Behavioral neurologist at Stanford University caring for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders like Lewy body disease. My lab studies the genetics of these disorders looking for novel drug targets. #Alzheimer's #publichealth #neuroskyence
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🧪 #alzheimers #neuroskyence Tune in for a wide-ranging discussion on the current state of Alzheimer's disease research (genetics, diagnostics, treatments). Many thanks to Dr. Maya Adam and her Health Compass podcast team for covering the topic and having me on. med.stanford.edu/health-compa...
So rare (and somewhat painful) to find myself agreeing with this man.
Speaking as a “liver doctor” or as a doctor who will forever rue his craven support of RFK Jr. during the confirmation process? Dereliction of duty.
It’s the top-down pressure that distinguishes Trumpian cancellation from “woke mob” cancellation. One uses the vast power of the Executive to curtail free speech, the other is just crowd-sourced voting with virtual feet.
AND lying (either lying that there was a recording or, if there was one and he heard it, later lying that he was mistaken about there being a recording).
She called his bluff.
For the love of all that is holy can you find a video link for this that isn't on ABC (or CBS)?
🧪 #publichealth #cdc www.npr.org/sections/sho... Dr. Susan Monarez gave a masterclass in calm, rational, truthful Senate testimony at the CDC hearing. Stuck to her guns even when faced with Senator Mullin's coercive lie about there being a recording of her conversation with RFK Jr. Strong work!
#freespeech #1stamendment #jimmykimmel I'm not a constitutional lawyer, but even a neurologist can see that Jimmy Kimmel getting canned does not bode well for the future of free speech in this country. America's Finest News Source may be on to something: theonion.com/report-you-t...
I'm trying, I am, to imagine him happy.
#publichealth #charliekirk #guncontrol I care relatively little about a murderer's ideology and much more about a murderer's easy, legal access to weapons designed to kill many humans quickly. Less media speculation about ideology and more media and citizen pressure for meaningful gun control.
Such a sweet, nostalgic wish from the WSJ editorial board. Totally divorced from reality, but sweet.
What’s 10 minutes between friends?
Spot on takedown of RFK Jr's baloney approach to science by @glaucomflecken.bsky.social You are encouraged to freeze video on the list of possible causes of autism.
Amazing resource from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health: cori.centerforhealthsecurity.org/resources/me... The US has recorded 1448 cases of measles this year. This is already, with 3 months to go, the highest US case load since measles was (prematurely) declared "eliminated" in 2000.
Yeah? Well, you know, that's just like your opinion, man.
Remarkable that the Speaker of the House, who purportedly has a law degree, would be confused about the terminology "FBI informant".
Amazing
Agreed. Need some follow-up investigative reporting on this thread.
Yes, now it’s official. I thought it might have started with the extortionist destruction of our universities or the dismantling of public education or the masked thugs removing immigrants and shipping them to El Salvador or…
Enough with the billionaires.
Excellent point
🧪 #publichealth I was weighing whether it is more shameful and disingenuous to liken vaccine mandates to slavery or to pretend you are destroying world-class scientific research institutes to battle antisemitism...finally decided I didn't need to choose. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
#birds White-Breasted Nuthatch hopping the perimeter around its house. Nice little squawk at the end.
#birds Anna’s Hummingbird slaking its thirst.
#birds Soothing Steller’s Jay duet
Zuck is a flunky
A modern day Modest Proposal
Is that energy vampire Colin Robinson speaking? I can see Trump deflating with boredom as he continues feeding.
Taking strange comfort that we are "alongside" DRC, Pakistan, and Serbia rather than below them. That's generous.
Senator Cassidy has zero credibility in terms of reining in Secretary Kennedy at this point. This was, nonetheless, a nice little logic trap set up to snare the Secretary by preying on his sycophantic, Trumpian lapdog tendencies.
#birds Snowy egret in the mossy southern reaches of the San Francisco Bay.
#birds Weird little spot for this red-tailed hawk to hang out
Shouldn't the head of health and human services not dip his grandkids in a fecally-contaminated stream for a photo op? Trump administration distilled into a single photograph:
Gonna be tough to confirm that there were 11 Tren de Aragua narco-terrorists aboard at this point. I guess we just take their word for it?
There are, doubtless, many articles he would like to see retracted, but (for now) scientific journals have refused to bend the knee. Granted Battacharya et al. are planning their own shitty journal but I don’t expect to see any compelling, important studies there.
🧪 #birds #birding Red-tailed hawk mantling unknown prey, revealing rabbit, finishing rabbit, one-legged hopping into shade to eat rabbit. And H. I. McDunnough's doleful incantation echoes once again in my ears, "It's a hard world for little things".
Great role for you. Bravo
Risky endeavor but he seems to have carried it off.
#birds Pair of acorn woodpeckers
Returning lethality to the pentagon just as Secretary Hegseth promised!
🧪 #publichealth With all the stops/restarts, firings/rehirings, grant terminations/non-terminations, and funding delays--even ignoring its anti-science stance--this is not a Department of Health and Human Services that is going to make America the least bit healthy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
Please advocate for some meaningful gun control laws.
Prayers really aren't cutting it, Governor Murphy. How about advocating for some meaningful gun control laws?
