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evil-cactus.bsky.social
@evil-cactus.bsky.social
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Debugging our knowledge of the Universe one moody ATLASPix at a time.
Particle huntress in training @ LHCb by day, climber, coach and setter by night.
Physics, health equity, and clean air.
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steurer.bsky.social
Wahnsinn. Dieser nie dagewesene Anstieg der CO2-Konzentration in einem Jahr ist jenseits aller Erwartungen und müsste in zig Sondersendungen erörtert werden, wenn wir als Gesellschaft noch bei Trost wären. Müsste... gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
April 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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toshiakima.bsky.social
“Death in Hamburg” by Sir Richard J Evans.
A book written in 1987 for our COVID age. The title is a reference to Thomas Mann's novella "Death in Venice", also set in a cholera epidemic. This is a review of one of the best books I've ever read. 5/5 stars. 🧵 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/294784...
Death in Hamburg by Richard J. Evans: 9780143036364 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
"A tremendous book, the biography of a city which charts the multifarious pathways from bacilli to burgomaster." -Roy Porter, London Review of Books Why were nearly 10,000 people killed in six weeks ...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
March 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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carlzimmer.com
"Angry, disappointed, frustrated"--Scientists were making progress on vaccines and antivirals for the next pandemic--until this week, when the Trump administration abruptly told them to stop. Here's my story with @apoorvanyt.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/43Xz77q
H.H.S. Scraps Studies of Vaccines and Treatments for Future Pandemics (Gift Article)
Federal officials cited the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in halting the research. But much of the work was focused on preventing outbreaks of other pathogens.
nyti.ms
March 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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hummerpedersen.bsky.social
Gibt es Einrichtungen oder Privatpersonen, die kostenlos hochwertige gebrauchte Hepa-Luftreiniger übernehmen wollen? Es handelt sich um Geräte aus dem Schuleinsatz. Diese sind in Münster abzuholen. Bitte meldet euch bis 28.3. bei mir. Bitte teilen!
#Lufthygiene #safeair #cleanair #ProtecttheKids
March 25, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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sachlichepolitik.bsky.social
"Einem französischen Wissenschaftler, der auf dem Weg zu einer Konferenz in den USA war, wurde angeblich vom Zoll und der Grenzkontrolle die Einreise verweigert, weil auf seinem Telefon Nachrichten gefunden wurden, in denen er die Kürzungen im Wissenschaftsbereich durch Präsident Trump kritisierte."
French Scientist Reportedly Denied U.S. Entry Due to Trump Criticism
So much for free speech in America?
newrepublic.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
“Based on Australian data, it is likely between 10 and 15 percent of Covid deaths are from hospital-acquired infections, representing hundreds of people”

No one should have to risk Covid to get care, yet many patients are being infected because hospitals refuse to mandate masks & clean the air
Too many catching Covid-19 in hospital, experts say - but precautions being rolled back
Hospital-acquired infections are a billion-dollar burden and cause more disability than road crashes. Why aren't we doing more to prevent them?
www.rnz.co.nz
March 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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sjgreenwood.bsky.social
Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...
March 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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miriamgoldstein.bsky.social
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students. Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.
February 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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luckytran.com
Wow. So not only were several bird flu studies left out of today’s CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, some data on bird flu briefly appeared in the online report and then was quickly removed.
C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.
February 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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boghuma.bsky.social
From USAID colleague, with permission to share. It's not just chaos it is devastation and tearing apart of families and communities. Not to talk of systems that kept us safe. This is just one story, multiple this by 10,000.
Is this really making America great?
Letter from colleague fired from USAID, sharing devastating impact and chaos that this has wrought on her life and family.
February 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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eckerleisabella.bsky.social
Ich habe mit FAZ über die aktuelle Situation der Vogelgrippe in den USA gesprochen & warum der Datenstopp ein globales Risiko darstellt. Obwohl gestern erst erschienen, schon von der Realität eingeholt: Neuer Genotyp in Milchkühen & mehr Fragen zu zurückgehaltenen Daten.
www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...
Vogelgrippe: Was Donald Trumps Gesundheitsstrategie für Pandemien bedeutet
Unter Donald Trump wird es weniger Gesundheitsdaten aus den USA geben, aus der WHO soll das Land aussteigen. Die Virologin Isabella Eckerle erklärt, was das für künftige Pandemien bedeutet.
www.faz.net
February 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
Heard a version of this from a source earlier today: Everyone from USAID working abroad forced to uproot their lives, let alone abandon their work, on three days notice. Uprooting thousands of families on no notice, in an intentionally humiliating and harrowing way.
February 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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maxwellfrost.bsky.social
We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!
February 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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jlgoff.bsky.social
It has been brought to my attention that my article has been censored to exclude certain terms:

asm.org/Articles/202...

web.archive.org/web/20250114...

#MicroSky
February 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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gradausdenker.bsky.social
@heidireichinnek.de macht auch bei der #lemonchallenge zur Aufklärung über und Kampf gegen #MECFS und #PostCovid mit.

Danke dafür 💜
ME/CFS Lemon Challenge
YouTube video by Heidi Reichinnek, MdB
youtube.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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npr.org
BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies
Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
www.npr.org
January 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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snugasabugbear.bsky.social
Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling
January 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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octoberk.bsky.social
I'll have more to say about this later, but for now I want to share this piece I was honored to write for @thesicktimes.bsky.social about friendship & COVID. I hope ppl will read it if they are the covid-cautious friend or if they are not, and find some clarity here
thesicktimes.org/2025/01/30/t...
The “pandemic of abandonment”: Navigating friendships five years into COVID-19 - The Sick Times
Over the last five years of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many people have experienced significant changes and ruptures to their personal relationships. People with Long COVID and people taking COVID...
thesicktimes.org
January 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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jtimmer.bsky.social
If you're wondering why scientists are freaking the fuck out about what's being described as a pause in spending, I have written an article just for you:
Science at risk: The funding pause is more damaging than you might think
Research that helps drive our economy is on hold and may face new ideological limits.
arstechnica.com
January 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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chantzy.bsky.social
Something that keeps me up at night: The growing global number of people disabled by Covid & how they will be left further deserted as the climate crisis escalates
Line graph from FRED showing a steep increase in the number of labour force workers over 16 in the U.S. with a disability. There is a sharp increase from ~6 million in 2020 to close to 9 million in 2023
January 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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wyden.senate.gov
NEW: My staff just got ahold of this memo from House Budget Committee Republicans. It's lengthy and hard to digest but it tells us exactly how Republicans plan to sell out the American people for another round of tax cuts to the rich. We're breaking down the highlights as we go:
www.finance.senate.gov
January 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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apoorvanyt.bsky.social
BREAKING: The Trump administration has instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing HIV medications purchased with U.S. aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...
Trump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor Countries (Gift Article)
PEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return, as Republican critics had hoped.
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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aclu.org
BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order threatening to override families with transgender youth and shut down access to gender-affirming care for trans people under the age of 19 nationwide.

This order will not take immediate effect, and we will not allow this policy to stand.
January 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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drseanmullen.bsky.social
Covid is not a cold or the flu. Never was or will be. Though it might just cause you to die from another infection, like flu or RSV.

But let’s be clear. Covid kills far more people. Always did and will continue to… until we install precautions that protect us from all airborne pathogens.
January 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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erininthemorning.com
Donald Trump has just released a national under 18 trans care ban executive order. I am working through specifically how it tries to do this, and will live tweet here section by section as I read through it.

It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.
January 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM