Edward Nirenberg
@enirenberg.bsky.social
Views my own, but you can borrow them if you feel so inclined. Anti-disease. Negentropy hunter. Kosmotropophile. Big Nerd Energy. “A homework person.” Fun at parties. Antibody hoarder. “Problematically literate.” he/him
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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...
My pal @bryce-allen-bagley.bsky.social is doing really important work on AI safety, particularly in neurotechnology like brain-computer interfaces. Check out his new preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2511.05580
arxiv.org/abs/2511.05580
Approximating the Mathematical Structure of Psychodynamics
The complexity of human cognition has meant that psychology makes more use of theory and conceptual models than perhaps any other biomedical field. To enable precise quantitative study of the full bre...
arxiv.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My pal @bryce-allen-bagley.bsky.social is doing really important work on AI safety, particularly in neurotechnology like brain-computer interfaces. Check out his new preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2511.05580
arxiv.org/abs/2511.05580
This would be my pandemic preparedness plan if my explicit goal were to ensure as many people as possible died when we had the next pandemic.
November 15, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This would be my pandemic preparedness plan if my explicit goal were to ensure as many people as possible died when we had the next pandemic.
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The fact of the matter is that there is no one path to improved health. When, however, we stigmatize, criminalize, & defund services for people w/substance use disorders, it creates a clear path for worsening health. We must stop the erosion of harm reduction. @nejm.org
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
The Erosion of Harm Reduction | NEJM
The U.S. administration has continuously chipped away at public health interventions
addressing substance use disorders and the opioid crisis, including vital harm-reduction
activities.
www.nejm.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The fact of the matter is that there is no one path to improved health. When, however, we stigmatize, criminalize, & defund services for people w/substance use disorders, it creates a clear path for worsening health. We must stop the erosion of harm reduction. @nejm.org
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Access to vaccines is not a privilege — it is a human right.
In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let's bring in the lawyers
Children suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is a human right.
www.statnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Access to vaccines is not a privilege — it is a human right.
In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
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Severe outbreaks in Australia and Japan, the latter of which has declared a flu epidemic, have experts concerned.
“It’s not a direct lesson for what we can expect, but it’s a clue,” @cmyeaton.bsky.social said. “And that does give me pause that maybe we’ll be in for something a little bit bigger.”
“It’s not a direct lesson for what we can expect, but it’s a clue,” @cmyeaton.bsky.social said. “And that does give me pause that maybe we’ll be in for something a little bit bigger.”
Pediatricians fill vaccine messaging void left by CDC amid bad flu season
Doctors step up after US health department suspended its flu vaccine campaign following Trump’s election
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Severe outbreaks in Australia and Japan, the latter of which has declared a flu epidemic, have experts concerned.
“It’s not a direct lesson for what we can expect, but it’s a clue,” @cmyeaton.bsky.social said. “And that does give me pause that maybe we’ll be in for something a little bit bigger.”
“It’s not a direct lesson for what we can expect, but it’s a clue,” @cmyeaton.bsky.social said. “And that does give me pause that maybe we’ll be in for something a little bit bigger.”
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Losing #measles elimination status as predicted is the result of vaccines being a victim of their incredible success. It quite sad that people will need to experience the suffering inflicted by an infection like measles in order to remember why elimination was remains something to strive for.
As expected, Canada has lost its measles-free status because of the long-running outbreak there. With it goes the #measles elimination status of the entire zone of the Americas, the only division of the #WHO to ever have achieved measles elimination. www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
Canada loses measles elimination status — as does the entire Americas region
Canada has formally lost its measles elimination status, the country’s public health agency announced, triggering the loss of that status throughout all of the Americas.
www.statnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Losing #measles elimination status as predicted is the result of vaccines being a victim of their incredible success. It quite sad that people will need to experience the suffering inflicted by an infection like measles in order to remember why elimination was remains something to strive for.
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I spoke to CNN about how demoralizing it was to watch Stanford leadership stay silent while contrarians on campus launched unscientific attacks to stifle Stanford researchers. Now, those attacks have gone nationwide and much of MAHA leadership have ties to Stanford.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
The Trump-MAHA-Stanford nexus of US health policy | CNN Politics
In early 2022, Stanford medical student Santiago Sanchez set out to organize a campus debate with Jay Bhattacharya — a professor at the university whose outspoken denunciations of pandemic lockdowns m...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I spoke to CNN about how demoralizing it was to watch Stanford leadership stay silent while contrarians on campus launched unscientific attacks to stifle Stanford researchers. Now, those attacks have gone nationwide and much of MAHA leadership have ties to Stanford.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
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I don’t care whether Tesla gives Musk $1T or $100T. I do care that insanely rich people like Musk & Trump use their $$$ to accumulate power & use that power to kill kids. USAID may have had some flaws. But it was cheap($24/person) & effective. Its dismantling has already cost 600k lives-400k kids.
November 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I don’t care whether Tesla gives Musk $1T or $100T. I do care that insanely rich people like Musk & Trump use their $$$ to accumulate power & use that power to kill kids. USAID may have had some flaws. But it was cheap($24/person) & effective. Its dismantling has already cost 600k lives-400k kids.
