This fellowship continues to be a tremendous contribution to my work and the greater field! I cannot sing the praises of Ploughshares and Horizon 2045 enough!

It's great to have you as part of the first cohort of Nuclear Futures Fellows!

Russia continues its illegal biological weapons program and seeks to upend the rules based global order. Now is not the time to be weak on deterrence. As DoD Policy shapes the 2025 National Defense Strategy, biological threats must be addressed. lawfaremedia.org/article/ceding…

DOGE employee says "I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was," fraud was minimal, and abuse was "relatively nonexistent" npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-…

It is unconscionable that some of the best State Department funded work is being ended. This team has fought for years to document Russian war crimes and document the abduction of Ukrainian children.

The Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH is conducting work that creates the conditions for RU-UKR peace by documenting the Ukrainian kids that need to come home. Donate if you can.

If this is the extend of #Iran’s retaliation then it’s carefully calibrated and intended to allow for an off-ramp for everyone

My chart on the history of three infectious diseases —smallpox, polio, and measles — before and after a vaccine was available.

Due to the generosity of largely small amount, individual donors on the internet, Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH work on Ukraine and Sudan will continue until at least until October. We are forever grateful. How it feels seeing the world show up for us in our hour of need: youtu.be/bgS0GPQhzHg?si…

We are appalled and saddened as Abdullah Hammad, who worked with us until 30 June, was killed yesterday in Gaza while trying to collect a bag of flour.  Israeli forces deliberately targeted a group of people waiting for aid trucks, killing at least 16. msf.org/msf-mourns-kil…

An HIV doctor in Africa, whose work depends on USAID and PEPFAR, sends in a dispatch of the bleak situation now unfolding there thebulwark.com/p/a-religious-…

HAPPENING NOW!!  Moving scene - tears, hugs, and cheers - inside the State Dept HQ tonight, as diplomats gathered in the lobby to clap out their laid off colleague, some of which have served for decades 👇🏻

Having worked multiple famine scenarios, the first deaths of children and elders are simply the initial swell of the wave of fatalities. It is not the crest. The crest will come soon if aid doesn’t move freely right now. Let UNRWA UN Humanitarian do their jobs.

🚨ATROCITY ALERT 🚨 1) Most remaining civilians have not fled El Fasher - likely trapped or dead 2) RSF continues mass killings 3) Displaced people visible in Garni, location of reported gross human rights abuses. #KeepEyesOnSudan 🛰️Vantor Airbus Defence&Space medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnood/…