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🌍New study from our @wcs.org Health Team exploring wildlife health monitoring in protected areas worldwide. “Wildlife health perceptions & monitoring practices” 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/cobi... PA staff see health as vital—but data collection is patchy or missing. #OneHealth

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Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

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🐝 #Pollinators are responsible for much more than food-crops. From biofuels to medicines, we rely on pollinators in much of our daily lives.🧪 Check out a few facts about pollinators from the IPBES #PollinationAssessment 🌏 Read the Report here: https://www.ipbes.net/assessment-reports/pollinators

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"I don't think the average person... even [people] at NOAA don't fully understand the expansiveness of what NOAA does in ALL aspects of the environment." Full response by John Cortinas (former NOAA Director) on the impact of NOAA's monitoring and rapid response network: wclivestream.com/watch/

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Our 💯 hours to #SaveAmericasForecasts starts tomorrow! Tune in to hear over 200+ US meteorologists and climate scientists share the importance of federally funded weather and climate research! wclivestream.com

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Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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In Boston, @celinegounder.com is giving a fiery convocation address at Harvard School of Public Health talking about #misinfo in public health: “The current administration is waging a war on science, and that can be seen most clearly on the issue of vaccines.” #IDsky 🧪

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Countries are committed to seeing a sustainably financed and stronger WHO. Watch Björn Kümmel, Head of Global Health, German Federal Ministry of Health.

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LISTEN: Mercury contamination is a major threat to fish in the #Amazon — and the health of the people who rely on them. On #WCSWildAudio, conservationists, including from WCS, have a (small) solution to boost communities and ecosystems alike. 🔊 🌎 apple.co/4kKBD6p

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A new genetic study links otters found in exotic animal cafes in Japan with wild populations in well-known poaching hotspots in southern Thailand. The new DNA evidence of a wildlife trade route between Thailand and Japan backs up calls from experts for stricter monitoring of wildlife exports.

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The point of the #PandemicAccord is the people of our world. It is about making the world safer for them, and their children and grandchildren. #WHA78

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Good thread about an appalling sanewashing of RFK Jr.

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If you missed the webinar "Integrating biodiversity & health: Insights from the IPBES Nexus Assessment & One Health Approaches in Asia and the Pacific", organized by the Regional Quadripartite for Asia and the Pacific, you can still see the recording. Here is the link: www.unep.org/events/onlin...

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A long thread about mpox and the context specific nature of outbreaks prompted by the large outbreak of MPXV Clade IIb happening at the moment in Sierra Leone:

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“… peer-reviewed literature is dominated by articles supporting a zoonotic origin” while lab leak papers “are rare, fringe, and mutually incompatible with each other.” Correct. And it’s not because one side is “censored”. It’s because one side has zero evidence. www.factcheck.org/2025/05/trum...

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A must read, and not only for this gem:

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1/🧵 It’s not dysfunction. It’s design. The GOP uses a ruthless disinformation playbook to confuse, divide, and exhaust the public. They don’t want you informed—they want you disoriented. Here’s how their machine works—and how we expose it. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

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Three weeks from right now, we will be taking to the streets across the country on No Kings Day. Over 1,000 events are planned in response to Trump’s $100 million birthday parade in DC. We hope you will join us on June 14: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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The Ten Commandments of Public Lands Resistance morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/the-ten-co...

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Slashing $23B from NIH & NSF isn't fiscal responsibility—it's a $32B economic loss. Science investments return 140–210%, compounding over time. No single administration can claim the credit, but any can cause the damage. Cuts like this aren’t just shortsighted—they’re bad business. bit.ly/dogefail

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Historic moment: For the first time, world governments have agreed to prevent pandemics at the source—by protecting nature, addressing wildlife trade, and adopting a One Health approach. A major step toward a safer, more resilient future. #PandemicAgreement #OneHealth

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STATEMENT: With @who.int adoption of a Pandemic Agreement today, world governments for the first time have taken vital step to prevent, prepare for, and respond to catastrophic pandemics. 🌏 bit.ly/436bRU8

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How are health and biodiversity connected in Asia and the Pacific? What insights can the recently published report of the IPBES Nexus Assessment bring? How can the One Health approach help? To find out more, attend this webinar on 22 May. Registration link: un-org-unep.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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With current trends and policies, we'll transgress all planetary boundaries in 2050, except for ozone depletion. Targeted interventions — e.g., the Paris Agreement — can help, but not enough. More effective policy measures are needed to ensure we live well within the planetary boundaries.

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everyone should read this piece by @judgeluttig.bsky.social "[Trump] will continue his assault on America, its democracy, and rule of law until the American people finally rise up and say, 'No more.'" gift link 🎁: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Our latest commentary piece in @mongabay.com with my colleagues Susan Lieberman and Christine Franklin delves into the @who.int 's recent consensus on a pandemic agreement text emphasising a nature-centric, #OneHealth approach. tinyurl.com/5c22cvh4

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The new @who.int pandemic agreement endorses the reality that human contact with live wildlife must be regulated or curbed to help prevent pathogen spillovers, write @cwalzer.bsky.social, Susan Lieberman, and Christine Franklin for @mongabay.com. 🌍 news.mongabay.com/2025/05/why-...

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BREAKING: The EU's former top diplomat, Josep Borrell, has accused Israel of perpetrating genocide in Palestine, and “carrying out the largest ethnic-cleansing operation since the end of the second world war." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Spending money they don't have illegally.

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The Trump administration has dismissed the scientists behind the U.S. climate report. Now scientific societies are stepping in to finish the job—because the climate crisis doesn’t pause for politics. Science will not be silenced. apnews.com/article/clim... #ClimateScience #StandUpForScience

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So that all can read, I am gifting today’s NYT piece on the lawless presidency of the 45th President of the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

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New evidence underscores the role of #Wildlifetrade in SARS emergence. Direct ancestors of SARS-CoV-1 and -2 likely traveled too far, too fast for natural bat dispersal—pointing to infected intermediate hosts in wildlife trade as key vectors. 📄 [Cell, 2025] doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #OneHealth

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Why leaving the WHO would be a catastrophic mistake. This compelling op-ed in The Hill makes the case for U.S. global health leadership—rooted in science, solidarity, and shared responsibility. A must-read: thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/thehill.... #OneHealth #PandemicPrevention

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105 controlled vaccine trials. 110 yrs. 1.8 M participants. All in one live, crowd-sourced sheet. Built by contributors worldwide to counter the myth that vaccines weren’t tested with controls. Quiet work still breaks through the noise. www.bradspellberg.com/vaccine-rcts @bradspellberg.bsky.social

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RFK Jr and Statistics:

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Nothing to see here. Just @emilyjaynef.bsky.social being forcibly removed from NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler's town hall tonight for having the temerity to act like a citizen of the United States. Hero.

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France and EU to incentivise US-based scientists to come to Europe www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

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Same

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Protect and defend editorial cartoonists this World Press Freedom Day

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This week, United Nations SG António Guterres met with Brazil’s President Lula to accelerate global climate plans ahead of #COP30. Leaders were urged to: - Submit strong climate plans in 2025 - Support transitions in developing countries More on #COP30 in Belém: cop30.br/en

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Please join me in contributing to this important initiative!! actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

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Both Rubio's tweet, and the response, are remarkable artifacts. You have a Secretary of State tweeting right wing talking points to defend Neo Nazis, and the country where Nazis originated telling him to sod off.

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There are simply no more words 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️ 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/h...

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