Meg Doerr @MegDoerr

Director #ResearchEthics #ELSI @SageBio, advocate for #OpenScience, #privacy, and #InformedConsent; #IAmAGeneticCounselor, she/her on bluesky @MegDoerr Joined March 2014

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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts

a week ago

Iceland is the world’s biggest consumer of SSRIs. They’ve had fewer than 10 gun homicides since 2020; in the US, there have been over 95,000 in that time. It’s the guns.

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Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM, CCMS @DrPlantel

a week ago

The #1 cause of death in children isn’t mold, parasites, leaky gut, gluten, or food dyes. It’s firearms. So why are we patting ourselves on the back because food companies are voluntarily pulling dyes, while the leading killer of kids goes unaddressed? Every day, parents hold…

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Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin

a week ago

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philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_

a week ago

Uh oh https://t.co/Jbq2eZ3ERt

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Dr. Angela Rasmussen @angie_rasmussen

a week ago

Scientist here. Mitochondria do not present challenges to faces, movements, or social connections. Maybe those kids just don’t like you because you’re staring at them like a creep who wants to give them measles.

Acyn @Acyn

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Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande

a week ago

Medicine and public health have added three decades to the human lifespan. Vaccination alone produced 40% of the reduction in child deaths. And now a disturbed and unqualified man driven by crackpot theories is destroying the foundations of this work, including CDC.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill

2 weeks ago

Why publish one story about A.I. gone wrong when you can publish two? Here's my other story today with @NYTimesCramer on how the NYPD used facial recognition tech to arrest the wrong man. The perp was 5'6''. Cops charged Trevis Williams, who is 6'2''. nytimes.com/2025/08/26/nyr…

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Ed Esplin, MD, PhD @EdEsplin

2 weeks ago

Only 50% & 47% of women w/ #breastcancer & #ovariancancer, respectively, had #germline #genetictesting & utilization was slightly lower in 2021 vs 2019 & 2020, despite @ASBrS & @NCCN recs for #universal #germlinetesting ...failure to test is predominantly due to physicians’…

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Internet Ethics @IEthics

2 weeks ago

"[A]n April 2025 IEA report found that globally, data center electricity use has gone up 12% every year since 2017, which is 'more than four times faster than the rate of total electricity consumption": zdnet.com/article/worrie… #ethics #internet #AI #sustainability #research

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My Artificial Pancreas @T1Bionic

3 weeks ago

Thinking of switching to a commercial Automated Insulin Delivery system for my #type1diabetes after 7 years of open source #DIYAPS so figured I would take stock of some of the helpful features I will miss. This is just the tip of the iceberg. myartificialpancreas.net/2025/08/18/wha…

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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK @doctorow

3 weeks ago

"Half of all consumer spending is coming from the top 10 percent, and these price-insensitive customers are absorbing higher inflation. Low-income consumers, by contrast, are taking on more credit card debt, the Boston Federal Reserve reports, because they cannot keep up with…

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ProPublica @propublica

3 weeks ago

See the man circled here? That's E.J. Antoni, Trump's Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee, walking through a crowd of Capitol rioters. #ICYMI, we've got an archive of 500+ Parler videos taken during Jan. 6. Watch Antoni starting at ~1:41 in this clip: propub.li/3JeO5xx

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Barack Obama @BarackObama

4 weeks ago

Since we passed the Affordable Care Act, Republicans have tried over and over to repeal it. And over and over, they’ve failed — in part because millions of people now depend on the ACA for quality, affordable health care. Now Republicans are trying something different: quietly…

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ProPublica @propublica

3 weeks ago

Last month, we reported that the IRS was preparing a system that would share millions of taxpayers' data with ICE: propub.li/46XixpW Now we can confirm data was officially transferred ⤵️

Chris Bing @Bing_Chris

3 weeks ago

Last month, we reported that the IRS was preparing a system that would share millions of taxpayers' data with ICE: propub.li/46XixpW Now we can confirm data was officially transferred ⤵️

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Genomics England @GenomicsEngland

3 weeks ago

Our language and terminology guide, developed by the Participant Panel shares recommendations to make conversations about genomics and healthcare more inclusive, clear and respectful. The full guide is available to download on the following webpage: ow.ly/5obs50WEBXz

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Neil Stone @DrNeilStone

a month ago

Of all RFK Jr's dangerously wrong opinions - his attack on HPV vaccines is the worst (and that really is saying something) HPV vaccines like Gardasil PREVENT cancer - so effectively that cervical cancer is on the way to ELIMINATION in places like Scotland, Sweden and Australia.

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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK @doctorow

a month ago

I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life. 1/

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Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande

a month ago

“Medical professionals can no longer fully trust federal health guidance, and our patients are the ones who will suffer the most.” Excellent read from @danielleofri on the reality for clinicians as NIH, CDC, FDA recs are put under political controls. nytimes.com/2025/07/28/opi…

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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK @doctorow

2 months ago

Trump's day-one Executive Order blitz contained a *lot* of weird, fucked-up shit, but for me, the most telling (though not the most important) was the decision to defund all medical research whose grant applications contained the word "systemic": washingtonpost.com/science/2025/0… 1/

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Lisa Desjardins @LisaDNews

2 months ago

Thank you for the good thoughts for PBS and esp. @NewsHour. It means the world. We're as determined to ever. Ways to support: 1. EASY one - let's build. Folo me - @LisaDNews. Folo @NewsHour RT this.