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Susumu Tonegawa has passed away. He was a legend in my field of immunology. He won the Nobel prize for discovering how B cells rearrange their genes to produce antibodies! #ImmunoSky news.aai.org/2026/07/23/s...

Thanks so much; I really value your perspective!

Similar to the recommendation to avoid illustrating articles about vaccination with needles, I would suggest avoiding illustrating articles about cancer screening in ways that could be upsetting. Let’s limit every possible barrier to getting the HPV vaccine and getting screened for cervical cancer.

This article includes helpful information, but I am questioning the photo choice. A health provider raises their gloved hand, about to examine a patient whose legs are spread open. This aspect of cervical cancer screening can be traumatic for some (&self collection is an option the article mentions)

If you post survey data, news articles, etc. without a link back to the source whenever possible, you are weakening the informational chain of custody and making it harder for other people to confirm that they're seeing accurate information. This holds even if you're mad at whatever it is.

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

“Even with Mr. Cornyn’s requested changes, the audit protection for Mr. Trump would still be an unprecedented gift to a sitting president, effectively exempting him from the legal requirement for all Americans to comply with the nation’s tax laws — or face I.R.S. scrutiny.”

one of the saddest ironies of higher ed's headlong embrace of AI is that the clearest and most thorough reporting on the subject has been done almost exclusively by student journalists

That’s a very helpful, sadly all too applicable metric

It's bananas right now. Interest rates are something like 3X what they were before, but prices have barely even budged so monthly payments have skyrocketed. Not sure what's going to give, but it feels like something has to.

The AAUP is proud to endorse Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in the Michigan Democratic primary. Dr. El-Sayed is a fierce champion for debt-free & tuition-free higher education & will be an invaluable ally for academic freedom & higher education as a public good in Washington.

“That budget strain for renters, combined with escalating home equity for owners, has pushed the wealth gap between the two groups to its highest level since data was first collected in 1989, according to analysis from the Urban Institute, which focuses on upward mobility.”

“A recent analysis from Realtor.com found 77% of home listings are out of reach for middle-income earners. Rents have also risen faster than incomes, leaving nearly half of renters cost-burdened, meaning they pay more than a third of their income for housing.”

Someone posted this in slack and I actually thought it was The Onion. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

How do poxviruses initiate infection after getting into the cytoplasm? With Tom Calcraft, @miguel-virus-cells.bsky.social & Peter Rosenthal, @crick.ac.uk we solved the structure of the vaccinia virus portal that mediates viral assembly and early mRNA and subsequent genome release. rdcu.be/fwGTn

The researchers looked at vaccinia: “The conservation of portal proteins across the poxviruses, their essential functions in the viral replication cycle and their low copy number per virion make them attractive targets for the development of anti-orthopoxviral drugs.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

I wasted my life going to medical school

Trump absolutely cratering by many metrics in new CNN poll: 66% say he puts himself over country 61% disapprove of ballroom, arch, etc 57% say lacks sharpness to serve (!) 73% say he's out of touch w/regular people (!!) His personalist project is over. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2137...

What a powerful article by @davephilipps.bsky.social It’s so brave of the family to share their story like this, and excellent reporting. It seems like football is just the tip of the iceberg of all the different kinds of activities and occupations that can result in repetitive brain trauma.

“Repeated jolts of that intensity can trigger a cycle of inflammation &cell death that can lead to permanent damage. One Navy fast-boat driver was found to have severe chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., the progressive brain disease…Other fast-boat veterans say the problems are widespread”