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"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

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Trump vs Harvard: It's the fascism, stupid iandunt.substack.com/p/trump-vs-h...

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This is such a good point. Properly in the heart of the thing.

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"They had no relevant expertise and were urgently seeking answers to some basic questions" The Inquiry heard evidence that the consultants being paid millions by the Government didn't have a basic understanding of how testing worked.

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A national scandal: millions given to Deloitte to set up and run covid testing service. They had to ask experts such as @deenan.bsky.social basic questions. Words fail.... This must not happen again. @cbffjuk.bsky.social @chrischirp.bsky.social

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Prof Deenan Pillay @deenan.bsky.social , former chair of @independentsage.bsky.social , is an expert virologist never afraid to call things out. He was right to oppose arbitrary reductions in COVID isolation times, and he's right about this. £bns wasted on private industry, no UK legacy 🤬

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As the Covid Inquiry Test, Trace, and Isolate Module comes to a close today, here is a look at some of the shocking evidence we have heard so far. A Thread 🧵 1/12

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"Shameful" The Inquiry hears from expert virologist Prof. Deenan Pillay that the Government chose to spend billions on private consultants from Deloitte instead of listening to experts. The labs they set up have since been dismantled. 'We've been left with nothing'.

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Quick update on covid with a focus on the US: There is still no sign of any covid resurgence so far in the data (note that this is in contrast to western Europe where there are now increasing signs of an upward trend for covid) 1/

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Have been holding on to this one for a while, so I'm pleased I can finally tell you that I've been chosen to be the Mathematical Sciences Section President at the British Science Festival 2025!!! britishscienceassoci... #BSF25

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The injunction against Trump‘s IEEPA tariffs is stayed by the federal circuit

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"If the UK had spent more money helping people to self-isolate during the pandemic then fewer people would have been infected or died, the former head of NHS Test and Trace has said." Strange we didn't hear more about this at the time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/a...

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To act like you’re concerned about a “gold standard” in science and then publish a report with fake citations would be pretty embarrassing if any of these people had integrity

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public comms on Large Language Models (AI) like ChatGPT is mainly via journalists - and most of them hate it. But then I think their job doesn't really require a lot of what is great about LLMs & it does require what LLMs are bad at (fact checking). LLMs are more of a game changer than google was!

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this is a really important and really positive move from Labour. Bravo. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Had to go check this was real and yes, this is the conservative response to the news the government is building two new reservoirs

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RFK Jr's "MAHA" report is filled with references to studies that literally do not exist, or that completely misinterpret the studies' findings. “We did not publish a paper.. on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title,” says one cited researcher. www.notus.org/health-scien...

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Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it" by Colette Delawalla (@cdelawalla.bsky.social), Victor Ambros, Carl Bergstrom, Carol Greider, Michael Mann and Brian Nosek for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The @nytimes.com "passed" on this

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WHO and partners reached Al-Awda Hospital in North #Gaza, amid intense insecurity on 24 and 27 May to transfer critical patients to Al-Shifa and assess the situation following recent attacks. During the first mission, the team was exposed to nearby airstrikes, shelling, and gunfire.

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Over 30 displacement orders were issued in #Gaza since Israel resumed the war on March 18. This psychological warfare must stop now. Hear from our Doctors Without Borders colleagues on the realities of displacement orders. youtu.be/tGa9xl0AMk8

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Told you

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My explainer from a few weeks ago at @prospectmagazine.co.uk on how Trump was (mis)using emergency legislation for his tariff antics. Overnight this (mis)use of such legislation was ruled unlawful. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

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What George doesn't understand is that in the UK, we decided in 2020 that 'governing' was actually a tedious distraction from 'speculating about, and positioning for, the next general election'. It's core to our culture and it is very disrespectful to criticise it.

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Today at 3pm UK time! Find out how to: ➡️ Simulate epidemiologically plausible outbreak data in R with {simulist} ➡️ Clean and prepare data with {cleanepi} ➡️ Integrate these tools into reproducible workflows for real-world public health scenarios Register: data-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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To take my tongue out of my cheek, the joy of having worked on a daily newsletter for the best part of 12 years now is having a physical reminder that I am not being nostalgic - the dominant question from 2013 to 2021 really wasn’t “how will this play electorally” EVERY DAY.

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this is stupid and dangerous when bird flu is so widespread in US birds and dairy herds.

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🚨🚨 #Russian armed forces have been “systematically” committing crimes against humanity by hunting civilians using remote-controlled drones, report by the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on #Ukraine said today. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/russ...

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People: for once let me bring you some good global macro trends Work is just so much better than we expected it to be 25 years ago when we were all a bit Malthusian on.ft.com/3SXJl0S

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Impressive positivity from @chrisgiles.ft.com - with a great chart showing that @oecd-ocde.bsky.social predictions that ageing societies would automatically feed through into plummeting employment rates were very wide of the mark

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"I am completely fine with some universities collapsing" = "I am completely fine with the local economies of some former industrial towns collapsing"

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