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Hope to see you there

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All of my dearhearts are rescues - here is Susu, short for Susuwatari, the soot sprites of Ghibli films. She was one of those cats who loves one human, only one, no others. I was honored to be her human, and still miss her years later 🖤

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Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

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Kitten Kanoko 2008, a couple months after rescue - his whiskers were broken as a result of malnutrition, they grew back nicely #kitten #cat #catpic

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The world isn't going completely to shit. There are people creating music with sewing machines. 😍

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If you think that Europe is doomed, you’re not paying attention. Wrote a recap of the latest developments and call me a hopeless Europtimist but I think Europe+ (including Canada) isn’t doing too bad in terms of offering Ukraine an actual perspective for the future. With or without the US.

submitted 6 days ago • 64 comments

One of the remarkable things about #NIH is how rigorously its grants, research, and employees are reviewed. NIH science and scientists are held to a high standard by external reviewers — via study sections and councils, or BSC/site visit reviewers. And the reviews have teeth. 🧪

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#caturday Kanoko, so named because when found as a gaunt, abandoned 2-month-old kitten, he had short fur, and his mackerel spots made him look like a fawn - “ka no ko” in Japanese. He lived to age 15, a cuddlebug and dearheart all his life. Tummy in the air for approximately half of it.

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In English (français aussi), and in no uncertain terms. “Experience of History's tragedies has taught [us] to value individual freedoms, in particular [] of expression, tempered only by criminalization of defamation and incitement to hatred, violence, or discrimination. This model must be defended.”

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Emergency floof urgently presenting himself

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It also plays right into the hands of those who don’t want a confident Europe that takes care of itself. As long as we believe that transactionalism can give us US protection, we won’t do enough to protect ourselves, hence increasing our dependence and our urge to pretend all is ok. Vicious circle.

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“Last year the Joe Martin Stage Race [was shuttered] after 46 years, and the longest-running women’s pro team, DNA Pro Cycling, closed after 12 years as the premier pipeline for Americans. For women [aiming to] catapult their career, things are the worst they have been in the last decade.” #cycling

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🦬 1) Stop doom-scrolling. 2) Take three deep breaths. 3) Read this article about our friends from the Blackfeet Nation gifting bison to Mosquito-Grizzly Bear's Head-Lean Man First Nation in Saskatchewan. Canada and First Nations, we still ❤️ you even if our treasonous president doesn't. 🇨🇦

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"It's a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.'" Aldous Huxley

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Broken-hearted at the forestry service news. Sahalie Falls on the McKenzie River, 2006, last time I walked my online namesake - “amnis” is Latin for “of the river.” I’ve always lived by rivers, whether the McKenzie, Rhône (Lyon), Paillon (Nice), or now the Seine. www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/will...

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Weaving, voice, water 💙

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The Dee Wright Observatory on the Lava River Trail near the McKenzie Highway in Oregon (USA). Photos I took in 2006 with one of the first handheld digital Nikons. I’ve still got a print of the bronze plaque in my entry to remind me of my beloved Cascades. www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/will...

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I’ve long supported CF research, having lost a childhood friend to it. The CF Foundation has done amazing research that led to these “miracle drugs,” and is working on more. Their work contributed to mRNA progress, to name just one effect. Cutting NIH funding will mean lost lives. Simple as that.

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“If we could learn to look instead of gawking, We'd see the horror in the heart of farce, If only we could act instead of talking, We wouldn't always end up on our arse.” - Bertolt Brecht, ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ translated by Ralph Manheim Bertolt Brecht was born on this day in 1898

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“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.” The Lancet response: bit.ly/4jRb5Av

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Trocadéro this early afternoon, not often we can’t see the top of Eiffel. Great air quality today, it’s fog

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BREAKING NEWS: We’re SUING TRUMP! 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧵

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“The last several days we’ve witnessed an authoritarian takeover of our federal government by Elon Musk and Donald Trump. They have set their sights on a full purge of anyone in government that doesn’t bend the knee and follow their orders.” - Sen. @wyden.senate.gov

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For #tombtuesday a return to La Pierre Turquaise, a Neolithic passage grave in forests north of Paris. It was filled with earth for safety reasons, having been damaged structurally in 1985 by explosives, likely vandalism. It is decorated with sculptures understood to figure the Goddess of Death.

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The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now #MedSky www.acog.org/clinical/cli...

submitted 27 days ago • 46 comments

#hedgehog day! Here in France, we’re encouraged to leave food for them during droughts, which was the case in summer 2020, when I took these evening photos. Little one is a hoglet; I assumed the adult was its mother, faithfully nearby. I’ve always had hedgehogs visit my garden and love them.

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If you want to know what the hell is happening in Germany atm, this is an excellent summary. 👇

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Once upon a time, I lived in Nice. Here’s some beauty and a local specialty - socca, chickpea flatbread, advertised on a socca cooking platter. All photos I post on Bluesky are mine - trusty Nikon film N2000 (still have it), D40 from 2006-2017, D5600 afterwards, and the occasional iPhone snap.

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Paris, books, democracy, art and friendship all rolled into a couple photos. Just over a year ago, a friend who works in an American museum visited Paris along with some paintings. Her eye noticed this stall on the Seine - one of those that were originally going to be removed for the Olympics, 1/3

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Cycling the Frame is a beautiful short film that follows a very young, unknown named Tilda Swinton as she bicycles along the Berlin Wall in 1988. The director made another version of the film in 2009. Tilda is grown, the wall has fallen, the world is different. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg0O...

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Today learned that one of my favorite composers, Claude Debussy, said of the then-new Paris Opera House: "A stranger would take it for a railway station, and, once inside, would mistake it for a Turkish bath.” Not wholly inaccurate… 😆 For those curious, while it does look baroque, it is actually…

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As an Autoimmune Neurologist - PLEASE READ THIS 👇 There is a great deal of “autoimmune” and “inflammatory”pseudoscience being hawked to vulnerable individuals who (understandably) hope their condition can be fixed with antimicrobials/infusions/etc. 🧪 🧠 💊 🩺 #MedSky #AcademicSky #NeuroSky

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I wrote for The Contrarian about my decision to leave the New York Times contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-...

submitted 34 days ago • 123 comments

One lovely treat in Paris is going to the central opera house, with its ceiling painted by Marc Chagall. I had a (shared) box for Charpentier’s “Médée” last year, it was like traveling back in time, with modern touches and choreography.

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In December I visited the Pierre Turquaise passage grave, built in the Neolithic. One of those sites where you can feel the Earth’s history and our small part in it

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Gothic mood in Strasbourg last week

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Grey heron in a park near the Seine, just outside of Paris, France

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All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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