Trump isn't qualified for either one.
Maybe there's a distinct "noble" prize that Witkoff keeps referring to (not that Trump would be deserving of that prize either).
Ugggh
#birds Great horned owls (the parent with the deep hoot is up and to the left where the eyes get pointed)
#birds Nuttall’s woodpecker (I’m reasonably, but not completely, certain). Sound on if you miss old hunt and peck typewriting.
🧪 A clear, thorough debunking of the pseudo-science behind the vaccines-cause-autism movement. The discredited father/son team and their « home laboratory » are a driving force behind RFK JR’s assault on vaccines. The son is now a senior data analyst at HHS. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Check out the pseudo-sylvian fissure on the racoon. I always feel like those little bandits are basically talking to one another.
Salivating with hatred, this guy. Calm your ass down.
Keep fighting the good fight, Mayor Wu!
She’s fantastic! We need strong leaders like Mayor Wu.
Fold in half lengthwise, crunch with beak and swallow.
He got played like a video game
#birds Winking great horned owl
Noooice.
I think the setting matters a lot. On a college campus most people are not conventional biking at 20 mph because it requires serious effort to do so, but most people on e-bikes are hauling ass. Yes, e-bikes >> cars in general, but they need to be managed better in pedestrian-heavy areas.
A brief bit of abstract skimming suggests, unsurprisingly, that e-bike injuries tend to be graver than conventional bike injuries. link.springer.com/article/10.1... or journals.lww.com/jaaosglobal/... Is your claim that e-bikes are as safe as conventional bikes? That seems counterintuitive.
You’d only have to walk or bike around Stanford campus for 10 minutes when school is in. Stanford ER probably has some data. Big heavy bikes many being ridden by big heavy athletes wearing ear buds and going ~20mph. More similar to motorcycles than bicycles.
Cars also a menace, but e-bikes, e-boards, e-scooters are the bigger problem on the previously bike and pedestrian-friendly parts of campus (that are already car-free).
Agreed. They are a total menace on Stanford’s campus.
#Ukraine #politics Apt typo in the WSJ this morning. I think Trump has already managed to forget our common position with Europe on Ukraine. No need for the meeting.
Told my doctor it hurts when I lift my arm above my head like this and the doctor said "Don't lift your arm above your head." Problem solved.
🧪 #publichealth Nothing builds confidence in the FDA like childish, Laura Loomer-driven firings and re-hirings of division heads. I am grateful to all HHS employees who are actually managing to do their jobs amid all the chaos. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...
Somebody somewhere needs to take a serious stand on this bullshit.
#birds Red-shouldered hawk announcing itself.
Same
🧪 #publichealth Paging Doctor/Senator Bill Cassidy...Paging Doctor/Senator Bill Cassidy. America would like to know how your "unprecedently close collaborative working relationship" with Secretary Kennedy is going. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...
🧪 #squirrel Meet Stanford’s elusive albino squirrel!
🧪 #publichealth #neuroskyence A rare piece of good news out of D.C. www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/n...
That seems like more than 15 minutes between the last two checks.
Michael Roth, the president of Wesleyan University, gives me hope that our colleges and universities can survive this onslaught. Takes some courage, though.
Last gasps of solid, independent, investigative journalism at WaPo.
Give them some time, SCOTUS will find away to rubber stamp this one too.
#birds Northern harrier harrying over Lake Lagunita
Deputy Director Bongino is sensitive and is taking a personal wellness day or two to engage in some self-care before returning to his testosterone-fueled attack on the rule of law.
« Behind every great fortune there is a crime. »
(Easily) the greatest Lithuanian-American tennis player in history!
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44269/...
#birds Steller’s jay rooting around at the base of a palm.
FFS
Spewing white nationalist hate and doing so incoherently. That's our VP.
Only when done "aggressively." It wasn't the moving it was the aggressive moving. We've seen too many good law men incapacitated by aggressive moving.
#bunny #rabbit Bunny out
#bunny #rabbit Bunny in
How come all these hundred-year catastrophes seem to be happening every 3-6 months?
Are Hi and Lois Marxist lunatics now too or is it slowly dawning on them that we are in trouble? Please tell me Beetle Bailey has decided to request an honorable discharge given his objection to the use of the military against civilians.
Everything's bigger in Texas (including measles clusters).
🧪 #publichealth #science Secretary Kennedy's timing is amazing. On Independence Day weekend he has claimed the record for most US measles cases in a year in the quarter century since it was declared eradicated. And he still has 6 months to pile up more cases. publichealth.jhu.edu/ivac/resourc...
Yes. And yet…and yet I can’t give up because when it works, it works brilliantly and generously and creatively. Just need to weather the next 18 months until the midterms when we can start clawing our way back.
Nice that he uses the spittoon.
Taking a page out of Joni Ernst' press briefing tips it seems. I didn't realize that going into ICE custody was, per Tom, actually good for people who can get their medical issues addressed. Shameless.
#birds Vacillating back and forth in my head, baby crow…baby raven…baby crow but I think I’m sticking with baby crow (mostly based on Merlin’s ID of photo and call).
Agreed!
#birds (Unfairly named) lesser goldfinch executes a perfect lavender touch-and-go
