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I was trying not to doom scroll today but HOLY SHIT.
February 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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The average person with the flu gives it to around 1.4 people. The average person with measles gives it to between 12 and 18 people.
who.int WHO @who.int · Feb 17
Measles cases continue to surge globally, putting millions of children at risk.

More than 10 million people globally were infected with measles in 2023, a 20% increase from the previous year.

bit.ly/48SAtkf
February 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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America: Don't use China AI or go to jail
Also America: We're going to force American AI into every facet of society and there ain't shit you can do about it. But China bad!
These two things are related
February 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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USAID needs our help!📢 Keep calling your members of congress, and if you live in one of the states below, also call your attorney general and ask them to include foreign aid in the suit filed by DOJ this morning. Details and call scripts here: tbfighter.link/contact-cong...
February 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.

The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.

It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
February 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM