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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 11h

This is the point. Discourage investment.

J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 11h

More reporting: At the WEF in Davos, Moderna’s CEO said Moderna will "stop investing in late-stage vaccine trials that are a crucial part of the approval process," b/c “You cannot ‍make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market."

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 11h

More reporting: At the WEF in Davos, Moderna’s CEO said Moderna will "stop investing in late-stage vaccine trials that are a crucial part of the approval process," b/c “You cannot ‍make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market."

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 14h

Puppy was a napless terror for much of today. He is feeling his oats for sure. Anyway, at about 5:15pm he finally crashed out right beneath where I was lying on the couch — with his head under the couch. He’s now making the most pitiful crying noises in his sleep 😳

Photo of a black puppy (well, his body and legs) lying on a rug with his head under the couch.

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 14h

🤡

Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 20h

NEW: Days after the Census Bureau proposes to include a US citizenship question on the 2026 Census Test, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who oversees the bureau, told Sen. @peters.senate.gov he's "not familiar" with the bureau's studies showing the question is likely to lower census participation

A Review of Broadband Deployment Funding at the Department of Commerce | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

www.appropriations.senate.gov

The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 14h

Commentary: Takaichi’s landslide victory demonstrated that when candidates find compelling issues that affect their lives, young people show up.

Japan’s youth are quietly securing their nation’s future

Young voters didn’t just express opinions in polls, they showed up at voting stations in increased numbers, many for the first time.

ebx.sh

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks for speaking out on this issue

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 14h

Great job, governors.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15h

The National Governors Association said it will no longer hold a formal meeting with Trump when governors are scheduled to convene in Washington later this month, after the White House planned to invite only Republican governors. apnews.com/article/trum...

Annual governors' gathering with White House unraveling after Trump excludes Democrats

The National Governors Association annual conference is unraveling after President Donald Trump did not invite some Democrats to events.

apnews.com

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14h

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16h

Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen:
"We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 16h

Came here to say this.

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 17h

A little bit of good news for public health today. Harm reduction covered under ADA!

STAT @statnews.com · 17h

A Christian group announces a potentially landmark legal settlement that the ACLU says could establish new federal protections for harm reduction services. www.statnews.com/2026/02/10/n...

Landmark settlement could create new protections for harm reduction under disability law

A Christian group announces a potentially landmark legal settlement that the ACLU says could establish new federal protections for harm reduction services.

www.statnews.com

The Philadelphia Citizen @thephilacitizen.bsky.social · 17h

City libraries across the nation offer food pantries, offering their patrons nourishment for both their minds and bodies. Is this an idea Philly should steal?

Ideas We Should Steal: Free Food at the Free Library

How the Free Library of Philadelphia could follow Chicago and Baltimore, and add food pantries to its community services

thephiladelphiacitizen.org

STAT @statnews.com · 17h

A Christian group announces a potentially landmark legal settlement that the ACLU says could establish new federal protections for harm reduction services. www.statnews.com/2026/02/10/n...

Landmark settlement could create new protections for harm reduction under disability law

A Christian group announces a potentially landmark legal settlement that the ACLU says could establish new federal protections for harm reduction services.

www.statnews.com

David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social · 17h

Check out our new paper on the demographic foundations of trust in science in @poqjournal.bsky.social

The tldr is that w/ all of the radical shifts in trust in the US over the last 50+ years, the demographic predictors of trust in science have been rock steady(!)

academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 18h

A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.

That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is

www.huffpost.com

Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 18h

I had the pleasure of talking to @lauramauldin.bsky.social about her new book “In Sickness and In Health,” which delves into spousal caregiving, including in ways our political system is not set up to help caregivers not burn out, at @motherjones.com.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The political world of caregiving

Writer and scholar Laura Mauldin's new book takes on the hidden politics of spousal care.

www.motherjones.com

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 19h

Best Olympic event

auntietiffa.bsky.social @auntietiffa.bsky.social · 23h

Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 19h

😥 My mom got a puppy at age 82. She did make us kids promise that one of us would take the dog in if needed, which of course we would. But the result, 3 years on, has been improved balance, stamina etc. on my mom’s part. And I *really* don’t want a cockapoo, so here’s hoping it keeps up!

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 23h

I’m so sorry that happened to you. I know just exactly how it feels. Here to tell you you are not crazy, you know your body better than anyone else. Not that that really helps, but…

auntietiffa.bsky.social @auntietiffa.bsky.social · 23h

Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 23h

My little viking dog

Black puppy lying on a blue and red oriental rug, chewing on a water buffalo horn that looks like a drinking horn.

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

Oops

jennifer uncoolidge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts

Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...

www.reuters.com

jennifer uncoolidge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts

Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...

www.reuters.com

Rep. Brendan Boyle @congressmanboyle.bsky.social · 1d

85,000 Pennsylvanians have already dropped their health care because of Republicans' refusal to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. That's nearly 20% of the entire program in PA.

While Trump gives tax breaks to billionaires, he's leaving working Pennsylvanians behind.

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

But a lot of slobber!!!

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

It *sounds* considerably less gentle and sweet, but in reality there is very little contact.

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

Big is teaching Little how to play nicely. But mostly, it’s fun.

Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 1d

With Congress preparing another vote on the SAVE Act, advocates warn its documentation requirements could make registering to vote more difficult for millions of women—threatening both access to the ballot and progress toward gender parity in political power.

The SAVE Act Is Back—and Women’s Political Power Is on the Line

As Congress revives the SAVE Act, new proof-of-citizenship rules could reshape voter registration in ways that burden women voters.

msmagazine.com

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

Ppl think about health equity, too, in terms of blame, deservingness, etc. IOW, the language of public health has no special moral force. It makes those of us inside it feel better, perhaps, but to accomplish anything externally we need to dig into the underlying moral case. 2/2

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

This is wonderful.

I came to the politics of public health from working on the politics of inequality. I thought that surely people would be less tolerant of health inequalities than of inequalities in eg income. That turned out not to be true empirically, of course … 1/2

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