Hank Greely
@hankgreely.bsky.social
Stanford Law prof, working on ethical, legal, and social issues in the biosciences. Sports fan (especially Stanford sports). And strongly opposed to the illegal & immoral Russian invasion of Ukraine. Slava Ukraini!
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Excited to work with @pzettler.bsky.social and @reshmagar.bsky.social on this new project supported by @arnoldventures.bsky.social with the goal of developing a principles-based approach to rebuilding and re-envisioning FDA.
moritzlaw.osu.edu/ohio-state-a...
moritzlaw.osu.edu/ohio-state-a...
Ohio State and Partners Secure Grant to Inform Future Vision of FDA
Researchers at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and partner universities were recently awarded a grant from Arnold Ventures to support a multi-faceted research project, titled “A Princi...
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December 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Excited to work with @pzettler.bsky.social and @reshmagar.bsky.social on this new project supported by @arnoldventures.bsky.social with the goal of developing a principles-based approach to rebuilding and re-envisioning FDA.
moritzlaw.osu.edu/ohio-state-a...
moritzlaw.osu.edu/ohio-state-a...
Reproductive tourism, embryo data version. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Some UK couples are insisting on having genetic data on their embryos sent to US for analysis by companies that provide lots of (iffy) conclusions on behavioral traits. UK restricts analysis to particular diseases.
Some UK couples are insisting on having genetic data on their embryos sent to US for analysis by companies that provide lots of (iffy) conclusions on behavioral traits. UK restricts analysis to particular diseases.
UK IVF couples use legal loophole to rank embryos based on potential IQ, height and health
British fertility clinics raise scientific and ethical objections over patients sending embryos’ genetic data abroad for analysis
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Reproductive tourism, embryo data version. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Some UK couples are insisting on having genetic data on their embryos sent to US for analysis by companies that provide lots of (iffy) conclusions on behavioral traits. UK restricts analysis to particular diseases.
Some UK couples are insisting on having genetic data on their embryos sent to US for analysis by companies that provide lots of (iffy) conclusions on behavioral traits. UK restricts analysis to particular diseases.
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Poland‘s Vice President Radoslaw Sikorski absolutely torches Elon Musk.
December 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Poland‘s Vice President Radoslaw Sikorski absolutely torches Elon Musk.
For volcano watchers, Kilauea is at it again!
www.youtube.com/@usgs/streams
Check out the three web cams on this page. These episodes sometimes last for a couple of days, sometimes for only a few hours. See it while you can!
www.youtube.com/@usgs/streams
Check out the three web cams on this page. These episodes sometimes last for a couple of days, sometimes for only a few hours. See it while you can!
USGS
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December 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
For volcano watchers, Kilauea is at it again!
www.youtube.com/@usgs/streams
Check out the three web cams on this page. These episodes sometimes last for a couple of days, sometimes for only a few hours. See it while you can!
www.youtube.com/@usgs/streams
Check out the three web cams on this page. These episodes sometimes last for a couple of days, sometimes for only a few hours. See it while you can!
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Finally finished this last week and highly recommend! Such a carefully crafted timeline of the history of life in the air and the science that describes it. Loved the chapters on the Mills' and Lindberghs' contributions many decades ago. The fight for clean air is nothing new! @carlzimmer.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Finally finished this last week and highly recommend! Such a carefully crafted timeline of the history of life in the air and the science that describes it. Loved the chapters on the Mills' and Lindberghs' contributions many decades ago. The fight for clean air is nothing new! @carlzimmer.com
Yes! @stanfordwsoc.bsky.social 1, Duke 0. 10th min free kick goal by Jasmine Aikey (women's college soccer player of the yr) holds up. Tough match; could have gone to overtime. But we were better; 23 shots, 8 on goal; they had 11, 2 on goal. And we had about 5 "how did that NOT go in?" shots.
December 6, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Yes! @stanfordwsoc.bsky.social 1, Duke 0. 10th min free kick goal by Jasmine Aikey (women's college soccer player of the yr) holds up. Tough match; could have gone to overtime. But we were better; 23 shots, 8 on goal; they had 11, 2 on goal. And we had about 5 "how did that NOT go in?" shots.
Unbelievable! Except, of course, it isn't. Proud racism meets unlimited egotism.
The Trump administration has removed MLK Day and Juneteenth as holidays that include free entrance to national parks, adding the president’s birthday instead
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Unbelievable! Except, of course, it isn't. Proud racism meets unlimited egotism.
Jasmine Aikey of @stanfordwsoc.bsky.social has won the Top Drawer Soccer award as College Women's Soccer Player of the Year. SO well deserved. Such a great career for us; hoping she can cap it off w/2 more wins (& 3 more goals, to lead the country in scoring, and in points)!
Go Card!
Go Card!