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i hope one thing we take away from all these political prosecutions (and the deference given to government during them) is how easily people of color and low income folks can be wrongly incarcerated. so maybe we should do something about that
November 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
i hope one thing we take away from all these political prosecutions (and the deference given to government during them) is how easily people of color and low income folks can be wrongly incarcerated. so maybe we should do something about that
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In vivo anti-inflammatory activity of sialylated IgG1 Fc engineered to have enhanced affinity for FcγRIIB via co-engagement of type I and II Fc receptors @science.org @rockefeller.edu
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
In vivo anti-inflammatory activity of sialylated IgG1 Fc engineered to have enhanced affinity for FcγRIIB via co-engagement of type I and II Fc receptors @science.org @rockefeller.edu
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Safety and Immunogenicity of an rVSV Lassa Fever Vaccine Candidate @nejm.org
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
November 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Safety and Immunogenicity of an rVSV Lassa Fever Vaccine Candidate @nejm.org
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Independent of what PAHO ends up deciding, we don’t deserve elimination status given the state of things. Still, progress is rarely monotonic. Measles can be eliminated if we decide it’s worth eliminating.
PAHO meets this week to decide if we’ve lost measles elimination status. I warned in this interview that we’re marching toward that threshold—and getting this close signals widening vaccination gaps and eroding public health capacity.
🔗 www.scientificamerican.com/article/meas...
#Vaccines #Measles
🔗 www.scientificamerican.com/article/meas...
#Vaccines #Measles
North America May Soon No Longer Be Officially Measles-Free, Experts Say
A meeting of the Pan American Health Organization this week will address the resurgence of measles in the Americas
www.scientificamerican.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Independent of what PAHO ends up deciding, we don’t deserve elimination status given the state of things. Still, progress is rarely monotonic. Measles can be eliminated if we decide it’s worth eliminating.
I find this question odd. Creativity IMO is a statement about the process more than the outcome. I don't think it's simply about innovation. Insofar as there is no cognition involved here (we're basically dealing with a very fancy autocorrect), it's axiomatically not possible for AI to be creative.
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I find this question odd. Creativity IMO is a statement about the process more than the outcome. I don't think it's simply about innovation. Insofar as there is no cognition involved here (we're basically dealing with a very fancy autocorrect), it's axiomatically not possible for AI to be creative.
PSA: It is very difficult to do chest auscultation when the stethoscope earpieces are not in your ears.
November 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
PSA: It is very difficult to do chest auscultation when the stethoscope earpieces are not in your ears.
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Influenza cases are climbing in Canada.
Flu shots are widely available, and can help lower the chance of infection and hospitalization.
Below are this year’s flu trends (arrow) vs. the past three years.
Flu shots are widely available, and can help lower the chance of infection and hospitalization.
Below are this year’s flu trends (arrow) vs. the past three years.
November 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Influenza cases are climbing in Canada.
Flu shots are widely available, and can help lower the chance of infection and hospitalization.
Below are this year’s flu trends (arrow) vs. the past three years.
Flu shots are widely available, and can help lower the chance of infection and hospitalization.
Below are this year’s flu trends (arrow) vs. the past three years.
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1/ Open enrollment for Obamacare (ACA) kicked off this weekend, during which more than 20 million families will shop for health insurance coverage. There's some sticker shock though: prices are up ~30% this year if tax credits aren’t extended. Here’s what else is happening in #publichealth 👇
November 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
1/ Open enrollment for Obamacare (ACA) kicked off this weekend, during which more than 20 million families will shop for health insurance coverage. There's some sticker shock though: prices are up ~30% this year if tax credits aren’t extended. Here’s what else is happening in #publichealth 👇
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RWJF: “Despite a common assumption that our country is more polarized than ever, new survey research shows that US adults agree broadly on their priorities for themselves, their families, & their communities, & in the day-to-day challenges they face”🧪🛟
*w/ gratitude to @meganranney.bsky.social
*w/ gratitude to @meganranney.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
RWJF: “Despite a common assumption that our country is more polarized than ever, new survey research shows that US adults agree broadly on their priorities for themselves, their families, & their communities, & in the day-to-day challenges they face”🧪🛟
*w/ gratitude to @meganranney.bsky.social
*w/ gratitude to @meganranney.bsky.social
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Misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine spreads fast. Stay ahead of it with our tool kit, which has ready-to-share graphics, posts, and key messages that will help you foster vaccine confidence among your patients. See the tool kit and get resources to help you reach your patients: bit.ly/4ngleaw
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine spreads fast. Stay ahead of it with our tool kit, which has ready-to-share graphics, posts, and key messages that will help you foster vaccine confidence among your patients. See the tool kit and get resources to help you reach your patients: bit.ly/4ngleaw
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harvard medical school got bombed yesterday and it barely made news
A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates.
Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Authorities Investigating Explosion on Harvard’s Medical Campus, Believed To Be Intentional | News | The Harvard Crimson
A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University…
www.thecrimson.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
harvard medical school got bombed yesterday and it barely made news
A friend of mine is doing the NYC marathon today. I've been watching her live on the website, and it is honestly baffling that human physiology is capable of this
November 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A friend of mine is doing the NYC marathon today. I've been watching her live on the website, and it is honestly baffling that human physiology is capable of this
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The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...
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November 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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“Furin cleavage site”, that is. Just casually, and naturally, sitting there in one of the most evolutionarily active parts of the genome.
Mystery solved.
Mystery solved.
CIDRAP: New coronavirus subspecies with SARS-CoV-2–like mutation discovered in Brazilian bat
by Mary Van Beusekom
@cidrap.bsky.social
bit.ly/4hHRfam
by Mary Van Beusekom
@cidrap.bsky.social
bit.ly/4hHRfam
November 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
“Furin cleavage site”, that is. Just casually, and naturally, sitting there in one of the most evolutionarily active parts of the genome.
Mystery solved.
Mystery solved.
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He has already chosen, what the fuck are we doing here
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
November 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
He has already chosen, what the fuck are we doing here
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...