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My take on the Elon-Trump feud? It presents a great opportunity to read about how the budget bill could reduce healthcare access for millions of people

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This is what is happening to the US scientific enterprise.

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Shady: 23andMe seeks new bids after $305 million offer from its co-founder - Dietrich Knauth

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USDA Drops Rules Requiring Farmers to Record Their Use of the Most Toxic Pesticides 👀👀 ✍️: Lisa Held / Civil Eats

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Yikes

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When a podcast starts with two minutes of ads

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Hegseth Orders Navy to Strip Name of Gay Rights Icon Harvey Milk from Ship ✍️ Konstantin Toropin "The official also said that the timing of the announcement -- occurring during Pride month -- was intentional."

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SCOOP: Trump to launch branded crypto wallet and trading application, encouraging his supporters to purchase his memecoin and other crypto assets. www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...

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H5N1 bird flu outbreak shuts down a large egg farm in Arizona. The owner of Hickman's Family Farms says ~6 million chickens will be culled (USDA reports 5.2 million). They say it will take two years to rebuild the flock and hundreds of workers will be laid off. ✍️: Corina Vanek / Arizona Republic

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Fodder for the next Jurassic Park sequel www.science.org/content/arti...

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Researchers in #ScienceAdvances have uncovered a previously unknown genetic branch of ancient hunter-gatherers local to the Colombian land bridge. Learn more: scim.ag/4mEsGNL

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NASA’s iconic Goddard Institute for Space Studies—home to Jim Hansen and hundreds more scientists, creator of the GISS model and keeper of the global temperature record—has been evicted from its longstanding NYC office above the “Seinfeld” restaurant. Why? The government told them to move out.

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www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/us-m...

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Welp: Economic contributions of international students at top U.S. universities in 2023 via WSJ www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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So fun youtu.be/gz9BRl7DVSM?...

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Gain of Fiction: How COVID Origins Motivated Defunding of U.S. Science- Defunding scientific research in the United States has halted disease cure studies amid multiple infectious crises. 10/10 from @ggronvall.bsky.social

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BREAKING: Supreme Court allows President Trump to revoke the temporary legal status of more than 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

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Recent Canadian wildfires are record-breaking – and will threaten US air quality for days - Eric Holthaus / The Guardian If forecasts hold, the Midwest could experience degraded air quality tonight. New York could see the same to a lesser extent on Saturday night.

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My thoughts on the defunding of disease cure research, origin of COVID, the executive order on so-called gain of function research, China’s advances in biotech, the spread of avian flu, and why the US needs to shed this fictional worldview ASAP. www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/gain...

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NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.

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Zack Snyder is now directing the ocean?

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University of Plymouth research finds 20% of ocean now darker - Elliot Ball / BBC www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Gain of Fiction: How COVID Origins Motivated Defunding of U.S. Science @ggronvall.bsky.social explains how in recent weeks, the Trump administration—including NIH Director Bhattacharya—has rationalized the defunding of scientific research by citing COVID-19's lab leak theory.

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Sooo happy to finally have this one published!! (3 years in the making… 👀) A comprehensive investigation into the recency and geographical origins of both SARS-CoVs that spilled to humans in the past few decades, now in @cp-cell.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses. In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

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Alt Headline: "Don't mess with Texas" is poised to take on a new meaning 🦠😷🧼

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“An extensive genetic survey has found that Pseudogymnoascus destructans is actually two species native to Europe and Asia. Only one has reached North America. If the second one is introduced to the continent, it could start another devastating epidemic. “It’s like a reboot,” said Dr. Reeder”

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Something to follow: "Cambodia's ministry of health has reported its fourth fatal human #H5N1 avian flu case of the year" ✍️: Lisa Schnirring / CIDRAP www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

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Bill curbing the flow of abortion pills into Texas likely dead ✍️: Eleanor Klibanoff / Texas Tribune

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An interesting project from Boston University is estimating the death toll caused by USAID cuts, but Rubio is probably right about questioning their numbers. Making valid estimates would be difficult without field reporting and more transparency from the State Dept. around the interrupted programs.

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Iowa and Nebraska just announced their first measles cases of the year. In Iowa, the patient is an unvaccinated adult, and in Nebraska, the patient is a vaccinated child who had not traveled outside the state. www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/iowa...

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“There is a process, and it hasn’t been followed." - Dorit Reiss, a law professor at UC Law San Francisco www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/c...

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"World Health Assembly member states on Monday deferred a final vote on a draft WHO Action plan on Climate Change and Health until Tuesday morning – in an effort to find a last-minute compromise with a bloc of oil-rich states trying to put the plan on ice." - Elaine Ruth Fletcher/Health Policy Watch

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You know how these guys are really into the idea that any disease can be cured with a healthy diet of unprocessed foods? Doesn’t work so well when the disease is E. coli from lettuce that isn’t reported publicly because FDA isn’t competent to keep food safe. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again theonion.com/a-shatt...

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