Ten things every person in the world should know about airborne disease transmission *before* bird flu goes human to human:

1/ After residency at Mass General Hospital, I reported to Atlanta to meet my fellow CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officers. I have never felt so intimidated by my peers The best and the brightest, they were star clinicians, had served in disaster zones; MD/PhDs and MSF.

Hi all. Breaking my Twitter silence to make a statement on behalf of myself here. NOAA, the parent agency of the National Weather Service indiscriminately fired a number of employees yesterday. A thread of comments & advice for those fired. 1/18

1. The Post ran a story Thursday morning about a young woman in rural Michigan who believed Donald Trump when he promised during his campaign to pay for in vitro fertilization. On the strength of that, she voted for him. (Link at the bottom of this THREAD.)

The neighborhood that I grew up in was predominantly white. There were 3 other Black families on my street (which was actually a circle), and only 1 had a kid my age. Across the street and several houses to our left lived a girl who was 2 years older than me. She had a brother

The 15 hilarious and Coolest maps you've probably never seen before: 1. Bosnians: I wanna swim Croatia : No

The CDC has literally been gutted today. There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet. Thousand of scientists fired. Entire departments erased. 1/

I would qualify this👇: MAGA is an ideology of US decline - It is explicitly backward-looking for its model (America was great in the past but is not now). - That past greatness was rooted in a fading economic sector - blue-collar factory work - which no amount of tarriffs 1

tariff discussion is always the same thing. easy to virtue signal, but people behave differently when no one is looking

This is the post I never wanted to have to make. Earlier today, news arrived that my position as a history professor for US Army CGSC has been eliminated in accordance with DOD cuts. There is no chance of reassignment, and the entire Fort Belvoir campus will be stood down.

Let's talk about dogs and people. We have started presenting to teachers about the power of dogs working with kids. Instead of covering the data, which can be boring, I'm going to paint a picture, one dog and one child at a time.

Starting to feel like there’s only two options for next semester re AI: - Absolute zero tolerance, let the students get furious, let admin be swamped under complaints - Give up completely, pass ‘em all if that’s what my institution wants, find the few who care, & save my time

When I had my hysterectomy, I was told recovery would be quick because I was young, fit & otherwise healthy. They were wrong. The surgeon made an error and despite signs of post op bleeding, discharged me & went on vacation. When I returned to the ER, I was ignored & gaslit 🧵

The Notes app on your iPhone is one of the most powerful tools available. But 97% of people don’t know its true potential. Here are 15 amazing features you must know:

I went through a massive reading slump in 2014. Today I typically read 30 books in a given month. And I want to offer some practical suggestions on how to get back into reading, from someone who’s done it. Thread:

(🧵) Friendly reminder that if you’re overwhelmed right now and feel like there’s nothing you can do, you’re wrong! Not everything requires drone footage or the national news. Real change starts at the local level and it’s powerful. (1/23) Here’s a thread of things you CAN do.

How to make me cry at the ballpark. In honor of Melissa and Mark Hortman, they did a moment of silence, a moment of brightness and brought dogs from the org she worked with, including some of their dog’s litter mates. (The pup was killed as well. Just awful)

My lab’s 5-year NIH R01 grant, awarded to study gene therapy for hearing loss, was abruptly terminated. I want to share how this action has been incredibly harmful and disruptive, not just to my lab, but to the scientific process itself. 1/15

Hey MAGA. You laugh because you think you're safe from all of this racism, and death, and destruction. But you're wrong. Trump will come for you too. It's both predictable and inevitable. Know how I know? Because I currently live in Normandy, not far from the D-Day beaches. 1/x