December 5, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Jasmine Aikey of @stanfordwsoc.bsky.social has won the Top Drawer Soccer award as College Women's Soccer Player of the Year. SO well deserved. Such a great career for us; hoping she can cap it off w/2 more wins (& 3 more goals, to lead the country in scoring, and in points)!
Go Card!
Go Card!
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In 2013, the mayor of Los Angeles set the target of 2025 for a coal-free energy grid.
It’s 2025 and LA has a coal-free energy grid. And 60% of our electrons are carbon-neutral sources.
Just wanted to share some great news.
It’s 2025 and LA has a coal-free energy grid. And 60% of our electrons are carbon-neutral sources.
Just wanted to share some great news.
December 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
In 2013, the mayor of Los Angeles set the target of 2025 for a coal-free energy grid.
It’s 2025 and LA has a coal-free energy grid. And 60% of our electrons are carbon-neutral sources.
Just wanted to share some great news.
It’s 2025 and LA has a coal-free energy grid. And 60% of our electrons are carbon-neutral sources.
Just wanted to share some great news.
Sigh. I keep hoping for some sign of moderation from Roberts, Kavanagh, and Barrett but apart from not joining the Alito opinion, we have only their votes. Which, again, as they have been almost always, are silently in favor of Trump and the party he owns.
The Supreme Court lets the Texas racial gerrymander go forward, overruling the three-judge district court. In so doing, it tells us that as of December 2025 it is too close to the 2026 election to redraw maps.
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www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
www.supremecourt.gov
December 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Sigh. I keep hoping for some sign of moderation from Roberts, Kavanagh, and Barrett but apart from not joining the Alito opinion, we have only their votes. Which, again, as they have been almost always, are silently in favor of Trump and the party he owns.
Listening to @matthewcobb.bsky.social's Crick bio w/great pleasure but stumbled over an example of 2 countries divided by a single language: "Tompkins." He says Crick added "Tompkins" as an author to a submitted paper as a joke. I had to google it.
Translation is important & not just for jargon! ;)
Translation is important & not just for jargon! ;)
December 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Listening to @matthewcobb.bsky.social's Crick bio w/great pleasure but stumbled over an example of 2 countries divided by a single language: "Tompkins." He says Crick added "Tompkins" as an author to a submitted paper as a joke. I had to google it.
Translation is important & not just for jargon! ;)
Translation is important & not just for jargon! ;)
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As many others have posted, a must-read by 12 former FDA commissioners laying out what's so deeply troubling about the substance of and process used for recent changes to vaccine policy at FDA: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
But @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social perhaps summed it up best 👇
But @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social perhaps summed it up best 👇
Imagine doing something at work so troubling that virtually every person alive who ever had your boss’s job spent their Thanksgiving weekend writing something that explained to the world how wrong you are and how harmful—deadly, even—it would be if you weren’t stopped.
December 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
As many others have posted, a must-read by 12 former FDA commissioners laying out what's so deeply troubling about the substance of and process used for recent changes to vaccine policy at FDA: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
But @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social perhaps summed it up best 👇
But @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social perhaps summed it up best 👇
In 1944, in Politics and the English Language, Orwell wrote "The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’."
"Eugenics" has reached the same point—it means something about human genetics the speaker/writer doesn't like, across a huge range of actions
"Eugenics" has reached the same point—it means something about human genetics the speaker/writer doesn't like, across a huge range of actions
Agree it is not enough to say "this is eugenic" as if that ended the argument. But saying this is NOT eugenics because it isn't state coercion + sterilization is jsut ignorant. Positive eugenics also worked out badly. So let's discuss that.
December 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
In 1944, in Politics and the English Language, Orwell wrote "The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’."
"Eugenics" has reached the same point—it means something about human genetics the speaker/writer doesn't like, across a huge range of actions
"Eugenics" has reached the same point—it means something about human genetics the speaker/writer doesn't like, across a huge range of actions
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Grim. Scientifically illiterate, and the techniques they are selling will be largely ineffective anyway.
See my book, Control: the Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics.
See my book, Control: the Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics.
I saw this ad on the train and I’m curious how yall feel about it… I’m very much in the center, but slightly more towards than against…
December 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Grim. Scientifically illiterate, and the techniques they are selling will be largely ineffective anyway.
See my book, Control: the Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics.
See my book, Control: the Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics.
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Also, "IQ is 50% genetic" is misleading and meaningless in itself. And the implication - that you can use genetics to select IQ - is profoundly misleading, to a degree that should be subject to advertising regulations.
December 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Also, "IQ is 50% genetic" is misleading and meaningless in itself. And the implication - that you can use genetics to select IQ - is profoundly misleading, to a degree that should be subject to advertising regulations.
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If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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I hope no Ice 9 yet!
(Though I'm guessing there's probably an Ice IX.)
(Though I'm guessing there's probably an Ice IX.)
Still no end in sight for ice phases. (Shame the article doesn't show a structure, though.)
