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As Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. takes a hammer to mRNA vaccine development, canceling $500 million in contracts, a public health scientist writes about the importance of preventing one of the most common illnesses, and the myth of “mild measles."
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Tuesday writing tip from @jodipicoult.bsky.social:

"You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page."

Start on that piece!

My latest ⬇️.

If you are a current or former employee at #HHS or #FDA and have thoughts on the regulation of reproductive health, I'd love to hear from you. Always happy to have background chats without expectation of a formal interview. DM for contact info.

The way some of you act on public transit makes me wonder why they went through the trouble of creating headphones in the first place

This is what happens when you give people someone to vote FOR and not just someone to vote against!

Happy weekend from most of the US

They say we’re the average of five people we spend most of our time with. But what happens if some of those people aren't friends or family, but strangers with microphones?
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Here’s some surprising info from a recent story on Medium: Early retirement — a life goal we all seem to aspire to — isn't the Eden everyone imagines it to be, according to science.

Laid off in his mid-50s, @robertroybritt.bsky.social found himself at a crossroads. Retire early or return to the corporate treadmill. The latter would only lead to burnout. The former meant saying goodbye to the work he loved. So, he created a third option:
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I follow so many tennis creators across different platforms can’t believe not a single one of them has said how much #UnitedCEOshooter suspect looks just like #JohnIsner

To fulfill his campaign promise of carrying out mass deportations nationwide, Donald Trump will likely turn to the interior of the country, where an estimated 11 million people are undocumented, many of whom have lived in the U.S. for more than ten years.

“Snow just doesn’t have the reliability that it has had in our imagination from the 20th century,” one climate scientist tells @zoeschlanger.bsky.social. “That’s just gone.”

"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"

Never really cared to get a PhD but seeing incels on Twitter lose their minds over that woman who dared to get an education fills me with a whole new level of inspiration and drive

While I no longer live in #RepublicofGeorgia, all of my family and high school friends still do. They’re all describing what’s happening on the ground as revolution-like protests against the newly-elected governments pro-Russia/anti-EU position

Kash Patel has openly expressed his plans to “come after” journalists he doesn’t like. He is for retribution, not justice.

This is from my book, #RoughBeast: