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European friends: Do not accept lectures on democracy & freedom of speech from an Administration that denies the 2020 election results and is now suing & intimidating news outlets whose reporting they don’t like. Stand tall against right-wing extremism. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

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Working class Americans live 6 years shorter lives than the wealthy. Doctors believe economic stress is a major factor in that disparity. I asked Americans to describe how stress impacts their lives & well-being. The responses were heartbreaking. Here are some of them:

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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This is how it’s done.

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22 February 1935 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Cili Been, was born in Rotterdam. She was deported to #Auschwitz in August 1942 and murdered in the gas chamber.

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22 February 1924 | Polish Jewish woman, Felicja Wolf, was born in Lwów. She lived in Metz in France. In December 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

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22 February 1920 | A Pole, Wiesław Starzyk, was born in Kraków. A paramedic. In #Auschwitz from 18 April 1942. No. 31308 He perished in the camp on 26 May 1942.

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From Russia With Blood

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President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk's unprecedented and frantic effort to slash the federal workforce, pushing tens of thousands of workers out of their roles, is starting to draw more significant backlash, even in strongly Republican areas reut.rs/4hKnjcM

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Rodent and monkey facilities could be imperiled by the Trump administration’s plan to slash overhead costs that the National Institutes of Health pays to institutions for medical research. scim.ag/3QvS4GC

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BREAKING: Federal judge extends the restraining order on NIH capping indirect costs to 15% www.statnews.com/2025/02/21/t...

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A Big Lie is a lie so big people figure it must be true-- because who would possibly tell such an outlandish lie. Today we have its mirror image, a Big Truth. Because what Trump and MAGA are doing to the USA and the world is so dreadful and implausible that one can't quite believe it's real.

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As others have noted, the life of Carl Bosch is worth a look in these times. Fritz Haber demonstrated that nitrogen could be reduced to ammonia, but Bosch’s work turned that into a technology that changed the world with sudden new supplies of fertilizer (and of explosives). (1/8)

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The whole thread, but especially this point. After the pillars are gone, there will just be rubble left. Nothing Great about that.

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A most excellent molecule (and chemist) with which to conclude the week #SynChem #MedChem #cheminformatics #DrugDesign #DrugDiscovery #chemsky 🧪 new.enaminestore.com/catalog/EN30...

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Oi piá. Oi guria. 🤟

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There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

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A burst water main flooded homes and streets in Detroit USA and then froze with temperatures down to -9c there today and likely to stay frozen for a number of days😬

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21 February 1869 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Alida Elisabeth Polak, was born in Leeuwarden. In October 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

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21 February 1922 | A Pole Wiktor Tołkin was born in Tołkacze. A sculptor & an architect. In #Auschwitz from 18 November 1942. No. 75886 Released from the camp in Feb 1944. After the war, he designed monuments at Majdanek and Stutthof Museums. Tołkin passed away in May 2013.

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"Musk is a key figure within a US administration that is attacking science through executive orders that have systematically targeted the scientific community, cut funding, restricted research and silenced scientists" My op-ed in @resprofnews.bsky.social www.researchprofessi...

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Americans, pay attention. We as Europeans know what fascism means. It will get rid of all your freedoms and will introduce huge amounts of fear. Do something!

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Well said, Senator Sanders youtu.be/rKBM2kS6B8o

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Opportunity for chemoinformatician at Astex Pharmaceuticals (Cambridge UK) ref: CH/0225 | duration: 3 year contract | closing: 28-Feb-2025 #cheminformatics #CompChem #CADD #UKChemJobs #ChemJobs #chemsky 🧪 www.cloudonlinerecruitment.co.uk/Astex/Vacanc...

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RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.

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I think Elon needs to be more flexible. Especially with his elbows.

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I’ve been very naughty (again) and confessed my sins at a beautiful church that was once visited by Oscar Niemeyer. I was lucky to find the church open because normally I’d have needed to gatecrash a funeral (suboptimal for confessional selfies and I’ve never liked open caskets) #cheminformatics

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Opportunity for immunologist at AstraZeneca (Gaithersburg MD USA) ref: R-219683 | closing 08-Mar-2025 #immunology #CellBiol 🧪 astrazeneca.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/broadbean_ex...

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Opportunity for lab-based medicinal chemist in chemical biology at Vertex (Oxford UK) ref: REQ-24560 #MedChem #ChemBiol #SynChem #UKChemJobs #ChemJobs #chemsky 🧪 vrtx.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/vertex...

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18 February 1919 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Henriëtte Vriesman, was born in Middelburg. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 10 February 1944 in a transport of 1,015 Jews deported from Westerbork. She did not survive.

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18 February 1916 | A Ukrainian, Simko Omelczuk, was born. A cook. In #Auschwitz from 29 July 1942. No. 53814 Fate unknown.

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#OTD in 1944. Operation Jericho. A daring high precision low-level attack on Amiens prision, to allow prisoners to escape. "Of the 717 prisoners, 102 were killed, 74 wounded and 258 escaped, including 79 resistance and political prisoners." #WW2 #HISTORY

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Lebensraum?

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The most unpatriotic members of any society are the far right. They will always align with foreign interests against the interests of their own nations. They will always undermine national institutions and national values in pursuit of their own interests. When they pose as patriots, they lie.

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The great stitch-up begins in Riyadh today, as the US government seeks to hand eastern Ukraine, bound and gagged, to Putin. This, as Trump knows and wants, will encourage Putin to threaten and destabilise the rest of Europe. Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.

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16 February 1873 | An Italian Jew, Attilio della Torre, was born in Florence. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 10 April 1944 in a transport of 935 Jews. He was murdered in a gas chamber together with 611 other people.

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17 February 1931 | Dutch Jewish boy, Marius Leendert Carol Flesseman, was born in Amsterdam. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork in February 1943 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

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"It is important to remember that each and every expert has both an applicability domain and a shelf life" fbdd-lit.blogspot.com/2015/04/expe...

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'I would say, to contextualise that, we suffered a double pandemic in Brazil. Not only the Covid pandemic, but the fact that the extreme-right government didn’t buy vaccines, and Brazil had the highest number of deaths per capita in the world.' www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...

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New: Last night, hundreds of CDC post-doc fellows were fired, including all in the group who call themselves the "disease detectors," and are the future of public health lab leaders. One senior official told me, "It is going to cripple public health for decades." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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A website has been started in response to the orders to take down references to women’s accomplishments in government offices. We are not going to let them erase us this time. womenrefusingtobeerased.org

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We're shocked by Trump and Musk's antics because we judge them against the idea that governments should serve the people. But they have no such intention. Government for them is simply about seizing power and wealth. Let's stop being shocked, and build a global, democratic counter-movement.

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In my view a rather unwise choice of title for the first talk at Wednesday's SCI Chemist in Industry meeting and here's my review of "Natural Intelligence" #cheminformatics #MedChem #DrugDesign #DrugDiscovery #chemsky 🧪 fbdd-lit.blogspot.com/2024/12/natu...

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"I looked up at the trees. Each one was enormous, hundreds of years old, and every trunk and branch supported its own community of vines, ferns, orchids, mosses and lichens. I was awed by the sight..." #Botany #PlantScience 🧪

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