@bevbolton.bsky.social
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Lockdowns are terrible. So are deadly pandemics. @chrischirp.bsky.social tells it straight.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/we-are-lea...
christinapagel.substack.com/p/we-are-lea...
We are learning the wrong lessons from lockdown
And unless we learn the right ones, we risk making the same mistakes in a new pandemic
christinapagel.substack.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Lockdowns are terrible. So are deadly pandemics. @chrischirp.bsky.social tells it straight.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/we-are-lea...
christinapagel.substack.com/p/we-are-lea...
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The video of Trump’s deportees arriving in El Salvador is horrific.
This is 21st century Nazism.
Identities concealed, trafficked to a foreign labour camp. No due process, no evidence of crime. Dehumanised.
Where is the global outrage?
The crime is historic; the normalisation catastrophic.
This is 21st century Nazism.
Identities concealed, trafficked to a foreign labour camp. No due process, no evidence of crime. Dehumanised.
Where is the global outrage?
The crime is historic; the normalisation catastrophic.
March 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The video of Trump’s deportees arriving in El Salvador is horrific.
This is 21st century Nazism.
Identities concealed, trafficked to a foreign labour camp. No due process, no evidence of crime. Dehumanised.
Where is the global outrage?
The crime is historic; the normalisation catastrophic.
This is 21st century Nazism.
Identities concealed, trafficked to a foreign labour camp. No due process, no evidence of crime. Dehumanised.
Where is the global outrage?
The crime is historic; the normalisation catastrophic.
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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.”
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
March 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.”
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
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This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
March 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
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Closer to 165,000 excess deaths in Canada in the last 5 years
--AFTER subtracting excess mortality attributable to toxic drugs and overloaded healthcare system (% excess cancer deaths)
-from '22 on it's ~35-45K/yr, similar to (and on top of) annual smoking deaths
-about 10-13X annual flu deaths
--AFTER subtracting excess mortality attributable to toxic drugs and overloaded healthcare system (% excess cancer deaths)
-from '22 on it's ~35-45K/yr, similar to (and on top of) annual smoking deaths
-about 10-13X annual flu deaths
Five years ago today, Canada recorded its first #COVID19 death, an 83-year-old man at Lynn Valley Care Centre in North Vancouver. There have been more than 60,000 pandemic deaths since.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
B.C. records Canada’s first coronavirus death
The elderly man who died of COVID-19 on Sunday night lived at a North Vancouver nursing home where two workers and at least one other resident are also infected
www.theglobeandmail.com
March 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Closer to 165,000 excess deaths in Canada in the last 5 years
--AFTER subtracting excess mortality attributable to toxic drugs and overloaded healthcare system (% excess cancer deaths)
-from '22 on it's ~35-45K/yr, similar to (and on top of) annual smoking deaths
-about 10-13X annual flu deaths
--AFTER subtracting excess mortality attributable to toxic drugs and overloaded healthcare system (% excess cancer deaths)
-from '22 on it's ~35-45K/yr, similar to (and on top of) annual smoking deaths
-about 10-13X annual flu deaths
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Dr @hildabast.bsky.social had warned us about PubMed and suggested alternatives
Hate that it has come to this, but it's time to consider PubMed vulnerable to enshittification. My latest post @plos.org discusses the lines we need to fight to hold – and alternatives we can rely on internationally:
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...
#medlibs
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...
#medlibs
What if We Can't Rely on PubMed? - Absolutely Maybe
PubMed is incredibly reliable. And a lot depends on it. It’s an ecosystem built around MEDLINE, the steady feed of new publications…
absolutelymaybe.plos.org
March 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Dr @hildabast.bsky.social had warned us about PubMed and suggested alternatives
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18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
18f.org
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Zelensky will go down in history as a man who gave his all to stop the march of Fascism across Europe. Will he succeed? Not if we scroll past what’s happening.
March 1, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Zelensky will go down in history as a man who gave his all to stop the march of Fascism across Europe. Will he succeed? Not if we scroll past what’s happening.
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It’s horrifying that it’s come to this, but as someone with a deep affinity for Europe I feel moved seeing that continent come together to try to save itself in the absence of any meaningful aid from the totalitarian regime that’s in the midst of taking over the United States through an illegal coup
February 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
It’s horrifying that it’s come to this, but as someone with a deep affinity for Europe I feel moved seeing that continent come together to try to save itself in the absence of any meaningful aid from the totalitarian regime that’s in the midst of taking over the United States through an illegal coup
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aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt
February 26, 2025 at 7:07 AM
aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt
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In occupied France, people would drop their used matches folded into a V, as a secret sign of resistance. People who opposed the Nazis would see them, knew they weren't alone, & felt emboldened to take action.
Some modern day equivalents here--small but powerful actions you can absolutely do:
Some modern day equivalents here--small but powerful actions you can absolutely do:
Thirty lonely but beautiful actions you can take right now which probably won't magically catalyze a mass movement against Trump but that are still wildly important
Why? Because others will see you do them, and it will make it easier for them to take their own (slightly less lonely but equally beautiful) action by your side
thewhitepages.net
February 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
In occupied France, people would drop their used matches folded into a V, as a secret sign of resistance. People who opposed the Nazis would see them, knew they weren't alone, & felt emboldened to take action.
Some modern day equivalents here--small but powerful actions you can absolutely do:
Some modern day equivalents here--small but powerful actions you can absolutely do:
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It is getting really really really hard not to sound like a Resistance RUSSIAGATE person whenever you’re asked the question: does he act any differently than if he were using the U.S. government to do Putin big favors rn
Friedrich Merz did not even wait for the final results in Germany's election before delivering what could well be a defining verdict on US President Donald Trump, consigning Europe's 80-year alliance with the Americans to the past.
