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#ScienceInTheEpsteinFiles: Living above the law, Jeffrey Epstein reinforced sexism in science fancycomma.com/2026/05/16/sci…

I’m not doomscrolling it’s called doing a digital ethnography,

Leaving jail, Jeffrey Epstein had only strengthened his scientist ties. More analysis from Sheeva about #ScienceInTheEpsteinFiles here: fancycomma.com/2026/05/09/sci…

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Stanford Medicine researchers found they can classify migraine headaches through functional MRI, rather than through symptoms -- possibly leading to better treatment. med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/…

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘gallivant.’ ow.ly/MEbC50YQKG5

I was on @wheredoesitstem talking about how my experiences in science shape my views on making it work better for everyone. Check it out at open.spotify.com/episode/0nqhPs…. Thank you to @jpflores_31 who recorded this convo w/me just 29 days after the 2024 presidential elections.

“Science is fun. To be a scientist, this is a fun job,” said medicine laureate Katalin Karikó. She likened it to being a detective or an investigator trying to solve a crime. “But the end of it, you don’t find a perpetrator, you find a solution, and maybe that solution will help somebody,” she said. Karikó’s pioneering research with her lab partner Drew Weissman was the foundation of the mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and has paved the way for a host of treatments for cancer, HIV, malaria and other life-threatening diseases. They shared the 2023 medicine prize for their work.

For the @fancycomma blog, I wrote about how Epstein's desire to understand deception caught scientists in his web. fancycomma.com/2026/04/18/eps… #ScienceInTheEpsteinFiles

The cadging cat in the background of this photo is trying to get some free cheese.

Used to live around there so I know that that's definitely where the good bird seed is! 😀

U.S. bioscience research is collapsing. This is the map of a systemic rot. NIH new award pace this year: 14.6% of normal. If you wanted to stall science, you don't pick & choose states. You just freeze the entire map. In case you missed it: ▫️ ~95,000 scientists gone (@nytimes) ▪️ ~$2.4B in NIH research wiped out ▫️ ~$6B in economic loss (@DrCatharineY / PNAS) This is what (predictably) follows next: ⇣ early-career scientists exit for good ⇣ breakthrough discoveries never made ⇣ trials that never open ⇣ labs that quietly shut down ⇣ global talent choosing other countries ⇣ the next decade of innovation erased before it starts Sadly, you don’t "bounce back" from 14% you just hollow out the system. For a country that leads in science, this is the mo(u)rning after “National Science Appreciation Day” ========== Source: NIH RePORTER via @Jori_health Plot note: NIH new-award counts were compared to the 5-year historic median for every state (as of the first week of March, Q2). ==========

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s, lowering their chances of getting university jobs, tenure and reducing their publication output, finds a large analysis of academics in Denmark. go.nature.com/4tcouqQ

Scoop: the White House is planning to propose a 20% cut to the NIH in the President's budget next week rollcall.com/2026/03/27/sou…

Retraction—Today, we retract an unsigned 1977 commentary suggesting talc powder containing asbestos was not harmful. The Lancet was informed that the author had undisclosed competing interests and breached publication ethics. /4

Literacy starts at home.

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five words. 20 years. unfinished.

I wrote about scientists in the Epstein files and their pre-existing reputations of behaving badly for the @fancycomma newsletter. fancycomma.substack.com/p/all-i-can-do…