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23andMe, maker of popular DNA test kits, has filed for bankruptcy and is looking for a buyer. Here’s why customers should delete their info before it’s sold. nyti.ms/42cnBma
March 31, 2025 at 2:56 PM
23andMe, maker of popular DNA test kits, has filed for bankruptcy and is looking for a buyer. Here’s why customers should delete their info before it’s sold. nyti.ms/42cnBma
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New blood test checks for Alzheimer’s and assesses progression, study says
New blood test checks for Alzheimer’s and assesses progression, study says
Procedure for patients with thinking and memory problems could help medics decide which drugs are most suitable
Researchers have developed a blood test for patients with thinking and memory problems to check if they have Alzheimer’s and to see how far it has progressed.
The team behind the work say the test could help medics decide which drugs would be most suitable for patients. For example, new drugs such as donanemab and lecanemab can help slow the progression of Alzheimer’s, but only in people in the early stages of the disease. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
New blood test checks for Alzheimer’s and assesses progression, study says
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'Our concepts of what we can prove are shifting'
ICYMI: check out @adamjkucharski.bsky.social's interview with the @theguardian.com on his new book #Proof, an urgent exploration of truth in our current age of disinformation.
ICYMI: check out @adamjkucharski.bsky.social's interview with the @theguardian.com on his new book #Proof, an urgent exploration of truth in our current age of disinformation.
Mathematician Adam Kucharski: ‘Our concepts of what we can prove are shifting’
The epidemiologist who advised on Ebola and Covid discusses the value of evidence in light of AI and social media, and how the notion of fact has long been divisive
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
'Our concepts of what we can prove are shifting'
ICYMI: check out @adamjkucharski.bsky.social's interview with the @theguardian.com on his new book #Proof, an urgent exploration of truth in our current age of disinformation.
ICYMI: check out @adamjkucharski.bsky.social's interview with the @theguardian.com on his new book #Proof, an urgent exploration of truth in our current age of disinformation.
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Government to extend ban on moorland burning - closing loopholes in existing rules
Great news for nature, carbon, & people who’ll be spared from acrid smoke & flooding
Bad news for dukes & billionaires who own grouse moors 🎻
Here's my quote running on PA newswire: 1/
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Great news for nature, carbon, & people who’ll be spared from acrid smoke & flooding
Bad news for dukes & billionaires who own grouse moors 🎻
Here's my quote running on PA newswire: 1/
www.gov.uk/government/n...
March 31, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Government to extend ban on moorland burning - closing loopholes in existing rules
Great news for nature, carbon, & people who’ll be spared from acrid smoke & flooding
Bad news for dukes & billionaires who own grouse moors 🎻
Here's my quote running on PA newswire: 1/
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Great news for nature, carbon, & people who’ll be spared from acrid smoke & flooding
Bad news for dukes & billionaires who own grouse moors 🎻
Here's my quote running on PA newswire: 1/
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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3 years ago, when I wrote The Lost Rainforests of Britain, I talked about the importance of expanding fragments of temperate rainforest like Wistman's Wood
Well now the Duchy of Cornwall is actually doing it. (And through natural regeneration, not just planting!)
duchyofcornwall.org/article/firs...
Well now the Duchy of Cornwall is actually doing it. (And through natural regeneration, not just planting!)
duchyofcornwall.org/article/firs...
First ‘Wistman’s Wood’ trees planted as part of efforts to double size of ancient temperate rainforest
duchyofcornwall.org
March 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
3 years ago, when I wrote The Lost Rainforests of Britain, I talked about the importance of expanding fragments of temperate rainforest like Wistman's Wood
Well now the Duchy of Cornwall is actually doing it. (And through natural regeneration, not just planting!)
duchyofcornwall.org/article/firs...
Well now the Duchy of Cornwall is actually doing it. (And through natural regeneration, not just planting!)
duchyofcornwall.org/article/firs...