Researchers have found *yet another* new form of water ice. Ice XXI is structurally distinct from all previously observed phases of ice, exists at room temperature and was produced by rapidly compressing water to pressures of 2 GPa. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/ice-xxi-ap...
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I hope no Ice 9 yet!
(Though I'm guessing there's probably an Ice IX.)
(Though I'm guessing there's probably an Ice IX.)
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I'm fascinated with psychology driving Prasad, Makary, Bhattacharya, Oz, etc.
These individuals have a science background.
They MUST know they're:
- pushing harmful BS
- enabling an authoritarian admin
- their legacy is now darkness
WTF is the motivation? Why do this? WHY?
These individuals have a science background.
They MUST know they're:
- pushing harmful BS
- enabling an authoritarian admin
- their legacy is now darkness
WTF is the motivation? Why do this? WHY?
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I'm fascinated with psychology driving Prasad, Makary, Bhattacharya, Oz, etc.
These individuals have a science background.
They MUST know they're:
- pushing harmful BS
- enabling an authoritarian admin
- their legacy is now darkness
WTF is the motivation? Why do this? WHY?
These individuals have a science background.
They MUST know they're:
- pushing harmful BS
- enabling an authoritarian admin
- their legacy is now darkness
WTF is the motivation? Why do this? WHY?
Curious. I just now wanted to create a poll on the reasons for FDA's stomach-twisting plunge, but BlueSky doesn't seem to have a poll creating method, at least that I can see. Can that be right?
December 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Curious. I just now wanted to create a poll on the reasons for FDA's stomach-twisting plunge, but BlueSky doesn't seem to have a poll creating method, at least that I can see. Can that be right?
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Sum: RFK Jr is wrong, wrong, wrong. Yet again.
The HPV vaccine is safe and cuts cervical cancer risk by 80%, large reviews find www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... via @nbcnews.com
"The vaccine works. Full stop."
"The vaccine is safe. Full stop."
#VaccinesWork #ScienceMatters
The HPV vaccine is safe and cuts cervical cancer risk by 80%, large reviews find www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... via @nbcnews.com
"The vaccine works. Full stop."
"The vaccine is safe. Full stop."
#VaccinesWork #ScienceMatters
The HPV vaccine is safe and cuts cervical cancer risk by 80%, 2 large reviews find
Hundreds of studies, including gold-standard clinical trials, challenge Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that the cancer vaccine is harmful.
www.nbcnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Sum: RFK Jr is wrong, wrong, wrong. Yet again.
The HPV vaccine is safe and cuts cervical cancer risk by 80%, large reviews find www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... via @nbcnews.com
"The vaccine works. Full stop."
"The vaccine is safe. Full stop."
#VaccinesWork #ScienceMatters
The HPV vaccine is safe and cuts cervical cancer risk by 80%, large reviews find www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... via @nbcnews.com
"The vaccine works. Full stop."
"The vaccine is safe. Full stop."
#VaccinesWork #ScienceMatters
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Dr. Tracy Hoeg, who just became CDER director, in the past seemed to have offered unproven stem cells ipscell.com/2025/04/new-... #stemcells #FDA
New Makary FDA aide Dr. Tracy Hoeg has offered unproven stem cells - The Niche
Biologist discusses news that new FDA Commissioner Makary has Dr. Tracy Hoeg as his assistant though Høeg runs an unproven clinic.
ipscell.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Dr. Tracy Hoeg, who just became CDER director, in the past seemed to have offered unproven stem cells ipscell.com/2025/04/new-... #stemcells #FDA
The FDA makes the college football coaching carousel look sane. And THAT takes a lot of doing.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/t...
College football has headed downhill for many fans (including me) for yrs bec/of chasing money. FDA's dive has taken just over 10 mo...bec/? Ideology? Money? Incompetence?
www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/t...
College football has headed downhill for many fans (including me) for yrs bec/of chasing money. FDA's dive has taken just over 10 mo...bec/? Ideology? Money? Incompetence?
FDA removes longtime over-the-counter drugs regulator from her position
The move comes a day after Richard Pazdur, a top FDA official and Michele’s boss, announced his decision to retire.
www.statnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The FDA makes the college football coaching carousel look sane. And THAT takes a lot of doing.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/t...
College football has headed downhill for many fans (including me) for yrs bec/of chasing money. FDA's dive has taken just over 10 mo...bec/? Ideology? Money? Incompetence?
www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/t...
College football has headed downhill for many fans (including me) for yrs bec/of chasing money. FDA's dive has taken just over 10 mo...bec/? Ideology? Money? Incompetence?
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This is a big part of why basically every archaeologist who gets asked "when in the past would you want to have been alive?" will answer "the present please and thank you"
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 10:12 AM
This is a big part of why basically every archaeologist who gets asked "when in the past would you want to have been alive?" will answer "the present please and thank you"