Germany’s Merz seeks ‘independence’ from Trump’s America, warning NATO may soon be dead
Election winner likens the Trump administration to Putin’s Russia as he bids to take Europe in a new direction.
www.politico.eu
February 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It is getting really really really hard not to sound like a Resistance RUSSIAGATE person whenever you’re asked the question: does he act any differently than if he were using the U.S. government to do Putin big favors rn
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this is the kind of tech blogging no one does anymore and there should be way more of @willsmith.fun next.content.town/p/unfucking-...
Unfucking Windows - How to Make Your OS Work for You Again
You might think Windows is a lost cause, but there are a handful of things you can do to make it better for you than it is for Microsoft. Here’s where to start.
next.content.town
February 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
this is the kind of tech blogging no one does anymore and there should be way more of @willsmith.fun next.content.town/p/unfucking-...
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My colleague, global health reporter @stephanienolen.bsky.social , has a request--
Callout: Do you work for an organization that applied for a waiver from the US State Dept after the #USAID stop-work order? Did you get the waiver? Can you operate in the same way you did before Jan. 20?
Please DM and let me know.
And please repost this. Thanks.
Please DM and let me know.
And please repost this. Thanks.
February 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
My colleague, global health reporter @stephanienolen.bsky.social , has a request--
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DOGE recommended firing workers at:
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
February 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
DOGE recommended firing workers at:
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
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This is my talk at the 'Evolution Evolving' book launch.
I describe what the book is about, new research in non-genetic inheritance, plasticity led evolution, niche construction, evolvability and how developmental processes affect evolution.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sym...
#evolution #philsci
I describe what the book is about, new research in non-genetic inheritance, plasticity led evolution, niche construction, evolvability and how developmental processes affect evolution.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sym...
#evolution #philsci
Overview of "Evolution Evolving"
YouTube video by EES Update
www.youtube.com
February 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This is my talk at the 'Evolution Evolving' book launch.
I describe what the book is about, new research in non-genetic inheritance, plasticity led evolution, niche construction, evolvability and how developmental processes affect evolution.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sym...
#evolution #philsci
I describe what the book is about, new research in non-genetic inheritance, plasticity led evolution, niche construction, evolvability and how developmental processes affect evolution.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sym...
#evolution #philsci
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Just listened to this. Excellent. Thank you Doctors Training... credit to both the interviewers and the guest (Dr Baverstock). I found the advice regarding looking at "sweaty palm"conversation s as opportunities for strengthening connections and the reframing from "you did" to "I felt" valuable.
February 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Just listened to this. Excellent. Thank you Doctors Training... credit to both the interviewers and the guest (Dr Baverstock). I found the advice regarding looking at "sweaty palm"conversation s as opportunities for strengthening connections and the reframing from "you did" to "I felt" valuable.
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Stand Up for Science rallies will be held in DC and state capitals on March 7th. Share with friends. Sign-up here to get email updates with details: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE 2025 - DC and NATIONWIDE
Stand up for science with us on March 7th, 2025, because science is for everyone! More info at www.standupforscience2025.org
www.eventbrite.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Stand Up for Science rallies will be held in DC and state capitals on March 7th. Share with friends. Sign-up here to get email updates with details: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
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Now almost 450 signatories to my open letter calling on the @royalsociety.org to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship. Please consider signing & sharing: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...
List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values
If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...
forms.gle
February 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Now almost 450 signatories to my open letter calling on the @royalsociety.org to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship. Please consider signing & sharing: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...
List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
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We cannot ignore how shockingly abnormal it is for a private citizen — who himself has contracts with the federal government — to dispatch a private army of executives, data experts and recent high schoolers to dictate policies to federal agencies. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon...
Elon Musk Hollows Government So Trump Can Refill It
From Marc | In more than 30 lawsuits filed against the new administration, the government has not won one on the merits.
www.democracydocket.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
We cannot ignore how shockingly abnormal it is for a private citizen — who himself has contracts with the federal government — to dispatch a private army of executives, data experts and recent high schoolers to dictate policies to federal agencies. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon...
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Musk's censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by about 95% since he bought it.
So we moved over to blue sky.
Help us build another great following right here where the skies are clear and the water is fine ;-)
Please do
Follow
Retweet & repeat
So we moved over to blue sky.
Help us build another great following right here where the skies are clear and the water is fine ;-)
Please do
Follow
Retweet & repeat
February 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Musk's censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by about 95% since he bought it.
So we moved over to blue sky.
Help us build another great following right here where the skies are clear and the water is fine ;-)
Please do
Follow
Retweet & repeat
So we moved over to blue sky.
Help us build another great following right here where the skies are clear and the water is fine ;-)
Please do
Follow
Retweet & repeat
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#Bluesky: We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters or exclusion from healthcare.
Independent. Neutral. Impartial.
Thank you for sharing and following our account.
Independent. Neutral. Impartial.
Thank you for sharing and following our account.
February 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
#Bluesky: We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters or exclusion from healthcare.
Independent. Neutral. Impartial.
Thank you for sharing and following our account.
Independent. Neutral. Impartial.
Thank you for sharing and following our account.
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The United States by virtue of a bipartisan commitment to biomedical research created one of the most vibrant, productive research ecosytems in the world. People came from all over to study here, do research here. It was a monumental accomplishment by both parties. 1/
February 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The United States by virtue of a bipartisan commitment to biomedical research created one of the most vibrant, productive research ecosytems in the world. People came from all over to study here, do research here. It was a monumental accomplishment by both parties. 1/