Christy Collins

Founder @mcmdotnet, M-CM is caused by PIK3CA mutations. Freelance web developer. Stubborn and hopeful. she/her

[Emma J Chory @chorye]

This one is hard to see.

The NIH Early Independence Award, one of the most competitive grants in the country for young scientists, will not go forward in FY2026. NIH says this is due to “administrative changes to funding opportunity processing and delays in approvals.”

[ProPublica @propublica]

Our new website makes it easier for you to see the full picture of our reporting.

We’re also showcasing more of our best investigations from the archives so that you have a chance to uncover reports you may have missed.
https://t.co/5R0Ujo7ilb

[Christy Collins @_chrisco]

Prenatal treatment of a rare mTORopathy associated with a Old Order Mennonite founder variant https://t.co/N97qY3JfnY

[Sabrina Carpenter Daily 2.0 (Fan Account) @SCdailyupdate]

Sabrina Carpenter and Stevie Nicks perform ‘Landslide’ at the 2026 Met Gala. #MetGala

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Christy Collins @_chrisco]

I was recently thinking about how I couldn’t remember Brad Parscale’s name

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

📽️ At a George Washington University immigration debate with Scott Jennings – host of The Scott Jennings Show on Salem Media – Drop Site reporter Ryan Grim shared that Brad Parscale, Salem’s chief strategy officer, is a registered foreign agent for Israel’s Foreign Ministry.

“You can be as critical as you want of the United States. You just can’t be critical of Israel,” Grim told Jennings.

He added it should be “criminal” for U.S. media companies to take money from the Israeli government, and said Israel should face U.S. sanctions. ⬇️

@ryangrim | @emilyjashinsky | @ScottJenningsKY

[Michelle N. Meyer @MichelleNMeyer]

🚨eConsent can promote research cost-effectiveness & equity, but how does it compare to traditional consent in terms of informedness? In this RCT, we found the eConsent framework used by NIH's All of Us & Apple ResearchKit was noninferior (& in an exploratory analysis, superior)

[Web Design Museum @WebDesignMuseum]

The Hampster Dance website in 1999

This website was one of the earliest examples of an Internet meme and it was created by Deidre LaCarte in 1998.

#InternetHistory

[Dr Brad Stanfield @BradStanfieldMD]

Our Rapamycin & Exercise clinical trial has just been published!

The topline result?

Rapamycin didn't help. Instead, it may have made things worse.

Here's what we found 🧵

https://t.co/vpy9bPrGDJ

[Szabolcs Panyi @panyiszabolcs]

💥🇭🇺🗳️ BREAKING: Péter Magyar says Viktor Orbán called to concede and congratulate him.

Magyar will be Hungary’s next prime minister and, as it stands, is set to secure a 2/3 supermajority – enough to fully dismantle Orbán’s system.

A 16-year chapter is over.

[Christy Collins @_chrisco]

@SarahKarlin so broken

[Christy Collins @_chrisco]

@_drivingman anti-AI shenanigans

[euan ashley @euanashley]

New AI paper from us this week. When my student first showed me his initial findings, I really didn’t know what to make of them. I felt that this was an interesting but curious loophole phenomenon that would shortly be closed. I was very wrong.
https://t.co/H3YIyl01FR

[NEJM @NEJM]

A video shows a patient with Dravet syndrome performing activities of daily living before and after treatment with zorevunersen.

Watch the full video and read the full report: https://t.co/Tm1VSETt15

[Adam Feuerstein ✡️ @adamfeuerstein]

New from me on $QURE and FDA. Free, no paywall.

The FDA, urged to avoid controversy, creates a new headache with attack against UniQure
Anonymous diatribe from a senior official plunges agency back into headlines

https://t.co/ceDE0TXjdI

[ARPA-H @ARPA_H]

That ends now. Our GLIDE program will build the first therapeutic toolkit to repair, restore & regenerate damaged lymphatic vessels—launching a new field of lymphatic medicine. Meet the awardees ⬇️ (2/2) https://t.co/LHVyl4qyqH

[GoPI3Ks (Genetic Overgrowth PI3K Support) @GoPI3Ks]

#RareDiseaseDay #RareDiseaseDay2026 #PROS #PIK3CARelatedOvergrowthSpectrum #VoicesOfTheProsCommunity

[GoPI3Ks (Genetic Overgrowth PI3K Support) @GoPI3Ks]

#RareDiseaseDay #RareDiseaseDay2026 #PROS #PIK3CARelatedOvergrowthSpectrum #VoicesOfTheProsCommunity

[GoPI3Ks (Genetic Overgrowth PI3K Support) @GoPI3Ks]

#RareDiseaseDay #RareDiseaseDay2026 #PROS #PIK3CARelatedOvergrowthSpectrum #VoicesOfTheProsCommunity

[GoPI3Ks (Genetic Overgrowth PI3K Support) @GoPI3Ks]

#RareDiseaseDay #RareDiseaseDay2026 #PROS #PIK3CARelatedOvergrowthSpectrum #VoicesOfTheProsCommunity