Kim Krieger

My personal triumphs are definitely celebrated with sacrificial offerings and public feasting HELL TO THE YES (I also complain about decimate, thank you very much) merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/…

He will be executed tomorrow he will be hanged. He’s just a child. Please help me to get the leaders to call the Islamic Republic to stop the execution. My heart broke when I just watched the forced confession of this young boy on Iran’s state TV. They tell him: “You are Mohareb.” He asks: “What does that mean?” He was so young, he didn’t understand that it means one thing in Islamic Republic: execution A 17-year-old boy, Shervin Bagherian, was arrested in Iran’s recent protest. Now in the middle of a war they are preparing to execute him. His only crime was wanting a normal life. There is still time to speak up. Will you stand with me and be his voice before it’s too late? #StopExecutionsInIran

This is actually a pretty good advertisement for What to do in Norwalk.

Years after COVID, why has there never been a single FDA advisory committee meeting on the evolving science of persistent symptoms after infection, and reports of them after vaccination? Not to deliver final answers. Just to start asking the questions in public. Scientific understanding is incremental. That’s exactly why these discussions belong in the open. Yet six years later, none has happened. In 2025 the FDA even required postmarketing studies to begin exploring persistent spike antigen and longer-term outcomes. They were never meant to settle everything, just a starting point. SO WHY IS THERE NO PUBLIC DISCUSSION ABOUT WHY THOSE STUDIES NEVER LAUNCHED? ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED? ABOUT WHETHER THE QUESTIONS STILL NEED ANSWERING, AND HOW?

Sadly today we say goodbye to David Austin, RIP, and thank you, thank you for the roses. Every year my children buy me one for my birthday and the house is slowly being surrounded by their beauty & perfume. A life lived among the roses you helped create is a life improved.

My response to these legislators is “don’t threaten me with a good time!” 56% of all property in New Haven are off the tax rolls. Most of that is Yale. They have $4.6 billion in property and over $40 billion in their endowment, but contributed only $23 million to the city last year and $0 to the state while working class taxpayers in New Haven see their property taxes skyrocket. They can afford to contribute more in order to keep working families in NH from losing their shirts.

@CatalyticRxn I completely agree. Too often, PhDs discount any expertise but their own.

There are AI summaries about octopus RNA editing, which i don't think would exist without a press release I wrote many moons ago. I can trace my personal influence on AI summaries! i should get credit!

Got coffee with an AI researcher who didn't seem to understand why i think writers who contrubute to LLM training data sets should get a cut pf the profits. So frustrating!

Happy birthday to the late Robin Williams, who would’ve turned 75 today 🕊️♥️

Dr. Ketan Bulsara, chair of UConn Health’s Department of Neurosurgery, joins Dr. Anthony Alessi to discuss restorative neurosurgery, identifying and treating complex brain tumors, and how UConn is producing the next generation of talented neurosurgeons. bit.ly/4yy4wdE

While the world watches the war, the Islamic Republic of Iran hanged a 19-year-old boy today. His name is Erfan Esfandiari and he was his parents' only child. He did not kill anyone. He did not carry a weapon. His crime, according to the Islamic Republic, was opening a door. Sheltering protesters who were running from security forces. That was enough to send him to the gallows. Erfan was one of 12 young men in the Alikhani Square case in Isfahan, arrested during the January 2026 uprising. Yesterday, all 12 were moved to quarantine. Today, the Islamic Republic hanged him. This is a government that is so terrified of a generation that refuses to be silent, that it executes teenagers for the act of compassion. Say his name. Because the regime is already trying to erase him. Because his mother and father are left with nothing, not even the right to grieve loudly.

“Everyone experiences a gradual loss of neurons, or nerve cells, as they age. Most people aren’t affected by this loss until their 80s or 90s..But because the poliovirus kills and weakens neurons, a polio survivor at mid-life has a much lower supply” cidrap.umn.edu/polio/hundreds…

Huge news. I reported last year that Johnson & Johnson's lead epidemiologist was concerned about a link to neurological damage and concealed it. (So did the FDA.) These parents deserve to have their day in court.

This is a great lede by @MichaelRWarren

@Nexuist The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning. Where I learned to appreciate Lac Megantic and many other Canadian excellencies.

@Epitopic Oh hey you went to my alma mater

The world before 9/11 was just completely incomprehensible

@Nexuist I was gonna say.

Jk this was Canada in 2013

Aluminum smelters are the most electricity-intense facilities in the world. Nothing else gets close. And they provide incomparable value--a super useful product. Whereas data centers provide what? We have good, low energy technologies (paper, human minds) that do the same thing.

The first cryptid report I ever personally received was some guy mentioning how he and his cousin stumbled upon a giant man sized pitcher plant digesting a deer in the New Jersey Pine Barrens

There's a lot going on today. Have some horseshoe crabs. today.uconn.edu/2026/07/choose…

This woman spent 73 years in an iron lung. The picture of her smiling as a little girl is heartbreaking

Wow. MSM really did not cover this at all in June... 🔥ICYMI: "Merck agreed to pay $50 million to settle more than TWO HUNDRED lawsuits brought against the drug giant by patients suffering from autoimmune disorders after receiving the Gardasil vaccine."

RFI: Undiagnosed febrile illnesses reported among Grand Canyon river rafters, Arizona, USA. RFI on diagnostic test results and any additional cases Read more at: beaconbio.org/en/report/?rep…