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submitted 15 hours ago • 266 comments

something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket

submitted 15 hours ago • 45 comments

Over 15,000 children have been killed in Gaza since October 2023 More than 9000 children have been treated for malnutrition just this year. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

They’re gonna send all of us to “Dr. Oz’s ranch” when we get bird flu, too

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Very timely.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The loss data (~$10B) support and N of grants terminated is updated below, but this op-ed by @euanashley.bsky.social hits all the important points @latimes.com @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Some day, RFK Jr. will no longer have power over any of us. Going forward, I’m going to try to focus more and more on that day. Right now it’s chaotic and seems hopeless, and we are essentially in a science salvage operation. We have to be ready with a plan for rebuilding.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

And here’s the write-up with early findings and conclusions. Phenomenal work! (Note, all sequencing, analyses, response, etc. done locally!) virological.org/t/genomic-ep...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Easy to be glib, but of course Keir Starmer must walk on eggshells around the man whose indispensible and wise counsel has seen the Party's popularity come to rival that of foot fungus.

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

Flying to Hong Kong for a week to perform several iterations of my critically acclaimed show, "Trade Policy 2025: No One Knows Anything and I'm Scared Too." Recommendations welcome!

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

When I had COVID-19, I never felt so sick in my life. I cannot fathom being PREGNANT with COVID. During pregnancy, treatment options are limited. Your body is inherently at high risk. You're growing a tiny human that gets put at higher risk if you get sick.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Trawling through the Finnish Defence Forces archive and this absolute gem appeared. Crying out for an album cover...

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Out this morning & Open Access! 📢 My new article in Public Archaeology on the entanglement of archaeology, the far right and ancient genetic studies, using the British National Party as a case study: ‘In Our Blood’: Archaeology and ‘Indigeneity’ in the British National Party’s Magazine Identity'

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

@gregggonsalves.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

1529 Map of the Americas by Diego Ribero

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

They should read our new study. In Los Angeles Purple Air sensors are likely more accurate than the expensive sensors. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Fascinating story. Elephants in Karachi safari park diagnosed with Tuberculosis likely contracted via reverse zoonotic from contact with their handlers. Treatment requires 400 pills a day!!!!! They hide the pills in a variety of foods. www.dawn.com/news/1912385...

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

The first manuscript by my lab has been published🥳🎉 We investigated disease progression in B6 mice inoculated with bovine H5N1 or VN1203 via aerosols. Interestingly, although virus replication in the lung was similar, we observed drastic differences in neuroinvasion and pathology. rdcu.be/enhQU

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Outbreaks of Marburg virus (MARV) disease have been increasingly more frequent recently. Here we describe a prefusion-stabilized MARV GP and a best-in-class MARV neutralizing antibody! Led by @aminaddetia.bsky.social with @virbiotechnology.bsky.social @hhmi.org www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

lol Van Hollen has been this milquetoast senator nobody heard of for years and suddenly he emerges in 2025 as fucking awesome. Good for him, I love this journey

submitted 13 days ago • 42 comments

@robcamp.bsky.social follow me biatch!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Mad but of geography trivia: half of Africa’s water sits in the DRC. Wow! HT @xruiztru

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

It's worse than we thought. www.cnn.com/2025/05/13/h...

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

Bless his heart. #RFKJr is trying to whitewash the Trump Administration's war on science. Little Bobby, it won't work. We all have the receipts. You are a disaster and a disgrace.

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

Trouble is, a lot of decent people voted Labour because they approved of Britain giving aid.

submitted 19 days ago • 12 comments

The Thread of Threads! A directory of my recurring threads. Check back frequently for Updates!

submitted 121 days ago • 12 comments

So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.

submitted 23 days ago • 459 comments

Walz: When did government get to tell you how many dolls your child has? Government just big enough to fit in your bedroom, your womb, and apparently now in your toy chest.

submitted 24 days ago • 686 comments

Put a date in your diary for this talk by renowned US photographer Shane Balkowitsch, talking about his career as an ambrotypist & his extraordinary project to create 1000 portraits of Native American people using this 170-year old photographic technique. Tuesday 5 August 14.00-15.30.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Hey British media, It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning. Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10

submitted 28 days ago • 450 comments

Yellow Jack: a modern threat to Asia-Pacific countries? www.nature.com/articles/s44...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

So the tired "preprints shouldn't be cited because they're not peer reviewed" meme is back. Reminder these frequently cited items aren't peer reviewed either: Editorials Books Reviews [some not all] News reports Data Code Websites Social media posts Citations are just links...intent varies 1/2

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

In case you were wondering, the company that fired him for helping someone in need was Fidelity National Financial (FNF), a large insurance company.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

The biosafety hobbyist community is currently incensed that the new NIAID Director’s work to reconstruct 1918 had no benefits & was the most horrifyingly pointless gain-of-function work in the history of reckless virology. Also I’m a bitch. The former isn’t true. Here’s why 🧵👇🏻

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments