I want to tell parents of trans kids under attack in the red states something:

This is simply horrifying. Like you, we can't understand how any politicians could stoop so low as to attack the most vulnerable among us.

You are strong, and we will fight for and beside you. And though we may lose these initial battles, your love and strength will help win this in the end. I know that to be true.

RT @amymaxmen
"So long as we believe Supreme Court justices are quasi-monarchs who are entitled to live like lords, they will find ways to live like lords...And we will all say that it’s awful. Until we learn about the next one, and the next one."

🔥@Dahlialithwick🔥 https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/clarence-thomas-broke-the-law-harlan-crow.html

'The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on mothers in academic science, bringing long-standing issues to the fore. A study done during the very early stages of the pandemic found that scientists with at least one child aged five or younger were spending 17% less time on research than they had previously'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00888-3

"The revenue model of mega-journals is based entirely on charging article publication fees. The publishers increase these fees when a journal improves its impact factor ranking. The model secures high journal revenue but poses difficulties for authors with limited discretionary funds."

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2802853

So the big question for me today is not about
@GISAID
's cowardice in going after the researchers who are connecting the dots but to #ChinaCDC: why didn't you identify the other species in your 2022 pre-print and why are you refusing to share data now?

https://zenodo.org/record/7754299#.ZBooQOzMKIN