6/ We also have some good news on the vaccine front. Ahead of the next ACIP meeting, the independent Vaccine Integrity Project (VIP) is reviewing evidence on Hep B. VIP is an independent group of scientists formed in response to waning trust in RFK Jr.’s ACIP.

2/ First up, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is standing up for science. The AAP is suing HHS Sec. RFK Jr., arguing that his vaccine advisory panel (ACIP) should be dissolved. The lawsuit also seeks to overturn the panel’s recent decisions.

Stay tuned here for upcoming updates to pgsc_calc (github.com/PGScatalog/p...), our tool for reproducible PGS calculation. Our next version aims to increase the scalability to WGS data in cloud trusted research environments (e.g. All of Us).

Polite circuits of flattery.

Never seen that many possums together. Is that some kind of possum ranch?

[Now raccoons, sure. But if you have that many raccoons facing you, you better be the one to start slowly backing up.]

Some of our most prominent colleagues continued to celebrate Watson

The scientists who celebrated him were a bit tone deaf.

He meant something else than the words he just spoke.

Mine had kale and lentils yesterday, so buck up

Not to be a pill but the Huntington gene was not identified in 1983