Benoit Bruneau
@benoitbruneau.bsky.social
Cardiac developmental biologist. Oakland and San Francisco. Hi friends! 🇨🇦
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We've got a MASSIVE DEEP-DIVE rebuttal to the NIH leadership’s recent essay. They're arguing for a head-in-the-sand approach to pandemic preparedness.
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
A rebuttal to NIH leadership's screed against pandemic preparedness.
Dr. Angela Rasmussen joins Inside Medicine for a tag-team response to a poorly reasoned essay by NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and his deputy, Dr. Matthew Memoli.
insidemedicine.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We've got a MASSIVE DEEP-DIVE rebuttal to the NIH leadership’s recent essay. They're arguing for a head-in-the-sand approach to pandemic preparedness.
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
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BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
"playbook creates well-funded scientists who benefit from scaring the public beyond what evidence warrants/falsely minimizing risk. These scientists make a living doing research for the traditional pandemic preparedness playbook—an extreme conflict of interest." www.city-journal.org/article/nih-...
NIH Directors: The World Needs a New Pandemic Playbook
The old one failed to cope with Covid and may even have caused it.
www.city-journal.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
"playbook creates well-funded scientists who benefit from scaring the public beyond what evidence warrants/falsely minimizing risk. These scientists make a living doing research for the traditional pandemic preparedness playbook—an extreme conflict of interest." www.city-journal.org/article/nih-...
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A new approach to pandemic preparedness:
1️⃣ Stop preparing for pandemics
2️⃣ Rewrite history of the last major pandemic
3️⃣ Go to the gym
Simple - 🤷♂️.
www.city-journal.org/article/nih-...
1️⃣ Stop preparing for pandemics
2️⃣ Rewrite history of the last major pandemic
3️⃣ Go to the gym
Simple - 🤷♂️.
www.city-journal.org/article/nih-...
NIH Directors: The World Needs a New Pandemic Playbook
The old one failed to cope with Covid and may even have caused it.
www.city-journal.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A new approach to pandemic preparedness:
1️⃣ Stop preparing for pandemics
2️⃣ Rewrite history of the last major pandemic
3️⃣ Go to the gym
Simple - 🤷♂️.
www.city-journal.org/article/nih-...
1️⃣ Stop preparing for pandemics
2️⃣ Rewrite history of the last major pandemic
3️⃣ Go to the gym
Simple - 🤷♂️.
www.city-journal.org/article/nih-...
a very nice remembrance of John Gurdon (in @genesdev.bsky.social). Photo captures the best hair in science! genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...
A totipotent embryologist: John B. Gurdon (1933–2025)
A biweekly scientific journal publishing high-quality research in molecular biology and genetics, cancer biology, biochemistry, and related fields
genesdev.cshlp.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
a very nice remembrance of John Gurdon (in @genesdev.bsky.social). Photo captures the best hair in science! genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...
there are few things that make me truly angry.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
there are few things that make me truly angry.
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Hmm…There’s a time travel Vatican heist movie somewhere in here…🤔
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Hmm…There’s a time travel Vatican heist movie somewhere in here…🤔
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The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
my wife, totally against cigarettes, thought this one of me was hot:
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 AM
my wife, totally against cigarettes, thought this one of me was hot:
My friend’s grandfather, 102, last of his wwii regiment. Watch him toss the walker at the end… youtu.be/VeZZu7KcgnA
How this WWII veteran uses painting as a powerful tool
YouTube video by CBC News
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
My friend’s grandfather, 102, last of his wwii regiment. Watch him toss the walker at the end… youtu.be/VeZZu7KcgnA
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I will forever end essays/reviews/perspectives with “In this paper I settle the matter once and for all, by showing which elements of each side are correct.”
I remember really enjoying this paper on individuality. Some time since I read it though, and I see there's a bunch of new stuff I haven't read yet...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Plant individuality: a solution to the demographer’s dilemma - Biology & Philosophy
The problem of plant individuality is something which has vexed botanists throughout the ages, with fashion swinging back and forth from treating plants as communities of individuals (Darwin 1800; Bra...
link.springer.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I will forever end essays/reviews/perspectives with “In this paper I settle the matter once and for all, by showing which elements of each side are correct.”
