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Today's @usatoday.com front page First US death from measles in 10 years First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US All of this fully preventable

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Unbelievable news. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers. New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 12 hours ago • 107 comments

It's that time of year again when grim anniversaries from the early days of war overlap with new tragedies. Three years ago, russian troops proudly shared videos of their artillery bombing a peaceful city full of people.

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

facebook and amazon apps deleted on smartphone. will spend less time on there which is beneficial. installed cantook to read free ebooks from the walloon library system.

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Peto's Paradox—that cancer does not increase with body size of mammals—was wrong. A new, comprehensive study of 263 species documents higher cancer prevalence with increasing body mass. Some large animals (e.g. elephants) have some built-in genetic adaptations www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @pnas.org

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Vous voulez savoir comment sonne une Ukrainienne en colère? Comme ça ⬇️. Maria Berlinska, 36 ans, vétéran de la guerre dans le Donbass, activiste, féministe, engagée aujourd'hui dans le domaine des drones militaires.

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

Fantastic, clear-eyed analysis by @gideonrachman.bsky.social The Financial Times calls on Europeans to “de-risk” - from the US! Wow.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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In Munich, Minister of Defence @yurikobackes.bsky.social met friend & colleague of Ukraine Rustem Umerov. Luxembourg will stand with Ukraine and on the right side of history. Ministers discussed military support to Ukraine and equipment priorities. 🇺🇦🤝🇱🇺 #MSC2025

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REPORTAGE. En Allemagne, les manifestations @fridaysforfuture.de pour le climat tentent de peser sur les élections | mon reportage à Cologne pour @ouest-france.fr où j'ai rencontré plein de gens sympathique, dont @paulinebruenger.bsky.social

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Es gibt Auftritte bei der Sicherheitskonferenz @MunSecConf, die historische Brüche vor Augen führen. Der letzte Auftritt von Russlands Außenminister Sergej Lawrow 2016 war so ein Moment, die Rede von JD Vance bei der #MSC2025 ebenfalls.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

My open letter and FRS resignations reported in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 14 days ago • 13 comments

Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

submitted 23 days ago • 95 comments

manif nationale, 1st timer, do recommend. all inclusive package including tear gas and waterpumps which i managed to avoid.

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Scholz vergisst im Eifer des Gefechts, dass die jetzigen #Grenzkontrollen, eine Entscheidung seiner Regierung, schon längst gegen 🇪🇺-Recht und die #Schengen -Regeln verstoßen!

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Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research fraudsters have infiltrated the academic publishing industry Frederik Joelving, Cyril Labbé, Guillaume Cabanac theconversation.com/fake-papers-...

submitted 27 days ago • 73 comments

« Greetings from Europe...» de Ja Zmaj

submitted 36 days ago • 19 comments

@demokrateschpartei.bsky.social a Max Hahn, zu Lëtzebuerg MUSS et ëmmer eng Méiglechkeet ginn, eng Mamm mat 2 ganz klenge Kanner ënnerzebréngen. Déi op d‘Strooss ze setzen, ass NIE richteg an dat léisst sech och net „argumentéieren“.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Important Covid editorial @science.org by Maria Van Kerkhove www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 42 days ago • 31 comments

youtu.be/3R8Bq_aZ0Pg?... rhooooooo la basse .... et toute la dynamique du reste .... trevor 🥰

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A new starter pack for people interested in (research on) Luxembourg; mostly from @uni.lu and @liserinlux.bsky.social Any add-ons are welcome go.bsky.app/TD2FojY

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

C'est bien écrit, peut s'appliquer à d'autres.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

"Ants solving a geometric problem and it's amazing." This is a great example of 'emergent phenomenon': - None of the ants understand the problem they're solving. - None of them can see the whole shape. - A series of small decisions or rules add up to something with a new layer of complexity.

submitted 64 days ago • 33 comments

Interlude 🐧❄️

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

I mean, if that’s what we’re doing today — buy my books, y’all! They’re in German but otherwise they’re not bad, I promise

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago 🧪 #IDsky www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 75 days ago • 234 comments

“Although we were initially skeptical that mirror bacteria could pose major risks, we have become deeply concerned. We were uncertain about the feasibility of synthesizing mirror bacteria but have concluded that technological progress will likely make this possible” 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 77 days ago • 15 comments

Statistical correlations. Caveat emptor but a super-interesting huge effort.

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Bonjour. Bienvenue sur le fil officiel de la rédaction du #Soir sur #Bluesky 📰 🤳

submitted 78 days ago • 3 comments

#Ukraine Aujourd’hui encore des frappes russes visant les civils. A Zaporijia un immeuble d’habitation a été touché. Le bilan provisoire est de 3 civils ukrainiens morts. Ne les oublions pas. Si Poutine n’a pas pu sauver Assad cette fois, c’est grâce aux Ukrainiens.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

There are now 100 people in the Luxembourg bubble Starter Pack with some journalists like @diegoinbxl.bsky.social or @webdaniele.bsky.social , a lot of people from the uni.lu like @markushesse60.bsky.social or @thomascauvin.bsky.social go.bsky.app/Qo8jop6

submitted 79 days ago • 4 comments

This fearless science sleuth risked her career to expose publication fraud Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024. Holly Else reports at Nature. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 79 days ago • 5 comments

The Luxembourgish National Archives demand that researchers anonymize personal data contained in the file of a former Gestapo leader #gestapo #shoah #archives #histlux majerus.hypotheses.org/1519

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Social-Media-Neustart Nr. 36: neue Plattform, neues Land und ein paar Gedanken über die Zukunft ohne Zukunft - basierend auf den aktuellen (und empfehlenswerten) Büchern von Andreas Reckwitz und Eva Illouz

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

pretty strong: youtu.be/8AHCfZTRGiI?...

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