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Welp, the new ACIP members have been announced...

"Fertility rates are falling in large part because many feel unable to create the families they want. And that is the real crisis." ✍️: Stephanie Hegarty / BBC www.bbc.com/news/article...

Vaccine group Gavi seeks to broaden donor base as aid budgets shrink ✍️: Ahmed Eljechtimi / Reuters

Rubio orders firings of all USAID staffers overseas to move forward ✍️: Ellen Knickmeyer & Lindsay Whitehurst / AP apnews.com/article/usai...

Scoop: NOAA's climate portal, climate.gov, will soon no longer publish new content after its staff were recently dismissed. Former staff fear that the website may become a mouthpiece for the administration's anti-science views. My latest for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

RFK Jr. says he is removing all members of the CDC's advisory committee on vaccines i.e., the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). ACIP comprises independent experts to develop all of the nation's vaccine recommendations. 🎁 🔗 to WSJ editorial: www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

People need to watch this NBA Finals

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

This is what is happening to the US scientific enterprise.

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

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

Yikes

When a podcast starts with two minutes of ads

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."

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

So fun youtu.be/gz9BRl7DVSM?...

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

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

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.

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...