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Forestfire smoke, measles, COVID ~ ALL AIRBORNE! N95s prevent the intake of harmful airborne nasties. I can remember my parents’ reaction to “because everyone else is doing it” re stupid stuff I wanted to do as a kid. They insisted on critical thinking. As an adult in 2025 I mask. It’s logical

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It's as if he's on drugs.

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This is required reading. Stop using the slop machine.

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Have you ever dated a narcissist? Someone with no morality but an interest in keeping you wherever you are? Someone who will apologize sincerely, tearfully, as they are emptying your bank account, stealing your work, breaking their vows? That’s chatGPT amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

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“It is catastrophic.” Staff at NIH are speaking out about mass firings, research rollbacks, and a director they say is “full of shit.” Jay Bhattacharya’s leadership is pushing U.S. science into “continuous free fall.” Report from @walkerbragman.bsky.social www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

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- At 17:30 at NetSci4SDG #NetSci2025 I will show how to re-use historic mobility data for future public health response. 👉 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... - Tomorrow at 8:30at FaSoS do not miss the 4th edition of #EpiMob, on human mobility and epidemic modeling 👉 epimob.weebly.com/program.html

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I own a math proof for a slides to a young network scientist attending my lecture this morning. I promised the proof at the end of the talk, but it was lunchtime and we missed the chance to discuss. Can you help me to find/reach him? 🙏 Tomorrow, 10:35, FSE C1.005 at PHS1 @netsciconf.bsky.social

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If you're attending #NetSci2025, please reshare! @netplace.bsky.social @wins-society.bsky.social @yasasgari.bsky.social @netbiomed2025.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social

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SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

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Last week, Marco Rubio insisted no one has died because of his USAID cutoffs. But these two kids, ages 5 and 8, were being kept alive thanks to US-funded antiretrovirals. Then they lost access to the drugs. And now, they're both dead. Via @nickkristof.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

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Some have suggested the president’s tendency to announce tough policies only to backtrack on those pronouncements later is growing more predictable. They refer to the market’s reaction as the “TACO trade”…. As in, “Trump Always Chickens Out.” www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

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Hey! If you work in network science and complex systems and would like to come spend 2 years working on some cool applied projects with our team in Toronto please check our website for more information about our fellowship program and also other streams within this opportunity.

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Meet "Nimbus", aka SARS-CoV-2 variant NB.1.8.1. (Thread) 1/

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🚇 This captivating arc diagram by @jamaps.bsky.social visualizes morning peak trips on TTC’s Line 2 using data from the Transportation Tomorrow Survey (TTS). Thicker arcs = higher trip volumes. Learn more: schoolofcities.github.io/transportati... #TTC #Subway #Toronto

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1. It's Fustilarian Friday and today's drop is the "Restoring Gold Standard Science" executive order. My read is that this is designed to (1) protect far-fringe figures such as the antvaxxers now heading our health agencies, and (2) kneecap efforts to use scientific evidence in regulatory policy.

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There’s the weaponization of open science y’all. Basically ripped from @cos.io’s website. The ROI for leaders speaking up is the highest it will be now, and only decline over time as these policies take shape and grow teeth.

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From the day Britain left the EU, this reset was inevitable. What a pointless waste of time, money and effort | Simon Jenkins

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tired: people AI-generating rando images of themselves as anime WIRED: AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, new analysis has found

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As NZ and Hong Kong opened up at almost the same moment (with different vaccine profiles), I thought I would overlay NZ (red) on this to look at the garden of forking paths that has made the different history since. (The rises and lows, the raw height is subjective, I just matched the max and mins).

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Would it have killed them to mention the fact that this was due to climate change? @powcanada.bsky.social

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Calling it now, we're heading into a bozo summer

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On the Amtrak, watching the kid in front of me ask Chat GPT to write his personal statement for graduate school about a time he faced an ethical dilemma and how he handled it, what are we doing here people

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Are you interested in giving a talk to the #WiNS Seminars? Do you know anyone who would be perfect for it? Let us know! @wins-society.bsky.social

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Solid takedown of Vinay Prasad newrepublic.com/article/1949...

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And it wasn’t just the Crick… we had huge institutional expertise in the UK as the pandemic washed up on our shores, and it was all buried. Buried beneath no plan, and then a plan that would involve companies with no track record pocketing our past taxes and future taxes.

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I wrote a thing about multivariate normal sampling in #rstats, and why you would be well-advised to prefer mvtnorm::rmvnorm() over MASS::mvrnorm() Now. Let us never speak of this again

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If ur not masking rn during an ongoing pandemic you believe this eugenic ideology btw, whether you want to admit it or not. If ur not masking you’re ok with infecting and killing/disabling those around u by spewing Covid all over, so mask tf up and don’t talk abt eugenics if ur contributing to it

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I don't think anything sums up the current state of American politics better than this Tom Waits/Cookie Monster mashup. youtu.be/U5X4N2exOsU?...

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The new Neil Halloran documentary on Smallpox has completely changed how I see the RFK Jr. version of the world. Neil (softly) argues that realizing that disease isn't the fault of the sick /or/ the fault of the Gods ushered in a new future where we felt the authority to care for each other.

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THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

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