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Human curious (genomics) & quasi-retired neurodegenerative diseases sleuth. Geology enthusiast & history appreciator hiking places. Parent to American kids. Liberal • Humanist • LGBTQIA+ ally • Anti-Fascist • Слава Україні!🇺🇦 • #AnimalCaucus 🚫𝗗𝗠𝘀
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Due to the major significance of the LA protests now ongoing, and Trump's efforts to inflame the situation by seizing control of the California National Guard and sending 2,000 troops in to quell what he has called a "rebellion", I am making this my pinned post tonight. youtube.com/live/G5MfqiO...

Trump has authorized regular military in addition to the Guard: "In addition, the Secretary of Defense may employ any other members of the regular Armed Forces as necessary to augment and support the protection of Federal functions and property in any number determined appropriate in his discretion"

Early B-cell Factor 1 significantly influences CD22 levels, affecting B-ALL leukemia's sensitivity to the treatment Inotuzumab Ozogamicin. by Escherich CS, Li Z (...) Yang JJ et 18 al. in Blood #MedSky 👉 get more here 📖 read the article:

Rare audio. Celia Black, 1974 - 114 years old, remembering the slave fields. Her voice isn't ancient history — it's a reminder we're only a generation removed from this. Think you know American history? You don't. 🧠ERASED reveals what they buried. 📖Read it. Share it: stan.store/gxldsociety/...

Mehr als ein halbes Jahrhundert nach ihrer legendären Ohrfeige gegen den damaligen Bundeskanzler Kurt Georg Kiesinger, gibt die deutsch-französische Nazijägerin Beate Klarsfeld tiefe Einblicke in ihren jahrzehntelangen Kampf gegen die Verdrängung. www.ardmediathek.de/video/zeuge-...

America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...

Surprise! Neutrinos without gamma rays! (Well, *some* gamma rays but less than usual.) The Squid galaxy seems to be producing neutrinos in an unexpected way 🧪🔭 scitechdaily.com/the-squid-ga...

⚡️ 'There is nothing secret left' — Ukraine hacks Russia's Tupolev aircraft manufacturer, source claims. HUR's cyber corps accessed over 4.4 gigabytes (GB) of internal data, including official correspondence, personnel files, home addresses, and closed meeting minutes, a source claimed.

The Mob, the Baron, and the Republic www.brightamerica.org/p/the-mob-th...

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

This is Mertarvik, Alaska, population 300. It’s a new town. Its residents, the vast majority of whom are Yup’ik, began moving in around 2019. The move was by necessity: The nearby village where many residents previously lived, Newtok, is sinking, its riverbanks eroding. THREAD 🧵

The rescue I got my Harley from is facing closure, please consider donating if you can, the work they do to save animals and support people to keep their pets happy and thriving is so important www.mycause.com.au/page/370978/...

Have you heard of my visual horror novel yet? I self-published Without a Dawn on Steam two weeks ago, and the reviews are fantastic: store.steampowered.com/app/3145620/... The launch discount ends later today! 🧡 #visualnovel #gamedev #indiegame

Qian “helped solve the riddle of jet propulsion; developed America’s first guided ballistic missiles; was made a colonel in the U.S. Air Force; worked on the topsecret Manhattan Project; was sent to Germany to interrogate Nazi scientists…Then he was stopped short” 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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“The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science,” @AdamSerwer writes. “If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/h...

Read EVERY WORD of this article. If Harvard falls, the rest of our academic institutions from universities to community colleges will topple like dominoes.

