▶️ New study: Conflicts of interest on CDC vaccine panel were at historic lows prior to RFK Jr dismissal In our @JAMA_current study , we looked at disclosed conflicts of interest (COIs) in ACIP and VRBPAC (FDA vaccines committee) between 2000 and 2024. We found that: ▪️although

J-E-T-S! No, not the winless football team. I'm talking private jets owned by six of the largest drugmakers, which have descended on DC more than 120 times this year. The extensive travel comes as the industry works to withstand a number of policy fights.

Breaking: USC has rejected President Trump's controversial education compact. The university's interim president Beong-Soo Kim said in a statement that he had sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education turning down the Trump offer:

Exclusive: How political pressure is shaping the work of the FDA, from searching for autism treatments to heavily focusing on Covid-19 vaccine adverse events. Read for more details on how the leucovorin decision came about, in particular: https://t.co/VEHZVdqR2Q

Nobel Prize time! This morning the @NobelPrize committee made a great choice; Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt! They were recognized for their groundbreaking work on innovation, creative destruction, and the drivers of long-term economic growth. While this is

🚨 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics goes to Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt 🚨 "for having explained innovation-driven economic growht" The best prize in years!

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED. Here is my updated story. https://t.co/hyPMsgAKOX

New: ‘It’s a massacre’: CDC battered by government shutdown firings https://t.co/S12RQfTJUh via @statnews

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Dozens of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

My favorite dataviz expert Paul G-P has a constantly updated chart for the economics job market on his website. Link below:

Age of Nobel Laureates by Category (1901–2025)

Economics apparently doing MUCH better than other sciences when it comes to p-hacking:

What Americans die from vs what the media reports on. Terrorism and homicides get more than half of the coverage though they represent a tiny fraction of deaths. Conversely, heart disease and cancer get only a few per cent of the coverage though more than half die from them.

And right on schedule... about 1/3 of FDA appointees go to industry within 2 years after their exit from the agency https://t.co/mnBzhigEWx

Consolidation in the EHR market -- where there are 2 dominant vendors -- is creating a big risk of a catastrophic cybersecurity event. A Jay Holmgren, @NateApathy, and I ponder the possibility of a "single-point-of-failure" risk in the EHR market in this Health Affairs Scholar

@Josh_Merfeld @AlpDYel @DinaPomeranz Sort of continuous now. Feel free to submit PRs :) https://t.co/lwO5RK6IN2

When NBA rookies land on stacked teams, they get less playing time, less visibility, and lower long-term earnings. Early exposure matters for careers.

Impressive investigation into how drug companies have financial ties to the IRBs that oversee their clinical trials (courtesy of private equity IRBs). Spoiler alert: IRB conflicts of interest are bad news for patient safety. By @waltbogdanich, @CarsonKessler , and @jsvine Gift

🚨 NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s close ally has raised ethical concerns by leading legal efforts on vaccines, fluoride and Tylenol. His vaccine efforts are largely funded by a nonprofit led by a man who said in July that polio "is like having a cold." https://t.co/BM4RutgQXB

Research output after tenure drops off a cliff for business, economics, sociology, and other non-lab fields. But it remains high post-tenure in lab-based fields such as chemistry, physics, computer science, and engineering.