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Catch up on all of our news including upcoming events and opportunities. Get to know our fabulous Global Programmes Coordinator Rachel Lassman in our ‘60 seconds with…’ feature article and get up to date with research publications, webinars, funding opportunities and more!
March 31, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Catch up on all of our news including upcoming events and opportunities. Get to know our fabulous Global Programmes Coordinator Rachel Lassman in our ‘60 seconds with…’ feature article and get up to date with research publications, webinars, funding opportunities and more!
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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The first task is to see what's in front of you. Guard precious things zealously.
February 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The first task is to see what's in front of you. Guard precious things zealously.
TFW the cat brings in a mouse and lets it go in the front hall, and promptly mislays it. No sign of it anywhere. Where is it? No one knows. Now lying in bed unable to sleep because of it, the cat blissfully asleep and snoring beside me.
December 2, 2024 at 12:00 AM
TFW the cat brings in a mouse and lets it go in the front hall, and promptly mislays it. No sign of it anywhere. Where is it? No one knows. Now lying in bed unable to sleep because of it, the cat blissfully asleep and snoring beside me.
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"Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project."
Read that again: **116** times.
Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding??
www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...
Read that again: **116** times.
Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding??
www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...
Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland project
‘The sound of traffic and a uniform sea of barley have been replaced by the most beautiful meadows, full of wildflowers, young saplings and the buzz of bees’
www.scotsman.com
November 29, 2024 at 7:19 AM
"Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project."
Read that again: **116** times.
Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding??
www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...
Read that again: **116** times.
Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding??
www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...
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Interesting piece on the science (or lack of) around 'blue zones': www.science.org/content/arti...
November 25, 2024 at 8:58 AM
Interesting piece on the science (or lack of) around 'blue zones': www.science.org/content/arti...
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Views differ about why BlueSky migration matters. For me it’s this ‘There is such a thing as truth There are facts and we can know them.’ If we can keep a large, shared space truthful it’ll count for a lot in the face of what’s coming. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Views differ about why BlueSky migration matters. For me it’s this ‘There is such a thing as truth There are facts and we can know them.’ If we can keep a large, shared space truthful it’ll count for a lot in the face of what’s coming. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/
November 16, 2024 at 3:19 PM
The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/
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Shout-out to ABC national regional affairs reporter Lucy Barbour for revealing how two regional hospitals - Orange and Queanbeyan – have been trying to introduce #abortion bans by stealth.
Both bans have since been reversed.
This is why #journalism matters. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
Both bans have since been reversed.
This is why #journalism matters. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
Queanbeyan Hospital bans surgical abortions, telling local health workers the procedure 'does not currently sit within' its scope
An email obtained by the ABC confirms Queanbeyan Hospital has stopped providing surgical terminations for fetal anomalies and medical reasons, restricting access to a legal and time-critical form of r...
www.abc.net.au
November 15, 2024 at 2:57 AM
Shout-out to ABC national regional affairs reporter Lucy Barbour for revealing how two regional hospitals - Orange and Queanbeyan – have been trying to introduce #abortion bans by stealth.
Both bans have since been reversed.
This is why #journalism matters. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
Both bans have since been reversed.
This is why #journalism matters. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
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If you need a little lift this evening, I just heard that National Trust colleagues are installing hedgehog ramps inside cattle grids so if you’re small and prickly and you accidentally go in, you can accelerate out again.
Idea & image c/o the British Hedgehog Preservation Society.
Idea & image c/o the British Hedgehog Preservation Society.
November 15, 2024 at 7:21 PM
If you need a little lift this evening, I just heard that National Trust colleagues are installing hedgehog ramps inside cattle grids so if you’re small and prickly and you accidentally go in, you can accelerate out again.
Idea & image c/o the British Hedgehog Preservation Society.
Idea & image c/o the British Hedgehog Preservation Society.
Well. Let's begin again, then.
November 13, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Well. Let's begin again, then.