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I know a lot of us have doubts about whether we could organize a potluck or book club, nevermind a revolution. So if you need to start with potlucks and book clubs, try that for starters.

submitted 61 days ago • 42 comments

I also think we should get in the habit of rousing choruses of America the Beautiful, the Star Spangled Banner, and The Battle Hymn of the Republic, partially because that shit looks good to people who see it and partially to inoculate soldiers against treating us as an insurrection

submitted 67 days ago • 182 comments

Born to be a scientist in the Fuck Around age, forced to be a scientist in the age of Find Out instead. 🫠

submitted 84 days ago • 5 comments

insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n... #medsky #feministsky #lgbtSTEM #transSTEM #womeninstem

submitted 72 days ago • 3 comments

🧪 #PublicHealth is under attack in the US, and among those to fall may be a mainstay of #EpiSky and #MedSky : The CDC's MMWR. We at Broadly Epi want to introduce an open, searchable MMWR database as a response. It's a work in progress, but we will keep at it. www.broadlyepi.com/broadly-epi-...

submitted 81 days ago • 8 comments

So fascinated by the human impulse to be like 'wow, this food sanitation practice really improved the quality and safety of food, what an amazing development, we should definitely stop doing it.'

submitted 80 days ago • 168 comments

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

submitted 72 days ago • 180 comments

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

submitted 96 days ago • 812 comments

We invite filmmakers & artists of all skill levels to celebrate Public Domain Day on January 24, 2024, by creating & uploading short films using materials from the public domain! 📆 Deadline: Jan 17, 2025 💰 First prize: $1,500 👉 Details: blog.archive.org/2024/12/16/2...

submitted 120 days ago • 26 comments

Microbiology will always be one of the most satisfying fields of natural science. Nigh-infinite levels of biodiversity, perpetual room for novel findings, and an evergreen requirement for the advancement of human civilization. 10/10. Big fan. Would recommend. 🦠💪

submitted 141 days ago • 14 comments

Rachel Carson on cultivating a "sense of wonder so indestructible" that it acts as "an unfailing antidote against… the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength"

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments