The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence "implications are profound" New nature nature.com/articles/s4158… nature.com/articles/d4158…

400 people w/ doctorates read the same research abstract where the lead authors name was either male or female. Participants felt the discovery in the abstract was more important when the author was male & spent more time reading it (114s male; 98s female).forbes.com/sites/kimelses…

Beautiful chart showing increased survival from childhood leukaemia over the years But RFK Jr tells you science is failing and we are the sickest we have ever been

What Parents of Boys Should Know Daughters tend to receive higher levels of affection and patience at home than sons. But the sons might need it more theatlantic.com/family/archive…

"It is not masculinity itself that makes men violent, but the sense of shame that they are not masculine enough."

Investors at Costco, Apple, Levi's, John Deere, Goldman Sachs, etc are voting against anti-DEI proposals. Costco: Diverse employees "bring originality and creativity to our merchandise offerings, promoting the ‘treasure hunt’ that our customers value." cnn.com/2025/05/02/bus…

With many thanks to Hannah MacInnes for the great questions 😀howtoacademy.com/podcasts/gina-…

No, binary #sexdifference in brain MRIs are not the key to #precisionmedicine or solving gender mental health disparities. I discuss the sordid history of this research in Am J Hum Bio: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

Oh puhlease... just saw an interview with "CEO" Annis, who nonetheless presumed a "he" every time she mentioned a nameless CEO struggling to integrate women into the C-suite. And the neuroscience she purports to base her theory on is pure rubbish!!

ABCD Study omits gender-identity data from latest release thetransmitter.org/gender/abcd-st…

For the first time ever, an Amtrak NextGen Acela train just pulled up to Union Station. It had left Boston at 6 AM this morning, taking roughly 7 hours to make the entire trip.

How RFK Jr.’s misguided science on mRNA vaccines is shaping policy − a vaccine expert examines the false claims theconversation.com/how-rfk-jr-s-m… via The Conversation U.S.

If you're wondering who's running your life. Here they are The most powerful men on Earth eating a million dollar banquet paid for by the humble British taxpayer.

Why a study claiming vaccines cause chronic illness is severely flawed – a biostatistician explains the biases and unsupported conclusions theconversation.com/why-a-study-cl… via The Conversation U.S.

probably not on your radar because literally almost no one is covering this but......the mysterious mapmaker finally has to testify in the morning in federal court about the new TX gerrymandered congressional map that eliminates a handful of minority districts across the state 🧵

NEW: today in court, the TX congressional map-maker said he -was hired by the RNC, not TX -reviewed the DOJ letter (urging TX to eliminate some minority districts) before it was sent -communicated w/the white house using signal messages that autodeleted democracydocket.com/news-alerts/rn…

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

Remarkable finding in new preprint: "Sex hormones such as estrogen and testosterone had little direct effect on differences in gene expression" in the developing human brain. thetransmitter.org/spectrum/gene-…

How Parents Influence Kids' Gender Roles youtu.be/swSy6pdAS-0?si… via YouTube

What's the counterfactual?