I know people are tired of hearing abt #covid, but PLEASE read this - especially IQ loss. I have covid-induced asthma & tachycardia. I'm still recovering from a severe 5 WEEK-long flare. Ask yourself if you can afford that. My asthma meds interfere w/my cardiac meds, too. www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

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Trump doesn’t know how to deal with China. His cowardice only makes a war with Taiwan more likely | Simon Tisdall

A review of existing studies showed that SARS-CoV-2 infection can be an important threat to the kidney in the long-term "[R]enal long COVID, characterized by CKD (chronic kidney disease] development and/or progression, may occur." #LongCovid www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 With thanks to @atranscendedman.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Toxic pesticide levels found in tampons 40 times higher than legal limit for water

President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to throttle the scientific ambitions of #NASA, prematurely ending a host of active missions in orbit studying Earth and other planets, while also ending the agency’s work to develop their successors. scim.ag/4kmAX7n

The courts alone won't save us But we could save the courts. I want to point everyone to @adambonica.bsky.social's work on how the courts are trying to hold Trump back and how we know he'll try to crush them using The Authoritarian Playbook.

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Human Development identified nine interventions to combatting false information.

Clinical trials on French nasal vaccine for Covid #Medsky www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

This is Bert 🐦‍⬛ He thinks he’s a dog, Trades worms for raisins. Sings traditional jazz, Taps on our window to get food, Taps twice to get his bath filled, Bathes like sitting on an explosion, Does Kamikaze air strikes on pigeons, Husband to a extraordinarily loud wife,

A provision in the House budget bill passed last week that would impose a moratorium on state AI laws makes tech companies above the law, decimates federalism, and destabilizes predictability in business-to-business transactions, writes David Brody (@dbrody.bsky.social).

Für unsere Interviewstudien zu #LongCovid & #MEcfs suchen wir aktuell noch Teilnehmende mit *mindestens einer* der folgenden Eigenschaften: 🔹️ (Sehr) schweres ME/CFS (vertreten durch Angehörige) 🔹️ Seit <12 Mo. erkrankt 🔹️ Migrationshintergrund 🔹️ Hauptschulabschluss o. Mittlere Reife 🔹️ Alter 60+ 1/2

Bei Kindern verschlechtert sich im Anschluss an Covid die Nierenfunktion Cohort study: 1 900 146 pediatric patients with and without COVID-19, infection was associated with a higher incidence of new-onset chronic kidney disease and worsening kidney function jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Excited to share another new #CogSci paper with @andyperfors.bsky.social (and others not on Bluesky). We built an isolated social media platform using a Mastodon server (that we're calling “MAGPIE Social”), then recruited participants to discuss 4 political topics over several days. 1/7

A little bit of history today. The High Court granted permission for us to take Ireland’s first ever class action. This isn’t just about our class action against Microsoft. It opens a way to finally enforce the GDPR against all big tech that uses Ireland as a shelter. www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

Wenn Ihr eine Maske beim Einkauf tragt, zeigt Ihr vulnerablen Menschen, dass sie nicht allein sind. Viele #Schattenfamilien trauen sich das nicht, weil sie Angst vor Stigmatisierung haben. Positiver Nebeneffekt, Ihr schützt Euch und Euere Liebsten vor Infektionen. 💪

Fungal co-infections in critical COVID-19 A review of patients with CAPA (COVID-Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis) between 2020 to 2022 (67% of sampled patients died by 120 days) #LongCovid www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Swinney accuses Reform of racism over Sarwar advert www.bbc.com/news/article...

“This deal doesn’t reverse Brexit. It doesn’t roll back the referendum. It simply tries to make the current arrangement less disastrous for the people and businesses who’ve been living with the fallout for the last eight years” eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...

Al habla @eadeeva.bsky.social ✨
Hoy hacemos un homenaje a Anna Turbau. Fotoperiodista pionera, su trabajo es uno de los testimonios visuales más valiosos de la España rural y la Transición.
Os acercamos un poco de su vida y obra. 🧵👇

For those of you who knew Victoria Brownworth on Twitter, she passed away from cancer yesterday. She was a fearless journalist who reported on AIDS in the 80s (when Reagan was ignoring it), lifted up the LGBTQ community, & rooted out corruption. Her wife, Maddy Gold, died of cancer in 2022.