A friend of mine is a criminal lawyer and sees Kardashian at max security jails (incl. San Quentin and Cal State) regularly. She cares about inmate life and has made it a mission I’m told
/3 Meanwhile, she actually gives a shit about carceral culture and has used fame and influence to try to encourage clemency in actual cases impacting actual lives. I have the bog-standard old man view of Kardashian Kulture, but her heart seems to be in the right place on this.
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A friend of mine is a criminal lawyer and sees Kardashian at max security jails (incl. San Quentin and Cal State) regularly. She cares about inmate life and has made it a mission I’m told
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📣 Paper alert!
I am delighted that our paper exploring the impact of Neanderthal-derived variants on the activity of a disease-associated craniofacial enhancer has been published in Development today!
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
I am delighted that our paper exploring the impact of Neanderthal-derived variants on the activity of a disease-associated craniofacial enhancer has been published in Development today!
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
📣 Paper alert!
I am delighted that our paper exploring the impact of Neanderthal-derived variants on the activity of a disease-associated craniofacial enhancer has been published in Development today!
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
I am delighted that our paper exploring the impact of Neanderthal-derived variants on the activity of a disease-associated craniofacial enhancer has been published in Development today!
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Hearing it in the grocery store, “my girl wants to party all the time” collab Eddie Murphy and Rick James. As a parent of two, I hear the line very differently….
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Hearing it in the grocery store, “my girl wants to party all the time” collab Eddie Murphy and Rick James. As a parent of two, I hear the line very differently….
I interrupt this shitshow with
November 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I interrupt this shitshow with
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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We are in the midst of an all-out attempt to exclude the global majority from science. Watson was clear about where he fell on that. I would trade every single dinner, meeting, seminar, fancy campus, and prestigious donor for my incredible friends to be safer. Their science is worth far more.
November 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
We are in the midst of an all-out attempt to exclude the global majority from science. Watson was clear about where he fell on that. I would trade every single dinner, meeting, seminar, fancy campus, and prestigious donor for my incredible friends to be safer. Their science is worth far more.
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NOTHING can destroy a Cyber Truck….😎😏
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
February 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
NOTHING can destroy a Cyber Truck….😎😏
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
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My thoughts on Rosalía’s ‘Lux’ and the complicated symbolism of classical music
Rosalía and the classical avant-garde — Kevin Ng
Is it pop? Is it classical? Does it matter?
www.kevinwng.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
My thoughts on Rosalía’s ‘Lux’ and the complicated symbolism of classical music
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Even how the New York Times reported it today is based on Watson’s flawed description (and an assumption) because Watson seemed to want to have a ‘eureka’ moment.
Photo 51 was important to what Franklin published alongside Watson and Crick in Nature. But, it was not used to create their model.
Photo 51 was important to what Franklin published alongside Watson and Crick in Nature. But, it was not used to create their model.
November 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Even how the New York Times reported it today is based on Watson’s flawed description (and an assumption) because Watson seemed to want to have a ‘eureka’ moment.
Photo 51 was important to what Franklin published alongside Watson and Crick in Nature. But, it was not used to create their model.
Photo 51 was important to what Franklin published alongside Watson and Crick in Nature. But, it was not used to create their model.
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Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.
November 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.
A.F.I was fun. Tonight something very different.
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
A.F.I was fun. Tonight something very different.
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Maybe because if the billionaires and venture capitalists who fund these vanity projects paid their fair share in taxes we could have the robustly funded public research enterprise the country needs?
We’ve been heads down @ArcadiaScience for a bit but the @arenabioworks news this week caused me to dump thoughts. hard things are hard; don’t be such a fucking hater. Reflections on parallels w our own institutional experiment here seemay.substack.com/p/big-experi...
Big experiments are only big if they can fail
Some reflections on Arena Bioworks' unexpected wind down as a fellow institutional experimentalist
seemay.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Maybe because if the billionaires and venture capitalists who fund these vanity projects paid their fair share in taxes we could have the robustly funded public research enterprise the country needs?
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Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.
nyti.ms
November 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.