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On the impact of masks in schools during Covid in 2022 "We further estimate that the removal of mandates during this time contributed to 21,800 COVID deaths through the rest of 2022, 9% of the U.S. total that year." www.nber.org/papers/w33849

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Oh my goodness - this is incredible. I’m always cautious about using the term “breakthrough” but this could be a real game-changer - forcing blood cells to reveal that they are infected with HIV. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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"Knowledge is power when it is wisely used to shape public health policy. The measles vaccines have saved around 94 million lives over the past 50 years." @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Tonight is the eve of Eid al-Adha which is colloquially called the Big Eid. The ‘small’ one being the one that follows Ramadan (Eid al-Fitr). Thinking of the poor, hungry and terrified on this night. Those who can’t celebrate. Stop the war. Stop supporting it. Stop the indifference about it.

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"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."

submitted 51 days ago • 70 comments

Attended plenaries on weaponization of food from Turtle Island to Palestine at the CAFS Assembly — the institutional attacks on Palestinians at all levels astounds anyone raised to believe never again meant something to our leadership in the so called west The US vetoed action against Israel again

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Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East's (CJPME) federal election guide: www.cjpme.org/election_gui...

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Reckoning and resistance: The future of Black hiring commitments on campus theconversation.com/reckoning-an...

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Great piece, and I am proud that the activist group I've devoted the most time to over the years was based on this idea: law students' ability to withhold their labor from corporate firms. Check out @lsca.bsky.social people!

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#Read all you want! #OpenAccess #Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing #Grow your understanding of #Food #Repeat

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UPDATES FROM THE PARTICIPATORY FOOD GOVERNANCE PROJECT See pages 9-10 of CAFS Spring 2025 Newsletter! #Food #FoodGovernance #Governance #CivilSociety #SustainableFood #FoodSystems foodstudies.info/wp-content/u...

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New rules to protect Japanese workers from heat illness: reports www.hcamag.com/asia/special...

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Men in military gear refused to show a warrant or identify themselves to the owner of the business. They implied they were arresting the gardener for drunk driving. He doesn't know how to drive. I miss reading about ticks & beavers in the Berkshire news. theberkshireedge.com/stalked-and-...

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Some quotes lose their magic with repetition but this one by Maya Angelou remains ever green: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are"

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"Our export footprint is significantly larger than our domestic emissions. And this really needs to be recognised as part of our sphere of responsibility." -always should have been. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

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Elon Musk owns the president. He bought he presidency and he owns the president. Our democracy is for sale. And it’s a global crisis.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

It’s very easy to buck the mainstream of academia/science when you’ve got a buttload of right-wing/corporate money backing you. Doesn’t make you Galileo. It makes you a shill.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

#ThatCovidLife #CovidIsNotOver

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Unpopular perspective: RFK Jr who is a ghoul and an ableist asshat is correct to call into question efficacy and safety of novel mRNA vaccine delivery models. It’s still a work in progress. Dominant view is to act as if we have all the assurances we need. We. Do. Not.

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“In another development, the Campaign Finance Board said it is continuing to investigate alleged improper coordination between Cuomo’s mayoral campaign and the Fix the City super PAC.”

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Congrats to all newly minted scientists, physicians, public health workers, and healthcare workers who are graduating! You are entering professions that are tragically under heavy political attack, but please know that you are needed now more than ever. You got this!

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

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A disabled graphic designer, Marketa, made this to help raise donations for my neurosurgical fundraiser! Please boost this post Next 2 neurosurgeries in are June, with 1-2 more possible neurosurgeries later if I’m lucky and eligible Donate here: gofundme.com/f/help-emily-get-medical-care 1/2

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As another professor of Holocaust and genocide studies, Raz Segal, put it: “Can I name someone whose work I respect who doesn’t think it’s genocide? No.

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

Covid vaccines help reduce severity but they don’t meaningfully prevent infection or long covid. Covid is EXTREMELY harmful even when ur vaxxed, so if ur mad abt this u should also be infuriated at Biden for dismantling masking etc. RFK sucks but Dems ushered in the dismantling of Covid protections

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Possibly more confounding than voters who rank Cuomo first are the ones who’d rank him second. I mean, if you’re not all in on the whole arrogant groper thing, or you’re not a low-info voter going on name recognition, what makes you say, “Cuomo’s not my top choice, but he’d be OK?” #DontRankCuomo

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The folly of long-term incinerator contracts In Grangetown, where life expectancy is 51.5, a 30-year waste deal risks locking in pollution and blocking progress. Will Teesside councils act? @northeastbylines.co.uk northeastbylines.co.uk/news/environ...

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On this day in 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law, leading to the forced relocation of Native American tribes. #OTD #IndianRemovalAct #USHistory

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Applications for In Review's emerging South Australian First Nations reviewers and critics mentorship closes 6 June 2025. Paid opportunity to write & publish art reviews (literature, theatre, art, film etc) Get on it! www.indailysa.com.au/inreview/men...

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There must be a better word than "corruption". Trump et al soar to new unheard of heights of corruption, theft, extortion, blackmail, and of course theft. What's the right word? Dictator?Feudal lord? King? Fascist fucking pigs. I like that one....

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

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

The NB.1.8.1 variant has been nicknamed "Nimbus". Thanks Ryan for leading that discussion, and for this summary of it's characteristics. Ryan included my animated map of the spread of NB.1.8.1 (and the PQ sub-variants). 🧵

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So NB 1.8.1 (aka Nimbus as per @tryangregory.bsky.social ) Comes with an added nasty mutation. Masks are variant independent😷

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

Further to this- RFKJr and his senior team have now made the decisions in vaccine access for COVID NOT the immunology and Clinical expert advisers in an unprecedented move

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Highly infectious new COVID strain hits US "The new NB.1.81 variant was first detected in the US in late March–early April among international travelers arriving at airports in California, Washington State, Virginia and New York City, with additional cases reported in Ohio, Rhode Island and Hawaii"

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You don't need to be a prophet. Images like this - of starved Palestinians hammed into fenced cages by Israel - will be remembered for generations as hideous evidence of a terrible crime. And history will remember not just those who cheered it on, but those who stayed silent.

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The Liverpool attack wasn’t terrorism. But the far-right didn’t wait for facts – they had a script ready. This piece by The Bear cuts through the noise to show how outrage is manufactured. Read how this works ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk

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This is what our governments are facilitating.

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Sad bonus fact, in case anyone has not somehow noticed: State governments have been charging people who miscarry with felonies, such as murder or abuse of a corpse. So increasing the chance of miscarriage and stillbirth is a deliberate ploy to arrest more people.

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This was worth my time. He argues we should stop saying genoc!de and start saying Holocaust vm.tiktok.com/ZMS6A4BoD/

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If you live anywhere near, please show up and show these people we are not ok with them transporting people to concentration camps. Make noise. If you are not able to attend, give them a call at 1 (346) 616-9500 It what allies do. #TheAlliedForces

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