomarkers or targeted therapies....

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valebodi.bsky.social@valebodi.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Dr. Jarred Younger explains E. A. Worthey’s lab latest eye opening research paper: A precision approach to understanding #ME/CFS Uncovering the genetic architecture of ME/CFS: a precision approach reveals impact of rare monogenic variation link.springer.com/article/10.1... @lizworthey.bsky.social

It’s really astonishing that we take so much resources, land, and water for ourselves but not leave enough for other creatures of this planet.

Humanists UK@humanists.uk · 5mo ago

One of David Attenborough's best speeches. Today we're celebrating the 100th Birthday of the humanist and naturalist David Attenborough! Thank you for a lifetime of inspirational broadcasting and devotion to science and the natural world.

A different perspective. Always helpful.

ME Research UK: A recent study found differences in the extent of immune changes in ME/CFS following SARS-CoV-2 infection vs. idiopathic ME/CFS. Do different viral triggers produce variations in underlying pathophysiology? Read more: tinyurl.com/543kcekm #mecfs #pwme #cfs 1/

Anyone know where one can search all of the NIH #LongCOVID #Recover funded projects? I can find bits & pieces here and there, but not a full list with details; it's hard to be sure on NIH Reporter too. Maybe you might know @michaelpelusomd.bsky.social @mvgutierrezmd.bsky.social @zalaly.bsky.social?

HEAL Initiative, BRAIN initiative, Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, all now leaderless with Walter Koroshetz gone...

I-75 Scientist@flscitriguy.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"WK: NIH is a little tricky now. You don’t know who’s running it. It’s hard to trust what’s coming down from on top.".... "It’s pretty clear to everybody in NIH that the executive branch may not value what we do." thetransmitter.org/science-and-...

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

61 years ago today at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama.

The Diagnostic Challenge of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome www.latimes.com/doctors-scie... Screenshot from AMMES March 2026 Newsletter #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome

Tom Kindlon@tomkindlon.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Great to see this sympathetic overview article in the LA Times www.latimes.com/doctors-scie... It's long so many if not most patients probably won't agree with every sentence but overall gets across a lot sympathetically. Note: it doesn't focus on any particular news #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Does anyone (maybe @longcovidadvoc.com @longcovidsupport.bsky.social @longhaulerspodcast.bsky.social @mecfsskeptic.bsky.social) know if genomic data is being generated for the #LongCOVID #Recover study? I thought it was, but have been told a few times that it is not currently being generated. Ta!

It will be awful.

Thomas Lecaque@tlecaque.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What this technology is going to do is not end higher education, but it is going to undo so much of the baseline work on accessibility by pushing overworked professors to take things back to offline modalities, in person timed exams, keeping tech out of the classroom, etc.

Read this thread and article. RFK Jr. is a eugenicist pushing experiments on vulnerable black populations.

It's ME(Jaime)@exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 8mo ago

In desperation to generate support for changing the US vaccine schedule, CDC appointees allied with Kennedy circumvented scientific & ethical safeguards to 'experiment' with Hep B vaccination in West Africa. The Crimes Against Humanity administration. 🧪 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The fact that is it quakers-town is not lost on me. A central tenet of Quakerism is the commitment to peace, which has in the past compelled Quakers to protest against war, militarism, and violence.

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Part of the context here is that Bucks County recently elected an anti-ICE sheriff to replace their pro-ICE sheriff. The actions of Quakertown police (which is separate) are best understood as a gang that sees its power to intimidate slipping and so has initiated a violent suppression campaign.

Let's hope that Prince Andrew - sorry Andrew Mountbatten -Windsor - is a big enough fish that they can't murder him in custody like the others..

👀 👀 Here's a visual representation of how many times Trump's name appears in the Epstein files... so far. www.instagram.com/p/DUgiBD_EiSP

51% Long Covid is ME. Research the Canadian Consensus Criteria for best diagnostic tools available for #ME @sabrinapoirier.bsky.social is also a great resource 🙏🏻 as is @sunsopeningband.bsky.social 🙏🏻🙏🏻 particularly on understanding how #PEM Trump's everything in symptom management.

Sanders: The American people do not want this country to be an authoritarian society or an oligarchy. We have our differences, that’s what democracy is about—we argue it out. We don’t throw people who disagree in jail. We don’t intimidate the media. We don’t send ICE agents to shoot people.

We are all kind of waiting for RFK to actually, finally pick up an easily preventable disease and then die in agony of it while he tries to use it as justification for an array of snake oils. Everyone like "it's tuberculosis, just take antibiotics!" and he's like "no, urine inhalation therapy"

Dr. Jarred Younger explains E. A. Worthey’s lab latest eye opening research paper: A precision approach to understanding #ME/CFS Uncovering the genetic architecture of ME/CFS: a precision approach reveals impact of rare monogenic variation link.springer.com/article/10.1... @lizworthey.bsky.social

083 - A precision approach to understanding ME/CFS

YouTube video by Jarred Younger, PhD

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6) Link to the study: Birch et al. Uncovering the genetic architecture of ME/ CFS: a precision approach reveals impact of rare monogenic variation. link.springer.com/ar... Discussion on S4ME: www.s4me.info/thread...

Uncovering the genetic architecture of ME/CFS: a precision approach reveals impact of rare monogenic variation

Journal of Translational Medicine - Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a disabling and heterogeneous disorder lacking validated biomarkers or targeted therapies....

link.springer.com

This is a bit of a rant, I know; I’m just genuinely frustrated by the lack of pathways to obtain access to omics data from #LongCovid data from the #NIH #RECOVER project.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans says his team arrived on the scene of the shooting to conduct an independent investigation and "were blocked by federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security."

Ron, you have a HUGE following and am hoping you can get this out to people: The Military Police Brigade in NC is being deployed to Minnesota by Trump to begin Martial Law in the State. I cannot tell you how I know this but please believe me that it is happening!